Director: Jim Mickle Caat: Nick Damici, Conno Paolo, Kelly McGillis, Michael Cerveris, Danielle Harris, Sean Nelson Certificate: 15 Trailer
There are almost as many vampires as zombies in multiplexes these days, but Stake Land is a little different from the rest of the undead hordes. The title may remind you of Zombieland - or you may expect Paul Simon to turn up with a guitar halfway through - but Stake Land's tone couldn't be more different. Director Jim Mickle's all-fangs-and-no-frills approach gives Stake Land an effective low-budget edge.
Gemma Arterton. Andrew Garfield. Tom Hardy. Aaron Johnson. Emma Stone. Yes, this year's BAFTA Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award candidates are all rising and/or mostly risen.
UPDATE: After rumours of this girl and that girl, Deadline have reported that Sony will be offering the role of Mary-Jane to Emma Stone. Sony's reboot will therefore continue the core romance between Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker and the redhead girl next door.
The other names in circulation now include Glee's Dianna Agron, Wasted on the Young's Georgina Haig and Moon's Dominique McElligott, alongside Alice in Wonderland's Mia Wasikowska. They're all up for the part of Spidey's first love interest, Gwen Stacey. More on rumours that Marc Webb's 3D web-slinger may be facing off against Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Venom another day.
Thursday, 30 September 2010 Written by Ivan Radford
Fans of Emma Stone only have to wait a few more weeks until her smart teen sex comedy is released, and now they have something to help them count down the days: the international trailer for Easy A.
Will Gluck's take on high-school reputation (don't sleep with everyone, just say you did) is a witty update of The Scarlet Letter. Taking on the themes of shame and chastity, it shows us what happens when Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) loses her virginity. Or, more accurately, doesn't.
Finally getting noticed for her bad girl image, she exploits her Easy A (a branding for The Scarlet Letter's adulterer) to up her social status. It's a neat concept and after her strong turn in Zombieland, it gives Emma Stone a chance to show off her charm as the innocent, sarcastic Oliver.
Easy A is released in UK cinemas on Friday 22nd October. Check out the trailer in our videos section, or read on for the full video.
So we all thought it was a done deal, Robert Rodriguez and Deadpool. Despite the denials of the studio, and the fact that Rodriguez had only actually been sent the script. But now fresh rumours are doing the rounds and it looks like the Machete director is in whispered negotiations with Fox to helm Deadpool.
The script, by Zombieland's Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, would seem to be a great match for Rodriguez's blend of humour and bloody action, and with Predators doing a pretty good job at the box office, Fox are certainly warming to the director. Talks over the X-Men spin-off are still in early stages, but we're definitely past the "will you be my girlfriend?" stage of holding hands.
Don't expect an announcement just yet, though: Rodriguez still has his new Spy Kids movie firmly on the front burner, and Ryan Reynolds (the star most likely to play The Merc with the Mouth) has a comedy, The Change-Up, lined up now that Green Lantern has finished.
It looks like Deadpool (when it does finally happen) will be heading for a 2012 release. Until then, get your glands going by using such exciting words as "profit points", "budget", "negotiations" and "Danny Trejo cameo".
"The machine is McCullens! He's Scottish! Maybe it only responds to Gaelic!" No-one ever praised G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra for its dialogue. And rightly so - it was a pile of shite. But while the general public recover from Christopher Eccleston's sell-out turn, Paramount were busy counting their millions, remembering their evil plan: to make a franchise based on a plastic toy.
And so the inevitable sequel comes about. But while you may cower in fear, there's a tiny fragment of hope to cling to: Rhett Rheese and Paul Wernick, the writers of Zombieland, have been signed up to script it. The duo, already doing Deadpool as well as a Zombieland 2, are clocking up the geek points with this project.
Will they get their own brand of fun and humour through the production mill? Probably not. But there's still hope. Then again, hope didn't help much with the first one - that was scripted by Stuart Beattie. He was the guy who wrote Collateral.
Wednesday, 02 December 2009 Written by Ivan Radford
Yes, there's a sequel and yes, it'll be in 3-D. After Ruben Fleischer expressed an interest in following the funny film with another undead-bashing bloodbath, Sony have now gone ahead and signed up the same folk (Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) to scribble a screenplay for them.
Ruben will return at the helm, as will producer Gavin Polone. He told Variety: "Everyone had fun watching the first Zombieland; making it a more visceral experience can only make it better. I don't think you want to see Ordinary People in 3-D. But Zombieland is clearly one movie that will benefit from the technique."
It'll also benefit from a lot of Woody Harrelson. Here's hoping he nuts up and shuts up a second time round.
"The first girl I let into my life and she tries to eat me." Such is the life of nerdy pathetic Columbus (Eisenberg), a loner who avoided humans just as much before the zombie plague wiped out most of the United States. Now, surviving on his own paranoid instincts (Rule#2: Beware of Bathrooms), he's just undead fodder waiting to be undeaded.
America has been ravaged by a zombie plague. Wandering around in the aftermath, a small band of survivors fight off the living dead while they cross the nation from coast to coast. When they come across an amusement park, they believe they've found the perfect safe place to hole up...
Yes, there's a sequel and yes, it'll be in 3-D. After Ruben Fleischer 
