Gemma Arterton is Bond 22 Girl
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed rumors that British actress Gemma Arterton has been cast as the new Bond Girl in Bond 22 (rumored to be titled 007). Gemma made her film debut in the 2007 St Trinian’s movie St Trinian’s.
Production began earlier in the week, nearly a month behind the original schedule. Bond 22 is still scheduled to hit theaters on November 7th 2008. Arterton just came off of Guy Ritche’s latest RocknRolla, which will also hit theaters later this year.
Big Budget Troll Remake?
BD is reporting that someone in Hollywood has decided to make a big budget remake of John Carl Buechler’s 1986 horror film TROLL. The only thing we know so far is the provided plot synopsis:
The film is about a young boy enters a parallel world of wizards and magic where he befriends a good witch. Soon the boy learns that he must save the world from an evil Troll/Wizard that has the ability to hide his essence within the bodies of others.
I’ll fess up. As a kid, the two movies that terrified me were The Gate and TROLL. It’s one of those really bad b-horror films with a little person running around in an evil troll suit. I haven’t seen the movie in many years, and I’m guessing if I did I’d more likely laugh than quiver in my seat. I see that the users on the internet movie database have given the film a 3.1 rating, which is horrible, but not bad enough to make the Bottom 100 of all time list. However, Troll is featured in the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. Troll spawned two sequels (one of which can’t even be found on imdb). Troll 2 ranks #21 on IMDB’s list of the worst movies of all time.
Interestingly enough, the main character (and his father) in the movie were both named Harry Potter (Sr. and Jr.). He was surrounded by a fantasy world of witches, wizards and magic - more than a decade before J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels swept the publishing world. The film was also Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ film debut.
Check out Sonny Bono’s death from the original film after the jump.
Howard Stern Show cameos Harold and Kumar 2
Howard Stern Show member Richard Christy is filming a cameo this month for the upcoming Harold and Kumar goes to White Castle sequel.
Christy has played in many bands, including Iced Earth, Burning Inside, Death and Control Denied. He earned his position after winning the “Win John’s Job” contest in 2004, and has remained one of the funniest on-air personalities.
Born and raised in Fort Scott, Kansas, Christy is often made fun of for his hick/red neck charms, which has earned him the role as a Ku Klux Klan member in the upcoming film.
Richard made his film debut in a co-wrotten and co-directed short film titled Supertwink, which premiered on Howard Stern On Demand, and was reviewed by Richard Roeper who hated it.
A previously leaked plot synopsis involved Harold and Kumar running from authorities after being mistaken for terrorists when they try to smuggle a bong on board a flight to Amsterdam. Casting breakdowns reveal that the pot smoking duo have a run in with the KKK, travel to the inner-city where they interrupt a basketball game, before meeting President George W. Bush (possibly in Washington, DC?). And somehow the duo end up in Guantanamo Bay. Harold and Kumar 2 is the working title (Harold and Kumar go to Amsterdam has been confirmed false).
Samantha Mathis Biography
The pert, attractive, young Mathis is a third-generation performer (granddaughter of Austrian actress Gusti Huber, daughter of actress Bibi Besch). The New York and L.A.-raised teen got her first role–as an Amish girl–in the short-lived TV series “Aaron’s Way” (NBC, 1988). She continued to work in TV sporadically, her contributions consisting of the crime series “Knightwatch” (ABC, 1988-89) and supporting roles in the TV-movies “American Nuclear” (as James Farentino’s daughter, CBS, 1989), “Cold Sassy Tree” (TNT, 1989), and three 1990 movies, “Extreme Close-Up” (NBC), “82 Hours ‘Til Dawn” (CBS) and “To My Daughter” (NBC).
But the big screen was Mathis’ goal, and in 1989 she made her film debut in the low-budget thriller “Forbidden Sun”. The following year, she garnered positive notices for her portrayal of an angst-ridden teen poet in “Pump Up the Volume” (1990), co-starring Christian Slater. Coasting on good notices, she won the part of the awkward teenage daughter of Julie Kavner in Nora Ephron’s “This is My Life” (1992). After contributing a voice-over in the animated “FernGully: The Last Rainforest” (1992), Mathis graduated to adult roles (though in a juvenile film) as the love interest of John Leguizamo in the film version of the hit video game “Super Mario Bros.” (1993). A small role in the thriller “The Music of Chance” (1993) followed, but Mathis finally starred–with the ill-fated River Phoenix–in the drama about aspiring country and western singers, “The Thing Called Love” (1993). That last was important in Mathis’ life: she began dating Phoenix and was with him the night he died, and female co-star Sandra Bullock became her best friend.
The parts came fast and furious by the mid-1990s: she was cute, spoiled, adult Amy in “Little Women” (1994) and had three good roles in 1995: a waitress-turned-nanny in the romantic British comedy “Jack & Sarah” (released in the US in 1996), portraying a youthful version of Lois Smith’s Sophia in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s “How to Make an American Quilt”, and Chief Executive Michael Douglas’ assistant in “The American President”. She was reunited with former co-star (and former boyfriend) Christian Slater for John Woo’s action thriller “Broken Arrow” (1996), as a park ranger trying to rein in psycho John Travolta.
- Born:
on 05/12/1970 in New York, New York - Job Titles:
Actor
Significant Others
- Companion: Christian Slater. dated c. 1990
- Companion: River Phoenix. began dating while co-starring in “The Thing Called Love”; together until his death on October 31, 1993
Milestones
- 1973 Parents divorced
- 1977 Moved to L.A. with her mother at age six
- 1988 TV-series debut, “Aaron’s Way”
- 1989 Feature acting debut, “Forbidden Sun”
- 1989 TV-movie debut, “Cold Sassy Tree”
- 1992 Lent her voice to the animated film, “FernGully: The Last Rainforest”
- 1993 First film in a lead role, “The Thing Called Love”
- 1999 Co-starred in the short-lived Fox drama “Harsh Realm”
- 1999 Made L.A. area stage debut opposite Linda Lavin in “Collected Stories”; production filmed and telecast over PBS in 2002
- 2000 Acted in “Attraction”; screened at Toronto Film Festival
- 2000 Had featured role in “American Psycho”
- 2001 Had regular role in the NBC drama series “First Years”
- 2001 Portrayed Gwenhwyfer (Guenevere) in the feminist retelling of the Arthurian legend “The Mists of Avalon” (TNT)
- 2004 Cast as the wife of Thomas Jane in “The Punisher”