It looks like all the classic movies are making their comebacks in the next few years as we’ve already heard about two Dracula reboots, two Frankenstein re-tellings and a Wolfman, I guess it was just a matter of time before the Mummy popped again.

It’s not like we haven’t seen one in a while – we last saw one in 2008 in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Needless to say, I’m in the mood for a revamp of the classic Egyptian horror icon.

Which is just as well because Bob Weinstein’s Dimension Films are in the early stages of putting a mummy’s curse project together. But instead of the usual horror set up where a couple of bright young things are tormented by an unstoppable villain, it’s apparently going to be in the style of last year’s low-budget horror Paranormal Activity.

According to the LA Times, Weinstein has Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego in final negotiations to write and direct the movie. In these financially strained times, the project is going the Paranormal route in an effort to save money. Not only will they be able to jump on the unseen horror bandwagon but also because special effects like the ones seen in the Brendan Fraser franchise are costly.

The movie is currently called The Mummy Archives but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that title remaining. The only big question is that if Weinstein wants to cash in on the low-budget horror, does this mean he’s opting out of 3D?

Love them or loathe them, the Transformers movies show no sign of stopping. To be honest, I’m that jazzed about the next instalment of the franchise but after hearing that Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick ‘McDreamy’ Dempsey has joined the cast list, our interest in the project has been renewed.

I know it’s wrong to want to see a movie because it has a hot actor in it but somehow I just don’t care. Despite Michael Bay saying that there will be fewer explosions in the third movie, well, I just don’t believe him. I’m pretty sure he’s got some impressive pyrotechnics up his sleeve but by casting Dempsey he’ll be drawing female viewers to the franchise. Happy accident or clever casting?

Dempsey revealed to Brazilian reporters that he’ll be playing a ‘darker character’ and Paramount have confirmed that he’ll be playing Megan Fox’s boss. Fox and Dempsey on-screen together!

Is there such a thing as too sexy?

It also looks like fans can expect more varied locations as the movie will begin shooting later this month in Moscow, China, Africa and the U.S. but we’ll have to wait another year to get to see any of it as it’s slated for a 2011 release.

The other night just so happened to be teen comedy DVD night in the Breadline broom cupboard. So I snuggled up under my blankets, braided my barbie’s hair and got out the Ferrero Rocher to watch Mean Girls.

Me and barbie couldn’t believe how young, sweet and innocent Lindsay Lohan looked in that movie compared to the train wreck she is these days. She may have fallen on hard times…and crack…but it looks like la Lohan’s fortunes could be on the up as she’s just been cast in a new movie.

A biopic of porn legend Linda Lovelace is in the works and MTV is reporting that Lohan is ‘confirmed’ for the lead role. The project will be called Inferno and has Matthew Wilder sitting in the director’s chair.

Lovelace became famous after she appeared in the porn classic Deep Throat but later became an anti-porn protester, claiming that she was forced at gunpoint to perform in the film. The film was wildly controversial and it’s likely that the PC bridgade will also be out to boycott Inferno as well if it gets a bit too saucy.

Despite proving herself unreliable in recent years, Robert Rodriguez took a chance on her and cast her in the upcoming Machete. We’re waiting to see if her scenes are still in the final cut though. But hopefully these are signs that Hollywood is willing to welcome her back into the fold.

One of Hollywood’s best kept secrets in recent years has been the plot of Christopher Nolan’s new thriller Inception, but now I can reveal what it’s all about.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page, Inception has been described by writer/director Nolan as ‘taking place within the architecture of the mind’ and for a long time that’s all we knew.

Now, courtesy of Playstation Nation, I have a copy of the movie’s synopsis. If you’d rather just be surprised when you go to see the movie THEN DON’T READ ON as we’re about to spill the beans.
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We all know by now that the Clash of The Titans was not the cinematic joy that it should have been but it made a heck of a lot money so, of course, the sequel is already being planned.

Deadline Hollywood are reporting that pretty much every character who survived at the end of the movie should be returning for the project including captain stoic, Sam Worthington.

But guess who’s not coming back – the director. Though we’re assured that the decision to not have Louis Letterier return is an amicable one, we’re pretty sure a big ‘Ha ha, in your face’ type of celebration could be heard around Hollywood when the news broke.

Unfortunately, we’re not fully rid of Letterier as he’s staying on as an executive producer. I’m kind of hoping his responsibilities will be limited to sitting in a corner shoving playdough up his nose.

If Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures want to keep this project moving forward then they’re going to have to get their act together quickly before Worthington has to jet off back to Pandora for Avatar 2.

It seems that any film that’s even marginally successful is bound to get a sequel so that studios can milk it for all it’s worth. I was, however, surprised that DreamWorks took so long to decide to announce a sequel to the wildly successful How To Train Your Dragon.

