A new trailer for the upcoming science fiction film Splice, starring the actors Adrien Brody (seen in The Brothers Bloom, Cadillac Records, Hollywoodland and King Kong) and Sarah Polley (seen in Don't Come Knocking, Beowulf and Grendel and Queen Kristina), can now be seen on the Internet.

Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, transgress the borders of legality and ethics while being devoted to a dangerous experiment. This experiment combines animal and human DNA to form a new being. Baptized Dren, the creature will be transformed from a malformed human baby into a cute but hazardous winged chimaera which will weave bonds with its creators. These bonds will however take a fatal turning.

Delphine Chaneac (seen in The Pink Panther), David Hewlett (seen in the TV series Stargate Atlantis), Abigail Chu, Stephanie Baird, Amanda Brugel and Brandon McGibbon (seen in Saw V) also form part of the distribution.

This film carried out by Vincenzo Natali (who also directed Paris, je t'aime) will be released in cinema rooms on June 4th.

The motion picture production company Seville Pictures distribute this feature film in Canada. In the United States, Warner Bros. Pictures ensures the distribution of this Canada, France and the United States coproduction.

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The American actor and comedian Kevin James (Grown Ups , Paul Blart: Mall Cop , I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Hitch) has just concluded an agreement with the film production and distribution company Columbia Pictures to play in the action comedy Here Comes the Boom. James will also produce the project in partnership with Adam Sandler and Todd Garner.


Salma Hayek is a key candidate to play the principal feminine role although no agreement was signed at the moment.

The details of the scenario remain secret for the moment. James has co-writtent the scenario with Rock Reuben (who worked on The Zookeeper and the TV series The King of Queens).

The filming could begin next January.

Kevin James will be seen this summer in the comedy Grown Ups in which he share the popularity with with Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider (recently seen in American Virgin, Big Stan and You Don't Mess with the Zohan), David Spade (recently seen in The Benchwarmers and Grandma's Boy)and Chris Rock (rencently seen in Death at a Funeral, Good Hair and I Think I Love My Wife). Kevin James also recently played in the comedy The Zookeeper which released is awaited on July 8th, 2011.

Note that Sandler worked with James on Grown Ups, Paul Blart: Mall Cop and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and he worked with Schneider on You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

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Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski will give each other the counterpart in Whales, a film which takes as a starting point a true story in connection with the rescue of three gray whales of California which are found captive Arctic ices in 1988.

John Krasinski will incarnate a reporter of a local newspaper which made known the news. Drew Barrymore will play the part of a Greenpeace activist. The event took an international scale when the United States president Ronald Regan and the President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev slackened the relations of the Cold war while linking themselves and while intervening in this common cause.

Ken Kwapis (who recently worked on He's Just Not That Into You, License to Wed and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) directs the feature film. The scenario for the motion picture will be written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler (who worked together on The Shaggy Dog in 2006).

The film is produced by Anonymous Content and Working Title. The filming could start this autumn.

Note the John Krasinski is known for his important role in the TV series The Office. He also played in License to Wed, Leatherheads and It's Complicated and his voice was heard in Shrek the Third. Drew Barrymore’s breakout role was in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She recently was seen in He's Just Not That Into You, Music and Lyrics and 50 First Dates.

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The American author Stephen King, Weed Road and Imagines Entertainment are in discussions to develop a trilogy on the big screen then a television series inspired by the series of novels The Dark Tower.

Ron Howard (who worked on Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and Frost/Nixon) would carry out the motion pictures, Akiva Goldsman (who also worked on Angels and Demons but also on I Am Legend) would write the scenario for the trilogy and Brian Grazer would produce the project in partnership with Akiva Goldsman and Stephen King. As for the television series, it will be produced by Imagine Television, the television production branch of Imagines Entertainment.

