Zack Galifianakis to exorcise demons in Miracle Workers

The big bearded funny man Zach Galifianakis became more well known thanks to the hugely succesful The Hangover. However, he is a successful stand up and has been in quite a few films. One such film was the David Twohy 2002 film Below which was all about a haunted submarine. I’ve not seen it so I could be making that up.

Michael Aguiler has now said Zach may be going back to the supernatural side of things in a film called Miracle Workers. The story is a buddy supernatural comedy in which the actor is put on a path that has him posing as an exorcist with a pal. The two think they’ve got a good thing going until they’re faced with a real menace.

A mix of The Frighteners (love that film), Constantine, Ghostbusters and the TV show Psych by the sounds of it. Should be good though.

Early days so no director attached as yet.

Source: STYD

The Thing poster by Travis Pitt.

Chloe – Internation Poster for Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore film

Oldboy and Storm Shadow to see the Devil in Kim Ji-Woon’s new film

A film that sounds like it will be rather cool. The reason being that it stars Choi Min-Sik (Oldboy), Lee Byung-Heon (A Bittersweet Life, G.I. Joe and his likeness was used for the main character in the Lost Planet video game) and directed by Kim Ji-Woon (A Tale of Two Sisters, A Bittersweet Life, and the excellent The Good, The Bad and The Weird.

Choi as a sadistic serial killer and Lee as a driven lawman who turns every bit as nasty while hunting Choi down after he kills Lee’s fiance

Originally called Subtropical Night it has been renamed to I Saw the Devil.

Both Choi and Byung-Heon are superb actors and the story means they should have plenty of opportunities to do what they do best.

The Korean film is due out at the end of Summer.

Source: Twitch

Just Go With It – Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are joined by Brooklyn Decker and Nicole Kidman

I generally enjoy Adam Sandler’s films. They’re never totally brilliant, but I often chuckle at them – especially Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer. However, they seem to be going more and more the romantic comedy route. His latest features Sandler with Jennifer Aniston – her work in film seems to be going the same way – Forgettable romantic comedies with big name leading men who she seems to be photographed with an awful lot.

Just Go With It has Sandler recruiting Aniston to pose as his soon to be divorced wife, and her kids as his fake family. Sports Illustrated model, Brooklyn Decker (above), plays the girl Sandler falls for. No doubt in the course of the film there will be scenes of Sandler being hit in the balls by the kids, touching scenes of romance as he slowly realises that he loves Aniston’s character. Oh, there will also be a comedy pet or wild animal.

Variety have the news that Nicole Kidman is joining the cast in a small but vital comedic supporting role along the lines of Tom Cruise’s turn in Tropic Thunder.

The screenplay was written by Allan Loeb, Tim Dowling, Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler. Dennis Dugan will direct. Production begins next month in Los Angeles with the film planned for Valentine’s Day weekend next year.

Happy Madison Partner Jack Giarraputo says, “The writers did a great job developing a scenario that is not only a romantic comedy, but a family comedy as well, and everyone gets a chance to score.”

Source: IESB

Films released in UK Cinemas today

Capitalism: A Love Story (12A) – Check out our review

Crazies, The (15) – Check out our review

Everybody’s Fine (12A) – Check out our review

Extraordinary Measures (PG)

Freestyle (12A)

From Paris With Love (15)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (U)

Leap Year (PG)

Micmacs (12A) – Check out our review

She, A Chinese (18)

The Flash gets a director

Another day, another DC Comic book film moves ahead. We have the possibility of Goyer and Nolan working on a Superman film and now IESB has the news that Greg Berlanti is the favourite to direct the fastest man alive, The Flash.

Berlanti wrote a draft for the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movieand was going to direct it before Warner Bros went with Martin Campbell.

No word on a script or star so still early days, but this is further along than a Flash film has been in the past. At one point Ryan Reynolds was rumoured to play him, but as he will he Green Lantern I doubt that will happen (it being the same universe). That gives us the splendid oppotunity to put our comic geek heads on (my fave after films) and wonder who would make a good Flash – not sure whether it will be Barry Allen or Wally West. I’m guessing the former. Neil Patrick Harris could be good. Bradley Cooper missed out on Green Lantern so he could be up for it.

Who should play Flash? Suggest some names in the comments and I’ll put a poll together.

Angelina Jolie to pull a Moon with Cuarón. Wanted 2 is no more

Wanted was a huge success for Universal. A great big messy film that was fun yet flawed, but could have been so much more. Obviously a sequel has been in the running for a while now and Angelina Jolie had been attached (despite what happened to her in the first film).

Now she has pulled out of the Timur Bekmambetovdirected sequel and so the studio have pulled the plug.

What will she do instead? Well she is currently filming The Tourist with Johnny Depp, but acording to Vulture she has signed up for Warner Bros.’ Gravity. This is an intriguing sounding space thriller to be directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men) from a script he wrote with his 28-year-old son, Jonás.

The reason I mentioned Moon in the title is that, like Sam Rockwell in Duncan Jones lovely piece of sci-fi, Jolie would be alone on-screen for much of the movie, playing the sole surviving human member of a space mission, desperately trying to return home to Earth and her daughter.

/Film also mention Jolie would be playing the daughter, which is again similar to Moon with the main actor playing two parts. If that is true that would suggest the main character has been in suspended animation or travelled at almost light speed and the time dilation doo-dad effect means her daughter has aged.

I never really thought a sequel to Wanted was needed so not too bothered about that. Gravity sounds like a worthy move on Jolie’s part. Will give her a chance to act a bit more and Children of Men was stunning with a great look so Cuarón should make something great with this.

Tim Burton’s Weekend At Bernie’s

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Sophia Loren making pizza back in the day

Oscars 2010 – Who do you think will win?

I posted the Oscar nominations a while ago and now I’ve had a chance to think about it here are my predictions.

PICTURE:
Avatar

DIRECTOR:
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

ACTOR:
George Clooney – Up in the Air

ACTRESS:
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side

SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Mo’Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche – In the Loop

ANIMATED FEATURE:
Up

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
The White Ribbon (Germany)

ART DIRECTION:
Avatar

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Mauro Fiore – Avatar

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
The Cove

DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
Rabbit à la Berlin

ANIMATED SHORT:
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)

LIVE-ACTION SHORT:
Instead of Abracadabra

VISUAL EFFECTS:
Avatar

COSTUME DESIGN:
Coco before Chanel

MAKEUP:
Star Trek

FILM EDITING:
The Hurt Locker

SOUND MIXING:
Avatar

SOUND EDITING:
The Hurt Locker

ORIGINAL SCORE:
Michael Giacchino – Up

ORIGINAL SONG:
“The Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart

There you go. Some of it based on logic, some on gut instinct and some are pure guesswork.

You can have a go at guessing over on the Live for Films Oscar Pool – head over and make your pick. The person with the most correct choices will be announced a day or two after the Oscars. There may even be a prize in it (still working on what to give to the winner).

VoucherCodes.co.uk, who list Amazon Promotional Codes and Lovefilm Discount Codes, are running an Oscars sweepstake so if you run a film site you have a chance to win some stuff here.