Movie News

Less than two months ‘til release, Hancock is still filming additional scenes, and is rumored to be having a hard time getting the MPAA to knock it down from an R to PG13.

The big spoiler about Wall-E.

Director Alex Stapleton is working on a documentary about Roger Corman called King of the B’s: The Independent Life of Roger Corman. It’ll look at his impact on cult films, the starts for young directors and actors, and the more than fifty movies he’s directed and the over three hundred he’s produced in five decades. Stick 'N Stone Productions is financing.

From the people behind Star Wreck, Finnish fan made indie Iron Sky, Johanna Sinisalo’s script tells of an alternate history with Nazis having left for the Moon in 1945 and to come back in 2018 to assassinate the president. Using the same technique as Star Wreck you can work collaboratively by going to wreckamovie.com.

Fable Works, LLC announced animated feature Cereal Heroes. David Meinstein’s script, about cereal box mascots who accidentally get brought to life in an attempt to bring comic book heroes to life, will be produced at Sparx Animation Studios.

Nia Vardalos and John Corbett will team up again for Vardalos written and directed romantic comedy Valentine’s Day. A “comedy for the romantically challenged,” it’s about a florist who gets a commitment fearing restaurant owner to try her relationship-less dating theory.

Joe Dante will direct Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan’s script for indie horror Bat Out of Hell. The movie, about hijackers on a red-eye flight who find monstrous cargo, should start filming later this year.

CBS Films has bought a pitch by writer Chris Hauty called The Eternals. The “romantic supernatural thriller set on a college campus” will be directed by Jeff Wadlow.

According to his website, Murali K. Thalluri’s next movie Jewel “revolves around a friendship that grows between two young boys forced to work in a slave labour camp. One night after being forced to work a shift through the night, the two boys overhear their master talking about selling them. Terrified of being split up, the young boys steal quite a valuable Jewel and attempt an unlikely escape. From here the two boys travel over the life and color of India, riding the rails, lost in the jungle and so on, as they try to find their favourite movie star whom they innocently believe will save them. Meanwhile, their master who has discovered the Jewel missing is intent on recovering his valuable possession and gives chase.”

Anchor Bay has picked up S.R. Bindler’s Surfer, Dude, to release it theatrically late this summer and then on DVD. The movie about a surfer having an existential crisis stars Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson, Scott Glenn, Alexie Gilmore, Nathan Phillips, Ramon Rodriguez, Sarah Wright, Zachary Knighton, and Jeffrey Nordling.

Steven Seagal will be in Jeff King’s Ruslan, about a former Russian mobster turned crime novelist whose family is threatened when his past comes back to haunt him.

Seagal will also be in Richard Crudo’s futuristic vampire movie Last Night, where he’ll be a commander with a group of soldiers sent to clear out vampires in a hospital.

Corey Feldman has been cast in German set Lucky Fritz. He says, “The movie is a family type comedy about a guy who (unluckily) keeps getting struck by lightning. Until he gets struck a third time and it causes a strange reaction which gives him a magnetic personality, to which no human can resist.”

Martin Henderson, Les Chantery, Rachel Taylor, Daniel Amalm, Jake Wall, and Bren Foster are cast in Serhat Caradee’s Cedar Boys, which starts filming next month.

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer will be making Disaster Movie.