It was announced by 20th Century Fox yesterday that Wedding Crashers stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson will be reuniting for The Internship for director Shawn Levy (Real Steel) with filming set to begin on June 25. In the film Vaughn and Wilson portray two old school salesmen who, finding themselves suddenly unemployed and passed-by in the digital world, try to reinvent themselves by becoming interns at a major tech company. Vaughn penned the script.
Dimension also got in the announcement game confirming Robert Rodriguez was finally getting underway with Sin City 2, which will be officially titled Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Casting is set to get underway next week, with many of the original cast expected to return, though names were not mentioned and the plot for the film was not revealed. However, it is expected to mostly be an adaptation of Frank Miller‘s “A Dame to Kill For” and Miller recently said he expects Jessica Alba to return as Nancy Calahan and I’m sure previous cast members including Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson and Clive Owen will be likely to return.
AR FIlms will be managing worldwide sales of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, as well as Rodriguez’s Machete Kills at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
In a small update to Kimberly Peirce‘s remake of Carrie, Screen Gems has set a March 15, 2013 release date for the film.
Also, for those of you looking forward to the return of “Arrested Development“, Will Arnett was on “The Today Show” recently and said the big screen adaptation was eying a summer shoot.
And for the Anchorman 2 crowd, writer/director Adam McKay revealed a few potential plot points to Salon recently giving the following quote:
“I don’t want to give away too much, but I’ll just give a couple pieces of ideas that we’ve kicked around. Keep in mind we’re still writing the story, but I’ll say one phrase for you: custody battle. I’ll give you that. I’ll give you one other one: bowling for dollars.”
And while McKay tries to keep from spoiling Anchorman 2, The Weinstein Co. has given away the farm when it comes to Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained revealing the following massive plot synopsis I didn’t even read myself. I feel I already know more than enough, but if you want the insider scoop… have at it:
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.
Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South’s most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.
Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Academy Award-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation where slaves are groomed by trainer Ace Woody (Kurt Russell) to battle each other for sport. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Academy Award-nominee Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival…
Written and directed by Academy Award-winner Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained is produced by Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone. The executive producers are Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Michael Shamberg, Shannon McIntosh, and James Skotchdopole. Django Unchained will be released in the U.S. on December 25, 2012, and internationally by Sony Pictures.
