Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Jessica Biel, Seann William Scott and Justin Long will voice characters for Planet 51, a CG-animated sci-fi flick about citizens who fear an alien invasion — the news of which is, of course, brought by The Rock, who arrives from Earth.... Film vet Christopher Walken is being awarded Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Award on Friday. He'll attend a roast in his honor, at which which we assume he'll be asking for more cowbell. — Anna Dimond
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Eva Mendes is joining Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Keke Palmer and Christa Campbell in Cleaner, a thriller being directed by Renny Harlin.... Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott give "horribly immoral advice" to youths in Big Brothers, a comedy about a pair of wild beer-company reps who are forced to perform community service as mentors.... Bob Hoskins is a policeman in Doomsday, a thriller about his attempts to quarantine a lethal virus.
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Amber Tamblyn, whose The Grudge 2 opens this weekend — and whom I hope to Q&A later today, hint-hint to her publicist who may be reading — has joined Blackout, an indie thriller about three people trapped in a hospital elevator for almost 24 hours.... Also per the Hollywood Reporter: Randy Quaid is in talks to play the mentor of Gary the Tennis Coach, starring Seann William Scott.... Brit actor Paddy Considine will play a London journalist sniffing around the CIA in The Bourne Ultimatum, now filming in Europe and Africa.
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Just when you thought you'd heard the last from the likes of Stifler, "the Shermanator" and good ol' Jim's dad, here comes American Pie Presents Band Camp, a DVD follow-up (available in R-rated and unrated versions) that offers a fresh spin on the familiar franchise by chronicling the misadventures of Matt Stifler, the just-as-mischievous kid brother to the original films' Steve. Busted for, amongst many other things, mooning the audience at a high-school graduation-day concert, Matt is sentenced by his guidance counselor — aka a grown-up Shermanator — to attend the infamous (as in "There was this one time at...") band camp at which, apparently, anything can and does happen. Being a tried and true Stifler and having heard the legendary libidinous tales born of the band camp, Matt sees opportunity in his exile and sets out to live up to his brother's legacy by covertly shooting a "Bandies Go
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Just when you thought you'd heard the last from the likes of Stifler, "the Shermanator" and good ol' Jim's dad, here comes American Pie Presents Band Camp, a DVD follow-up (now in stores in R-rated and unrated versions) that offers a fresh spin on the familiar franchise by chronicling the misadventures of Matt Stifler, the just-as-mischievous kid brother to the original films' Steve. Busted for, amongst many other things, mooning the audience at a high-school graduation-day concert, Matt is sentenced by his guidance counselor — aka a grown-up Shermanator — to attend the infamous (as in "There was this one time at...") band camp at which, apparently, anything can and does happen. Being a tried and true Stifler and having heard the legendary libidinous tales born of the band camp, Matt sees opportunity in his exile and sets out to live up to his brother's legacy by covertly shooting a "Bandies Gon
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