Ghost Rider 2 teaser poster up

Although the response to Ghost Rider wasn't the most positive in Marvel's history, the producers decided to go ahead and make a reboot/follow-up anyway, hiring the guys behind Crank to give Johnny Blaze a shot of adrenaline.A teaser poster is now live for the next outing of the hellblazing vigilante, Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance.The film sees Nicolas Cage return to the saddle as Johnny Blaze, a stunt motorcyclist who traded his soul with the devil for supernatural powers.This time, as Blaze hides out in Eastern Europe, he finds his lucky self having to stop the devil from taking on human form, no doubt having to turn into a flaming leather-clad skeleton in the process.In addition to Nic Cage, Idris Elba, Ciaran Hinds and everyone's favourite Highlander, Christopher Lambert, will also feature in Ghost Rider 2.The poster shows very little besides a bony hand grasping Ghost Rider's trademark flaming chain, but this little nod should be enough to get fans of the character excited.See the new teaser poster below:Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance is directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor and will be released in UK cinemas on 22 February 2012.

Summer's Sexiest Women: Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba! Sexy! Jessica Alba sexy photos! Sorry, this is what happens when you spend the entire morning building a post featuring some of Jessica Alba's most alluring scenes and pictures. While we don't expect to see anything risqué when she stars in 'Spy Kids: All the Time in the World' this weekend, the 30-year-old actress has certainly performed in her fair share of of racy scenes. ('Sin City,' anybody?). Now, continuing our Summer's Sexiest Women series (see: Natalie Portman, Penelope Cruz, the lovely ladies of 'X-Men,' Blake Lively, Megan Fox and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Rosario Dawson), we present you with a photo gallery of Jessica at her finest, followed by a video collection of some of her steamiest scenes (if you plan on watching that one from 'Machete,' don't do it in the office -- we don't want anyone getting fired). Summer's Sexiest Women: Jessica Alba Summer's Sexiest Women: Jessica Alba See All Moviefone Galleries » As Brittany Murphy says in this scene from 'Sin City,' Jessica Alba is "just getting warmed up." Alba showing off her dance moves in 'Honey.' Alba goes all superhero in 'Fantastic Four.' Possibly the only worthwhile scene in 'Good Luck Chuck.' The famed 'Machete' shower scene. As we said earlier, this is NSFW.

Rosemarie Dewitt eyes 'Neighborhood'

DeWittExclusive: Rosemarie DeWitt is in negotiations to join the cast of "Neighborhood Watch" for Fox.Pic stars Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, with Akiva Schaffer directing. DeWitt will play Stiller's wife.Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg penned the script about a group of dads who form a neighborhood watch group to bond only to uncover a plot to destroy the world.Shawn Levy is producing.DeWitt can be seen next in "Margaret" with Matt Damon.She is repped by ICM and Wishlab. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

What Really Happened to Danny McBride's Character at the End of 30 Minutes or Less

The modest (at best) box-office performance of 30 Minutes or Less over the weekend is a bit of a disappointment to the folks at Sony, who had faith in director Ruben Fleischer and stars Jess Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari and Danny McBride to put an exclamation point on the summer of the R-rated comedy. That didn’t happen — in fact, many viewers might have perceived more of a question mark. To wit, what happened to McBride’s character in the last scene of the film? [Needless to say, major spoilers follow.] The finished film features a junkyard showdown followed by a car chase between bank-robbing pizza guy Nick (Eisenberg) and would-be tanning-salon pimp Dwayne (McBride). When Dwayne catches up with Nick, who has taken off with the money he was forced to steal when Dwayne strapped a bomb to his chest, Dwayne levels a gun at Nick’s head in the adjacent lane. But just before he can shoot, his van explodes; Nick explains to his friend Chet (Ansari) and Chet’s sister Kate (Dilshad Vadsaria) that he reactivated the bomb vest and tossed it in Dwayne’s vehicle as a precaution just before hitting the road. Done deal, end of film. Except it’s… not? 30 Minutes or Less has broad flourishes of dark comedy, but despite some pretty extreme violence — from Dwayne’s lottery-winning taskmaster father (Fred Ward) getting shot to hit man Chango (Michael Pea) withstanding the receiving end of a flamethrower — nobody in the movie actually dies. A commercial for Dwayne’s Major Tan is tacked on after the end credits to assure us that Dwayne, his father and his partner in crime Travis (Nick Swardson) made it in the end, but it might as well be a dream sequence. After all, how did Dwayne get to that point when his father hates him, Nick and Chet tore off with his $100,000 and the last we saw of the guy was in a burning wreck in the middle of the road? So many questions! For the record, however, McBride supplied Movieline with some answers. “Honestly, there was a big scene that was cut out of the movie at the end, and I totally understand why,” McBride said. “Once the bomb goes off, the movie feels like it’s over with. You’re ready for it to be done. In the script, originally, there was a wrap-up with Jesse and Aziz, and those guys end up in Mexico. And then there was a wrap-up with Dwayne, where he stumbles home to his house after the explosion in the van, finds his dad still barely alive, and those two have this sort of bonding moment: ‘You’re not a fucking pussy.’ ‘Thanks!’ You know? That’s sort of what Dwayne has been looking for. “But when you watch the movie,” he continued, “it has such an amazing pace and moves so quickly that it’s like the brakes had to come on at the very end to wrap these things up. Reading it in the script, it feels like it wraps up the characters nicely. But when you watch the film, it feel like it’s a detriment to the pace. So it gets clipped in the end. But I was always playing the character with that intention that ultimately everything — the tanning salon, the success — is all just to find the acceptance of his dad. […] When we saw the cut, we were like, ‘Oh. I guess Dwayne dies at the end of this version!’ Ruben put the tanning salon thing in the ending credits just so there’s some air there, but at the end of the day, the movie feels like it’s over when the climax is over.” So! Dry your eyes, already. Everyone’s fine.

