Could Cameron Crowe one day do a Say Anything sequel?

Well, he kind of teased at the possibility recently, according to The Film Stage:

Cameron Crowe seems to be using the next twelve months as the launchpad for a return to the spotlight, with two documentaries and a new feature all coming from the director, after he had been gone since Elizabethtown bombed in 2005. If this barrage of projects pays off, he might end up going back to familiar territory, as ThompsonOnHollywood learned from him that a sequel to his 1989 hit Say Anything… might become a reality.

The idea of follow-ups to movies that you wouldn’t expect to have a sequel isn’t all that new —Before Sunset is one of the more famous examples — but I still can’t say in all honesty that I ever imagined this. His details on it are admittedly scant, but this seems to be the first we’ve heard of it. His quote on the project can be read below:

“I do kind of think there might be another chapter to that. I’ve thought about it from time to time, and talked to John Cusack about it. Lloyd Dobler might be back. It’s the only thing I’ve written that I would consider doing that with.”

I don’t know if Crowe would want to go back to old territory, seeing as he’s just getting back into filmmaking after a long break — aren’t there more original stories for him to tell? I know that you can do new things with old characters, but the thematic purpose behind it doesn’t seem entirely clear to me. One can make the argument that this would be used as a way of exploring the effects of aging about 25 years, and yet it eludes me how these people who we’ve already seen are the best way of doing that. So, while I am admittedly curious what a sequel could bring, that doesn’t change the fact that I don’t quite get the point.

Would you want a sequel to Say Anything…? What direction do you think the characters could be taken in?

-Joey's Two Cents: If he were to make it, I'd certainly be in...thoughts?

Nicolas Winding Refn is being considered for the next Die Hard film...

...along with some other choices, according to Deadline:

20th Century Fox is turning up the heat on Die Hard 5, even though its attached director, Noam Murro, left the picture after he got the job helming300: Battle Of Artemisia for Warner Bros. I'm told that the studio has come up with a short list of directors to helm the film scripted by Skip Woods. They are: Joe Cornish (who directed Attack the Block), Fast Five helmer Justin Lin, Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and Max Payne helmer John Moore. The film brings the always in the wrong place cop John McLane to Russia. Bruce Willis is ready to reprise his signature role.

The surprise on the list is Cornish. While his feature directorial debut Attack the Blockhad a budget probably less than the catering bill on last weekend's other alien invasion film opener Cowboys & Aliens, the movie has become a critical darling as it opened to $130,000 in 8 theaters (it has grossed $4.3 million overseas). It would be a big jump to Die Hard 5, but remember the studio had attached Murro, whose debut was the 2008 character comedySmart People.

Lin is hot off Fast Five, and is expected to do another The Fast and the Furiousinstallment and is attached to the package to finish The Terminatorfranchise that was acquired by Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures.

Refn has much momentum for Drive, the drama that played Cannes and opens in September. Refn reteamed with Ryan Gosling for Only God Forgives,another action film that shoots late summer in Thailand, and which FilmDistrict acquired for U.S. distribution late last month. Refn is also booked to remake Logan's Run with Gosling. Then there is Moore, the Irish helmer who has directed all of his features--Max Payne, The Omen, Flight of the Phoenix and Behind Enemy Lines--for Fox. A web report indicated that Moore already had the job, but I'm told that the filmmaker meetings haven't started yet, so that might be jumping the gun.

This is certainly the big directing job of the moment. The last installment, 2007's Live Free Or Die Hard, showed there was still steam in the franchise when it grossed $384 million worldwide, not shabby considering the first installment, an action classic, came out in 1988.

-Joey's Two Cents: Refn or Cornish would be the out of the box choices, but with a less than "Die Hard" sounding plot to this one, I'm not sure how excited I am about the project yet...thoughts?

Wolf Creek 2 is headed our way?

It sure seems that way, according to this from The Playlist:

It has been nearly six years since the Aussie horror flick “Wolf Creek” turned the heads of genre film fans around the world. If you think the film about a group of backpackers held captive by a crazed serial killer was just for horror enthusiasts guess again. The film notched seven Australian Film Institute awards, including Best Director for Greg Mclean who followed up his debut shocker with “Rogue,” a less impressive man-eating-alligator thriller that starred Sam Worthington. But Mclean is ready to head back to the film that put him on the map, as Mick Taylor is back to carve up more unfortunately travellers in “Wolf Creek 2.”

