Cameron Diaz To Menace Quvenzhané Wallis In ‘Annie’ By Angie Han/June 27, 2013 10:06 am EST Apparently, Sony simply adores the idea of Cameron Diaz being mean to children. The studio recently put in motion a sequel to Bad Teacher, her surprise hit comedy from 2011, and now they’ve got her on board for Annie, in which she’ll play nasty, alcoholic orphanage headmistress Miss Hannigan. She joins Quvenzhané Wallis and Jamie Foxx....
Harry Shum Jr. To Star In ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Sequel By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2014 6:00 am EST Glee/Step-Up film series star Harry Shum Jr. has been cast as one of the lead characters in Woo-ping Yuen’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel for The Weinstein Co. Read more about the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon sequel after the jump. Production is on track to begin filming this week, and will shoot in both New Zealand and China....
Jamie Foxx Confirms Villain Ideas For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Sequels By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2013 12:04 pm EST With a couple villains appearing in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and plans set to Sony for third and fourth films in Marc Webb’s take on the character, there has been a lot of speculation about whether or not we’ll see some emulation of The Avengers in one of the latter movies. Specifically, will there be a team?...
Jason Blum Offers Update On Oren Peli’s ‘Area 51’: “It Exists!” By Angie Han/Aug. 20, 2013 5:00 am EST Over the weekend, the CIA finally acknowledged the existence of Area 51, the mysterious government facility rumored to be the site of UFO activity. At the same time, producer was eager to reaffirm the existence of Area 51, the Oren Peli-directed found-footage horror film based on same. Area 51 was first announced in 2009 and entered principal photography not too long afterward, but has yet to reveal a single frame of footage or announce a release date....
John Leguizamo Could Lead Brad Furman’s ‘The Ballad Of Pablo Escobar’ By Angie Han/Aug. 12, 2013 5:00 pm EST A couple of years ago, The Lincoln Lawyer helmer Brad Furman became the latest in a long string of directors to try and bring the Pablo Escobar story to life. We haven’t heard much about The Ballad of Pablo Escobar since then, but some recent movement suggests that it could be making some big steps forward soon....
Kellen Lutz In Talks For ‘Expendables 3,’ Early Plot Details Revealed By Germain Lussier/July 23, 2013 5:00 pm EST A new piece of casting news gives a hint of where star Sylvester Stallone and director Patrick Hughes are going with The Expendables 3. Scheduled for release in August 2014, the action sequel is expected to return most of the surviving cast and even add some new/old blood. Guys like Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes and Mel Gibson are among those rumored to be circling the project....
Lake Bell To ‘Man Up’ With Simon Pegg And ‘Inbetweeners’ Director Ben Palmer By Angie Han/Nov. 19, 2013 2:00 pm EST Both the writer and director of Man Up have small screen roots. Palmer is known for directing episodes of the British sitcom The Inbetweeners. Its cinematic follow-up, The Inbetweeners Movie, was his first feature film. Morris’ credits include My Family, a long-running BBC comedy about, well, a family. Man Up will be produced by Pegg and Nira Park through their Big Talk banner....
Mike Birbiglia To Follow ‘Sleepwalk With Me’ With ‘My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 19, 2013 1:30 pm EST If you haven’t seen Mike Birbiglia’s film Sleepwalk With Me, it’s a good experience that is now available to stream on Netflix in the US. The movie, which follows the writer/actor/director’s formative experiences as a stand-up comedian, premiered last year at Sundance, and turned into a tidy little, er, sleeper hit. Doesn’t hurt that it was produced by Ira Glass, whose NPR show This American Life has no small influence....
Page 2: GOT, Star Wars, Star Trek, Guillermo Del Toro, Vacation, Despicable Me By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2013 11:00 am EST Twinkie Cupcakes That Look Like Despicable Me’s Minions Apple TV beta reportedly adds one-tap configuration and iTunes music purchases Guillermo del Toro’s Ghostly Encounter Hollywood Studios Haven’t Been Paid by China in Months Real-Life Griswolds Travel to Walt Disney World in Custom ‘Vacation’ Style Station Wagon BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Mastermind Ronald D....
Robert Rodriguez And Roberto Orci Create “Latino James Bond” For El Rey TV Network By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2013 1:20 pm EST Briefly: Robert Rodriguez has teamed with Univision to launch the El Rey Network, which will feature action and genre programming aimed at the Latino audience. We’ve known that El Rey will run a series based on From Dusk Till Dawn, and that it will also have a show co-created by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci....