ComingSoon.net are reporting that after looking at the numbers, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, Jeffery Katzenberg said,

“2010 is off to a strong start, thanks in large part to the performance of ‘How to Train Your Dragon,’ which – having grossed nearly $375 million to date in worldwide box office – has become DreamWorks Animation’s next franchise. We plan to release the sequel theatrically in 2013.”

“3D continues to have a tremendous impact on the industry at large and we are now looking forward with great anticipation to bringing ‘Shrek Forever After,’ the final chapter in our beloved ‘Shrek’ series and the first in 3D, to audiences across the globe next month.”

Shocked and surprised? No, neither was I and though there’s plenty of source material to continue to Dragon series, when will studios learn to quit while they’re ahead?

It’s been a while since we saw the last instalment of The Ring series but news has reached me of a third movie that’s going to be coming our way.

According to HeatVisionBlog, the new movie will be in the ever so popular 3D format and will be aimed at a teenage audience. Apparently the producers are trying to reinvent the franchise but I don’t see how they’re going to do that if the basic premise will be the same as the previous movies – people watch a cursed tape and then die horribly.

The Final Destination movies suffered the same fate and lost the plot the further into the series it got. Having said that, it quickly became clear that no one cared about the plot in those films because we just wanted to see people die in more horrific and wildly unpredictable ways. But does The Ring have the same franchise appeal? Wasn’t part of the movie’s draw the mystery behind the tape?

According to HVB, ‘One potential scenario involves teens finding a VHS player that still works.’ It’s an interesting angle to approach the story from and maybe writer David Loucka could prove that there’s life in the old story yet.

There’s a ready-made audience for this movie and I’m betting that fans will come back just to see a 3D Samara crawl out of the screen at them. I probably won’t though.

James Cameron has announced his plans for the sequel to box office juggernaut Avatar. Speaking to the LA Times, Cameron revealed how he plans to explore the fictional planet of Pandora, home of the Na’vi people and a variety of other Cameron-created creatures.

Drawing on the documentary work he’s already done on the subject (Aliens of the Deep and Ghosts of the Abyss) it comes as no surprise that Cameron will be diving into the Oceans of Pandora.

I’ve already announced this, so I might as well say it: Part of my focus in the second film is in creating a different environment – a different setting within Pandora. And I’m going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won’t be a rain forest. I’m not saying we won’t see what we’ve already seen; we’ll see more of that as well.

It seems like he’s got a plan brewing in that big brain of his, but are we going to be waiting years for the next movie?

…The challenge on the next “Avatar” picture is to do what we did before at half the price and in half the time. Again, that’s an impossible goal, we won’t accomplish that, but if we can reduce by 25% in both categories, we’ll have really accomplished something. We know our methodology works. We also know it took two years to come up with. It didn’t even become efficient until the last two months of the production.

The environment is obviously something Cameron feels deeply about and told the LA Times that he’s unhappy about the portrayal of climate change in the media.

Here’s my philosophy in life: If there’s a fire, you put it out. If there’s a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work. I think we’re facing that kind of crisis and I’m not going to stand around and leave it to someone else to deal with it.

And the never-ending parade of toy movies continue to roll off the assembly line with the latest coming in the form of Stretch Armstrong.

The super stretchy toy was first introduced in 1976 but there’s never been a storyline that surrounds him as such, so God only knows what the script will be like. Steve Oedekerk’s original screenplay is getting an overhaul anyway by Forgetting Sarah Marshall writer Nick Stoller so who knows, it might be funny at the very least.

Producer Brian Grazer said in a previous statement that,

“Stretch Armstrong is a character I have wanted to see on-screen for a long time. He’s an unconventional kind of super hero with a power that no one would want. It’s a story about a guy stretching – if you will – the limits of what is possible to become all that he can be.”

Right. So basically Stretch Armstrong is Mr. Fantastic except that he actually had a story to tell? Well regardless of how crappy this project could be, Taylor ‘Twilight‘ Lautner has signed on for the movie and Monsters vs. Aliens director Rob Letterman has also come aboard to direct.

Oh and naturally it’s going to be in 3D so expect lots of stretchy limbs flailing around in your face for an hour and a half.

With Hollywood buzzing over Wizard of Oz scripts like hungry vultures, news has reached me that Robert Downey Jr. is circling one of the projects.

According to the LA Times, Joe Roth is producing Mitchell Kapner’s script The Great Powerful, previously titled Brick, which shows the life of the Wizard before he arrived in the magical land. Downey is apparently very interested in the role of the Wizard which would actually be a great casting decision, but of course it could go the way of Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and nobody wants that.

Kapner is basing the script on parts of Frank L. Baum’s ‘Oz’ books and his own original material but no word on specific plot details yet. Out of all of the Oz projects that are being discussed, this one actually could have some legs now that Downey’s interested, not to mention the fact that Roth recently met with Disney production president Sean Bailey.

There is also some industry talk of two big name directors expressing interest in the film: Sam Mendes (American Beauty) fame and Adam Shankman (Hairspray) both have very different artistic styles but Mendes could be a shoo-in now that Bond 23 is on hold indefinitely.