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Opening Like The Gates Of Hell: One for the Money, The Grey, Man on a Ledge

FilmDrunk Suggests: I’m digging the previews for Man on a Ledge. Maybe it just looks better than it is because One for the Money previews air every six seconds, thanks to some half-tard exec who thinks that people still love Katherine Heigl.

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For a while, it seemed like Sam Worthington was on pace to star in every movie for the next 10 years, but even an A-lister has to stop to roll around on top of his pile of Avatar cash for a few months. Worthington is back now with Man on a Ledge, playing a cop who spends two hours threatening to kill himself. Admittedly, I don’t know much beyond that so I turned to IMDb’s trusty cabal of commenters for the plot synopsis, which I have not edited for the sake of humor.

An ex-cop framed turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The nearest New York Police officer immediately responds to a screaming women and calls dispatch. More Officers arrive with swat and tactical command along with FDNY. The NYPD then dispatches a female police psychologist personally requested to talk him down from the ledge. However, unbeknownst to the NYPD on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover up for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled. Be ready to journey on a roller coaster ride of many twists and turns and see what happens! Written by Anonymous

Damn you, Anonymous. Is there no corner of this Internet that you can’t reach?

Thankfully, Man on a Ledge has a trailer out now, so we don’t have to guess the plot based on the description of my 10-year old niece. The film also stars Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Ed Harris, and Edward Burns, who I tell people I’m related to so I can feel cool.

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After the jump, I’ve got the trailer for The Debt, starring Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, and Helen Mirren, from Shakespeare in Love director John Madden, co-written by Kick-Ass writers Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman.   The plot is that in 1965, three Mossad agents head to Europe to track down a Nazi war criminal, “the surgeon of Birkenau”, who probably performed lots of Human Centipede experiments, as Germans are wont to do.

I was all set to say, “Hey, isn’t this just like Munich?” when BOOM! Jessica Chastain takes Dr. Nazi down to beatdown town by distracting him with her glistening labes during a routine pelvic exam.  Whoa!  I had a dude try to pull that against me in a Jiu-Jitsu tournament, which is clearly against the rules, but I digress.  Point is, The Debt looks pretty sweet (opens December 29th).  Watching the trailer at home, Mel Gibson reportedly shouted, “LOOK OUT, DOC, THAT JEW CLAM AIN’T KOSHER, SOOWEEE SOOOWEEE!!!”

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Sometimes we have to give Hollywood credit where credit is due, and most of the time it has to do with felching money from moviegoers. Take for instance this year’s remake of the 1981 Greek epic Clash of the Titans. Grossing more than $480 million worldwide, the film was a huge hit for Warner Brothers, so of course they’re going to push a sequel into production as quickly as they can. In fact, the studio is all set to begin filming in January 2011. The only problem is there is no star and no director.

Sam Worthington will begin filming the sequel to Avatar (Tard Harder?) later this year, which would impede his availability to reprise his role as Perseus. Director Louis Leterrier (translated: The Terrier) will not return, presumably having surrendered to a German director. That’s right, French jokes. The World Cup started today and I’m feeling patriotic for my homeland of Uruguay. But as for Titans, WB is locked in on Jonathan Liebesman (Darkness Falls, Battle: Los Angeles) to direct, but there is no plan in place should Worthington not be able to return. But just for poops and giggles, Channing Tatum is rumored.

Turn me to stone, Screen Rant:

With the solid success of the Clash of the Titans remake ($486 million worldwide on a budget of $125 million), it’s no wonder Warner Bros. is looking ahead to a sequel.

We reported back in April that Clash of the Titans 2 was moving ahead without Louis Leterrier returning to direct. Fast-forward to today and we’re hearing word that the Clash of the Titans sequel might be upon us sooner rather than later, with a shortlist of directors already drawn up.

Clash 2 will actually be filmed in 3D this time so it doesn’t feature the same post-production 3D eye-rape of the first installment. While a bunch of people died in the first one, it is also unknown if Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes will return to reprise their respective roles as Zeus and Hades. So if you’re keeping track at home, that’s a sequel going into production with no director and none of the stars set to return. Even Police Academy got the entire original cast locked in for four films.

Should Neeson and Fiennes decide to bolt (*bowtie won’t stop spinning*), the producers could always just go the nostalgic route and bring back the original Perseus, Harry Hamlin, this time to play the King of the Gods. And Lisa Rinna could play Athena and her lips could play Bubo. Problem solved.

Last week, our IROC-driving, tank-top-wearing leader reported that the 23rd film in the James Bond franchise would be suspended indefinitely because MGM executives grew up under power lines. As a result, fans of the James Bond franchise were notably distraught at this year’s James Bond Festival, held over the weekend at the London Film Museum. When not meeting with George Lazenby (GASP!) and Richard Kiel (*faints*), fans were openly wondering how MGM could be so deeply in debt and not at least be willing to sell off the Bond rights to another studio.

Apparently these fans aren’t familiar with money, seeing as the Bond franchise is the only thing that still makes MGM any money. According to a BBC article, Daniel Craig’s Bond debut made the studio £350 million worldwide (which is a lot in American money, too). Problem is MGM is £2.4 billion in debt (also a poopton in American) so MGM is essentially looking for a studio that wants to alleviate the debt. But why am I boring you with economics when this thing is about the fans?

Equip me with gadgets, BBC:

Andy Davison has brought his young son Ashton to come and meet the stars, except Ashton is actually scared of real life Jaws. Still, it is a father-son moment.

“I think James Bond is probably what every boy wants to be and every middle-aged man wants to be as well,” said Davison.

“I love it. My son loves it. And I hope it goes on for generations to come.”

Right on. I’m a huge Bond geek, and I loved the last two, especially Quantum of Solace for all you haters. But another problem that is being mentioned is the status of Daniel Craig. Should there be a lengthy delay before the next Bond film is made, Craig might take his bisexual hopes for Britain’s super spy elsewhere, leaving a need for a new Bond. And who could fill those shoes? Sam Worthington, of course.

Well, it is just a rumor, and the article also mentions Will Smith, so allow me to dismissively wank, but Sam seems to be showing up in everything these days. Like, just this morning I got in the shower… Sam Worthington. Dude washes a good back, I’ll give him that.