As Anchorman 2 built up intrigue and delight over the last year with the pace of a bloated tortoise, today's news hopefully marks a new influx of juicy details concerning the sequel. Director Adam McKay confirmed rumours that yes, Kristen Wiig will be joining the cast, which was met by Christina Applegate's excited Tweet: "So excited Kristen Wiig has joined our cast for Anchorman 2!"
This week marks the release of two new action capers; The Last Stand, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Broken City with Mark Wahlberg. As two barrel-chested, ab-tastic leading men in the cinematic arena, The Governator and Marky Mark have each had their share of ass-kicking roles. This time around the Throwdown team opted to take a new slant on their debate. This is no mere argument of who is the better actor, no. Today, we debate: who would you want as an ally in a fight? Let battle brawn commence!
With this weekend’s release of Brad Pitt’s latest - gritty crime flick Killing Them Softly, the throwdown challenge this week dukes it out over the two enchanting women from the last decade in Pitt’s life. As the old adage goes, “Behind every great man there’s a great woman.” In Pitt’s case, there have been two. Let’s see how wife-to-be Angelina Jolie and ex-wife Jennifer Aniston fare!
With Stephenie Meyer's main source of riches reaching its end this week when The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 hits theatres, there'll be a flutter of panic in the hearts of Twi-hards. They need not worry, however, as Meyer spawned another non-vampiric/non-lycanthropic novel called The Host which has been given a cinematic makeover and is set for release next year. The first poster has landed today for this updated body snatcher tale set to enchant fans with further unrealistic relationship dynamics.
After starting her career with teen and family flicks like Wild Child and Hotel For Dogs, Emma Roberts looks to be making a shift to the, err, Adult World. After making the transition from kiddy movies to slasher horror Scream 4, Roberts is taking it down a notch for Adult World, a comedy drama by Scott Coffey co-starring John Cusack. And whaddya know, a bunch of new photos from the film just landed online today.
Set to hit in the new year, Movie 43 is being pegged as the big comedy for January. With a plentiful cast and crew joined for an ensemble slapstick caper of intertwined stories, the red band trailer presented us with a string of knob gags, menstruation jokes and general guttersnipery. Brilliant.
Will Damon Lindelof ever be able to win back fans after his rewrite of Jon Spaihts' original draft for Prometheus? Well, there's a chance that could happen today as Prometheus Movie found a Scribd account hosting a copy of Spaihts' first script. Before you cast your minds back to the Alien Harvest script which was purported to be Spaiths' first draft until it was debunked as a fake - Spaiths himself confirmed the authenticity of this new script via Twitter.
It might be a stretch to think that once Daniel Radcliffe has put a couple of decades behind him and finally shrugged off the tag of "androgynous boy wizard" that he'll somehow resemble Jon Hamm. However, that's exactly the premise of a new British miniseries called A Young Doctor's Notebook, which you can have a butchers at for yourself in the first trailer below.
The last two weeks of "will he? won't he?" became a cyclic hell for those pondering Romney's chances, so it was an enjoyable reprieve to wonder the same about Mark Wahlberg's future in Michael Bay's upcoming Transformers 4.
Zombie films are like buses. When you desperately need to catch one, there's nary one in sight. And when one does arrive it's followed by another three all filled with people moaning, groaning and generally causing a disturbance. In addition to today's arrival of the trailer for Brad Pitt's zombie apocalypse flick, World War Z, we've also got the first full length trailer for Jonathan Levine's Warm Bodies.
