The fourth installment of the “Pirates Of The Caribbean” franchise is rumored to follow Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow on his search for the fountain of youth, a plot point hinted at the end of “At World’s End.” There will also reportedly be a “Captain Nemo-type villain utilizing new-style technology.” Meh. [HollywoodElsewhere]
Kevin MacDonald’s epic-Roman-adventure “The Eagle Of The Ninth” has begun principal photography in Hungary and Scotland. The film stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Mark Strong and Donald Sutherland and will center on young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) who arrives from Rome to solve the twenty year old mystery of the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. [ComingSoon]
Apparition has picked up blaxploitation spoof “Black Dynamite” which will now see a fall theatrical release. The film had presumably been lying around at Sony Pictures — who handles Apparition’s releases — before Apparition came around. The new distribution company also has Jane Campion’s “Bright Star,” Terrence Malick’s “The Tree Of Life” and the Emily Blunt led “The Young Victoria” on its books. [Variety]
Hot off the the release of the phenomenal teaser trailer, filming for Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” has evidently now moved to Tangiers in Morocco. Reports have it that sets are being made to resemble Africa. Anne Thompson recently said based off the teaser-trailer, “Inception” looks like, ” ‘Matrix’ meets ‘Shutter Island,’ ” and if you know the silly B-twist in the Scorsese film you’re really hoping she’s wrong, but there is cause for concern there. [NolanFans]
Scribes Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara have been tapped by Columbia to pen the sequel to Peter Berg’s superhero film “Hancock” which starred Will Smith and Charlize Theron. While little is being revealed regarding the sequel’s plot, talk had been about the introduction of a new “god.” Zzzzz. [THR]
Mamie Gummer has joined Amber Heard and Jared Harris in the John Carpenter’s “The Ward,” a film that will follow a young woman (Heard) who wakes up in a mental institution with no memory of who she is or why she is there, only to find herself terrorized by a ghost. [ScreenDaily]
Here is a preview of upcoming on-screen couple Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan, who will partner up for Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.” Mulligan will play the daughter of Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko who is dating LaBeouf’s protagonist. Josh Brolin and Frank Langella also co-star as the hedge-fund-manager villain and the mentor of LaBeouf’s protagonist respectively. [GossipCenter via ONTD]
Sam Worthington continues to take little shots at his “Terminator Salvation” director, McG. “I can nitpick with the best of them,” the actor notes. “[I] go down the list on IMDB where they found holes in it and go, ‘You are fucking right! If there was a big 10 ton robot coming outside that gas station, surely we would fuckin’ hear it!’ And I missed that! So now I’m going to be a bit fuckin’ better when I’m going through my scripts because now I feel like an idiot for not turning to McG [and saying something].” He’s biting the hand that feeds but when that hand belongs to McG, can you blame him? [CHUD]