TheSpyNextDoor Tagged Articles at Cinematical

The Wolfman
This is the second trailer for the remake of the Universal Monsters classic and it's got me hungry for more. Benicio Del Toro plays Lawrence Talbot, a man cursed to become half-man half-wolf during the full moon. Watch for this on February 10.

Season of the Witch
In this supernatural tale of medieval mayhem, Nicolas Cage plays a knight escorting a witch who is believed to be responsible for the black plague. There are some cool images here, but nothing is put into any context so it's hard to feel one way or the other about this one. The season begins on March 19.

We know him as the man who made the radios go wild with "Achey Breaky" hearts, and he who holds the loins that made Miley, but could Billy Ray Cyrus soon become that tough action spy?

The Hollywood Reporter posts that Cyrus, George Lopez, Amber Valletta, and Katherine Boecher have joined Jackie Chan's upcoming comedy The Spy Next Door. Chan plays a man who helps out his neighbors by babysitting their children. In a twist of bad luck for the guy, one accidentally downloads a code and he must protect the tykes from secret agents. They're lucky Kenneth from 30 Rock wasn't the babysitter... Lopez is "a CIA agent who might not be all the he appears," Cyrus is an agent as well, Valletta is mom, and since we're in spy-land, there are Russian shoes that will be filled by Boecher.

I think it's safe to presume how this will turn out. But what about the family of Cyruses? Will this lead to co-starring father-daughter gigs? Will anyone believe Cyrus is in the CIA? Sound off below!

Moviegoers who only know Jackie Chan from his Hollywood studio productions might be surprised to learn that he's continued actively working in Asia on films that have rarely made their way to North America (except on DVD). His latest project has the English-language working title Junior Soldiers, and it's expected to start filming early next year, according to Variety.

In the decade since Rush Hour, his blockbuster US hit, Chan has ceded control on his American star projects to studio-approved Hollywood vets. But in Asia, where he's been an established superstar since 1985, he makes films the way he wants to make them. He is the real auteur, no matter if he's credited as director or not. The quality has not been consistently high, but I really liked the solid action of the original version of The Accidental Spy (not the truncated, English-dubbed edition), appreciated the dramatic turn he tried in New Police Story, and enjoyed Rob-B-Hood as the silly riff on Three Men on a Baby that it is. Most of his Asian titles have featured better, more extended action sequences than any of his non-Asian flicks, even though Chan has recently slowed a bit with age (he's 54).

Not much is known about Junior Soldiers so far. Referencing reports on Sina.com, Variety describes it as "a road movie in period costume set during the Qin dynasty." Chan arrived in New Mexico last week (photo above from his official site, where he recounts a side trip to Santa Fe) to begin filming the English-language action comedy The Spy Next Door, directed by Brian Levant, in which he's an undercover spy who babysits his neighbor's kids; they unwittingly draw the attention of "dangerous foreign agents." No doubt, hilarity and action ensue.