Another New Photo From ‘The Hobbit’ Reveals Bofur, Bombur And Bifur By Angie Han/July 14, 2011 9:30 am EST Much in the way that Lionsgate teased out Hunger Games casting for weeks, steadily releasing small pieces of info over time, Warner Bros. seems to be revealing first looks at the characters from The Hobbit bit by little tiny bit. We’ve already gotten eyefuls of Dori, Nori & Ori, Oin and Gloin, and Fili and Kili....
Carey Mulligan Lands Coens’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’, Enters Talks For Untitled Spike Jonze Project By Angie Han/Oct. 21, 2011 8:00 am EST An Education wasn’t Carey Mulligan’s first film, but it’s the one that launched her to the top of every director’s wishlist. Since that coming-of-age tale opened in 2009, she’s been picking up one juicy role after another. This year saw her starring opposite Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and earning praise for her bold performance in Steve McQueen’s Shame, and she’s currently at work playing the ultimate girl who got away in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby....
Casting Bits: Scarlett Johansson In ‘Can A Song Save Your Life?’, Mia Maestro In ‘Savages’, Jake T. Austin In ‘Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn’, Brandon Fehr In ‘Roswell FM’ By Angie Han/June 29, 2011 9:00 am EST Scarlett Johansson may seem like an unlikely lead for a Judd Apatow film, but in this context her casting actually makes a lot of sense. Johansson has signed on to star in Can a Song Save Your Life?...
Cool Stuff: Anti-3D “Hollywood Swindle” T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2010 10:00 am EST I’ve been one of the few vocal 3D supporters in the fanboy space, but all these “fake” post converted 3D films have driven me to anger. Threadless has released a new anti-3D t-shirt titled “Hollywood Swindle,” a design created by Matt Wasser. Printed on Black Fine Jersey tee, and available for $18 plus shipping. See the design in higher resolution after the jump....
Cool Stuff: Life-Size ‘Akira’ Replica Bike By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2011 1:30 pm EST While looking around Craigslist last night, I came across a listing for a Life Size replica of Kaneda’s Bike from Akira. Built by Hollywood Fabricator Eddie Paul for Rapper/singer/record producer Kanye West, this Akira Bike is for sale for only $4,000. The only catch is that it is a collectible meant to be displayed, not ridden. Made from steel and vacuum-formed plastic with rubber tires, the bike was built for the Kanye West Music Video “Stronger” (but was cut from the final video)....
David Fincher In Budget Battle Over ‘House Of Cards’, As Host Company Netflix Mulls Evolution To Cable? By Russ Fischer/March 7, 2012 3:30 pm EST In other words, Fincher has battled studios and financiers over budget in the past, and so it isn’t really a surprise to hear that he is butting heads with Media Rights Capitol over the money committed to House of Cards, which will star and be produced by Kevin Spacey....
First Look: Russell Crowe As Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ [Updated With High-Res] By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2012 6:30 am EST Director Darren Aronofsky joined Twitter in January, and since the start of production on his current film Noah, which stars Russell Crowe as the biblical character who builds a massive ark, he’s been sending out guarded glimpses of the Iceland shoot. Recently he tweeted that the first real look at Noah was coming up, and now in an article about, appropriately, his use of Twitter, we’ve got the first shot of Crowe in the film....
Geek Deal: Arrested Development Complete Series For $29 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2011 1:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Glee Creator Ryan Murphy Will Direct Mark Ruffalo In ‘The Normal Heart’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 7:00 am EST It’s an interesting year for Mark Ruffalo. His directorial debut Sympathy For Delicious didn’t light up the festival circuit, but he’s getting great notes for his work in The Kids Are Alright. And he’s got to deal with Kevin Feige, who named him as the new Hulk for The Avengers. But he’s also got some smaller stuff coming up....
Hugh Jackman Rips Through First Official Image From ‘The Wolverine’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 24, 2012 8:18 am EST The image comes from the official Wolverine Twitter account: Yup, that’s Wolverine. He looks awesome but it doesn’t tell us much. Thoughts?
