‘Tupac’ Gets New Financing, Will Shoot In Early 2014 By Angie Han/Sept. 20, 2013 12:00 pm EST But then earlier this year, Tupac showed signs of life when new rewrite was ordered. Now it’s taking another big step forward as Emmett/Furla/Oasis signs up to co-finance and co-produce. As of now, the goal is to get cameras rolling in early 2014. Hit the jump for the latest updates. Deadline was the first to report Emmett/Furla/Oasis’ involvement....
A Cast Of Kings S4E01 - Two Swords By David Chen/April 7, 2014 11:41 pm EST Joanna and Dave discuss the first episode of season 4 of Game of Thrones, “Two Swords.” Thanks to our sponsor for this week, Film Critic: The Movie. E-mail us and let us know your thoughts on the season at acastofkings@gmail.com. You can find every episode of the show at gameofthronespodcast.com. If you like the show, feel free to leave us a review on iTunes and like us on Facebook....
A24 Films Buys Sundance Hit ‘Obvious Child’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 22, 2014 11:00 am EST One of the buzzier comedies in Park City, UT at the Sundance Film Festival this week is Obvious Child, a New York set comedy about a comedian (Jenny Slate) who mistakenly gets pregnant. Read Pete’s positive review here. Co-written and directed by Gillian Robespierre, A24 Films has picked it up for domestic distribution. Read the press release below....
Dane DeHaan And Robert Pattinson Join Anton Corbijn’s James Dean Drama ‘Life’ By Angie Han/Sept. 5, 2013 4:08 pm EST In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Dane DeHaan plays Harry Osborn, a role previously played by James Franco in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy. In Anton Corbijn’s Life, he’ll follow even further in Franco’s footsteps by picking up another of his old characters: James Dean. DeHaan and Twilight star Robert Pattinson have joined the fact-based drama, which chronicles the friendship between the Rebel Without a Cause actor and photographer Dennis Stock....
Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, Olivia Munn Join ‘Sinister’ Director’s ‘Beware The Night’ By Angie Han/April 10, 2013 8:00 am EST Sinister helmer Scott Derrickson has a few different projects brewing at the moment, including the the steampunk video game adaptation Deus Ex. But first, he’s due to visit the paranormal world once again with Beware the Night. And now he’s enlisted some notable names to take the journey with him.Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, and Olivia Munn have just boarded Screen Gems thriller, which is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer....
Jamie Foxx And Kevin Hart Team For ‘The Black Phantom’ By Angie Han/March 11, 2014 1:15 pm EST It’s really, really good to be Kevin Hart right now. The rising star is coming off two big hits and has several more comedies lined up for the next few years, one of which is a sequel to this year’s Ride Along. Now he’s booked yet another high-profile gig: The Black Phantom, starring Jamie Foxx....
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Shoots Down ‘Ant-Man’ Rumor: “Nothing But Lies” By Angie Han/Oct. 15, 2013 11:41 am EST The Internet has been all a-flutter over last night’s news that Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Paul Rudd were the top picks to lead Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man, but now it seems we can cross one of those names off. In an interview today, Gordon-Levitt dismissed the talk as mere “rumors.” Meanwhile, Wright maybe, possibly, indirectly referenced the report in a cryptic new tweet that reveals nothing at all....
Leonardo DiCaprio And Jonah Hill Reteaming For 1996 Olympic Bombing Drama By Angie Han/Feb. 4, 2014 11:45 am EST The controversy surrounding Jewell in 1996 was not the media’s finest hour, to put it mildly. At first, he was called a hero for finding the bomb and clearing the area before the explosion to minimize the damage. However, a subsequent report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution indicated that Jewell was being investigated by the FBI as a possible suspect, since he supposedly fit the criminal profile of a “lone bomber....
Listen To Adele’s ‘Skyfall’ Theme In Full [Updated With Official Release] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2012 1:39 pm EST While MGM, Sony, and EON Productions have been trying to keep a lid on all things Bond as the twenty-third film, Skyfall, races toward release, it was inevtiable that something was going to get out of hand. That something in this case is the title tune from Adele. Officially announced only days ago and partially leaked then, the full song has now hit the internet hours ahead of the planned “official” premiere....
