Chris’ Top Five Movies of 2009
Give a big welcome to Chris Inman, our brand new writer on the site. Better known to many as Spanky Patterson, Chris is a long-time listener of the podcast and has now moved on to become the first writer (outside of Sam) to join the site.
As a way of introduction, to allow you all to get to know him a little bit, here’s his five favourite movies of 2009, in ascending order, with his favourites of the decade to come in the next few days.
News Morsels
Jake Kasdan has signed on to direct 2008 Blacklist screenplay Bad Teacher, about a cuss-heavy teacher and her rivalry with her sugar-sweet colleague. /Film is suggesting Rashida Jones may be up for the lead, but I’ve got to disagree with any suggestion Scarlett Johannson could to this kind of comedy as her rival.
Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller may be joining the cast of Bioshock.
Tom Cruise has signed on alongside Cameron Diaz for Wichita, an action comedy being directed by James Mangold.
Jonah Hill says the remake of 21 Jump Street will be ‘Bad Boys meets John Hughes’.
Fox may be planning to reboot Alien.
Seann William Scott and Adam Brody have joined the cast of Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks.
Here’s a guide to when to go to the toilet during a movie.
Clifton Collins Jr, from Star Trek and previously great in Capote, is in talks to join the cast of Thor.
Some viral marketing here for Funny People.
Cinematical has an interview with Sam Raimi ahead of the full release for Drag Me to Hell.
The first collaborative horror novel from Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan is on the way.
Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman says Paramount will benefit from its franchise properties and greater control of its release slate.
The board of Time Warner has formally announced plans to spin-off its AOL business.
Please check out the trailer below, for the truly insane looking Werner Herzog reimagining of Bad Lieutenant.
Drag Me to Hell Trailer
The trailer for Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell promises some old-fashioned horror thrills with all sorts of gypsy curses and wonky angles and Justin Longs in the for the bargain. Check it out.
Movie News Round-Up
Much rumour rising about Marvel adaptation Thor with Alexander Skarsgard being touted for the lead role. He brilliantly played Brad Colbert in David Simon and Ed Burns’ Generation Kill and is currently in Tru Blood. Separately to that, the film joined Captain America and The Avengers in being pushed back in the release schedules with 2011 now housing Thor, Captain America and Spiderman 4 within three months. In further Marvel news, Mickey Rourke has signed up for Iron Man 2 along with Scarlett Johansson, the latter replacing Emily Blunt as the Black Widow. As if not to be outdone, this week also saw rumours sparked of a possible reboot for the Fantastic Four series.
Juan Antonio Bayona, the director of the excellent The Orphanage, has reportedly been signed up to direct the third Twilight movie. This comes hot on the heels of previous rumours that Drew Barrymore was a candidate to helm the movie. I don’t care a huge amount, but if we are going to have to live with these movies for the coming two-and-a-half years, it would be nice to have some real talent behind the camera. Other reports though suggest that it will be directed by the other Weitz.
Sam Raimi’s return to the horror genre with Drag Me to Hell has a trailer; Axel Foley could die in Beverley Hills Cop 4; Nick Nolte and Tom Hardy will star in a mixed martial arts movie. Oh yeah!; Bryce Dallas Howard has expressed an interest in bringing the Luna Brothers’ The Sword to the screen; Heathers has been jumped into gear in musical form; Robin Hood has found his merry men.
Alternatives to the EW Twenty-Five Directors
Entertainment Weekly recently posted a list of the top twenty-five active film directors. These lists will forever cause disagreement and controversy but some of the inclusions, and subsequent exclusions, on this list are pretty unforgivable. Even if you don’t find it too irratating, as a film fan and blogger I feel it only necessary to present some arguments both against the inclusion of some and against the exclusion of others while I would also like to take some time to argue for the inclusion of a few that I think may brook argument elsewhere.
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