Hans Zimmer Not Scoring Zack Snyder’s ‘Superman’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2010 4:30 pm EST Five days. That’s how long we all believed legendary composer Hans Zimmer would be scoring Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot. It was an odd piece of news considering Snyder hasn’t started working on the film full time yet, but we all just assumed the sooner a composer is brought on board, the more collaborative he could be....
Jennifer Lopez To Produce Live Action ‘Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?’ Movie By Germain Lussier/Nov. 3, 2011 4:30 pm EST Walden Media, the team behind The Chronicles of Narnia series, has just purchased the rights to Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? Jennifer Lopez is attached, and though she seems perfect for the lead role, she’s reportedly only going to produce. The hope is that the film, based on a series of geography games that were adapted into a popular Nineties game show and later an animated cartoon, turns into a family adventure along the lines of National Treasure....
Lena Endre And Amy Adams Added To Paul Thomas Anderson’s Untitled Religious Film [Updated] By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2011 12:10 pm EST Paul Thomas Anderson is soon to shoot his untitled religious drama formerly called The Master, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix starring and Laura Dern, Jesse Plemons and David Warshofsky supporting. The last two were just announced yesterday, and today we’ve got one more name for the film....
LOL: Gree-Morr: The Inbred Jedi By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2010 12:00 pm EST “Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning. Every epic starts with a hook-up between a brother and a sister who happen to have Force powers…” This is the first part in a new web series titled “Gree-Morr: The Inbred Jedi”. Watch the first episode after the jump. Want to be a part of the next Gree-Morr adventure?...
Man From U.N.C.L.E. Gets New Writer; Wedding Crashers Director Attached To Helm By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2010 2:49 pm EST The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which originally saw life as a TV show in the mid-’60s, has long been in the Hollywood remake pile. Back in 2004 or 2005 Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn was set to direct, but dropped out to make another film that eventually didn’t happen. (He made Stardust instead....
McG To Direct Hasbro’s Adventure Film ‘Ouija’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 4, 2011 6:30 pm EST Right before the holidays, we reported the director’s chair for the big budget adventure film Ouija was down to two directors: Breck Eisner and McG. Well, Charlie’s Angels have defeated The Crazies and Universal Pictures has chosen McG to direct the film, based on the Hasbro board game, written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (Lost, TRON: Legacy) and scheduled for release November 9, 2012....
Movie Trailer: The Nutcracker In 3D By Adam Quigley/Sept. 16, 2010 5:30 pm EST There wasn’t a whole lot of enthusiasm when another action-movie rendition of The Nutcracker was announced last year, and I’m not convinced that this trailer for The Nutcracker in 3D is going to change any minds. The film is a retelling of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which later became a Christmas staple when Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky adapted it into a ballet....
Movie Trailer: Woody Allen’s ‘You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger’ By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2010 12:20 pm EST There’s a new trailer for Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, to complement the international one released not too long ago. This version is shorter and focused a bit more on throwing out bon mots and a few bits of character. There’s more plot in the international version, but this one still gets the important stuff across....
New Images: ‘The Tree Of Life,’ Plus A Trailer Description By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2010 9:05 pm EST The image above and one below are two new images from Terrence Malick’s long-awaited The Tree of Life, the trailer for which will be running in front of prints of Black Swan starting tomorrow. (Or tonight, if you’ve got midnight showings in your area.) If you’ve been keeping track, that makes a bare handful of images released over the past couple of years that we’ve been waiting for the film to be finished and hit theaters....
New Judge Dredd Movie Gets Financing; Pete Travis To Direct By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2010 8:00 pm EST We’ve been hearing about the possibility of a new Judge Dredd movie for some time. Now the project has taken a big step closer to being real: in a deal made just prior to Cannes, where the film will be shopped around for distribution, Andrew Macdonald’s company DNA Film has made a deal to finance Judge Dredd as a 3D feature with a budget around $50m....
New Photos: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2010 8:00 am EST As you know, the new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was attached to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and won’t be online until later today (Monday, June 28th 2010) at 4:00 pm PST. A few sneak peek photos have leaked online to tease the new trailer, check them out after the jump....
