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New Lee & Affleck Projects…

January 3rd @ 9:56 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Justin McGill

  • A new year always seems to be a good time for studios to break ground with announcements on new film projects. This first one is a Jason
    Lee film that we reported just a small blurb on last summer.

“I Love Your Work” starring Jason Lee and directed by Adam Goldberg. Goldberg is most notable for his roles in Dazed and Confused and Mellish in
Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, among others. Also includes talented folk like Giovani Ribisi, Vince Vaughn, Franke Potente (The Bourne Supremacy, Run
Lola Run), Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Judy Green (who co-starred in “The Hebrew Hammer” with Goldberg), and Nicky Katt.

Hollywood Stock Exchange says:

“Adam Goldberg writes and directs the psychological drama I Love Your Work. Gray Evans is a movie star with a failing marriage who suffers a mental
breakdown and becomes obsessed with a young film student. Giovanni Ribisi, Joshua Jackson, Franka Potente, and Christina Ricci star in the indie film
co-produced by Cyan Pictures and Muse Productions.”

Also, from the success of the end result of “The Polar Express”, it seems Robert Zemeckis may be doing a second screen capture film. Jason Lee is
attached as voice talent, as well as a few other notables:

Three kids learn that a neighbor’s house is a living monster in the family CG-animated film Monster House. D.J. Harvard and his two friends Chowder and
Jenny find that the house is alive and in it beats an evil heart. None of the adults believe the kids, so it’s up to the three of them to figure out a way
to destroy the dwelling before innocent trick-or-treaters are devoured. Gil Zenan makes his directorial debut.

Sounds intrguing. And finally, an interesting team-up that makes that little Jersey Girl cameo look like it might have turned into a true-to-life business meeting:

Affrimative Action

Ben Affleck and Will Smith will buddy up in the action-comedy “Affirmative Action” set in New Orleans. When a black soldier goes A.W.O.L. after committing
a crime, a South Boston cop and a FBI agent who don’t share the same racial views are teamed to find him. Affirmative Action was written by Jeffrey Abrams
and is currently in development at Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Buena Vista will distribute the picture.

We’ll of course keep you informed on these projects as we hear more.

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  • Comics2Film recently asked Jason Mewes his thoughts on the film casting of
    an actor named Brandon Routh as Superman, and here’s what he had to say:
Jason Mewes: “He looks a little gay, but I don’t know, he might do good though. We’ll have to see. But it’s hard to tell just by looking at a picture. Maybe if I saw him in one of his soap operas I could tell you a little more. It depends. I’d have to see him working first. I always thought they’d get the dude from ‘Smallville’ [Tom Welling] to do it. I thought he would have been good.”
  • Here’s a weird one: Dogma has somehow come up at #3 on the Yahoo Movies Buzz Log.
  • CNN (and likely many others) have named “The Incredibles” one of the top ten films of the year. We’re sure many audiences will now recognize his voice
    from the film, but he’ll always be Brodie/Banky/Azriel to us.
  • DVD Answers has posted their 2004 year in review, with Clerks X coming in second as DVD of the year on Pete Roberts’ list.
  • And finally today, if you need to test how big of a fan you are, try this new Kevin Smith Quiz that was posted up at Joblo.com. Later!

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