With financing now lined up Mclean returns with lead actor John Jarrat in tow for the film that will head into pre-production later this year, with a shooting start date of February 2012 marked on the calendar. Of course, exact details are being closely guarded—producer Matt Hearn says, “We’re keeping story details top secret for now, but it is safe to say: scarier, bigger, badder”—but this time around Mclean has teamed with Aaron Sterns (script editor on “Rogue”) on the screenplay. You read the first official logline after the jump:

The outback once more becomes a place of mind-bending horror, action and suspense as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig-shooter Mick Taylor.

We presume this means that “6 Miranda Drive,” the no-budget supernatural flick that Mclean was attached to direct for Lionsgate earlier in the year in on hold. That film is a “Paranormal Activity” type story about a family who has a deal with a supernatural presence in their home and we think it’s wise that Mclean didn’t rush head first into that one. No word yet on a release date, but we’d guess a late 2012 or early 2013 release is likely.

-Joey's Two Cents: Wolf Creek is one of my favorite horror films of all time, and I even liked Rogue, so this is great news to me...thoughts?

Paranormal Activity 3: First Trailer

Check it Out!



Thoughts?

Ed Norton could play opposite Jeremy Renner in the next Bourne film...

...and as the bad guy no less, as per this in Variety:

Edward Norton is in negotiations to play the villain in Universal's "The Bourne Legacy" opposite Jeremy Renner.

Tony Gilroy is on board to direct from a script he penned and Rachel Weisz has also signed on to star.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Jason Bourne will not be featured in the film, while Renner will play another assassin trained in the same program that Bourne was trained in. Universal had no comment on Norton's negotiations.

Frank Marshall, Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner are producing.

Besides "The Italian Job," Norton has not been in full-bore villain mode for some time. The "Bourne" role is his most commercial since starring as the Hulk in Marvel and Universal's "The Incredible Hulk."

In previous "Bourne" pics, Universal had not surrounded then-star Matt Damon with high-profile names, but the Gilroy pic is shaping up as a major ensemble piece.

Norton is filming the Wes Anderson pic "Moonrise Kingdom."

He is repped by WME.

-Joey's Two Cents: I like the direction of this film so far...thoughts?

Sherlock Holmes 2 gets a few Character Posters

Watson is after the jump...

Thoughts?

The Dark Knight Rises may have a Teaser by this time next week...

...since the rumors are swirling that it will be attached to the last Harry Potter flick. This was the day that most speculated it would show up in theaters, so it makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't say it's set in stone, but don't bet against it. There should also be the first poster dropping around the same time, so our first taste of Christopher Nolan's bat swan song are rapidly approaching!

-Thoughts?

Will Paul Feig be taking over the Bridget Jones franchise?

Perhaps, according to The Playlist:

With “Bridesmaids” picking up rave reviews and recently crossing the $150 million barrier, making it the highest-grossing film of producer Judd Apatow‘s career, it’s not surprising that director Paul Feig has swiftly become the hottest comedy director in town. He’s working with Jon Hamm and Melissa McCarthy, the breakouts of that project, on a new comedy again reteaming with Apatow, and dropped hints that he may spend the end of this year rebooting a comedy franchise.

But this morning brings news that Feig’s also being courted for another big comedy series, one that fits right in with the wheelhouse he established with “Bridesmaids,” as Baz Bamigboye reports that the helmer is in early talks to direct a second sequel to Universal and Working Title‘s romantic comedy “Bridget Jones’ Diary.” That film, released a decade ago, was perhaps the last female-driven rom-com to gain similar acclaim, picking up an Oscar nomination for star Renee Zellwegger (to which we say: let’s get Kristen Wiig one too), becoming a beloved staple of girl’s nights in, and taking in nearly $300 million worldwide.

