Also in Monday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs is more Elijah Wood news. He is teaming up for a production company focusing on genre product. Matt Reeves is picked to direct a major Fox project and more casting news in today’s edition. Elijah Wood Joins The Late Bloomer Wood will play the lead in the new comedy. Directed by Randall Einhorn, the film is based on the 2001 book Man Made: A Memoir of My Body by Ken Baker. The film will be based on the true story about a 30 year-old man who hadn’t totally undergone puberty, but then went through it in several short overwhelming weeks after the medical condition was removed. AJ Bowen & Barbara Crampton Join Grow Up, Tony Phillips The pair join previously attached cast members Tony Vespe, Devin Bonnée (both of My Sucky Teen Romance ), and Jamie Landau (son of Jon Landau, in his feature film acting debut) in the independently-produced comedy about a Halloween-loving teenager who doesn’t think childhood passions should have an expiration date. Grow Up, Tony Phillips is the fourth feature film from young director Emily Hagins, who drew an international spotlight when she set out to make her first feature, the zombie film Pathogen, at only 11 years old. Around the ‘net… Elijah Wood Sets Up Indie Company with Genre Focus Elijah Wood is partnering with Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller for The Woodshed, an indie company that will create mostly genre pics. “I’ve been a fan of horror and genre cinema in general since I was a child and have become increasingly passionate about the idea of there being a space in which horror films that take their subject matter and characters seriously could be produced,” said Wood. Deadline reports . Matt Reeves To Direct Dawn of the Planet of the Apes The Cloverfield director will direct the 20th Century Fox sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes . He had been atop a list of directors to replace Rupert Wyatt who departed the project, Deadline reports . Beasts of the Southern Wild Actors are Ineligible for SAG Awards The actors in the Fox Searchlight Sundance Film Festival award-winner has been ruled ineligible for the Screen Actors Guild Awards because it was not made under the terms of SAG Low Budget Feature Agreement, which mandates that professional actors be employed. The move is considered a hurdle to its Oscar chances because SAG Awards often mirror the Academy’s selections, THR reports .
The Game’s Bond. James Bond. Which means that you will be Bored. Majorly Bored. Agent 007 should be perfect video game character. “Kicking ass with the latest fun gadgets” is his actual job description. So it’s a shame that almost every Bond game sucks. Not even Blofeld got to betray Bond this many times and come back to do it again. The funny thing is that Bond has even played video games himself. In Never Say Never Again, he plays Domination against villainous SPECTRE agent Maximillian Largo. Each round costs thousands of dollars and issues powerful electric shocks, making it a great analogy for the Bond video games that civillians get to play: expensive and painful. Domination is not nearly as much fun to play as it sounds. It has holographic 3D graphics and is based on satellite laser weapons and nuclear warheads, but Largo explains that it’s just a simple target game: shoot the things when they light up. That’s less gameplay than Minesweeper. It’s also badly designed, because it’s a crosshair shooting game controlled by a joystick. Which, if you’ve played twitch-shooters, is like trying to control a scalpel while riding a unicycle. And it’s still better than most real world Bond games. Why are they so bad? Because Bond might be perfect for great games, but he’s also so incredibly famous that he can sell shit ones. The Bond license has been shoved onto everything from text adventures to a side-scrolling “bouncing car getting blown up by spaceships and scuba divers” simulator. I’m not exaggerating. Rare Ltd finally realized Bond’s potential in 1997 when Eon Productions smartly licensed GoldenEye t o a studio that actually knew how to make good games. The resulting product wasn’t merely good — it was one of the most important console shooters of all time, because it proved that console shooters could actually be good, which they weren’t until GoldenEye . One of the most successful N64 games ever made, GoldenEye combined accurate shooting with an unbelievably faithful rendition of the movie. (The split-screen multiplayer mode remains one of the fondest gaming memories for an entire generation You didn’t just recognize parts of the movie in the video game, you recognized parts of the video game when you re-watched the movie. Rare understood that by printing “007” on the cover of a regular action game meant being smarter, sharper and simply better than everything else with guns in it. And it succeeded. The game was stuffed with love for the franchise. Not only was it an incredible recreation of the titular movie, but bonus levels brought in Moonraker lasers, Jaws, the Golden Gun and Baron Samedi. It was originally meant to be the best multiplayer ever