Wahlberg, Kormákur Re-Team For "2 Guns"

Mark Wahlberg is re-teaming with his "Contraband" director Baltasar Kormákur for the action thriller "2 Guns" at Universal Pictures says Variety.

Based on the graphic novel by Steven Grant, the story follows a rogue DEA agent and an undercover naval intelligence officer assigned to investigate one in other.

It's soon discovered that both individuals have been stealing from the mob. David O. Russell penned the most recent draft of the screenplay, re-writing Blake Masters' adaptation.

Marc Platt, Andrew Cosby and Ross Richie are producing.

Wilde & Crowe To Feel The "Rush"

Olivia Wilde ("Tron: Legacy," "Cowboys and Aliens") will play 1970s supermodel Suzy Miller in Ron Howard's "Rush" at Cross Creek Pictures, Working Title and Imagine reports Deadline.

Peter Morgan's script follows the rivalry between Austrian racer Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) and British racer James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) on the Formula One circuit in the 70's. Lauda nearly died in a fiery crash in 1976 but returned to the track just six weeks later to race Hunt.

Miller fell in love with and married the handsome, womanizing Hunt but soon after her affections turned toward his friend - actor Richard Burton. Eventually Burton paid the $1 million divorce settlement that Hunt owed Miller, Burton and Miller were married shortly after.

Howard reportedly wants Crowe to play Burton in the film which is essentially little more than a cameo. Howard, Brian Grazer, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Brian Oliver will produce.

Zoolander 2 Update

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In Zoolander,the really, really, ridiculously good looking male model Hansel (Owen Wilson) tells a story about a time he fell while rappelling down Mt. Vesuvius. Luckily, that incident was just a peyote hallucination. In a recent interview with MTV, however, Wilson hinted that there may be a more serious injury in store for his character in Zoolander 2.

“Hansel, he’s fallen on hard times,” Wilson said during the press junket for The Big Year, his upcoming birdwatching comedy with Jack Black and Steve Martin. “There’s been a disfiguring injury.” He wouldn’t elaborate any further, except with the tease, “Think Vanilla Sky“.

Uh oh.

Vanilla Sky stars Tom Cruise as a man who wears a mask in public because of a facial disfigurement. Will Hansel wear a similarly expressionless mask in Zoolander 2? Will his facial disfigurement be serious? We do know that the film will find Derek Zoolander and Hansel in their 40s, past their modeling prime and at an all time low. Still, Wilson sees Hansel as something of an optimist. Check it out below, followed by the video

“Even if he isn’t the number one guy, I think he still carries himself as if,” Wilson said. “He’ll still have that Hansel swagger.”

Slashfilm caught up with Ben Stiller to find out more about the progress of what Wilson calls Zoo 2 or Twolander.

Where it’s at is we’ve completed the script, Justin Theroux and I, and handed it into the studio. Now the studio has the script and we’re at that point where we’re waiting to see what they want to do. It’s ten years later and most of it is set in Europe. I don’t want to give away too much, but it’s basically Derek and Hansel ten years later – though the last movie ended on a happy note a lot of things have happened in the meantime. Their lives have changed and they’re not really relevant anymore. It’s a new world for them. Will Ferrell is written into the script and he’s expressed interest in doing it. I think Mugatu is an integral part of the Zoolander story, so yes, he features in a big way.

That’s all the info we have for now. If we’re lucky, Zoolander 2 will go into production in time to hit theaters in late 2012.

Is a Zoolander sequel a good idea, or will it spoil the first movie?

Another Happy Day

Synopsis

High-strung Lynn (Ellen Barkin) and her three troubled children (Ezra Miller, Kate Bosworth, Daniel Yelsky) are hurled deep into the heart of domestic darkness and primal family dynamics when they attend the wedding of her eldest son. While a long-simmering feud rages with her ex-husband (Thomas Haden Church) and his hot-tempered wife (Demi Moore), Lynn struggles against her cold, disdainful mother (Ellen Burstyn) and her distant father (George Kennedy). With an apathetic husband , (Jeffrey DuMunn) at her side, Lynn is left to wander in a generational emotional minefield.

Cool Wolfenstein Easter Egg in Rage

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Rage was made by id Software, the same company that made Wolfenstein. It's not a big surprise, then, that fans of the studio's previous work will find a cool surprise early in Rage.

Of course, the surprise is well-hidden, because it wouldn't be much of a secret otherwise.

Robin Williams, His Daughter, Giant Beard In New Zelda Ad

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You haven't seen the last of Robin Williams, his daughter, and their Legend of Zelda-hustling ways. This time around, the duo is pushing the Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary, which should be a remarkably easy sell. After all, the thing's free on the 3DS. Also, beard.

Before you doubt Williams' gamer cred, bear in mind that this is a guy who marked a human baby for life by naming her after a video-game character.

Infinity Blade II Coming Soon

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Inifinty Blade was the hugely successful, hugely impressive iOS game that showed off just how hard the graphical engine of iPhone and iPad devices could be pushed. Today, developer Chair announced the sequel to the iOS hit.