No Eddie Valiant In Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2? A Pox On This Sequel [Roger Rabbit 2]
The best part of Roger Rabbit wasn't Jessica's curves, it was the back and forth jaded quips, pitting Eddie Valiant against Roger's toony tude. So we're terrified to hear they're even contemplating a second Framing without Bob Hoskins. We've been hearing from Roger Rabbit director Robert Zemeckis that Bob Hoskins was always down to play the toon detective Eddie Valiant in an upcoming Roger Rabbit sequel. But according to Hoskins himself, he's not so sure about it. In an interview with MTV...

Robert Zemeckis Says Roger Rabbit Will Be 2D in Any Sequel
Does anyone remember that article back in May that said Robert Zemeckis was interested in bringing Roger Rabbit back in some way (maybe even a sequel)? If not, you can read the details on that here and get caught up first. Two updates have arrived today on that front, the first from Ain't It Cool News and the second from Disney's Comic-Con presentation this morning where Zemeckis was present. First off, in regards to Bob Hoskins returning as Eddie Valiant, he said: "He loves Eddie Valiant and...

Bob Hoskins - Hoskins Height Dilemma
Actor Bob Hoskins had to risk his safety and turn stunt-man in his latest TV show - after blundering bosses hired a double who was a foot taller than him. The Mrs Henderson Presents star stands at just five feet six inches (1.67 metres), and often has a stunt double stand in for him on set for dangerous scenes. But he was forced to film his own stunts for BBC drama The Street, after TV chiefs accidentally hired someone too tall to emanate Hoskins. He says, "I wound up doing my own stunts...

Bob Hoskins Rules Out Rabbit: PHOTO
Bob Hoskins has ruled out starring in a sequel to 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'. The British actor - who played private investigator Eddie Valiant in the 1989 partially-animated movie - insists he is too old to return to the franchise. The 66-year-old star said: "The thing is, you act with cartoons, you got to be able to bounce off the walls like a cartoon. So I'm too old. I'm too old now." The thing is, you act with cartoons, you got to be able to bounce off the walls like a cartoon. So I'm too...

Mickey Rourke smiles on 'Mona Lisa'
Mickey Rourke has signed on to star in a remake of classic 1980s Brit gangster pic "Mona Lisa." Rourke will play an ex-con who takes a job as a chauffeur for a high-class escort. Eva Green is in advanced negotiations to star opposite him. Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson starred in the original 1986 pic directed by Neil Jordan. Helmer Larry Clark ("Kids," "Wassup Rockers") is writing and directing the remake, which is being produced by Handmade Films with Handmade Films Intl. handling worldwide...

A Christmas Carol Concept Art
Over the weekend two new pieces of concept art from Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol hit the interwebs. The film is using performance capture/Disney digital 3-D animation, the same process Zemeckis used for The Polar Express and Beowulf. Jim Carrey is playing Ebenezer Scrooge in the film as well as the three ghosts that haunt him. The adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens story also stars Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, Bob Hoskins, Daryl Sabara and Robin Wright Penn. It opens November 6, 2

New Christmas Carol , Princess and the Frog Art
Walt Disney Pictures has included two new pieces of concept art from Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol and one new photo from Ron Clements and John Musker's The Princess and the Frog in its 2008 annual report, which you can download in full here . A Christmas Carol , featuring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes and Fionnula Flanagan, opens in conventional and IMAX theaters on November 6. The animated musical The Princess and the Frog , vo

Trio join Nigel Cole's 'We Want Sex'
CANNES -- Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone and Daniel Mays are shouting "We Want Sex," signing on to join Sally Hawkins and Bob Hoskins in the cast of the Nigel Cole-directed dramedy.

Director Larry Clark on Remaking Mona Lisa and the Art of the 42-Second Film
After a three-year hiatus from the screen, the notorious photographer and Kids / Bully / Ken Park visionary Larry Clark is planning a comeback. And believe it or not, there are no wasted, doomed teenagers in sight: Instead, Clark is the somewhat unlikely (even to himself) choice to revive Neil Jordan’s 1986 underworld thriller Mona Lisa , a London-to-New York transplant featuring Mickey Rourke and Eva Green reviving roles originated by Bob Hoskins (whose performance was nominated for an...

Bah Humbug! Take a look a Jim Carry as Scrooge in A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Okay so Christmas was weeks ago, but looking forward to next Christmas I have (for your viewing pleasure) a look at Jim Carry's Scrooge in Robert Zemeckis' motion capture 3-D animated movie A CHRISTMAS CAROL!Carey is apparently playing over five different roles in the movie (ala Tom Hanks in THE POLAR EXPRESS) and amongst the parts will be Ebenezer Scrooge, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future - something which I believe has never been done in an adaptation of the classic tale.Also starring

Meeting prostitute helped Friel relate to Street role
Anna Friel has told how she met up with a prostitute while researching her new role for drama The Street and said that as a mother she can empathise with the desperate measures her character takes. The actress, 32, who has a three-year-old daughter named Gracie, said the show demonstrated "what a woman will do to protect her children". The stellar cast for the third BBC1 series also includes Bob Hoskins, Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones and Timothy Spall. The award-winning show is the...

Producer Clive Parsons dies at 66
Producer Clive Parsons, who produced films by Bill Forsyth, Lindsay Anderson and Franco Zeffirelli, died of Pancreatic Cancer Aug. 12 in England. He was 66. Starting with "Inserts" in 1975, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Bob Hoskins, Parsons, with his long time business partner Davina Belling, produced or developed 20 feature films including Forsyth's "Gregory's Girl" and "Comfort and Joy," Anderson's "Britannia Hospital," and films such as the controversial "Scum," "Breaking Glass," "A Business...