made, with a mode where four players could each be a different Bond — Moore, Connery, Dalton, and Brosnan. But, as further proof that the lawyers of the world are sucking the fun out of life, this mode was removed from the final game. A wide range of cheat options extended playability. Unfortunately Rare really did understand the nature of James Bond — which is why they moved on to the next mission without looking back. It turned down the chance to make Tomorrow Never Dies , instead building the spiritual sequel of shooting excellence in 2000 with Perfect Dark . Stuffed with stylish shooting and cunning gadgetry, it would have made the perfect 007 game. But Rare was so good it didn’t need the license to succeed. From that point on, almost all Bond games were shooters, but they never mattered. Where Rare had been the elite double-oh agent, the others were an army of uniformed minions wildly spraying machine gun fire and missing the point. They took bog-standard gun games and put some Bond sprites on top. There was less passion and spark than a morgue during a power outage (except there are people who would actually enjoy that). As the games got more desperate they tried to replicate Goldeneye’ s success, the results were more disastrous than Dr. Frankenstein’s attempts to replicate life. GoldenEye: Rogue Agent literally put GoldenEye in the title of a totally unrelated shooter. The 2010 GoldenEye 007 remake rewrote the original with Daniel Craig, improved graphics, and blew more than that compressed air pellet Bond used to kill Dr Kananga. You just can’t re-skin something from 13 years ago and expect it to be impressive. The remake was aimed at exactly no one: retro fans were aghast at the altered level structure and models, while contemporary fans were turned off by the incredibly unimaginative level layout and zombie-grade enemy intelligence. Like all Bond technology, the original GoldenEye game was revolutionary at the time but almost unusable now. A true Bond game needs to be smarter, sharper, simply better at being Bond than everything else on the market, and we finally have the technology to make that happen. In the old days every shooter was the same game with different sprites. Now we can build entire game mechanics around the character. Batman’s Arkham City is the greatest character game ever made — everything from the graphics to the combat system flows perfectly from the character. Get it right and you’re unstoppable, but even one mistake and you’re in deep trouble. The Hitman series proves that we can build interesting worlds with multiple paths to reach our goal. Bond isn’t an Arnold Schwarzenegger shooting machine. Games which set him up against an endless wave of enemies don’t even know who he is. Bond is the elite. Bond is the best. The original GoldenEye understood that, offering amazing unlocks for not only completing the level, but doing it at maximum difficulty in record time. A Bond game should be a razor-sharp shooter in a sophisticated world. We don’t need another automatic-fire grinding chore like Gears of War . We don’t want another hallway shooter, where we run down pre-set pathways and the most amazing cut-scene — with helicopters crashing through skyways as we parachute to safety — are just glorified loading screens. All we did was “Press A to jump.” That’s less gameplay than an elevator and with the exact same function. Think Mirror’s Edge meets The Club with multiple paths and an upgrade system. Every level is a speed run with a score multiplier for combo shooting and avoiding damage, designed for replayability as you learn your trade. You can blast your way through a building of enemies for an “Agent” rating or rappel down the side snap-shotting guards as it collapses to earn “00”. Because you’re the one who worked out how to collapse it. Because you’re Bond. Improved scores earn “Q points”, unlocking new gadgets, each of which works on each level in different ways, and you have to choose which you bring on each mission. Think grappling hooks, glass-shattering sonics, vehicle remote control, each providing fun options in levels and new ones in old ones. Think of Hitman , where the very first mission can be completed in a few seconds if you return with later gear. Imagine replaying old levels to beat your high score (and earn more equipment), optimizing your strategies, trying out new things. Imagine working out how to beat your enemy in then fastest, coolest way possible, then realize that you’re not just controlling Bond: You’re playing as him. Luke McKinney loves the real world, but only because it has movies and video games in it. He responds to every tweet. Follow Luke McKinney on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