Louis C.K. Releasing His 1998 Movie Starring Steve Carell And Amy Poehler For $5 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 7, 2014 9:53 am EST Everyone knows Louis C.K. as a brilliant comedian. Fewer people know him as a talented director. C.K. had been in the entertainment industry for decades before finally hitting the mainstream with his amazing stand-up and his FX TV show Louie. He wrote on several popular TV shows and directed short films for a long time, culminating in the 2001 cult film Pootie Tang....
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island Changes Title To…Ashecliffe By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 25, 2008 4:08 pm EST Well, it’s official: Martin Scorsese’s mystery drama, due in 2009 and formerly known as Shutter Island, is now entitled Ashecliffe. New title is the name of the plot’s asylum located on the fictional island off Boston harbor. No word on why the title was changed. I keep thinking of a fat kid with a pinwheel hat pronouncing it “Asscliffe” while producing lots of drool to entertain himself....
Marvel Won’t Back Down From ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ Release Date By Germain Lussier/March 12, 2014 7:02 pm EST On May 6, 2016, Marvel and DC are going head to head at the box office. In one corner is DC’s highly anticipated Man of Steel sequel Batman vs. Superman. In the other corner, an untitled Marvel Phase Three film. Marvel planted their flag on the day in June 2013. Six months later, DC all but challenged them by bumping Zack Snyder’s film to the same date....
Must Watch: Steven Spielberg, George Lucas And Martin Scorsese Predict The Future Of Movies In 1990 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 20, 2013 1:00 pm EST Almost twenty-five years ago, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert sat down with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese to talk about the future of cinema. At the time, Scorsese had yet to release Goodfellas, Spielberg had yet to win an Oscar and George Lucas had to to commit to the Star Wars prequels....
Rumor: ‘Deadpool’ Movie Now Happening Because It’s PG-13 By Germain Lussier/Sept. 22, 2014 8:30 am EST The Deadpool rating rumor came up on the Schmoes Know Meet the Movie Press podcast (via Screenrant) where host Mark Reilly said the following: One of the things that makes Deadpool so popular is that he’s R-rated. So, if this is true, fans might start lighting their torches. But don’t forget this is the MPAA we’re talking about here....
Visual Effects Master Ray Harryhausen Has Died At 92 By Russ Fischer/May 7, 2013 10:41 am EST Stop-motion effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen died today, with his passing confirmed by his family. The filmmaker, who retired from features in 1981, leaves behind a relatively small but incalculably influential body of work. In films produced between 1955 and 1981 his stop-motion animated skeletons, dinosaurs, and other beasts almost universally became icons of sci-fi and fantasy filmmaking....
Warner Bros. Options Anne McCaffrey’s ‘Dragonriders Of Pern’ Novels By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2014 4:08 pm EST If I had to name one fantasy or sci-fi book series that I can’t believe hasn’t been turned into a film or TV series yet, it would be Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern. Actually, I did say this, and not even that long ago. The Pern books are a strange blend of fantasy and sci-fi, filled with great, well-defined characters, politics and scheming, and giant telepathic dragons....
‘Beneath’ Trailer: Trapped Miners Face Horror By Russ Fischer/June 5, 2014 5:30 am EST In Beneath, a coal miner (Jeff Fahey) about to retire picks the wrong time to finally follow the old “bring your daughter to work day” concept. When the young woman (Kelly Noonan) joins dad and his mining crew, she’s underground when a collapse traps them all hundreds of feet below — sorry, beneath the surface. What happens next looks like some combination of The Descent and The Thing, but there are glimmers that this may be more of a psychological horror than a monster movie....
‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Gets Summer 2014 Release Date By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2013 11:15 am EST Briefly: The hottest book of 2011 and 2012 (hot in more ways than one) will be steaming up screens next summer. Producer Dana Brunetti revealed Fifty Shades of Grey, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and based on the erotic novel by E.L. James, will be released August 1, 2014. That means it opens against the Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy....
By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2014 3:00 pm EST Searchlight owned the rights to any prequels or sequels to the I script he had sold to the company but Cahill wanted to make I Origins on his own (ie independently) and sell it at Sundance, like he did his first film. And Searchlight allowed it, I’m sure they had a first look agreement of some sort. The company ended up buying the film at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival after its premiere....
By Germain Lussier/Aug. 16, 2013 9:26 am EST The public divorce between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. continues. The two companies are currently figuring out what to do with projects they’re both involved in, and the latest victim is Seventh Son, the Jeff Bridges fantasy film directed by Sergey Bodrov. Co-produced by Legendary and Warner Bros., the film will now be released by Universal as part of the new deal with Legendary....
