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Weekly Ketchup: The Epic Movie Guys to Spoof Avatar (188 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, May. 27 2011, 03:03 PM

During the two calendar weeks leading up and including the Cannes Film Festival, Hollywood goes sort of crazy with movie announcements. The result the week after the festival each year is a general drying up of big movie news items, and 2011 was no exception. The stories that did come out include casting news for The Dark Knight Rises, the Total Recall remake and the Snow White movie starring Julia Roberts.

Weekly Ketchup: The Titanic Sinks Again... In 3D (126 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, May. 20 2011, 04:18 PM

This Week's Ketchup includes five movies about vampires or zombies, two remakes (Bloodsport and Carrie), new movies for Vin Diesel, Will Ferrell, Sir Ian McKellen, Mark Wahlberg and a few up-and-coming actresses, and news of the movie business fallout for the former governor of California.

Weekly Ketchup: George Clooney as a Household Pet? (86 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, May. 13 2011, 04:39 PM

This Week's Ketchup comes to you as the Cannes Film Festival is in full swing in France, which means dozens of new movies or movie roles were announced this week (literally dozens, the total I came up is 41). The ten stories that made the cut for the Weekly Ketchup include (potential) new roles for Jack Black, George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz, and new projects for directors Darren Aronofsky, Martin Scorsese and Barry Sonnenfeld.

Weekly Ketchup: Kathryn Bigelow Takes On A Bin Laden Movie (144 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, May. 06 2011, 04:20 PM

As the film industry prepares for the start of the Cannes Film Festival on May 11, enough announcements were made this week to fill two editions of the Weekly Ketchup. Among the stories that made the cut are new projects for directors Kathryn Bigelow and Quentin Tarantino, the casting of supporting roles in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln biopic, remakes of Tomb Raider and Seven Samurai, and a Glee movie.

Weekly Ketchup: Arnold Will Be Back as the Terminator (90 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Apr. 29 2011, 03:12 PM

This Week's Ketchup either represents one of the worst seven days in recent movie news memory, or columnist Greg Dean Schmitz was just grumpy that he didn't get invited to the Royal Wedding (he loves wacky hats!). Aging action stars trying to revive their golden oldies (Terminator 5), a Justin Bieber basketball movie and an movie that reimagines Zorro as a sort of Mad Max figure are just three of the seven Rotten Ideas. On the brighter side are stories about The Lone Ranger, The Hunger Games (fingers still crossed on that one, at least) and a cool sounding new role for Jeff Bridges.

Weekly Ketchup: Jeremy Renner Is the New Bourne Star (110 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Apr. 22 2011, 04:30 PM

This Week's Ketchup saw many casting announcements, including new roles for Elizabeth Banks, Tom Cruise, James Franco, Jeremy Renner, Winona Ryder, Jason Statham and Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis. Also included in the news cycle are stories about The Bourne Legacy, Fast Six, The Hunger Games and Prom 2.

Weekly Ketchup: Michael Shannon is Man of Steel's Zod (82 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Apr. 15 2011, 04:12 PM

This Week's Ketchup includes casting news for both Man of Steel and The Dark Knight Rises, as well as the reboot of The Crow and two movies featuring the character of Pip from Great Expectations. Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern and Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles also had some big movie news this week.

Weekly Ketchup: Will and Jaden Smith to Work with M. Night Shyamalan (171 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Apr. 08 2011, 04:40 PM

This Week's Ketchup includes new roles for Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Robert Redford, Keanu Reeves, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hailee Steinfeld, Will Smith and Jaden Smith, as well as news about a possible Time Bandits remake and Peter Jackson's upcoming Adventures of Tintin movie.

Weekly Ketchup: A Live Action Justice League Movie in 2013? (93 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Apr. 01 2011, 02:30 PM

This Week's Ketchup includes lots of news for DC Comics movies (Justice League, Green Lantern and the casting of Lois Lane), new movies for Jennifer Garner, Bill Murray, Hailee Steinfeld and the penguins from Madagascar.

Weekly Ketchup: Narnia To Continue With The Magican's Nephew (184 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Mar. 25 2011, 06:42 PM

This week's Ketchup includes casting rumors and news for The Dark Knight Rises and Superman: Man of Steel, news about the fourth entry in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Amazing Spider-Man already getting a sequel and new movies for Nicolas Cage, Benicio del Toro, Salma Hayek, Kenan Thompson and John Travolta.

