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By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (21)

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For some stupid effing reason, New Line is remaking Police Academy, and as if to make the threat even more real, they’ve hired a director, Scott Zebielski, whose experience includes directing a bunch of “Tosh 2.0” episodes. (Deadline)

Jim Carrey’s career is in the sh*tter these days, so no time like the present to return to Bruce Almighty. Despite the fact that Evan Almighty was one of the costliest duds in film history, Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel have been hired to pen a direct sequel to Carrey’s film with Carrey in the starring role. (Variety)

Joel and Ethan Coen have tapped the Garret Hedlund (Country Strong, TRON: Legacy) to headline their new pic, Inside Llewellyn Davis, which is based on the memoir by folk singer Dave van Ronk. Good choice: Hedlund hasn’t been in anything good yet, but I like him. He has a lot of potential in the right role. (Variety)

There has been much talk lately of both a Bridesmaids and a Horrible Bosses sequel, and while writers have been hired to pen the Bosses sequel, and while that one may actually get off the ground, I wouldn’t expect one for Bridesmaids. Kristen Wiig has declined to participate, and Melissa McCarthy has stated that she will not be in it if Wiig isn’t. So, the worst one could reasonably expect is a straight-to-DVD sequel starring Ellie Kemper. (Hitfix)

  • The Weinsteins have pushed back Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton’s Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters from this March until next January. And while that is a dumping grounds, the reason allegedly is because Renner’s roles in The Avengers and The Bourne movie this summer will give him a higher profile, which will make it easier to sell Witch Hunters next winter. (Deadline)

    Speaking of The Bourne Legacy, here is the first movie poster for the film. It’s not exactly The Dark Knight Rises movie poster.

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    Comments

    She's looking kinda famished. Can anyone grab her a nice pastrami on rye?

    Posted by: Meander at January 10, 2012 11:40 AM

    • Who IS that, btw?

    Posted by: Meander at January 10, 2012 11:41 AM

    Someone else will say this after me, and they'll say it better, but it's getting to be really damn annoying how everyone has to be hot. Wiig, you're a comedian - a very successful one. Is that not enough? Where is this compulsion to make me come as well as laugh coming from?

    I understand the need to be good at a variety of things. I can cycle really quick, and I'm really, really damn good at taking a shit, but both of those things I do for myself. That GQ shot does not seem to be made of the same stuff.

    Granted, I am biased towards comedians who tend to fall on the rougher side of the aesthetics divide. I know it's a fairly reductive idea, but fuck it, it's a tiny little guilty pleasure fallacy that I nurture and (usually) keep to myself.

    So I'm not saying here that pretty people can't be funny. Of course they can (HAAAAAMMMMM!!!!). I'm saying: Wiig - you reek of desperation. Doesn't suit you.

    Posted by: zeke the pig at January 10, 2012 11:47 AM

    In a desperate and yet unsurprising move, the producers behind Bridesmaids and Horrible bosses have decided to combine forces and make one über sequel; Horrible Groomsmen. By combining crews they are able to pool enough money to entice all the original cast members back for this celluloid Frankenstein.

    Kristen Wiig is finally going to make the trip down the aisle herself, but this time she wants revenge on the trophy wife Helen for trying to drive a wedge between her and her best friend Lillian. So she hires her fiance Nathan's groomsmen (the three guys from Horrible Bosses) to find some way to bump off the shrill little bitcherdoodle without directing suspicion her way. In return she offers them "free cake or pie for life". But all isn't going according to plan as Melissa McCarthy and her Air Marshal beau keep unknowingly blundering each assassination attempt.

    Peter Berg has been tapped to direct.

    Posted by: bleujayone at January 10, 2012 11:52 AM

    I don't think Wiig reeks of desperation. Even for someone like me, who has no sense of smell, it's quite easy to see Wiig reeks of hilarity and hotness.


    Posted by: Forbiddendonut at January 10, 2012 11:53 AM

    I disagree that Garret Hedlund hasn't been in anything good yet. I enjoyed Friday Night Lights the movie and he did a fine job as the drunken running back that became Tim Riggins.

