Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” is a sumptuous visual feast for the moviegoer this summer. With a $104 million dollar budget, Luhrmann and his wife, Oscar-winning set designer Catherine Martin, have created a visually unique movie. A daring mix of old and new, this interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel has created quite a buzz offering a new look at the Roaring Twenties. Continue reading
The sequel that was rumored to be in the works years ago in back in the news. James Bobin, the director of 2011’s The Muppets and next year’s The Muppets… Again!, has been reported to be in talks to helm the sequel to the 2010 Tim Burton blockbuster Alice in Wonderland, currently titled Into the Looking Glass. Continue reading
Glenn Close has officially joined the cast of the Marvel Studios film, Guardians of the Galaxy. Close will play the leading member of the intergalactic Nova Corps according to a report from Deadline. Close, whose big screen credits range from The World According to Garp to 101 Dalmatians to Mars Attacks! is also well-known for television appearances including recently headlining the television series “Damages” over five seasons.
Part of Marvel Studios’ “Phase Two,” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy features a script from Gunn, Chris McCoy and Nicole Periman. It follows an unlikely cast of characters who must team up in order to defeat a cosmic force of epic proportions. Continue reading
Robert Schwentke, the director behind the films, RED and R.I.P.D., is reportedly in talks to direct Walt Disney Pictures’ The Finest Hours according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Touglas and was originally published in 2009. Continue reading
The already star-studded cast of Inherent Vice adds another big name by way of Josh Brolin in an undisclosed role. Paul Thomas Anderson’s big screen adaptation of the 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel currently features big names such as Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon and, likely, Sean Penn. Continue reading
Last year, the self-help book turned comedy movie, Think Like A Man, hit theaters and now the sequel has been optioned by Screen Gems and has begun production. Think Like A Man Too finds all the couples back for a wedding in Las Vegas but the romantic plans go inevitably awry (don’t they always?) when the various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event. Continue reading
A brand new banner for the upcoming film, Kick-Ass 2, has just been revealed online by Universal. After the events of the first film. The insane bravery of Kick-Ass, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusader led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes, played Jim Carrey. Our hero decides to join them on patrol. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist, the role reprised by Christopher Mintz-Plasse, though reborn as The Mother F%&*^r. Only the blade-wielding Hit Girl, also reprised by Chloë Grace Moretz can prevent their annihilation. Continue reading
Adorable nugget who I want to make out with, Evan Peters, has officially joined the cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past as Magneto’s son, Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver.Director Bryan Singer revealed the news via his Twitter feed after news broke from Joss Whedon that Quicksilver and his sister, Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, both have roles in his script for Marvel’s The Avengers 2. Continue reading
The popular Dark Horse Comics series, “Timecop” is set to be adapted for the big screen one more time according to The Hollywood Reporter. Universal Pictures is adapting the franchise to reboot it for film with Marc Shmuger and Tom McNulty producing.
“Timecop” was previously adapted back in 1994 with Jean-Claude Van Damme in the lead. That feature version featured a script by the character’s creators, Dark Horse President Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden. The film was a hit among filmgoers and sic-fi lovers. Continue reading
“The God of Driving: How I Overcame Fear and Put Myself in the Driver’s Seat (with the Help of a Good and Mysterious Man),” by Vanity Fair special correspondent Amy Fine Collins, has been officially optioned by the film production and finance company Dignity Film Finance (DFF). The novel was first published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster.
Casting is currently underway with the project set to start shooting in Spring 2014. Sales will launch at Berlin 2014. Continue reading