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Batman's Coming, Anchorman 2 Isn't, and The Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (27)

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  • It looks like Batman 3 will be a reality, not that there was any real doubt. It’s now got an official release date: July 20, 2012, joining a crowded summer that includes the Spider-Man reboot, Madagascar 3, a new Star Trek movie, and The Avengers (not to mention The Hobbit later that year). If the world is going to end, at least we’re going to get our money’s worth at the box office first. (Christopher Nolan, however, has not officially signed on. He will, though.)

  • Doug Liman (Bourne Identity, Go) is reportedly circling Gambit, a Joel and Ethan Coen-scripted remake of the 1966 British caper comedy which originally starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. It’s one of several projects that Liman is considering, including another Three Musketeers movie and a moon mission project with Jake Gyllenhaal. We’ll make a full announcement if he signs. (Deadline)

  • Bummer. According to a tweet by director Adam McKay himself, Paramount has passed on an Anchorman 2, despite McKay’s ability to get the budget down to $65 million. Meanwhile, the same studio is developing a movie based on the Magic 8 Ball. The world makes so little sense, people. (Twitter)

  • Someone reported that Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaugh was circling X-Men: First Class and then minutes later, someone else reported that he’d passed on it. Thought you’d like to know.

  • Shia LaBeouf has signed on to a mob movie called The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. We should applaud him for making a movie based on an original property, but hey! It’s not newsworthy enough for its own post. (Vulture)

  • After reportedly circling a cinematic adaptation of the children’s classic Mr. Popper’s Penguins with Ben Stiller, Noah Baumbach has apparently decided against directing. (LAT)

  • Jane Austen fans: The UK’s Jane Austen Centre’s website has reprinted our own Boozehound’s review for Bright Star. Check out the review there if you haven’t seen it here already. (The Jane Austen Centre)

  • If you’ve read Margaret Atwood’s Blind Assassin, I encourage you to stop by the Book Club discussion and leave your thoughts anytime this weekend. (Pajiba)

  • If you haven’t gotten weary of David Letterman making fun of Jay Leno, he was on a roll this morning on “Regis and Kelly Lee,” mocking Leno as well as discussing that Super Bowl commercial he made with Leno and Oprah. It’s worth a few minutes.

  • A Warner Brothers spokesperson has denied that there’s a Starman movie in development, as we first reported here. We’re not sure what to make of that.

  • Kevin Durand, among others including “Glee’s” Dianna Agron, has been added to the cast of I Am Number Four, reports FilmDrunk in a sexclusive. (FilmDrunk)

  • Juan Jose Campanella (The Secret in Their Eyes) will be making his English-language directorial debut, adapting the children’s fantasy book Heck. It actually has a fairly interesting description: Milton Fauster and his shoplifting sister die in a freak accident and end up in an unearthly reform school called Heck, where Lizzie Borden teaches home economics and Richard Nixon is the ethics teacher. (Heat Vision)

  • ABC Family has cancelled its television series “10 Things I Hate About You.” (THR)

  • Compliments of Pissboy, here’s the greatest movie trailer of all time. It manages to capture every single trope and cliche that makes an awards movie an awards movie. It is sublime.









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    Comments

    /off to watch Anchorman.

    Posted by: F.U. Moonshu at April 30, 2010 8:11 PM

    • Is there ANYTHING good coming out next year? Because it seems like everything worth watching is just saying fuck you to 2011. Not fair.

    Posted by: figgy at April 30, 2010 8:21 PM

    It’s now got an official release date: July 20, 2010
    (Christopher Nolan, however, has not officially signed on. He will, though.)

    He'd better hurry up!

    Posted by: Gerald at April 30, 2010 8:25 PM

    The only thing about this that matters is that trailer. It's THE BEST THING EVAR! I laughed so hard I peed. CATCH PHRASE!

    Posted by: Blank at April 30, 2010 8:30 PM

    If you like the movie trailer, you should check out some of Brian & Nick's other stuff (http://www.britanick.com). Hysterical, and some of it features the upper body of Piz from Veronica Mars!

    Posted by: badkittyuno at April 30, 2010 8:46 PM

    Oh man that trailer was brilliant.

    Posted by: figgy at April 30, 2010 9:03 PM

    so the B3 (I'm calling it now, bitches; or B3TMAN) movie is being released this June? That was the most prolific suppression of spoilers and leaks since The Birth of a Nation.

    Posted by: adam at April 30, 2010 9:05 PM

    Wait, Batman 3 is slated for later this year and Chris Nolan hasn't even started yet?! Meanwhile, his Inception looks to have been finished since late last year, and it's also aiming for a summer release around the same time? The hell?!

    Or...do you mean summer 2011, or 2012?

    Posted by: vic at April 30, 2010 9:12 PM

    Anchorman was the perfect example of what it was. I'm glad they're going to leave it alone, even if involuntarily.

