HEADLINES

DIRECTOR FOUND FOR XXX: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE
Ericson Core will be directing the third film of the XXX franchise. His only other film is Invincible which was pretty good, but I don't see this film having much potential, I mean do we really need another XXX? What's funny is when Vin Diesel's career was first taking off, he said he wouldn't do sequels. Well I guess since his career isn't what he was hoping for that's all he has to fall back on now.



SOUL TRAIN TO THE BIG SCREEN
Here is movie news that goes straight to my "who really cares" bin. Warner Brothers are putting together a story set in the 80's about a guy who comes from an L.A. hood and introduces "popping" to the show as his ticket out. This has crap written all over it. Watch out Knoxville Center 10.



GREEN LANTERN TROUBLE ALREADY SURFACES
Production on Green Lantern has currently been put on hold due to the rising Australian dollar blowing out production costs. Warner Brothers really needs this movie to get rolling and more importantly needs it to be good. The budget is 150 million which should be pretty good for a first go around then if its a hit I'm sure they'll bump the budget up some. With Superman looking like a franchise that will never be good, it would be nice for this to turn out to be a great film.



BATMAN TO BE SHOT COMPLETELY IN IMAX
Not really exciting news, but any Batman news is good news. Rumor has it, that the next Batman film will be shot completely in IMAX like some of the film was for The Dark Knight.



JOLIE "WANTED" BACK (see what I did there)
The director of the first film has been trying to figure out a way to incorporate Angelina Jolie's character Fox into the sequel. He says that he is thinking of using the healing room's wax baths as a way to bring her back. He says that they aren't just bringing her back to have her back, but that there is a good reason they want her back. Unlike most people, I really like this film, but what is up with Common getting the shaft in every movie he is in? I think he does a pretty good job and they hardly used him in Wanted, Terminator: Salvation which he could have been awesome in, and was also shafted in American Gangster and Smokin Aces. Give the guy a chance.



HANCOCK 2 IS A GO
Last week Peter Berg said he eventually wanted to do a sequel to the film, but it wasn't a priority right now. Well apparently it's a priority to Columbia because they hired writers for the film just a few days after Berg's comments. Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara have been hired to write the sequel. Their credits are 24, Dexter, and The Shield so it has potential to be a lot better than the first.