The Bourne Legacy Reviews, Interviews & More

Anything Stan Lee touches, for the most part, at this point will be turned into either a television series or a movie. So when we first found out the news that his latest comic Annihilator is going to receive the big screen treatment, nobody was shocked. 

Because making a film that isn’t a sequel or is based upon an original idea is just too gosh darned hard, Universal Pictures chairman Adam Fogelson has announced that the studio will be churning out ever more Bourne sequels, as well as sequels to the films Identity Thief and Snow White and the Huntsman, and there’s nothing we can...

It looks like we’re getting some of the last of the big summer movies this week in the hopes of making some holiday coin. This week Christopher Nolan joins the Criterion Collection, one of TV’s most talked about show hits disc, one of the year’s biggest comedies, and one of its most successful old school oddities street.

Before Labor Day, the deadest weekend of the year to date was the weekend of August 24, when The Expendables 2 was able to stay on top when films like Premium Rush and Hit and Run failed to make an impression. This week is that much deader.

So it's Labor Day weekend, which is often one of the more sluggish box office weekends of the year. Give teens a horror movie, and it can work like catnip. And so we see The Possession dominate.

Sadly, the summer is almost over. Most kids have gone back to school and the weather is slowly cooling down for the fall season.  Many believe that this summer's movie season was one of the weakest in the past couple of years, but we think otherwise. It was chocked full of fascinating independent movies and stupidly fun popcorn flicks that hit our sweet spot. So let's reflect on some of the...

You wouldn't know it from the weather, or practically anything else, but summer is over. At least for movies, where we're getting second and third stringers in the theater. And that's why only one film cracked ten million this weekend, and that's why The Expendables 2 stays on top. It's a weak week.

With the last month of cinema dominated by the likes of Batman, Colin Ferrell, and Jeremy Renner, that may be enough to explain why The Expendables 2 opened a little soft. Here's where I should really make a Viagra joke. Okay, the film opened hard for four hours, but then had to call a doctor? That good?

Though The Bourne Legacy couldn't top the last two Bourne sequels, it did manage to win the weekend, and is the first new film to hit number one since The Dark Knight Rises opened. More than anything, it did the right thing by moving back a week, and if its big competition was...

Part of me still can't believe they didn't throw a pile of money at Matt Damon to do a scene in The Bourne Legacy. Oh well. The ads keep telling us there was never just one. Duh. The question is if audiences will return if/when they know it doesn't feature the character in the title.

To say that The Bourne Legacy is loosely based on Eric Van Lustbander's novel or even set in the same universe that Robert Ludlum created is a giant overstatement. Screenwriters (and director) Tony and Dan Gilroy have taken Ludlum's Bourne series and expanded into something wholly new. That's what they set out to do, and...

After writing the first three Bourne films, Tony Gilroy finally got the honor of directing The Bourne Legacy, which he co-wrote with his brother Dan Gilroy. In this fourth installment, we find out that there was more to the story than just Jason Bourne. Jeremy Renner replaces Matt Damon as Aaron Cross, another Treadstone...

The Bourne series has tapped into new territory with The Bourne Legacy. Matt Damon is out and Jeremy Renner is in as Aaron Cross. It turns out there was never just one. ScreenCrave recently spoke to the new cast, which includes Renner, Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton. They talked about the franchise's future, shooting action scenes and...

Universal, who've had a number of misfires this summer (Battleship, Savages), may have won this weekend by moving The Bourne Legacy to August 10. Originally the film was going to open on Friday, and here we've seen what happened: The Dark Knight Rises did better business than the...

The Bourne Legacy hasn't even hit theaters yet, but people are already wondering and speculating what the next movie will be about. Some say that the 5th Bourne may team up Matt Damon and Jeremy Renner, but that remains to be seen. For now, producer Frank Marshall has confirmed that the next installment will definitely follow Renner's character Aaron...

The Bourne Legacy hits theaters August 10, and we're curious to see how it will play. Not only because it's a sequel that talks a lot about Jason Bourne without actually featuring Matt Damon, but also because director Tony Gilroy is taking up the helm from Paul Greengrass, whose action sensibilities meant "lots of shakey cam." From this clip we have a better idea...

Per his contract that apparently states he must have a role in every ongoing action franchise in existence (look for him to appear next as James Bond’s little brother Johnny Bond in A Quirkdom of Siblings), Jeremy Renner is the new face of the Bourne franchise.  After having already taken remarkably bland supporting roles in Thor, The Avengers,...

The summer season is a week away at this point, so it's time to start making predictions about the biggest movies of the summer. These predictions are always going to be a just little off, but that's the fun of making wildly inaccurate guesses months before we've even seen a film - sometimes you're right. So here are the top ten films that are going to be trying to make more than $200 Million...

Jeremy Renner stars in the spin-off/reboot of the Bourne franchise The Bourne Legacy, and now we're getting a look at how director Tony Gilroy is handling the reset button in the film's first trailer. With that title it means that Matt Damon's Jason Bourne is going to hover over the film - though it's hard to say for how long of the running time. Check out the...

Edward Norton's had a rocky path in Hollywood, partly by his own making. Known for tinkering with scripts, he's done films out of contractual obligation, and never courted an easy path. And yet Hollywood keeps coming back, perhaps because he is rather talented. Perhaps he's finally made peace with working within the industry, because he's the leading contender for the role of the villain in...