Brooke Shields Comes Back with a Vengeance
· After expertly sailing through her Michael Jackson-memorial audition on Tuesday, 10-year big-screen absentee Brooke Shields will return to work in the family comedy Furry Vengeance. The Summit Entertainment/Participant Media co-production features Shields as the wife of Brendan Fraser's greedy real estate developer, whose run-in with a group of wild raccoons leads to infidelity, murder and... wait. Wrong raccoons vs. humans movie. Either way, Brooke, welcome back! [THR]
Will Smith awaits a reunion, the Smurfs get a director, and much more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· From Michael Bay to Barry Sonnenfeld to even Gabriele Muccino, you can always count on Will Smith to stage an encore with his favorite directors. This time around it's Francis Lawrence, with whom Smith may reteam for The City That Sailed -- a logical follow-up to their urban disasterpiece I Am Legend in which a father and daughter separated by an ocean share a love "so strong that it causes Manhattan to split off and float across the Atlantic." Ugh. I have to make it to a birthday party tonight in Prospect Heights; can it wait? [Variety]
· After effectively directing the notoriously difficult animated diva Scooby Doo to a pair of hits for Sony, the studio has tapped Raja Gosnell to command an even more volatile ensemble in its 3-D updating of The Smurfs. [Variety]
· Hope Davis will replace Julianne Moore as Hillary Clinton in The Special Relationship, HBO's forthcoming project about the not-so-meet-cute between Bill Clinton met Tony Blair. [THR]
· Remo Williams is the latest '80s-era B-action hero set for a reboot, with the squinty secret agent and his yellowface martial-arts mentor possibly getting the franchise treatment at Columbia. [Risky Biz]
· Finally, remember the Wall Street analyst who months ago foresaw Up underachieving and urged Disney shareholders to sell, sell, sell? He'd just like to say he's sorry about that. [NYT]
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If there's one good thing about the Smurfs big screen adapatation, its the addition of a brand new smurf charachter: Millenial Smurf! Quick with a barb, and late for everything, Millenial Smurf might seem to go against the grain when it comes to obeying the rules laid down by Papa Smurf, but in reality, he's so helpless without the framework of athourity, that he ends up doing what the leaders tell him to do anyway. In short, both audiences, and the residence of smurf village, will love Millenial Smurf - now if he could just put down that damn Sidekick!
I was kind of hoping Brooke would take on more stuff like the bitchy gallery owner she played in Midnight Meat Train, but I guess family comedy is the safe bet? Blech.
Apparently in Hollywood, raccoon is the new penguin.