Ricky Gervais And Stephen Merchant Shoot ‘Cemetary Junction’

Source: Official Site

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the multi-award winning team behind The Office and Extras, recently started production on their first feature film. Cemetary Junction tells the funny, touching and universal story of being trapped in a small town and dreaming of escape. In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones), the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.

This actually sounds like the Fox pilot I just read by Liz Meriwether, except not set in the 70s and no one here falls in love.  Whatever, I’m game. I’m probably the only American who prefers the original Office to the spinoff, but Gervais’ films have kind of sucked. Cemetary Junction just wrapped it’s first week  of a seven week production, and also stars Ralph Fiennes (The Reader, Schindler’s List), Ricky Gervais (The Invention Of Lying, Ghost Town), Emily Watson (Synecdoche, New York, Cold Souls), and Matthew Goode (Match Point, Watchmen) alongside newcomers Felicity Jones, Jack Doolan, Tom Hughes, and Christian Cooke.

Set Pics: ‘Scott Pilgrim’

Source: Edgar Wright Here

Here’s a few behind the scenes pics from a movie I’m highly anticipating, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. I love these pics, and not just because Edgar Wright seems to have amassed the most amazing young cast ever, but because these are gorgeous shots, however unintentional. So enjoy the pics below which include a first look at Alison Pill in character as Kim Pine, and the first actual shot of Jasosn Schwartzman on set.

If you don’t already know, Scott Pilgrim tells the story of the 23-year-old bassist/slacker (Michael Cera) who falls in love with Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), an Amazon.ca delivery girl, but to win her over he must defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. It is being directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz) and based on the graphic novel series by Brian Lee O’Malley.

Michael Bay WON’T Direct Transformers 3

Source: WENN

Fanboys rejoice! Michael Bay has tentatively axed plans to direct another adventure set in the world of shape-shifting automobiles. I was actually a staunch supporter of Michael Bay, hoping he’d rectify everything I hated about the first film — the  stupid humor, annoyingly abrasive soundtrack, etc. — though early reviews are proving that he did not. Ohwell.

“It’s easy to go shoot an art movie in a winery in the South of France. But people have no idea how hard it is to create something like Transformers,” Bay said. “They (the critics) review me before they’ve even seen the movie.” And what do you expect? Most critics these days aren’t snobby, generation-gapped elders; they’re nerd-types running film sites from their apartments and tend to be pretty close-minded when it comes to trampling something from their childhood. Perhaps a smaller film is just what Bay needs right now.

In any case, who would you like to see direct Transformers 3?