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ARCHIVES WEEK 16 2006

20/04/06
Newsflash:
Hi guys, cool new Superman pics hit the web, just in time for today's newsflash. I'll be back with the next update this weekend, enjoy:
Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan and Felicity Huffman will star in Georgia Rule. Good ol' Garry Marshall will direct the comedy about a rebellious young woman.
Morpheus himself, Laurence Fishburne, will star in the psychological thriller Prey. The story revolves around a man getting injured during a solo hunting expedition. He is rescued by a mysterious trapper with secretly sinister intentions... hopefully the film goes into Deliverance mode!
Ed Harris joins the cast of Ben Affleck's directorial debut Gone, Baby, Gone. The film centers on two private investigators hunting for an abducted 4-year-old in Boston's underworld.
A few new Superman Returns pics hit the web. I've posted the coolest one below, click on Kal-El for more!
Source: Variety
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20/04/06
Cannes line up!:
On May 17, The Da Vinci Code will be the opening-night movie of Le Festival de Cannes.
19 movies are in competition, check out the list below!:
- Volver, Pedro Almodovar, Spain.
- Red Road, Andrea Arnold, Britain.
- La Raison du Plus Faible (The Weakest Is Always Right), Lucas Belvaux, Belgium.
- Indigenes (Natives), Rachid Bouchareb, Algeria.
- Iklimler, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey.
- Marie-Antoinette, Sofia Coppola, United States.
- Juventude Em Marcha (Youth on the Move), Pedro Costa, Portugal.
- El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth), Guillermo Del Toro, Mexico.
- Babel, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mexico.
- Laitakaupungin Valot (Lights in the Dusk), Aki Kaurismaki, Finland.
- Southland Tales, Richard Kelly, United States.
- Fast Food Nation, Richard Linklater, United States.
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Ken Loach, Britain.
- Summer Palace, Lou Ye, China.
- Il Caimano (The Caiman), Nanni Moretti, Italy.
- L'Amico di Famiglia (The Family Friend), Paolo Sorrentino, Italy.
- Flandres (Flanders), Bruno Dumont, France.
- Selon Charlie (According to Charlie), Nicole Garcia, France.
- Quand J'etais Chanteur (When I Was a Singer), Xavier Giannoli, France.
Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette, Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and Richard "Donnie Darko" Kelly's Southland Tales are the ones
I'd loved to see! Click here for other screenings and more information at the official Cannes site!
18/04/06
Casting update:
Hi guys, here's a quick rundown of the latest casting developments!:
My man, William H. Macy, joins John Travolta, Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence in the biker comedy Wild Hogs. The story revolves around middle-aged suburban biker wannabes who hit the open road in search of adventure. Van Wilder's Walt Becker directs.
Russell Crowe will star in John Polson's indie flick Tenderness. The film follows a violent teenager and Russell is a cop who sets out to unravel the boy's complex past.
Renée Zellweger will play the lead in the horror film Case 39. Zellweger is an idealistic social worker who saves an abused 10-year-old girl from her parents.
Friends star Matthew Perry is a mentally unstable screenwriter in the dark comedy Numb.
Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl will play in the comedy Knocked Up. The 40-Year-Old Virgin's Judd Apatow will write and direct the comedy. Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann who also starred in 'Virgin' will be back for Knocked Up.
And finally, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Eddie Griffin will join Eddie Murphy in the comedy Norbit. Murphy will play a guy pressed into marrying a monstrous woman (also Murphy) but then he meets the woman of his dreams (Newton).
Source: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter
17/04/06
U.S. Box Office Apr 14-16:
I really thought this franchise was dead but I bet there will be more sequels coming soon, cause Scary Movie 4 entered the top spot with a freakin' 41 million bucks! Disney's animated feature The Wild couldn't
beat Ice Age 2 and crashed at number 4. Here's the rest of the Top Ten:
1. Scary Movie 4 - $41,020,000 (new)
2. Ice Age: The Meltdown - $20,000,000 / $147,188,000
3. The Benchwarmers - $10,000,000 / $35,980,000
4. The Wild - $9,559,000 (new)
5. Take the Lead - $6,700,000 / $22,517,000
6. Inside Man - $6,292,000 / $75,285,000
7. Lucky Number Slevin - $4,600,000 / $14,140,000
8. Thank You for Smoking - $4,450,000 / $11,498,000
9. Failure to Launch - $2,599,000 / $83,171,000
10. V For Vendetta - $2,170,000 / $65,991,000
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