Big news for fans of the X-Men graphic novels and film franchise—director Bryan Singer, who is currently at work on X-Men: Days of Future Past (the film that will bridge the original film series to the new X-Men: First Class continuity via time travel and alternate timelines), has announced the addition of a few classic X-Men characters...
The cast of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is still coming together, and the producers have once again managed to surprise us with their choice. British actress Ophelia Lovibond has been cast to play a character that appears to be closely tied with The Collector (possibly his aide). She'll be joining Michael Rooker, Dave Bautista, Chris Pratt, and Zoe Saldana.
The prospective remake of 1994’s The Crow (itself an adaptation of the 1989 graphic novel by James O’Barr) has certainly gone through a number of leading man iterations over the past three years—in 2010, it was reported that Mark Wahlberg was in talks to star as the undead hero of the story, and then news broke that he wasn’t. In 2011, it was Bradley...
Interview With A Vampire director Neil Jordan made another film about vampires, this time starring young actresses Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan. Based on the newly-released trailer, it seems like he's going to deliver another chilling vampire tale. You can watch a preview of the film below. Also, the first poster for Spike Lee's Oldboy was released this week. The film...
Since The Amazing Spider-Man’s release, we’ve been more than a little skeptical of The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s choice in villains—after all, if the first film could turn classic villain the Lizard into a goofy CGI monster stomping around New York with a comically erudite British accent, how poorly translated would Electro, a man whose body can conduct thousands of...
Action fans both rejoice and take heed. It appears that Sylvester Stallone has cast Wesley Snipes in the next Expendables movie, and that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson may not be able to appear in Fast and Furious 7. So they give and they take.
Michael Bay's Pain & Gain is around the corner, and the marketing team behind the buddy movie is stepping up their game. This week, Paramount released two new clips (which are both awesome and ridiculous). Also, it's been announced that The Walking Dead's former showrunner Glen Mazzara might be the one who writes the prequel to The Shining. We also have the official...
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar—the project he took over after Steven Spielberg moved on, in which explorers who travel into a wormhole launch “a heroic interstellar voyage to the furthest borders of our scientific understanding”— is coming together at a relatively quick clip. Yesterday, we noted that Nolan is already discussing Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space...
The following news item is one of three things—an example of a great television show jumping the shark, fans of a program that’s ending desperately deluding themselves into believing it will carry on in spinoff format, or some kind of misdirection by the makers of Breaking Bad to throw us off an upcoming supporting character death (specifically, Saul’s). Those are the only...
Bradley Cooper is a very busy man. He's set to star in David O. Russell's next project, and has also been cast in Cameron Crowe's upcoming (and still untitled) film. But that's not stopping him from saving Jane Got A Gun. The western project has gone through a lot of changes this past month; Jude Law was the latest to quit the project. But word is Cooper is stepping to save the day....
When a movie is titled Hercules 3D, you know it’s going to be a dynamite piece of excellent entertainment, and not some hack-y action movie saddled with some kind of visual gimmick that forces filmgoers to pay extra for a ticket. And when said film is also directed by master director Renny Harlin (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Die Hard 2, Cutthroat...
Universal has just debuted an action-packed trailer for 2 Guns, which features Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington as pair of quarreling buddies. The film, directed by Baltasar Kormakur, is hitting theaters this summer. (The movie nearly slipped under us.) Also, we got some important updates on Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel. (Hint: You might be able to...
OK, so just in case the headline wasn’t enough prep, here’s the deal—the following will contain SPOILERS concerning the upcoming Superman film by Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan, Man of Steel. Everyone clear on that? Spoilers!
Matthew McConaughey has had something of a charmed time lately—the actor has evolved from playing the smirking lead in the kind of smarmy romantic comedies that are now populated by Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl to starring in such films as Magic Mike, Mud, Bernie, and Killer Joe. It’s been a bizarre and abrupt transition, but one...
As superhero films and comic book adaptations continue their dominion over the domestic and international box office, we’re hit with a daily deluge of news items about the latest in comic book movie news. To help make sense of it all, we’ve broken down some of the day’s bigger superhero news items into bite-sized bits for you.
When rumors of an Escape from New York reboot began a few years ago, Gerard Butler was the actor being considered to star as Snake Plissken, the dark anti-hero originally and indelibly portrayed by Kurt Russell. At the time, Russell stated the casting wouldn’t work as Snake, a quintessentially American character, needed an American actor. Fast forward to this...
Last week, we reported that Blue Mountain State star Alan Ritchson had been cast to star (i.e., be motion-captured to portray a CGI character) as Raphael in Michael Bay’s upcoming Ninja Turtles, a reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Now, we have the rest of the turtles—that’s right,...
Here’s a fascinating case of an actor wildly mis-reading a script: in 2011, news broke that Quentin Tarantino wanted Will Smith to star as the titular character in his pre-Civil War era spaghetti western, Django Unchained. Which made sense, in a way—Tarantino has a knack for oddball casting, and Will Smith starring in an actual good film is as odd as it gets these days (plus, as...
When The Fast and the Furious was released in 2001, it was a harmless (and brainless) rip-off of Point Break featuring cars being driven really fast. Somehow, that film’s success has been parlayed into several sequels, with Fast & Furious 6 being released on May 24th this year. That six movies, gang, about muscle-y mid-level actors driving cars a lot...
James Franco and Seth Rogen might be reuniting for another movie, titled The Interview. Once again, they'll be playing buddies who get caught up in a murder, except this one will be a lot more high profile. The film would constitute as Rogen's second directorial effort. Also, Legendary Pictures released new Pacific Rim photos. And College Humor...
