The week kicked off with the highly anticipated second trailer for The Hunger Games. Fans, for the most part seemed pretty positive about the latest trailer. Also, Ricky Gervais returns to host, Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 finally opens and the death of Natalie Wood is re-investigated. Let's take a look back at the week in movie news, posters, pics and videos…
News
The cold case involving the death of cinema legend Natalie Wood was re-opened as a homicide investigation. Wood was on a yacht with her husband Robert Wagner and friend Christopher Walken when she went overboard and drowned in 1981. Wood famously had a paralyzing fear of water.
TMZ states that a woman on a nearby yacht heard a woman crying for help around midnight and rumor has it Wagner and Walken were in a drunken fight at the time. Wagner claimed the fight was over Wood and that Walken wanted her to focus on her acting career over her family. Officials ruled her death an accident claiming she was drunk on seven of eight glasses of wine.
New evidence points to the down jacket Wood was wearing when she went overboard, leading authorities to believe she may have floated alive in dark waters for hours while Wagner allegedly stalled rescue efforts. In addition, an interview with boat captain Dennis Davern who admitted he lied on a police report and that Wagner was responsible. You can watch that video below.
Ricky Gervais will return to host The Golden Globes despite the controversial fall-out from his hosting stint earlier this year.
Universal is looking into bringing Woody Woodpecker to the big screen.
Montecito Picture Company is currently in talks with Michael Jackson's estate for a potential biopic that would cover select parts of the singer's life.
Harry Potter director David Yates will helm a Doctor Who feature film.
Andy Serkis teased that the first trailer for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit will arrive sometime around Christmas.
Warner Bros. has given the green light for a live action CGI Lego movie, an idea they've been, ahem, toying with since 2008.
Brad Pitt became the latest actor to hint at retiring. Pitt revealed in an interview promoting his movie Moneyball that he would like to stop acting in three years when he turns 50. He later backed off from that statement in Korea where he said he, "wasn't putting an exact deadline on my expiration date." Earlier this year, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams each hinted at early retirement.
George Clooney, and apparently Buzzfeed, wanted Ryan Gosling to be named as People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. The two-time SMA winner has previously endorsed Matt Damon, who went on to grace the cover of the magazine in 2007.
Sharon Stone will play Linda Lovelace's mom in Lovelace, the biopic which has Amanda Seyfried cast as the famous 70s porn actress.
Kristen Stewart was offered the role of Kei in the live action remake of Akira.
More dirt on Brett Ratner, whose movie Tower Heist has been a box office dud. After stepping down last week from his role as Academy Awards telecast producer, Vulture revealed that he once sold stocks for a corrupt Wall Street brokerage film.
Like Crazy star Felicity Jones has joined the cast of Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes biopic. She will play a young woman who falls in love with Hughes' driver before moving on to have an affair with the much older industrialist. Justin Timberlake's name is being mentioned as a possible actor to fill that driver role.
Speaking of Timberlake, the actor made good on his promise to attend the Marine Corps Ball with Corporal Kelsey De Santis. The proposal came back in July when a series of YouTube videos from servicemen and women made headlines with various celebrities being asked to attend the ball. While Scarlett Johannson turned down her offer, Kristin Cavallari made good on her promise last night and Mila Kunis plans to make good on her offer, attending her Marine Corps Ball tonight.
OK, so it's not movie news, but Dexter fans will probably be happy to know that Showtime struck a new deal with star Michael C. Hall and renewed the show for two more seasons.
Scarlett Johansson will direct an adaptation of Truman Capote's first novel, Summer Crossing.
Yvonne Strahovski, the secret agent from TV's Chuck, has landed the leading role of a scientist in the action monster movie, I, Frankenstein. Aaron Eckhart will play Frankenstein.
Pics & Posters
New posters this week for Shame, Project X, The Avengers (click for posters), Young Adult, Titanic 3D, The Muppets, The Iron Lady, Texas Killing Fields, Being Flynn, Goon, Underworld: Awakening, Korean Sherlock Holmes character sheet and six Russian Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol character sheets.
These Muppets Star Wars figures will be available at Disney parks.
The Adam Sandler Movie Matrix (Click image for larger version)
Chocolate Gollum Sculpture by Chocolatier Hakan Martensson. Check out some of his other designs.
Believe it or not, that is a Game of Thrones CAKE!
Here's a look at some of Funko Pop!'s third series of figures set to release in January.
Videos and Trailers
The Hunger Games
The Pirates!
New Domestic:
New International:
The Vow
Redline
Shame
Gone
Brave
Titanic 3D
Mirror Mirror
The Pill
Being Flynn
The Iron Lady
Catch .44
The Lady
Breaking Dawn Cast Interviews
Happy Feet Two Cast Interviews
The Muppets Team up with UK's Orange
We've seen Jedi kittens, Jedi Puppies, Jedi Turtles. It was only a matter of time before someone came up with Jedi Squirrels…
