Luke Grimes Added To ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2013 12:20 pm EST Briefly: Does anyone care who plays any of the other characters in Fifty Shades of Grey? We’re about to find out, as the first bit of casting for the films that doesn’t involve one of the two leads has been announced. Dakota Johnson is cast as Anastasia Steele, and Jamie Dornan is stepping in to play Christian Grey after Charlie Hunnam bailed on the role....
By Germain Lussier/March 27, 2013 5:00 pm EST Thanks to ScreenDaily (via Playlist) for the news on Searchlight. Here’s their new plot description: Anderson has assembled an incredible ensemble for this go around, including Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Saoirse Ronan, Tom Wilkinson, Mathieu Amalric, F. Murray Abraham, Bob Balaban and Tony Revolori. Wow....
Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Chappie’ Based On Short ‘Tetra Vaal’; Plus New ‘Elysium’ Footage In TV Spot By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2013 11:00 am EST Neill Blmokamp has been done with his second feature film, Elysium, for a while. We had to wait to see it as Sony decided August was a better release window than March. So on August 9 we’ll get a look at the film that casts Matt Damon as a desperate member of the economic underclass who invades Elysium, the orbital society of the wealthy....
Rumor: ‘Amazing Spider-Man 3’ Delayed To 2017 By Angie Han/June 13, 2014 7:32 am EST That Sony wants more Spider-Man isn’t in doubt. But when it’ll get more Spider-Man might be. A new report indicates that The Amazing Spider-Man 3, originally scheduled for a 2016 bow, may now be arriving in 2017 instead. Get all the latest dirt after the jump. The studio has had June 10, 2016 and May 4, 2018 locked down for two more Amazing Spider-Man installments since last year....
Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men, Batman: Arkham Knight, Captain America: The Winter Soldier By Germain Lussier/June 4, 2014 7:55 am EST Want to see two brand new superhero Hot Toys from the Sixties and today? What’s the good news and bad news about Batman: Arkham Knight? How is The Amazing Spider-Man 2 doing internationally? Did someone invent a way to be X-Man Pyro? Is Commissioner Gordon in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?...
Trivia: ‘Election’ Easter Egg Advertises Alexander Payne’s Debut ‘Citizen Ruth’ By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2013 2:00 pm EST Alexander Payne’s Election is one of my favorite movies of all time. I’ve seen it too many times to count, but even I never noticed this awesome easter egg that Payne had his property department create for the film. During a sequence near the end of the movie, a newspaper flashes on screen with the headline “Carver Student Plans Lawsuit”....
Trivia: How Steven Spielberg Won Millions Of ‘Star Wars’ Dollars In A Bet With George Lucas By Germain Lussier/May 15, 2013 12:20 pm EST At this point, there’s likely nothing that could be said about Star Wars that many fans don’t already know. After almost 40 years of interviews, videos, re-releases, and books, every story concerning George Lucas’ milestone film has likely been told. So, with that preamble, here’s one I don’t remember hearing....
VOTD: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Opening Recreated In ‘Destiny’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 15, 2014 6:00 am EST Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that Bungie released their latest video game last week: Destiny. Gamers of all ages have been buying the game, tweeting about it, posting images and their praise. In fact, it sounds a lot like what happened six weeks ago when James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy was released....
‘Man Of Steel’ Director Zack Snyder Producing Animated 75th Anniversary Superman Short By Russ Fischer/May 30, 2013 10:53 am EST 2013 is Superman’s 75th anniversary, and while Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is the high-profile centerpiece of DC and Warner Bros.’ celebration/promotion of the character, it is by no means the only Superman presence this year. DC is using a Superman anniversary logo company-wide this year on projects related to the character, for starters....
‘Raze’ Trailer: ‘Death Proof’ Star Zoë Bell Engages In A Death Match By Angie Han/Nov. 26, 2013 8:00 am EST If you adore films about people who are trapped in an enclosed space and forced to fight to the death, as the fates of their loved ones hangs in the balance, you probably went out of your way to see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire this past weekend. If you then walked out of the theater disappointed because it wasn’t nearly bloody and gritty and grown-up enough, then Raze may be the film for you....