Megan Fox to star in Ironclad
Megan Fox has signed on to Ironclad, based on the true story of the great siege of Rochester castle. She will star alongside Paul Giamatti, Richard Attenborough and Bob Hoskins. The project will start shooting next March with a budget of only $25 million. | Posted by meganfoxsource Post Categories: General / Misc. Leave a Reply Please keep comments appropriate and on topic. Spam is never approved. Name Mail (will no

Toronto: Mr. Madonna Scores
Starting my Toronto International Film Festival experience this year with a 9 a.m. screening of a Guy Ritchie movie seemed like a dicey proposition, but "RockNRolla'' is a lot of fun, if familiar. The plot of this jokey crime thriller is way too complicated to describe before my next screening, but I'll say that Gerard Butler, never one of my favorite, reveals a hitherto unsuspected talent for comedy as a hapless criminal who gets involved in a series of double-crosses. And Tom Wilkinson, cast way against t

Hoskins' reads scripts in bathroom
Movie legend Bob Hoskins test reads scripts for films - when he is sitting on the toilet.

Hoskins Reads Scripts In Bathroom
Movie legend Bob Hoskins test reads scripts for films - when he is sitting on the toilet. The Mona Lisa star decides whether or not to take a movie role depending on how engrossed he gets leafing through his lines as he answers a call of nature. And the actor has even given his selection process its own cheeky name. He says, "Cold bum test. I take (the script) to the khazi (toilet) in the morning and if I end up with a cold a**e I think 'This has got to be a good script'. If you notice you've got p

Ken Campbell
August 31, 2008: Ken Campbell, 66, British writer, actor producer and improvisational theatre. His Ken Campbell Roadshow in the 1970s launched the careers of Bob Hoskins and Sylvester McCoy, and he was well known for his epic shows with the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool. He also hosted TV programs including Brainspotting and Reality on the Rocks. Links: Guardian By debritz at 2008-09-01 23:53 C-D 2008 A&E Login or register to post comments Copyright © 2008 Accent Media Pty Ltd

Gary Oldman Rules the World
Top 10 Best Fake American AccentsIt seems to be a Hollywood chic to adopt a British accent for a UK role or (even an ancient warrior), but the reverse is just as prevalent with Brits, Aussies, or other an actor of another nationality playing an American character. I realize that plenty of actors and actresses were born or even partially raised abroad, but this list is a reflection of actors whose primary dialect is not American. This list excludes Canadian actors/actresses.  10. Alfred Molina Hails Fro

Celebrity Birthdays, October 26
Happy Birthday to "Napoleon Dynamite" star Jon Heder (1977), "Family Guy" animator and creator Seth MacFarlane (1973), Grammy nominated Country singer Keith Urban (1967), solo artist and former 10,000 Maniacs lead singer Natalie Merchant (1963), actor and star of "The Princess Bride" Cary Elwes (1962), "The Practice" star Dylan McDermott (1961), "The Love Boat" cruise director Lauren Tewes (1962), funk bassist Bootsy Collins (1951), original "Charlie's Angel" Jaclyn Smith (1947), U.S. Senator and former Fir

Hayden Christensen to Star in 'Mona Lisa' Remake
Uh...what? If you ever saw Mona Lisa, you'd be surprised to learn that it's being remade. That's not a slight against the Neil Jordan film, because it's actually pretty good - got an Oscar nomination and the whole bit - but it's not exactly one of those movies you always think they should try again. And yet, here we are, and the role of Bob Hoskins will now be played by Hayden Christensen. Huh? Screen Daily reports that the new version will be both contemporized and transplanted from E

Megan Fox is Almost Naked
I know Megan Fox is hot, but isn't there any other hot chicks out there? She seems to be in every magazine, and why doesn't she just get naked already? These pictures look like they didn't even try to do anything artistic or creative, they're just an excuse to have Fox in a bikini. Alright I'm not complaining just saying. The pictures are from GQ by the way. The only new news on Fox that I could find, is a rumor that she is going to appear in a movie called, Ironclad with Paul Giamatti. The film is being

Exclusive: Megan Fox and Paul Giamatti Join Ironclad Cast
Today we picked up a very interesting casting scoop on an upcoming project called Ironclad. A source close to the production mentioned that Megan Fox and Paul Giamatti have joined the cast alongside of Richard Attenborough and Bob Hoskins. Ironclad is somewhat of a castle epic based on the true story of the great siege of Rochester castle. Jonathan English (of Minotaur and Nailing Vienna previously) wrote the story and will produce and direct the film, which will start shooting next March with a rumored bud

Anakin Drives a Hooker
If you thought today's news about Steven Spielberg and Will Smith remaking Oldboy came out of left field then wait until you hear this one. Hayden Christensen is the new Bob Hoskins. ScreenDaily reports that Christensen is in talks to star in an Americanized remake of the 1986 British film Mona Lisa. Bob Hoskins starred in the Neil Jordan-directed original as George, a London chauffeur who drives a high-class call girl. The Star Wars star Will play a younger, American version of George

Stoneheart Trilogy of fantasy books heading for screen
ImageMovers and Disney are in negotiations to pick up film rights to The Stoneheart Trilogy, a young-adult fantasy book series by Charlie Fletcher, according to The Hollywood Reporter. ImageMovers' Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey will produce. The books revolve around a 12-year-old London boy who enters a hidden alternate world where statues, imbued with the soul-like essence of their makers, come to life. The boy's presence upsets a balance between good and evil, and while...

Airman Takes Flight
Following their successful collaboration on the animated comedy horror Monster House, Robert Zemeckis and Gil Kenan are set to re-team for a film version of children's book Airman.