‘Jem And The Holograms’ Movie Has Its Four Leads By Germain Lussier/April 24, 2014 11:50 am EST Last month, no one thought a Jem and the Holograms movie was possible. This month, it’s already filming and the cast has now been revealed. Aubrey Peeples, best known for a role on TV’s Nashville, will play Jem. Disney star Stefanie Scott is Jem’s sister Kimber, Aurora Perrineau (Pretty Little Liars) is Shana and Hayley Kiyoko (Lemonade Mouth) is Aja....
‘Jersey Boys’ Casting Begins; First Up Is Christopher Walken By Germain Lussier/July 23, 2013 5:30 pm EST Having grossed over a billion dollars across the globe as a musical, one might think the title Jersey Boys alone is enough to sell a film adaptation. That’s likely part of why director Clint Eastwood is casting the lead roles of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons with performers from the various stage productions....
‘Lego’ Aftereffects: ‘Ninjago’ Could Happen Before ‘Lego Movie 2’, ‘Monster Trucks’ Begins Casting By Angie Han/Feb. 19, 2014 3:00 pm EST For a while there, it looked like Hollywood might be learning a lesson about toy-based films. Yes, the Transformers franchise continues to rake in the dough, but Battleship was one of the floppiest flops of the year, and Universal scrapped their plans to make movies based on other Hasbro board games....
‘Snitch’ Trailer: The Rock Is A Good Dad Playing Bad By Russ Fischer/Nov. 21, 2012 1:13 pm EST Snitch is based — probably very loosely — on a real story in which a father tries to dig himself into the drug trade in order to help his son out of prison. The father here is played by The Rock, with Susan Sarandon showing up as the hard-ass prosecutor who doesn’t want to let his kid off easy, leading Dad into a gig driving for some pretty bad men in the hopes of taking down the people responsible for putting his kid behind bars....
‘The Good Lie’ Trailer: Reese Witherspoon’s ‘The Blind Side’ By Angie Han/June 20, 2014 5:30 am EST Just a few hours after the Dear White People trailer landed online, The Good Lie trailer has arrived to give us a perfect example of the kind of film Dear White People is mocking. Directed by Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar), the fact-based drama stars Reese Witherspoon as an American woman who opens her heart to three helpless Sudanese refugees (played by Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, and Emmanuel Jal)....
‘The Normal Heart’ Teaser Trailer: Mark Ruffalo Rallies Defense Against A New Disease By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2014 9:54 am EST It’s just a week after the AIDS drama Dallas Buyers Club won a set of Oscars, including two of the four top acting honors. So now is a good time to release a trailer for another AIDS drama. In this case, the film is The Normal Heart, directed by Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Horror Story) and based on the acclaimed play by Larry Kramer....
‘Up’ Balloon House Recreated In Real Life, With Human Passenger By Germain Lussier/Nov. 20, 2012 12:36 pm EST Jonathan Trappe has a simple goal: fly across the Atlantic. Something that happens dozens of times per day by multiple airlines might not seem like a big deal, but Trappe wants to do it alone and in a boat lifted only by balloons. He’s a professional Cluster Balloonist, similar to Carl Fredricksen in Pixar’s Up....
‘Watchmen’ Writer Alex Tse To Pen Video Game Adaptation ‘Gran Turismo’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 21, 2013 2:01 pm EST Gran Turismo, one of the most celebrated racing franchises in video game history, is coming to the big screen. This we’ve known this for a while as Social Network/50 Shades of Grey producers Mike De Luca and Dana Brunetti signed onto the Sony franchise over the summer. The move makes sense, based both on the success of the Fast and Furious films and another popular video game franchise, Need for Speed, also heading into theaters....
AMC Plans ‘The Walking Dead’ Spinoff By Angie Han/Sept. 16, 2013 9:05 am EST Better call… Robert Kirkman? As Breaking Bad fans speculate about the developing spinoff series Better Call Saul, AMC has announced a companion show for another of its biggest hits, The Walking Dead. The as yet unnamed scripted series will follow the zombie apocalypse from another perspective, following a fresh set of characters in a brand-new plotline. Like the original show, the new drama will be based on Kirkman’s long-running comic series....
Baz Luhrmann In Talks To Direct Film Adaptation Of ‘Kung Fu’ By Russ Fischer/April 11, 2014 1:32 pm EST Several times in the past, Baz Luhrmann has shown a tendency towards tweaked applications of tropes from western movies. So there’s a weird and somewhat thrilling sense of appropriate convergence to the fact that Luhrmann is now in talks to direct Kung Fu for Legendary. The original TV show, which first ran from 1972 to 1975, starred David Carradine as Caine, a Shaolin monk who roamed the American west, and has lived in pop-culture memory in no small part thanks to Quentin Tarantino’s fandom....
