This is the red-band trailer for Repo Men, but be careful because it’s NSFW for swearing and bloody and boobs and stuff.  It has nothing to do with Alex Cox’s 1984 cult classic Repo Man, though Cox thinks Universal changed the title from Repossession Mambo to punish him for making a kind-of sequel without them.

Instead it tells of a near future when human life spans have been greatly extended by expensive artificial organs created by a company called The Union. When people fail to make their payments for a fancy new liver or other piece of their gut, a team of surgical operatives are sent out to reclaim The Union’s property. The film follows two of these guys, played by Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. [/Film]

If you thought that sounded familiar, check out the synopsis for Repo! The Genetic Opera from 2008:

Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men.

I guess that’s not really a complaint, because once you remove Paris Hilton and awful goth music from the equation, I sort of forget what my objection was.  On another note, it looks like Forest Whitaker missed a few payments on that eye.  *tries to play rimshot, pokes self in eye with drumstick*

Guess what, everyone!  Carlos Mencia is finally getting that starring movie role he so richly deserves!

Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera and Carlos Mencia have signed on to star in an untitled family wedding project for Fox Searchlight. Rick Famuyiwa (“Brown Sugar”) is directing the pic from a screenplay he penned. Described as a clash-of-cultures comedy [Shocking -Ed.], story centers on two overbearing fathers (Whitaker, Mencia) who must put aside their differences to plan the wedding of their son and daughter (Ferrera) in less than two weeks. [Variety]

Mencia’s last role was a bit part in Heartbreak Kid in which he proved he can’t even do a convincing Mexican accent, so I’m sure he’ll do fine opposite an Oscar winner.  I mean, look at this picture. I didn’t even have to Photoshop that.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the latest project getting the Hollywood train run on it.  Last week, it was a version starring Keanu Reeves from the director of Bronson, with a passing mention of Guillermo Del Toro also working on a Jekyll/Hyde project. Today comes news of yet another, this one starring 50 Cent and Forest Whitaker. Sources say the version will be more “urban,” and with more “flava,” and “bigger penises.”

[Bad Lieutenant director] Abel Ferrara is taking another walk on the wild side with a re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” which will be contemporized and titled “Jekyll and Hyde.”  Forest Whitaker and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson are attached to play the lead roles. [Variety]

No word yet on who’s playing what, but I could easily see Fiddy as Dr. Jekyll.  He drinks the potion, loses vision in one eye, then blacks out, and when he awakens later, he has nine mysterious gunshot wounds.

Courtesy of Yahoo, this is the latest Watchmen poster (click to enlarge). They’re subtly trying to get you “all wet” for this movie.

Compilation of sexy TV babes from the 80s.  You’re going to hell for putting the Olsen twins on this list. [ScreenJunkies]

Jessica Alba to play a prostitute in The Killer Inside Me. I’d be interested if this were a porno shot in real time. [Filmonic]

Stallone wants Forest Whitaker for The Expendables, which already includes Jet Li and Jason Statham. Reached for comment, Statham said, “Oi, Oy can’t tell wut dis cunt’s lookin at, now can Oy.”  [THR]

Repo the Genetic Opera is getting rave reviews: “The second-biggest mystery is why this unfunny, unscary, preposterous bloodbath about organ transplants is opening at all. And why did a serious singer like Sarah Brightman sign on and donate her pipes to this infernal, self-indulgent misfire?” [USA Today]

Nicole Kidman playing world’s first post-op trannie.  She’d been preparing for this role for years, by being married to Tom Cruise. [RopeofSilicon]

Poster for Street Fighter movie.  I don’t remember Chun Li ever holding sticks.  This so inaccurate.  This is an outrage.  This is going straight to DVD. [ComingSoon]

Chris Rock doing “urban” remake of Death at a Funeral.  Is it so hard to say the word “black”?  If Larry the Cable Guy was remaking it, would we have to call it a “rural” remake?  Or can we stick with a “retard” remake. [THR]

Beyoncé wants to play Wonder Woman. “It would be great. And it would be a very bold choice. A black Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing. It’s time for that, right?”  The time for a black Wonder Woman has passed, shit, we already have a black president.  I say we skip straight to a Robert Downey Jr. in blackface Wonder Woman.  [LA Times]

Defiance has a new poster.  And when I look at it, all I can hear is the bad Dracula accents from the trailer.  Zees mooovie vants to suck, muahaha. [Empire]

Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are was once one of this year’s most eagerly anticipated movies.  Then the release got bumped, and as of July, it had disappeared from WB’s release schedule altogether.  Forest Whitaker liked the original cut, but, long story short, the studio didn’t.  As of today, the studio has again set a firm release date.  In… October 2009.  Shit, man, I’ll be crapping my pants by then.  Maybe even by accident.

It seems the issues Warners execs were having with Jonze’s live-action take on the beloved story have been assuaged by a new cut the director delivered earlier this month. This new version, says one inside source, features Jonze’s re-shoots — specifically smaller scenes added to bolster the storyline between Max, played by newcomer Max Records, and the Wild Things. Now Jonze will work furiously to bring the Wild Things’ faces to life with CG animation, a task he’s confident he can complete by next October. [EW]

It scares me that some studio douches had veto power over something Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, and Maurice Sendak all made and liked.  I mean, it doesn’t scare me like dwarves or little kids with speech impediments, but I’m wary.  But I haven’t heard anything about talking chihuahuas or the Jonas Brothers being added to this, so hopefully I won’t have to drag my assault rifle to the top of a water tower after all.