OLIVIA WILDE & OLGA KURYLENKO TO JOIN TOM CRUISE IN SF EPIC "HORIZONS". TRAILER FOR FOX'S CANCELED SHOW "LOCKE & KEY"! "GHOSTBUSTERS 3" READY TO SHOOT NEXT SPRING!

According to "MovieWeb" new sf epic HORIZONS (they changed the title from OBLIVION) in which Tom Cruise will star as Jack, a

man who lives in the clouds above Earth and heads to its surface to repair drones that essentially keep the planet safe from an alien race that has all but wiped out humanity, is now trying to find its lead actress. According to latest gossips competing for the role of the girl whom Jack will find on the surface are Olivia Wilde, Olga Kurylenko (click for the naughtier pic) and Jessica Chastain (who is suddenly appearing in lots of films THE HELP, THE DEBT, CORIOLANUS, THE TREE OF LIFE... but I'm not sure why since she's rather unappealing and cold). The film is directed by TRON:LEGACY's Joseph Kosinski.

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Following the trend of "each new day brings a new remake or a revival of the old classic" is GHOSTBUSTERS III which is ready to start shooting next Spring with Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Anna Faris

and possibly Bill Murray as well. Although it will have the old actors as well, the story will have them hand the equipment and the franchise down to a new generation of Ghostbusters. Well this is a project that suddenly got interesting to me: Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell have replaced rather uncharismatic Jennifer Garner and Jeremy Renner in BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY which also has Judi Dench in the cast. The story follows a pharmacist, stuck in a dead-end marriage, who starts an affair with a trophy wife but when he introduces her to prescription drugs, things spiral out of control as they hatch a plot to kill her husband.

Something that appeared all around the net yesterday is the trailer for LOCKE & KEY, the show which Fox didn't greenlit even though the pilot episode looks more than interesting. Maybe it will

find another broadcaster? With a rather interesting cast including gorgeous Sarah Bolger from THE TUDORS, gorgeous pop star Jesse McCartney and LOTR star Miranda Otto, the story follows a family which moves into Keyhouse, a New England mansion with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. The building is also home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all. Check out the creepy and interesting trailer and tell me what you think.

GERARD BUTLER & KATHERINE HEIGL IN "ROMANCING THE STONE" REBOOT? CHRISTIAN BALE IN "A STAR IS BORN" WITH BEYONCE? ADAM SANDLER IS BOTH "JACK AND JILL" IN THE NEW COMEDY TRAILER

Now, as you know, your Hollywood Spy loves romcoms and you just have to deal with it :) But what I also love are romantic adventures like the MUMMY or ROMANCING THE STONE. As you remember I've

mentioned a couple of times that the later one is getting a remake. The famous classic from the 80's followed a mousy romance novelist who goes to the jungles of Colombia to exchange a treasure map for her kidnapped sister but there she meets an irreverent soldier-of-fortune who helps helps her in her mission and then brings her back to civilization. Now, here's the great news: as "MovieWeb" reports, Gerard Butler could take Michael Douglas' original role, while Kathleen Turner's role could now go to Katherine Heigl. As you recall, two of them already had  great chemistry in THE UGLY TRUTH film.

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One of the projects that ultra talented Christian Bale could take on after he finishes that horrid dark saga (you know which I have in mind) is, believe it or not, the remake of A STAR IS BORN in

which, if he accepts the role, he would star alongside divalicious Beyonce in the musical about a young singer who seeks the help from an older rock star. The remake is, again believe it or not, being directed by Clint Eastwood. Super charming comedian Rob Corddry has joined gorgeous young people Teresa Palmer and Nicholas Hoult in WARM BODIES which follows an existentially tormented zombie who falls for the girlfriend of one of his victims and decides to protect her from his brain-eating brethren as he begins to reconnect with his dormant humanity.

I don't have any other trailer to show you today, but the latest one for Adam Sandler's hilarious new comedy JACK AND JILL which premieres this November. You will also see Al Pacino, Katie Holmes and Shaquille O'Neal, in the story about Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with

a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill. Jill’s neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Now, what's so special about the whole film? Adam Sandler plays both Jack and Jill in he movie :)

NEW TRAILER FOR "FOOTLOSE" REMAKE!

Check out a new trailer for the remake of famous FOOTLOSE which premieres this October following Ren MacCormack (Kenny

Wormald) who is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid) responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister's troubled daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the process.

