While in Las Vegas for CinemaCon, I got the opportunity to sit down with director Jon Chu and chat about G.I. Joe: Retaliation. We talk about why people who didn't like the first Stephen Sommers film Rise of Cobra should give the sequel a chance, how his vision of a GI Joe movie is more…
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Update: GI Joe 2 star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has tweeted a confirmation that Bruce Willis has officially signed on to the cast in G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation. Original story follows. Earlier this summer, we briefly mentioned a report that Bruce Willis was at the top of the wishlist for a certain role in G.I. Joe 2:…
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UPDATE: The new title is official. Wording below corrected. With less than a year to the long rumored Star Trek 2 release date, and no start date in sight, it's no surprise the film has been pushed back. Paramount announced that date so early, though, it pretty much scared off all competition. So with Trek…
Read MoreJon M. Chu and the producers of G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes keep expanding the cast of the Joe sequel. They've retained a few actors from the first film: Channing Tatum, Ray Park and Byung Hun-lee, and have roped in a couple of significant new cast members, notably Dwayne Johnson as Roadblock. RZA is on board,…
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Director Jon Chu is loading up the cast for next summer's G.I. Joe 2. He's bringing back Channing Tatum as Duke, we heard that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will be playing Roadblock and now D.J. Cotrona is in negotiations to play Flint and The RZA will play the man who trained Snake Eyes, the Blind…
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UPDATE: Dwayne Johnson fully confirmed this casting today via Twitter, saying "It's official: Call the Pentagon, get me my big ass gun - Rocks a JOE!." The original article from June 6 follows (with edits removing the then rumored title of "Cobra Strikes.") Next summer's sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra now has…
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One sequel has a release date and a script, the other is still just conceptual, but both franchises are fan favorites. Jon Chu, the director of Step Up 3D and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never is set to direct G.I. Joe 2 and once again geeked out in the press about his love of the…
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With four wide releases opening this post-Oscar weekend, Hollywood news is predictably pretty slow. So we decided to throw together three smaller stories into one article just so you can get your weekend fix all in one place. First up, Brian K. Vaughan, former writer on Lost and creator of Y: The Last Man and…
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While the main cast of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra will most likely be back for a second round of goofy gadgetry and ninja combat, director Stephen Sommers didn't have a sequel in his contract, and won't be returning. That either means he had his eye on other projects and wasn't interested in coming…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 32 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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Briefly: The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Lee Byung-hun (The Good, the Bad, the Weird, I Saw the Devil) is set to return as Storm Shadow in the announced GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra sequel. Previously: The original movie earned over $302 million worldwide despite mostly negative buzz and reviews (34% on Rotten Tomatoes). The…
Read MoreGI Joe: The Rise of Cobra earned over $302 million worldwide despite mostly negative buzz and reviews (34% on Rotten Tomatoes). The film surpassed studio expectations domestically, which was enough to greenlight a sequel. Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were hired to pen the screenplay. While the main cast are contractually obligated to…
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Briefly: Lot of news coming out of Viacom's quarterly earnings report today. For gamers, there's the news that Viacom is looking to sell Rock Band developer Harmonix. On the movie side, Viacom COO Tom Dooley listed several films that Viacom and Paramount are looking to have produced for release after September 2011. They include the…
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Assuming that the majority of this information is valid, there are going to be about two dozen worth of news stories crammed in one here, so brace yourselves. According to a leaked email exposing Paramount's upcoming movie slate, they're going to be pretty busy over the next few years, working on a slew of potentially…
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Update: IESB is now reporting the Paramount Pictures has hired Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to pen a sequel to GI Joe: Rise of Cobra. Reese and Wernick recently signed on to pen Deadpool for Fox/Marvel, and might be the perfect scribes to invent some over the top stupid action for a GI…
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GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra earned an estimated $100 million worldwide despite mostly negative buzz and reviews (39% on Rotten Tomatoes). The film surpassed studio expectations domestically, earning $56.2 million stateside. All of this can mean only one thing - a sequel is already in development. Paramount Picture's vice chairman, Rob Moore, confirmed to…
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