Brett Ratner by Jeffrey Mayer/ WireImage.com
Brett Ratner who last directed Rush Hour 3 is negotiating with Universal and Imagine Entertainment to direct the remake of the sci-fi classic The Incredible Shrinking ManEddie Murphy will star in the comedy as a Las Vegas magician who finds himself under a spell and begins to shrink The race is on to find a way to reverse the spell before he disappears JR Whalen
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Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, Rush Hour 3
Things happening by "accident" is a Hollywood cliché, but this time there's actually some truth to it in terms of how stars Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan and director Brett Ratner reunited to bring Rush Hour 3 to life. The latest entry (set in Los Angeles and Paris) in the highly successful buddy/action franchise opens today, Aug. 10.
"I said in [the last movie] when a guy fell out of a hotel in Vegas, ‘That guy is not going to be in Rush Hour 3,'" Tucker recently recalled to TVGuide.com at the Four Seasons hotel in Bev
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...humanitarian side. Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is on board to helm Playboy, a feature about the original lad mag's presumably libidinous founder, Hugh Hefner. But, notes Variety, this being a production by Brian Grazer (the Beautiful Mind Oscar winner), the flick will hail Gramps not only as a loverboy but also as a social activist. Wait, isn't that the same thing? Oh, right — they probably don't mean that kind of social activity.
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On the Lot judges Jon Avnet, Carrie Fisher and Brett Ratner
Fox's On the Lot, a new reality show from Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett, searches for Hollywood's next top director. Here are the five things you need to know before the camera starts rolling tonight at 9 pm/ET.
1) On the Lot is like YouTube meets American Idol… at least that's how Mark Burnett thinks of it. YouTube and Idol are the constant reference points for Survivor and Apprentice exec producer Burnett, who brainstormed the idea for On the Lot over a meal with the
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After all the network-television season finales wreaked havoc on my emotional state this past week it was nice to take it down a notch with the guys I can always count on Entourage for good mindless entertainment that doesnt shock too often anyway and doesnt require much thinking Theres something to be said for reliable mindlessness I suspect that there are a lot of guys out there who really wouldnt mind having Vincent Chases problems Sure he had to sell his house to finance his dream project but in the meantime some billionaire Middle Eastern prince is ordering him to sleep with his hot wife As Tony Sopranos dearly departed mother would say Poor you I have to say again that Im really not thrilled with the direction that the show has taken over this most recent batch of episodes I definitely have missed Debi Mazar though I suspect that the filming of this arc probably coincided with her maternity leave Shaunas lightning wit
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With Fox's Steven Spielberg-produced reality competition, On the Lot, set to premiere May 22, the initial panel of judges has now been revealed, and it's a doozy. Tendering their take during the first two "audition" episodes will be actress/screenwriter Carrie Fisher (Star Wars) and director-producers Brett Ratner (X-Men 3), Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman) and Jon Avnet (Risky Business). Judges for additional rounds will be announced at a later date/as soon as Chewie gets his annual vaccination.
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Per Variety, ABC has tapped Brett Ratner to direct and produce a pilot based on the Women's Murder Club featured in several James Patterson thrillers, while The X-Files' Frank Spotnitz is developing for the network Murder Incorporated, a drama about a man from a wealthy family whose fortune has a dubious source.... The CW is eyeing Grey's Anatomy exec producer Mark Gordon to bring life to Reaper, a chiller in which a "bounty hunter" for Satan tracks escaped souls.... Lifetime is pondering a pilot order for Conspiracy, a legal thriller about a D.C. lawyer whose life is put in danger when she realizes she won a high-profile case for a pharmaceutical company based on evidence falsified by a Massive Evil Conspiracy. Um, isn't it a bit soon (if ill-advised) to rip off Runaway?
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Hugh Jackman as X-Men's Wolverine
Brett Ratner's X-Men 3 is still not finished boosting its baddie quotient. Filipina actress Mei Melancon, who previously worked with the director on Rush Hour 2, has joined the cast as Psylocke, an evil telepathic assassin (my favorite kind, frankly) within Magneto's malevolent Brotherhood of Mutants. X3 is due for a Memorial Day-weekend release, meaning the line for tickets should start forming right about... now.
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After four Superman movies in the '70s and '80s, the blockbuster film franchise got worn out. Hey, the first two flicks were fab. But Christopher Reeve trading one liners with Richard Pryor in Superman III? Oy. And Reeve's face off with Nuclear Man — a solar-powered Chippendale's dancer — in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace? 'Twas like kryptonite to Supes fans! In a promising turn of events, Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Red Dragon) has been tapped to direct the newest installment, with
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