Summit Picks Up ‘I, Alex Cross’ For Distribution By Germain Lussier/March 25, 2011 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. According to the Summit press release, I, Alex Cross will be directed by Rob Cohen (XXX, The Fast and the Furious) from a script by Patterson and Kerry Williamson, which was revised by Marc Moss. QED, which put together District 9 and others, had been shopping the project around town....
Sylvester Stallone Will Star In ‘Headshot’ From Director Wayne Kramer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 7, 2011 5:00 am EST After flirting with films like Kane and Lynch, it looks like Wayne Kramer (Running Scared, The Cooler) finally has a new film locked down to follow up the rather disappointing Crossing Over. He’ll direct Sylvester Stallone in Headshot, a cop thriller that ranges from New York City to New Orleans. (Yep, Sly is going back to his recent Expendables stomping ground....
VOTD: ‘Drive Thru,’ A Parody Of Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 22, 2011 12:00 pm EST You want me to pick you up something from the drive-thru, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five minute window. Anything you want, I’ll order it and get it to you in about five minutes no matter what. But I don’t go inside the restaurant. I don’t do carry out....
‘Catch Me If You Can’ Coming To Broadway In April 2011 By Germain Lussier/Sept. 20, 2010 12:30 pm EST Unless there’s a Spider-Man or Evil Dead musical to write about, Broadway really doesn’t come up too much here at /Film. Well, another big time film is getting the song and dance treatment as Catch Me If You Can is now officially coming to Broadway on April 10, 2011 with previews starting March 7, 2011....
‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Will Likely Be Marvel’s Second 2014 Movie By Germain Lussier/June 28, 2012 12:30 pm EST Earlier this week, Marvel Studios was caught purchasing domain names for all kinds of merchandise related to Guardians of the Galaxy, a property that everyone from Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige all the way down has admitted was in the works. They’ve even admitted the credits scene of The Avengers was a tease towards that film but nothing had been made official....
‘Monsters, Inc 2’ Will Be Called ‘Monsters University’ By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2011 5:32 pm EST Briefly: I don’t think this is going to come as a massive surprise to anyone who has been following the development of Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. sequel. The title of the film was revealed today at CinemaCon. Monsters University will be the sequel to Pixar’s fourth movie, likely with Billy Crystal and John Goodman reprising their roles, as monsters Sully and Mike Wazowski....
‘Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark’ Pushed To 2011 By Germain Lussier/Nov. 5, 2010 4:00 pm EST The most expensive Broadway musical in history just swung back a few weeks. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, featuring music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge and directed by Julie Taymor (Across the Universe), was scheduled to open December 21 but has now been pushed back until January 2011 because of several technical issues due to huge flying stunts and special effects....
‘The Muppets’ Director Signs To Make True WWII Spy Thriller ‘Agent Zigzag’ By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2012 1:00 pm EST The project sounds like a great, classic spy caper: it’s a true story about a criminal who became one of the most notorious double-agents of WWII. He appeared to work for German intelligence even as he was on the payroll of MI5. Variety says that Bobin is on board, but doesn’t know if this will be his next....
‘World Of Warcraft’ Adaptation Moving Forward With ‘Blood Diamond’ Screenwriter Charles Leavitt By Angie Han/Aug. 3, 2012 9:00 am EST Legendary’s World of Warcraft adaptation is down a director, now that Sam Raimi’s no longer attached, but don’t write it off just yet. The studio’s apparently determined to soldier on, and to that end has jump started its efforts by hiring screenwriter Charles Leavitt. This marks the first bit of forward movement we’ve heard about since 2010, though with no one at the helm World of Warcraft is actually still a step behind where it was at that point....
Alex De La Iglesia’s ‘The Last Circus’ Red-Band Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2011 6:00 pm EST “Because if I wasn’t a clown I’d be a murderer.” That’s a line in The Last Circus, the latest film from Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia, aka the director of El Crimen Ferpecto, 800 Bullets, and The Day of the Beast. He has made crazy films before, so The Last Circus is in good company, but it is still rare that we get a look at a movie that seems quite this insane....
Anthony Mackie And Evangeline Lilly Join Real Steel By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2010 5:00 am EST Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker) and Evangeline Lilly (Lost) have been cast in Shawn Levy’s futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel. The film, set to hit theaters on November 18th 2011, tells the story of a father and his estranged 11-year-old son who enter the world of robotic boxing. You see, in the future, human boxing has been outlawed, replaced with sports combat between human-trained 2000-pound heavy steel robots....
