Dwayne Johnson looks awesome in this movie, especially without his shirt on. That’s all I remember about this trailer. All kidding aside, Julie Andrews, Billy Crystal and Diane Lane also star in this kiddie movie. I hope they can pull it off and create a fun movie for the kiddies. The movie opens January 22, 2009.
I believe this report is true. CBS Films is in final negotiations with Dwayne Johnson to star in Faster, an action 
drama set to Johnson’s next film.
The move will be directed d by Phil Joanou, who directed Johnson in Gridiron Gang.
Johnson lately has been familiar with family comedy hits. Faster places him in a character who has a darker side with action as the foreplay.
Johnson’s character is an ex-con with a mission to avenge death of his brother, who was murdered 10 years earlier when the two were double-crossed during a heist.
Filming is schedule to begin in August.
Production Weekly reports that Dwayne Johnson is set to star in Disney’s remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo. Whatever happened to Will Smith? I am not complaining. I like Johnson. But the trades were reporting that Smith was going to star in the remake. I am just curious what happened.
Anyway, Disney is fast tracking the production with McG all set to direct in Australia. The classic story is follows a whaler who teams up with a naturalist, a mysterious woman and a captain of a futuristic submarine, to search for a lost underwater civilization that holds libraries of vast knowledge and a weapon with the power to destroy mankind.
All my daughter talks about is Race to Witch Mountain trailer that she sees on the Disney Channel. The movie opens tomorrow nationwide. Witch Mountain might beat Watchmen at the box office this weekend with a large draw from the younger audience crowd.
Dwayne Johnson is providing the voice of a macho Texas steer in Holy Cow!.
The computer-generated story derives from an original idea by Peter Kalmbach and Teddy Grennan. The tale follows a Texas bull who decides to seek refuge in India, where cattle are revered, not eaten.
Coming out on Blu-Ray this week is the special edition of Doom, a movie that proves that sometimes, all you need is a name.
Only vaguely resembling the video game, Doom plants us squarely on Mars, along with a half-squad of Space Marines who’ve been sent to investigate recent disturbances at the Union Aerospace Corporation’s facility there. What’s causing the disturbances? Why, what else but a series of genetically engineered horrors!
For those of you who thought that demons were actually causing the problems on Mars in the Doom universe, well, you’re not alone. This is only one of several discrepancies between the original game and the movie.
This isn’t to say, of course, that Doom isn’t a fun and fairly exciting little piece of fluff. There’s lots of gunplay and explosions and big creepy nasties roaming around and getting blasted. There’s a sequence toward the end that’s almost exactly like the video game, in a fairly clever homage. But no one’s ever going to mistake this for an Oscar candidate, or anything more than a mediocre action film featuring nothing less than The Rock. The Rock is very familiar with cheesy action film.
And can we ever smell what The Rock is cooking…no pancakes this time, but rather a half-baked warmed-over leftover of a movie.
Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain trailer blows away trucks, trains and bad guys while giving us a lot of details about the movie. Dwayne Johnson delivers a fun, likable character. It opens in March 2009 release.
The cast for Tooth Fairy is looking pretty good, rather magical, with quite a line of stars: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Stephen Merchant, Ryan Sheckler and now Billy Crystal with Michael Lembeck directing.
Johnson plays a minor league hockey player known for loosening dental work — ouch! — with physical play. He is penalized to serve as a real Tooth Fairy for a week.
Filming starts in Vancouver this Monday.
Pirates of the Caribbean is quite a franchise, now, with three blockbusters under its belt.
Taking that successful idea of converting a theme park ride to a movie, which the trades reported yesterday, Disney is considering Tomorrowland to be a space movie staring Dwayne Johnson.
Interestingly though, Disney denies such reports in the trades, taking another theme park and converting it to a movie.
Disney is calling Tomorrowland a new project from an original script.
I wonder why that are using the same name as their theme park?