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Deadline has recently reported some great news straight from the Toronto International Film Festival. What is it you ask? William H. Macy is going to be playing a very wealthy alcoholic in the upcoming Charlie Matthau adaptation of Freaky Deaky. Freaky Deaky was written by Elmore Leonard and is about a group of 60′s radicals who enjoy [...]
Fans of Emma Stone will be glad to know that Easy A, director Will Gluck’s high school reworking of A Scarlet Letter, has been well received in the various festival screenings. Starring Stone, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Kudrow, Thomas Haden Church and Penn Badgley the film centres around the character Oliver Penderghast and the trials and [...]
Adam Green’s Hatchet 2 made a great impression at Film4′s Frightfest a few weeks ago, you can read our review here and if you still need convincing that this is the sort of film you need to see then we’ve got a new clip and a poster for you. Described synopitcally, the film is thus. [...]
Mugglenet are today relaying a rumour that legendary composer John Williams may return to the Harry Potter franchise to score the final installment. First reported by Brazilian fansite Potterish, it appears that Warner Brothers Brazil has leaked the news although it has yet to be confirmed. Williams, who hasn’t scored a Harry Potter outing since Prisoner of [...]
THR are reporting a wealth of casting news this morning for “The Reasonable Bunch”, a new comedy about warring relatives at a family wedding, which is due to start shooting this month in New York. Along with Demi Moore (GI Jane, Charlies Angels: Full Throttle and more recently, The Joneses) and Kate Bosworth (Blue Crush, [...]
We all knew this day was coming – with the horror reserves dwindling as the latest batch of remakes wind their way into production, Stealth Media Group have given up on name recognition all together. According to ScreenDaily, the distribution company will be giving 1970′s cult-classic Kingdom of the Spiders the 3D remake treatment, with producing [...]
With Resident Evil: Afterlife showing studios that there is still a profit to be made in video game adaptations, Anchor Bay has acquired the U.S. and Australia/New Zealand distribution rights to the Tekken movie from Crystal Sky Pictures. Based on Namco’s best-selling video game franchise, the movie was directed by Dwight Little (Anacondas: The Hunt for the [...]
With studios mourning the Deathly Hallows and the twilight of Twilight, all eyes are seemingly on The Hunger Games, with many expecting it to become the next big thing. Suzanne Collins’ trilogy of novels have proved to be a huge success, with a rabid fanbase already in place for Lionsgate’s films, and Deadline have narrowed [...]
Here’s a potentially mouth-watering piece of casting news. Deadline are reporting that Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are interested in joining the cast of a mob drama called The Irishman, which Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have both been developing for a while. It’s based on the life of Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, a [...]
Having conquered the big screen (a few times over) it looks like director Jim Cameron is turning his talents to TV again. Deadline are reporting that the Titanic auteur (having previously co-created and executive produced Fox’s sci-fi drama Dark Angel) will be adapting a film from his own back catalogue this time around. 1994’s action [...]
Rowan Joffe, writer-director of the upcoming Brighton Rock, is set to adapt another novel for the big screen. The novel in question is Steve Watson’s debut, titled Before I Go to Sleep, which is about “a young woman who, after a night of partying, wakes up to discover that she has aged beyond recognition.” With [...]
UK magazine SFX have been talking with Star Trek reboot director and producer JJ Abrams, as well as scripters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman about their various ideas for the sequel, which is currently in development over at Paramount. Trekmovie.com have extensive excerpts from the interview, which you can look at here, but here are the [...]
Oh how I can’t wait for Jackass 3D. It has been four years since we’ve seen the crazy cast of ultimate pranksters on screen, (and no, I’m not counting Jackass 2 1/2), and now they are back and ready punish themselves even more. I, like I’m sure many of you, laughed hysterically at the trailer for [...]
I genuinely didn’t see this one coming! E! online have an exclusive from Wu-Tang Clan member/material arts hip-hop fusion maestro, RZA that he has cast Russell Crowe in his directorial debut The Man With the Iron Fist, which he is also starring in. He doesn’t reveal much except the tantalising admission that “Russell’s gonna be [...]
Monsters, the low-budget alien-invasion flick from first time director Gareth Edwards, has been attracting some strong buzz from screenings at various film festivals. Now, even before the film goes on general release, Edwards has mapped out a plan for his follow-up, another science fiction film set to be produced by, none other than, Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted). [...]
You know the drill – this is the Facebook movie which is littered with amazing talent, from David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin behind the camera to Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield in front of it. The murmuring from early screenings are calling it a perfect movie, but I’ll be happy if it lives up to [...]
There’s some great buzz coming out of the festival screenings for Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, with reports of standing ovations and the name of Oscar being thrown around. So far we’ve seen a rather nice trailer for Boyle’s telling of the true story of Aron Ralston, and there’s a nice moment in that trailer where [...]
One of the highlights of this year’s London Film Festival is the BFI National Archive’s screening of Herbert Ponting’s documenting of Captain Scott’s expedition of the South Pole, The Great White Silence, and today the BFI released a trailer for us all to enjoy. The footage captured by Ponting, now painstakingly restored, speaks for itself, [...]
Yes, it’s true. A sequel to Johnny English is still going ahead. In fact, it’s in production right now and will shoot for thirteen weeks in good old Blighty and Hong Kong, Universal kindly told us today. Also announced were three new cast members roped in to act all serious while Rowan Atkinson bumbles hilariously [...]