Casting Bits: Mickey Rourke And Til Schweiger Join ‘The Courier’; Alan Arkin To Star Alongside Jennifer Aniston In ‘Buttercup’ By Adam Quigley/Oct. 12, 2010 8:00 am EST Writer/director Hany Abu-Assad tackled some pretty weighty subject matter with his 2005 film Paradise Now, a very well received drama about suicide bombers. For his latest picture though, the upcoming action/thriller The Courier, he’s turned his focus to more audience-friendly fare. The film was written by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt (the team behind the 3:10 to Yuma remake and Wanted), and stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan as “a courier who has tackled dangerous assignments and never missed a drop....
Casting Bits: Rose Byrne And Anna Faris In ‘I Give It A Year’, Kristen Bell In ‘Some Girls’ By Angie Han/March 6, 2012 3:30 pm EST All too often, “romantic comedies” wind up being neither romantic nor comedic. But if the recent casting is any indication, I Give It a Year seems to have the latter part down, at least. Rose Byrne and Anna Faris have joined Rafe Spall and Simon Baker in the film, written and directed by Borat scribe Dan Mazer....
Cool Stuff: Florian Bertmer’s ‘Swamp Thing’ Poster By Russ Fischer/Aug. 18, 2011 2:30 pm EST I’m not going to try and blow smoke up your ass with respect to Wes Craven’s 1982 version of Swamp Thing. It isn’t a particularly good movie, and it isn’t a particularly good telling of the Swamp Thing story that originated in the DC anthology House of Secrets and was eventually at the forefront of the ‘mature comics’ boom of the ’80s thanks to writer Alan Moore....
Cool Stuff: Tyler Stout ‘Captain America’ Cover, Mondo ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Poster By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2011 10:15 am EST Paramount Pictures has a couple awesome projects in the works this week with Mondo. First up, on Wednesday, comic book stores everywhere will get in copies of Captain America: First Vengeance #4 with cover artwork by fan-favorite artist Tyler Stout. You can see a hint of that above. Then, they’ve teamed with artist Jesse Phillips to do posters for Transformers: Dark of the Moon....
Cool Stuff: VHS Heroes [Gadget Skins] By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 6, 2010 12:00 pm EST Anyone who grew up in the 1980’s probably had a shelf of VHS tapes just like the ones featured on artist Hollis Brown Thornton’s awesome line of gadget skins, VHS Heroes. South Carolina artist Hollis Brown Thornton deploys a “ruthless nostalgia attack” with his artwork VHS Heroes where he captures his (and all of Team Infectious’) childhood movie collection (ah, Tron and The Last Unicorn) using just a couple of Sharpies....
Director Hires: Tim Story For ‘Think Like A Man;’ Anthony Mandler For Zac Efron Film ‘Die In A Gunfight’ By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2011 5:30 pm EST Fantastic Four and Barbershop director Tim Story is going back to work after not having a film on big screens since the 2009 picture Hurricane Season. He’ll direct Kevin Hart in Think Like a Man, which is based on Steve Harvey’s book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy and Commitment....
Disney’s Developing New ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ Ride To Be Based On Movie Series, Not Disneyland Attraction? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2011 1:00 pm EST Last week, Disney presented the first concept image of their upcoming Shanghai Disneyland. However the image was released intentionally low res and blurry to protect the attractions from being quickly replicated by Chinese amusement parks prior to Shanghai Disneyland’s opening. However Disney and More noticed something familiar — what appears to be a mountain with a big water drop....
Emma Stone And Woody Harrelson Reunite For ‘Friends With Benefits’ By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2010 12:11 pm EST Emma Stone’s first collaboration with director Will Gluck, Easy A, hasn’t been released yet, but she’s already set to work with him once more. Stone and her Zombieland co-star Woody Harrelson will be directed by Gluck in Friends With Benefits, which has already lined up Justin Timberlake to star. The Wrap says that Stone and Harrelson are joining Timberlake and Mila Kunis, and that Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman, Andy Samberg and Richard Jenkins are also coming on board....
Filmmakers Tease Themes For Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ By Angie Han/May 31, 2012 10:30 am EST Though it announced a new title and release date for The Good Dinosaur last month, Pixar’s been loathe to give away too many plot specifics at this early stage. When first announced, all the studio would reveal was that the basic idea is “What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct?...
