Jimmy Fallon Won’t Host The Oscars By Angie Han/Aug. 8, 2012 11:30 am EST Intriguing as the idea of Jimmy Fallon hosting the 2013 Academy Awards was, one major pitfall was obvious from the moment we learned about the talks. Namely, the fact that the Oscars telecast is set to air on ABC — which has a talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, that directly competes with Fallon’s own NBC series Late Night with Jimmy Fallon....
Joe Johnston Comments After Watching First Cut Of His Film ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 19, 2011 6:00 am EST Nobody who is actively making or promoting a movie is ever going to say anything bad about it. The movie is always “great” everyone on the cast is perfectly “wonderful” and it’s never ever a bad experience. So, obviously, we have to attach that huge asterisk to these comments from Captain America director Joe Johnston....
Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Kill Bin Laden’ May Be The Best-Positioned Movie Project In Town By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2011 6:00 am EST So will the inevitable ‘Death of Bin Laden’ film be a gritty indie or big studio effort? As soon as President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, you know that studio execs started calling each other to figure out what properties were already in development that could be reworked as a movie about the killing of Bin Laden....
Lionsgate Will Film More ‘Twilight’ If Stephenie Meyer Writes A Fifth Book By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2012 9:30 am EST When Lionsgate bought Summit Entertainment a couple weeks back — or when Lionsgate bought Twilight, I might say to be more direct — Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said he would like to continue Twilight, either on film or television. Now, during a conference call to report Lionsgate’s third quarter earnings for 2011, Rob Friedman, the co-chair of the studio’s motion picture group, says they’re ready to make a sixth Twilight film if Stephenie Meyer will write another book....
LOL: Screenwriter Argues For Casting Peter Dinklage As M.O.D.O.K. In ‘Captain America 2’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 29, 2011 1:31 pm EST I don’t actually believe this for a second, but it’s a slow day so far, and any M.O.D.O.K. news is great news. So here you go: Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America 2 co-writer Christopher Markus is thinking of a way to make the Cap sequel very interesting....
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura Hires Writers For Korea-Set Action Thriller ‘DMZ’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2011 5:30 pm EST Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has hired Jeremy Passmore (Red Dawn) and Andre Fabrizio to write the script for an action thriller called DMZ, which is set in the tense zone between North and South Korea. The film will be a sort of political action movie, but it also has another component, as a task force sent into the zone discovers something other than the influence of a crazed father-son dictator team waiting within....
Mattel To Produce ‘Back To The Future’ Action Figures By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 19, 2010 4:00 pm EST Great Scott! With all the excitement of Back to the Future’s 25th anniversary, Universal Partnerships & Licensing have revealed that Mattel is on board to produce a series of Back to the Future action figures, accessories and toy vehicles. (Note: the photo above, if you couldn’t tell, is of a set of fan made figures, not the ones being developed/produced by Mattel)...
Michael Clarke Duncan Voicing Kilowog In ‘Green Lantern’ [UPDATED] By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2011 5:55 pm EST UPDATE: Weeks later, THR confirms that Michael Clarke Duncan is now in talks to voice Kilowog. Original article follows. As summer movies go, especially ones that are introducing a major new character to the mainstream, Green Lantern has been very low-key. But as Germain discussed earlier today, that is in part because the effects work on the film has been far more demanding than Warner Bros....
Movie Trailer: ‘Unknown,’ Starring Liam Neeson By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2010 7:34 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Once called Unknown White Male, Jaume Collet-Serra’s film Unknown stars Liam Neeson who emerges from a four-day coma after an accident only to find that his identity has been stolen. There’s now a trailer for the film; watch it after the break. I like the simple genre setup: is Liam Neeson the man he claims to be, and is he really the victim of some sort of conspiracy?...
New ‘Hunger Games’ Image Shows Jennifer Lawrence The Archer By Germain Lussier/Nov. 8, 2011 3:30 pm EST Sound the alarms! It’s been almost two weeks since we posted anything about The Hunger Games! Thankfully, a new image from the film has surfaced and you can once again breathe easy. In all seriousness, Gary Ross’ film about a dystopian future where children are forced to kill each other for sport is getting closer and closer to its March 23 release and you get the sense Lionsgate is getting ready to let the flood gates open....
