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[News Bites] SWAT Confiscates ‘World War Z’ Arsenal, Behind-the-Scenes of ‘Dracula 3D’ and ‘R.I.P.D.’
On Monday, a SWAT team raided a Budapest warehouse holding weapons being used in Brad Pitt’s upcoming zombie movie World War Z, writes US Magazine. “The film is already over budget and over schedule,” a source tells the site. “Brad is furious.” Police seized 85 fully-functional weapons, most of which were automatic, military-style assault rifles. The problem, a source says, is that the guns came with paperwork claiming they were non-functional — but they’re actually in working order.
In limited release from IFC Films, the horror sequel The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence stitched together a decent $54,000 from 18 theaters, with most locations only offering late-night showings. Write your own reviews.
Clicking here will take you to a slew of images from behind-the-scenes of Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D, which stars Thomas Kretschmann, Marta Gastini, Rutger Hauer, Asia Argento, Miguel Angel Silvestre and Miriam Giovanelli. The film is based on the original novel by Bram Stroker, about the vampire Dracula, an icon of twentieth century culture.
Carrie-Anne Moss talked to IFC about her role as “Claudia Wolf” in Lionsgate’s Silent Hill: Revelation, stating she didn’t play any of the games, but reflected at the character from “Silent Hill 3”: ““It definitely was part of the conversation with the director, looking at a lot of different footage. And then ultimately this crazy wig and this crazy costume helped me go, there I was! … The dialogue, too. This woman was powerful and slightly insane, but a zealot who totally believed in what she was doing. So it was pretty intense.” Michael J. Bassett directed the sequel arriving some time in 2012.
Boston.com went behind-the-scenes of R.I.P.D., being filmed on Batterymarch Street in the Financial District over the weekend. Spotted on set were the movie’s villain, Kevin Bacon, and actress Stephanie Szostak, who plays the wife of the film’s hero, Ryan Reynolds. Bacon wore one of those crazy-looking CGI suits while Szostak hung upside down from a crane. Check out tewo videos inside. R.I.P.D. is planned for a June 28, 2013 release.
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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