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AREA 51 PLOT DETAILS
After the success of Paranormal Activity, director Oren Peli has decided to continue his fad with a documentary style film titled Area 51. Unlike the $11,000 budget Paranormal Activity had, this film will be getting a five million dollar budget.

The story is revolves around three guys and a girl, who meet up with a former Area 51employee who is convinced they have done alien/human testing in return for alien technology. The group somehow gets into the base where of course they get footage of a catastrophe that happens while they're inside.

I'm all for films with aliens. However, I think that they are fixing to overdue the handheld camera movies with Blair Witch, Cloverfield, Quarantine and Paranormal Activity already taking that approach. I do think the actual synopsis of the film is great though. There has never really been a movie done about Area 51 besides the part in Independence Day. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this pans out, but after this, they need to slow down with the handheld movies.





HARVEY KEITEL JOINS LITTLE FOCKERS
The Little Fockers cast has been growing recently with the addition of Jessica Alba and Laura Dern. Harvey Keitel will also be joining the film now as a contractor to Greg Focker. Alba will play a pharmaceutical worker and Dern plays a teacher to the "little fockers". Owen Wilson is also returning with a bigger role.

What is sad, is that Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand won't be in this one. I loved them in the sequel, and I thought the chemistry between everyone was great.





HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS
Dante Harper has been hired to write the upcoming horror/comedy film Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. All that is known on the film right now is that it takes place fifteen years after the gingerbread house incident which has now led to them becoming bounty witch hunters. Adam McKay and Will Ferrell are producing the film.

I think this sounds like a funny idea that could easily spin into something stupid. When I read the synopsis for Year One, I thought it sounded funny but turned out horrible. With Ferrell producing, I hope he doesn't feel the need to jump in this film. I think Ferrell was once funny, but now has just done the same role time and time again.




SAW VII's RELEASE DATE
Well you knew it would happen, only this time it's going to be in.......you guessed it, 3D. Lionsgate has scheduled Saw VII to be released October 22, 2010.

There has been rumblings of an eighth film also happening, but really? Do we really need two more of these films? I can't possibly see what they can add to two more films. The end of the sixth film looked like we were setting up for the final chapter. If they do continue on with these, they need to ditch the whole jigsaw storyline and do something else because these films are getting pretty bad.






MONOPOLY PLOT REVEALED
Ridley Scott has shown interest in doing a film adaptation of the board game Monopoly. He said it was the story that made him want to do it. Well the synopsis has been released by writer Frank Bedder and it is a little out there. Here is how he describes the film.

"I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good at his job but he’s great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they're playing the game and there’s this big fight. And he’s holding a Chance card and after they’ve left he says, ‘Dang, I wanted to use that Chance card,’ and he throws it down. He falls asleep and then he wakes up in the morning and he’s holding the Chance card, and he thinks, ‘That’s odd."

"He’s all groggy and he goes down to buy some coffee and he reaches into his pocket and all he has is Monopoly money. All this Monopoly money pours out. He’s confused and embarrassed and the girl reaches across the counter and says, ‘That’s OK.’ And she gives him change in Monopoly money. He walks outside and he’s in this very vibrant place, Monopoly City, and he’s just come out of a Chance Shop. As it goes on, he takes on the evil Parker Brothers in the game of Monopoly. He has to defeat them. It tries to incorporate all the iconic imageries -- a sports car pulls up, there's someone on a horse, someone pushing a wheelbarrow -- and rich Uncle Pennybags, you're going to see him as the maître d' at the restaurant and he's the buggy driver and the local eccentric and the doorman at the opera. There's all these sight gags.

So the guy who directed Alien is going to be tackling this project???? This sounds absolutely horrible. I mean he has to beat the Parker Brothers in Monopoly? Stupid.