Will Smith’s Son A Karate Kid

Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith is being geared up for stardom as he takes on the lead role in a remake of The Karate Kid.

Last year it was denied that the 10-year-old will be starring in a remake of the 1984 classic, but now it has been confirmed the young actor will indeed be in the movie.

Variety reports that Jerry Weintraub, who launched the original franchise, will produce the movie alongside James Lassiter, Ken Stovitz and of course Will Smith.

Chris Murphy will write the script and shooting is set to begin next year in Beijing and some others cities, it will follow the same plot as the original by following a young kid who is bullied but learns to fight back from his mentor.

Jaden has starred in The Pursuit of Happyness with his father and can be next seen in The Day The Earth Stood Still, alongside Keanu Reeves.

Britney Spears Is No Longer The Virgin Mary

Britney Spears is no longer going to be playing the Virgin Mary according to Philippe Rebboah, the producer of the movie.

Rebboah announced to Fox News last year that he was hoping to cast Spears as the movie in the upcoming movie titled “Sweet Baby Jesus.”

The movie is about a pregnant 19-year-old unsure of her baby daddy who goes into labor on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, Maryland.

Rebboah says that “Britney read the script and she really liked it and really wanted to play the role of Mary, She isn’t as scandalous in Europe as she is in the States, and I knew she would do a good job, but [people] were so against it and she was pressured. Then she ran into all the trouble with her family so we mutually decided the timing wasn’t right.”

Alison Pill, who stars in the upcoming movie Milk, will now take the role on and joins the cast of Tom Green, Lily Tomlin and Pierce Brosnan’s son, Sean Brosnan.

But that doesn’t mean Britney won’t have anything to do with the movie, “Britney was so touched by the script, so we are in talks about having her write and perform the closing number. Music of the ’70s is a real focus in the film. We don’t want her to do anything religious, but something that captures the beauty of the story.”

In other news, Britney reunited with Madonna on stage last night.

The role sounds perfect for Britney’s sister Jamie Lynn.

Sex and the City Sequel in the Works

After months of speculation, Kim Cattrall says that there will be a sequel to this year’s hugely popular Sex and the City: The Movie.

The actress appeared on Britain’s The Paul O’Grady Show, with guest-host Spice Girl Melanie Brown. Asked point blank, “Will there be a sequel?” Cattrall replied emphatically, “Yes there will!”

A spokesperson for New Line Cinema says the studio is “in negotiations for a sequel.”

Cattrall, 52, talked more about sequel plans at Cosmopolitan’s Ultimate Women of the Year Awards in London, where she received the “Ultimate Icon” honor. “The fans keep saying, ‘Yes, one more,’” Cattrall told reporters. “The movie was so much fun to do and be part of again. I hope we’re going to do it again.”

She’s especially looking forward to getting the script. “Samantha single is more fun that you can ever imagine,” she said.

But personally, Cattrall said she’s more similar to the contemplative Carrie. She sees a little bit of herself in all the characters – except one. “I never was a Charlotte. I can have a morning like Carrie, and I can have an afternoon like Miranda and I always hope for an evening like Samantha!”

Russell Brand As A Pirate?

Despite all the controversy over his “indecent” prank calls, Russell Brand is being lined up to star in the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean 4.

Brand is apparently being lined up to play the younger brother of Captain Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp.

According to The Sun, the actor could be receiving over $8 million to play in the movie, which also stars Keith Richards as Sparrow’s dad.

A source said “there couldn’t be a role more perfectly suited. There’s a lot of Jack Sparrow in his mannerisms and behavior. Depp’s accent isn’t a million miles away from Russell’s either.

I don’t know how I feel about casting him, but he certainly has the look down and this is a step up from the rumors of casting Zac Efron in the movie.

No Bondage For Britney Spears

Britney Spears‘ come back concert on Good Morning America is not going to be as good as it could be.

According to reports, TV bosses have stopped the singer from using a heavy S&M theme as well her raunchy dance moves.

The singer is set to make her comeback on the show to promote her new album, Circus, on December 2.

In other Britney news, it is claimed she will be playing herself in a new a “dark and gritty” biopic.

Music director Phil Griffin, who has directed Amy Winehouse’s music videos, is expected to directer the film which will show Spears’ rise to fame, breakdown and comeback.

