Thursday’s News Round-Up (4 January)

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Thursday's News Round-Up (4 January)

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The trailer for Peter Berg's latest movie, The Kingdom has arrived. Nothing to do with haunted hospitals, Stephen King and Lars Von Trier fans, this is a tale about terrorist attacks on Americans living in . Obviously there's been some pretty big parties around at the Carnahan residence recently; rather than us explain all of the connections between this film and Smokin' Aces, we'll just give you a list of a list of names and you can see how they are connected: Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Peter Berg, Matthew Michael Carnahan, Jeremy Piven, M… oh yeah, the trailer. Watch it here.

After a few years of happily wasting everyone's time (we mean that in a good way mostly), TV show The O.C. is calling it a day after four seasons. We don't rmember most of the plot, but it when you've got Rachel Bilson, Adam Brody, Kelly Rowan and Peter Gallagher to look at, who's paying attention?

What was to be the next project for Australian born director Russell Mulchay (whose ecclectic CV includes credits for Highlander, 'Jaws in the outback with a giant pig' Oz horror flick Razorback and the music video for Duran Duran's Wild Boys) has been put on hold while some finances get sorted out. Whilst speaking with Empire, Mulchay explained that although he was nearly ready to roll on family comedy Russell - about an arrogant whitefella who is turned into a talking koala by an Aboriginal shaman - was almost ready to start before they hit a financing snag, right down to casting sessions that included Aussie comedian Mick Molloy. In the meantime, Mulchay is in post production on Resident Evil: Extinction, and chipping away at another, as yet untitled horror film.

The wide release of Alfonso Cuaron's excellent British made Children Of Men is set to go out on 1,200 screens, after the early limited release over the New Year returned excellent figures.

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