Emily Blunt is Black Widow?

As director Jon Favreau gears up his new and returning cast for the upcoming sequel to Marvel Comic’s blockbuster smash hit Iron Man. Variety is reporting a rumor that Emily Blunt is in final negotiations to play Natasha Romanoff in Iron Man 2. Romanoff is a Soviet super spy who doubles as the Black Widow, a skintight black costume wearing assassin that is enhanced by high-tech weaponry.

If the rumor is in fact true she will be joining the previously announced villains Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell in the sequel alongside the returning cast members such as Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, while on a rather sad note; actor Don Cheadle will be replacing Terrence Howard for the role Jim Rhodes aka War Machine.

No official word as of yet on what type of role will the Black Widow play in the Iron Man Sequel, will she play a hero, villain, or a love interest to Robert Downey Jr’s character Tony Stark. This and more will be answered as it unfolds.

Blunt is best known for her role in The Devil Wears Prada, The Jane Austen Book Club and Charlie Wilson's War. She is also starring in The Wolfman with actor Benicio Del Toro, The Wolfman is scheduled to hit theaters everywhere November 6th.

No Nick Fury for Jackson?

Shocking news has hit the comic world hard as blockbuster actor Samuel L. Jackson who has been a fellow comic book reader for many years announced he will not be reprising his role as the bad ass director of S.H.E.L.D.Nick Fury. He told the Los Angeles Times that talks about him returning to the role in future Marvel Studios have broken down:

"There was a huge kind of negotiation that broke down. I don't know. Maybe I won't be Nick Fury. Maybe somebody else will be Nick Fury or maybe Nick Fury won't be in it. There seems to be an economic crisis in the Marvel Comics world so [they're saying to me], 'We're not making that deal.'"

You can read the whole story by the Los Angeles Times here

Jackson made a cameo as the S.H.E.L.D. director Nice Fury in the 2008 blockbuster film Iron Man, and was originally set to reprise his role in its sequel Iron Man 2 and the upcoming Avengers movie. But now everything is up in the air for the actor and his character.

Watchmen Back On?

After nearly a year of grueling battle between Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox over a dispute regarding the rights to the upcoming motion picture Watchmen, both studios have come to an agreement in a confidential settlement.

The terms of the agreement will not be disclosed, but it is said to involve a very hefty cash payment paid out to Fox and a percentage of the film's box office. Fox will not be a co-distributor on the film, nor will it own a piece of the Watchmen property going forward. The studios said in a joint statement. Both sides had this to say.

“Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox have resolved their dispute regarding the rights to the upcoming motion picture Watchmen in a confidential settlement. Warner Bros acknowledges that Fox acted in good faith in bringing its claims, which were asserted prior to the start of principal photography. Fox acknowledges that Warner Bros. acted in good faith in defending against those claims Warner Bros. and Fox, like all Watchmen fans, look forward with great anticipation to this film's March 6 release in theatres”

Meaning both side have made compromises over their legal dispute and are willing to play ball. Warner Bros also stated that though producer Larry Gordon was not a party in the case is said to be pursuing the producer and his attorneys to reimburse it for the costs of the settlement.

On a personal not; Watchmen was once called the film that would never be made, than it defied all that was set against it and was filmed as promised. Then it became known as the film that would never get realest due to the legal actions set against it by the studios. But now it looks like that it has done it again and proved to defy all those who did not want it to see the day of light, and now thing appear to be back on schedule for a March 6th release. A great deal of fans and new comers to the comic has long been awaiting the release of Watchmen since talks had first burst out on the web as mere rumors, and now their wait may soon be over. Let’s keep our fingers cross folks.

Review: Bride Wars (2009) [Reviewed By Tony-D]

Release: 2009
BOMB out of ****
Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Bryan Greenburg


Oh god, not already…

All girls look forward to their wedding day. All guys, especially the ones dating the strongly religious ones, look forward to after the reception. And then after their wedding, it goes downhill from there. The wife starts popping out kids at the rate of sound, and the man start getting gray hairs from being around her. The dreams of happiness are shattered like that, and they have no one to blame but themselves.

Now imagine being stuck in a fucking movie like “Bride Wars,” with no way of getting out until the movie ends.

“Bride Wars” is the newest romantic-comedy (and I use that term loosely) by hack director Gary Winick, starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson for no selling point except to see them in a thirty second catfight. Winick, who has directed his fair share of crappy romantic comedies in the past, already has a contender for one of the worst films of the year by making a romantic comedy that has little romance and no laughs. I couldn’t recommend “Bride Wars” to anyone… except for those few pervs that would pay ten dollars to jerk off in a movie theater at Hathaway and Hudson, and I’m sure someone has already done that.

