In a little nod to the passing of Michael Jackson this week I thought that we could have a look at singers who have turned to acting, since this site is all about film it seemed the most sensible topic for a feature.
While Michael Jackson shouldn't really make it onto this list, it is a list that so often begins with the word "worst" or turns into a list of terrible cinematic moments.
However there are some good singers turned actors out there, some amazing ones in fact, and I've looked through a huge list of names to find the ones who I think are good, but you might disagree, and if you do then you can wade in with your choices.
I remember seeing the story that claimed Kate Beckinsale was dropped from the Barbarella film and deciding to rake a little deeper, and as I did I found that the newspaper behind the claim had taken upon itself to interpret one of its previous rumour stories as fact, and the false claim was made.
There's some footage online for Cemetery Junction, the comedy from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant set in the 1970's and focusing on some friends who are working together in an insurance company.
John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was made into a television series in 1979 starring the cinematic great Alec Guinness, yes he did do films other than Star Wars. Now the film is set to be remade by Hollywood into a feature film.
There's a new trailer online for 9, the unique animated tale that features nine rag doll creatures brought to life after the end of humanity. The film comes from Shane Acker and carries with it a glowing cast, almost as glowing as this story rich trailer for the film.
I avoided all the hype about George Clooney wanting to take over the role of Jack Ryan, although I mentioned it on the Filmstalker Facebook Page, I looked at it as the usual piece of self marketing – a leaked from a source comment suggests that Clooney is being considered for the role of Jack Ryan in a restart of the franchise, and voilà everyone's talking about it and the name is then in the thoughts of the studio executives.
The new Dan Brown novel will undoubtedly be bought up and made into a film, whether it is with Ron Howard and Tom Hanks may not be the case, although I think it definitely will be, but it will make it to the big screen that's for sure, especially considering the setting planned for the story.
Is this trailer for Funny People really R-rated? I didn't see any violence, murder, gore, blood, etc. However what I did notice is that there are a number of moments that could have been plucked right out of various other comedy films before, a lot of buddy moments.
Despite losing Peter Morgan as director, The Special Relationship has been hit by another change, this time to Hilary Clinton.
There's a new trailer online for District 9, the film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson that we keep hearing so much about in a very strong viral marketing campaign. Blonkamp, you'll remember, was going to deliver the Halo film along with Jackson, and when that fell through they moved on with District 9.
Clive Barker's Book of Blood has had a new trailer released online, a red band trailer. While 
Unlike a lot of people I think Jason Statham is a cracking actor, he's just hidden behind an action star, and that acting talent looks like it's going to get an outing when he joins with Paddy Considine in an extremely interesting adaptation of a novel by Ken Bruen called Blitz (
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Jamie Winstone is set to star in another British horror film, and this one is apparently set to make history by becoming the first British horror film to be shot in 3D.
There have been rumours for some time about another Mortal Kombat film and 
I think Tobey Maguire is really beginning to work hard at separating himself from Spider-Man, probably because he's set to return to the role once again, and perhaps his role in the upcoming Brothers is the film that's really going to showcase his talent.
