Time Travel Causes Trouble in New Trailer for 'Project Almanac'

Originally titled Welcome to Yesterday, the Michael Bay-produced time travel film Project Almanac has been sitting on the backburner for awhile now. It was to have hit theaters earlier this year but was pushed back to 2015, and now the Butterfly Effect-esque film has unveiled a brand new trailer.

Directed by Dean Israelite and starring Jonny Weston (Taken 3), Amy Landecker (Enough Said) and other mostly unknowns, the film centers on a group of kids who construct a working time machine, only to discover that time travel is not as awesome as they hoped. Didn't these kids watch Interstellar and learn not to screw around with time and space?

Project Almanac opens January 30th 2015.

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Rhys Ifans Goes 'Through the Looking Glass'; Jonny Weston and Suki Waterhouse Join 'Insurgent'

* And the Mad Hatter has a new daddy. While Mark Rylance was said to be up for the role of Zanik Hightopp, the father of Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland sequel, Through the Looking Glass, the part has instead been claimed by Rhys Ifans. He joins the returning Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Mia Wasikowska, along with Sacha Baron Cohen as Time, the film's primary villain. Linda Woolverton is again providing the script with James Bobin coming aboard to direct. Through the Looking Glass is set to open May 27th 2016. [TheWrap]

* Filming on the Divergent sequel, Insurgent, kicked off this week and with it the cast has been firmed up with the additions of Jonny Weston (Chasing Mavericks) and model/actress Suki Waterhouse, who apparently has no connection to Sooki Stackhouse. Weston's role is unclear but Stackhouse will be Marlene, a member of the Dauntless faction alongside Shailene Woodley's Tris and Theo James' Four. They join Octavia Spencer, Kate Winslet, Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller, Jai Courtney, and Zoe Kravitz in the Robert Schwentke-directed film, set to open March 20th 2015.

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Joe Manganiello will 'Tumbledown'; Scott Caan to 'Rock the Kasbah'; Jonny Weston Joins 'Taken 3'

* Joe Manganiello, who can be seen right now in Sabotage and will return for Magic Mike XXL, has joined the cast of Tumbledown as production gets moving. He joins Rebecca Hall, Jason Sudeikis, and the newly-cast Dianna Agron (The Family), Griffin Dunne, Richard Masur, and Blythe Danner in the story of a widow struggling to write a biography about her late husband, a famous musician. That changes when she meets a brash New York academic with a different take on her husband's life and death. The unlikely pair must collaborate to craft the famous singer’s story and begin to write the next chapter in their lives together. Sean Mewshew is directing.

* With Shia LaBeouf making a public spectacle out of his need for privacy, the actor left the Barry Levinson comedy, Rock the Kasbah. And it didn't take long for him to be replaced, as Variety reports Scott Caan has joined the all-star ensemble. Bill Murray plays a washed up rock music manager stranded in Kabul, who discovers a new talent on the reality competition show, Afghan Star. Zooey Deschanel, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride, and Bruce Willis co-star.

* With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, and Famke Janssen set to get taken again in Taken 3, some new blood has come aboard with the addition of Jonny Weston. He got his start in the surf drama Chasing Mavericks and will be seen next year in the Michael Bay-produced time travel film Project Almanac. Taken 3 opens next year on January 9th.

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First Trailer for Michael Bay-Produced Found Footage Thriller 'Welcome to Yesterday'

Sometimes it pays to subscribe to the wit and wisdom of Ashton Kutcher movies, and certainly the kids in the Michael Bay-produced thriller Welcome to Yesterday should have paid more attention to The Butterfly Effect. The film had a ton of mystery surrounding it back when it was titled Almanac, mostly due to fast-rising writers Jason Pagan and Andrew Stark, and Bay's sudden interest in their time travel tale. And now with the release of the very first trailer we get to see what hooked him.

Mostly starring a cast of unknowns, befitting the trim $12M budget, the found footage story centers on a group of friends who discover an old time machine and abuse the heck out of it for personal gain. Win the lottery? Check. Party like Spring Breakers on steroids? Check. Score with the hottest girl in town? You know it. And while it's all fun 'n games, things go south when they learn all the changes they've made in the past have caused ripples through time, altering the future in terrible ways.

Bay and first-time director Dean Israelite are banking on Welcome to Yesterday to be an inexpensive, early season smash when it opens February 28th.


Welcome To Yesterday (2014) - Official Trailer [VO-HD] by Eklecty-City.fr

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