Movie News and Views April 24, 2008

Yo Joe!

Hey everyone. Just giving a rundown of what's in production, coming soon, or even just remotely on the drawing board. Enjoy!

-Chas

- Ayelet Zurer will join Tom Hanks in "Angels and Demons," a "sequel" to "The DaVinci Code." This stopped production during the writer's strike, but has since picked back up. Also, if you know anything about the books, "Angels and Demons," preceded "The DaVinci Code." Go figure.

- Brandon Routh ("Superman Returns") said the sequel, "Superman: Man of Steel," is green for GO. Did he watch "Superman Returns?"

- Torture-porn director Eli Roth ("Hostel I & II") is said to be working on a PG-13 movie. This little nugget of info speaks for itself.

- Universal Pictures is filing a class-action lawsuit Lionsgate because their movie "Witless Protection" is clearly a rip-off of "Midnight Run." Seeing as no one watched "Witless Protection" (not even Yaphet Kotto, and he was in BOTH) there's no telling how much money UP is gonna get.

- Ray Liotta, Seth Rogen, Anna Faris are all slated to be in "Observe and Report," a movie about a mall security guard (Rogen) who gets in a turf war with local cops.

- For info on the new "G.I. Joe" film, click here: http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=8376&count=0

- The Planet Earth is back for a proposed sequel to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." A documentary sequel? I'm not sure the Earth was all that convincing...

- Judd Apatow's new comedy, "Get Him to the Greek," is about an insurance adjuster who has to get a chaotic rockstar to the Greek Theatre in L.A.

- Virginia Madsen (sis to Michael) is playing Amelia Earhart in a new biopic.

- No more "Justice League." Director George Miller had financial problems in Australia, and no one over here seems interested.

- Keifer Sutherland is in "Mirrors," where he plays a mall security guard who discovers evil hiding in department store mirrors. What's up with mall security movies?

- He can't sing, but can he direct? Fred Durst directs "The Longshots," about a poor Illinois town that backs a female quarterback who leads her team to the Pop Warner Super Bowl.