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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

WHEN TWO BRIDES GO TO WAR

I’m almost ashamed to admit it, but the thought of Gary Winick directing Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson in a comedy about two friends who have it out over conflicting wedding dates makes me kind of happy. Not to hype him up as the next Howard Hawks, bit I thought Winick evinced a shockingly light … Continue reading

WOLVERINE GETS HIS COMIC RELIEF

Two pieces of Wolverine news in one day! As you may know, the script for X-Men Origins: Wolverine* got a last minute pre-strike workover. I don’t know of anyone who has been able to get their hands on the latest draft, which means that we don’t know what changes have been made from David Benioff’s … Continue reading

DID MIKE ZECK DRAW THIS DUDE, OR WHAT?

That article title is my own way of suggesting that, contrary to all expectations (assuming I had any, though such an assumption would be false), this new Punisher almost looks like the real thing. And by ‘the real thing’ I mean the character I will forever hold in mind having been first exposed to the … Continue reading

WILL LEONIDAS TAKE ON WOLVERINE?

A closely placed and highly trusted source has told me that there’s been some casting shake-ups on X-Men Origins: Wolverine. According to my source, Karl Urban had been in talks to play Creed – the guy who would become Sabretooth – but has fallen out. The production is now reaching out to Gerard Butler to … Continue reading

MAYBE MCLOVIN WILL GET TO BE MOHAMMED AFTER ALL

Mohammed is the most common name in the world! That’s one of the useful facts audiences learned from Superbad last summer. And next year, the newbie actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who might forever be known as McLovin, could conceiveably be playing a character named Mohammed — he’s been cast in the Judd Apatow production Year One, … Continue reading

HILARY SWANK IS SMILIN’, TOO, JACK!

Mark Wheaton is taking over the trades! Yesterday, we received word from The Hollywood Reporter that Samuel L. Jackson had become attached to the once and future Smilin’ Jack Ruby’s Unfinished Country, a South Africa-set hospital drama. Today, it’s Hilary Swank who’s gettin’ in the Wheaton business with an adaptation of John Marks’s Fangland. Actually, … Continue reading