Joseph Gordon-Levitt was set to play one of a trio of Australian bandits in QuentinTarantino‘s Django Unchained, but he now tells MTV he had to drop out of the role due to a scheduling conflict with his directorial debut, Don Jon’s Addiction. He tells the site, “No, I’m not going to get to do that. I’d love to, but it just doesn’t work. I’ve been in touch with Quentin about it, and it was so cool to trust me to do this little part in his movie. I would have loved, loved to have done it. He’s one of my very favorite filmmakers, and he was really supportive of me directing, and that meant the world to me.” [source]
The full cast for Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s The Tomb has been revealed with Vincent D’Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, Amy Ryan and 50 Cent joining Sly, Arnold and the previously cast James Caviezel. The film is being directed by Mikael Hafstrom and follows Ray Breslin (Stallone) who is the world’s foremost authority on structural security. He’s analyzed every high security prison and has gained a vast array of survival skills. But all Ray’s ingenuity and knowledge are about to be put to work in the most challenging test he’s ever faced: escaping from the master prison of his own design. [source]
Universal is preparing to once again reboot The Mummy franchise, this time with Prometheus screenwriter Jon Spaihts who tells Variety, “I see it as the sort of opportunity I had with Prometheus: to go back to a franchise’s roots in dark, scary source material, and simultaneously open it up to an epic scale we haven’t seen before.” [source]
Bored? Check out what the world would be like if Nicolas Cage was everyone. [source]
The Genre Company and Inferno’s Ember Productions are remaking TriStar’s 1984 film Silent Night, Deadly Night with the title Silent Night and Malcolm McDowell set to star for director Steven C. Miller. The film follows a local police department’s search for the killer Santa Claus terrorizing a remote Midwestern town on Christmas Eve. McDowell will play Sheriff Cooper, a small-town hero ready for some big-time action. Question now is will they use the same poster as the original as source]
Just below is an early short film from Jim Henson titled Robot, which Henson created in 1963 for a Bell System seminar for business owners on the then-brand-new topic of Data Communications. [source]
I really like this tribute poster for Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining from Linda Hordijk. [source]
And finally, have you ever seen Ed Wood‘s Plan 9 From Outer Space? If not you can watch the full movie directly below. Just hit 720p and fullscreen and enjoy.
