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Report: Nicolas Cage is the “Season of the Witch”…

Nicolas Cage is set to reteam with “Gone In 60 Seconds” director Dominic Sena for the supernatural thriller “Season of the Witch” which will be made through Relatively Media.

Story takes place in the 14 century with knights transporting a girl who is suspected of being a witch responsible for spreading the Black Praque. The film will be released by Columbia Pictures. The actress who will play the Witch have not been announced yet.

Shooting is expected to begin in early November in Austria and Hungary.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992561.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Nic Cage must be finished with the filming of “Bad Lieutenant” if he’s going to start filming “The Witch” soon.

Let me guess, Angelina Jolie might be the Witch? Wouldn’t surpirse me if Sena got her again too.

Kev

Report: Nicolas Cage is the “Season of the Witch”…

Nicolas Cage is set to reteam with “Gone In 60 Seconds” director Dominic Sena for the supernatural thriller “Season of the Witch” which will be made through Relatively Media.

Story takes place in the 14 century with knights transporting a girl who is suspected of being a witch responsible for spreading the Black Praque. The film will be released by Columbia Pictures. The actress who will play the Witch have not been announced yet.

Shooting is expected to begin in early November in Austria and Hungary.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992561.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Nic Cage must be finished with the filming of “Bad Lieutenant” if he’s going to start filming “The Witch” soon.

Let me guess, Angelina Jolie might be the Witch? Wouldn’t surpirse me if Sena got her again too.

Kev

Thought: About the “Hounddog” movie controversy, just something to think about…

I am reading articles online about the “Hounddog” movie as explained below about a 12 year old girl being raped and being in an abusive family back in the 50’s. Sources are complaining about that the movie shouldn’t be shown in theaters and people are on a protest on the film trying to talk people into not seeing it.

Why do people find this a surprise that this a film about a child film that is sexual? This isn’t the first time that Hollywood has made movies like this.

Hello, remember the movie Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita”? That film is about a middle aged man falling in love with a 14 year old girl. And another movie called “Birth” that stars Nicole Kidman which is about a little boy who pretends to be her dead husband, and Nicole’s character begin to have a romantic relationship with that little boy, Nicole’s character takes a bath with him and everything. There is even a brief make out scene with Nicole and that little boy in the film too.

The thing with “Hounddog” is nothing new in Hollywood. There are plenty of films like this. The fact is, as long as there is no underage nudity and no child porn in these films, that is why it is legal for Hollywood to make these kind of movies.

The movie “Hounddog” was directed and written by a female film maker, maybe she was raped as a young child herself and she wanted to make a film on her experience to show the world what it’s like what a child experiences during that horrible time.

If “Law and Order: SVU” can do stuff like this, then why can’t Hollywood? It’s only fiction. I think people just take things too seriously. My advice, if you don’t like the content of the film or a TV show, IGNORE IT and DON’T WATCH! Simple? Yes.

Another thing to think about, if these child actors are willing to star in movies like this, it’s obvious their parents are cool with it and have no problem as long as it’s in their guidance. I think the reason Dakota Fanning signed on to a movie like this, because she mostly played in family oriented films, she did this movie ’cause she wanted to show a darker side of Dakota Fanning.

The only reason “Houndog” is making news headlines ’cause it was shown in Sundance last year and now it’s playing in selective theaters. What they going to try next ban the DVD release of the film too? It is only a movie. Period.

Kev

Report: “Hounddog” controversial film out in selective theaters now…

The controversial drama film “Hounddog” which stars the 14 year old Dakota Fanning, it’s about a trouble girl in a troubled life living in a abusive family. She is a girl that enjoys music and idolizes Elvis Presley. In the film, the young girl gets raped. There is no underage nudity in the film for legal reasons of course, all the rape scene shows is Dakota’s face.

When the film made it’s debut at Sundance festival in 2007, the film created a negative reaction by it’s audience. It’s been said that nobody wanted to see the film again after the festival ended.

The film “Hounddog” that also stars Piper Laurie, David Morse, and Robin Wright Penn hits selective theaters in the U.S.

Read more on it here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN1927732720080919?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

The film looks interesting, I’ll have to see it when it comes out on DVD. As long as it created a negative audience reaction, then it is probably good. I think the film isn’t supposed to entertain people, it’s supposed to send a message across about child rape. I think the film’s goal is to help save children from rape.

See the trailer of the film below.

Kev

BREAKING NEWS: Dreamworks splits with Paramount Pictures as a stand alone company…

Dreamworks pictures, a film company that is being runned by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Stacey Snider has closed out a deal with Reliance so they can leave Paramount Pictures. The goal was to make Dreamworks pictures a standalone company so that it would not be owned by Paramount. Spielberg, Geffen and Snider who run Dreamworks wanted to own and run it their own way.