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Ms. Madonna Louise Ciccone, better known by just the first of those three names, turns 54 years young today. The Queen of Pop is practically ageless! Over her three-decade career, Madonna has sold more than 300 million records, easily making her the top-selling female recording artist of all time. Here’s wishing her a happy 54th birthday today! Always willing to push the limits and never one to shy away from controversy, she has long been considered a model for women in entertainment. She’s still going as strong as most performers half her age, whether it’s showing off her enviable body or raising eyebrows with her stage antics . Whether she spends an intimate evening with BF Brahim Zaibat and/or her kids, Lourdes, Rocco, David and Mercy, we wish her a very happy b-day. Check out some of our favorite Madonna pics over the years:
There may be tension ahead for Kim Zolciak on The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 5 , but there’s nothing but bliss to come in the near future for this reality star and her husband: They are proud parents of a baby boy! The Tardy for the Wedding star herself announced the news yesterday on Twitter, telling the world: “@biermann71 and I are sooo excited to tell you baby Kash Kade arrived today!!! Baby and I are doing great!!!! #soblessed.” This is already the second child for Kim and Kroy Biermann, who welcomed another son, KJ, into the world 14 months ago. Zolciak and her Atlanta Falcons defensive end got married on November 11, 2011. The latter serves as stepdad to Kim’s three daughters from a previous relationship – Brielle, 15, and Ariana, 9 – one of whom is excited about the family’s latest addition. Tweeted Brielle in response to this life-changing event: “BABY KASH KADE IS FINALLY HERE!:)
New England Patriots quarterback and certified hunk Tom Brady graces the cover of VMan magazine’s Fall 2012 issue, looking as … ferocious as ever. The 35-year-old football star was interviewed for the issue by fashion designer Tom Ford, but it’s the Brady cover image getting the most attention. Take a look at it below and see why: As if seeing Gisele Bundchen nude with regularity didn’t make him the luckiest guy alive, he says he’s been blessed by family – past and present. “I grew up [in]…an environment where people weren’t afraid to express how they really felt or to express their emotions,” Tom Brady reflects. “I’m very blessed to be able to do that because with my two boys – I kiss them a thousand times a day. My wife and I are very affectionate.” “It’s just part of our nature.” As for his future after the NFL, he says: “I have to do something [after football]…I don’t know. It’s hard to think about where my interests will take me.” “The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player. It’s hard because I want to have four kids and I want to be a really good dad, too.”
James Holmes made another appearance in court today, as a hearing was held to listen to arguments from media outlets who believe a judge should unseal various documents related to the July 20 movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado . Both sides – the prosecution and the defense – actually prefer to keep these documents away from the public while the case is pending. But while a decision was not made regarding that issue, Holmes’ attorneys did show their hand a bit: They asked for prosecutors and investigators turn over every shred of evidence in their possession in order for the alleged killer’s legal team to make a determination. “We cannot begin to assess the nature and the depth of Mr. Holmes’ mental illness until we receive full disclosure of all the documents,” a lawyer told the judge, hinting they will pursue an insanity defense. Holmes faces 24 counts of first-degree murder . The state has not revealed yet whether it plans to ask for the death penalty.
Too much substance, not enough style? That’s the gist of what President Barack Obama says his biggest mistake was since getting to the White House nearly three and a half years ago. Obama says tackling the job as a national policy wonk rather than the inspiring figure he cut in the 2008 campaign has resulted in some hurdles. “When I think about what we’ve done well and what we haven’t done well,” the president told CBS in an interview, “the mistake of my first term – the first couple of years – was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right.” “And that’s important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during economically tough times,” Obama said in an exchange with Charlie Rose. “It’s funny, when I ran, everybody said, ‘he can give a good speech but can he do the job?’ In my first two years, I think the notion was, ‘Well, he’s been juggling and managing a lot of stuff, but where’s the story that tells us where he’s going?'” Presidents tend to sidestep questions about their biggest mistake in office, or at least qualify them by trying to cast their flaws in a positive light. Obama seems to be saying that, to that effect, that he just took the job seriously and did not communicate his views well enough to the people. Republicans wasted little time mocking the answer. Republican National Committee spokesman Tim Miller tweeted “I’d go w/ utter economic failure.” Mitt Romney ‘s response: “Being president is not about telling stories. Being president is about leading, and President Obama has failed to lead.” “No wonder Americans are losing faith in his presidency.” If the election were today, for whom would you vote?