By Germain Lussier/Sept. 9, 2011 10:07 am EST Not only did Labor Day just pass on the calendar, it got picked up by Paramount. Labor Day is the title of Jason Reitman’s next movie, which will star Kate Winslet as a single mother who helps an escaped convict, played by Josh Brolin, and falls in love with him over the holiday weekend. Paramount will co-finance and distribute the romance, based on a novel by Joyce Maynard, from a screenplay by Reitman....
Jennifer Ehle, Harold Perrineau, And Nash Edgerton Added To Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama Bin Laden Thriller By Angie Han/Feb. 23, 2012 4:00 pm EST Perhaps the reason Kathryn Bigelow has yet to decide on a title for her upcoming Osama bin Laden thriller is that she’s simply been too busy assembling a large, impressive cast. Jason Clarke (The Wettest County in the World) was the first to board back in November, and since then, Joel Edgerton, Jessica Chastain, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong, Edgar Ramirez, and Coach Taylor Kyle Chandler have all signed on for the picture as well....
Jesse Plemons And David Warshofsky Join Paul Thomas Anderson’s Latest By Germain Lussier/May 31, 2011 1:26 pm EST The wounds of previously losing a new Paul Thomas Anderson film run deep, so the more news that breaks on that film now that it’s happening, the better. We’re finally going to see another film from the man behind Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia and There Will Be Blood and the currently untitled project, formerly called The Master, has just added two names to its already impressive cast....
Joe Carnahan’s ’70s Thriller Take On ‘Daredevil’ May Have “Gone Up In Smoke” By Russ Fischer/Aug. 14, 2012 10:00 am EST Now, however, the director suggests it very well might not happen. On Twitter last night [1, 2], Carnahan said, Think my idea for a certain retro, red-suited, Serpico-styled superhero went up in smoke today kids. We shall see. Time is NOT on anyone’s side.
Jon Favreau Wants The Mandarin For Iron Man 3 Villain; Will The Film Be 3D? By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2010 9:33 pm EST Back when Jon Favreau first came on board Iron Man, he wanted the villain to be the Mandarin. That didn’t happen. Instead of a guy with ten rings of power, we got Obadiah Stane. But an organization called the Ten Rings was referenced in both the first and second films as a set-up for the future....
Kiefer Sutherland’s Next Is 10-Part Web Series Called ‘The Confession’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 17, 2011 1:00 pm EST Entertainment Weekly broke the news of the show in their latest issue and you can read more news about the project there. “There was no network, so it was pretty freeing,” Sutherland said to the magazine. Written and directed by Brad Mirman, the idea for the show itself was Sutherland’s and it only took nine days to shoot though much of the story is told in flashbacks....
Listen To Six Minutes Of Daft Punk’s Tron Legacy Score By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 14, 2010 10:27 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Listen to six minutes of Daft Punk’s Tron Legacy score below: Your browser does not support the audio element. MP3 linkOfficial Information: The score for “TRON: Legacy” was composed and produced by the iconic and critically acclaimed Grammy® Award-winning, French electronic-music duo Daft Punk....
Movie Poster: ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2010 10:00 am EST Over the next couple weeks you’re going to be seeing quite a bit of reports focusing on Jon Favreau’s next film, Cowboys & Aliens. The first salvo comes today as the film’s first teaser poster has arrived. There will be a trailer on Wednesday afternoon, but in the meantime let this image prime you for the film’s genre mash-up....
P.J. Hogan To Direct ‘Bone’ For Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/Jan. 19, 2012 9:30 am EST For many years a film has been in development based on the wonderful comic series Bone by Jeff Smith. The comic tells the story of three cousins lost in a strange land, where they’re caught in the flare-up of an old conflict and realization of an ancient prophecy. Bone was one of the best things to come out of the self-publishing wave of black and white comics in the early ’90s....
Summit To Remake Fantastic Fest Hit Heist Film ‘Headhunters’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 11, 2011 10:00 am EST Another amazing foreign property is about to get lost in translation. Summit Entertainment just bought the English language rights to the Norwegian best-selling novel Headhunters by Jo Nesbø, the same novel that’s the basis for a 2011 Norwegian film which recently played Fantastic Fest to almost universal praise (you can read my review here)....