It was swiftly followed by a sequel, 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” which managed to get everything wrong that the original got right, but a third film has been quietly in development almost ever since, with a script by Jones creator Helen Fielding, focusing on her heroine’s quest for a baby. A stage musical version of the first film, penned by pop star Lily Allen, will debut in the West End next year, and Working Title are clearly keen to use the momentum to get the threequel moving.

Of course, it’s early days, and Bamigboye stresses that the negotiations are complex, with no deal in place for Zellwegger or her leading men, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. While Zellwegger would probably be glad for the opportunity to return to her signature role, considering her recent run of luck (it’s half a decade since she had a hit of any kind), the boys are more complicated: Grant, who was a key figure in exposing the phone-hacking scandal sweeping the news, is often a difficult catch to land, and strained relations with Working Title when he pulled out of comedy “Lost For Words” a few years back, while Firth is now an Oscar-winner, and more in demand than ever, and much more expensive as a result.

But if you want to convince the trio that the new entry is worth their time, hiring the man behind the most successful comedy of its type in a decade is a good way to go about it, and we imagine Feig would land a hefty payday as a result; and we’re certainly more interested in the film than we otherwise would have been. With Feig likely to direct that comedy franchise reboot later in the year, and the Hamm/McCarthy project on the horizon, it’s unclear when it might happen, but even should the deals work out, it’s extremely unlikely it would go before cameras for at least another year.

-Joey's Two Cents: I could see him doing a good job with this...thoughts?

A sequel to Atlas Shrugged is still in the works...

...for better or worse, according to 24 Frames:

Atlas Shrugged: The Trilogy is still alive. The producers of the Ayn Rand adaptation will bring the first part of their planned series to home-entertainment platforms this fall, courtesy of a deal with 20th Century Fox, and expect to begin production on "Atlas Shrugged: Part 2" in September. They hope to bring the new film to theaters during the 2012 election season.

"Atlas Shrugged: Part 1," the low-budget adaptation of the first third of Rand's dystopian novel, grossed $4.6 million during its five-week theatrical run this spring. After the film drew scathing reviews, producer John Aglialoro said he was reconsidering whether to move forward with two sequels.

Now Aglialoro has resumed those efforts, according to producer Harmon Kaslow, and will devote all revenue from the release of "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" to financing "Atlas Shrugged: Part 2."

"John has a much clearer perspective," Kaslow told 24 Frames. "He’s always wanted to have a studio level support for the film and I think feels that his effort in producing Part 1 has been validated by having the largest home video distributor in America aboard."

The producers are retaining the home entertainment rights, but are paying a distribution fee to Fox to release the film on DVD, Blu-Ray, digital download and video on demand, according to Kaslow. He said the deal was born of strategy, not necessity.

"What we discovered with the film is that it really doesn’t fit squarely into a lot of business models," said Kaslow. "We got incredible grass roots and community level support for the movie, but what we didn’t have was the polished marketing edge that the studios have perfected. Now we get to use their marketing, their fulfillment capacity. We think that makes more sense for us than mortgaging those rights off for a number."

Deals for TV and pay-TV airings are being negotiated, Kaslow said, and the producers have retained a foreign sales agent to secure international theatrical releases.

Aglialoro, the CEO of exercise-equipment company Cybex, spent $20 million to produce, distribute and market the movie, which was directed by first-timer Paul Johansson and stars Taylor Schilling (as railroad executive Dagny Taggart) and Grant Bowler (as steel magnate Hank Rearden).

Rand's novel, a touchstone work among many conservatives, takes place at an unspecified future time in which the U.S. is stuck in a depression and a mysterious phenomenon is causing the nation's leading industrialists to disappear.

Kaslow said the release of "Atlast Shrugged: Part 2" next year in theaters will be timed to capitalize on the national mood during the presidential election. "There will be a debate going on about the direction of the country, and a lot of the groups who have embraced Ayn Rand’s philosophies will be engaged," he said.

The filmmakers, who self-distributed and marketed "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" as "the movie liberal Hollywood doesn't want you to see" may partner with a studio distributor this time around, Kaslow said.