Rumor: Taylor Swift, Lea Michele, Scarlett Johansson, Evan Rachel Wood Vying For ‘Les Miserables’ By Angie Han/Nov. 30, 2011 3:30 pm EST The cast of Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables is already plenty star-studded, with Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, and up-and-comer Eddie Redmayne all signed on at present — but as anyone familiar with the book or stage musical can attest, that still leaves several juicy roles remaining to be filled....
Sequel Bits: ‘Scary Movie 5,’ ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier,’ ‘Kick-Ass 2,’ ‘Iron Man 3,’ ‘Empire Strikes Back,’ ‘Fast And Furious 6’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 4, 2012 12:47 pm EST Filming starts on one sequel, you can help with another and much more in today’s Sequel Bits: Choose a scene to film, which could become part of The Empire Strikes Back Uncut. Scary Movie 5, starring Ashley Tisdale, starts shooting in Atlanta, GA Tuesday....
Steve McQueen’s Star-Studded ‘Twelve Years A Slave’ Adds Michael K. Williams [UPDATED] By Angie Han/June 26, 2012 5:00 am EST I’m starting to suspect Steve McQueen watches the same TV we do. The British director of Hunger and Shame has already cast Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch, Saturday Night Live’s Taran Killam, and Raising Hope’s Garret Dillahunt in his upcoming Twelve Years a Slave, and he’s now added another small-screen favorite. Michael K....
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Side Effects’ Gains Catherine Zeta-Jones, Loses Financier Megan Ellison By Russ Fischer/Jan. 25, 2012 6:00 am EST There are some changes going on with Steven Soderbergh’s planned film Side Effects. The past couple months have seen reports of Soderbergh ditching The Man From UNCLE and taking up the Side Effects script by UNCLE and Contagion screenwriter Scott Z. Burns. In the past couple weeks there have been reports that Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Productions would finance Side Effects, with Open Road (The Grey) set to distribute after Summit decided not to pick up the film....
Steven Spielberg Clarifies ‘Indiana Jones 5’ ‘Genre’ Comment By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2011 4:00 pm EST Steven Spielberg was recently quoted in Entertainment Weekly as saying the following in regards to Indiana Jones 5: It’s up to George. We have already agreed on the genre of the fifth movie, we already have a concept in mind. I don’t know where George is with the story. There is no Indy 5 until George says there is....
Summit To Premiere ‘Source Code’ On Demand Two Weeks Before Blu-Ray By Germain Lussier/May 31, 2011 4:30 pm EST Here’s the official press release from Summit: The keys phrases in that release are “test the demand for viewing a bigger budged film digitally prior to the release of physical discs” and “this test aligns with the studio’s ongoing efforts to find the best way to present its films digitally.” Those basically are Summit saying, “Look, we have no idea if this is going to work....
Teaser Trailer: Faster, Starring Dwayne Johnson By Russ Fischer/July 19, 2010 10:44 am EST CBS Films hasn’t exactly been setting theaters on fire; the company has released Extraordinary Measures and The Back-Up Plan. The company is going for a much more action-oriented appeal with Faster, which stars Dwayne Johnson as a guy out for revenge after being released from prison. The first teaser for Faster is out now, but does it offer more than just a straight-up revenge tale with a title screen that looks like it was borrowed from The Fast and the Furious?...
Teen Angst Abounds In New Hi-Res ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Images By Germain Lussier/Dec. 26, 2011 12:00 pm EST When the guy who directed 500 Days of Summer was hired to direct The Amazing Spider-Man, it was pretty obvious the relationship between Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy would be on the forefront. The footage screened at San Diego Comic-Con confirmed that fact and now, new photos of Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone from Marc Webb’s July 3 reboot show the characters in very typical, teen settings....
Tommy Wiseau Launching Web TV Show: ‘The Tommy Wi-Show’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 15, 2011 3:00 pm EST While Tommy Wiseau fans patiently wait for The Room in 3D, the writer, director and star of one of the worst films of all time is getting his own web series. The Tommy Wi-Show will feature the famous eccentric as he “engages in a no-holds-barred struggle against mysterious alien forces and a million different video games....