Robert Rodriguez Directing First Two ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ TV Episodes By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2013 3:00 pm EST Robert Rodriguez is a prime partner in the new El Rey Network, which is the new “genre-busting cable network” aimed at the Latino audience, and we’ve known that one of the cornerstones of the El Rey programming would be a new From Dusk Till Dawn series. Rodriguez isn’t just producing the series, either; as it goes into production in Austin, TX, the announcement has come that he’s directing the first two hour-long episodes....
Rumor: Warner Bros. Wants Paul Greengrass To Make ‘The Stand’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 26, 2013 2:30 pm EST Briefly: The new feature film adaptation of Stephen King novel The Stand has been a difficult thing for Warner Bros. to get off the ground. Filmmakers such as Harry Potter duo David Yates and Steve Kloves; Ben Affleck; and Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace director Scott Cooper have all been attached to versions of the adaptation in the past couple years....
Ryan Reynolds Exits ‘Highlander’ Reboot By Angie Han/June 17, 2013 6:59 pm EST To say Summit’s Highlander reboot has been as long-lived as its characters would be a massive exaggeration, obviously, but it has been kicking around for quite a while now. And it’ll be sticking around for some time yet, as it’s now headed back to square one. Ryan Reynolds has just dropped out of the project, months after director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo exited....
See Images, Poster, And Great Viral Video For Sundance Sci-Fi ‘The Signal’ By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2014 2:30 pm EST The Sundance sci-fi The Signal, almost a mystery as much as it is a science fiction piece, played really well at the festival this year. While I didn’t get to see it, Peter loved the film, and it was quickly set for a summer release by Focus Features. But The Signal remains a mystery to most potential audiences — and that’s where these new images and a viral video come in....
Superhero Bits: X-Men Days Of Future Past, Batman Vs. Superman, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Guardians Of The Galaxy By Germain Lussier/Feb. 17, 2014 3:30 pm EST Want to see some new footage from The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Why does Peter Parker have a new costume in the film? How excited about the movie is the composer of Captain America: The Winter Soldier? What is the latest image released from X-Men: Days of Future Past?...
The Duplass Brothers Team With Blumhouse Productions For Found-Footage Horror ‘Peachfuzz’ By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2013 5:00 pm EST I’d never really thought of it before, but the same low-key, naturalistic approach that distinguishes the Jay and Mark Duplass in their indie dramedies also makes them well suited for the found-footage trend in horror. And indeed, that’s exactly where they’re headed next. Jason Blum, the powerhouse producer behind the Paranormal Activity series, has picked up the distribution rights to the Duplass-produced Peachfuzz....
Tomas Alfredson Boards ‘The Snowman’, Replacing Martin Scorsese By Angie Han/April 29, 2014 7:00 am EST Universal wants to build a snowman with Tomas Alfredson. The Swedish director of Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has just been tapped to direct The Snowman, and adaptation of the thriller by Jo Nesbø. Alfredson has some pretty big shoes to fill here. He takes over the job from Martin Scorsese, who was attached to direct for years before falling away last year....
Universal To Remake The Host By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2007 10:46 pm EST Filmmaker Joon-ho revealed that Universal Studios has purchased rights to produce an American remake. The Host is out now, so go see it! “Maybe three or four years down the line, if The Host [remake] comes out, and there’s a cool director who takes it on and makes it a real great film, then I’d be very happy,” Bong told SciFiWire in an interview, through a translator....
Video: Chris Pratt Gives You A Tour Of His Milano Spaceship From ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2014 6:00 am EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a new video featuring Chris Pratt, who plays Peter Quill aka Star-Lord in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, giving a MTV Cribs-style tour of his character’s spaceship The Milano. The ship is named the Milano after Peter Quill’s childhood crush on television star Alyssa Milano from Who’s The Boss (one of over 50 easter eggs I chronicled here)....
Watch Part Of Andy And Lana Wachowski’s Post-‘Cloud Atlas’ Q&A From Fantastic Fest By Russ Fischer/Oct. 2, 2012 5:39 pm EST One of the highlights of Fantastic Fest was last Wednesday’s secret screening, which turned out to be Cloud Atlas, the new film from Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer. The Wachowskis were in attendance to do a Q&A afterward, which is something that would have been unthinkable from the directors in years past....