"John appreciates the autonomy that came with spending his own money and doing his own theatrical release," Kaslow said. "But he realizes that the motion picture business is especially challenging and there are a number of things studios do better than anybody else."

-Joey's Two Cents: I've only heard phenomenally dreadful things about the first installment, so one assumes that the next one can't be as bad, but who knows...thoughts?

Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol gets a Teaser Trailer!

Take a gander:

-Joey's Two Cents: It does appear to be catering to more of the 'Transformers' and 'Fast Five' type of crowd, but I must say...I dig it. Thoughts?

Don't count out a sequel to Green Lantern just due to mediocre Box Office...

...since Warner Brothers is pushing ahead with another installment of the now franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter:

Warner Bros. is already planning a sequel to Ryan Reynolds' superhero pic Green Lantern, despite the film’s soft performance at the box office.

Sources say Warners still believes in the franchise, even if the studio is “somewhat disappointed” with Green Lantern’s result.

Over the weekend, Green Lantern fell a steep 66% at the domestic box office, grossing $18.4 million for a cume of $89.3 million. That’s a big decline.

Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman said the movie is settling in, pointing out that fanboy pics often see a significant drop-off in their second weekends.

Still, Green Lantern fell off more than recent superhero picsThor and X-Men: First Class. Thor dropped 47% in its second weekend, while First Class dropped 56%.

Similar films that have seen the same sort of dip that Green Lantern did include Hulk, which dropped nearly 70% in its second outing.

Green Lantern cost $200 million to produce before a sizeable marketing spend (rival studios say it was one of the most expensive on record). Warners, preparing for the end of Harry Potter, needs new franchises, so was willing to invest big in Green Lantern.

A formidable obstacle standing in Green Lantern’s way now is Paramount’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which opens in theaters around the globe on Tuesday night.

-Joey's Two Cents: I think the second movie would undoubtedly be a step up, without having to deal with the origins of the character, but that's just me...thoughts?

Wait...Jurassic Park 4 hasn't gone extinct yet?

Apparently not (and sorry for the pun), as you can see via Heat Vision:

Steven Spielberg has dinosaurs back on the brain lately. In addition to the impending launch of the television series Terra Nova on Fox in the fall, Spielberg has been meeting with screenwriter Mark Protosevich to kick around ideas for how to re-boot the Jurassic Park franchise.

Several years ago, the Oscar-winning director worked with Protosevich on a potential remake of Chan-wook Park's Oldboy that was to star Will Smith. That film ran into rights problems and didn't come to fruition, but Spielberg, who directed the first two Jurassic Park films and was an executive producer on the third, has since met twice with Protosevich to fashion a story for a potential fourth film in the franchise.

Both Universal, which released the trilogy, and Spielberg's camp stress that no one has been engaged to write a script and that the discussions have been purely exploratory. But the idea is kind of a no-brainer.

The franchise, born of the late Michael Crichton's 1990 novel, has been in stuck in amber since 2001, when Joe Johnston directed Jurassic Park III from a script by Peter Buchman, Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne. That last entry signaled the series' fading fortunes, as it grossed just $369 million worldwide -- Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park grossed $915 million and $619 million, respectively.

Spielberg's original 1993 film adaptation, which came on the heels of James Cameron's groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day, greatly advanced CGI technology (courtesy of ILM) in its depiction of colossal dinosaurs re-animated in the modern day. With the recent rebirth of 3D and soaring improvements in digital design marshaled by everyone from Cameron to Pixar, Jurassic Park is ripe for evolution into a 21st century phenomenon.

And Universal could use the revived sci-fi tentpole.The Fast and the Furious franchise remains healthy, but The Mummy has lost momentum, the Bourne series lost star Matt Damon (a reboot with Jeremy Renner is in the works) and Van Helsing, The Wolfman and Land of the Lost never caught fire. Battleship remains a gamble for summer 2012 but could spark a new alien-related franchise.

Stampeding dinosaurs endangering humans, fighting each other and smashing things never gets old, and Cameron showed how far an ambitious filmmaker can push an integrated, immersive 3D world with Avatar. A new Spielberg-produced Jurassic Park that takes full advantage of those tools could be (pre)historic.

