Remakes
There can only be one—again. Director Justin Lin (right) will reunite with his The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Fast and Furious producer Neal H. Moritz for Summit Entertainment’s Highlander remake, according to Variety. Showing how much Highlander means to the fledging studio behind the The Twilight Saga, Summit’s hired Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to revive the franchise once anchored by Christopher Lambert’s immortal Connor MacLeod. A Highlander reboot couldn’t come at a better time: the last sequel, The Source, the first in a proposed trilogy featuring Adrian Paul’s Duncan MacLeod, bypassed theaters and debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel in September 2007.
Sequels
Boris Kodjoe can’t stop talking about Resident Evil: Afterlife. It’s not enough that he announced via Twitter that he’s costarring with Milla Jovovich in the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed sequel, due in 2010, but now he’s revealing more cast details. Kodjoe tells Black Film that Afterlife will see the return of Ali Larter, who played Claire Redfield in Extinction, and the addition of Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller as a fellow survivor of the zombie apocalypse.
Speculate all you want, but no one’s been cast in the next Batman sequel beyond the usual suspects. So forgot all those rumors about Megan Fox and—according to Michael Caine—Johnny Depp. The man who is Gotham City’s most invaluable butler tells MTV that “Johnny Depp is great in anything, but there is no Johnny Depp in this Batman. They tell me in no uncertain terms.” When will someone tell us who will be in the third Batman?
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Robert Forster, Anne Archer, Emma Stone, and Michael Douglas Director: Mark Waters Synopsis: Celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and women…in that order. A committed bachelor, he thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on a conference call. On the eve of his brother Paul’s wedding, Connor’s mockery of romance proves a real buzz-kill for Paul and a houseful of well wishers, including Connor’s former flame Jenny. Just when it looks like Connor may single-handedly ruin the wedding, he is visited by the ghosts of his jilted girlfriends, who take him on a revealing and hilarious odyssey through a lifetime of failed relationships: past, present and future. Together they attempt to discover what turned Connor into such a player and whether he has a second chance to find—and this time keep—the love of his life. The Verdict: It was bound to happen sooner or later that A Christmas Carol would get the rom-com treatment. Playboy photographer Matthew McConaughey must contend with the ghosts of his past, present and future girlfriends when they pop out of nowhere to warn him against continuing his swinging ways. The perpetual bachelor relives every one-night stand in the hours before his brother’s wedding to predictably come to the realization that he must act on his feelings for his ex (Jennifer Garner) or forever lose her. The charming McConaughey takes every humiliation his Casanova suffers at the hands of the ghosts in typically relaxed fashion, while Garner gives as good as she gets from the former object of her affection. Still, it takes the over-the-top Michael Douglas—channeling producer Robert Evans as McConaughey’s uncle and mentor—to enliven this hit-and-miss comedy. Despite its Dickens-borrowed premise, Ghosts of Girlfriends is no different than every other predictable McConaughey romantic comedy that we’ve had to sit through since 2001′s The Wedding Planner. There’s a lot of flirting, some resistance on McConaughey’s part, and finally the kiss that seals the deal. By the time McConaughey’s womanizer decides to settle down, you can’t help but hope the actor’s also ready to move on from playing the same charismatic, commitment-phobic ladies man he’s play for much of this decade. Theatrical Release Date: May 1, 2009 DVD Release Date: Sept. 22, 2009 Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 100 minutes DVD Features: N/A
Remakes
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Robert Forster, Anne Archer, Emma Stone, and Michael Douglas
