This second trailer for Thor Freudenthal's Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters features a cavalcade of beasties, and also a significant presence from Nathan Fillion, who plays a modernized version of the god Hermes. That's probably enough to warrant a look from many potential audience members. Those elements were present in the first trailer, along with…
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One of the many YA series to get life on movie screens has been Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The first film in the series, The Lightning Thief, bowed in 2010 and introduced film audiences to the story's modernized take on classic mythological characters. Like many YA adaptations outside the Harry Potter and Twilight series,…
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Here are some sequel-related odds and ends for the start of the week. After the jump: Transformers 4 scouts the GM plant as a possible location Dredd isn't getting a sequel, but may get a short film Win one of 50 uniform from Star Trek Into Darkness Star Trek Into Darkness participates in Earth Hour Universal's…
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Eddie Murphy tried for years to get a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie off the ground, but it wasn't until he reworked it for the small screen that the project really started to gain traction. Shawn Ryan came aboard to produce, CBS greenlit the pilot, Brandon T. Jackson was cast as Axel Foley's son Aaron,…
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Eddie Murphy and the powers that be decided against going the big-screen route for a new Beverly Hills Cop outing, and instead have chosen to take the character to TV. But this won't merely be Murphy's return to television; rather, we'll see a sorta-sequel, sorta-reboot of the character, with the son of Muphy's character Axel…
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Eddie Murphy tried for years to get a Beverly Hills Cop IV off the ground, but when that failed to come together he switched gears to focus instead on a TV series about Detroit cop Axel Foley's son. It already seems like he's having much better luck with the new approach. CBS gave a pilot…
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CBS Films has just announced the cast for a generational comedy tentatively called Get a Job, from director Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, Children's Hospital) and the company has roped in quite a few great names. Bryan Cranston (who is familiar with characters who know a thing or two about making money in a difficult economy),…
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As the race for the year's most coveted trophies came to a close with this weekend's Oscars ceremony, another much less prestigious awards competition was just getting started. Nominations have been announced for the 32nd Razzie Awards, handed out to the "worst achievements in film" each year. Leading the 2012 list is Adam Sandler, whose…
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Martin Lawrence is back in the female fat suit for Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, and he's got Tropic Thunder's Brandon T. Jackson suited up alongside him. There's a trailer for the film after the break, and I dare you to watch it. The first Big Momma's House came out in 2000, but this…
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I just wrote about Butter the other day -- that's the Black List script by Jason Micallef that is becoming a comedy with satirical overtones starring Rob Corddry and Jennifer Garner. Now Ashley Greene, aka the one reason I'd think about ever wanting to watch any of the Twilight films, is signing on to play…
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Against all laws of nature, Big Momma's House 3 keeps happening, though it probably won't be called that. Martin Lawrence is going to go back into rubbery drag for the third outing, and he'll be joined by Brandon T. Jackson of Tropic Thunder and Percy Jackson. Guess everyone's gotta eat, but why does it have…
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