Possible Projects: Hayley Atwell And André Benjamin In Hendrix Biopic; Andy Serkis In Mo-Capped ‘Animal Farm’ By Russ Fischer/July 5, 2011 5:00 pm EST Here are two projects that might happen, but at this point the safest approach seems to be an emphasis on ‘might.’ One is a Jimi Hendrix biopic that has been gestating for some time with André Benjamin (aka André 3000 of OutKast) playing the iconic rocker. The other is a new version of George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm, which could be a reunion of Rise of the Planet of the Apes talents Andy Serkis and Rupert Wyatt....
Russell Brand And Diego Boneta Join ‘Rock Of Ages’ By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2011 6:45 pm EST Last week there was mention that Adam Shankman’s Rock of Ages film musical may have found its young leading man in the person of Diego Boneta. (He’s had roles on the new 90210 and Pretty Little Liars, but may still count as an almost-unknown to some.) Now there is confirmation that he’ll play Drew Boley, the aspiring star at the center of the musical....
Scott Rudin Joins Producing Team For Martin Scorsese’s ‘Sinatra’ By Russ Fischer/March 7, 2011 3:00 pm EST We just talked about Martin Scorsese’s slate of potential future projects, specifically with respect to The Irishman, which could reunite him with Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino. Another film he has been considering for some time is Sinatra, which would chronicle the life of signature crooner Frank Sinatra. That film has languished in development a bit, but it just got a big shot in the arm....
The Making Of King Kong 360 3D Part 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2010 2:00 pm EST Universal Studios Hollywood have released the second part of their Making of Peter Jackson’s King Kong 360 3-D behind the scenes documentar. The attraction opens next week at the California-based studio/theme park. The four minute video gives “an insider view into the storyline of “King Kong 360 3-D”, backstory of the Kong character and designing the creatures of Skull Island....
VIDEO: Director Gary Ross Discusses ‘The Hunger Games’ Teaser; Viral Site Revealed? By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2011 5:15 pm EST After an overload of casting announcements, photos and incredibly short teases, audiences got their first official look at The Hunger Games Sunday night as Lionsgate premiered the teaser trailer on MTV. And it was a tease in the truest sense of the word, offering little to no context to what was being shown or how it was significant....
Wachowskis Still Prepping ‘Jupiter Ascending,’ Leads Offered To Channing Tatum And Mila Kunis By Russ Fischer/March 26, 2012 12:30 pm EST For some time, Andy and Lana Wachowski were trying to follow up Speed Racer with a film said to be a hard-R gay love story set during the Iraq war, with leads being a US soldier and an Iraqi citizen. That movie didn’t happen, perhaps because of the politicized nature of the script, and instead the Wachowskis teamed with Tom Tykwer to make the very intriguing Cloud Atlas....
Watch Spider-Man In Action By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2011 6:51 pm EST TMZ has posted a video from the set of Marc Webb’s Spider-Man reboot, which involves Spider-Man (a stunt man, not star Andrew Garfield) doing a front handspring flip into a moving truck. Watch it here. You can say what you will about how the suit might look stupid from afar when captured by consumer video cameras (it does look like a grown man in a cheap halloween costume, right?...
‘ParaNorman’ Trailer - Laika’s Weird, Wonderful Follow-Up To ‘Coraline’ By Angie Han/March 2, 2012 8:45 am EST It’s a good week for fans of all-ages stop-motion animated films with a deathly twist. Just yesterday, we showed you the trailer for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, and we now have a new trailer for ParaNorman, the upcoming feature by Coraline studio Laika. Kodi Smit-McPhee lends his voice to Norman, a misfit kid with the ability to see and speak with the dead....
‘Shame’ Officially Gets NC-17 Rating By Russ Fischer/Oct. 26, 2011 9:00 am EST I think NC-17 is a badge of honor, not a scarlet letter. We believe it is time for the rating to become usable in a serious manner. The sheer talent of the actors and the vision of the filmmaker are extraordinary. It’s not a film that everyone will take easily, but it certainly breaks through the clutter and is distinctive and original....
‘Young Adult’ Red-Band Spot: Sample Charlize Theron’s Unhinged, Anti-Social Tendencies By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2011 8:00 am EST In the spirit of accepting that Jason Reitman’s new film, the Diablo Cody-penned Young Adult, is about a really terrible, damaged woman, here’s a new red-band spot that seeks to show off just how abrasive she can be. Charlize Theron plays Mavis, a successful youth-lit writer who can’t quite manage to grow up, and who travels back to her hometown to try and win back an old ex, despite the fact that he is now married with a kid....