At the same time, Universal is in discussions to acquire the rights on the seven novels but also the participation of the production crew behind the successes A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code. Universal, with which Imagine are bound, and Warner Bros., where the company Weed Road is based, compete one and the other to lodge the project.

Bad Robot, the company of J.J. Abrams, held before the rights on the series but the project to adapt The Dark Tower in a TV series never was completed. Bad Robot had to resell the rights to Stephen King.

Published between 1982 and 2004, the seven novels which constitute the series The Dark Tower tell the story of a man named Roland Deschain and his quest to find the Dark Tower, a structure which connects all the universes together. The story line mixes at the same time elements of western, science fiction and fantasy.

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The studio Warner Bros. is supplementing the distribution for its Gothic version of the Little Red Riding Hood in which we will find a werewolf and a love triangle between teenagers.

Max Irons go, the son of the actor Jeremy Irons (who gained the public acclaim for playing twin gynecologists in the psychological thriller Dead Ringers directed by David Cronenberg in 1988), has just been recruited to play in the feature film whereas Gary Oldman (recently seen in Book of Eli, A Christmas Carol and The Dark Knight) and Julie Christie (seen in Away from Her and Finding Neverland) are in talks with the studio at the moment.

Catherine Hardwicke, the director for the popular movie Twilight, directs this feature film entitled The Girl With the Red Riding Hood. Amanda Seyfried (who was already seen four times this year in Letters to Juliet, Chloe, Dear John and Jennifer's Body and who will be seen in Marmaduke next June) already forms part of the distribution of the film which will follow a woman living in a medieval village who is terrorized by a werewolf. The actor Shiloh Fernandez (seen in the 2009 horror film Deadgirl), recruited a little earlier this week, will incarnate a logger for whom the character of Seyfried will fall in love to the great displeasure of his family.

Irons will play the part of Henri, the son of a blacksmith who, by the means of an arrangement, is judicious to be married to Seyfried.

Christie will incarnate the role of the grandmother of Seyfried whose pastime is to knit with silver needles. Oldman will lend his features to the father Soloman, a hunter whose mission will be to find and to kill the werewolf.

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The actress Helen Mirren is in negotiations with Warner Bros. to give the counterpart to Russell Brand in the remake of the film Arthur. Mirren will incarnate the long time nurse of the main character.

This role will be transformed for the occasion since in original film, it was about a servant played by John Gielgud. This last had received besides an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this role in 1981.

Dudley Moore incarnated Arthur in the original feature film published in 1981. Arthur told the history of a playboy with a leaning fort for alcoholic beverages who was to inherit family fortune if he married a rich girl from a good family who could lead him on the right way. The character fell however in love with a woman from the working class. Having to choose between money or love, he requested the assistance of his servant to make the decision.

Peter Baynham (who worked recently on the mockumentary comedy films Borat and Bruno directed by Larry Charles) wrote the scenario of this new grinding. Arthur will be produced by Larry Brezner, Kevin McCormick and Chris Bender.

The filming should start next July in New York under the direction of Jason Winer.

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A very new trailer for the upcoming horror movie Survival of the Dead, of course directed by George A. Romero, a new chapter of his saga featuring undead beings, has just made its appearance on the Internet.

The story line will proceed on an isolated island inhabited by two families which managed to maintain a pretense of order before the arrival of the holocaust zombie. The two clans of the island will be divided on the question of killing the undead beings or preserving them the loved beings afflicted in the hope to find a cure.

The distribution is in particular made up of Devon Bostick (seen last year in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Saw VI and Adoration), Kenneth Welsh, Alan Van Sprang, Kathleen Munroe, Athena Karkanis (seen in The Art of War II: Betrayal and Saw IV), Richard Fitzpatrick, and Stefano Colacitti.

George Romero, who began his saga featuring zombies with Night of the Living Dead in 1968, directed Diary of the Dead in 2007.

George A. Romero’ Survival of the Dead has been launched in video on demand, on Xbox Live and Playstation Online and on Amazon this Friday, April 30 and on a limited number of screens on May 28th, 2010.

