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The teaser trailer for THE COMPANY MEN showed up online, via AICN. Maybe it’s just me but for some reason it has the Up In The Air vibe, especially in shots when Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper and Ben Affleck are getting ready to go to work. This movie about downsizing and economic climate will make its way to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring cinematography by the master Roger Deakins (No Country For Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford)
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Here comes the Men in Black with Josh Brolin. Hero Complex reported that one of the hardest working men in Hollywood (Jonah Hex, True Grit, Cartel) is being considered for a role in the Columbia Pictures franchise about a secret agency that handles aliens in disguise living among us on this planet. A couple of months ago, the studio hired Tropic Thunder co-writer Etan Cohen to write MEN IN BLACK 3 and now with Brolin coming in strong, the target release date of 2011 is getting closer and closer to reality… Read the rest of this entry »

This is a bummer, I was looking forward to seeing Tommy Lee Jones showing us what he’s got as a feature director again after The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada but we’ll have to wait a little longer for his next one. It was previously announced that Tommy Lee Jones will direct and star in the adaptation of THE LINCOLN LAWYER starring Matthew McConaughey as the character Mickey Haller,a lawyer who operates out of the back of his Lincoln… Read the rest of this entry »

Like it or not, MEN IN BLACK 3 is happening, we’ve known about this since spring and I thought it was going to be put on the back burner, never to be mentioned again. But Columbia Pictures hasn’t forgotten. Variety says the studio has hired Tropic Thunder co-writer Etan Cohen to write MEN IN BLACK 3… Read the rest of this entry »

The great Tommy Lee Jones is ready to go behind the camera once again, I thought The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada was a great work but maybe this next gig would help him prove to others that he’s an actor turned director that deserves to be recognized. According to Riskybizblog, Jones is set to direct and co-star in THE LINCOLN LAWYER already starring the guy who doesn’t like wearing any shirt, Matthew McConaughey. It’s an adaptation of the novel by author Michael Connelly.

McConaughey is set to star as the character Mickey Haller,a lawyer who operates out of the back of his Lincoln. Though it hasn’t been confirmed yet but word has it Jones might play the second lead, the playboy character. Problem is the book describes this character as someone who’s younger than Jones, although screenwriter John Romano might make some adjustments to suit The Fugitive Oscar winner.

Here’s the official synopsis of the book…

“Meet Mickey Haller, a cynical defense attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life. Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil. Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers – they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence – it’s about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it’s even about justice. A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney’s dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal – this time to save his own life.”