A new poster for Todd Phillip’s “The Hangover” has been unveiled. Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis, the film is set for release June 5th. [Cinematical]
Tom Hanks has revealed that work is well under way for the third installment of the “Toy Story” franchise: “I have been in and done three big complete recording sessions and will probably have at least one more to do, possibly in about eight months. Then eight months after that I’ll do a mop-up and have three more sessions after that. Those movies are beasts.”
Further, Hanks added that strangely Pixar showed him the animated story reel of the entire film before any script was put on the table: “They did not send us a script. They showed us a complete story reel of the entire movie, with storyboards moving from one to the next, and the people up at Pixar recorded some voices with some music and sound effects. Tim Allen and John Ratzenberger and I went in a movie theatre, watched the reel and said, ‘This is great, let’s get to work!'” Hanks also added that his HBO series “The Pacific” is now set for a March 2010 release. [Empire]
Kiefer Sutherland, Billy Crudup & Guy Pearce are all attached to star in Robert Edwards’ Cold War spy thriller “Trust.” How badly must Pearce regret doing “The Time Machine”? [Production Weekly]
Actress/model Diora Baird has confessed that, despite starring as an Orion slave girl in J.J. Abram’s upcoming film, she continues to confuse “Star Trek” with its sci-fi rival. “I’m not a big sci-fi fan. So I don’t really understand the whole ‘Star Trek’ thing. I get that it’s a big deal but I keep referring to it as ‘Star Wars’ by mistake. Is that bad?” For you Diora, anything. [Digital Spy]
Rian Johnson (“Brick”, “The Brothers Bloom”) has spoken of his next project, a sci-fi project titled “Looper.” Johnson revealed that the film will be set roughly 30 years in future; will depict a dystopian society that has suffered “a huge financial collapse of some sort”; will deal with time travel as “an element has traveled back in time from the future,” will “very dark, very violent” and “is the complete opposite of ‘Brothers Bloom.'” The film was previously revealed to be about “a group of hitmen are sent their victims from the future.” [/Film]
Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Rainn Wilson are all in talks to star in Spencer Susser’s indie-comedy “Hesher” which we presume is about mullet-sporting metal fans typically known as heshers? If true, this is a great cast. All three scream indie-comedy. [Production Weekly]
