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The MPAA has announced today that Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, based on the comic series from Bryan Lee O’Malley, has received a PG-13 rating for “stylized violence, sexual content, language and drug references.”
This decision may have come as a surprise to anyone familiar with Wright’s previous movies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, which were clearly R-rated for language, violence and other things; Michael Cera, who plays the title character, also first made his mark with the raunchy R-rated humor of Superbad. Clearly, the “F-word” wasn’t required in order to bring the more innocent nature of O’Malley’s work, which combines humor, romance and video game action, to the screen, meaning that fans of the comics under 17 won’t have to suffer seeing the movie with one of their parents.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World comes out on August 13.
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The opening chapter of The Thing saga has added another name to its ever growing list of people who will hopefully end up meat for the beast.
According to IMDB (and confirmed), Jonathan Walker (Land of the Dead, “Smallville”) has signed on to tackle everyone’s favorite imitating alien. He’ll star opposite the already announced Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Dennis Storhøi, Trond Espen Seim, Jørgen Langhelle, Eric Christian Olsen, Stig Henrik Hoff, Jan Gunnar Røise, Kristofer Hivju and Jo Adrian Haavind.
Universal’s prequel to the John Carpenter classic The Thing is now shooting up in Toronto, Canada under the direction of Matthijs Van Heijningen. Look for more soon. (Source)
Mary is featured in Entertainment Weekly’s April 23-30 issue and she looks gorgeous! The scan also features a new interview in which she talks about constantly having to change wigs in Scott Pilgrim and her connection to Kurt Russell – be sure to check it out by clicking on the scan below!
Out stumping “The Square” in the states, star Joel Edgerton was asked by Collider how his next project, the prequel to John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, compares to the original.
“[Director Matthijs van Heijningen]‘s not trying to reinvent the film. He’s certainly not trying to eclipse the film. He’s certainly not trying to remake the film. But, what he’s trying to do is tell the story “pre” that film”, explains Edgerton. “Whoever’s familiar with the film knows that very early on in the original the two Norwegian guys seem to have become crazy. One is blown up in a helicopter and the other one gets shot by the Americans and in order to find out why they went crazy, Kurt Russell goes in a helicopter to see and question the Norwegian base and when he gets there it’s been decimated and they find the carcass of this “Thing.” And this story tells what happened to the Norwegian base.”
“What Universal and Matthijs are trying to do is make a partner piece to “The Thing” while also reinventing the aspect of – modern filmmaking has come a long way – so I guess they’re paying respect to the original while bringing a new time and different [approach] without throwing away what they did in the past.”
The “Thing” prequel co-stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (“Die Hard 4.0″) and is shooting in Vancouver. (Source)
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