Dan Aykroyd, Anna Faris, and Justin Timberlake will be voicing characters in a new Yogi Bear movie, Variety has learned.
JT is in talks to play the straight-talking bear, Boo Boo, in a new live-action and computer animated movie version of the animated classic The Yogi Bear Show.
Anna is in negotiations to play a documentary filmmaker who descends on Jellystone National Park in the film, while Dan is up for the role of Yogi.
Shooting is expected to start in New Zealand next month.
Madonna is having a tough time securing funds and getting a cast together for her new film.
With stinkers like Shanghai Surprise and Body of Evidence to her credit, the Queen of Pop, 51, has never had much success in the film industry. Nonetheless, she decided to try her hand at scriptwriting earlier this year, but launching her project is proving to be difficult.
“I just finished writing a script and I am trying to get funding and casting for it, believe it or not,” Madge revealed to London’s Daily Express this month. “It’s called ‘We’ and it’s a love story. It is two parallel love stories told from a woman’s point of view, obviously.”
She added, “One is a historical story that took place with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. And the other is one I made up about a couple in New York.”
Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie may soon share the screen in new film The Tourist, Variety has learned.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star is reportedly in negotiations to play the male lead opposite Angelina Jolie, replacing Sam Worthington who recently dropped out of the cast. Jolie herself was a recent replacement for Charlize Theron, who was long attached to the project.
The revamp of the 2005 French spy thriller Anthony Zimmer follows a female Interpol agent who ropes an everyman American tourist visiting France into being bait in the hunt for a wanted criminal who’s also her former lover.
Angelina Jolie kicks butt as Evelyn A. Salt, a C.I.A. operative accused of being a Russian spy planning an attack on the U.S. president, in the nail-biting espionage thriller Salt. The striking Oscar winner changes her look several time as Evelyn embarks on a race against time to clear her name. Check out the action-packed trailer below:
Salt hits theaters July 23, 2010.
This movie looks awesome! What do you think, ‘Crunchers? Will you see it?
The Berenstain Bears are heading to the big screen.
Created by Stan and Jan Berenstain in 1962, The Berenstain Bears follows a family of bears living in a place called Bear Country, with the books’ goal of helping kids deal with life issues ranging from bullying to a mother’s pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »
In case you missed the link we posted yesterday, we just had to tell you that Disney has released new trailer for Jake Gyllenhaal’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time — co-starring Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, and Alfred Molina.
Here’s the movie tagline: A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess to race against dark forces and safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time—a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world!
Prince of Persia, directed by Mike Newell and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, opens in theaters May 28, 2010.
Mariah Carey had some regal shoes to fill when she accepted her acclaimed role in Precious — the part was originally offered to Oscar-winning dame Helen Mirren.
The diva — once panned as a horrible actress for her cinematic disaster Glitter — has wowed critics with her performance as a dowdy social worker in the poignant story of an abused teenage girl, but she reveals The Queen star Mirren was originally offered the role. “Someone told me Helen Mirren had been offered the role of the social worker, but had to pull out. So it was daunting to try and fill the shoes of this great Academy Award-winning actress, but then I decided to snap myself out of that mindset and figure out what I could bring to the role.”
Just a reminder guys, that beginning today, Twilight’s own Edward Cullen and Bella Swan will join the Wonderful World of Barbie. Special-edition Twilight Barbie Dolls modeled after Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart — the actors who play the on-screen lovers — are now available at for just $25 each.
The release of the dolls coincides with the release of the second Twilight Saga film, New Moon, opening in theaters Nov. 20.
“Twilight has quickly become a worldwide phenomenon developing a strong core base of dedicated fans who are drawn to the story of a Romeo & Juliet style romance between mortal (Bella) and vampire (Edward). Who better to capture the young star-crossed love of these two characters than Barbie & Ken,” reads a product description being used to peddle the new dolls.
Katie Holmes has been tapped to replace actress Liv Tyler in the independently financed comedy The Romantics.
The film, to be directed by Galt Niederhoffer, also stars Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman, Elijah Wood, Adam Brody and Jeremy Strong, Variety has learned. The Romantics revolves around eight friends from college who reunite for a wedding, where Holmes plays Laura, the maid of honor to Paquin’s Lila, the bride. Laura and Lila are best friends who both have a past with the groom played by Duhamel.
Critically-acclaimed lensman Steven Spielberg was scared out of his wits after watching an advance copy of the low-budget horror hit Paranormal Activity. The Jurassic Park director put the DVD of the film in a garbage bag, vowing never to let it in his house again, an unidentified Paramount Pictures production insider spills to The Daily Express.