The CAA-repped Protosevich recently had a story credit on Marvel Studios' Thor, and he is working on an adaptation of the Ape Entertainment comic Freakshow that he would also direct. He co-wrote the screenplay for I Am Legend and wrote both The Cell and Poseidon.

The CAA-repped Spielberg is finishing up The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn for Paramount and War Horse for DreamWorks/Disney, both scheduled for holiday releases. He next plans to direct Lincoln for DreamWorks/Touchstone.

-Joey's Two Cents: If handled with care, it could be a fun reboot...thoughts?

The Fighter 2 is still in the works, according to Mark Wahlberg...

Here's the story from The Playlist:

The idea of a sequel to “The Fighter” is a cute thought. One has to assume high of the success off the picture (some seven odd years in the making) producer/actor Mark Wahlberg and director David O. Russell—who have worked together on three films so far, “Three Kings,” “I Heart Huckabees” and the aforementioned pugilist picture—were just shitcking ideas around in a celebratory fashion.

”’The Fighter 2,’ woooo! We got two Oscars tonight!” But if Wahlberg is still just coasting off the fumes of ecstasy, one has to assume they’re pretty frickin’ strong.

Echoing sentiments he already voiced earlier this year, Wahlberg said during the Spike Guys Choice Awards (via ComingSoon), “We left out the Aturo Gatti fights for a reason,” Wahlberg announced, after the picture won the “Guy Movie of the Year.” “Because that’s for ‘Fighter 2’. We’re not going to do ‘Fighter’ 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, but we’re gonna do 2. We’re gonna do the Ward/Gatti trilogy.”

What, no eight installment franchise? What a relief. Ok, he was at another event and getting accolades so perhaps these further plaudits are fueling a punch drunk enthusiam, but you gotta hand it to the dude, he sounds pretty damn insistent.

Will it actually happen? Well, Wahlberg and O. Russell are teaming up again. They had one collabo in the works, the video game adaptation “Drake’s Uncharted” that the director bailed on and then traded in for another, the more-in-his-wheelhouse, “The Silver Linings Playbook” (also with Wahlberg) which if you believe the early rumors may, may, possibly co-star Angelina Jolie.

“The Fighter was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two (Christian Bale and Melissa Leo for Supporting Actors). O. Russell was nominated for the Directors Guild of America prize (and a Best Directing Oscar) and Bale and Leo both took home Screen Actors Guild awards. Not too shabby, though if they are going to make a sequel, it’s going to be none too easy to put that stellar cast back together. We wouldn’t be surprised if Wahlberg soldiered on and O. Russell—much of a chameleon with his directing projects—took on a producing role instead.

-Joey's Two Cents: I'd like to see the fights come to life, but I can't imagine the film living up to the first one...thoughts?

For one reason or another, there's a sequel to Salt being made...

...according to Deadline:

Sony Pictures is moving forward on its much speculated Salt sequel. Kurt Wimmer has begun writing it for Angelina Jolie to reprise her role as Evelyn Salt, the CIA agent who spent the first movie running for her life after being outed as a Russian spy. The studio smartly left open a window for a possible sequel at the climax of the original, which was directed by Phillip Noyce. Now, Universal Pictures tried to draft a sequel of Wanted and it didn't happen. This is different. Jolie wants to do to do the Salt sequel if it comes together right. I'm told that Wimmer has officially signed on and is working away. The original grossed around $300 million worldwide for Sony Pictures.

-Joey's Two Cents: I didn't like the movie one bit, but I suppose a star vehicle is a star vehicle...thoughts?

The UK Film Board bans the sequel to The Human Centipede!

/Film has the story:

Tom Six‘s film The Human Centipede (First Sequence) became almost immediately notorious for featuring a mad scientist surgeon who kidnaps people and sews them together, end to end, to create a ‘human centipede.’ The film is fairly nasty, although in the end perhaps not quite as insane as the general concept led us all to believe.

The director has been working on a sequel, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), which he promised would be far more of an endurance test. And now we seem to have proof that he wasn’t putting up a front. The film has gone before the UK film board, which denied it any possibility of release, based on “a strong focus throughout on the link between sexual arousal and sexual violence and a clear association between pain, perversity and sexual pleasure.”