‘Red 2’ And ‘Now You See Me’ Pulled Up To Earlier Release Dates By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2013 2:00 pm EST Lionsgate made two release date changes today. Now You See Me, which comes from director Louis Leterrier and features Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, and Michael Caine, has been pulled up from July 7 to May 31. The thriller centers around a group of illusionists who pull off heists, seemingly at the same time they’re on stage doing magic tricks....
‘Rob The Mob’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2013 12:00 pm EST If you want to rob someone for easy money and not have to worry about having the cops on your ass, who’s the best target? The mob probably isn’t the ideal choice because, well, it’s the mob. But for a couple of not-so-bright kids who didn’t think things through, it was enough to think that no one would prosecute them for knocking over a few wise-guy gambling clubs....
‘The Protector 2’ Trailer: Tony Jaa Kicks Everything By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2014 4:00 pm EST After a smashing starring debut in the film Ong Bak, Thai action star Tony Jaa made a film called Tom-Yum-Goong, released in the US as The Protector. Like Ong Bak, that film was directed by Prachya Pinkaew, with fights choreographed by Jaa and his mentor, Panna Rittikrai. Now The Protector 2 is almost upon us, and while it features perhaps a too-pervasive use of digital work, there is still no shortage of the insane physical action that made Jaa’s first starring roles impossible to look away from....
‘The World’s End’ Trailer: Prepare To Get Annihilated By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2013 7:11 am EST Here’s the second trailer (well, the first US one) for Edgar Wright’s new film The World’s End. Five friends (played by Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, and Eddie Marsan) reunite to complete the epic bar crawl they never manage to finish twenty years ago. But things are different, and it isn’t just because they’re older, and (probably not) wiser....
‘White Bird In A Blizzard’ Trailer: Shailene Woodley Returns To Sundance By Angie Han/Dec. 13, 2013 2:18 pm EST Shailene Woodley rocked the Sundance Film Festival last year with James Ponsoldt’s lovely The Spectacular Now, and she’ll hope to do the same next year with Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard. Based on a 1999 novel of the same title by Laura Kasischke, the drama stars Woodley as a teenager whose life is thrown into chaos by the mysterious disappearance of her mother (Eva Green)....
10 New Photos From Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2009 9:29 pm EST Warner Bros has premiered ten new photos from Guy Ritchie’s upcoming big screen adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law and Rachel McAdams. The photos accompany a USA Today report from the London set, which makes it evident that “this isn’t your father’s Star Trek… I mean, Sherlock Holmes.” I highly recommend checking it out, but for those of you who don’t have the time to read the whole article, I have compiled the cliffnotes after the jump....
Aladygma? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2008 4:17 pm EST What is Aladygma? Is it the code name for a yet-to-be-announced JJ Abrams-produced film project? Is it the code name for the expected Cloverfield sequel? Chances are it is none of the above. Everyone in Hollywood has no idea what I’m talking about when I bring up “Aladygma”. And chances are it has absolutely nothing to do with a Cloverfield sequel, as I’m told that the project is currently dead at the moment (this could always change)....
Angelina Jolie Replaces Francis Lawrence For War Hero Biopic ‘Unbroken’ By Angie Han/Dec. 19, 2012 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While the project’s development hasn’t been quite that epic, it’s got a meaty history as well. Universal has been trying to bring Zamperini’s tale to the big screen for five and a half decades, or longer than the 37-year-old Jolie has been alive....
Each Episode Of ‘Gotham’ Will Tease The Joker By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2014 10:00 am EST According to reports, every episode of the first season of Gotham will have a character in it who may, or may not, become the Joker. The first of these is in the pilot, which features a stand up comedian who witnesses a horrific event. Check him out and read more below. Bleeding Cool first reported on this cool Joker Gotham TV idea (which was covered briefly in Tuesday’s Superhero Bits)....
First Look: Vengeful Witch Meryl Streep Goes ‘Into The Woods’ By Angie Han/Sept. 27, 2013 8:00 am EST Of all the Disney live-action fairy tale adaptations due out in the next several years, Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods may be the biggest. The kitchen-sink musical features some of the most iconic characters of all time, from Cinderella to the Big Bad Wolf, and has huge, stellar cast to match. The first still from the movie features arguably its starriest star of all, Meryl Streep....
