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Kevin Costner is out of "Unchained" and Samuel L. Jackson is in; "We Bought a Zoo" movie trailer; "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" movie trailer;

  • According to Collider, "It appears that Kevin Costner won’t be starring in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained after all. The actor was in negotiations to join Tarantino’s controversial western, which takes a harsh look at slavery in the 19th century as told through Tarantino’s oh-so-politically-correct pen, but now Variety’s Justin Kroll reports that the actor had to pass due to scheduling conflicts. Costner was poised to play the villainous role of Ace Woody, a man who trains male slaves to fight for the public’s amusement. Costner recently filmed his role as Clark Kent’s adoptive Earth father in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, and also has the History Channel miniseries The Hatfields and the McCoys and his directorial effort A Little War of Our Own on his plate so those projects may be to blame for the scheduling snafu" and the same source claims "Variety is happy to confirm Jackson will reunite with the director for Django Unchained, their fifth feature collaboration since Pulp Ficition debuted in 1994. Jackson will play Stephen, “a house slave and the right-hand man of a sadistic slavemaster.” Like Jackson’s more recent participation in Kill Bill Vol. 2 and Inglorious Basterds, this may be a smaller role". Well, I'm not a fan of Kevin Costner (Dances With Wolves), so hearding this news doesn't "hurt" me, but I'm glad Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) will be part of this project. Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Basterds) is one of the most interesting directors working today and it is always good to see him working with good actors in a western! It sounds delicious...

    • Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) upcoming We Bought a Zoo got its first movie trailer and it seems... sweet. While this is a completely different story from the one you can read in Benjamin Mee's memoir of the same name, We Bought a Zoo seems something really heartbreaking and feel-good, a kind of Crowe's classic Jerry Maguire, but with a better actor leading the movie and a zoo as the main movie set. Seems a good Christmas movie and looks (and SOUNDS) very Cameron Crowe! Maybe it will have a chance at the Oscar... We Bought a Zoo stars Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting), Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation), Thomas Haden Church (Sideways), Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous) and Elle Fanning (Somewhere) and it will be released at 23rd December, 2011. Here's the movie trailer:


    • While I don't like Twilight Saga movies, there's no way to deny that the it is a worldwide phenomen, and Breaking Dawn: Part I just got a new movie trailer. It looks like all the others Twilight movies (maybe with better drama) and the trailer score sounds nice. Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part I stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Anna Kendrick and Michael Sheen and it will be released 18th November, 2011. Here's the movie trailer:

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