The cast for David Gordon Green’s (Pineapple Express, Your Highness) unnecessary remake of the classic ‘70s horror film Suspiria has just been announced, and it’s a pretty intriguing criss-crossing of varied talent.  The  cast will be lead by 15-year-old The Hunger Games actress Isabelle Fuhrman; in the original film, her character was in her 20s.  The rest of the cast is filled out with stellar actors from such films as The Piano Teacher, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Man of Steel.

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Francis Lawrence has been confirmed as the director of Catching Fire. We told you this was rumored to be happening last month, but now it’s official. Such is the way the industry works now, and how information like this is parsed. We guess that means that everyone had about two weeks to change their minds.

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In what would normally be a sleepy period ramping up to the big summer movies, this weekend showed big numbers from all of the new films with pack leader Think Like a Man  nearly tripling its budget. The Lucky One did well, and even Chimpanzee opened to much bigger numbers than expected. It’s true, you can have a hit any time of the year. Full numbers and analysis after the jump.

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A story of left-turn plot twists just as interesting as anything in the film in question, the ongoing saga of who will and who won’t be directing Catching Fire (the sequel to the mega-successful The Hunger Games) looks to have finally reached its conclusion.  And, like many endings to epic tales, it can’t quite live up to what came before it, and is something of a letdown.

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You can tell it’s April because this week offers little excitement for the young white men who seem to be Hollywood’s primary target. They have to wait a couple weeks for the summer films, but in the meantime there’s The Lucky One with Zac Efron, Chimpanzee with… chimpanzees and Think Like a Man with Kevin Hart and Romany Malco. It’s fair to say none of these films will inspire action figures.

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This was the first weekend since it opened that The Hunger Games was weak enough to be dethroned from the top slot. Fortunately for the film, it’s competition was weak. Perhaps not as weak as originally thought, as The Three Stooges and The Cabin in the Woods exceeded some expectations, whereas Lockout barely opened in the top ten. Check out the numbers…

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This weekend a film that’s been sitting in a can for nearly three years goes up against a reboot of a franchise spawned in the 1920′s, only to have to face deadly Hunger Games competition. Yes, we are in April, and yes, the system is winding down after a record-setting March to deliver odd films that the system never figured out how to sell.

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The loss of Gary Ross as a director of The Hunger Games sequels has been absolutely devastating for devoted fans of burgeoning franchise. As a rabid fan myself (and as a friend of many other rabid fans), I can’t even begin to tell you how crestfallen we are. Ross was truly one of us – an ardent admirer of the series who happened to also don a director’s cap. His respect for the source material was well known, which is why many supporters trusted him with Suzanne Collins’ words. Now, we’re all left scratching our heads and anxious about what’s to come.

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In a back and forth that’s been as tense and harrowing as The Hunger Games itself (ok, not really, but hey, I needed an intro),  ever since the release and wild hyper-success of The Hunger Games films, one of the big questions regarding the film’s planned sequels would be whether or not director Gary Ross would be returning to helm the remainder of the franchise.  First he was out, and then it was reported that he was back in, with rumors spreading that Ross was positioning himself for a higher paycheck.  Well, according to Ross that isn’t true—but what is true is that he won’t be returning for the sequels.

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