Wednesday September 8, 2010
Liam Neeson's the latest actor to board the big screen adaptation of the popular Battleship game, which really doesn't have much to do with the game itself. Neeson will be playing Admiral Shane as he joins
True Blood's
Alexander Skarsgard,
X-Men Origins: Wolverine's Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, and R&B star Rihanna in the sci-fi action adventure directed by Peter Berg (
Hancock).
Battleship, the movie not the game, finds a fleet of battleships battling an armada of unknown origins. The project has an estimated $200 million budget.
Filming's currently underway with Universal Pictures hoping to dock
Battleship in theaters on May 18, 2012.
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Actress
Zhang Ziyi will star in and director Jan de Bont are teaming up for a live-action English language
Mulan film.
Disney did an animated take on the Chinese legend back in 1998 that featured the voices of Pat Morita,
Eddie Murphy, and Ming-Na as Mulan.
Variety reports this live-action film has a $35 million budget and is expected to begin shooting this November.
Speaking to
Variety, producer Beaver Kwei said, "[Ziyi] wants to participate creatively in the project. The ambition is to appeal to both foreign and domestic audiences.
Forbidden Kingdom is the model and it shows that it works.
Mulan is accessible for a Western audience."
Ziyi will be playing the title character, a brave young woman takes the place of her elderly father and goes off to fight in a war. Ziyi is best known to American audiences from her starring roles in
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and
Memoirs of a Geisha.
Jan de Bont started off his film career as a cinematographer (he shot
Die Hard,
The Hunt for Red October, and
Basic Instinct among dozens of other films), transitioning to directing with the 1994 action thriller,
Speed, starring
Keanu Reeves and
Sandra Bullock. de Bont hasn't directed a feature film since 2003's
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.
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You didn't really think the
Spy Kids franchise was over and done with
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, did you?
Spy Kids 4 (also known as
Spy Kids 4: Armageddon,
Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World) is in the works with Dimension Films eyeing an August 19, 2011 release. And
Variety says filmmaker
Robert Rodriguez has cast Joel McHale (
Community,
Talk Soup) and
Jessica Alba (Rodriguez'
Machete and
Sin City) as the adult leads in the fourth
Spy Kids film.
McHale (38) and Alba (29) will play a married couple with kids (presumably 'spy' kids). Alba will be a retired spy who's the stepmother to McHale's children, and McHale's character is a reporter hunting spies. The original kids from the other three films, Daryl Sabara and
Alexa Vega, are a little too old now to play McHale's children - plus, that wouldn't make sense anyway - but Rodriguez loves to work with the same actors over and over again, so it's likely he'll find a role for at least one of the two original spy kids. Sabara just played a supporting role in Rodriguez'
Machete.
The first
Spy Kids film hit theaters in 2001 and made $112 million domestically before exiting theaters.
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams was released in 2002 and picked up $85 million domestically in theaters.
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over followed in 2003 and collected $111 million domestically. All three films had budgets in the $35-40 million range.
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Milla Jovovich is back fighting the Umbrella Corporation as Alice in the fourth
Resident Evil film,
Resident Evil: Afterlife. The first to be shot in 3-D,
Resident Evil: Afterlife also marks the return of Paul W.S. Anderson to the director's chair after opting to just write and produce the second and third films of the series. Also hitting theaters this weekend is the low-budget R-rated comedy
The Virginity Hit starring a bunch of newcomers and produced by
Will Ferrell and
Adam McKay.
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