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The Weekly Ketchup: Prospective "Wolverine" Director, "Shreks" Four And Five Set, New Site And Poster For "Halloween," And More!
by Nick Hershey | June 08, 2007
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In this week's Ketchup, the director's job for "Wolverine" is a two-person race, Dreamworks has plans to reap more cash in the coming years with the next two "Shrek" films, and Rob Zombie's "Halloween" has a poster and website up and running.

Also, "G.I. Joe" and Hasbro get their movie game on, and Bruce Willis won't let the "Die Hard" series die. Read on.


This Week's Most Popular News:


Has Fox Chosen a "Wolverine" Director?

According to one source, the studio has the "Wolverine" director's job down to a lead candidate ... and a backup choice.

Release Dates Set for "Shrek 4" and "Shrek 5"

Well, release years anyway, according to Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Rob Zombie's "Halloween" Gets a New Poster and Website

The official site for Rob Zombie's "Halloween" remake is up and running, and that's where you can check out the trailer and just a few other gizmos.

"G.I. Joe" is Coming! Plus Some ... Board Game Movies

Looks like "G.I. Joe" just took another step closer to becoming an actual movie -- plus we can expect a whole bunch of Hasbro-type games to hit the screens soon!

Willis is Ready to "Die Hard" (Yet) Again!

The paint's not even dry on the fourth "Die Hard" movie and already Bruce Willis is answering a few questions about a fifth entry. Heck, if Harrison Ford can do it...


What's next, "Die Harder Next Time?"


In Other News:
  • Tyler Perry will next bring his stage play "Meet the Browns" to the big screen as his fifth feature film. His fourth film, "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?" will be reased this November.
  • Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison have set Anna Faris to star and Fred Wolf to direct an untitled college campus comedy that will begin production this summer.
  • Warner Bros. has acquired film rights to "The Shannara", the best-selling fantasy book series by Terry Brooks.
  • Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson will topline Overture Films' romantic drama "Last Chance Harvey," with shooting set to start in London in September.
  • Spike Lee will shoot an Italy-set World War II drama based on "Miracle at St. Anna," U.S. author Walter McBride's novel about black American soldiers fighting the German army in the mountains of Tuscany.
  • Disney has entered into an exclusive multi-year first look deal with "Spider-Man" creator Stan Lee and his production company POW! Entertainment to produce various forms of entertainment.
  • "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" director Tobe Hooper will next film "Training Ground," an Al Qaeda related thriller in Romania this fall.
  • "American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee is set to make her feature film debut as the star of the indie dark romantic comedy "The Last Caller."
  • Mark Ruffalo will star with Julianne Moore in director Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of "Blindness," the Jose Saramago novel about an outbreak of blindness that sweeps an unidentified town.
  • Russell Crowe has formed Fear of God Films and set up his first feature project as a producer, having optioned "Dolce's Inferno," a spec script by Mark Staufer.
  • Clifton Collins Jr. is starring in the indie feature "The Perfect Game," which Prelude Pictures is producing. Cheech Marin, Emilie de Ravin, Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce McGill and Patricia Manterola are in the cast.
  • National Lampoon Inc. announced that its next feature will be "National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son" with Savage Steve Holland signed on to direct.
  • Naomi Watts will star in "We Are All the Same," as Gail Johnson, the adoptive mother of the late South African AIDS activist Nkosi Johnson.

Putting the Fear of God in hotel clerks everywhere.

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Comments (1-3 of 3 posts) | Reply
unbreakable_samurai
unbreakable_samurai writes:
on Jun 10 2007 08:47 AM

The Perfect Game, Last Chance Harvey, and Miracle at St. Anna all sound promising.

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Metafact
Metafact writes:
on Jun 10 2007 05:13 PM

Prospective Wolverine Director: Meh, I suppose he'll do. The only really successful film on DJ Caruso's resume is Disturbia, which was good but not great. Their backup is Len Wiseman, whose known by most people as the Underworld guy. Both choices seem decent, but neither is anything to get excited about.

Shreks Four and Five Set: Ugh, do we really need two more of those?!? I mean, Shrek the Third sucked as it is, I can't even imagine how far the filmmakers will flush this franchise down the toilet before they leave it alone.

New Site and Poster for Halloween: I honestly have no faith in this needless remake. Rob Zombie does not have the talent (yet) to tackle a project like this, and early script reviews have indicated that this will be a "sympathetic" take on Michael Myers, which is just pathetic. I will agree that the poster is well done, but I would rather see this project either scrapped or put in the hands of someone more capable.

G.I. Joe is Coming: I remember reading a review of the G.I. Joe script from the Latino Review website about a month ago...and it wasn't good. You can read it yourself at - http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=62

Willis is Ready to Die Hard (Yet) Again: Can't Hollywood leave these films alone?!? Seriously, all of these unnecessary sequels are becoming overkill. Now they're talking about doing a fifth Die Hard film. Great, just great. I mean, what's John McClane gonna do next, team up with Carlos Mencia and fight space terrorists? Bruce Willis is over 50 years old. He needs to hang it up, already.


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Elixor
Elixor writes:
on Jun 11 2007 05:35 AM

Unfortunately nothing gets left alone until it is beaten into the ground, dug back up, and beaten some more. Unfortunately, as long as we keep paying to see that dead horse being beat on, that's what we get.

I actually enjoyed the third Die Hard more than the first two, but I admit that these movies are getting a little too old.

One sequel/remake that I'd actually like to see, but I'm affraid of what will be done with it, is a new Tron movie. With a good director/producer pair, I think that this would have potential. They'd have to keep the virtual world looking similar to the old movie (which you know they'd be itching to 'improve', but make worse), but I see potential here. Wasn't there even rumors of this in the past, or am I mistaken?


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