First Look: Saoirse Ronan In Joe Wright’s Hanna By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2010 12:20 am EST USA Today has a first look at Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) as a 16-year-old killing machine in Joe Wright’s Hanna. In the film, Saoirse plays the title character in Hanna, who has been “raised from childhood to be the perfect assassin by her ex-CIA man father (Eric Bana) in rural Finland....
Five New ‘True Grit’ Posters Revealed By Germain Lussier/Nov. 18, 2010 11:53 am EST If you’ve been to a movie theater in the past month or two (and if you are reading this site, you probably have) you’ve seen the teaser poster that Paramount released for The Coen Brothers’ True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld. It evoked an old west wanted poster, but outside of a few foreboding taglines, didn’t give us much information about the film....
Ice Cube In Talks For ‘21 Jump Street,’ Wants To Direct ‘Chrome And Paint’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2011 8:27 pm EST Ice Cube may be paying some bills and, hell, probably having a good time, doing roles in films like New Year’s Eve. But he’s got a bit more cooking than that fluff. For one, there is now a possible role in 21 Jump Street. That’s fluff, but it’s a more, er, explosive fluff (if that’s possible) than something like New Year’s Eve....
IMDB Thinks All Asians Look The Same By David Chen/Jan. 15, 2011 6:53 pm EST Despite my reservations about his eventual performance, I was pretty thrilled when I heard that actor and Taiwanese mega-sensation pop music star Jay Chou had been cast as Kato in Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet. Turns out, I was wrong all along; according to IMDB, it was actually Harold & Kumar star John Cho that starred in the film....
Jerry Bruckheimer On X-Men: First Class By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2010 6:00 am EST This isn’t necessarily news, but I thought it was worth sharing… Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is currently shooting at Pinewood Studios, the same lot where Matthew Vaughn is shooting X-Men: First Class. Super mega producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates) tweeted a “set report” earlier today: “X-Men Origins also shooting here at Pinewood Studios. Occasionally see weird creature appendages being carried around....
Leslie Nielsen Dead At 84 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 28, 2010 6:08 pm EST Manitoba radiostation CJOB 68 is reporting that comic actor Leslie Nielsen has passed away in hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida after complications from pneumonia. The website for the station has posted supposed audio of the news from Nielsen’s nephew Doug Nielsen. I am unable to find a second confirmation of this report, but the news is being re-reported by big news publications....
Lionsgate Buys Summit; Studio Head Suggests ‘Twilight’ Could Continue After ‘Breaking Dawn Part 2’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2012 4:30 pm EST While Summit investors wanted to get this deal done before Twilight ended and Summit’s overall value fell, it seems like some at Lionsgate don’t feel like Twilight has to be done. Today Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said he hopes to continue Twilight in some form, either in film or television....
Lionsgate Executive Hints ‘Saw’ Series Will Return By Germain Lussier/Dec. 7, 2011 4:00 pm EST Whether you realized it or not, this past Halloween was the first one in seven years without a new Saw movie in theaters. 2010 brought audiences the seventh film, Saw 3D, which was the most expensive of the series thus far. However, while it did receive a nice box office bump thanks to inflated 3D ticket prices, the film failed to perform up to lofty expectations....
Lionsgate Takes Film Rights To Zombie Video Game ‘Dead Island’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2011 10:37 am EST When the trailer for the video game Dead Island hit in February of this year, it caused a sensation, and word quickly spread that a movie was in the works. That word turned out to be premature, as the film rights to the game were not packaged and sold quite as neatly as first reports suggested....
Michel Hazanavicius In Talks, Natalie Portman Courted For Tom Hanks’ Nazi Germany Drama ‘In The Garden Of Beasts’ By Angie Han/Sept. 14, 2012 3:15 pm EST It’s not remotely fair to call a film Oscar bait when it’s not even close to shooting, but when a project combines an Oscar-winning director, two Oscar-winning stars, and a World War II premise, it’s tough not to wonder whether little gold men are in its future....
Miramax Sale Is Official; Disney Offloads The Label For $660M By Russ Fischer/July 30, 2010 8:04 am EST Briefly: There was a minute earlier this week where it looked like Disney’s sale of Miramax to Ron Tutor and the investor group Filmyard Holding could have been in jeopardy. Basically, Tutor and his group had to put down some actual money this week. And yesterday they did: $40 million, to be exact....