Paramount pictures have agreed to part ways with Spielberg’s “Dreamworks” and wishes them well on their new adventure.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992505.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

I’m betting my money that Steven Spielberg is behind all of this and made it happen. The man’s a genius when it comes to business in Hollywood. I bet Steven had a tough battle with Paramount to make it happen. The man gets what he wants always.

Kev

Report: William Shatner responds to JJ Abrams in videoblog…

William Shatner himself responds back to JJ Abrams on why Captain Kirk isn’t in the new Star Trek movie in a videoblog made by Bill and his daughter Liz. 

Bill says he didn’t know Kirk was written a cameo and Bill said JJ never asked him to be in it. Bill also explains how he already brought Captain Kirk to life in one of his novels (“The Return” pictured above, that’s the book Bill is referring to, the book is a sequel to “Star Trek: Generations” movie). Bill explains that it was easy to bring Captain Kirk back to life while JJ said it was difficult to do. Bill has nothing against JJ Abrams as he likes JJ as a director and respects him as a person. Bill just feels dissapointed that he isn’t in the new film.

So there you have it. See the video below. Bill’s daughter Liz is very cute looking, she definitely looks like she’s in a legal age, I would say Liz is around her late 20’s, early 30’s, definitely a little around my age I would say. I could date someone like her.

Kev

Report: Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau to reteam in “Couples Retreat”…

Actors Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau (he is also the director of “Iron Man”) are set to reteam by starring in the leading roles in a comedy titled, “Couples Retreat”. Vaughn first teamed up with Favreau for the film “Swingers” released in 1996, they later reteamed for the second time for the film “Made” released in 2001.

In “Couples Retreat”, Favreau wrote the script. The film will be directed by Peter Billingsly. Jason Bateman and Faizon Love will co-star.

The film will be about four couples who go on a vacation to a tropical island resort. While one couple is working on their marriage, the others are there to play, but they soon discover that participation in the resort’s couple therapy is not optional.

The film is set to start filming sometime in late October and will be filmed in Bora Bora and Los Angeles.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992477.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

I enjoyed the films “Swingers” and “Made”, I’ll be looking forward to this one too. I like both Vaughn and Favreau.

Kev

Report: Luke Wilson and Giovanni Ribisi to star in “Middle Men”, a film about the rise of internet porn…

Luke Wilson (who is the real life brother of actor Owen Wilson) and Giovanni Ribisi is signed on to star in a film titled “Middle Men”, which is about a business man who builds the first online billing company which deals with the online internet porn industry which will lead himself into a world of dangerous people from Russian mobsters, federal agents, and international terrorists, he’s going through all that while trying to save his marriage and family.

No director has been found yet for the film but the film is being finanaced through Christopher Mallick’s Oxymoron. It will be produced by Blue Star Entertainment.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992442.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Film sounds interesting. Hope it’s good.

Kev

BREAKING NEWS: Jack White and Alicia Keys 007 “Quantum of Solace” theme song online…

Jack White and Alicia Keys 007 theme song for the “Quantum Of Solace” film is now online, the song in it’s entirety for a free listen.

Jack wrote the song and produced it. Jack is singing the lead and Alicia is just playing the piano parts and she’s singing the backup vocals to the choruses.

Listen to the song here:

http://www.thirdmanrecords.com/

My thoughts? It’s okay. Nothing mind blowing. I do love Alicia Keys and I want to hear more of her in the song, come on Jack, let her sing more than just the choruses.

Alicia Keys is a pop R&B singer, but she’s actually one of the talented ones, I quite like her music. Like I always say, I’m not a pop music guy, I’m more into progressive rock, that is my main genre but everybody listens to something else that is not their usual genre sometimes. It’s just that sometimes it does get tiring listening to loud and angry rock music all the time, that it’s good to listen to other stuff once in a while like maybe a little pop, a little country, a little blues, classical, jazz, even techno/electonica, etc. I do listen to other genres once in a while, it’s good to listen to a variety.

Kev

Report: Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leia to join “Sorority Row”?

The former Star Wars star mostly known for her iconic role as Princess Leia, Carrie Fisher is currently in negotations to star the leading role in “Sorority Row”, which is a remake of a horror film made in 1983 titled “The House on Sorority Row”. Jamie Chung and Audrina Patridge are already confirmed to join the cast. Rumer Willis and several other actresses have also joined the cast.

The plot will be about a group of sorority sisters who try to cover up the death of their house-sister, then things go wrong, they are now being stalked and killed by a serial killer. Fisher is set to play the sorority house mother.

Shooting will begin in early October in Pittsburgh.

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i201846d39215b29df34b864175a57f65

The horror movie industry seems to run out of ideas of original work. I’m sick of the horror film remakes. When will we ever get something original?

Kev