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Planes to hit cinemas

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First it was Cars. Now it is Planes. DisneyToon Studios is bringing another animated mode of transportation to the big screens with the new movie of the same name.

Planes is a 3-D computer animated film and is set to be released by Walt Disney Pictures in the USA on August 9 despite originally being intended to be a straight-to-DVD venture.

It is a spin-off the Pixar Studios Cars franchise and is expected to be a franchise of its own as it is to be a trilogy.

The cast of comics includes British actor John Cleese as British Bulldog, Brad Garrettof Everybody Loves Raymond as fuel truck Chug, Dane Cook who voices Dusty Crophopper, Cedric the Entertainer as the fertiliser-spraying tanker Leadbottom, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as ex-Canadian mail plane Rochelle.

Teri Hatcher and Stacy Keach are also among the cast.

The team from DisneyToon helped create the characters by going out and taking pictures of various types of planes and then trying to match them with the voice actors.

The film is geared both towards children and their parents so the adults can enjoy the sophisticated humour as well.

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Lindsay Lohan goes back to work

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Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is out of a 90 day rehab facility and already back to work. The actress taped an episode as a guest host of the E! programme Chelsea Lately.

Lohan who has been in and out of rehab as much as she has been in and out of trouble in the ast few years interviewed the Dylan Bruce who stars in the BBC show Orphan Black..

Meanwhile, a judge has ordered that the blonde Lohan undergo more therapy to avoid certain failure following her latest stint in rehab.

The judge made the order after the facility where Lohan stayed for three months wrote a letter requesting that she undergo further treatment citing fear of a certain relapse without further therapy.

Cliffside Malibu’s CEO Richard Taite a letter stating that the actress needed 3, 50-minute sessions a week for the next 15 months.

Lohan also stars in the erotic thriller “The Canyon”. The movie directed by Paul Shrader opened in New York City last Friday.

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Kickboxer Gets a Reboot

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Hollywood classics continue to be remade and Jean-Claude Van Damme is no exception a remake of his 1989 hit Kickboxer in the works. Stephen Fung has signed on to direct the film which will be produced by Radar Pictures which also produced The Last Samurai and The Chronicles of Riddick.

Fung previously directed the movie Tai Chi Zero. This is the second Van Damme flick which will be remade as it was previously announced that another of his more popular works Bloodsport is to get a reboot. Jim McGrath and Dimitri Logothetis will write the script for the film. No word yet on whether Van Damme will make a cameo in the remake of either film but Bollywood actor Neil Nitin Mukesh is reporting that he has been offered a film by the Belgian action star.

Van Damme was in India at the International Indian Film Academy Awards where he met Mukesh. It has been reported that Van Damme is hoping to make a film in India complete with all the spice of a Bollywood film mixed in with a little romance and action. Hollywood in the meantime, continues its trend of giving movies a fresh new look. Many films have been getting the reboot over the last decade including Fame, Ice Castles, Fright Night.

Even Spiderman which was only ten years old got a reboot last year.

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Why Melissa McCarthy is on fire

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Good things keep happening for actress Melissa McCarthy. The Mike and Molly star is reportedly in talks to star as female spy “Susan Cooper”. This news comes only a few weeks after her latest starring role alongside Sandra Bullock in the buddy-cop hit film The Heat.

The Heat opened strongly the final weekend in June with $40 million and has made almost $170 million at the box office so far. Paul Feig, who also directed McCarthy in The Heat and Bridesmaids, would be sitting in the director’s chair for Susan Cooper” as well.

McCarthy has been on a roll in her last three films. The Illinois-born actress, who has won an Emmy for her TV work, had a number one in Identity Thief earlier this year. The film made $135 million at the box office.

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Bridesmaids. McCarthy, who was paid US$10 million for The Heat, is pretty saucy off-screen too.

In an interview with the New York Times the actress responded to the New York Observer‘s film critic Rex Reed who called her “tractor-sized” and a “female hippo” in his review of Identity Thief saying that she felt bad for “someone swimming in so much hate.” McCarthy, 42, has been married since 2005 to Ben Falcone and has no children.

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Why The Wolverine rules the world

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Hugh Jackman continues to prove why he is the most bankable actor in Hollywood after his new movie The Wolverine hit the top of the US weekend box office. The movie raked in US$55 million dollars from 3,924 American cinemas in its opening weekend.

The figure is however well below the US$80 million studio bosses were predicting for the film in a weekend in which it faced not much competition.

The film is currently in line with the 2011 opening of X-Men: First Class but is the lowest opening of any film in the six film’s in the FOX franchise.

That US$30 million or so notwithstanding, Jackman heads the list of actors in Hollywood who are guaranteed to draw in the crowds.

Jackman was top of the box office last Christmas with his spin as reformed prisoner Jean Valjean in the musical Les Miserables and has had success with other films including Real Steel, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Prestige, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The actor, who has a net worth of $100 million, is along with Nicole Kidman, ranked as the richest Australian actor.

He can sing dance and act. Jackman, who has hosted the annual Academy Awards, has won a Tony Award for his work in the play “The Boy From Oz” and an Emmy Award for hosting the Tony Awards.

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Why the crowds are pulling into Fruitvale Station

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The name Fruitvale Station has been bandied about a lot in the last few weeks. The film opened in cinemas in the United States last Friday.

Made at a cost of US$900,000, the film has already reeled in almost US$7,000,000 at the US box office in its opening weekend.

The film, which was directed by Ryan Coogler, tells the story of black teen Oscar Grant, who was shot and killed by police at – you guessed it –Fruitvale Station – in the Fruitvale District of Oakland near San Francisco in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009.

Grant, who was 22 at the time of his death, was also a two-time convicted felon. The film tells the tale of the final days of his life before being shot by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer Johannes Mehserle while being detained on the subway platform at Fruitvale Station.

The film stars Michael B. Jordan in the lead role of Oscar Grant with Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer playing his mother Wanda Grant.

Jordan has had small roles on American television in the HBO series The Wire and since 2010 has starred in the NBC series Parenthood.

Spencer won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie The Help.The film is Coogler’s first feature length work and has been highly praised. It received the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Harry Potter takes on Frankenstein

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Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe continues to shake off the role he has been most associated with when he plays the doctor’s assistant Igor in the new Fox Frankenstein movie.

The English actor Radcliffe, who signed up for the project in February, will play alongside Scottish actor James McAvoy who was cast in the main role of Dr. Victor Von Frankenstein. It is reported that in this new film, Igor’s secret past will be revealed.

Both Radcliffe and McAvoy are below average height for men with Radcliffe measuring in at 5’5’ and McAvoy coming in at 5’7’. Radcliffe originated the role which made him famous – that of boy wizard Harry Potter. He has aso starred in a number of other adult roles including The Woman in White and also starred in the stage play Equus in which he appeared naked.

McAvoy is perhaps best known for films such as Wanted, The Last King of Scotland, and X-Men: First Class. No date has yet been announced for start of production but the film is to be directed by Paul McGuigan. McGuigan’s film projects include Lucky Number Slevin and Push. He has also directed episodes of the British series Sherlock as well as the NBC series Smash.

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