From Creed to Black Panther
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2015
WHAT TO WATCH WALL-E Zee Studio 5:40 pm This animation film is set in the distant future when all human beings have left Earth as the planet is fully covered with waste. WALL-E is a robot who is staying alone on Earth to collect all the rubbish and probably make Earth habitable again. Watch the film to see what happens when Eve, a sleek robot, is sent to Earth to check out on what’s happening and WALL-E falls in love with her. Cast: Ben Burtt (WALL·E / M-O), Elissa Knight (EVE), Jeff Garlin (Captain McCrea),
n Showtime Desk Creed, so far, has been getting great reviews. The very strong, somewhat surprising, opening of Creed has now put director Ryan Coogler in the spotlight. His work, and the film’s success has caught the attention of the comic book turn film world. Marvel has started its negotiations with Coogler to direct their Black Panther film.
Coogler is fast becoming one of the industry’s hottest young directors. The filmmaker caught the attention of many in the critically acclaimed Fruitvale Station, starring Michael B Jordan, who also stars in Creed. Now that the casting of Black Panther is nearly complete, Coogler will have another franchise in hand to deal with. Even though there hasn’t been an official signing of papers, Marvel always gets their man.
Chadwick Boseman will be playing the lead role of T’Challa, the head of the fictional African nation called Wakanda. The Black Panther comic was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who first appeared in Fantastic Four. The African superhero has also been a long-serving member of Avengers. Both actor and superhero will make their debut on screen in the new Captain America: Civil War. l
Sequel to Trainspotting gets green lit
n Showtime Desk The big buzz out of Hollywood is that Danny Boyle has managed to gather the original cast of Trainspotting for another go at the big screen. The sequel has landed at Tri-Star (owned by Sony), and Boyle will
be in the director’s chair, naturally. Returning to the project is the original principal cast, which includes Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremmer and Robert Carlyle. To take a step further, the original writer John Hodge has returned to pen the script for
Trainspotting 2. Whether he’ll be the sole writer is yet to be determined. Tom Rothman, Sony Pictures cochair, has a longstanding relationsghip with Boyle since the mid-to-late 90s. Rothman has been a supporter of Boyle’s since the film A Life Less Ordinary, when Rothman was an executive for Fox at the time. The relationship continued when Rothman had founded the Searchlight division at Fox, releasing Boyle’s 28 Days Later to Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours. The original Trainspotting film was adapted from the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh, which told the story of a group of lower income heroin users in Edinburgh. McGregor’s character was the lead and narrator of the film, supported by Miller’s Sick Boy, a drug dealer, Carlyle’s Begbie, a violent sociopath and Bremner’s Spud, a dim but genial friend. Boyle went onto to state: “It’s been 20 years since we met these characters and John Hodge’s screenplay brilliantly explored what’s ahppened to them and to us – in the intervening years. We are grateful to Tom and Hannah for their support and we can’t wait to get going.” Producing the new film will be Andrew Macdonald, Boyle, Christian Colson and Bernie Bellew through Figment Films, Decibel Films and Cloud Eight Films. l
The Hangover HBO 5:31 pm When a group of friends gets together for one last weekend-long bachelor party in Vegas, they think they had a good time. But it’s very hard to remember, and they are suffering the dreadful after-effects of girls, party and alcohol. And then they realize they have somehow lost the groom! Now, they must struggle to retrace their wild weekend to find their friend and deliver the bridegroom to his wedding even as they suffer from one killer Hangover! Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis The Karate Kid Sony PIX 3:00 PM Daniel (Ralph Macchio) is new to town and the local bullies give him too much trouble. They are all adept at karate. That’s when Daniel decides to teach himself the martial arts. Help comes from unexpected quarters when his apartment caretaker Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) offers to teach him. It appears that Miyagi is a grand master. Cast: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Star Movies 11:30 pm Just as Will (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) get ready to exchange vows, their wedding plans take a toss when they’re arrested for helping Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) escape. In the meanwhile, Jack faces a watery prison after he goes back on a deal with Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), the captain of the ghost pirate ship. Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley Wanted Star Movies Action 3:45 pm Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) hates his life. He works as a clerk and is sick of his boss who humiliates him constantly. He has a girlfriend who has betrayed him by sleeping with his best friend and colleague. That is when Wesley meets the sexy Fox (Angelina Jolie). Cast: James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman