Aaron, Kick-Ass and the rest of the cast earned a few nominations for the 2010 Scream Awards!

THE ULTIMATE SCREAM
* Alice in Wonderland
* Avatar
* District 9
* Inception
* Iron Man 2
* Kick-Ass
* Lost
* True Blood
* The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
* Zombieland

BEST FANTASY MOVIE
* Alice in Wonderland
* The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
* Kick-Ass
* Toy Story 3
* The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
* Where the Wild Things Are

BEST SCREAM-PLAY
* District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
* Inception – Christopher Nolan
* Kick-Ass – Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman
* Shutter Island – Laeta Kalogridis
* Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt
* Zombieland – Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese

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It was inevitable that Matthew Vaughn’s big-screen version of the John Romita Jr. and Mark Millar comic “Kick-Ass” would get the green light for a sequel. Today it’s been confirmed apparently by Millar himself on a radio station in the UK who claimed that due to the wonderful DVD sales the sequel is a go.

It’s not really a surprise when you think about it. Sure, it didn’t perform incredibly well like people thought it would in the box office, but it seemed destined to be one of those comic book flicks that would find it’s audience on home video. Since this is all up and running, now it’s a matter of the studio bringing back Vaughn and the cast to the new project.

At the moment Matthew Vaughn is in the middle of filming “X-Men: First Class” for 20th Century Fox which acts as a ’60s set prequel, out in theaters on June 3rd, 2011. “Kick-Ass” star Aaron Johnson will be appearing next in Sam Taylor-Wood directed film “Nowhere Boy”. Chloe Moretz is in the middle of filming her role in Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo Cabret” and will be seen in Matt Reeves’ “Let Me In” this October 8th.

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Aaron Johnson Source is sporting a new layout! Thanks a bunch to Heaven Butterflies for the header!

Now for the fun stuff. I’ve added new stills, posters and what I assume is a promotional shoot for the film. Enjoy! Please credit AJS if you’re posting these elsewhere.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Chatroom (2010) > Production Stills
- Chatroom (2010) > Promotional Shoot
- Chatroom (2010) > Artwork & Posters

8. Nowhere Boy
The film covers the troubled relations between the soon-to-be Beatle John Lennon (Kick-Ass’s Aaron Johnson), the mother who abandoned him, and the aunt who raised him (Kristin Scott Thomas). But the juicier story may be offscreen: Director Sam Taylor-Wood, 43, just gave birth to a daughter with Johnson, 20. Oct. 8.

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Caps from the second episode of ‘Nearly Famous’ have been added to the gallery.

GALLERY LINK:
- Nearly Famous (2007) > Episode #1.2

Added a bunch of new stills from ‘Nowhere Boy’ along with some posters as well. Enjoy!

GALLERY LINKS:
- Nowhere Boy (2009) > Production Stills
- Nowhere Boy (2009) > Artwork & Posters

A few more outtakes (unfortunately a few are tagged) from session 4 has been added to the gallery. Enjoy!

GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots > Session #4

On Aaron’s IMDB page, ‘The Phone’ is listed as one of his newest projects, right under ‘Kick-Ass 2′. As we all know, IMDB can be unreliable when it comes to information on certain films… However, I thought it was worth posting. Apparently, the film will be a remake of the Korean horror/thriller with the same name.

The Matthew Vaughn film Kick-Ass certainly took some names and lived up to its title on the home video charts, debuting in the top spot on the DVD sales, rentals and Blu-ray sales charts in its first week on the shelves, the week ending August 8.

The superhero film had some stiff competition in the Fox children’s film Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which came in second on the DVD sales and rental charts. It was said that Diary of a Wimpy Kid came in a close second in DVD sales, taking in 88% of the DVD sales that Kick-Ass ammassed. Both films finished 1-2 on both the DVD sales and rental charts, with last week’s winner, Clash of the Titans, taking third place in DVD sales and rentals. The only other notable new release on the charts was The Ghost Writer, which took fourth place on the DVD sales charts and sixth place in rentals.

Kick-Ass completed the sweep with a win on the Blu-ray sales charts, with a record-tying 49% of units sold in the BD format, matching Avatar’s first-week ratio from back in April. Clash of the Titans came in second place on the BD sales charts with Diary of a Wimpy Kid finishing in third place.

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Despite all its provocative style and violent energy, Kick-Ass wouldn’t work if viewers didn’t connect with the high school nerd at its center: Dave Lizewski, the film’s teen hero wannabe.

Luckily, Dave is perfectly played by 19-year-old British actor Aaron Johnson. Unknown for the most part to American audiences, the talented Johnson can be seen playing a dream teen in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snoggings (available in the redboxes). And this fall he’ll play young John Lennon in the biopic Nowhere Boy.

I sat down with Johnson last spring to talk about Kick-Ass and its controversial violence and language, about being typecast as an American nerd, and why he’d rather see kids wielding swords than appearing in beauty pageants.

On Playing Dave/Kick-Ass as a Teen Loser
Aaron Johnson: The script was this sort of teenage angst story about being stuck in this high school—it was all Superbad-esque. There’s a reason why the filmmakers wanted to have a younger cast: These characters are kids in high school. My character doesn’t have a girlfriend, and he’s going from a boy to a young man, going through that part of his life where he wants to do something different, go on a journey. He gives up his old boring life and wants to be this heroic guy, but he’s still weedy Dave Lizewski under the mask. So when he says these heroic things that he’s read in comic books they sound kinda stupid and pathetic. I was up for that–everyone can relate to it. He’s forever getting beaten up and people feel a sort of sympathy for him.

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