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The official site of the animation film Toy Story 3 offers a new exclusive trailer to the Internet entitled Toy Story 3 Mission: Woody and Buzz. The international poster of the film also made its appearance on the Intenet.

Did not Woody and Buzz know well that their dear Andy was going to grow one day, but what to make when this day would arrived? In this third chapter, Andy prepares to leave for the university, and his faithful friends the toys are posed many questions as for their future.

Lee Unkrich is the director for Toy Story 3. He also was director for Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo. The scenarios is written by Michael Arndt.

Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear), Tom Hanks (Woody), Wallace Shawn (Rex the Green Dinosaur), Harris (Mrs. Potato Head), Don Rickles (Mr. Potato Head), R. Lee Ermey (Sergeant), John Morris (Andy Davis), Joan Cusack (Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl), John Ratzenberger (Hamm the Piggy Bank), Michael Keaton (Ken), Jodi Benson (Barbie), Blake Clark (Slinky Dog), Whoopi Goldberg (Stretch the Octopus), Jeff Garlin (Buttercup / Twitch), Kristen Schaal (Trixie), Bonnie Hunt (Dolly) and Timothy Dalton (Mr. Pricklepants)will be heard in this film.

In North America, Toy Story 3 will be released on screens in 3D and IMAX 3D on June 18th, 2010.

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Young fans of Monsters Inc. are delighted! James P. "Sulley" Sullivan and Mike Wazowski will be back in new adventures. The CGI animation production company Pixar has just confirmed that the continuation of the animation film that appeared on the screens in 2001 would be released on November 16th, 2012.

Monsters Inc. will be the third production of Pixar profited from a continuation. Toy Story 3 will be launched this summer whereas Cars 2 must make its appearance on the screens in 2011.

Monsters Inc., which star the voices of Billy Crystal (as Mike Wazowski’s voice) and John Goodman (James P. "Sulley" Sullivan’s voice), had collected 525 million $US in the world box office in 2001.

In addition, the animation picture Brave, known before under the name of Bear and the Bow, will be released on the screens on June 15th, 2012. Brenda Chapman, the person who imagined the story under Cars, directs this feature film which will mark the first realization of a production of Pixar by a woman. Moreover, it will also be a question of the first film produced the studio to have a female character as the principal character.

Reese Witherspoon will lend her voice to an impulsive princess who wishes to get rid of her royal bonds in order to become tallest female archer in the history.

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Sony Pictures made the decision to push back the release date of the superhero action film The Green Hornet from December 22nd, 2010 to January 14th, 2011. The studio also announced that the film would profit from the 3D treatment.

Sony defends itself to have pushed back the release of the film because of the unfavourable noises surrounding the project. The studio explains rather than when the decision was made to incorporate the 3D, the film needed to find a crenel with enough numerical screens available. Yogi Bear and Tron: Legacy, two projects in 3D which will be launched next December, will monopolize already most of the numerical screens during this period.

January 14th, 2011 will coincide with the non-working weekend of the Martin Luther King day, a crenel which was already been worthy for Sony with the launching of Paul Blart: Mall Cop in 2009. The comedy had collected 31,8 $US million on its first weekend.

The Frenchd director Michel Gondry (who worked on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind) directs this film adaptation

The Green Hornet made its beginnings on a radio of Detroit in 1936. He then did the jump in the world of comic books. In 1966, the masked hero was entitled to his own televised series on the waves of the ABC network during one season. Van Williams played the title role while Bruce Lee played Kato, an expert in martial arts.

In the film adaptation, the actor Seth Rogen (Superbad, Knocked Up) incarnates Britt Reid, the character who fights the crime under the name of the Green Hornet whereas Jay Chou plays the part of Kato. Cameron Diaz, Edward Furlong, Tom Wilkinson and Christoph Waltz also form part of the distribution for the motion picture.

