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Sony Screen Gems’ Major Date Shifts, 3D Maneuvers
Sony Screen Gems has made some major changes in their forthcoming genre slate. Let’s start with the highly anticipated Underworld 4, which is said to no longer be arriving in 3-D. The vampires vs werewolves action-saga will arrive in theaters on September 23, 2011. This is a major delay from the originally announced Jan ’11 date. Scott Charles Stewart’s follow-up to Legion, Priest, will now be arriving in cinemas on January 14, 2011 – shifting from its original August ’10 date – and is also said to be converting to 3-D. Lastly, The Roommate is being pushed out of its September slot all the way back to February 4, 2011. So while 2010 will be a quiet year from Screen Gems, 2011 is set to explode. Click any title above for full details on each film.
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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