Release date: Friday February 6, 2009
Genre: Comedy
Director: Harald Zwart
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony), MGM
Screenplay: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, Steve Martin
Producer(s): Robert Simonds
Cast: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, John Cleese
Official Site: sonypictures.com/movies/thepinkpanther2
Rating: PG for some suggestive humor, brief mild language and action
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Synopsis
Steve Martin reprises his role as the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the modern-day farce. John Cleese will play chief inspector Dreyfus in the film. Garcia, Molina and Rai have signed on as detectives and experts who join forces with Clouseau to catch the thief who has been stealing artifacts around the world.

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Release date: Friday January 16, 2009
Genre: Comedy
Running: 91 min.
Director: Steve Carr
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Screenplay: Nick Bakay, Kevin James
Producer(s): Adam Sandler, Barry Bernardi, Jack Giarraputo, Kevin James, Todd Garner
Cast: Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Keir O’Donnell, Bobby Cannavale, Stephen Rannazzisi, Shirley Knight
Official Site: paulblartmallcop.com
Rating: PG or some violence, mild crude and suggestive humor, and language
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Synopsis
In Columbia Pictures’ comedy “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”, Kevin James stars as the title character, a single, suburban dad, trying to make ends meet as a security officer at a New Jersey mall. Though no one else takes his job seriously, Paul considers himself on the front lines of safety. When a heist shuts down the megaplex, Jersey’s most formidable mall cop will have to become a real cop to save the day.

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Release date: Friday January 23, 2009
Genre: Action/Adventure/Horror/Thriller
Running: 92 min.
Director: Patrick Tatopoulos
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Screenplay: Danny McBride
Producer(s): Gary Lucchesi, Len Wiseman, Skip Williamson, Tom Rosenberg
Cast: Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux
Official Site: entertheunderworld.com
Rating: R for bloody violence and some sexuality
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This prequel story delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.

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These are the movies debuting in theaters, Friday January 9, 2009.

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We’ve got a ton news about the upcoming “Iron Man” sequel.

Mickey Rourke, the so-hot-right-now comeback star of The Wrestler, and Sam Rockwell (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) are in talks to join the upcoming Iron Man sequel as dual villains.

Rockwell, The Hollywood Reporter says, is up for the part of Justin Hammer, “a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist” of Tony Stark. Incidentally, Rockwell was one of director Jon Favreau’s original choices for the Iron Man role.

As for Rourke’s part, there appears to be some confusion. Variety says that he would play “Tony Stark’s Russian alter ego, a heavily tattooed bruiser who is in the arms trade and battles Iron Man in his own nuclear-powered armored suit.” The trade mag hints that he’s the Crimson Dynamo.

But wait… The Hollywood Reporter describes the character differently. They say Rourke will portray “a tattooed Russian heavy named Ivan who becomes Whiplash, a man with deadly, technologically enhanced coils.” That doesn’t sound like Whiplash at all — that character is a girl, except in the Ultimate universe where he’s only been briefly glimpsed. The description sounds a little bit like Omega Red, but we’re inclined to think that Rourke is actually playing Crimson Dynamo, as Variety states.

Did somebody get their wires crossed here? Is it intentional misinformation? We think the latter is a real possibility given the extremely convoluted nature of today’s announcements.

Finally, THR scoops that another role, that of Tony Stark’s assistant Natasha, has yet to be cast. Confused yet?

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Chris Tilly talks to Michael Sheen (“Frost/Nixon” and “Underworld“) about the future of the Underworld franchise.

IGN caught up with Michael Sheen this week to discuss his critically acclaimed turn in Frost/Nixon, and while chatting, the conversation turned to Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, which hits screens later this month.

The film sees his character Lucian take centre stage, and Sheen assured us that the film will look amazing, and that “people who are into the films already are not going to be disappointed.”

When discussing the future of the franchise however, there seemed to be one major issue regarding his involvement.

“The hard thing for me is that I’m playing a character who never gets any older, and I am getting older” he explained. “I was watching the new one yesterday, and it’s set before the first one, but in that first one I look a lot younger, obviously. There’s a limit as to how many times I can get away with that.”

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“The Dark Knight” has earned two more nominations to it’s list of honours.

The Dark Knight has added to its critical laurels with two new nominations announced today.

The Writers Guild of America has nominated the Batman Begins sequel in the category of best adapted screenplay, alongside The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, and Slumdog Millionaire.

The WGA’s nominees for best original screenplay include Milk, Burn After Reading, The Wrestler, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and The Visitor.

In related news, the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) have named their finalists in the feature film category of the 23rd Annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards competition. The nominees are Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (Revolutionary Road and The Reader), Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC (Slumdog Millionaire), Chris Menges, ASC, BSC (The Reader), Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button) and Wally Pfister, ASC (The Dark Knight).

The recipient will be named during the awards celebration here at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel on February 15.

Finally, The Dark Knight also made the longlist for the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), with 13 nominations: best film, adapted screenplay, director (Christopher Nolan), makeup & hair, visual effects, sound, editing, costume design, production design, cinematography, music, leading actor (Christian Bale), and supporting actor (Heath Ledger). The BAFTAs will be awarded February 8 in London.

