Film News Wrap Up April 20: 'Three's Company' movie and 'The Girl on the Train' trailer

Today in film news, a movie based on the classic ‘80s sitcom Three’s Company is in the works at New Line, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, the team responsible for He’s Just Not That Into You, will write the screenplay, though no director is attached. No word yet on the casting either, but the Three’s Company movie will evidently be set in the 1970's.

Universal Pictures has just released the first official trailer for The Girl on the Train, the new thriller based on the popular novel by Paula Hawkins. The studio is very clearly setting it up to be the next Gone Girl, as it's another psychological drama about the disappearance of a young blonde woman in which our potentially unreliable protagonist is a suspect. Directed by Tate Taylor (Get On Up), The Girl on the Train stars Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans, Rebecca Ferguson, Laura Prepon and Allison Janney. It hits theaters this October.

Netflix has released a trailer for Adam Sandler’s newest film The Do-Over, in which he and David Spade play two friends who fake their deaths in order to start new lives. This is the second partnership between Netflix and Adam Sandler as part of the actor’s four-picture deal; his first production was The Ridiculous Six, which was poorly reviewed but still performed extraordinarily well. The Do-Over will begin streaming on May 27.

And just one more trailer: Sony has released the first Magnificent Seven trailer after putting out a series of stills yesterday. A remake of the 1960 Western by John Sturges, the film follows a group of mercenaries who help protect a village from an evil industrialist. It stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier and Peter Sarsgaard. The film hits theaters this September.

Kevin Smith is appealing the MPAA’s decision to give his new movie Yoga Hosers an R-rating. The director explained in a lengthy Instagram post that the film received this rating because it features one scene of a cartoonish drawing of testicles. Smith says he was aiming for a PG-13, as the picture is aimed at teen girls and does not contain foul language or blood. He will screen the movie to an MPAA appeals audience next week, explaining why he believes it deserves a PG-13 rating. 

The #MPAA gave my kids movie @YogaHosers an R rating for a cartoony drawing of testicles on a book cover. So now, for the 4th time in my 22 year career, we will hold an appeals screening with the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board and try to get the R overturned for a less severe (and far more appropriate) PG-13. I also ran afoul of the MPAA the first time I made a movie set in a convenience store, when they initially slapped Clerks with an NC-17 rating for language. Back then, Harvey Weinstein hired mega-lawyer Alan Dershowitz and turned our rating appeal into a Free Speech case. But on the day of the actual appeals screening, it was just me and the Miramax lawyer getting up in front of the appeals folks to argue for a less restrictive rating without having to change or trim any shots. We won that day and Clerks received the R rating without a single cut. The next two occasions I fought an MPAA rating was on Jersey Girl (won a PG-13 instead of the R they gave us) and Zack and Miri Make a Porno (which went from an NC-17 to an R, without cuts). I don't mind doing this dance with the MPAA a fourth time (hey - at least they even OFFER an appeals screening) but this #YogaHosers R rating is riDONKulous. The core audience for the flick is tween girls (it's Clueless meets Gremlins!), so I refrained from salty language to make a totally kid-friendly movie. And while it's a "horror" movie, there's no blood on display: when our Bratzi bad guys get killed, concentrated sauerkraut explodes everywhere - not guts or entrails. Honestly, this movie is TAME (or "lame" according to some reviews). Even so, next week I'll screen the flick for the MPAA appeals audience and, lawyer-like, plead my case for why the film is really PG-13 - all so that I can keep the graffiti drawing of nuts on a fictional library book in my goofy girl-power monster movie. Weird life. Mind you, this is NOT a First Amendment issue at all; instead, it's the very definition of a First World Problem. But before I can tour the movie in June & July and release it in theaters this August, I'm gonna have to win #TheBattleForTheBalls! #KevinSmith #harleyquinnsmith #lilyrosedepp #johnnydepp

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Could Jeff Goldblum be joining a superhero movie franchise? In a recent interview with MTV, Goldblum was asked that question directly and while he was pretty tight-lipped, his answer was still tantalizing. “I can say very little right now, but you might be onto something," he responded.

Simon Pegg says he enlisted the help of hardcore Star Trek fans while writing the latest installment in the franchise. In an interview with Coming Soon, Pegg, the co-writer of Star Trek: Beyond, says he relied heavily on the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha, even contacting those behind the website for help. We actually wrote to the Memory Alpha guys and got them to name a certain device in the movie," he said. "I sent them a letter saying, ‘Can you come up with this for me?’ In two hours, they came back with an entire etymological history of what the thing was.”

Crackle has announced the release date for their upcoming film Dead Rising: Endgame; the movie will begin streaming on June 20, according to IGNA sequel to last year's Dead Rising: Watchtower and based on the popular video game series, Endgame, will again follow reporter Chase Carter, who journeys into the quarantined zone East Mission City during the zombie apocalypse and must uncover a government conspiracy.

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