Just Jared has shots of Shia LeBeouf and Frank Langella on the set of Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street 2” today. Langella plays the younger actor’s mentor in the film.
Many are speculating that this novel is the plot of the new “Pirates of the Caribbean” film simply because they have the same title. One of our contributors says, “Pffft, too easy of a call. I don’t buy it. There would have been more about Disney acquiring the rights, adapting it, etc. Plus the end of the third one suggests an entirely different storyline.” You nerd, I mean, heard it here first.
Larry Gelbart, the witty writer behind “Tootsie” and “Oh, God!” and a key writing force of television’s “M-A-S-H,” died today at age 81 after a long battle with cancer.
Also, we’re not sure if anyone cares, but Goldstein says Variety missed the boat with their reporting on the Nick Cassavetes-suing-New Line story. The backstory is that “Peaceable Kingdom,” a biopic about Dame Daphne Sheldrick‘s efforts to prevent elephant extinction in Kenya, should have been a PG-13 film in the vein of “Gorillas in the Mist,” but that Cassavetes turned it into a much darker R-Rated film. He also says actresses like, Kate Winslet, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Drew Barrymore all had expressed interest in the role.
Variety confirmed that Peter Berg’s “Hancock 2,” is ready to go, right? Not exactly. Sony stressed that official talent deals have yet to be signed, despite the fact that Berg said Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman are all returning, and the studio has yet to set a release date for the picture. That didn’t stop Berg from revealing some of the proposed plans for the sequel. “We’re looking at exploring their relationship prior to when we first met them and seeing a bit of what happened as a prequel,” he told MTV. “I think we danced around the concept of an origins and we settled on something that is very substantive. That will part of the sequel.”
Proof that their winning story won’t die, Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner, the members of the Canadian band featured in the excellent documentary, “Anvil! The Story of Anvil,” will make an appearance on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” airing Tuesday, October 6th on NBC. That is the day of their DVD release. The largely self-distributed film came out in April on a handful of screens, but these guys are still slowly gaining more attention which is wonderful for them. They deserve it.