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Guns, Okay guy's go get him..



"We have him boss, But don't you think Lucas will notice That Indiana is missing when he shoots the next scene."

"Don't worry guy's, I have that thought this out"

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I have to go for Star Wars over Indiana Jones anyday.

But the best way to settle this is to fight..

Quick, Indy!  Pull out your pistol!

Guns, Okay guy's go get him..



"We have him boss, But don't you think Lucas will notice That Indiana is missing when he shoots the next scene."

"Don't worry guy's, I have that thought this out"

  Good times.

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David O. Russell Leaves Drake's Fortune



David O. Russell, who was set to write and direct the bigscreen adaptation of the videoame "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune," has left the project over creative differences with Sony, Variety's Jeff Sneider exclusively reports. Russell seemed excited to chat about the Columbia Pictures project as he made the rounds to promote "The Fighter" during awards season last year. But insiders tell Variety the split was amicable and due to creative differences on the adaptation of the popular 2007 PlayStation 3 videogame, which Sony will continue to aggressively develop. While there has never been talent formally attached, Russell had been looking to re-team with "The Fighter" star Mark Wahlberg on the project, which was also rumored to co-star Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. However, with a new writer and director coming on board, casting will likely start from scratch.

[Variety]

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Lord of the Rings + Candy = Candy Land Movie?



Admit it. You think the Candy Land movie is one of the worst ideas in Hollywood history. A movie based on the children's board game that itself seems specifically designed to numb the adult mind with its winding rainbow path past the domains of the nefarious Duke of Swirl and Lord Licorice and into King Kandy's scrumptious kingdom. But what if the Cupcake Commons were, say, the Shire, and the Chocolate Mountains were Mordor? Because that's what the Candy Land writers have in mind. Jonathan Aibel, who co-wrote Kung Fu Panda 2 with Glenn Berger, told EW at yesterday's Hollywood premiere that they have ambitious plans: "We envision it as Lord of The Rings, but set in a world of candy."

The Lord of the Rings. In a world of candy.

"We don't see it as a movie based on a board game, although it has characters from that world and takes the idea of people finding themselves in a world that happens to be made entirely of candy where there are huge battles going on," Berger says. "We are going for real comedy, real action, and real emotions at stake."

I assume Berger and Aibel have played Candy Land, but just in case, let's refresh. The game is for children who can't read or count, as the players move through the board by picking color-coded or confection-pictured cards. There's no strategy — other then the parental strategy of keeping the kids quiet for 15 minutes so they can down another Tylenol. So I wonder if the screenwriting team is overshooting with its LOTR ambition. Are they risking alienating their core audience, i.e., kids with runny noses? Can't they settle for the yucks of something like Yogi Bear?

What do you think about their LOTR link? Is this the way to get any board game turned into a movie: "We envision Twister as Ocean's Eleven, but set in a secret world of rainbow dots."

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Clint Eastwood is 81 today, he shares his birthday with Colin Farrell (35), Lea Thompson (50), Brooke Shields (45) and my Brother, Paul (24).   

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Nice.

Does Paul ever squint his eyes and say, "Go ahead, make my birthday."  ??

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Does Paul ever squint his eyes and say, "Go ahead, make my birthday."  ??

Erm.................. no!  Though he probably will if he reads this!   

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Didn't get to look through all of them, but here's:

[Empire's New And Improved Collection Of Badly Photoshopped Movie Posters]

It's good to see an explanation accompany some of these, will have to go through all of them at a later time.

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Didn't get to look through all of them, but here's:

[Empire's New And Improved Collection Of Badly Photoshopped Movie Posters]

It's good to see an explanation accompany some of these, will have to go through all of them at a later time.

Yikes.  A few of those don't seem that bad, but the bad ones are gawdawful. 

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Superman Casting Call:  Extras Needed In Illinois

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Uncharted film "going back to the game"

New Uncharted movie director Neil Burger is going back to the PlayStation exclusive video game for inspiration.

The Limitless and The Illusionist director told Crave Online the new team is "starting from scratch" on the script following previous director David O. Russell's acrimonious exit.

"No, I haven't seen his screenplay on it," he said. "Mainly we're beginning from scratch and going back to the video game. Because there's a lot of cool stuff, actually, from the videogame, if you know it…

"It's really one of the most cinematic video games, and one that has really developed characters. So, you know, there's a lot of cool, really intense things that, if they work for the film's story, I want to use them."

Burger's comments are sure to enthuse Uncharted fans who were concerned by the direction Russell was taking the film before he walked out.

Russell's vision for the film would have seen Mark Wahlberg's Nathan Drake as a member of a family of antique traders that also included father Robert De Niro and uncle Joe Pesci.

Burger's vision, however, appears closer to video game developer Naughty Dog's virtual world.

Explaining the difference between Uncharted and Indiana Jones, Burger said the video game was very "now".

"Indiana Jones is nostalgic. It takes place in the 1930s, and the later ones are a little bit later, and it kind of plays on that nostalgia. Whereas Uncharted is very much up to the minute, of the moment. It's very 'now' and contemporary and it has this sort of rough and very intense feel that a movie like The Bourne Identity has.

"It's really up to date in its own way. The Bourne Identity isn't your father's Cold War movie and this is a very different kind of treasure hunt movie. It's very real and it has kind of an insane, wild feeling that comes out of the character; Nate being this con man and a bit of a hustler, living by his wits, ballsy and capable of anything."

Will Burger cast Nathan Fillion in the role of Drake, as so many fans wish?

"He's a good actor," Burger said. "I think there's a lot of really good actors who don't even look like [Nathan Drake] who could play it! Where we are right now is that we're literally starting from scratch on the screenplay, and I think that once we finish it, then we'll go to actors and see who's available and who's right for the parts. Whenever that happens."

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The Dark Knight Rises Teaser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apMXFloDH6M

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Batman in a boxing ring with Bane?   Fantastic!

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its still a year away *SIGH