1ST TRAILER FOR MICHELLE YEOH'S "THE LADY"! DJIMON HOUNSOU IS ANGEL OF DEATH IN "PARADISE LOST"! CALEB LANDRY JONES IN "BYZANTIUM". ABC TO MAKE "JEKYLL & HYDE" SHOW

After his bad directorial work on THE BORGIAS (which basically became a nice show after he left its helm), Neil Jordan is going back to his vampires (he did INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE)

and is, as I reported before, preparing a horror tale BYZANTIUM. As you remember Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan will play a mother and a daughter, both vampires who hunt for their victims together, but now they have the male lead: Caleb Landry Jones will play a teenager dying from leukemia whose struggle with mortality affects the mother daughter vampire duo, and in effect, the daughter, trapped forever in the body of a teenager, begins to question her own immortality. You've seen charming Caleb as Banshee this summer in X-MEN:FIRST CLASS.

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The director of Disney's famous UP, Bob Peterson, is helming a new animated film which will be set in the modern world in which dinosaurs have never actually gone extinct. The untitled film will premiere in 2013. ABC, the channel which will probably have the

best Fall season this year with great new shows is also preparing JEKYLL & HYDE TV series, according to "The Hollywood Reporter". Based on the famous horror tale, it will follow a doctor who begins experiencing bizarre side effects from an experimental eye treatment that greatly alters his personality. When he falls asleep, he becomes the opposite of his anti-social self, a fearless daredevil that can confront anything. A new face to join Bradley Cooper as Lucifer and Benjamin Walker as archangel Michael in huge epic PARADISE LOST is Djimon Hounsou who will play Abdiel, the angel of death.

Today's trailer of the day is the first one for political drama THE LADY in which amazing Michelle Yeoh portrays Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and pro-democracy icon who led the opposition against the Burmese military junta that arrested her in 1989, and spent 15 years of the last 21 years under house arrest.

The film will also depict her personal struggles since she had to choose whether to lead the political battle or to fight her husband's (always amazing David Thewlis) cancer battle. The film, which premieres later this year, is directed by famous French director Luc Besson (THE BIG BLUE, THE FIFTH ELEMENT).

NEW WILD WEST SHOW "GATEWAY"! MARY LOUISE PARKER & RYAN REYNOLDS IN "R.I.P.D"! DAVID ALPAY IS ITALIAN PRINCE IN "BORGIAS"! NEW "VIKING" EPIC! "DARKFEVER" FANTASY SAGA GETS A FILM!

As "Variety" reports, WEEDS star Mary Louise Parker has joined the movie adaptation of graphic novel R.I.P.D. which follows

an unusual police unit comprised of cops killed in the line of duty which is why it is called the Rest in Peace Department. Mary Louise Parker will play the head of R.I.P.D. while Ryan Reynolds will appear as a new policeman in the team whom she has to introduce with his new colleagues. Other stars who will play the older dead cops in this adaptation of Peter M. Lenkov's story are Jeff Bridges and Kevin Bacon. The film premieres in 2013.

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The second season of Showtime's BORGIAS is ready to shoot and one of the new members in the cast lead by Jeremy Irons and David Oakes is David Alpay who has landed a major

recurring role in the show, and he will play an Italian prince Calvino who becomes a suitor for Holliday Grainger's Lucrezia. You probably remember Alpay from his short role in THE TUDORS. Talented writer Bruce McKenna, who wrote BAND OF BROTHERS and THE PACIFIC, is currently working on TNT's new Wild West drama GATEWAY which will follow three brothers who must maintain justice when their sheriff father is murdered by a local villain. As I wrote earlier, this will not be the only Wild West show on TV since AMC has produced HELL ON WHEELS with Anson Mount in the lead role.

You know how I love me a good Viking epic, and it seems that beside Alexander Skarsgard's THE VANGUARD, which I've

mentioned recently, we shall get another Scandinavian epic. Titled VIKING,  this Universal's new project will follow a group of savage Norsemen who've collected Irish slaves to trade in Iceland. According to "THR" the film be a mix of BRAVEHEART and APOCALYPTO. According to "Variety", DreamWorks will make a film adaptation out of Karen Marie Moning's fantasy saga DARKFEVER about a woman who falls into a fantastical world filled with ancient magic and mythical creatures where she is tasked with finding a book

that could save both the real world and this new land she has come to inhabit. As far as I got it, the book features a bunch of extremely hot characters, like the one from the image above.

