Get Exchanged With Matthew McConaughey

Say what you will about Matthew McConaughey and what he's done with his career, but at least he's using his rom-com-earned wealth to promote up-and-comers. His J.K. Livin production company is starting work on Exchange Student, and to write it they've picked newbie Mike Vukadinovich, who will be writing his first screenplay. The story sounds straight-up baffling as The Hollywood Reporter describes it. It's about two exchange students who exchange themselves in opposite directions, one of them coming to ...

McConaughey Developing Exchange Student

Matthew McConaugheys J.K. Livin production banner is developing Exchange Student, a comedy about two college freshmen going in opposite directions -- literally -- and has signed up-and-coming writer Mike Vukadinovich to pen the script, report the trades. The story revolves around two exchange students, one who ships out from the U.S. and one who comes in, who experience new environments in very different ways: One has the time of his life, the other goes off the rails. McConaughey came up with the story and will produce and potentially star in one of the non-lead roles. J.K. Livin's Mark and Gus Gustawes will serve as producers. The project is being described as a family comedy with ironic overtones a la Wes Anderson. Vukadinovich is a playwright and former employee in the development department at HBO. He came to the attention of Hollywood reps with a satiric political play about a teen who runs for school office by mirroring the tactics and policies of George W. Bush. In addition to Exchange, Vukadinovich and J.K. Livin are developing Jonah and the Whale, a dysfunctional-family dramedy that the writer penned as a spec. J.K. Livin has sold the script to Starz, which is developing the project as a potential series.

McConaughey Developing Exchange Student

Matthew McConaughey's J.K. Livin production company is developing Exchange Student , a comedy about two college freshmen going in opposite directions -- literally -- and has signed up-and-coming writer Mike Vukadinovich to write the script.

Stars will attend special early Star Trek screening for troops in Kuwait

About 440 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines will get to see J.J. Abrams' Star Trek at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait on Saturday, about a month before its May 8 stateside premiere, in a special screening attended by cast members, Army and Air Force Exchange Service officials told the Air Force Times.

Stars Chris Pine (Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Zoe Saldana {Uhura), Eric Bana {Nero), Karl Urban {McCoy) and John Cho (Sulu) will be on hand, as will director Abrams, the paper reported.

The filmmakers worked with the local command and exchange service to bring the special screening to the troops, Roy Robertson, AAFES' vice president of restaurants and hospitality, said in the announcement.

CHANGELING DVD Review -- Jackson says sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

Living in the City of Angels now (but having grown up in relatively ancient New England), its hard to imagine how certain über-populated areas were little more than fields a mere fifty years ago. That massive burst of development that transformed LA from a small coastal city to the second largest metropolitan area in America has led to a decidedly unique criminal history, frequently exhibiting a Wild West frontier attitude in both the underworld and law enforcement. Not surprisingly, that centerpiece of Los Angeles, Hollywood has frequently explored just those criminal stories. Some attempts, like The Black Dahlia, fall flat on their face by not focusing enough on the actual crime and by expounding so much on the backstory that the facts are eventually lost. But those that work, like Clint Eastwoods 2008 Changeling, do so by ...

DVD: Changeling

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This Week on DVD: Choke, Changeling, Religulous

There are a lot of middle-of-the-road DVD releases this week along with some crap, but if you wade through the complete list of titles, odds are you'll find something that you're interested in. Ridley Scott's Body of Lies is out today, along with Clint Eastwood's Changeling, REC remake Quarantine, and the Simon Pegg comedy How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Movies that a lot of people didn't get a chance to see in theatres include Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Choke, the controversial Dakota Fanning movie Hounddog, and Ryûhei Kitamura's The Midnight Meat Train. Dead Like Me fans will be excited about the direct-to-DVD movie Life After Death, and also going head to head this week are the ...

Blu-ray Review: Changeling

You would think getting a chance to watch the Oscar-nominated performance from Angelina Jolie in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling would be a welcome proposal, but at two hours and 20 minutes this film is a tough one to relive, but I will admit Universal’s Blu-ray U Control feature made it a bit easier to handle the [...]