Michelle Rodriguez has finally been confirmed and will reprise her role as Letty Ortiz in Fast and the Furious 6, which is set to begin filming in June for a May 24, 2013 release. She joins already confirmed returning cast members Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson with Gina Carano (Haywire) also joining the proceedings.
Rodriguez will also return as Luz/She in Machete Kills for director Robert Rodriguez, which is set to begin filming shortly in Texas. In Machete Kills, Danny Trejo returns as the title character as this time around he’ll team with the U.S. Government to take on Luther Voz (Mel Gibson), a cunning arms dealer and death merchant who aims to spread war across the planet by launching a missile. [source]
Sally Hawkins is set to join Woody Allen‘s next movie with Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper also circling roles. The film will shoot in San Francisco and New York this summer with Blanchett potentially playing a sophisticated woman who has her life together, Hawkins will play a neurotic who’s more fun and rough around the edges and Cooper’s potential role is unclear. [source]
The Kodak Theatre will now be known as the Dolby Theatre with Dolby Laboratories, Inc. taking over for the now-bankrupt Kodak, though the deal is contingent on the Academy Awards staying at the Hollywood and Highland location. I have already updated the location for the 2013 Oscars on my history page for the upcoming ceremony. [source]
Sharlto Copley (District 9) is set to star in Apollo 18 director, Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s Open Grave in which his character wakes up in a pit full of rotting bodies with no idea how he got there. He eventually begins to have flashbacks of himself murdering people and starts to believe he’s the killer. The plot sounds extremely familiar to that of the Adrien Brody starrer source]
Transformers and Star Trek screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have signed an exclusive two-year deal with Universal Pictures with their first two titles set to be the remakes of studio library titles The Mummy alongside producer Sean Daniel and writer Jon Spaihts and Van Helsing with Tom Cruise attached to star in and produce the film.
Michael Cera, Jason Segel, David Krumholtz, Rihanna and Emma Watson are joining Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, Jonah Hill and Craig Robinson in End of the World, which was written by Rogen and Evan Goldberg with the duo also set to direct.
Based on the short film Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse, the story centers on two friends (Krumholtz and Rogen) in a friend’s (Franco’s character) apartment with their friends dealing with the apocalypse, which is taking place outside. Watch the trailer for the short to the right. [source #1, source #2]
Finally, Refocused Media has pieced together every cut from Alfonso Cuaron‘s Children of Men that lasts longer than 45 seconds and revealed the results in this following 31:02 video. The main reason for the project comes as a result of news Cuaron’s upcoming film, Gravity, will not only begin with a 17+ minute shot, but will have an average shot length of 45 seconds.
The video below contains 16 separate shots, six of which are over 90 seconds. [source]
