The Boston Herald has put up two new pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio running with a rifle around an electrified fence from Scorsese's latest, SHUTTER ISLAND. The film follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels who is investigating a murderous patient who disappeared from a hospital of the criminally insane and is said to be hiding somewhere on Shutter Island, a small island on Massachusetts' Outer Harbor.
Universal Pictures has recently acquired rights to Oni Press graphic novel series "The Last Call" and has set Evan Spiliotopoulos (THE JUNGLE BOOK 2) to pen the script. First published in 2007 "the horror-adventure series is about two teens on a joyride who get hit by a "ghost train," which is carrying souls from this dimension to another. They wake up on the train and try to solve a mystery that will allow them to return to their regular lives."
"Oh No They Didn't" has put up a bunch of new images from the Amelia Earthart biopic starring Ewan McGregor, Hilary Swank and Richard Gere. The film, directed by Mira Nair (MONSOON WEDDING, VANITY FAIR) follows the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 while trying to fly around the world.
MTV recently spoke with THE HAPPENING star Mark Wahlberg about his recent work on the movie adaptation of the popular shoot-em-up video game "Max Payne".
"Two weeks out I was just dying," Wahlberg said of his titular role in the upcoming video game adaptation "Max Payne." "I wanted my life back. I read the script and said either somebody got really creative or it's actually more like a movie than most games," Wahlberg enthused.
"Max Payne is not a one-trick pony. It's probably one of the edgier roles I've played but also the most layered. Here's a very happy guy who worked a dismal job, had a beautiful family. But the beauty in his life was taken away. He just goes on a rampage. It's all driven by emotion."
MAX PAYNE, also starring THAT 70'S SHOW veteran Mila Kunis is set to hit theaters October 17th, 2008.
Spike Lee has acquired the rights to "Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality" which he plans on co-writing and directing into a feature adaptation under his Forty Acres & A Mule Filmworks banner.
"Mallett, who wrote the book with Bruce Henderson, recounts his rise from poverty to a distinguished academic and scientific career, and it lays out the technical specs for what Mallett envisions as a workable time machine. Developing a time machine became an obsession for Mallett from the age of 10 after his father's death. His goal was to travel back in time to save his father."
Lee has previously been interested in the subject of time travel as was seen in his potential involvement in the Fox drama SELLING TIME which tells the story of a man who sells party of his life expectancy to go back and time and relive the worst day of his life. Lee is no longer involved in that project.
The video below details Mallet's work into creating a real life time machine.
In the film, directed by Danny and Oxide Pang, the life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong, a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok's intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard... just as Surat decides it's time to clean house.
Universal is ready to release Cohen's latest comedy, BRUNO, next summer on May 15th, 2009. The full title of the movie is actually BRUNO: DELICIOUS JOURNEYS THROUGH AMERICA FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING HETEROSEXUAL MALES VISIBLY UNCOMFORTABLE IN THE PRESENCE OF A GAY FOREIGNER IN A MESH T-SHIRT. The follow up to BORAT, which brought in $128.5 million for Universal, follows around Cohen as he pretends be a flamboyant fashion and celebrity journalist from Austria who interviews unwitting members of the public who believe Bruno is a real person.
According to Variety, Paramount Pictures recently shelled out six figures to acquire rights to a New York Times article called "Mystery on Fifth Avenue". The article talks about a family who renovated their new 4,200 square foot '20s-era co-op with Central Park views apartment on Fifth Avenue and discovered a Rube Goldberg type mystery built into their home. An architectural designer who oversaw the rehab job left behind a series of messages, games and treasures, unbeknownst to the family, who eventually unraveled a mystery that featured a poem, a book, a soundtrack and a host of historical figures.
