Jaycee Dugard opposes plans for a film about her kidnap.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, the woman kidnapped in 1991 aged 11 who found her way back to her family 18 years later in her twenties with two daughters of her own, objects to plans to make a film about her experiences in captivity.

Dugard and her family spoke by way of their rep, and said they opposed plans for a movie about Dugard’s time as a sex slave. The film’s tacky title Abducted Girl, An American Sex Slave is almost as sick as trying to profit off the back of some one’s misery. I smell a lawsuit in the works to follow their opposition to the project, or that might just be the smell of low-budget exploitation.

Jennifer Hudson will play Winnie Mandela in Winnie.

Jennifer Hudson is set to play the wife of Nelson Mandela, in a biopic named after the woman herself. Winnie, the Darrell J. Roodt-directed movie, will film in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Transkei and Robben Island. The movie production begins May 30, 2009.

Any movie that stars Hudson is a good thing. Like a diet of all Jelly Beans is a good thing. This would be a larf, watching her act her fellow co-stars off the screen, like she did to Beyonce Knowles in the monstrously horrible movie that was Dreamgirls. But this movie is of course going to be all political and serious. So, it’ll be markedly less appropriate to snort with laughter, every time she acts one of her co-stars off the screen in this movie as well.

Image credit to RAM/Fame Pictures. Story Variety and Coming Soon.

Courteney Cox has signed up for a role in Scream 4, the latest in a string of unnecessary horror sequels certain to scare movie-going audiences for all the wrong reasons.

Courteney Cox, 45, is currently filming her MILF-y show, Cougar Town. I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing it, but I gather it’s a thoughtful drama about ageing beauties in bikinis. Clearly bored of being the ageing hot stuff in Cougar Town, while it’s still clogging up the airwaves in place of actual entertainment, the actress has signed up to play a similar role in the fourth Scream movie.

This movie is the shoehorned in addition to the long-tired franchise, which ended perfectly sensibly in Scream 3. At the time, I remember the disdain and the feeling of it being another bloody Scream movie. Eventually the filmmakers decided to label it a trilogy and tie up loose ends, to appease bored fans. Not sure what they’re going to do with this film, as the last one only left so many places for the plot to go. I’ll be cowering behind my couch when this comes out, to make sure I don’t see this by accident. I’d advise y’all to do the same.

The former Friends actress will be joined by husband David Arquette whom she met during the first movie, and the franchise’s lead, Neve Campbell.

Image credit to Juan Rico/Fame Pictures. Story & info. OK! magazine.

The new Angelina Jolie movie, which has been titled simply Salt, finally has its own trailer.

This is another movie in which skinny-mini Angelina Jolie minces around on the screen, in need of a sandwhich. The actress was photographed earlier in the year filming her action-packed scenes for the role. Assuming she hasn’t wasted away by the end of the film, she should kick some serious butt.

Russell Brand will cut off his trademark long locks, for the sake of a Hollywood career.

Russell Brand knows that looking about as groomed as Robert Pattinson on an off day could restrict future movie roles. The 34-year-old TV presenter has his sights set on Hollywood. He has denied earlier rumours that he would have to cut off his mane, in order to play the lead in a remake of Dudley Moore’s Arthur. However, he acknowledges that looking like a particularly well-encrusted homeless person means he is only going to be able to play sessy transients.

Photos of Russell Brand out and about and his comments on upcoming roles.

He said, ”I can’t keep always playing long-haired, scruffy men, otherwise my career would be limited.” But a sensible short-back-and-sides might be on the cards if Brand wants to fulfil his ultimate ambition – to play France’s post-revolutionary military dictator Napoleon Bonaparte.”

He continued, ”I was hoping one day to play Napoleon, but I can’t play Napoleon as this shaggy-haired, bearded raconteur. ‘But I did also want to play Rasputin, so that’ll be good, I can look like this.” (via the UK Telegraph)

Image credit to Fame Pictures. Story & info. the UK Telegraph.

The movie trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has finally been released.

This is the movie in which Jake Gyllenhaal does things without a shirt on. He may also do something that resembles acting, but most of all, he is sans shirt for enough time to make it worth spending your money on the movie.

This should compensate for making fangirls wait for this crap for over a year, from when teasers started being released. It’ll be boring as heck, sure, but there doesn’t really have to be a half-decent reason to stare at this man for two hours.

Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time is going to be released on May 28, 2010.

The extended trailer for the Tim Burton directed Alice in Wonderland movie has been released.

Alice in Wonderland was buried underneath a few tonnes of hype this Summer. Movie stills were released, the Tim Burton directed feature was pushed heavily during ComicCon, and the first trailer leaked prematurely. Rather than wonder down the garden path, with all kinds of smutty jokes about over-excitable Kool Aid-filled tweenagers and things leaking, let’s swiftly move on to talking more about the movie.

It looks like it will be amazing, in much the same way any film would be amazing if you were off your meds as you watched. The costumes looks divine, the sets are inspired, and Johnny Depp is the stuff of nightmares. As an adult, I can only just deal with Depp in his get up. Even after some months, he still looks like Madonna and Elijah Wood’s red-headed love child.

Terrifying and scarring small children aside, the fans are going to be going loopy over this trailer. Alice in Wonderland is out in cinemas March 5, 2010.

Video Disney Alice in Wonderland via CeleBuzz.

The Michael Jackson movie/ documentary This Is it had its premiere at The Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 27.

The red carpet arrivals mostly looked miserable and very, very windswept.

The attendees included, in order, the following celebrities; Monique Coleman, Lou Ferrigno, Matt Lanter, director Kenny Ortega and SYTYCD’s Nigel Lythgoe, Ashley Tisdale, Katy Perry, Adam Lambert, David Cook, Beatrice Rosen, Martin Lawrence, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Allison Janney, Larry Birkhead, Jermaine Jackson, Anne Heche, Vivica A. Fox, Tito/ Jackie/ Marlon Jackson, Daisy Fuentes, Neil Patrick Harris, Corbin Bleu, Roselyn Sanchez, Brenda Song, Julianne Hough, Paula Abdul, Paris Hilton, Jennifer Lopez, Mario Lopez, and Will Smith.

Click under the cut for a whopping 30 This Is It L.A. red carpet photos.

Image credit to Juan Rico/Fame Pictures.

Kate Gosselin wants to pursue a movie career, as she feels so comfortable in front of the camera.

The reality star of Jon and Kate Plus 8 says that she is a natural in front of the camera. She seems to also think that being followed around in her own house by a TLC steady-cam is the same as a real movie career. It’s not, my dear. It’s really not. Well, so long as no one takes this clownish offer for her services seriously, we’ll never have to see Kate Gosselin on the big or small screen.

Image credit to BF/ Flynet Pictures. Story and info. People.

The 2010 Footloose movie remake has lost its director, Kenny Ortega.

Ortega is the director who cobbled together rehearsal footage for the Michael Jackson movie, This is It. He seems to be a talented director who can create something out of nothing. He might have been able to stop this film melting into a big puddle of failure. Ortega’s issues stemmed from the film’s budget and tone. From that we can infer the script was only worthy of being used as potty paper, and the budget was barely enough to pay for 80s revival headbands and one all-in-one body suit.

The official line is it’s too soon, off the back of This is It, for Ortega to commit to another project. This is hogwash as it’s kind of like saying a singer’s album sold too well, too recently, for them to feature on a new single. The more likely reason is an amicable difference of opinion on how the movie should be made.

Image credit to EmmeVi/ Flynet Pictures. Story Variety via E! Online, IMDb.