The info delivered from the UK film board will probably be taken in different ways by different audiences. The ban might be the film’s best possible marketing for audiences that thought the first movie was too tame. For everyone else, however, it could stand as an explicit warning that this film might not be for you.

Here’s what the British Board of Film Classification has to say about the film, as reported by Empire. Note that the next couple paragraphs are severely spoilerish. The plot revealed below suggests that there is some attempt in the plot of the second film to talk about the possibility of violent content impacting viewers, but whether or not the conversation works in the context of the film is something we can’t determine without seeing it.

This new work, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), tells the story of a man who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of the first film and who imagines putting the ‘centipede’ idea into practice. Unlike the first film, the sequel presents graphic images of sexual violence, forced defecation, and mutilation, and the viewer is invited to witness events from the perspective of the protagonist. Whereas in the first film the ‘centipede’ idea is presented as a revolting medical experiment, with the focus on whether the victims will be able to escape, this sequel presents the ‘centipede’ idea as the object of the protagonist’s depraved sexual fantasy.

The principal focus of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is the sexual arousal of the central character at both the idea and the spectacle of the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture, and murder of his naked victims. Examples of this include a scene early in the film in which he masturbates whilst he watches a DVD of the original Human Centipede film, with sandpaper wrapped around his penis, and a sequence later in the film in which he becomes aroused at the sight of the members of the ‘centipede’ being forced to defecate into one another’s mouths, culminating in sight of the man wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the rear of the ‘centipede’. There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience. There is a strong focus throughout on the link between sexual arousal and sexual violence and a clear association between pain, perversity and sexual pleasure. It is the Board’s conclusion that the explicit presentation of the central character’s obsessive sexually violent fantasies is in breach of its Classification Guidelines and poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers.

The producers have six weeks to appeal this decision, but whether they’ll take the ban as supreme marketing or try to severely change the film remains to be seen. That may not even be possible. David Cooke, Director of the BBFC said, “The Board considered whether its concerns could be dealt with through cuts. However, given that the unacceptable content runs throughout the work, cuts are not a viable option in this case and the work is therefore refused a classification.”

And then there is the question of banning the movie outright. With film piracy being as easy as clicking a couple of links, anyone in the UK who really wants to see the film will be able to. Will the ban only make it more appealing to people who might otherwise have ignored the project? Might the film board have been better off just saying “this movie has barbed-wire rape, so you might not actually want to watch it”?

IFC Midnight will be releasing The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) in the US later this year. Whether it will appear without cuts is another question.

-Joey's Two Cents: Well, the first film was far tamer than most expected, but as one of the few who bothered to sit through it, I don't know that I have any desire to see the sequel...thoughts?

Jim Carrey is looking to make another Bruce Almighty or Dumb and Dumber?

Apparently so, according to The Playlist:

There’s merit to the idea of stars aging and eventually losing sight of what their fans want. Which is why Arnold Schwarzenegger opted for “The Governator” and “Cry Macho” as potential comeback projects, or Sean Connery signing on to something like “The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen” despite claiming to not understand a single word of the script. While Jim Carrey might not be as old as these people, he is threatening to take the path of Harrison Ford, which is to do a bunch of indifferent middlebrow studio films that no one cares for, and then return to a beloved character decades too late. With Ford “Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull” paid off, but we aren’t expecting the same fortune to smile on another tired Jim Carrey sequel.

Doing press for the intolerable-looking kiddie picture “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” Carrey revealed his questionable future career plans. “We’re talking about maybe returning to some old characters that everyone has been asking about,” says Carrey, confusing “people” with “his bellboy,” who is clearly just humoring him. “There’s ‘Bruce Almighty’ and we’re talking about maybe another ‘Dumb and Dumber’.” This wouldn’t be a terrible idea, and the studios agreed, which is why both of those films had second installments. “Evan Almighty” starred Steve Carell and grossed $100 million domestically, though the reported cost was astronomical, while “Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd” was a school-age prequel that won no support from critics or audiences.

