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Toldja So: Kate Backinsale Back for ‘Underworld 4’!
I hate when stars make us look like assholes. After we reported exclusively last August(!) that Kate Beckinsale would return for Underworld 4, she denied it– multiple times. It’s now 100% official and confirmed that Beckinsale’s back as the sexy vampire Seline — in 3-D. But that’s not all. The studio is also confirming our scoop from this past February that stated Beckinsale would be passing the torch onto her vampire daughter (at one point “daughters”). I hate bragging, but it’s really, really nice to be vindicated. Casting is currently underway with a director being sought. We had heard that Len Wiseman might be directing, but it looks like he’ll remain in the producer’s chair. Shooting begins next March in Vancouver. Screen Gems will release on January 20, 2012.
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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