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The official trailer for the romantic comedy/blue comedy film Sex and the City 2 is available from now on the Internet.

In Sex and the City 2, the scenario writer and director Michael Patrick King presents the four main actresses: Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw), Cynthia Nixon (Charlotte York Goldenblatt), Kim Cattrall (Samantha Jones) and Kristin Davis (Miranda Hobbes).

Chris Noth, which plays Mr. Big; Evan Handler, which incarnates Harry, Charlotte’s husband and David Eigenberg, who interprets Steve, the Miranda’s, are also back on board in this project.

John Melfi produces the motion picture in partnership with King and Parker.

The original film, inspired of the HBO series of the same name (itself based on the novel written by Candace Bushnell) collected receipts of 57 $US million on its first weekend on cinema screens. At the end of its cinematographic career, Sex and the City had generated total revenues of 412 $US million throughout the world including 152,6 $US million in the North-American box-office.

Note that Sarah Jessica Parker was seen last year in Did You Hear About the Morgans? and that Kim Cattrall was seen last month in The Ghost Writer, a film adaptation of the Robert Harris novel directed by Roman Polanski.

Sex and the City 2 will be released on North-American screens on May 27th, 2010.

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The actresses Katie Cassidy (also seen in the television series Melrose Place, and in the upcoming movie A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Andie MacDowell (seen on cinema screens in the 2009 movie The Six Wives of Henry Lefay) have just joined the distribution for the comedy Monte Carlo, a project co-financed by Fox 2000 and New Regency.

The distribution is also made up of Leighton Meester, Selena Gomez and Cory Monteith.

Inspired by a novel written by Jules Bass entitled Headhunters, the film will follow three American young women travelling to Paris. When one of the girls is identified wrongly like a spoiled British heiress, they will be involved in the middle of an action swirl which will bring them to pass a dream stay in Monte Carlo.

The actor Cory Monteith will incarnate the lover of one of the young women.

The film will be co-written and directed by Tom Bezucha (The Family Stone). The filming for this motion picture will take place in Monaco, Budapest and Paris next month.

Nicole Kidman will produce the project in partnership with Alison Greenspan and Denise Di Novi.

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A remake of The Toxic Avenger, a worship film originally released on the screens in 1984, is currently in preparation. The producers Akiva Goldsman, Charlie Corwin and Richard Saperstein are behind this project. The company Original Media acquired the rights for the franchise which include the sequels of the original film, an animated series and many comics. Original Media will also finance the development of the script.

Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz co-directed the original film which starred Andree Maranda, Pat Ryan Jr., Mitchell Cohen, Robert Pritchard, Jennifer Baptist, Cindy Manion, Mark Torgl and Gary Schneider.

The action proceeded in Tromaville, in the state of New Jersey, an American small town terrorized by criminals. Among the residents of Tromaville, there is Melvin, a wedged caretaker who works at the local fitness center. A band of hooligans will conceive a horrible joke which will turn badly whereas Melvin falls in a container of toxic waste from a third floor window. Whereas the chemical effects affect his body, Melvin is transformed into The Toxic Avenger, a being which will bring justice by Tromaville by massacring the criminals.

The producers want to transform Toxic into a green superhero in these times of environmental consciences. The tone will be definitely less gore than the original. Original Media wants to make an action comedy for families rated PG-13.

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The actor Ben Stiller and the director Noah Baumbach, who recently worked together for the movie Greenberg, could remake team for Mr. Popper's Penguins.

Baumbach, which also carried out the films Margot at the Wedding and The Squid and the Whale, is in talks with 20th Century Fox to direct the actor in this adaptation of a children book originally published in 1938. Stiller is also in talks; no agreement was still concluded.

John Davis will produce the project via the company Davis Entertainment.

Mr. Popper's Penguins will be the first children film directed by Baumbach. The scenario writer has however co-written the scenario for Fantastic Mr. Fox with Wes Anderson.

20th Century Fox acquired the rights for the film adaptation of the book last year. The scenario writer Sean Anders and John Morris adapted the story.

Mr. Popper's Penguins will tell the story of a house painter whose dream to explore the polar zones will lead him to write to true researchers. One of those will send a penguin to him which he will preserve in a refrigerator. Then, Mr. Popper will receive a female from a zoo and from day to, he will be found with 12 chicks. With the problem to nourish all this brood, Mr. Popper will form a troop of erudite penguins and will leave for a tour with them. The latter will sow however chaos at each stop.

Richard and Florence Atwater wrote the book which gained the Newbery price in 1939.

Ben Stiller will also be seen next December in the comedy Little Fockers.

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Sebastian Stan (Hot Tub Time Machine, the series Gossip Girl, The Covenant), who made a screen test for the role of Captain America, will incarnate Bucky Barnes, the assistant of the superhero in the film The First Avenger: Captain America.

Chris Evans (Push, the Fantastic Four franchise) was recently recruited to play the part of Captain America.

In the Captain America comic series, Bucky Barnes occupies a role-key. This orphan teenager, too juvenile to be in the military forces, will become a camp mascot. Then, he discovers the true identity of the superhero and he makes team with Captain America to fight the Nazis. He died in the final adventure of Captain America during the Second World War. After decades of silence, Bucky Barnes remade surface in 2005 in the modern comics where he became an assassin for the KGB known under the name of Winter Soldier.

Joe Johnston (The Wolfman, Hidalgo, Jurassic Park III) will carry out First Avenger: Captain America according to a scenario made by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.

First Avenger: Captain America, is waited on July 22nd, 2011 on North-American screens. Paramount will distribute the feature film. The filming should start this summer in Europe.

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The actor Stephen Dorff (recently seen in Public Enemy, Felon and World Trade Center and will be seen soon in XIII: The Conspiracy and Born to Be a Star) has just joined the distribution for the mythological action movie Dawn of War (the movie also is also entitled War of the Gods by certain sources) whose turning must start with at the beginning of April in Montreal.

Kellan Lutz (recently seen in Twilight movies), Freida Pinto (recently seen in Slumdog Millionaire), Mickey Rourke (rencently seen in The Wrestler and Sin City moviews and will be seen soon in Iron Man 2) and Henry Cavill will also play in this feature film carried out by Tarsem Singh (The Cell).

Stephen Dorff will incarnate Stavros, a master robber who joined Theseus in his search to release Greece from the threat of the Titans, a race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia and Uranus.

Christian Gudegast wrote the most recent version of the scenario. The original screenplay had also been written by Christian Gudegast.

Universal Studios will distribute the feature film produced by the producers of 300. The release of Dawn of War is waited on November 11th, 2011.

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New Line attacks the remake of the comedy Private Benjamin, a feature film published originally in 1980 which put stars Goldie Hawn. The new grinding will be used as vehicle for the actress Anna Faris (Observe and Report, The House Bunny).

The scenario writer Amy Talkington is in talks to write the new version produced par Mark Gordon.

In Private Benjamin, Goldie Hawn incarnated a spoiled woman who joined the army after her husband is deceased during their honeymoon. One of largest successes to the box-office in 1980, the film had been greeted to have tackled the female questions. Private Benjamin had received three nomination in the Oscars Ceremony of which Best Actress (Hawn), Best Supporting Actor (Eileen Brennan) and Best Original Screenplay (Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller and Charles Shyer).

The remake will proceed in the contemporary world with the modern wars in background. Sources affirm that the studio does not want to make fun of the men and the women in service or to make a political satire.

New Line tries to revitalize old titles coming from the Warner Bros. catalog. Recently, they announced their intention to bring back the Vacation and Academy Police franchises.

Anna Faris will make team soon with Zachary Quinto and Andy Samberg in the comedy What’s Your Number?.

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