GKIDS have announced the English voice cast for Studio Ghibli and Goro Miyazaki's animated feature "From Up on Poppy Hill", the top-grossing Japanese film of 2011. Set in Yokohama in 1963, the story follows the budding romance that develops as a young man and woman join forces to save their high school's ramshackle clubhouse from … [Read more...]
Stiller, Hill Re-Team For “Aloha”
July 22, 2012 by
"The Watch" trio Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and director Shawn Levy are re-teaming for the Hawaiian island-set comedy "Aloha" at 20th Century Fox says The Hollywood Reporter. Nicholas Stoller ("Get Him to the Greek") is in negotiations to pen the script but plot specifics are being kept under wraps. Stiller and Hill are attached to star, Levy to … [Read more...]
Walter Hill To Direct “Baby Jane” Remake
July 12, 2012 by
Walter Hill is set to write and direct a remake of the 1962 classic "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" at Aldrich Co. says THR. Robert Aldrich's classic starred Bette Davis as former child star Baby Jane Hudson and Joan Crawford as her crippled sister Blanche. Hill said the plan is to create a modern film without modernizing the period. Hill … [Read more...]
Casting News: Hill, Huntington, Charles
June 16, 2012 by
Django Unchained Jonah Hill has scored a key role in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" for The Weinstein Company. Hill was previously eyed for the role of Scotty Harmony in the project, he's now playing another and unspecified role. [Source: Deadline] Mad Max: Fury Road Rosie Huntington-Whiteley ("Transformers: Dark Of The Moon") has joined … [Read more...]
Hill Joins DiCaprio & Scorsese’s “Wolf”
May 5, 2012 by
Jonah Hill is in negotiations to join Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the Jordan Belfort memoir "The Wolf of Wall Street" says The Hollywood Reporter. DiCaprio plays a Long Island penny stock broker who served 20 months in prison for participating in a massive 1990's securities fraud that involved widespread corruption on Wall … [Read more...]
Government making a mountain out of a mole hill
May 3, 2012 by
The BC Teachers Union says the Province is reading way too much into a letter sent out to teachers by a Burnaby local. Union First Vice-President Jim Iker says the email just spells out the do's and don't's of a recent vote on the job action opposing Bill 22, "There is no threat implied with the email at all." Iker says there are processes … [Read more...]
Anti-pipeline protesters charged with trespassing at Parliament Hill
September 26, 2011 by
More than 100 protesters climbed over a fence police erected on Parliament Hill on Monday and then sat peacefully, waiting to be arrested. Greenpeace, the Council of Canadians and Indigenous Environmental Network organized the protest against the development of the tar sands and pipelines that carry Canadian oil to the U.S. It was modelled after … [Read more...]
Tim Hill To Direct A “Farting Dog”
August 7, 2011 by
Tim Hill, who also just signed for the "Short Circuit" remake, has signed onto direct "Walter the Farting Dog" for Paramount Pictures reports Risky Biz Blog. Based on the children's novel series by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, the story centers on a family who has to put up with their increasingly flatulent dog. Joel Cohen and Alec … [Read more...]
“Mad Max 4” No Longer Doing Broken Hill
August 4, 2011 by
Producers on the highly anticipated fourth movie in the "Mad Max" series have officially cancelled plans to shoot in the Australian outback town of Broken Hill despite years of preparation reports ABC News. Unseasonal rains early last year left the normally arid Broken Hill region too fertile for filming which lead to the start of filming being … [Read more...]