Bookings & signings

Innovative Artists signed d.p. Ben Kutchins("Holy Rollers"); production designers Ruth Ammon("Heroes") and Loren Weeks "Gossip Girl"); and editors Joan Sobel("Another Bullshit Night in Suck City," "A Single Man") and Jo Francis ("The Next Three Days," "In the Valley of Elah").IA booked d.p.'s Patrick Loungway as 2nd unit d.p. on Jon Chu's "G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation," Levie Isaacks on ABC's "Man Up" and Darren Genet on CBS' "C.S.I. Miami"; 2nd unit director/stunt coordinator Jack Gill on Akiva Schaffer's "Neighborhood Watch"; and production designers Larry Bennett on Robert Redford's "The Company You Keep," Gary Frutkoff on Salim Akil's "Sparkle," Chuck Parker on CBS' "Beverly Hills 90210," Stuart Blatt on NBC's "Awake," Nick Lundy on Lifetime pilot "Modern Love" and Victoria Paul on Fox's "The Finder."IA booked editors Tim Alverson on Walter Hill's "Headshot," Toby Yates on Ryuhei Kitamura's "No One Lives" and Charles Bornstein on Eric Bross' "We Have Your Husband"; and costume designers George Little on Jonathan Levine's "Warm Bodies," Mimi Melgaard on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," Rachel Sage Kunin on TNT's "Dallas," Linda Bass on ABC's "Private Practice," Cate Adair on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," Marissa Borsetto on ABC's "Man Up," Victoria Auth on Fox's "The Finder" and Monique Prudhomme on David Bowers' "Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3."Sandra Marsh & Associates signed editor Beatrice Sisul ("What's Wrong with Virginia?"). Agency booked productions designers Dan Leigh on CBS' "Person of Interest," Kevin Phipps on Paul W.S. Anderson's "Resident Evil: Retribution" and Andrew McAlpine on Dustin Hoffman's "Quartet"; d.p.'s Mike Eley on Susanna White's "Parade's End" and Dan Laustsen Kees Van Oostrum's "First Allies'; and costume designers Gabriella Pescucci on Showtime's "Borgias," Michele Clapton on HBO's "Game of Thrones," Doug Hall on History's "Hatfields & McCoys" and Sharen Davis on Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained." Contact Peter Caranicas at peter.caranicas@variety.com

Cheers & Jeers: Entourage No Dice!

Andrew Dice Clay Jeers to Entourage for letting the Diceman cometh back.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.Are we really supposed to believe that an animated TV series about gorillas featuring the voices of Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon) and stand-up washout Andrew Dice Clay would become a hot property in Hollywood? That's just bananas! (Then again, it brings new meaning to Rise of the Planet of the Apes.)In its prime, HBO's showbiz sitcom boasted cameos from marquee names like Matt Damon, Martin Scorsese, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, LeBron James and Eminem. To build one of its final-season subplots around an outdated punchline like the star of The Adventures of Ford Fairlane makes the show seem like it's running on empty. Who will they snag for the rumored Entourage movie - Carrot Top?What do you think of Andrew Dice Clay on Entourage?Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Box Office Update: 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Off to a Strong Start

Twentieth Century Fox's Rise of the Planet of the Apes is off to a strong early start at the domestic box office, with preliminary returns suggesting a Friday gross of $14 million. PHOTOS: Summer Movie Guide If the well-reviewed origins pic-headlining Andy Serkis as the ape Caesar-holds the course, it could open in the $35 million to $40 million range. Directed by Rupert Wyatt and also starring James Franco, Frida Pinto and John Lithgow, Apes is drawing rave reviews, particularly for the photo-realistic apes, which were created by Peter Jackson's Weta Digital using advanced performance capture technology. PHOTOS: 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' First Look: The Many Faces of Andy Serkis The film, made for $93 million, was produced by Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark's Chernin Enertainment and co-financed by Fox, Dune Entertainment and Ingenious. Rise of the Apes earned $1.3 million in midnight runs, nearly double the $700,000 earned in midnight grosses last week by Cowboys & Aliens. Elsewhere at the domestic box office, Universal's R-rated body switching comedy The Change-Up, starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman, looked to open on the softer side, although Universal believes the raunchy pic will have good legs. The film is on track to gross $4 to $6 million for Friday. Directed by David Dobkins, the comedy is expected to open in the low to mid teens for the weekend. Related Topics