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The RoboCop reboot has been taking some lumps lately, with reports of a henpecked and filmmaking-by-committee production that’s out of the director’s control, and then the news that Hugh Laurie was backing out of negotiations to play the villain in an already pretty auspicious cast. Well, the film finally hit another bit of good luck in the casting department—Michael Keaton...
The Road director John Hillcoat is tackling the Prohibition era in Lawless. With a cast of breakouts and veterans, it's filled with eye-catching performances. Unfortunately, the film suffers from a few fundamental issues that take it from poignant to mediocre.
José Padilha’s RoboCop remake isn’t exactly having its best month—coming on the heels the script leaking to an entertainment writer who publically bashed the apparently terrible reboot is the news that Hugh Laurie will not be playing the film’s Big Bad after all. Laurie had entered negotiations for the role back in June; however, it appears he will not be...
The modern remake or reboot: typically, it’s a film with rather low expectations attached. Most (but not all) modern remakes are of the clunker variety—lifting the basic plot points of the original, but often with little to no translation of the subtext, chemistry, or intelligence that made the original film so popular in the first place. And while no one seems to be expecting the...
The RoboCop remake—despite initially sounding like yet another studio-mandated attempt to capitalize on a popular ‘80s property by cannibalizing it to the bone in the hope that the foreign markets will yield a profit—gets strangely more intriguing with each and every new casting announcement made for the film. And today, add one more to the remake’s surprisingly impressive...
All of Christopher Nolan's Batman movies have had one absolute thing in common – an all-star cast. These high-profile actors have some pretty impressive resumes. So, with The Dark Knight Rises hitting theaters tomorrow and Nolan's trilogy finally coming to a close, we decided to look through Batman & Co.'s body of works and pick out the best,...
Just how many trailers can one film have? A teaser? Sure. A full trailer? Of course. A second full trailer? Why not? A third full-length trailer? Well… OK. A fourth trailer? Apparently so, because that’s what dropped late Tuesday: a trailer that begins as an ad for the entire Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, before jumping into two minutes of new The Dark...
Well, we’re less than two weeks away from the release of 2012’s most anticipated film: The Dark Knight Rises. And while we don’t have anything too spoilery to give away—Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Robin! Catwoman kills Alfred! It was all a dream of Commissioner Gordon’s! (I’m making these up, don’t panic)—we do have something pretty cool: the entire score for The...
During last month’s 2012 MTV Movie Awards, Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt appeared in order to debut new footage from the insanely anticipated The Dark Knight Rises. Unfortunately the footage was pulled offline almost as quickly as it appeared online—meaning that if you didn’t subject yourself to the horrors of...
This week, Casey Affleck landed his next project. He'll be directing and writing the story of baseball player Josh Hamilton. The first photo of James Franco as Oz: The Great And Powerful hit the web. And actor Gary Oldman went on Jimmy Kimmel to politely ask famous athletes to stop acting. All that and more below.
As the countdown to the July 20 premiere of The Dark Knight Rises continues, the onslaught of semi-spoilery Dark Knight Rises TV spots marches onward. Continuing the trend of revealing more and more of the film via TV spots rather than trailers, the newest TV spot features all-new footage of “The Bat” (essentially, the Bat-Plane), Anne Hathway’s Selina Kyle/Catwoman,...
After eight seasons of playing the stubborn, mean and selfish (yet utterly brilliant) genius that is Dr Gregory House, one might wonder what’s next on the cards for star Hugh Laurie. Well, now we’ve got the answer – he’ll be making a turn as an evil villain in José Padilha‘s upcoming remake for MGM of Paul Verhoeven‘s 1987 sci-fi...
A remake of the Paul Verhoeven 1980s classic RoboCop might strike some as sacrilege—the story of a good cop in the near future who’s killed by thugs, cybernetically revived by science, and forced to star in a series of increasingly bad sequels and a TV series, is cherished by many fans of 80s sci-fi. However, the just-announced addition of Gary Oldman to the...
Sponsored by IMAX and Mountain Dew (apparently people still drink that?), Warner Bros. is launching a unique The Dark Knight Rises promotional tour—they’re taking The Tumbler (a.k.a., the Batmobile) and the Bat-Pod (a.k.a., Batman’s motorcycle) on a cross-country tour of the United States. Want to completely geek out and touch Batman’s ride? Well, Bat-nerds,...
This week Gary Oldman told CNN about the time he almost lost the Dark Knight Rises script. He panicked because his script was the only one that included the actual ending of the film, but luckily he found it. Also, we've got some neat card ideas for Valentine's Day, and a couple of trailers. Catch up below.
This week Daniel Radcliffe came out and admitted to being drunk on the Harry Potter set. We knew he had trouble with alcohol, but really? Well, drunk or not, we'll always remember him as Harry Potter. Comedian Chris Rock told the L.A. Times that he's got some serious plans for himself and...
As we wait impatiently for the new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, Entertainment Weekly has a cover story on the film - which is still deep in post-production - and Christopher Nolan is repeating what has been the modus operandi with the movie since day one: This is his last Batman film no if's, and's or huge paychecks. Check out a quote from Christopher...
This weekend, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol premiered the opening sequence of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, and offered the film's theatrical trailer. Currently the opening sequence is still only in certain Imax theaters, but the trailer is now online, and offers glimpses at new cast members Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, and...
with Harry Potter's conclusion out of the way, is there another film more highly anticipated than The Dark Knight Rises? Even Peter Jackson's Hobbit films don't have the same heat on them. The Dark Knight Rises is due July 20112, and perhaps with Comic-con drawing close, we finally have a teaser for what appears to be Christopher Nolan's last...
Alright everyone, let the baseless, frenzied speculation begin! Gary Oldman recently revealed details (yet again!) concerning The Dark Knight Rises' production script to Absolute Radio, which is going to set more than million or so fanboy hearts a-flutter. And it turns out that the big climax of the film, along with the villain, is…
