Behold the Trailer for Steven Spielberg's Oscar hopeful War Horse!

Take a look:

-Joey's Two Cents: It certainly looks like it's going for the gold, but I can't help feeling like this doesn't look as good as it potentially should...thoughts?

Rocky...The Musical?

Go figure, The Hollywood Reporter says that a stage adaptation is in the works:

Is Rocky the latest property to be turned into a musical?

Apparently so. Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the Tony Award-winning songwriting team, with Tony-winning book writer Thomas Meehanare adapting the Sylvester Stallonedrama for the stage, the New York Times reports.

According to Meehan and producer Barbara Darwall, a private reading was held in New York earlier this year. Stallone, who played the title character in the 1976 Oscar-winning film, is also producing.

And with the reading deemed a creative success, the team is moving ahead with launching the musical in Germany in fall 2012. The Rocky musical then may travel to Broadway in spring 2013.

Stage Entertainment, a European producer, is the lead producer, Darwall told the Times.

According to Meehan, the project has been in the works for at least eight years when Stallone, who holds the rights to the story, called him inquiring about making a Rocky musical.

-Joey's Two Cents: Oddly enough, I'd be interested in seeing it...thoughts?

Sony Pictures Classics is close to acquiring Roman Polanski's God of Carnage!

Via Deadline:

I’m told that Sony Pictures Classics partners Michael Barker and Tom Bernard are tying up a deal to acquire US rights to God Of Carnage, the Roman Polanski-directed feature adaptation of Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning play. Polanski shot the film in Paris, with Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly starring.

This is just one of several plum pictures currently being shopped for distribution. Others include the Phyllida Lloyd-directed Margaret Thatcher pic The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep starring (the ask is $7 million for US rights), and the Paolo Sorrentino-directed This Must Be The Place, starring Sean Penn as a bored, retired rock star who tries to find his father's killer, an ex-Nazi war criminal hiding in the U.S.

Back to God of Carnage. It's a strong cast, and counting Polanski, everyone has won Oscars except Reilly, who has been nominated. The plot: two sets of parents meet after their kids brawl in the schoolyard, and get along worse than the kids did. The Broadway show ran 452 performances with roles originated by James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis. ICM packaged the film and is making the distribution deal.

-Joey's Two Cents: This seems like the right type of film for the distributor, so I imagine we'll be seeing it this fall...thoughts?