) has dropped out of directing the film. Can they just kill the entire idea now?
, Captain America: The First Avenger) as Uday Hussein, the violent son of Saddam Hussein! Punch Drunk Critics is offering the first 40 people to leave a comment on this post a pair of tickets to a free advance screening of The Devil's Double, to be held in a Washington DC theater this coming Tuesday, August 2nd at 7:30pm. 
, Star Trek
). But there's always the fear he'll do another Run Fatboy Run
, or How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
. Here's hoping this next project turns out better than those. 
, Con Air
) is the man who'll be spearheading The Expendables 2, which guarantees us all more geriatric, BenGay stinking musclebound action. Part of the fun of the first film came months before shooting had even begun, as literally every 1980s cheeseball who ever held a gun bigger than his head was invited to participate. The Expendables might've been a disappointment, but the build up was awesome. So far the rumors floating around the sequel have been pretty much the same. Jean Claude Van Damme joining, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger with expanded roles...yadda yadda. 
) has created much clearer, but key points are left out this time. Instead what we get are a bunch of random action scenes with Justin Timberlake, and snippets of dialogue that amount to nothing. 
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), it features an expansive cast including Terrence Howard, Ne-Yo, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bryan Cranston, David Oyelowo, Method Man, Tristan Wilds, Lee Tergesen, and many more. Anthony Hemingway(The Wire
) directed, although Lucas himself took over on reshoots while Hemingway was off doing work on the HBO series, Treme
. Check out the trailer below...
. It also looks like Lucas has spared no expense in making the time period as authentic as possible. 
, the director is suddenly at his busiest. He's got so many projects lined up I'm wondering if he's not the long lost African-American brother of Robert Rodriguez. After flip flopping on it, Fuqua is back directing his 2pac biopic. He's got some sort of Chinese epic set during the Tang Dynasty. And let's not forget he'll direct Southpaw, the boxing drama starring Eminem. The crazy thing is that's only half the films Fuqua's name is attached to. But who's counting? 
? And he was wacko in that. To me, that bodes extremely well for Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming monster invasion film, Pacific Rim, as Variety reports Dafoe has entered early talks to join it. He'd play a "rogue scientist" with expertise on aliens. How exactly did he come about this knowledge? Hmmmmm...
), last seen dropping out of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit due to personal reasons, has been confirmed as one of the humans fighting to defend the planet. Our friends over at ThePlaylist seem to think he could play the brother of Charlie Hunnam's character. Idris Elba, Rinku Kikuchi, Charlie Day, and Max Martini are also set to star. 
, Warrior) would star, after being attached to it at one point. So what's going on? Is this even still happening? Or has the fact that half a dozen Seal Team 6 films are now in the works scared Bigelow and Co. off?
) and a script by the writer of Temple Grandin
. At one point Kate Hudson and James Franco were attached, but nothing's been heard about that for months. [E!Online]
, Flightplan
) is directing, based on a script by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi(Aeon Flux
). No word yet on whether Jodie Foster, rumored to be joining a few months ago, has signed. For Bacon, this'll be the fourth straight time he's played villain! I think that indie flick, The Woodsman
, was something of a turning point for him. He's been tackling darker stuff ever since.
(twice!!!) and last year's Yogi Bear
. The easy analysis is that these are so popular(and the box office proves they are) because they appeal to little kids. This is completely untrue. No child gives a hoot who Yogi Bear is or is concerned whether the Chipmunks are really lip syncing. These work because they play upon the childhood memory of adults who grew up in the 70s and 80s. Adults keep these movies afloat, and so that's why we keep getting more of them. 
, a cartoon with a great lineage all it's own. Created by the Belgian artist Peyo back in 1958, the little blue creatures(three apples tall!) would make their way to the United States with their own Saturday cartoon series in 1981. It's arguably the most popular morning cartoon in television history, running for nine years and long after that in reruns.
director Raja Gosnell, and you'll be surprised to know it's not all that bad. Shot in 3D, The Smurfs takes us through a whirlwind tour of Smurf village. We're quickly introduced to the magical creatures, each limited personality wise by whatever their name concludes them to be: Brainy Smurf is a bifocal wearing nerd; Clumsy Smurf is...clumsy; Vanity Smurf stares at his mirror all day. I know some women like him. And then there are the two oddballs like Papa Smurf(voiced by Jonathan Winters) and Smurfette(Katy Perry). Smurfette is the only female in town, which should make nights out at the drive-in a little awkward. Papa Smurf is the centuries old patriarch, who keeps his family safe via magic spells conjured up in his mushroom home. The only thing keeping them from a perfect existence is the presence of a human named Gargamel(Hank Azaria), an oafish wizard who wants to use Smurf body acids to power his magic. Seriously smurfed up. 
