Soooooo busy today. But I'll be back later. Nearly dead from exhaustion, but back. In the meantime...
Choose from baby bear, mummy bear and daddy bear trailers for Get Smart.
Sorry. Rubbish post this one, wasn't it?
You can download the Get Smart trailer now. More of a teaser, really.
[EDIT: Thanks, Adam]
SlashFilm have an interesting piece on a Get Smart side project. Apparently, Get Smarter: Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control is a companion film to the main Get Smart. Both are shooting now - Get Smart due in cinemas next summer, Get Smarter on DVD just 10 days later.
Smarter's leads are two secondary characters from Smart - one of them played by Masi Oka from Heroes. This is their Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. I'm assuming they get up to all kinds of wacky and 'scene stealing' antics in Smart.
According to Peter at Slashfilm, Warners aren't going to promote Get Smarter until after Get Smart's opening weekend. That won't give them much of a run-in. And as soon as they do, surely people are going to use the DVD spin-off as a way of testing the water before shelling out ten bucks a pop to see the big brother film at the multiplex? And if it isn't such a great side dish, surely it will hurt the main?
No idea if Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway will be cameoing in Get Smarter, but I would sincerely hope they do. Seems unfair, otherwise.
Chatting to various rags and press wire services, I see that Harvey Weinstein has been hyping his dream-cast for Nine, the next musical from Chicago and Memoirs of Geisha director Rob Marshall. It is an adaptation of a Broadway hit that was itself an adaptation, of sorts, of Fellini's 8 1/2. Yeah - Rob Marshall remaking Fellini as a filmed reincarnation of a staged musical. Hang on though, it gets even funnier.
Weinstein's dream cast list includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Hathaway, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger. He says "How will we pay their salaries? We'll figure it out. There are roles for six women in the movie who have to be beautiful and sing and dance. It's a terrible assignment to cast this." More to the point, Harvey, how will you negotiate their billing?
As for the male lead, Marshall and (more to the point) Weinstein are reportdly considering Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Javier Bardem or Antonio Banderas. Banderas took the role in the 2003 stage revival, so maybe the smart money would be on him.
Expect Nine to used as pungent Oscar bait late next year, probably with less than a third of this dream cast in place.
This poster is the winner of the Becoming Jane vote. If you took part, I hope you're pleased with the result.
The above four posters are, apparently, candidates for the Becoming Jane poster. After you've had a good look at them above, you can even vote on which you prefer and, potentially, inflict it on cinemagoers worldwide. I plumped for the one that wasn't just Anne Hathaway on her lonesome, but I dare say a certain slice of the internet might disagree.
The film details a young Jane Austen's romantic life and comes from Julian Jarrold, director of Kinky Boots and the TV version of White Teeth.
