I Am Link

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--- Bob And Weave - Hooray, we should be expecting to see Jake Gyllenhaal getting himself into super duper shape any day now, because he and Training Day director Antoine Fuqua are making that boxing movie this Summer! We first heard about this back in November but it's finally come together, and with the Weinsteins backing it no less - dare I dream for Jake back at the Oscars? Jake's currently filming that Everest movie in Italy with that gigantic beard (no not Taylor Swift).

--- Join The Club - David Gordon Green is teaming up with Steven Soderbergh to make a comedy series for Netflix! It's called Red Oaks and it's about the goings-on at a country club - this sounds just like that soap that David O. Russell was going to make and bailed on, actually. Anyway very cool, I am very happy with the way these folks are turning to these new platforms to give us more more more. In other DGG news here's a few new pictures and clips from his upcoming Nicolas Cage movie called Joe. That's out next month.

--- Ooh Bad - Another day, another notch in Thomas Kretchmann's bedpost of villainy - he's signed on to play one of the bad guys (Zachary Quinto's also playing a bad guy) in Agent 42, the latest attempt by Hollywood to make a movie out of the Hitman video-game. Rupert Friend is the titular fellow they're all fighting; we saw that bald shot of him a couple weeks ago and judged him for it. (He lost.) Since this one is currently filming we feel safe in assuming Kretschmann will film this before he slips into his Super Evil Nazi uniform for the Avengers sequel.

--- Glam Squad - We were all already excited about Susan Cooper, Melissa McCarthy's re-team with Bridesmaids and The Heat director Paul Feig where she's playing a spy opposite Jason Statham (lordy be that is an amazing sentence to write), and now comes word that another hot piece of British chap is jumping on-board - Jude Law will be in the movie too. Let us take this moment before we know more about the movie to pretend that Jude is playing Jason's husband. Ahh, yes.

--- Big Pussy - Y'all know I love Idris Elba, but I don't really think of him as having a regal bearing, do you? He's more rough and tumble than that. Granted I still haven't watched the Mandela movie but that struck me as an odd fit, and not just because they look nothing alike. Anyway Slash has the news that Idris will be voicing the CG version of the tiger in the upcoming live-action (well live-action like The Life of Pi was live-action) version of The Jungle Book, and they say Idris has the "regal bearing" to pull the role off. I think he can pull it off, but I don't get the regal thing.

--- Dumb Dumb - I sat through the entire video for this band I've never heard of so I could see what Bret Easton Ellis (who wrote and directed it) would do to exploit Shiloh Fernandez (Bret's at least good for exploiting pretty boys) and there was jackshit, what a waste. Do your job, Bret Easton Ellis, or get off the pot.

--- Summer Snow - Well here we go this is good news to land on a Friday - Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer will be released here in the US on June 27th. And we're talking about BJH's original cut - no mutilation from Harvey Scissorhands. The Playlist has a few new pictures from the movie at that link too, including Tilda's giant teeth and a couple shots where we see Ewan Bremner and Luke Pasqualino half-shirtless, so click on over. Why do I think Ewan looks sexy there? What's wrong with me?

--- Next Last - Sam Raimi and his production company have bought the rights to the post-apocalypse game The Last of Us, probably just for Sam to produce... although what the hell is he up to anyway? Yeah Oz sucked, move on - make something, man! I have heard good stuff about this game though - any fans in here?

--- Cool Rider - There's a new trailer for Locke, that movie where Tom Hardy drives a car for ninety minutes, over at The Playlist, as well as a heap of pictures - which is hysterical because they're all shots of Tom hardy sitting in a car looking worried. There's like ten shots of the same thing! I mean I love looking at Tom Hardy; Tom Hardy with a beard even more so. I'm totally going to see this movie for that. But ten still pictures seems a bit overkillish to me, maybe.

--- Life For Sale - Ben Stiller's terrible film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has won an award - the award for Worst Product Placement of the year! Good job, Ben. I will refer y'all to my review of the movie, which was nothing but an underlining of this fact. I hated that movie so much, you guys. What a terrible waste of Kristen Wiig.

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