Speaking of viral sites, there’s one for Men in Black III, but my god, do you really care? By the way, is Will Smith coming up with a new rap for this one? [source]
I know none of you are surprised to hear Warner Bros. has set director Brad Peyton and writers Brian and Mark Gunn to return for Journey 3 after Journey 2: The Mysterious Island has already managed to bring in over $270 million worldwide.
Producer Beau Flynn tells EW both Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and Hank (Dwayne Johnson) are “absolutely” returning for the new film as are the actors playing them with a targeted 2014 release. The story will focus on the Jules Verne book “From the Earth to the Moon,” which Michael Caine‘s character gives Sean and Hank at the end of Journey 2. [source]
The boys at Slashfilm.com stumbled on some snazzy behind-the-scenes looks at Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, the one above is particularly impressive [source]
Wally Pfister, best known as the Oscar-winning cinemtagrapher of The Dark Knight and Inception, is prepared to make his feature directorial debut for Alcon Entertainment with a screenplay by newcomer Jack Paglen and a plot that’s being kept underwraps. Pre-production is getting underway now with expectations to begin filming in the fall. Pfister recently completed filming The Dark Knight Rises with Christopher Nolan, a suitable director to study under before making your directorial debut I’d say.
Josh Trank is coming off the highly successful low budget feature Chronicle and has already been rumored as one of the potential directors for a Fantastic Four reboot at Fox and his name is now attached to another potential superhero feature, the long-in-development Spider-Man spin-off Venom, the character played by Topher Grace in Spider-Man 3. Jacob Aaron Estes (Mean Creek) wrote a previous draft of the script, but a new writer is being sought Grace is not expected back and the film, as I understand it, will have nothing to do with Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy. [source]
Project X co-writer Michael Bacall is writing a treatment for the sequel. Whether the treatment carries over to the script stage will depend on the producers, Todd Phillips and his Green Hat shingle and Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures. Bacall began work on the treatment several weeks before the movie opened with $21 million in its first three days. [source]
Speaking of Todd Phillips, here’s Frat House, a documentary he directed and debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. The doc was made for HBO’s “America Undercover” but after it premiered allegations were made that Phillips staged the events in the piece it never aired. [via The Playlist]