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This just in. There is a rumor on the net that Lex Luthor won’t be be the villain in the upcoming sequel to “Superman Returns“.

Latino Review says that Warner Bros are hearing ideas from writers for a next Supes film, with the studio eager for a new baddie from Superman’s rogues gallery of enemies to be the villain of the piece – thus ruling out Lex. The site report that the studio hasn’t heard a pitch they like yet, but that this is the way they see the franchise developing.

If true, this could open the door for baddies such as Brainiac, Doomsday, Mr. Mxyzptlk and Darkseid to be the main antagonist, although Luthor could obviously be involved in a smaller role.

Recent chatter on the future of the Superman franchise has failed to turn up any definite news. Warner Bros. bigwig Alan Horn said last month that he expects the project to get off the ground “in the next couple of years”, but we still don’t know if Superman Returns director Bryan Singer or star Brandon Routh will be involved, or to what extent the studio plan to re-boot the series.

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Danny Boyle sits down with Chris Tilly of IGN UK, to discuss directing Slumdog Millionaire.

Danny Boyle discusses directing his critically acclaimed new film Slumdog Millionaire, the rags-to-riches tale of an orphan’s efforts to win back his lost love by appearing on the Indian Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.

IGN: When you initially heard about the project, were you put off by the Who Wants to be a Millionaire hook?

Danny Boyle: They didn’t really pitch it. I don’t think the agent was very interested, he said “It’s a film about Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.” But it was written by Simon Beaufoy, who had written The Full Monty, so you have to read a bit of that, at least, but I didn’t want to make a film about a gameshow. But they didn’t mention it was set in India, and they certainly didn’t mention the way the gameshow was used in the story, so I was in after about 10 or 15 pages of it. I remember thinking, this is it!

And it’s weird, it only happens occasionally that you get kidnapped by a script. You don’t wait till you get to the end or anything, you can feel it happening to you. And when I look back at my decision, it’s not based on the full story – the unravelling of why he’s on the show – so I think it’s based on the city. It’s the set-up – meeting the kid, seeing him on the show, seeing him in the slum, and the city – those ingredients made me do it.

IGN: What was it like shooting in the city – did you feel out of your comfort zone?

Boyle: Yes, absolutely. But you do it for that reason, because your comfort zone is not a good place to make a film in, in my opinion. You should get out of your comfort zone as much as possible, you shouldn’t have a clue what you’re doing, ideally, and yet be able to make sense of it somehow. That’s the kind of equation you want.

With a film in India, you have to hire people. I made a mistake on The Beach. I took hundreds of people from here who knew how to do it theoretically, and it’s not the right way to do those films, especially nowadays. You have to try and build a film from the inside. So we took virtually no one, and got a Bollywood crew. They are the people to deal with, and they are the people that make the film feel like it starts to belong. Now it doesn’t quite belong there, because the culture is different, and there is a Britishness about the film – I think its realism – that gives it its British flavour.

Because our bedrock, mine and Simon’s, is always realism. That’s what we start with. That’s how we judge everthing – do you believe that person would be doing that job at that moment? You judge everything like that as a British director – that’s the culture we come out of. But then it kind of moves on and picks up more of the culture of Bombay, which is coincidence; which is melodrama; which is this extraordinary passion for life; which is violence and beauty at one and the same time.

IGN: Did you have to be careful of striking a balance between plundering the culture, and yet remaining respectful towards it?

Boyle: Yes, and you have to work your way through that, it’s a really good way of putting it. Because you are an outsider, and you’ve really got to get people to trust you, and you have to build that trust over a long period of time as you prepare. There are certain key people that you make that relationship with and they basically become your co-directors.

And I can only credit one as co-director, which is the casting director Loveleen Tanden, because the first assistant director, for Guild reasons, you can’t credit him as the co-director, nor the sound guy, but those three people made the biggest difference for the film. Normally, it’s your cinematographer, or your designer, or your lead actor, or your writer – that key relationship. But for me on this one it was those three people, local people on the crew from Bombay.

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Release date: January 23rd, 2009
Genre: Horror/Drama/Thriller/Romance
Director: Joel Bergvall, Simon Sandquist
Studio: Yari Film Group
Screenplay: Michael Petroni
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lee Pace, Chelah Horsdal, Michael Landes, William B. Davis, Tuva Novotny, Suzanne Bastien
Official Site: possessionmovie.com
Rating: PG-13 violence, disturbing images, some sexuality and language
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Synopsis
Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Jess, a woman whose life is torn apart when her husband, Ryan (Michael Landes), and brother-in-law, Roman (Lee Pace), crash in a horrific car accident. Both brothers end up in comas, with little hope of recovery. But Roman wakes up and, when he does, insists he is her husband. As time goes on, Jess struggles with the possibility that the spirit of her beloved husband has returned to her in the body of her brother-in-law, or that something much more sinister is at work.

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