A Cast Of Kings S2E06 - The Old Gods And The New (GUEST: Myles McNutt From Cultural Learnings) By David Chen/May 7, 2012 9:03 pm EST A Cast of Kings is a podcast featuring recaps and reviews of each week’s episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones. This week, Joanna and Dave discuss the second season’s sixth episode, The Old Gods and the New. Special guest Myles McNutt joins us from Cultural Learnings....
Actor Wish List: Josh Brolin Wanted For ‘Oldboy,’ Chris Pine Wanted For ‘Robocop’ By Germain Lussier/July 12, 2011 3:04 pm EST Neither actor has been cast but Twitchfilm is reporting that the top choices for two major upcoming remakes are as follows: Josh Brolin as the lead in Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake and Chris Pine for the lead in Jose Padilha’s Robocop remake. Let’s discuss both of them after the break....
Christian Bale To Star In Zhang Yimou’s ‘Nanjing Heroes’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 22, 2010 8:30 am EST You can see Christian Bale doing some of the best work of his career on screen right now in The Fighter right now, and not too far into 2011 he’ll get back into the batsuit for Christopher Nolan. But first, he’s going to take a detour to China. Director Zhang Yimou announced today that the actor will be part of his film Nanjing Heroes, which will begin shooting in January....
By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2010 4:48 pm EST Were you as excited as I was when Warner Bros. nixed plans to rush a post-converted 3D version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I into theaters? Judging by the comment thread on that article, I’d say yes. But 3D is still in Potter’s future. The Potter films have had partial 3D renders in the past for IMAX releases, and a 3D version of the second part of Deathly Hallows will be released next year....
By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2011 2:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This marks the next stage of Matthew Fox’s career. He was booked solidly on Lost for years, taking only very rare time to do a film like Speed Racer. (Which, oddly, we just had occasion to discuss.) He’ll also be the serial killer in I, Alex Cross, which shoots in August. Ed Harris, meanwhile, has been a strong presence for years and doesn’t seem like he could be damaged by anything....
John Cusack Will Be Edgar Allan Poe In James McTeigue’s ‘The Raven’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2010 1:03 pm EST Wachowski siblings protege and V For Vendetta director James McTeigue has been planning to direct The Raven for the past year, and at one point had Jeremy Renner and Ewan McGregor both in talks for roles (perhaps the same role?) in the film. We don’t know what happened with Mcgregor, while Renner is obviously going to be quite busy, between The Avengers, Mission: Impossible 4 (we’ll keep using that title for now) and possibly Paul Thomas Anderson’s project The Master....
John Singleton In Talks To Direct Tupac Shakur Biopic By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2011 6:00 pm EST It’s been some time since John Singleton made a movie that generated much excitement. (Though some Taylor Lautner fans might argue, thanks to this year’s Abduction.) But he has been looking at interesting movies in the past couple months. First he was mentioned as a possible director for Straight Outta Compton, the biopic of once-controversial rap group N....
Laeta Kalogridis To Rewrite ‘Fantastic Voyage’ For Producer James Cameron By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2010 12:22 am EST As for Cameron, no one knows what he’s up to next, but it’s safe to say that at least this project will eventually set sail.
Marc Webb May Not Direct Columbia’s Next ‘Spider-Man’ By Russ Fischer/July 19, 2012 10:30 am EST But there might be one casualty from the production issues that led to the film being recut late in the game and the loss of most of the “untold story” plotline trumpeted in early ads. A new interview with Columbia Pictures chief Doug Belgrad reveals that Webb might not return. There are two big Spidey statements in the interview with THR....
Mark Millar On Kick-Ass’ Box Office Performance By David Chen/April 20, 2010 9:52 am EST This past weekend, Kick-Ass barely won the box office crown in a photo finish with How to Train Your Dragon. Since then, people have been throwing a lot of numbers around about how profitable the film will actually end up being. In the past, Millar has been quoted as saying that Vaughn raised around $70 million to make Kick-Ass....
