In this week’s Ketchup, we have two tidbits of Marvel madness, major progress on
the Dune adaptation, and the deaths of some of our most beloved on-screen
troublemakers
This Week’s Top News:
Stan Lee
Promises Many, Many Marvel Movies
Get ready for a lot more movies based on Marvel characters — according to
Stan Lee, the
company is leaving no major character unfilmed.
Peter Berg
Confirmed to Direct New Dune Film
Score another one for the rumor mill:
Peter Berg
has been confirmed as the director of a new
Dune.
Bruckheimer Promises Unique Prince of Persia
They said you couldn’t turn a theme park ride into a good movie and
Jerry
Bruckheimer brought us
Pirates of the Caribbean. Now he looks to set right the damage done
by Hollywood to video games with his
Prince of Persia.
Nicolas Cage
Wants Ghost Rider Sequel
Nicolas Cage
had never made a sequel until
National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Now, that franchise seems to have
whet his appetite to return to other characters too. The most likely candidate
would be the comic book superhero
Ghost Rider.
Sacha Baron Cohen
Announces "Deaths" of Borat, Ali G
There will by no more sexytime for
Sacha Baron
Cohen.
Informal RT staff polling reveals Speedball, Cardiac, and Skull
and Crossbones movies are most wanted. (Seriously.)
In Other News:
- The Coens
next film will be a Spaghetti Western. According to them: "We’ve
written a western with a lot of violence in it. There’s scalping and hanging …
it’s good. Indians torturing people with ants, cutting their eyelids off… It’s
a proper western, a real western, set in the 1870s. It’s got a scene that no one
will ever forget because of one particular chicken."
- 25 films have been added to The National Registry of Film:
Back to the
Future, Bullitt,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
Dance, Girl, Dance,
Dances
With Wolves,
Days of Heaven,
Glimpse of the Garden,
Grand Hotel, The House I
Live In, In a Lonely Place,
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,
Mighty Like a
Moose, The Naked City,
Now, Voyager,
Oklahoma!, Our Day,
Peege, The Sex Life of
the Polyp, The Strong Man,
Three Little Pigs,
Tol’able David,
Tom, Tom the
Piper’s Son,
12 Angry Men,
The Women,
Wuthering Heights.
- A total of 48 people went to see
Jessica Simpson‘s new movie,
Blond
Ambition, on its opening weekend. Call it Zzyzx Rd. Redux.
-
Guillermo del Toro is being considered to direct
The Hobbit. Del Toro’s
response: "I’ve heard some rumblings, but nothing official. I don’t want to
think about it because it’s such an eventuality."
- An online Reuters poll reveals
Angelina Jolie is the world’s top celebrity
humanitarian (that’ll go nice with her Greatest Woman in the World award from
Vanity Fair), while
Madonna is the least-respected.
- Out of patience with the WGA, the AAMTP will begin their negotiations with
the DGA on January 7.
- The AFI has released their
list of most significant moments of 2007. Among them: the writer’s
strike, the iPhone, Hollywood’s deluge of war-on-terror films, and the deaths of
Michelangelo Antonioni and
Ingmar Bergman.
Will he be rockin’ the ring?
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