Hershey’s has launched its website for its Batman themed candies. The site includes information on their sweepstakes (the grand prize being a Dark Knight motorcycle), and a new contest, Revenge Videos. There is also a media section with the trailers we’ve already seen.

The Hollywood Reporter have today confirmed the actors to play the two main roles in the Prince of Persia Movie. Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko) has been officially cast as Dastan, the young prince – a choice I fear many fans will not be happy about. Whilst Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace) has been cast as the princess Tamina.

In the fantasy adventure, Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince in sixth century Persia who must join forces with Tamina (Arterton), a feisty and exotic princess, to prevent a villainous nobleman from possessing the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

Doug Miro & Carlo Bernard, Jordan Mechner and Boaz Yakin wrote the script, which is based on the many games created by Jordan Mechner.

Bruckheimer is producing, while Mike Stenson, Chad Oman and Patrick McCormick are exec producing.

Production is set to start in July.

(Pics thanks to Gemma-Arterton.net)

According to Cinematical, Zodiac screenwriter James Vanderbilt has turned in a working draft for the 4th spider-man movie. The real kicker is that the story arc presented spans two films, potentially allowing both to be filmed at the same time.

We’ll see how this and Spider-man 5 develop in the coming months.

Thanks GreenieGobbie

Seems like the internet is once again up to mischief, this time it revolves around “There will be blood” director, Paul Thomas Anderson.

Kotaku recently spoke with Aki Saito – the fellow handling movie negotiations. When quizzed about Kojima’s involvement with the movie, he responded:

Hollywood has great respect for Mr. Kojima. They want to meet with him. Kojima will be acting as a producer, but we don’t know how involved he’ll be as a producer. Often Hollywood adaptations have the original game creator involved at the beginning, but somewhere along the line they fall out of view. This is why it’s very important for us to carefully pick the studio for this project.

Before adding that Paul Thomas Anderson was an interested director. This circulated the world wide web like some electronically fuelled wildfire. There was some speculation that the much less auspicious Paul W.S. Anderson (Alien Vs. Predator) had been mistaken for someone with talent. Luckily Collider stepped in to clarify:

I’ve emailed [movie] producer Mike De Luca and he said the rumor about Paul Thomas Anderson is “completely false and ridiculous.”

So that’s that.

The Morning Call have revealed that Bethlehem’s filming shall be at a steel works, a highly mechanized and perfectly suited backdrop:

Try to imagine giant, extraterrestrial robots disguised as tractor-trailers on Route 22 or camouflaged among the towering Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces.

A film crew from ”Transformers 2” will bring those shape-shifting robots to life in south Bethlehem next month for a movie scene in front of the iconic furnaces.

Of course, no one will see the robots because they’re computer-generated. But anyone will be able to see the action at the old Steel site as the filmmakers transform it into a fictional Chinese city populated by people from the Lehigh Valley.

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The movie crew will film in Bethlehem during the first week of June and will use the blast furnaces as the scene’s backdrop, Callahan said.

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According to an announcement from Heery Casting of Philadelphia, the filmmakers hope to cast local ”Asian men and women, boys and girls, ages 7 [to] 65” as paid extras in the movie. In particular, the crew hopes to recruit extras of Asian descent who have military backgrounds.

Thanks locoexw!

In an interview with IGN, writer Roberto Orci confirmed that fan favourite Soundwave would be making an appearance in the sequel:

Q: What’s the status of Transformers 2?

ORCI: That starts shooting in three weeks.

Q: What do you want to do that builds from the first one?

ORCI: We want to follow some of our lead characters which we thought were so successful. Shia’s character; where is he two years later? His girlfriend, where is she two years later? But for fans, I guess I’ll address this more for the fans, because I think if you didn’t know Transformers at all and you came in and you liked the first movie, you’ll like the second one. However, some of the die hard fans, which we were a member of that group, felt, well, maybe it’s a little light. Maybe it wasn’t science fictiony enough. And I think the second one will deliver on a true Transformers story. You know, the first one, we had a limited budget for what it was. Every second of Transformer time is a million dollars or whatever the heck it is, so this time, because we were able to prove through the whole thing that it’s a viable live-action movie, we have a little more freedom this time to actually learn about the Transformers, see them, hear them. It’s a better balance between the humans and the Transformers.

Q: Is there one particular Transformer, good or bad, that you absolutely had to get into the sequel?

ORCI: Yes.

Q: You’re not gonna tell us.

ORCI: I’ll tell you. We had to get Soundwave in there.

Q: Nice. Where Soundwave goes, will Ravage follow?

ORCI: Perhaps! Who’s Ravage? … I’m kidding! You know, we had Ravage in an early draft of the first movie and Soundwave, and we couldn’t do it right and I think this time hopefully we’ll have the ability to do it.

Chud have confirmed that John Voight (Defense Secretary John Keller) and Tyrese Gibson will be reprising their roles in the movie sequel:

‘I just talked to Shia a second ago, and left John Voight a message 15 minutes ago,’ he said, inadvertently letting slip that Voight’s Secretary of Defense character returns for the sequel.

‘Michael Bay is going to up the ante on round two and raise the level. I can’t go into any details , but it’s going to be some real one of a kind things in this movie that no one has seen visually in their life. Michael Bay is really fired up to try and outdo what he did on the first round.’

Via Variety and Jordan’s first pavillion at the Cannes film festival, we have found out that Michael Bay plans to take TF2 to Jordan:

Jordan [...] is joining the Mideast film gold rush with a number of projects and initiatives designed to bolster the country’s film biz.

Paramount-DreamWorks has inked with the Jordanian Royal Film Commission to film “Transformers 2” in the country and Fox has scouted locations in the country for its bigscreen “The A-Team.” It is believed to be in discussions for the action pic to lense there.