TV MONDAY: NEW "SINBAD" SHOW! LOVELY CHARACTER POSTERS FOR ABC'S FANTASY SHOW "ONCE UPON A TIME"! FLY WITH "PAN AM" THIS FALL ON ABC!

In the sea of new shows which will come to American channels this Autumn, here's one from the other side of the ocean: British Sky One is preparing a new adventure show based on the famous

enchanting legend of SINBAD. The 13 episode series will have young newcomer Elliot Knight in the lead role in the story which will  follow famous Sinbad as he flees his home and ends up being cast out to sea. After a magical storm, Sinbad teams up with his ship-mates and goes on a voyage of discovery. Naveen Andrews, whom you remember as Sayid from LOST will play  Sinbad's enemy Lord Akbari, while two established actors Sophie Okonedo and Timothy Spall will have guest star roles in the show too. Shooting over in Malta, the show should premiere next year.
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 Today, you can also check out four beautiful posters which are announcing the first season of ABC's wonderful new show ONCE UPON A TIME which centers on a woman with a troubled past who is drawn into a small town in Maine where the magic

and mystery of Fairy Tales just may be real. As you remember from HOLLYWOOD SPY's spotlight of the show, the rich ensemble of

characters features a Snow White, an Evil Queen, a prince charming and many others with the cast that includes Jennifer Morrison, Josh Dallas, Jamie Dornan, Ginnifer Goodwin and Robert Carlyle.
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One of the shows which will continue the trend of shows being set in the 60's is ABC's glamorous and visually beautiful new show PAN AM

which will follow the pilots and flight attendants who once made Pan Am the most glamorous way to fly. Starring two film stars Christina Ricci and Mike Vogel, the show, which premieres September 25th, will also have ER's Goran Visnjic, who will play an immigrant from Yugoslavia, as a guest star. Christina Ricci, who moved from cinema to TV in this Fall's new trend of having movie stars as TV leads (Patrick Wilson, Ashley Judd, Sam Neill, James Caviezel will all have their own shows), has said that she enjoyed playing a flight attendant because she thinks that they had more freedom than most women of the era.

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S GUIDE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2011 FILMS! MACHINE GUN PREACHER, ABDUCTION, DOLPHIN'S TALE, WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER, CONTAGION, STRAW DOGS, COLOMBIANA ...

I'm sure you've noticed that the summer is almost over and September is here with new school and work season. So, what shall we watch in the rare moments of relaxation between two working weeks? Check it

out in HOLLYWOOD SPY'S GUIDE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2011 FILMS! Hope you'll find something to suit your taste.

MACHINE GUN PREACHER

 This is probably the most awaited film this September, Gerard Butler's attempt to possibly get an Oscar, which tells the true story of an ex-biker and gang member who makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war and gets outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region’s vulnerable populace, especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of more experienced aide workers, he breaks ground for an orphanage where it’s most needed—in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army, a renegade militia that forces youngsters to become soldiers before they even reach their teens. Determined to save as many as possible, he also leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children, restoring peace to their lives and eventually his own.

TAYLOR LAUTNER'S AB(S)DUCTION

Coming out September 23rd, is a sf film ABDUCTION, which is kinda a vehicle for young star Taylor Lautner who wants to

become an action star (and he has chiseled abs to prove his ready for it).  With the cast which also includes another teen star Lily Collins (SNOW WHITE) and some older actors Jason Isaacs, Sigourney Weaver, always weak Maria Bello and Alfred Molina, this thriller centers on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website. Feeling disconnected from his parents he will try to figure out the truth in a quest which will unleash a chain of violent events. Click for the trailer.

WANT CHRIS EVANS' NUMBER?

Since September will be mostly filled with dark action films and grim horrors, I'm sure you might need a relaxation in the form

of a charming new romantic comedy? And WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER, which hits cinemas on September 30th has a rather adorable and cute cast lead by mega gorgeous people Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Chris Pratt, Mike Vogel, David Annable and Zachary Quinto. The story centers on a woman who treks through her sexual past to find Mr. Right, exploring the idea of sexual quotas and whether such numbers matter. She basically looks back at the past twenty men she's had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love. Click for the trailer.