Chiwetel Ejiofor Leads A Star-Studded Cast In New ‘Twelve Years A Slave’ Pics By Angie Han/June 19, 2013 1:40 pm EST Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Northup, a free man who was tricked and sold into slavery as an adult. He spent a dozen years working on plantations before eventually finding his way to freedom once more. Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Paulson, Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Paul Giamatti, Michael K. Williams, Alfre Woodard, and newcomer Lupita Nyong’o are also among the cast....
Chris Evans Will Direct And Star In ‘1:30 Train’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 1, 2013 4:03 pm EST Briefly: Yeah, that Chris Evans. The actor who is now best-known as Captain America will direct the romance 1:30 Train before he goes to work on Avengers: Age of Ultron. Scripted by Ronald Bass (Rain Man, Entrapment), the movie sounds like a good change of pace for Evans as it follows “two strangers who meet in Manhattan and spend one night together as the conflicts in their own lives become the basis for their exploration of each other and themselves....
Commercial Director Spotlight: Noam Murro By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2011 7:00 am EST Here is Noam’s official bio (found via SuperiorPics): Noam Murro was born on August 16, 1961, in Jerusalem, Israel. Prior to entering the advertising industry, he was trained as an architect. He later made the move into feature film directing. A trained architect, Noam Murro later began a career in the world of advertising and has gained recognition through his commercial work....
Damon Lindelof Is So Over The “Destruction Porn” In Summer Blockbusters By Angie Han/Aug. 6, 2013 11:30 am EST Much ink has been spilled lately about the movie industry’s “bigger is better” problem. Studios regularly throw $200 million or more at the latest Marvel- or DC-based adventure, yet even icons like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have trouble wrangling mid-range budgets for projects like Lincoln or Red Tails. Nor does that attitude stop at the financial level....
First Look: Martin Freeman Looks Minnesota Not-So-Nice On FX’s ‘Fargo’ By Angie Han/Jan. 8, 2014 2:45 pm EST The Coen Brothers don’t have a new film out in 2014, but their presence will be felt on the pop culture landscape all the same. Among the intriguing oddities being offered up by the TV gods this year is Fargo, an FX limited series based on the duo’s 1996 hit. Technically speaking, the new Fargo is neither a remake nor a sequel for the first one....
Helena Bonham Carter And Dominic West To Play Elizabeth Taylor And Richard Burton For BBC Four By Angie Han/Feb. 12, 2013 2:27 pm EST During her life, Elizabeth Taylor was known as much for her offscreen exploits as she was for her onscreen work, and public interest in her personal life hasn’t waned now that she’s passed. Last year, Lifetime brought us the tawdry, Lindsay Lohan-starring version of the Taylor story: Liz & Dick....
Jonathan Nolan Finally Talks About The Conclusion Of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 15, 2012 9:20 am EST Note: This article contains spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises. The ending of The Dark Knight Rises. Yes, we’re still talking about this. The final few scenes of Christopher Nolan’s massive hit certainly suggested one specific narrative interpretation but also left themselves open to others. Why doesn’t John Blake use the name Robin?...
Josh Brolin And George Clooney Will ‘Hail Caesar!’ For The Coen Brothers By Russ Fischer/June 9, 2014 4:44 pm EST Joel and Ethan Coen have set the leading cast for their next film, Hail Caesar!, and the two leads will be familiar presences on the Coen set. George Clooney and Josh Brolin will star in the film. Each actor has done multiple films with the Coens before; Clooney in O Brother Where Art Thou?...
Latest ‘All Hail The King’ Clip Features Easter Egg Teasing New Marvel Villain By Germain Lussier/Feb. 17, 2014 11:45 am EST On first watch, this latest clip from Drew Pearce’s Marvel One Shot: All Hail The King, is just a funny gimmick. It shows how Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley) is completely adored in prison. But the real stuff is all in the details. First of all, this is Seagate Prison, which is the prison in which Luke Cage is confined, and from which he eventually breaks out....
Leprechaun: Origins Photo: First Reveal Of The Leprechaun By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2014 9:00 am EST The image released looks more like a piece of concept art than a still from the film. The Leprechaun looks very creepy but seems to lack to fun charm (no pun intended) of the character from the original films. The movie is directed by Zach Lipovsky, and alongside Postl, the cast also features Brendan Fletcher, Teach Grant, Andrew Dunbar, Stephanie Bennett and Melissa Roxburgh....
