Movie news round-up: Riddick, budget Bond and sexy pillow fights

Here's the usual weekly toss we didn't find time to write about during the week. Enjoy. I'm off to New York for a week, so I'll leave you in Matt and Luke's 'capable hands' (their words, not mine).
Everyone is at Sundance except me. And you.
In dubious news, The Mirror are claiming that Skyfall has had its budget cut considerably, meaning the movie will now no longer shoot in Shanghai and Bali as planned, but on Bognor Regis beach instead. Before breaking this important story, Mirror staffers had the good sense to send a reporter down to Bognor to pose like a tit at the seafront.


Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and No Country For Old Men, has written and sold his first ever movie script, called The Counselor (the Brit in me just winces at that spelling). It tells the story of a lawyer who unwisely "dips his toe into the drug-dealing business" and - quel surprise - winds up in a whole heap o' trouble.

Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion (or whatever it ends up being called) is one of the more interesting original sci-fi properties on the horizon: a future thriller with Tom Cruise as a soldier stationed on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Kosinski has found his female leads: Quantum Of Solace arm candy Olga Kurylenko and British actress Andrea Riseborough, who presumably will be ordered to wear flats at all times.
Lindsay Lohan and Megan Fox are allegedly in direct competition to play Elizabeth Taylor in a Lifetime movie based on her life and loves. I'm going to let this particular confrontation play out in my head. There's bound to be at least one sexy pillow fight in it, right?


Despite that fact that literally no one on Planet Earth cares, Will Smith and director Peter Berg are apparently pushing ahead with a sequel to Hancock, the alcoholic superhero who kicked his alcohol habit to become just a superhero. I predict it'll be exactly as much fun as your ex-alcoholic mate who's now married and drinks J2Os.
Defying the effects of time, Matthew McConaughey has reprised his role from Dazed And Confused in this new video for someone/thing called Butch Walker And The Black Widows. "That's what I love about these high school girls, man," said Dave Wooderson in Richard Linklater's slacker classic. "I get older, they stay the same age!" Hang on, this isn't one of those 'social experiments' like the Glitter on Twitter thing, is it?


Jack The Giant Killer looked like the kind of film that would bomb and bomb hard in the summer 2012 line-up: have audiences really been crying out for a big-budget retelling of Jack And The Beanstalk? Thankfully, Warner Bros saw sense and have pushed it back to 2013, giving audiences plenty of time to plant, grow and subsequently give a fuck.
This fancy looking diagram is a top-down blueprint of 'The Bat', the awesome-looking Batwing thingy you saw in The Dark Knight Rises trailer. It is not, as we first thought, a Transformer's ovaries.


Jan De Bont is to remake Johnny Cash's 1961 thriller, Five Minutes To Live, in which Cash posed as a guitar tutor to kidnap a bank manager's wife and extort funds from her husband. Hell, why waste time with a synopsis when you can watch the entire movie on YouTube?


Kriisten Wiig is hot propertii in Hollywood at the moment, and although she won't be appearing in a Bridesmaids sequel any time soon, she has signed on to appear opposite Ben Stiller in a remake of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. Boy, I wonder if there will be any awkward situations for Stiller to get exasperated about!
George Lucas has reignited the 'Nuke The Fridge' Indy 4 debate by claiming it was his idea, and Steven Spielberg was just covering for him. What's more, he handed the director a thick dossier explaining exactly how it was possible in real life. I don't understand why people get their shit warmed up over this. For reference, here is a list of other things that happened in the franchise before Indy survived a nuke in a fridge:

- An ark of angry ghosts melt a man's face off
- Indy jumps off a plane onto a mountain in a dinghy and survives
- A man pull out another man's heart with his bare hands
- Indy drinks from the ACTUAL HOLY GRAIL

Nobody wins discussing the 'Nuke The Fridge' argument. NOBODY.

Empire have a buttload of alternative Drive posters from the agency who designed the finished product, and every one is a hundred times better than everything else I've seen this year.