INSPIRING DOLPHIN TALE

Probably the most positive film to premiere this September (on the 16th) is a heartwarming drama DOLPHIN TALE which,

inspired by a true story, follows the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap. It will take the expertise of a dedicated marine biologist, the ingenuity of a brilliant prosthetics doctor, and the unwavering devotion of a young boy to bring about a groundbreaking miracle—a miracle that might not only save the dolphin but could also help scores of people around the world. The brilliant cast includes Ashley Judd, Harry Connick Jr, Morgan Freeman and young Nathan Gamble. The story of this dolphin is still a huge inspiration to both able and disabled who have been touched by her remarkable recovery and rehabilitation. Click for the trailer.

DON'T TOUCH ANYONE!

Premiering September 9th is Steven Soderbergh's extremely expensive viral thriller CONTAGION which follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart. Stellar cast includes Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow and Marion Cotillard. Click for the trailer.

EVERYONE HAS A BREAKING POINT

One of the films you liked a lot back when I played you the rather

scary and exciting trailer is the remake of famous STRAW DOGS which follows the idea that everybody has a breaking point. James Marsden plays an L.A. screenwriter who relocates with his wife (Kate Bosworth) to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both. The cast also includes amazing Alexander Skarsgard, Dominic Purcell, Anson Mount and James Woods.

VENGEANCE IS DIRTY

Action fans will surely be satisfied with a female action hero in COLOMBIANA, a thrilling action packed  movie in which STAR TREK's and AVATAR's Zoe Saldana, joined by two charming gents Michael Vartan and Callum Blue, plays a girl named Cataleya who, after witnessing her parents being murdered by the mob as a 10-year-old kid, sets off on a 15-year journey for revenge that takes

her across the world. Click for the trailer. And if that isn't enough of girl power for you, the same month will also bring us CITIZEN JANE in which Michelle Rodriguez plays Charlotte Foster Jane, a lethal assassin hell bent on avenging the murder of her parents in the guns blazing, action packed retelling of Orson Welles 1941 classic CITIZEN KANE. Click for the trailer.

MAY THE BEST MAN LIVE

But if you still prefer boys doing all the action you will probably

prefer KILLER ELITE which premieres on September 23rd. This dynamic action movie revolves around a retired member of Britain's Elite Special Air Service (Jason Statham) who is forced into action after his mentor (Robert De Niro) is taken captive. His mission is to kill three assassins dispatched by their cunning leader (Clive Owen). This irresistibly manly cast also includes Dominic Purcell. Click for the trailer.

SEPTEMBER TIDBITS

September should also bring some other films to cinemas which I've already mentioned before, or which still don't have trailers and

posters: I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT with Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear and Pierce Brosnan (trailer), MACHINE GUN PREACHER with Gerard Butler, RESTLESS with young Henry Hopper and Mia Wasikowska (trailer), WARRIOR with Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton (trailer), APOLLO 18 bringing the actual and shocking footage which the astronauts captured on the famous space mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it’s the real reason we’ve never gone back to the moon.

MICHAEL FASSBENDER TAKES "PRISONERS"! 1ST TRAILER FOR KATE WINSLET'S & JODI FOSTER'S "CARNAGE"! JOE MANGANIELLO NEW STRIPPER IN "MAGIC MIKE"

According to "MovieWeb" another hunk that my ladies love, Michael Fassbender, who is getting more and more roles after his success in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, will take the lead role in PRISONERS, which is actually a great piece of news since he will replace that DiCaprio guy. Ready to hit theaters in 2012 this thriller revolves around a desperate father who turns vigilante and abducts the man he suspects is behind the disappearance of his eight year old daughter and her best friend, after cops fail to find the little girls and release the suspect.

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You didn't think that Steven Soderbergh will stop at four mega hunks, Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew Bomer and Matthew McConaughey in his cast for MAGIC MIKE, now did you? Well, the fifth hunk who will strip naked in the film

about Channing Tatum's early stripper days is Joe Manganiello that dashing werewolf from TRUE BLOOD . These are good news: TLC has canceled two of its prime shows KATE PLUS 8 and LA INK. I admit I love a lot of TLC shows but they often promote some really wrong things: people painting themselves like in some primitive tribes in LA INK and people using their kids to become popular like in KATE PLUS 8. Not to mention the most atrocious TV programme I've ever seen TODDLERS AND TIARAS. And excuse my rant, but in any normal country parents which appear in that monstrous show would be locked in jail and rot in hell forever for their crimes against their own kids.

