Apparently the title was announced by Shia LaBeouf at the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday. I guess either Harrison Ford has passed the torch to a newer generation or he is too old to get into the VMS’s to announce the title himself.

Unfortunately Sean Connery will not be in this one. The timing is great because if this movie were held off any longer then Ford would have been as old as Connery was in the first one.

I’m not sure I like the name but with big names like George Lucas (co-executive producer) and Steven Spielberg (director) I think it will be great. Of course, those who believe Lucas totally botched the newer Star Wars movies might disagree.

I remember sitting down and watching Ace Ventura when I was younger and god damn I pissed myself the whole way through, the way Carrey pulled faces and owned the character was the funniest thing I ever seen. The over exaggeration of the smallest movements come to mind.

The movie has yet to have a title but it is going to be directed by David Mickey Evans (he directed Wilder Days, Beethovers 4th and 3rd and the Sandlot) and he will be directing the script which was written by Jeff Sank, Jason Heimberg and Justin Heimberg. Evans had the following to say about the movie, quoted from MovieHole

Well, basically my kids run my career, After the Final Season got picked up by Sony/Yari for theatrical release, I had a bunch of offers and scripts on my desk. I asked my 9, 11, and 15 year olds what they wanted me to do. And they said, “Dad, you’re doing Ace Ventura 3!. I don’t know if the fact that the film shoots in Orlando (Disney World, Universal Orlando, etc etc…) had anything to with their marching orders, but I suspect it did. Nonetheless, the challenge of trying to meet the expectation of a sequel to one of the funniest movies in the last 30 years appealed to me. Done deal. Cut. Print. Moving on! Done deal … plus I really wanted to work with Jim Robinson and David Robinson at Morgan Creek. The opportunity to cross paths with their brand of creative support is rare and I wasn’t about to pass that up.

Only thing I have to say is this is gonna suck. The second Ventura sucked ass, the first was hilarious. I dunno how somebody other than Carrey is gonna step up and play a legendary role when Carrey couldn’t even get the second one going.

Daniel Craig really wants to put a spin on the character and really show his own side to him. He wants it to be more of a softer side, less macho side to Bond, which sounds kinda stupid if you are asking me, but I doubt they will, so carry on

Craig had the following to say about the next Bond film where he will be starring alongside Giancarlo Giannini and be directed by Marc Foster.

They [the producers] just want more gags. The next one’s going to be a lot funnier. Octopussy and Pussy Galore style gags. They’re all great names – but that’s the thing, the Bond jokes will be flipped on their heads.

Sounds like he wants to be more of a Shawn Connery, are you trying to get the women Danny boy? Look here is what I think they should do, bring back Jaws. That is all they need, Bond can stay the same, just bring back Richard Kiel and those stainless steel teeth and you have comedy right there.

Apparently DiCaprio is a friend of Hefner and visits the Playboy LA Mansion regularly. I wonder if he gets a quickie while he’s there? Guess there is really nothing else to do huh? An unnamed source had the following to say about the movie

Leo thinks it would make a great movie and Hugh would love Leo to do it – on the condition that Hugh is alive to see it.

At 81 and according to some sources getting a root every day, I dunno how long he can hold on to the precious life he leads. Currently Brian Glazer is attached to the film and really wants to portray everything that is Hugh Hefner. Here is a quote from him

Hef came from a puritanical upbringing and reinvented himself to be the godfather of the sexual revolution. He also used his magazine to advocate civil rights and free speech. He broke all kinds of taboos, especially in sexuality. I want to show it all, from the First Amendment struggles to his first orgy to the stroke in the 1980s that almost killed him.

This won’t be the first time Leonardo DiCaprio has played a controversial real life figure. He has previously acted out Howard Hughes and Frank Abagnale Junior in The Aviator and Catch me if you Can respectively. I am a big fan of biographies and really liked Catch me if you can, more on a personal level than a critic.

Well that is good that it has finally been announced, I bet the people in the small Vermont town are happy about that. They were a late entry and beat out all the other competitors with 14% of all votes, with there closest competition having 13%, close call.

The town has roughly 9,300 people and managed to rally the townspeople through local media and mass email (need I say fucking spammers!). They will get the yellow carpet and the voices and everything at there humble little town. Here is some more information on the winning entry

The winning entry took two days to film with help from the Vermont Film Commission. It begins much like the opening sequence of the TV show, with the familiar theme song playing as Vermont’s Homer chases a giant doughnut (actually an inner tube designed by a local graphic artist) through the town, causing mayhem wherever he goes. The townspeople chase after him until they are beckoned into the movie theater, where they sit down for the premiere of The Simpsons Movie.

Well sounds all fine and dandy. I did find a good little article on the location of the yellow people, if you have the time, I suggest you head on over and have a read of it, the article is located here

The novel which goes by the name Devil May Care. It is set during the Cold War and Faulks tries his hardest to mesh a lot of his writing with the style of Fleming. The book spans 2 continents and is going to be published by Penguin UK. Faulks had this to say about the book

I tried to isolate the essential and the most enjoyable aspects of the books. Then I took that pattern and added characters and a story of my own with as much speed and as many twists as I thought the reader could bear. I developed a prose that is about 80 per cent Fleming. I didn’t go the final distance for fear of straying into pastiche, but I strictly observed his rules of chapter and sentence construction. My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming’s own books, where the story is everything.

At the present moment in time the film rights have not been sold, but EON is most likely to pick up the rights as they made a name for themselves in producing and getting the Bond films out there. I did enjoy Casino Royale so hopefully this one is good as well

The 1-18-08.com we showed does in fact belong to the people at Paramount, in fact a new picture was added to the website which seems to be the guy who the party was about in the trailer we posted. The website is also in all flashy now and you can move the pics whheeeee!

Regarding the online stuff you posted: yeah, we’re doing some fun stuff on the web. But, obviously, if the movie doesn’t kick some massive ASS, who gives a rat’s about what’s online? So as you can imagine, we’re focusing mostly on THAT. For what it’s worth, the only site of ours that people have even FOUND is the 1-18-08.com site. The others (like the Ethan Haas sites) have nothing to do with us.

That is the quote taking from AICN which backups the statement about the sites. Some people are so inquisitive, just picking up that site is pure genius. I would never have typed in 1-18-08 and then added .com into my browser, just sounds stupid.

Till the next Cloverfield news item, I bid you fare well!