New X-Men: Days of Future Past Image Shows Familiar Faces in a Familiar Setting

Production wrapped on X-Men: Days of Future Past this weekend and between now and the release of the first trailer (Probably around Christmas), not much will be seen or heard from Bryan Singer outside of his Twitter feed. I can already imagine a picture taken from the edit bay and there is Peter Dinklage's thick 'stache on the monitor.

Yeah, there is that leaked Comic-Con footage. I can't blame fans for watching it. We're curious and not everyone got to go to San Diego. No shame in confessing I too watched it, more times than I should admit (The Inception score set the tone well). Until said trailer drops online, this will have to do. A new production still, arguably the first that isn't behind-the-scenes or related to the clever Trask Industries viral, is here courtesy of Tumblr:

Joseph Kosinski Directing The Twilight Zone

I was under the impression The Twilight Zone was still Matt Reeves' gig. Sometime between then and now, the director and Warner Brothers and Appian Way parted and went their separate ways. The Wrap reports they have already found his replacement in Joseph Kosinski, coming off the double-whammy of Pretty-Looking, but Flat features Tron: Legacy and Oblivion.

Assuming the plan is to do this as an anthology, like the infamous 1983 film incarnation that is actually not bad. Avoid the Steven Spielberg-directed Kick the Can segment (So sugary you'll get Type 1 diabetes).

Bradley Cooper Doing Lance Armstrong Biopic After All

Bradley Cooper was previously linked to play all American hero-turned-disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong in a biopic on the doping scandal for Paramount and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. He has the right look (Might be a great guy, which I'm sure he is, but he just looks like a douchebag) to show the double-faces of the real Armstrong and his career choices, as of late, show he fully intends to stay in the A-list as The Hangover series that launched him fizzled out.

But in a twist that is downright cold-blooded (But hey showbiz is ruthless), Cooper has left the Paramount gates and headed across the street to Warner Brothers for their rival Armstrong project. Titled Red Blooded America, this take comes courtesy of director Jay Roach and writer Scott Z. Burns. He's in talks to produce and star. It remains unsure if he would play Armstrong or Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong's former teammate who publicly spoke out against him.

Again playing Armstrong seems more up his alley and he clearly wants an Oscar after his nod for Silver Linings Playbook this year.

Source: "TOLDJA"

WB to Legendary - "Take Your Seventh Son and SHOVE IT!"

The split may be final. But news is still filtering out regarding the Warner Brothers/Legendary Pictures divorce. Just the other day came word the two agreed to part ways on When Clark Met Bruce... (AKA: Batman Versus Superman) in favor of a share in Interstellar. That was a surprising development, yes but a formality. Something both parties agreed to awhile back.

That doesn't appear to be the case here. Just two ex-lovers squabbling over who gets to keep the yacht and fur-coat collection. The Brothers Warner have washed their hands of bomb-in-the-making Seventh Son, taking it off their schedule (It was slotted for January 17, 2014). Universal, now in the Legendary business, will take on distribution though they have yet to pick a replacement slot. Knowing the bad buzz, how about September '14?

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Blue Caprice Trailer

One viewing of the atmospheric trailer for Blue Caprice, the drama recreating the Beltway sniper attacks, and it all comes back to us old enough to remember. It’s a scary reminder of the paranoia in the air in our post 9/11 environment.

Alexandre Moors, first time director, has a bright future ahead and talk about a comeback for Isaiah Washington (who had bad press this side of Mel Gibson back in the mid-2000s leading up to his firing from the ABC medical soap Grey's Anatomy) displaying a calm, Father Knows Best demeanor-turned-psychotic as real-life monster John Allen Muhammad.

Trailer For A.C.O.D.

"I shielded you! You were a last ditch effort to save this marriage!"
"That's a stupid lie. Darling, you were an accident."

Great exchanges like that fill the trailer for the new comedy A.C.O.D. The title is short for Adult Children of Divorce and centers on how Carter (Adam Scott) learns he was unknowingly involved with a story on children of divorce and years later, on the eve of his young brother (Clark Duke)'s wedding asked to participant in a follow-up study.

Catherine O'Hara and Richard Jenkins co-star as their parents, Jane Lynch as Carter's therapist along with Amy Poehler and Jessica Alba.

Source: Yahoo! Movies

Ninja Turtles Pushed Back to August 2014 - Those Not Born in the 80s Shrug Shoulders

The latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles do-over from Michael Bay (and by "Michael Bay," I mean director Jonathan Liebesman) is taking a slight detour.

It will still open next summer, but Paramount moved it off the hot n heavy June 6th slot (They too saw how the overcrowded market chipped away at what would have been higher grosses for mega-hits Man of Steel, Monsters University and World War Z this summer) into August 8th. A time when the folks are more willing to try something different for their genre action fix (like The Expendables or District 9), comedies (like The 40 Year-Old Virgin and Superbad) and horror films as the summer nears its end, and we see nothing but Back to School Sales commercials on TV.

Marvel's trying to same strategy for Guardians of the Galaxy. And since that opens a week prior, it looks like we got ourselves a showdown between two pricey, niche properties. I know I'll get shit for calling Ninja Turtles niche but that hasn't had pop culture relevance since the early 90s.

Red Sparrow Could Be Darren Aronofsky's Next Film

It's impossible to get a gage of what Darren Aronofsky will do next. He's had this back-and-forth flirtation with big studio blockbusters over the years. Thankfully Black Swan did big business, allowing him that "Blank Check" follow-up in Noah that could ("Could" being the key word here; won't have a better grasp until we see footage) prove to be a blockbuster success without a great filmmaker Aronofsky having to slum it, i.e. "One for them, one for me."

While the jury is out on his Biblical epic, he's getting ready to scratch that itch again. What will he do next? He's in early discussions (This is Aronofsky, kids, so don't get too attached to this until filming starts) to direct Red Sparrow, based on the Jason Matthew espionage novel. Here's the plot synopsis of the book courtesy of Amazon:

"In present-day Russia, ruled by blue-eyed, unblinking President Vladimir Putin, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle. Ordered against her will to become a 'Sparrow,' a trained seductress, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles the Agency’s most important Russian mole.

As the action careens between Russia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and the United States, Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and--inevitably--forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but those of others as well. As secret allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and Nate's game reaches a deadly crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington, DC."

Source: "TOLDJA"

Trailer For Vampire Academy

"Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir: half human/vampire, guardians of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discretely without our world. Her legacy is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi. This is her story."

Via Yahoo! Movies

Second Trailer For Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon

"Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old-fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to 'pull' a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn’t compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old-fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she’s determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old-fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a media culture full of false fantasies to try and find true intimacy in this unexpected comedy written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt."

Via Yahoo! Movies