Today's trailer of the day is the first one for CARNAGE, a Roman Polanski directed drama with a stellar cast which includes

Kate Winslet, Jodi Foster, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. Here's the story for the film which premieres this December:A showdown between two kids, about eleven, in a local playground. Swollen lips, broken teeth... Now the parents of the "victim" have invited the parents of the "bully" to their apartment to sort if out. Cordial banter gradually develops a razor-sharp edge as all four parents reveal their laughable contradictions and grotesque prejudices. None of them will escape the ensuing carnage.

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HUGH JACKMAN IS "THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH"! JIM CARREY & AMY ADAMS IN "POPEYE"! "THE AVENGERS" TO BATTLE SKRULLS!

Check out a gorgeous new poster for Lars von Trier's unusual sf drama MELANCHOLIA which premieres this November. With a stellar cast including Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Hurt,

Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Skarsgard and Stellan Skarsgard the film will basically start with the end, with the audience seeing the world being crushed and destroyed at the beginning and then it will not be a film about what happens but how it happened! The film will show people who are trying to deal with the planet’s impending doom. Kirsten Dunst will be a woman who is planning to get married to Alexander Skarsgard while his father Stellan Skarsgard will play the best man and John Hurt will play Dunst's father. You can also check out the trailer for the film.

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As "Variety" reports Michael Gracey (who is also directing SNOW AND THE SEVEN, the China set version of Snow White) will

helm THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH in which Hugh Jackman will play P.T. Barnum who was known for his penchant for hoaxing a gullible public and for creating the three-ring circus. This musical won't come out any time soon since Jackman first has to do WOLVERINE and LES MISERABLES. According to "MovieWeb" beside Tom Hiddleston's Loki, the villains in THE AVENGERS will be the Skrulls, a shape-shifting race of aliens who can turn into any living creature or inanimate object. Yesterday, I've mentioned Channing Tatum's biographical project MAGIC MIKE, and since there obviously

weren't enough hunks in the cast beside him, Matthew McConaughey and Alex Pettyfer, they've now added magnetic Matthew Bomer (WHITE COLLAR) as well. He will also play a stripper. Latest rumors say that POPEYE 3D animated film is in works with the voice cast to be lead by Jim Carrey as Popeye and Amy Adams as skinny Olive!Totally delightful!

TRAILER FOR CHRIS EVANS' "PUNCTURE"! MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY JOINS CHANNING TATUM & ALEX PETTYFER IN "MAGIC MIKE"! DAKOTA FANNING & EMMA THOMPSON IN "EFFIE"

Young Dakota Fanning has replaced Saoirse Ronan in a period drama EFFIE which revolves around Effie Gray, a teenager who

married famous London art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise) in the 1850s but he refused to consummate the marriage since he was repulsed by her body even though Effie was considered a gorgeous girl. In the end she turned her affections to Ruskin's protege, famous painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge). It' s interesting that the story was written by Emma Thompson who will also appear in the film beside two legends Derek Jacobi and Julie Walters.

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Matthew McConaughey will star in MAGIC MIKE, as a strip club owner in the biographical story about Channing Tatum's early stripper days.

Channing will play himself, while Alex Pettyfer is playing another young stripper whom Tatum mentors both on and off the stage. The film is directed by Steven Soderbergh. Controversial book MIRKWOOD by Steve Hillard will be made into a film. The novel, whose publication was almost stopped by the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien, is a fictional story on the famous writer following him while he was planning his famous novels and while he was trying to become a codebreaker in World War II.

Trailer of the day is the new one for healthcare legal drama PUNCTURE which premieres later this September and stars Chris Evans as a talented young Houston lawyer and a drug

addict who decides to take on a case involving a local ER nurse (Vinessa Shaw), who is pricked by a contaminated needle on the job. As he digs deeper into the case, a health care and pharmaceutical conspiracy teeters on exposure and heavyweight attorneys move in on the defense. Out of his league but invested in his own principles, the mounting pressure of the case pushes the underdog lawyer and his business to the breaking point. This could be Chris Evans' attempt to go into more serious waters after scoring humongous success as CAPTAIN AMERICA this summer.

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