Despite rumors, Heat Vision is reporting that Nicolas Cage won’t be starring as a villain in “The Green Hornet” from Columbia Pictures and director Michel Gondry , having walked away from the production that’s already started filming in Los Angeles after negotiations fell through. No footage of Cage had been shot yet.
Columbia is planning a December 17th, 2010 release for the adaptation of “The Green Hornet”, an adaptation of the superhero franchise based on the radio serial of the 1930’s. The film, about a newspaper publisher who along with his chauffeur/sidekick, fight crime at night as The Green Hornet and Kato, stars Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Jay Chou, [...]

In a Variety article about “I Am Love”, the new Tilda Swinton, film director Luca Guadagnino mentions that First Sun, his production company, is actually moving forward on a remake of the classic 1977 horror film “Suspriria” by director Dario Argento.
Shooting is scheduled to start in 2010, with David Gordon Green directing.
Though not confirmed, Natalie Portman is rumored to play the lead role in the film, which is about a new student to a ballet school in Europe. She then discovers that horrific going-ons are happening all around her. Jessica Harper initially starred in the original film, which also starred Udo Kier and Joan [...]

Check out the latest movie still featuring actor Seth Rogen from the upcoming film “The Green Hornet” by director Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and starring Cameron Diaz (Shrek Forever After), Nicolas Cage (Astro Boy, Ghost Rider), Seth Rogen (Funny People), Edward James Olmos and Jay Chou ask Kato.
Synopsis: When co-founder of a San Francisco newspaper THE DAILY SENTINEL, JOHN PAUL, is shot in his home, FRANK SCANLON, district attorney, considers John’s position as a crime and politics reporter and rules out robbery as a motive. BRITT REID, publisher for the Sentinel, promises his father, DAN, who’d co-founded The Sentinel with John, that he [...]

Hollywood Snitch is reporting that Edward James Olmos (”Battlestar Galactica”) will be joining the cast of Michel Gondry’s “The Green Hornet” alongside Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz.
It is unknown what role Olmos will play in the film, an adaptation of the comic and radio show character who was created in 1936. Britt Reid, a newspaper publisher by day, becomes the crimefighter known as the Green Hornet by night, with his chauffeur Kato also fighting by his side as his partner.
The film is set for a July 9, 2010 release.
Stay tuned for more on “The Green Hornet” right here at Shockya.com.
By Costa Koutsoutis (Source; [...]

Jay Chou, a Taiwanese actor and musician, has been confirmed by Columbia to have taken on the role of Kato in the upcoming “The Green Hornet” alongside Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz and Nicolas Cage.
The role of Kato was famously played by Bruce Lee in the original television series, the character being the hero’s chauffeur during the day, and his masked martial arts-wielding partner during the night as Britt Reid becomes the Green Hornet.
Chou said, in a press release put out by Columbia; “It’s an overwhelming experience to take on a role made famous by Bruce Lee, [...] I won’t try to be Bruce Lee’s Kato [...] I will [...]

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Michel Gondry debuted the actual Black Beauty they’ll be using in their adaptation of “The Green Hornet” to kick off the San Diego Comic Con, built around a 1966 Chrysler Imperial.
There’s a picture of the car below. You can check out the video right here courtesy of MTV Splashpage.
Rogen and Goldberg wrote the film, which Gondry is directing and that Rogen is starring in as The Green Hornet, the newspaper publisher by day, masked trenchcoat-wearing vigilante by night.
“The Green Hornet” is scheduled for a 2010 release.
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Variety is reporting that Columbia Pictures is in talks with Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz for the two to join the cast of “The Green Hornet” as a gangster villain and a potential love interest, respectively. The film, which is being directed by Michel Gondry, stars Seth Rogen as the masked crime fighter clad in a green trench coat wielding a gas gun.
The picture is aiming for a fall start date even though a replacement is being sought for Stephen Chow, who was going to play the Hornet’s kung-fu sidekick and chauffer Kato.
Evan Goldberg wrote the script alongside Rogen, and Neal Moritz is producing through Original Films. [...]

First the news that Columbia Pictures will be moving the release date to July 9th, now MTV is reporting that actor Stephen Chow has entirely dropped out of the big-screen adaptation of “The Green Hornet”. Seth Rogen is attached to star in the production, which he co-wrote.
After initially both directing and acting, then dropping out of the director’s chair last year as Michael Gondry was attached to that position in the production, he has now officially left the project entirely, with casting calls going out to replace him in the role of Kato, the Asian martial artist sidekick and chauffeur of the masked and trench coated avenger The Green [...]

Columbia Pictures has moved the release date of Michel Gondry’s comic book adaptation of “The Green Hornet” back two weeks, from June 25th, 2010 to July 9th, 2010.
It was moved to make room for the studio’s all-star cast comedy “Grown Ups”, which was moved from March 12th, to June 25th 2010.
Seth Rogen is attached to star in the production, which he co-wrote. Stephen Chow is also set to star.
The character of the Green Hornet was first created for radio serials in the 1930’s, before spinning off into comic strips, books, and a live-action show as well, which featured Bruce Lee in the role of the Hornet’s chauffer/sidekick, the [...]

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Ewan McGregor (The Men Who Stare at Goats, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith) is attached to star in the romantic drama “The Last Word” with director David Mackenzie (London Fields, Spread, Dirty Diamonds). The Scottish-Danish-German film is described as a love story set in a city where the populace are slowly starting to lose their sensory perception.
Shooting is set to start in September. No other casting information has been released yet about the film.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news and more from the upcoming film “The Last Word”.
By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)