A biopic already? Way too early in my opinion.

Ten Least Scary Horror Movies

So with Halloween on Friday, it is time for those scary lists to start pouring in from every website on the internet.

Here is what Yahoo says is the ten least scary horror movies:

THE HAPPENING

There’s a fine line between being atmospheric and just being boring. This film — about killer tree pollen — is filled with long lingering pastoral shots of trees and tall grass punctuated by laughably spectacular mass suicides. In what is supposed to be a gripping suspense sequence, the heroes run away from the wind. Oooh, scary, scary wind. By the time the credits roll, you’re more likely to be nodding off instead of contemplating the movie’s “deep” ecological meaning.

THE WICKER MAN

The 1973 original, which was hailed as “the Citizen Kane of British horror,” has an ending that still shocks. The only shock to be found in Neil LaBrute’s unbelievably bad remake is the realization that well-paid movie professionals actually thought that dressing up Nic Cage in a bear suit would elicit anything other than laughter.

PULSE

After watching the original Japanese version of the flick, a genuinely spooky flick about technology and loneliness, you’ll never look at your computer in the same way again. This version, on the other hand, just felt stale. Moody lighting? Check. Freaky music video-like dream sequences? Check. Overbearing soundtrack? Check. Wildly over-produced special effects? Check. Vacant, gym-sculpted teens stumbling around in the dark? Check. The resulting movie, like most J-Horror remakes, was so dull that you could say it, um, lacked a pulse.

HOUSE OF THE DEAD

A band of hapless, nubile teens who venture to a remote island for a rave soon find themselves zombie bait. The characters, however, prove to be so bland and annoying that by the end of the flick, you’re rooting for the undead — at least they have personalities. Directed by German hack extraordinaire Uwe Boll, this movie doesn’t have a tenth of the scares as the videogame it was based on, even though footage of the game is spliced into the action for no good reason.

CURSED

Director Wes Craven has helmed horror masterpieces like Nightmare on Elm Street. Screenwriter Kevin Williamson wrote Scream. And star Christine Ricci is great at playing cute and creepy. So why is “Cursed” such a bore? It plays out like werewolves on the CW. The characters are all whiny, spoiled 20-somethings, and after the studio cut down the violence to get a PG-13 rating, there weren’t any thrills left over. The only frightening thing about the flick is the bizarre Scott Baio cameo.

THINNER

Stephen King has been responsible for some of the most terrifying books of all time. But, he’s also be responsible for some of the dullest and silliest movies ever. When lists are compiled of people’s biggest fears, “dropping a few extra pounds” isn’t generally on there. But that’s what happens to the overweight lawyer who gets a gypsy curse placed on him until he withers away to nothing. To break the spell, his mobster buddy strong-arms the shaman into transferring the curse to a pie. “The Shining” this ain’t.

HALLOWEEN III: THE SEASON OF THE WITCH

The original “Halloween,” about a masked killer lumbering after babysitters, is pretty much the godfather of slasher flicks. In this installment of the franchise, the filmmakers jettison its original, financially-lucrative formula in favor of face-eating Halloween masks, shamrocks, and one of the most annoying commercial jingles ever written. Not surprisingly, the knife-wielding maniac returned in Halloween 4.

JAWS 4: THE REVENGE

You’d think that escaping from a shark with a Charles Bronson-esque taste for vengeance would be easy. Just avoid the ocean. But this didn’t seem to occur to the Brody family. Instead, they stubbornly remained in the Bahamas where they were terrorized by the shark’s biologically-impossible roars. This movie is so dull that even the actors look bored, particularly Michael Caine, who couldn’t collect his Oscar because he was stuck filming this dud.

TROLL 2

By pretty much any measure, this film has to be ranked as one of the worst films ever made. Describing the mind-bogglingly idiotic plot might very well induce a migraine, but it does include oozing chlorophyll, militantly vegetarian goblins, and some of the worst line readings in history. The main thing the movie lacks: a single troll.

PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE

To criticize this movie’s staggering incompetence is like criticizing a child’s drawing for not understanding perspective. Sure, the film features gasoline soaked paper plates posing as UFOs, ghouls terrorizing housewives in cardboard cemeteries, and talk of a bomb that causes sunlight to explode, but director Ed Wood’s vision is so laughably juvenile and pure that the “Plan 9″ seems strangely wholesome. And it’s no more frightening than your average episode of “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood.”

What are you doing or dressing up for this Halloween?

source: Yahoo

How To Be Manorexic

Ever wanted to rock the manorexic look?

Well Colin Farrell has the secret to loose 44 pounds and lets just say it isn’t healthy at all.

The actor who lost all his weight to star in the upcoming movie Triage says he lived on just black coffee, Diet Coke and two tins of tuna a day.

He says that he needed the caffeine just to get the energy boost he needed to act. He adds “it was kind of depressing… For a short space of time, it was grand. It was just calorie counting wasn’t a particularly healthy way of doing it.” And Farrell insists it wasn’t hard to put the weight back on: “I just ate like a pig.”.

Gross.

source: Colin Farrell Lived On Coffee, Coke And Tuna. [female first]

The Mupets New Adult Film

The Jim Henson Co. has picked up a spec that might signal a daring turn into adult territory for the company behind Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear.

“The Happytime Murders” is a comedic film noir murder mystery that will fall under the company’s Henson Alternative banner, a division that develops projects not intended for children. Brian Henson is on board to direct.

Written by Todd Berger from a story by Dee Austin Robertson and Berger, the story takes place in a world where humans and puppets co-exist, with the puppets viewed as second-class citizens. When the puppet cast of an ’80s children’s TV show called “The Happytime Gang” begins to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet — with a drinking problem, no less — takes on the case.

This would not be the first time that Henson is delving into more adult fare. In 1982, the company made “The Dark Crystal,” which featured a dark tone and, in one scene, nudity. But “Happytime” also will have an absurdest and comedic quality to it, comparable to Broadway’s “Avenue Q,” and will take cues from such movies as “L.A. Confidential” and “Pulp Fiction.”

Berger, repped by the Kohner Agency and Kaplan/Perrone, wrote “Epic Proportions” for End Game Entertainment with John Landis directing and is writing the DVD project “Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five” for DreamWorks Animation.

source: Puppets rubbed out in Henson film noir [yahoo news]

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Dark Knight Number 2 Movie

Dark Knight is about to pass Star Wars — which had two independent releases of what were arguably two different movies — to become the number two grossing movie of all time.  It still has a ways to go, though, to pass Titanic:

Rank	Title(click to view)	Studio	Lifetime Gross	Year
1	Titanic	Par.	$600,788,188	1997
2	Star Wars	Fox	$460,998,007	1977^
3	The Dark Knight	WB	$441,628,497	2008
4	Shrek 2	DW	$441,226,247	2004
5	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	Uni.	$435,110,554	1982^
6	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace	Fox	$431,088,301	1999
7	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest	BV	$423,315,812	2006
8	Spider-Man	Sony	$403,706,375	2002
9	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	Fox	$380,270,577	2005
10	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	NL	$377,027,325	2003
11	Spider-Man 2	Sony	$373,585,825	2004
12	The Passion of the Christ	NM	$370,782,930	2004^
13	Jurassic Park	Uni.	$357,067,947	1993
14	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	NL	$341,786,758	2002^
15	Finding Nemo	BV	$339,714,978	2003
16	Spider-Man 3	Sony	$336,530,303	2007
17	Forrest Gump	Par.	$329,694,499	1994
18	The Lion King	BV	$328,541,776	1994^
19	Shrek the Third	P/DW	$322,719,944	2007
20	Transformers	P/DW	$319,246,193	2007
21	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone	WB	$317,575,550	2001
22	Iron Man	Par.	$316,468,817	2008
23	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	NL	$314,776,170	2001^
24	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Par.	$314,749,809	2008
25	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones	Fox	$310,676,740	2002^

To be sure, “unadjusted gross” is a rather silly metric.  After all, ticket prices have skyrocketed in recent years.   That’s offset somewhat, however, by the fact that new movies are released to DVD within months (or available for download from various Torrent sites much sooner) and many of us chose to wait to watch them in the comfort of our own homes.

Hat tip to Jonathan Last, who has some other interesting movie ranking trivia.