Matt Damon Will No Longer Direct His Planned Directorial Debut By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2012 10:30 am EST For the past few months Matt Damon has been planning to direct his first feature film, a currently untitled movie with a story concocted by John Krasinski and Dave Eggers, and with a script by Krasinski and Damon. The story is that Damon would play a salesman who shows up in a small town, and the upheaval that results....
McG’s ‘Ouija’ Gets A New Writer By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2011 5:12 pm EST Perhaps you were hoping that the Universal collaboration with Hasbro would somehow fail to produce the Ouija Board movie that we’ve been promised. (Or warned of, take your pic.) But the Platinum Dunes-produced, McG-directed film is very much alive. Tron Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz were originally on the script, but they’re now dealing with their TV show Once Upon a Time and Ouija consequently needs a new writer....
Movie Trailer: Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2010 2:26 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Beach author and 28 Days Later/Sunshine screenwriter Alex Garland penned the adaptation for the dramatic thriller, about a group of children who spent their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school, who as they “grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them....
Movie Trailer And Poster: Hello Lonesome By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2010 12:42 pm EST One of the films opening the LA Film Festival, which started last night, is Hello Lonesome, a low-key indie romance and debut feature from Adam Reid. (He’s the guy who directed the trailer for the book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, oddly enough.) The film follows three odd-couple pairings with what looks like an appropriate, if very ‘indie’ combination of sensitivity and humor....
New Full-Length Trailer For Piranha 3D By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2010 2:00 pm EST Last week, the teaser trailer for Piranha 3D which was attached to Daybreakers in January, was finally released online. Dimension Films has now decided to release a two plus minute movie trailer for the upcoming 3D B-level horror. The new trailer is framed more like a traditional horror movie trailer, and not until the second half does the comedic value of the movie begin to surface....
New Paul Feig/Judd Apatow Film Might Star Jon Hamm And Melissa McCarthy By Germain Lussier/June 15, 2011 4:00 pm EST Once you have a big, box office smash, a filmmaker is more or less given carte blanche, especially if they want to make a movie in the same genre. Bridesmaids director Paul Feig used some of that good will last week and got Universal to purchase a new pitch that would once again team him with frequent producer Judd Apatow....
New Photo: Johnny Depp As Captain Jack Sparrow In Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2010 1:00 pm EST We’ve already seen a couple of on-set images showing Johnny Depp in costume as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. But now there’s an official still featuring Depp as Sparrow, and it is…very much like the other pictures! But producer Jerry Bruckheimer personally sent this image out via Twitter, so at least you know it comes straight from the source....
Olivia Wilde Cast In ‘Welcome To People’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2011 12:45 pm EST Briefly: Olivia Wilde was among the few high points of Tron Legacy, which has only cemented her status as a name to watch. She’s got appearances coming up in the satire Butter, Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens, Andrew Niccol’s Now and body-switching comedy The Change-Up. She was also just seen in a small part in The Next Three Days....
Platinum Dunes Continues Move Away From Horror With Family Fantasy Film ‘The Hauntrepreneur’ By Russ Fischer/May 19, 2011 9:48 am EST Briefly: Platinum Dunes has been slowly moving away from producing only horror remakes — having proven an ability to assemble a profitable film in that arena, it’s time to move on to new grounds, I guess. The latest project the company has set up with Paramount is The Hauntrepeneur, a pretty awkwardly-titled spec pitch by Scott Rosenberg that could result in a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-type film....
By Angie Han/Nov. 4, 2011 2:00 pm EST After months and months of being referred to as “Relativity Media’s untitled Snow White project,” Tarsem Singh’s take on the classic fairy tale finally has a title. The name they’re going with is Mirror, Mirror, which seems like a pretty obvious pick in retrospect. Interestingly, the news comes just a few days after director Singh said in an interview that if it were up to him, he’d simply call it Snow....
