Ghostbusters 3?

For reals? Like really real?

No, really?

AZM Ally Greg dug up some information on a third Ghostbusters flick. A new crew of ‘Busters will hit the streets to take control. Judd Apatow is producing which means we’ll be seeing some of his regulars as the Real New Ghostbusters. Seth Rogan with a proton pack. Funny or meh? Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson may return to mentor the new crew depending who sings on.

On the one hand, the Apatow does make a funny flick. And his stable of actors is known for the ha ha. But this is Ghostbusters. The first one was hysterically fun. Didn’t need a sequel. The second one, not nearly as fun as the first. So a third flick really doesn’t interest me. Ghostbusters is way past its prime. I even think the video game is a little late. Looks cool, but a bit after its time.

Busting does indeed make one feel good. But maybe it’s better to just let sleeping ghosts lie.

[Via Chicago Tribune]

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If you wanted to daken up Superman, Mark Miller would probably be on a short list of writers who could do it well. Angry Zen Minion Kevin Bahrt sent along news that Mark Miller in collaboration with a mysterious big named director has pitched a Superman movie trilogy to Warner Brothers.

I imagine that Miller has an Ultimates style revamp in the works. But that’s as far as I’m willing to speculate. Certainly the Superman franchise needs a kick in the pants. I think Miller could handle darkening him up without making it dark for darkness sake. The truth is, these days are dark anyway. Just plop Supes in the middle of this war on terror and you’ve got a right dark flick right there. I’m kind of interested to see what he’s got up his sleeve.

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Not sure how long I’ll be able to post these (letters have gone out to a few sites already), but Angry Zen Minion Kevin Bahrt pointed me to some pics of what James Marsters will look like as Piccolo in the Dragonball movie. For a minute there, I thought I was looking at a screen cap from Buffy. No green. No antennae. Not that I thought this movie was going to be worth watching even while drunk, high, and possibly incontinent, but how is this Piccolo?

[Via Dragonball Movie Blog]

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So my brother and I went to see Death Race Saturday night (which I will skewer later this week) and we saw this silly trailer for Fast and Furious which drops next summer. Vin Diesel, Michele Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster all return which is good. According to the IMDB, Sung Kang makes a cameo as Han which indicates they’ll do some flash back to when Han was running with Dominic. That could be fun. My brother and I both agree that Tokyo Drift is our favorite movie of the franchise. There’s also word that Tyrese Gibson will appear in a cameo sort of like Vin Diesel did in Tokyo Drift. Nice way to tie everything together.

Paul Walker is back which is really disappointing. He was serviceable in the first but was by far one of the least interesting characters. The second film was 2 stupid to stand. Finally, they got it right by leaving him out of the third. And now he returns to bore us with the fourth? Bleh. It’s unfortunate that Jordana Brewster’s return will be connected with Paul Walker’s character. She’s better off without his lying ass anyway. I kind of hope she’s running heists with Dom now.

From what we can glean of the plot, this sounds like a remix of the second. Two rivals teaming up to fight a common enemy. Meh. I’m not expecting too much, but I’m pretty sure I’ll go see this in the theater. Sorry. It’s my fault they keep making Fast and Furious and Saw movies.

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I just love the photos of Jason Statham’s big ass head!

We’ve got some more Crank 2: High Voltage info. If you saw the first movie, then you know why everyone was scratching their head when they announced a sequel. But now it all makes sense. Turns out some evil fucker cut out Chev Chelio’s heart and replaced with a mechanical device that requires a jolt of high voltage every now and then. Brilliant. Sequel away. Apparently, this is the craziest movie Statham has ever seen.

High voltage is an understatement. They locked themselves in a room for three days with five bottles of tequila and wrote the most offensive, outrageous script I’ve ever read. Poor Amy Smart, that’s my concern. There is a very indulgent sex scene on a race track. I don’t want to give too much away. They have all the capabilities of making it the crazy action movie that they wanted. It’s like Crank 1 but times 1,000.

Wow. I don’t know if you can top banging Amy Smart in the middle of China Town with a bus load of Korean school girls giggling away, but now I’m intrigued. Kudos to Amy for signing on for a second flick. She’s gotta have a great sense of humor.

The more I hear about this flick, the more I have to see it!

[Via i09]

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So this should be taken with a giant salt lick, but apparently, Cher is in talks to play Catwoman for the third Bat flick. According to a stuiod exec:

Cher is Nolan’s first choice to play Catwoman. He wants to her to portray her like a vamp in her twilight years. The new Catwoman will be the absolute opposite of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry’s purring creations.