Movie Trailer: ‘I Am Number Four,’ Which Is Now Set For IMAX Release By Germain Lussier/Dec. 7, 2010 11:30 am EST With just over two months until release, Dreamworks has unleashed the full trailer for I Am Number Four. Based on a sci-fi book by Pittacus Lore (a pen name), the Michael Bay produced film version is directed by D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye) and stars Alex Pettyfer (Beastly) as one of an alien race who escaped to Earth and is now being hunted....
Noomi Rapace Reportedly Remains Top Choice For Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ Prequel By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2010 4:00 pm EST The actress has only booked a couple roles for real, in Sherlock Holmes 2 and The Last Voyage of Demeter, but for the past month she has been one of the primary names discussed as a possible lead for Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel. A new report now puts her at the top of the list, with only one or two qualifications between her and a deal....
Opening Scene From X-Men Being Recreated For X-Men: First Class By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2010 12:30 pm EST A new report claims that director Matthew Vaughn is recreating the opening of Bryan Singer’s X-Men in his X-Men prequel/reboot X-Men: First Class. UK Comic/Moviesite Bleeding Cool have learned that they are reshooing the 1944 Poland-based introduction to Eric Lensherr (the boy who later becomes Magneto) shot-for-shot, but with different actors of course....
Page 2: Game Of Thrones, 13 Assassins, Thor, Super, Taxi Driver, Win Win, Source Code, Star Trek, Black Swan By Peter Sciretta/March 11, 2011 11:00 am EST Summit’s Breaking Dawn 1 and 2 will cost $263 million and are projected to bring in a staggering $1.2 billion for the studio, according to confidential documents obtained by TheWrap. Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich confirms that he is directing another movie for Pixar, but it won’t be announced “for a long while....
Release Dates: ‘Piranha 3DD’, ‘Anna Karenina’, ‘Bel Ami’, ‘Lola Versus’, ‘The Cold Light Of Day’ By Angie Han/March 14, 2012 6:00 am EST It’s not often you’ll see Piranha 3DD and Anna Karenina mentioned in the same breath, but every film needs a release date, no matter how trashy or elegant. After the jump, check out new release dates for those two movies, plus Henry Cavill’s The Cold Light of Day, Robert Pattinson’s Bel Ami, and the comedy Lola Versus....
Teaser Trailer: Gatchaman, From The Not-Quite-Dead Imagi Studios By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2010 2:11 pm EST Reports of the death of Imagi Studios may have been exaggerated. Last time we looked at the studio’s CGI animated updating of Gatchaman, it seemed like it might be our last look, as the studio was facing financial difficulties and shutdown. But Imagi’s doors are open again and work proceeds on Gatchaman. Now there’s a new teaser that looks better than anything we’ve previously seen from the film, in part because it is a lot closer to the original anime....
The Ones Who Knock Interview: Rian Johnson On Directing S5E04 - ‘Fifty-One’ By David Chen/Aug. 6, 2012 6:29 pm EST The Ones Who Knock is a podcast featuring recaps and reviews of each week’s episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad. In this episode, David chats with director Rian Johnson about directing season 5, episode 4, Fifty-One. E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at theoneswhoknock@gmail....
Todd Haynes And Julianne Moore Reteaming For ‘Dope’? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 15, 2011 2:40 pm EST One of the best films of the past year was Todd Haynes’ new version of Mildred Pierce for HBO. It’s actually a mini-series, but what the hell: the boundaries between film and TV are dropping like the Berlin Wall, so let’s call Mildred Pierce a movie. It’s a great one that continues Haynes’ unblemished run of ambitious, interesting films....
Trailer: ‘Avatar Extended Collector’s Edition’ Blu-Ray, Reveals Future Earth Opening By Germain Lussier/Oct. 6, 2010 8:25 am EST A trailer for the November 16th release of Avatar Extended Collector’s Edition has found its way online and, in it, we get our first glimpse of the exclusive, alternative Earth opening that can only be found on the 3-disc set. This set is beyond epic and totally makes up for the bare bones, albeit it beautiful, Blu-ray and DVD release we got a few months back....
