Hey Everyone!! I know, I know… It’s a bit late… and what’s this?! Another writer this week??? Yes, this week Micah’s a little stomped with some work, so I’m filling in for him. I hope you don’t mind, he told me that he wasn’t going to be able to post this week, so I took the liberty of writing his article this week….. but don’t worry… he will be back! Let’s get to it, shall we?
Top story this week, sticking with the remake theme that seems to have been going about in Hollywood these days, the Total Recall remake has a couple ladies reading for some roles. On this list Kate Bosworth and Diane Kruger for Lori, and Eva Mendes, Paula Patton, Jessica Biel and Eva Green for Melinda. Lori, if you can recall (no pun intended) was Douglas Quaid’s wife and Lori was her female counterpart on Mars. Quaid’s role originally played by Schwarzenegger, is now passed on to Colin Farrell. While we’re still waiting for word on who will be playing Lori and Melinda, originally played by Sharon Stone and Rachel Ticotin. Can these ladies reading for the parts be able to fill these shoes? I think so, now that the Governator won’t be on the opposite end.[deadline]
Other casting news! As mentioned earlier by myself, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to play Alberto Falcone in The Dark Knight Rises. He will be joining Hathaway playing Catwoman, and Tom Hardy playing Bane. While Marion Cotillard has also reportedly been approached for an unknown role, and Juno Temple waiting to be casted as ” a supporting role as a street-smart Gotham girl.”
Stepping away from casting, movie release news!! The next installment for the Chronicles of Narnia series will not be The Silver Chair. Though it’s the fourth book in the series, producers have decided to go with The Magician’s Nephew, which tells the origin of many of the familiar elements of the Narnia saga.
Caesar: Rise of the Apes has it’s release date pushed back once more by 20th Century Fox. Rise of the Apes, starring James Franco and directed by Rupert Wyatt, will now be released on August 5 where it will go up against The Smurfs, The Darkest Hour and The Change-Up.
Now for some boxoffice.com updates!! This week looks to have been pretty exciting as the movies that have been coming out seem to have just gotten more and more exciting every week. Here are the standing for the weekend at the box office:
1. Limitless
2. Battle: Los Angeles
3. The Lincoln Lawyer
4. Rango
5. Paul
6. Red Riding Hood
7. The Adjustment Bureau
8. Mars Needs Moms
9. Hall Pass
10. Beastly
Skipping out on this week’s DvD release update to bring you news that Elizabeth Taylor died earlier today of congestive heart failure at the age of 79. Taylor had been hospitalized for her condition since February. [MSNBC]
Elizabeth Taylor was well-known on the big screen, the small screen, and outside of Hollywood glamor. She has made an impact on a variety of people. From her debut performance on the silver screen at age 10 on There’s One Born Every Minute which opened the door for National Velvet, a couple years later which caught the attention of the national audience. Taylor’s impact on Hollywood has made her worthy to be called legendary, starring in movies such as; A Place in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cleopatra, and Who’s Afraid of the Virginia Woolf, the movie she won the Best Actress Academy Award for. Her last film on the silver screen was 1994′s The Flinstones, she played Wilma’s mother.
Taylor was known well off-screen as she was on-screen. Her love for the glamor and glitz showed with her taste in jewels, her physique as well as her monetary stature gave her a pretty stable life, though hitting some bumpy roads at times but who in Hollywood doesn’t? Eight marriages in 50 years, twice to Cleopatra co-star Richard Burton. 1980s, after the death of her former colleague Rock Hudson, Taylor became an early advocate of the fight against AIDS. She helped start The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), an organization that is still active today. For her charitable work, Taylor was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by the Academy in 1992.
Elizabeth Taylor has stamped her figure in the hearts that have seen her live, and to the fans that followed. She is indeed worthy to be one amongst the legends, and she will be remembered as such. May you rest in peace.
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