Weekly Ketchup: Jennifer Lawrence Cast in The Hunger Games (125 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Mar. 18 2011, 04:20 PM

This Week's Ketchup includes casting news for The Hunger Games and Superman: Man of Steel, biopics about the Somali pirate hostage crisis and filmmaker Russ Meyer, the comic book adaptations Daredevil, Preacher and The Wolverine and half a dozen other science fiction projects.

Weekly Ketchup: Guillermo del Toro Moves on to Pacific Rim (111 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Mar. 11 2011, 04:20 PM

This Week's Ketchup includes new movies for director Guillermo del Toro, John Cusack, Vince Vaughn and the Fanning sisters, two new comic book adaptations, and a movie about extremely large balloons.

Weekly Ketchup: Viggo Mortensen to Join Superman Reboot? (238 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Mar. 04 2011, 05:00 PM

This Week's Ketchup is yet again stacked to the brim with remakes and reboots (Superman, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Robocop, Peter Pan), at least two sequels (Percy Jackson, Blade Runner), and other new movies for Quentin Tarantino, Tim Allen and Tom Hanks.

Weekly Ketchup: A Live Action Version of Star Blazers? (83 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Feb. 25 2011, 05:10 PM

Although this was sort of a slow news week, this week's Ketchup is chock full of space operas (Star Blazers and Prometheus) and remakes (Les Mis�rables, Ferdinand the Bull, Soapdish and The Bodyguard).

Weekly Ketchup: Captain America Sequel Already In the Works (93 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Feb. 18 2011, 05:00 PM

This Week's Ketchup is chockful of superhero news (including Captain America 2, Iron Man 3 and The Dark Knight Rises), as well as a couple of biopics (Howard Hughes, again, and Salvador Dali).

Weekly Ketchup: Ryan Gosling to Tackle Logan's Run (46 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Feb. 11 2011, 04:42 PM

This was another busy week in Hollywood, with quite a bit of big news. Hollywood's ongoing obsession with remakes is particularly evident, as remakes of Fantastic Voyage, Highlander, Jack the Giant Killer, Logan's Run and Red Sonja are all covered this week. Finally, I should mention that this week marked my third anniversary at Rotten Tomatoes as the writer of the Weekly Ketchup. My very first column was published on February 8, 2008, which made Rotten Tomatoes my new online home after ten years as the creator and writer of Upcomingmovies.com.

Weekly Ketchup: Henry Cavill Is Superman (75 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Feb. 04 2011, 05:23 PM

This week saw a flurry of movie development news stories, and if the Weekly Ketchup was a column with 20 slots instead of 10, there still would have been interesting stories that would have been left out. The big stories that did make the cut this week include casting news for Superman: The Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Rises and the 23rd James Bond movie, as well as movies based upon Stephen King's The Stand, Gregory McDonald's Fletch novels, the trippy 1970s kids show Lidsville and... the Frisbee!?

Weekly Ketchup: Javier Bardem Joins The Dark Tower (43 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Jan. 28 2011, 04:50 PM

Most of the movie news this week was dominated by both the Academy Awards nominations and various goings on at Sundance, but there was still a good deal of movie development news as well. In particular, there was a lot of casting going on, including new roles (or possible new roles) for Javier Bardem, James Franco, James Gandolfini, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Jackman and Viggo Mortensen.

Weekly Ketchup: Anne Hathaway cast in next Batman movie (131 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Jan. 21 2011, 05:26 PM

The last several weeks have been slow in movie news, as Hollywood loves taking holiday vacations five times longer than what the rest of the world can manage. This week, however, enough news stories came out to fill a couple Weekly Ketchup columns of ten news stories each. Here, then, are the cream of the crop, at least in terms of high-profile stories, because at least half of them are arguably "Rotten Ideas." There's casting news for The Dark Knight Rises (the next Batman movie) and Prometheus (formerly known as the Alien prequel), as well as potential new movies for Robert Downey Jr, Beyonce Knowles and the former governor of California.

Weekly Ketchup: Pirates 5 Gets a Screenwriter (111 comments)

by Greg Dean Schmitz on Friday, Jan. 14 2011, 04:10 PM

This week's Ketchup covers a week that saw news for an unusual number of animated projects (including an R-rated comedy cowritten by Seth Rogen) and a movie version of the Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb. Franchise entries The Hobbit and Pirates of the Caribbean 5 also had news, as well as movies based on Pippi Longstocking, the TV series Dynasty and the Missile Command videogame.