Cinemascope 12/7

-New Director for Twilight Sequel?

Right Before I started to write this, this afternoon news came out that rumors are flooding the internet that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke is not going to be rehired for New Moon, the Twilight Sequel that was greenlit about two weeks ago. Summit Entertainment is said to be ready to make an announcement in a few days and that the Editor Nancy Richardson was the one who saved the film. Click here to read the whole story.

 

-Slow Box Office

The weekend after thanksgiving weekend is normally a slow weekend for movies and this year was no different. The top seven movies for the most part stay the same and that means Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon make it two weeks in a row for the holiday flick putting there two week total at just over 70 million, about ten million short of the production budget. The two new openings didn’t crack the top seven as Punisher: Warzone only makes 4 million and shows that The Punisher needs a new direction and Punisher to be successful. Cadillac Records opened to a limited opening and was able to grab 9^th on the box office list with 3.5 Million.

 

1. Four Christmases – 18.1 Million

2. Twilight – 13.1 Million

3. Bolt – 9.6 Million

4. Australia – 7 Million

5. Quantum of Solace – 6.6 Million

 Next week has one of the last big movies of the year releasing with “The Day the Earth Stood Still” staring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connolly.

 

-Will Smith talks “I Am Legend” Prequel

 Will Smith gives us clues to the potential Legend prequel that Warner Brothers and himself are trying to put together. Click here for the story.

 

-Will Smith talks about two different sequel/prequels in one week?

Smith was also saying this week that there will be a Hancock sequel.

Read the story over at JoBlo.com

 -Sin City 2 is coming!

IGN UK has an interview up that took place earlier this week where they talk to Frank Miller and he has some encouraging news about Sin City 2 and that they could be filming as soon as April! To read the whole story Click Here.

 

Small News bits!

 

-Variety reports that Warner Brothers will be Rereleasing “The Dark Knight” into theaters on January 23^rd as part of there Oscar promotion.

 -Upcoming action thriller PUSH which stars Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning has a prequel comic book which just came out, for a small preview head over to Superhero Hype.

 -Yahoo has shown us the newest poster for Friday the 13^th.                                                         Click here to see it.

-Some new stills from Wolverine has surfaced courtesy of Movieweb.

 

Videos of the week –

 -A sneak peak at a scene from the upcoming season of LOST has been put up on YouTube. Check it out here.

A trailer for the Friday the 13^th remake is here.

Check it out!

 Check out Entertainment Tonight this Tuesday as they will have the premier of the brand new Terminator: Salvation trailer and Cinemascope will have a link up for it next week.