But let’s not think about some guy shooting a load in the guy’s hair seated in front of him. Let’s talk about a more harmful product than a sticky substance – let’s talk about “Bride Wars.” Now what the fuck can we say?

Well Liv and Emma (Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, respectively) have dreamed of getting married at the Plaza in New York since they were in their pre-teen years. Now that the time has come that their boyfriends have now proposed to them (Hudson’s boyfriend played by Steve Howey and Hathaway’s played by Chris Pratt), they can finally go see a wedding planner (Candice Bergan, who is also the narrator of this movie) to schedule their days. The weddings are about two to three weeks apart from each other, and everything is working out perfectly… until the damn wedding planner fucks up the dates.

Needless to say, if you’ve seen the trailer, you know the rest of the story: they stop talking to each other for weeks at a time, talk to their friends about each other behind the other’s back, dye each other’s hair different colors, and have it out at parties. Without showing what it would take to even have a wedding at the Plaza, such as the cost of everything and what the preparations would be and whether the grooms agree with everything, the script allows us to watch just about everything else that has nothing to do with the wedding – from Kate Hudson getting fat off of chocolates and picking out pieces of her hair off of her head to Anne Hathaway being bossed around by the manly Kristen Johnson.

Oh, and spring break parties.

But not everything can be blamed on the horrendous script; some of it has to go towards director Gary Winick. While I think guys should be the ones directing romantic comedies (because from what we’ve seen with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” guys do it best), I think guys should make a romantic comedy that would appeal to both guys and girls. Gary Winick has created a romantic comedy that won’t appeal to neither. I saw just as many ladies walking out of the theater as I did guys shaking their heads, saying, “Okay, so we SHOULD’VE seen Clint Eastwood.” After the movie ended I came to the conclusion how much we need Woody Allen.

My face remained expressionless throughout the whole movie. So did Kate Hudson’s. Coincidence? She plays a big-time lawyer working on this big-time case. She has the mouth of Juno McGuff and the attitude of Lil Kim. Her little subplot of this big case doesn’t go anywhere. After Hathaway keeps sending boxes of chocolates to her office, claiming to be her fiancé, she piles up on the weight. I guess obesity is the new form of comedy nowadays. Now I look forward to “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” even more…

But Kate Hudson isn’t a big deal. I knew what I was getting into with her right from the beginning. She was in “Fool’s Gold” and “My Best Friend’s Girl,” after all. The biggest disappointment, however, comes from Anne Hathaway. Right when you think that she has finally picked the right movie in her career garner attention to herself (that being “Rachel Getting Married”), she pulls an Eddie Murphy and stars in her own version of “Norbit.” She isn’t believable at all in this role. I believed her as a princess in “The Princess Diaries.” And I believed her as a spy in “Get Smart.” They were two fictional roles. But when she get to a role that is pretty realistic like this one (outside of the whole fighting between the two girls), Hathaway plays a normal everyday girl like this was her first role.

And it’s because of this movie that she won’t get any recognition for “Rachel Getting Married.”

It’s been said that the first movie of the year is usually the one to point which direction film will be heading to this year. If the film is “Bride Wars,” I’m worried we will have another 2008 on our hands. Not only did 2009 begin with a zero-star film, but it doesn’t look to get any better. Girls won’t like this movie, their limped-dick boyfriends will be sleeping, and ten bucks will go towards Gary Winick’s yacht.

No Sails for Dawn Treader?

Both Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media have confirmed long rumored reports about backing out of the next upcoming Narnia sequel “The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader” to be true. that for budgetary and logistical reasons it will not be working together on "The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader" with Walden, this came as a shock to many Narnia fans of both the books and the films, after waiting a long three years for “Prince Caspian” to be made (due to legal reasons) now it looks like “The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader” may never see day one of filming since Walt Disney Pictures pulled out for the project which make up for half of the film’s finances. Though losing its key financer, Walden Media stated that it will begin shopping the franchise around in hope of finding another studio who will pick up the extra slack left behind from Walt Disney Pictures.

Personally, this did not go unforeseen, though the first Narnia film (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) managed to make all its money back with a very big amount of profit, it still lacked in what was expected of it due to some who had compared it to the epicness of “LOTR” and now after facing what is considered a lackluster performance at the box office for its sequel in 2008, this could be seen as a sign for future film failing in its post LOTR genre, so in my personal opinion it highly unlikely that the third film will be made at all, or not seen at least. Like I said, this was not unforeseen.

More news to come on The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader and more as we hear it.