MEGAN’LL PUT THE HEX ON YOU
I’m sure there’s a few boys out there who wouldn’t mind hottie Megan Fox putting a hex on them. Just to be in, you know, close proximity to her. But in this case, it’s not actual curses we are talking about but rather Fox’s new movie Jonah Hex, an action Western based on the DC Comics character. She’ll play Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and love interest of Hex (Josh Brolin), a scarred bounty hunter tracking a voodoo practitioner (John Malkovich) who wants to raise an army of undead to liberate the South. The lovely Megan is also eyeing Fathom, based on a comic created by recently deceased artist Michael Turner, which follows a young woman named Aspen who learns she is a member of a race of aquatic humanoids who possess the ability to control water. Either one sounds infinitely cool.
KEEP READING: Matt Damon Adjusts
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MATT DAMON ADJUSTS
As Matt Damon waits around for the fourth Bourne installment, he is being courted for The Adjustment Bureau, a contemporary love story with sci-fi overtones, Variety reports. Written and directed by George Nolfi, who is also writing the next Jason Bourne vehicle for Damon and director Paul Greengrass, the story revolves around one David Norris (Damon) a charismatic congressman who seems destined for national political stardom. He meets a beautiful ballet dancer, only to find strange circumstances keeping their sparks from catching fire. Norris discovers forces are at work to keep them apart, and he peels the layers to find out why. Ohh, I wonder what those layers are?
KEEP READING: Let’s Hear It for the First-Time Writer!
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LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE FIRST-TIME WRITER!
A previously unknown writer who signed with a major talent agency only two weeks ago with a hot script, now has interest from Mark Wahlberg, as well as nearly every major studio in town. These stories always give hope. Aaron Guzikowski, a Brooklyn native who flew out to Los Angeles just a few weeks ago and signed with Endeavor, is behind Prisoners, a project said to have echoes of The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story concerns a Boston family man whose 6-year-old daughter and her best friend are kidnapped. He takes matters into his own hands by kidnapping the man he suspects responsible.
KEEP READING: Amanda Seyfried Gets Sucker Punched
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AMANDA SEYFRIED GETS SUCKER PUNCHED
By director Zack Snyder, that is. This guy, with the No. 1 movie in his pocket, never slows down. Now, he’s launching into his next project, Sucker Punch, a R-rated, $100 million dollar action movie set in the 1950s and centers on a girl imprisoned in a mental institution by her evil stepfather, Entertainment Weekly reports. Due to be lobotomized, she loses herself in a fantasy world where she dreams about escaping with her fellow inmates. Or, as Snyder describes it to EW, “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns.” Amanda Seyfried is in negotiations to play the lead, and Evan Rachel Wood, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, and Emma Stone are also in talks. “I already did the all-male cast with 300, so I’m doing the opposite end of the spectrum,” Synder said. I should say so.
KEEP READING: Carell Gets Pumped Full of Testosterone
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CARELL GETS PUMPED FULL OF TESTOSTERONE
This is an intriguing concept — a man who loses his testosterone, played by Steve Carell. Hmm, how does that happen? According to the Reporter, Carell will star in the comedy Hi-T, as a man who suffers an injury that somehow rids him of testosterone. To rectify the situation, he starts getting injections and finds his mood swinging uncontrollably.
KEEP READING: Giamatti is Downsizing
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GIAMATTI IS DOWNSIZING
Paul Giamatti, Reese Witherspoon and Sacha Baron Cohen will join Sideways director Alexander Payne in his new film Downsizing, a social satire about miniature people. Giamatti stars as a man low on money who decides he can have a much nicer life if he undergoes a process to shrink himself. Witherspoon, whose career took off after starring in Payne’s Election, would play a woman Giamatti meets on his journey as a miniature person. Baron Cohen would play a pint-sized foreigner. Oh, I’m so there.
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