Adriann Palicki is the latest actress to sign on to appear in Paramount’s upcoming ‘G.I. Joe’ sequel, ‘G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes,’ Reelzchannel is reporting. The former ‘Friday Night Lights’ star will portray Lady Jaye, the team’s covert operations specialist. As in the Marvel comic books, screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have include Lady Jaye’s romance with Flint, who will be portrayed by D.J. Cotrona in the film. Other new characters to the sequel will be Jinz, who will be played by French actress Elodie Yung of ‘District 13: Ultimatum.’ Dwayne Johnson has also been hired as the heavy machine gunner and aspiring chef Roadblock. However, the character of Joe…

Paramount Pictures has teamed up with Yahoo!Movies to present online viewers a live stream of the U.S. premiere of “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” in New York City. The livestream of the red carpet event will occur June 28 at 5:30 pm EST at Yahoo!Movies’ “Transfomers” livestream page. Along with watching the live coverage, fans will also be able to interact with each other through social media. After watching the premiere, fans will be able to go to participating theaters and watch the film in 3D at 9 pm local time on June 28. The film will open everywhere at midnight, June 29. If you happen to miss the event,…

Megan Fox and John C. Reilly have both been cast in cameo roles in the upcoming Sacha Baron Cohen comedy ‘The Dictator,’ according to The Hollywood Reporter. Not much information has been revealed about what roles the two will be portraying in the Paramount movie that’s currently filming in New York. Fox and Reilly join fellow supporting actors Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley and Jason Mantzoukas. ‘The Dictator,’ which is set for a May 11, 2012 release, has been described as “the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.” Cohen, who is reuniting with his…

The official site for the Marvel/Paramount film “Captain America: The First Avenger” is now up and running! The site, captainamerica.marvel.com, is very slick and engrossing, similar to how the site for the 2009 “Star Trek” reboot was. Also similar to the “Star Trek” site are the types of immersing experiences you can have once on the site. The intro to the “Captain America” website is a small full-screen video of how Captain America came to be and once inside the site, there is a link to “character experiences”, which will be coming shortly. The gallery on the site has a lot of new stills from the film, some of which…

Elodie Yung is currently in talks to join the cast of the upcoming action sequel ‘G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes,’ according to The Hollywood Reporter. The French actress would appear as the G.I. Joe team member Jinx, a martial arts expert who has familial ties to a ninja clan. ‘Step Up 2′ director Jon Chu is slated to direct the action sequel based on the popular Hasbro toy franchise. Yung will join such returning ‘G.I. Joe’ actors as Channing Tatum, Ray Park and Lee Byung-hun, who will all be reprising their roles from the 2009 hit film ‘Rise of Cobra.’ Jinx will be one of several new characters introduced in ‘Cobra…

This is the first episode of the new podcast! It’s called “Shockya.com presents Movie Night”. Every week Rudie Obias and guests will discuss and review the week’s new movie release. Also, as the podcast evolves, listeners will be getting up-to-date news and opinions about Hollywood and your favorite celebrities. Subscribe on iTunes or Download and Listen Here. This week Rudie Obias and his guest, Alanna Raben, two New Yorkers, talk about the new J.J. Abrams movie “Super 8″. I hope you enjoy the show, please let us know what you think of the new podcast at ShockyaMovieNight@gmail.com. Or follow us @Shockya. Leave a voicemail @ 347-878-3430.

J.J. Abrams has confirmed that the sequel to his hit 2009 film ‘Star Trek’ will be the next project he’ll work on, Cinema Blend is reporting. The news comes as his latest sci-fi directorial effort, ‘Super 8,’ is set to hit theaters on June 10, 2011. Paramount, the studio behind the first ‘Star Trek,’ has promised to release the sequel on June 29, 2012. However, the ‘Fringe’ co-creator and producer wouldn’t commit to that date, instead saying “hopefully we’ll be able to pass information out sooner or later.” Abrams added that he would rather take his time to make a good film than rush to get the sequel out by…

“I’m the king of the world!” are the words James Cameron will be screaming when he gets the box office receipts for the re-release of the mega-hit “Titanic”. Back in 1997, James Cameron delivered a technological wonder in effectively recreating the tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic. At the time, it was the highest grossing movie of all time and the winner of 11 Academy Awards. Since the release of “Avatar” in 2009, James Cameron has been perfecting the 3D technology and subsequently up-converting his masterpiece, “Titanic”. It has taken over 3 years to do this process with the approval and supervision of Cameron. Well, we now have a…

Paramount is in negotiations to distribute the upcoming family film ‘The Hauntrepreneur,’ according to The Hollywood Reporter. The horror thriller will be produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller’s production company Platinum Dunes. The three want to break into the action and thriller genres via their first-look deal with Paramount. ‘The Hauntrepreneur,’ which was written by Scott Rosenberg, follows a family that has trouble adjusting to a new town. They hire a man, known as the Hauntrepreneur, to try to bring them together by creating a haunted house filled with an odd group of people. Rosenberg was hired to write ‘The Hauntrepreneur,’ which is said to have a…

The box office results for the weekend of May 6th- 8th has the mighty blockbusters taking over. “Thor” was able to hammer all the competition in its theatrical debut. In its second week, “Fast Five” held off the rest of the ensemble products that entered the arena. Here are the studio estimates: 1. Thor ($66 million) 2. Fast Five ($32.5 million) 3. Jumping the Broom ($13.7 million) 4. Something Borrowed ($13.1 million) 5. Rio ($8.2 million) 6. Water for Elephants ($5.6 million) 7. Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family ($3.9 million) 8. Prom ($2.4 million) 9. Soul Surfer ($2.1 million) 10. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil ($1.8 million) Analysis “Thor”…