I Am Link

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--- In The Navy - Did I know that there was an Navy SEAL movie starring Mark Wahlberg, Eric Bana, Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch and Taylor Kitsch coming out? I I feel like I would remember that. Here's the trailer and some pics for Lone Survivor, a title which makes me worry for everyone not named Mark Wahlberg.

--- Rim Again - While it's best to remain cautious, Deadline's saying that the good box office showing for Pacific Rim in China - it's WB's best opening there ever - could mean good things for a sequel. The movie still has a long ways to go to get into the black though, so let's not go nuts. Still I loved the movie and would love a sequel, so my insides are begging for this. And hey, maybe they'll get Charlie Hunnam (or Idris, dare I dream) pants-less next time.

--- Bad BO - Speaking of flops heard round the world, over at The Film Experience Michael C is taking a look at this Summer's hot topic - is the Summer Blockbuster dying? Massively budgeted crap like RIPD is crashing and burning while smaller-priced fare like The Conjuring soars... what does it mean? And will someone explain to me why I didn't like The Conjuring? I'm still kind of perplexed about it, given everybody else's positive reaction.

--- Gangster Swap - As I mentioned yesterday I just watched some of Brian DePalma's Scarface the day before, so this strikes me as some strange coincidence, the word that Harry Potter director David Yates is thinking about remaking it. Yates was (or is) supposed to make a movie with Tom Hardy about Al Capone, but that's been in limbo for a bit, so maybe he'll do this instead? I was gonna say Tom could play the lead but Pacino was egregious enough of a race-wrong face for the role.

--- Hump Tales - This is the sort of news that gets a raised eyebrow - Chinese director Zhang Yimou, he of Raise the Red Lantern and Hero and so on - is maybe going to replace Tim Burton as the director of an English-language Hunchback of Notre Dame movie (possibly titled Quasimodo) starring Josh Brolin. I don't know what to even say about that.

--- Mortal Siggy - Even though the first one hasn't come out yet (and to these eyes, save some possible Kevin Zegers on multiple-gratuity-recipient Godfrey Gao - see here and here - action, looks terrible) the studio's thinking aloud that they're considering Sigourney Weaver for a big part in the second Mortal Instruments movie. Apparently she'd be the big bad leader of the big bads, or whatever. I'm always willing to watch Siggy slum, although I wish she'd make something great again.

--- Woman From UNCLE - Elizabeth Debicki, who certainly was fine in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby as golf-pro slash vapid gossip Jordan Baker, is taking the female lead in The Man From UNCLE movie opposite Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer. I like her but I was really hoping there was no "female lead" and this movie would be nothing but sex-eyes between those two. Sigh.

--- Buffy Lives - Raise the banner, Sarah Michelle Gellar has spoken and said she would make a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie if "the story was right." Yeah yeah this will never happen. But hey, I thought that about a Veronica Mars movie once upon a time, too.

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