    Posted by: ryan at January 10, 2012 12:01 PM

    Based on that poster I can surmise that the plot of The Bourne Legacy has something to do with oddly-shaped parking spaces. Maybe Bourne rides a Segway in this one?

    Posted by: Bert at January 10, 2012 12:05 PM

    Have you seen some of the characters Wiig has had to play? Soem of them look like they ran over by a speeding emu and then curb-stomped by a rabid buffalo with a bad case of hemorrhoids. Maybe she wants the opportunity to dress up once in a while when she doesn't have to look like the cousin's brother's mother's daughter's grandma's nephew's father's wife from Alabama, Zeke.

    Just stop with your sexist oppression already.

    Posted by: admin at January 10, 2012 12:09 PM

    The Bourne Legacy, eh?

    How, exactly does one prepare for the unexpected? Does that mean I should expect anyting? I'm sorry but my frame does not allow for me to carry such ridiculous things as a baby goat, a fly swatter, garden shears, and 4 gallons of spoiled buttermilk.

    Posted by: PissBoy at January 10, 2012 12:25 PM

    Meander...that's Ms. Wiig, herself.

    Posted by: PissBoy at January 10, 2012 12:28 PM

    jason bourne will be bringing the fight to the cia with l33t ms paint sk1llz

    Posted by: carrboro ninja at January 10, 2012 12:59 PM

    You know, I would probably watch a direct-to-DVD movie starring Ellie Kemper, mainly because she gets my motor a-runnin'.

    Posted by: =DocDoom1= at January 10, 2012 1:11 PM

    Underwear shoots are so complicated these days. Is she a tool of the patriarchy, forced to pose in her underwear to appeal to a disenfranchised male market who don't care about her unless she's hot? Or is she reclaiming her right to sexy after being disheveled and wacky for so long, and how dare you judge her you dusty paternalist?

    I SUPPORT A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE... between black and red lace lingerie.

    Posted by: Amanda6 at January 10, 2012 2:24 PM

    Well, PissBoy, it's all about planning - if you just wait and get your spoiled buttermilk from the baby goat, you'll save yourself, like, 30 pounds of extra crap to carry.

    Posted by: Bert at January 10, 2012 2:41 PM

    Those are blueprints in perspective on the Bourne poster you philistines. Because if there's anything Hollywood loves it's a reproduction medium that hasn't been used in 25 years.

    Posted by: Mrcreosote at January 10, 2012 3:53 PM

    I'm holding out for Triangle Sally: The Movie

    Posted by: Uncle Mikey at January 10, 2012 3:57 PM

    Ahh yes. The old "Blueprints on brushed aluminum (aluminium for our cousins across the Pond) with a trite phrase that seems like perfectly sensible English, but actually makes no fucking sense" movie poster. If I had a dollar for every time I've seen one of those...

    Posted by: NateS1973 at January 10, 2012 4:40 PM

    ...the reason allegedly is because Renner’s roles in The Avengers and The Bourne movie this summer will give him a higher profile, which will make it easier to sell Witch Hunters next winter.

    or maybe it's because they don't want Chris Rock asking,"Who the hell is Jeremy Renner?" repeatedly during 2013's Oscars?

    the poster looks like shit and I hope Damon comes back soon before he gets too comfortable playing the daddy to a lil girl role too much.

    Posted by: haplo at January 10, 2012 5:59 PM

    bleujayone, I'm not quite sure if I adore you or despise you. Either way you're brilliant.

    Posted by: cinekat at January 11, 2012 4:21 AM

    I just discovered that Robert Ludlam wrote the Bourne Trilogy that Damon starred in and the other Bourne novels were written by others after he died using a Robert Ludlam trademark.

    Posted by: kirbyjay at January 11, 2012 9:55 AM

    but why are the pushing Hansel and Gretel all the way to January? If Legacy is coming out in August and Avengers before that (?), then certainly we can have some fairy tale butt kicking in say... November?

    You're right, you're right, I'm asking to much AND applying logic to this scenario.

    Posted by: faintingviolet at January 11, 2012 11:24 AM