Muppets Director For Alice In Wonderland Sequel

The Muppets director James Bobin is currently filming sequel The Muppets Again! but he’s also reportedly in early talks to take over another Disney franchise. The studio is pushing ahead with plans for an Alice In Wonderland sequel thanks to the billion dollars box office haul of Tim Burton’s recent re-imagining.

Apparently Bobin has yet to meet with producers as he first has to adequately convince Johnny Depp they can have just as much fun playing dress up as he usually does with Tim Burton. Although Depp is reportedly not even singed on officially for the sequel yet, if there’s one things the Pirates of The Caribbean franchise has proved it’s that Disney are willing to pay whatever it takes to keep a funny hat on Johnny Depp’s head for as long as possible.

 

The World’s End New Trailer

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have finally reunited with Director Edgar Wright for the third and final chapter in their self proclaimed Three Flavours Cornetto or Blood & Ice Cream Trilogy. Following on from previous big screen collaborations Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the new film is a apocalyptic themed comedy called The World’s End.

Alongside Pegg & Frost the film boasts an impressive assortment of British character actors in the homely shape of Martin Freemanm, Paddy Considine and EddieMarsan.

As revealed by the latest official trailer below via Yahoo, The World’s End sees a group of former childhood friends reuniting after two decades to attempt to complete a pub crawl in their hometown. Unfortunately they quickly realize something very sinister is happening, leading to violence, mayhem and justifiably heavy drinking.

Director Shinichiro Watanabe Interview

Shinichiro Watanabe the acclaimed anime director & writer responsible for classic series Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo and most recently Kids On The Slope spoke to Red Carpet News TV at the MCM London Comic Con 2013.

In a rare English and Japanese language interview Shinichiro Wantanabe talks about the breakthrough international success of Cowboy Bebop. Whilst ruling out directing further anime episode he confirmed that there will definitely be an American Live action Cowboy Bebop movie. He also confirmed for the first time that in his opinion the show’s lead character Spike actually survived the final episode of the beloved series and remains his personal favorite character.

Shinichiro Watanabe also talks about dramatic series Kids On The Slope and reveals his next show will be a sci-fi comedy due to air on Japanese television later this year. The talented director also explains his passion for 2D Animation and where he typically looks for inspiration.

Finally he leaves us with a message of sincere thanks to anime fans, particularly in the UK, for their continued support of his work.

Benedict Cumberbatch Star Trek Shower Scene Revealed

Director J.J. Abrams and co-writer Damon Lindelof have spent quite a bit of time lately defending the gratuitous but fleeting scene of Alice Eve in her underwear in Star Trek Into Darkness. The initial debate over how sexist this bit of heavy handed fan service really was has in turn sparked wider discussions across the internet about how her character Dr Carol Marcus and Uhura were handled in the latest Star Trek sequel.

Increasingly fierce battle lines have been drawn between those who dismiss the supposed controversy as overblown hysterics and those who see it as a major faux pax for one of the most historically progressive genre franchises. Whilst discussing the issue on Conan, J.J. Abrams shared a clip of a deleted scene of a topless Benedict Cumberbatch having a grumpy shower. Interview video below including the literally steamy clip .

Shown alongside a brief scene of Kirk with his shirt off it seems like this particular Cumberbatch visual treat is supposed to help prove the film really did have at least intentions to take an equal opportunities approach to glimpsing attractive partially naked men and women. While there’s probably some logic in trying to use a naked Benedict Cumberbatch to placate angry fangirls and diffuse the situation; in truth it may only add further fuel to the escalating debate. Particularly as this piece of  Space Sherlock fan-service didn’t actually make the final cut of the film.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon Trailer

Here’s the first trailer for Don Jon the directing debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film sees the surprisingly muscled star playing a swaggering Jersey Shore parody, struggling to choose between his ‘smoking hot’ Guidette dream girl (played by Scarlett Johansson) and his enthusiastic porn addiction.

Leading man Joseph Gordon-Levitt wrote and directed the project, presumably in a determined effort to once and for all dispel any human memory of how much he looked like a girl on long running sitcom 3rd Rock From The Sun. Judging from the evidence below, he may also be the first person to recognize the untapped potential for comedy gold and existential sexual angst provided by the guilty pleasure of trashy MTV reality TV shows.