That said, earlier this year Bobby Farrelly did say “the ball is in motion” on a proper ‘Dumber’ sequel, so presumably Carrey has been tossing ideas around with his old pals. But it sounded fairly preliminary at best with the director saying, “[Dumb and Dumber] has run a bunch of times on TV in the states, and kids will come up and they’ll be able to quote lines from that – lines that I’ve long forgotten. If we could get those two guys back together, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels that might be a worthwhile sequel – and that ball is in motion. We’re starting to think about what those two dimwits would be doing twenty years later in life, and hopefully we’ll be able to come up with something worthy of a sequel.”

Carrey, who isn’t signed on to any post-‘Popper’ projects, so whether or not either of these become his next go-to seems unlikely for now. While “Bruce Almighty” was a mega-hit, it’s not exactly beloved amongst his fans, and there’s nowhere that he or his usual collaborators (a murderer’s row of nimrods that includes Tom Shadyac and Steve Odekerk) could take the material. “Dumb And Dumber” might make more sense, but again, you’d be dealing with morons in their fifties, which isn’t really funny anymore, just kind of sad. Though we’ll sign up for a trainwreck mashup of “Dumb And Dumber” and “Patch Adams” from Shadyac if it meant Lars Von Trier could tackle “Bruce Almighty III.”

-Joey's Two Cents: It seems like a waste of his dramatic talent, but it's his life...thoughts?

Look for James Bond to return to theaters on November 9th of 2012!

Collider has the details:

If you’re a James Bond fanatic and want to see director Sam Mendes take on the character as soon as possible, start saving for a ticket to the United Kingdom. That’s because MGM and Sony Pictures have set a October 26, 2012 release for Bond 23 in the U.K., which is two weeks before America (November 9, 2012). Production on the 23rd installment is set to begin later this year. In case you missed our previous stories, Javier Bardem and Ralph Fiennes have both been in talks with producers about taking on two separate roles, with Bardem being offered the villain. While I loved Casino Royale, I thought Quantum of Solace was a missed opportunity. However, Daniel Craig was great in both films and I can’t wait for the next installment.

-Joey's Two Cents: I'm a Bond fan, so I'll be counting the days...thoughts?

Not that this shocks anyone, but prepare yourself for 'The Hangover Part 3'...

...despite a complete lack of quality inherent in the second one, at least to me. Anyway, here's the story from The Wrap:

It really shouldn't be a surprise, but Craig Mazin is on board to write the third "Hangover" movie.

Mazin and Scot Armstrong wrote "The Hangover Part II," the Warner Bros. comedy that grossed more than $205 million worldwide in its first five days. It's the best comedy premiere ever and Warner Bros. would love to replicate its success.

The movie was released Thursday.

Mazin (left) also wrote the 2003 "Scary Movie 3" and the 2006 "Scary Movie 4."

He and Armstrong wrote "The Hangover Part II" based on characters by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.

Todd Phillips directed the 2009 "The Hangover" and this week's sequel.

-Joey's Two Cents: Money talks...thoughts?

Here's your first look at Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises!

What does everyone think?

Could Duncan Jones be taking over for Darren Aronofsky and directing Wolverine?

Perhaps, according to The Wrap:

Fox may have found the director to tame “The Wolverine.”

Duncan Jones, who directed this year’s “Source Code” -- and is David Bowie’s son -- is looking at the job.

It’s all very early, but the “Moon” director’s name has been popping up as a potential “Wolverine” director quite a bit lately. And he told IGN that he might do it.

“Who knows what’ll be coming up next,” he said. “I have a lot of meetings and catching-up to do when I get back to L.A.”

He confirmed that one of those meetings is with Fox, where he’ll talk about “The Wolverine.”

Darren Aronofsky was originally attached to direct, but he pulled out in March because of scheduling issues.Then, the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, where the movie was set to shoot, and the film was put on hold.

In Christopher McQuarrie's screenplay, Wolverine goes to Japan to learn from a Samurai master.

Hugh Jackman will star.

-Joey's Two Cents: I'm a big fan of the 2 films Jones has directed so far, so I'd certainly be more interested in this project with him at the helm...thoughts?