Rob Marshall to replace Verbinski in Next "Pirates" Film

As Disney and Bruckheimer are in a hurry to produce the next film in their "Pirates of Caribbean" franchise, but with Gore Verbisnki decision to not return as the director again, they have been looking for his replacement by meeting with a number of directors in the recent weeks.
Recently, Variety’s BFDealMemo blog has suggested that the studio already found a new helmer who is Rob Marshall. The blog reports that “sources say unless things break down at the last moment, Marshall will be steering the pirate vehicle’s next installment.” Marshall has three big features under his belt: "Chicago," "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Nine", to be released later this year. But is he really the right man to steer the future of this epic adventure franchise?

However, With the storyline of the original trilogy concluded, Marshall and screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio would be free to do whatever they like with the series. Johnny Depp is obviously returning as Jack Sparrow, and Geoffrey Rush has said he would return as Barbossa; one proposed storyline has Sparrow and Barbossa hitting New Orleans and then searching for the Fountain of Youth. And last weekend at Comic Con, producer Jerry Bruckheimer said that he’d like to be filming by April or May of next year.

Variety also reported that Disney has already started to cast some of the new characters that’ll appear in this installment, so if Marshall’s deal goes through we should hear many more details about the film quite soon.

via: SlashFilm

Another Hilariously Wacky Poster from Soderbergh's “The Informant!”

Warner Brothers has bringing another new poster for Steven Soderbergh's upcoming dark comedy “The Informant!” This one is even funnier, wackier, and crazier than the first poster but I just really like it, the idea is brilliant and I also think that it could be one of the best posters of the year.
Directed by the Oscar winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, “The Informant!” is based on Kurt Eichenwald's book of the same name. The screenplay was adapted by Scott Z. Burns, of “The Bourne Ultimatum” previously. So far, Warner Brothers had scheduled to bringing the film to theaters on October 9th this fall.

Plot: Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), a rising star at Decatur’s Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s who wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics. One night in early November 1992, the high-ranking ADM executive confessed to FBI agent Brian Shepard (Scott Bakula) that ADM executives — including Whitacre himself — had routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, a food additive. As the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblower in US history, Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio over several years to present to the FBI.