Rise of the Planet of the Apes Reviews, Interviews & More

Following the surprise of success of the Planet of the Apes loose prequel/ semi-reboot, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, it was only natural that we’d be getting a sequel/ another sort-of prequel to the franchise.  Hence, another mouthful title: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.  And now, Fox has provided the world with a plot summery (hint: it...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes, despite being the sixth entry in the exhausted Planet of the Apes series (seventh if you count Tim Burton’s cross-eyed remake), and starring James Franco (who seems to be on a sub-‘Joaquin Phoenix in I’m Still Here’ journey to turn everything he does into annoying performance...

Here's the quick version: A couple weeks ago it was rumored that Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt was not going to return for the sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. This turned out to be true. Matt Reeves, who previously directed Cloverfield and Let Me In, ended up leaving...

Earlier this summer, we reported to you that Rise of the Planet of Apes writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver had been hired to pen the script for the long-developing Jurassic Park 4 (the last film in the series, Jurassic Park III, was released 11 years ago, in 2001).  It was an interesting development for two...

Director Rupert Wyatt has caused a bit of a stir by pulling out of 2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, after seemingly coming down with a case of cold feet - and Wyatt may even be dropping out of the series altogether. Read on for more.

There's a thin line between remakes and reboots. And sometimes, in this business, we makes the mistake of using them as synonyms for each other. But there's a big difference between the two, the main one being that there actually aren't very many movie reboots out there... yet. Remakes there's a ton. Movie reboots on the other hand, aren't as popularized. But that's going to change in...

After spending over a decade toiling in the near-extinction of development hell, it looks like Jurassic Park 4: The Unnecessary Sequel is finally going to happen, if only because it’s still a little too early to remake the first film but Universal still needs to wring some money from the property.  Thus, a decade-late sequel to a franchise that was never that great in the first...

After a couple of weeks of super weak titles, Contagion is the first A-lister vehicle in quite some time. You'd think summer would be loaded with them, but you can't really call The Help or Rise of the Planet of the Apes star vehicles. Then again, look at the business Larry Crowne did. That...

Summer officially ends this weekend as Labor Day signals that kids are going back to school, and that temperatures will begin dropping. This was a big summer for movies, with Harry Potter 7.2, Transformers 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 4 making more than a billion dollars worldwide. Much of the big money titles were...

It's the dog days of summer. This weekend four movies are coming out and - realistically - only one has a shot at taking the top slot. Last weekend saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes hold well enough to fend off The Help, but this weekend it's more than likely that The Help will take the top slot. Conan...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes isn't giving up easily. The sci-fi thriller clung to the No. 1 spot for a second weekend leaving behind new films like The Help, Final Destination 5 and 30 Minutes of Less. The Tate Taylor 60's Southern film fell a few million short from Apes, and came...

For the past couple days the lead stories have been America's market downturn, and the rioting and looting that has been happening in London. Like many more recent national tragedies, the footage recalls the films that try to recreate similar circumstances, and while many celebrities have tweeted about being safe, and concerned for what's been going on, it's hard to say how this is going to...

It was a fairly good weekend, for the Apes though everything came in lower than we predicted. The prequel Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which got surprisingly good reviews (even though it didn't deserve them) made it through its opening weekend, grossing $54 million. James Franco and company stayed way ahead of all other movies including Universal's new release...

Curious as to whether or not you should plunk down your hard-earned dollars on a movie about James Franco dealing with some peskily sentient and maybe sorta kinda revolutionary apes that might just one day really piss off Charlton Heston?  Well, if so, dig our round up of what the critics thought of Rise of the Planet of the Apes below—we’ve laid out a...

This weekend James Franco and Andy Serkis hope to defeat Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds for the top slot at the box office. If Bateman and Reynolds look familiar it's because they've both top-lined movies earlier this summer. And they star in The Change Up with Olivia Wilde, who just appeared in Cowboys and Aliens....

One of the most exciting-looking movies of the summer is Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Though 20th Century Fox hasn't always treated the franchise with respect - either in the original run or in it's re-imagined Tim Burton fiasco - but the story is durable because man's relationship to nature and meddling scientists are an evergreen subject. Now there's a new teaser...

Is 2011 the summer of the good prequel? With X-Men: First Class hitting theaters and earning mostly good reviews, it would be great to see that trend continue with Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The film, which stars James Franco, Brian Cox, and Frieda Pinto, hits theaters in August, but the latest trailer seems to show much of that uprising...

In the flood of Rise of the Planet of the Apes coverage, we've also recieved concept art for the Rupert Wyatt film. These were images done to give a scale to what looks to be the third act of the film where the Apes take over San Francisco, or at least San Fransisco in the art. Such then reminds of Hitchcock, if only because of...

How does one deal with press? For both Jon M. Chu, and Rupert Wyatt, both are walking into a battlefield with their next films. For Jon M. Chu, he's been signed on for the G.I. Joe sequel, but is known for his musicals, while Rupert Wyatt, he's putting out a new Planet of the Apes film after the franchise has struggled to reboot itself....

You can say this for the Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer , it bears no resemblance to the last attempt to relaunch the Planet of the Apes franchise. This one suggests no connection to the other films in a good way. Rupert Wyatt's film is a revamp of the fourth film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes without the time...