Hmm…

If you’re going to go that route, I kinda want to see Eartha Kitt as Catwoman instead. Personal preference, but she’s always been my personal favorite for Catwoman. I think she’d make an excellent Cougarwoman.

So what do you all think? Does Cher plus Depp plus Hoffman equal win? Does an aging Catwoman interest you? Is this all just bullshit?

[Via The Telegraph by way of Occasional Superheroine]

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Make no mistake, Babylon A.D. is going to stink like a fresh steamy turd squirted out of the anus of a rotting elephant corpse. I’d even venture to say that this little animation of Vin taking on the summer blockbusters will be more entertaining than his upcoming flick. I’d further venture to say that Fast and Furious 4 Life will be more entertaining.

Still, it’s probably not a good idea to fuck with Vin Diesel.

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What do you do when one of your top two comic book characters obliterates the summer box office? Reboot the one that sucked!

*groan*

Warner Brothers is looking to emulate the success of The Dark Knight with a “reintroduction” of Superman. According to Warner Brothers Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov:

Superman didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to. It didn’t position the character the way he needed to be positioned. Had Superman worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009. But now the plan is just to reintroduce Superman without regard to a Batman and Superman movie at all.

Sorry sports fans, no Routh/Bale teamup any time soon. To make matters worse, they want their new Superman to be dark and brooding, two qualities that the studio feels made The Dark Knight a success. Sure, dark and brooding makes a lot of sense for a border line psychopath who dresses up as a flying mouse. But for Superman? Superman is a big red, white, and blue boyscout with good hair and a chiseled chin. Dark and brooding just doesn’t fit.

Superman Returns didn’t fail because it wasn’t super dark. It failed because it was super boring! The most super thing he did in the entire movie was save that airplane. The big evil plot was some kind of mega real estate deal. Come on! No one wants to see that. That’s a boring fucking movie!

Never liked Superman much anyway. But darkening him up is for shit sure the best way to end Superman’s film career. You know sometimes if it’s broke, leave it the hell alone.

[Via Superhero Hype]

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What’s the best way to calm irate fans who are pissed off at your for pushing back Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince to next year? Tell them it’ll be worth the wait. At least that’s how Warner Brothers Chief Operating Officer Alan Horn is handling things. Observe:

Many of you have written to me to express your disappointment in our moving “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” to Summer 2009.

Please be assured that we share your love for Harry Potter and would certainly never do anything to hurt any of the films. Over the past 10 years, we have nurtured and protected each film, and the integrity of the books upon which they are based, to the best of our ability.

The decision to move “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” was not taken lightly, and was never intended to upset our Harry Potter fans. We know you have built this series into what it is, and we thank you for your ongoing enthusiasm and support.

If I may offer a silver lining: there would have been a two-year gap between “Half-Blood Prince” and the much-anticipated first part of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” which opens in November 2010.

So although we have to wait a little longer for “Half-Blood Prince,” the wait from that film until “Deathly Hallows” will be less than 18 months. I am sorry to have disappointed you now, but if you hold on a little longer, I believe it will be worth the wait.

Alan Horn
President, Chief Operating Officer
Warner Bros.

Hm… If you will, allow me to retort. What do Harry Potter fans look like? Do we look like a bitch? DO WE LOOK LIKE A BITCH? Then why’d you try to fuck us like a bitch, Alan? You did! Yes you did!

Way to add fuel to the fire, Alan. “It’ll be worth the wait” isn’t the kind of explanation that will mollify the hoards of fans screaming for blood. The worst part? There are probably no consequences for Alan. He’s not going to get fired. He’s not even going to get invited to take an extended leave of absence. Because in the end, mad droves of Harry Potter fans will see Half Blood Prince no matter when it’s released. It’ll be the gigantic box office smash that WB wants and Alan can just sit back with a shit eating “I told you so” grin on his face. ARGH!

[Via Coming Soon]

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MGM has hired Stiles White and Juliet Snowden to write a remake of Poltergeist. No director is yet attached to the project and I hope it stays that way. It’s not often that you have a horror movie franchise that is itself cursed. Dominique Dunne was strangled to death by her ex boyfriend shortly after the release of the first film. Julian Beck died of stomach cancer during the filming of the second film. Will Sampson died of complications during heart surgery a year after the second was released. He even tried to bless the sets and locations during filming to fend off evil spirits. Heather Michele O’Rourke died of illness during the filming of the third film.

I’d say that’s half a hint for your ass that the first film was just fine.

Seriously, besides the fact that I think remakes are just plain lazy, leave this one the fuck alone. Poltergeist doesn’t want any sequels and you can be damn sure it won’t like a remake. Please, there’s enough scary shit out there to write a perfectly new and equally bat shit scary movie without digging up old ones.

[Via Variety]

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