    Also? Laugh, laugh, laugh.

    Posted by: Tracer Bullet at April 30, 2010 9:19 PM

    Yea is that 2011 or 2012? I hope it's 2012 so the 3D thingy has already weared off.

    Posted by: zito at April 30, 2010 9:27 PM

    Are you aware I have a ritual called 'terminator'. I crouch in the shower in the "naked terminator" pose. With eyes closed I crouch for a minute and visualize either Arnie or the guy from the 2nd movie. I then start to hum the T2 theme. Slowly I rise to a standing position and open my eyes. It helps me get through my day. The only problem is if the shower curtain sticks to my terminator leg. It sorta ruins the fantasy.

    Posted by: Adventureman at April 30, 2010 9:39 PM

    Okay, you meant 2012. IMDb clarified things for me.

    Though I should've figured that out from this line: "If the world is going to end, at least we’re going to get our money’s worth at the box office first." Har har.

    Posted by: vic at April 30, 2010 9:44 PM

    Dustin, your mockery of AICN by reprinting their 2010 Batman typo is top drawer.

    Posted by: laredo at April 30, 2010 10:35 PM

    No Anchorman 2?

    I'm in a glass case of emotion. Actually, I'm drinking from a glass case of emotion.

    Whiskey for the win.

    Posted by: L.O.V.E. at April 30, 2010 11:02 PM

    my dvd player died and i am in a pissy funk. not relevant to the topic, but the only new posting today.

    let me just say,

    FUCK

    I have several new animes and horror flics on DVD to watch and nowhere to watch them. well, not true, my laptop is still working. but shitfuckerdamncocksucker, i buy dvds to see them on a nice high def screen, not on my laptop. . .torrents are for laptops.

    On the bright side, I am going to the Ottawa premiere of Book of Kells tomorrow at the rightly famous Mayfair Theatre. Nothing is stopping me, the work phone is turned off!

    god bless animation on the big screen.

    Posted by: idleprimate at April 30, 2010 11:04 PM

    Batman 3 is 2012. I fixed it. Now stop your bitching.

    Posted by: TK at April 30, 2010 11:18 PM

    Adventureman has made my Friday night...

    Also, that trailer is hilarious.

    Posted by: ashes at April 30, 2010 11:25 PM

    Ahh, I was wondering wtf BM3 2010 was about. That typo was driving me bananas.

    Posted by: Mebe at April 30, 2010 11:37 PM

    I can't believe it took y'all this long to post Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer. Don't you read the interwebs? It was especially satisfying right around Oscars-o'clock.

    Posted by: sheshakes at April 30, 2010 11:40 PM

    *Ambient Sounds* God I love that trailer. Britanick are fucking great. Everyone should check out their other stuff. Especially "bathroom pep talk" and "monologue for thee" Friendly black optimistic advice...


    No Anchorman 2...and then the music get's hopeful

    Posted by: E-Money at May 1, 2010 1:44 AM

    I love the idea of Doug Liman for 'Gambit', although I'm surprised that...whichever Coen directs...isn't doing it himself.

    I'm also glad Matthew Vaughn didn't sign on for X-mean, because he's at that weird stage in his career where he's known(ish) for being sort of awesome, but doesn't have a defined "style" yet ('Layer Cake' to 'Stardust' to 'Kick-Ass'? Nice) and I would like to see him do, I don't know, a good drama or a family movie a'la 'Millions'.

    Posted by: Mimi at May 1, 2010 3:11 AM

    What the fuck, since when does it put those Bing clicky hover things on comments? Have I just never noticed that?

    Posted by: Mimi at May 1, 2010 3:13 AM

    I've got mixed emotions about no "Anchorman 2", but even if it were excellent, it probably would still miss the "lightning in a bottle" feel of the original.

    Nope, nope. I'm fine with it. Viya con Dios, Mr. Burgundy.

    Oh, yeah, you don't speak Spanish. Um...

    Posted by: Green Lantern at May 1, 2010 7:26 AM

    So you got another Madagascar for the kids, a SpiderMan reboot aimed at tweens and a Star Trek parody for the "Not Another Teen Movie" demo. summer don't seem crowded to me.

    Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 1, 2010 11:50 AM

    finally the hobbit. that's great but i would like to watch the children of hurin get made into a movie.

    Posted by: Utah Dynamo at May 1, 2010 1:13 PM

    Adventureman
    That has GOT to be the single sexiest thing I have EVER read.

    Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at May 1, 2010 1:21 PM

    This just in: Bing insinuates itself wherever you surf just to make it seem like its as omnipresent as Google, but in actuality is just that clingy asshole you hope would go away just so fun times can occur again, without the awkward insinuation.

    In short, fuck Bing.

    Here comes the catchy line that convinces you I am not completely curmudgeonly: Great trailer.

    Posted by: Recondite at May 2, 2010 1:08 PM