Jamie Foxx Says Martin Scorsese Will Direct His Mike Tyson Biopic By Germain Lussier/March 13, 2015 10:30 am EST Jamie Foxx has been preparing to play boxing legend Mike Tyson for sometime. We heard Terence Winter, writer of Boardwalk Empire and The Wolf of Wall Street, was scripting and Tyson himself had given his blessing. Well now, in a new interview, Foxx dropped a both surprising, and not-so-surprising, piece of news....
Kenneth Branagh Also Starring In Fox’s ‘Murder On The Orient Express’ Remake By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 21, 2015 10:00 am EST Deadline has news of Branagh putting on another hat for this production that counts Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg (The Martian), and Mark Gordon (Steve Jobs) as producers with a script from Michael Green, who also wrote the forthcoming Blade Runner 2 screenplay. For those unfamiliar with the story, a train is stranded during a terrible snowstorm when suddenly a fellow passenger is murdered, leaving Detective Poirot (Branagh) to determine who the murderer is, which proves to be difficult when several of the passengers could have had a motive and opportunity to commit the crime....
Martin Scorsese And William Monahan May Jump An ‘Evel Knievel’ Movie Into Your Local Theater By Jacob Hall/Nov. 24, 2015 9:00 am EST Someone in Hollywood is going to make an Evel Knievel movie and one of our great living filmmakers is going to be sucked into the project. For awhile, it looked like that would be Darren Aronofksy, with Channing Tatum putting on that famous jacket for Sony. But Aronofksy then departed the project to make a movie with Jennifer Lawrence and an Arnold Schwarzenegger revenge film....
Michael Stuhlbarg Outlines ‘Steve Jobs’ Unusual Rehearsal And Shooting Process By Angie Han/Aug. 24, 2015 2:00 pm EST We’ve already known Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs would break the typical biopic mold. The film reportedly consists of just three major scenes, each set at a product launch, with a small handful of flashbacks to help fill out the rest of the story. Now actor Michael Stuhlbarg reveals the project’s atypical structure extended to the process of making the movie as well....
Scarlett Johansson Heads To TV With ‘The Custom Of The Country’ By Angie Han/Oct. 8, 2014 8:30 am EST Scarlett Johansson has really kept us guessing with her career choices over the past few years. One minute she’s starring in an experimental indie about a man-eating alien; the next, she’s co-headlining a massive blockbuster. Now she’s mixing things up again with a stint on TV. Johansson is set to star in and executive produce The Custom of the Country, envisioned as a miniseries for cable....
Simon West’s ‘Blob’ Remake Will Give The Blob More Backstory By Germain Lussier/March 10, 2015 1:00 pm EST A few months back, news broke that Con Air director Simon West was going to be remaking The Blob. It sounded like a smart move as The Blob is a horror franchise that’s somehow simultaneously incredibly well-known, but also not incredibly popular. Everyone has heard of it and knows the premise just based on the title, but the number of people who actually champion the films is much smaller....
Superhero Bits: Fantastic Four, Jessica Jones, Arrow, Luke Cage, Flash, Ant-Man, Arkham Knight By Angie Han/July 31, 2015 4:00 pm EST Wanna learn how to make your own Ant-Man costume? (Shrinking technology not included.) Marvel Universe LIVE! (not to be confused with Marvel Experience) will tour for a second year. A Batman: Arkham Knight mod lets you play as Alfred. The Fantastic Four cast wants to battle the Silver Surfer and face off against the X-Men....
VOTD: What Are The Differences Between ‘The Martian’ Book And Movie? By Ethan Anderton/March 2, 2016 4:00 pm EST Even though The Martian was quite the crowd-pleasing, critically acclaimed film last year, it went home empty-handed at the 88th Academy Awards Sunday night. But it’s still a worthwhile film, and definitely one of my favorites from 2015, even if it didn’t make my Top 10. In case you didn’t know, The Martian is based on Andy Weir’s book of the same name, and as is the case with any adaptation of a book, there are some differences between the source material and the film....
Wong Kar-Wai Will Direct ‘Blossoms’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2015 3:15 pm EST Wong Kar-Wai was going to make The Ferryman as the follow-up to his movie The Grandmaster, but things changed, and now he’ll direct something else. While Wong remains attached to The Ferryman as a producer, he’ll put his real energy behind a film called Blossoms. Just as The Ferryman will be an adaptation of a short story, Blossoms is an adaptation of short stories by Jin Yucheng, set in Shanghai....
‘Angelica’ Trailer: Jena Malone Gets Haunted In New Film From ‘Teeth’ Director By Angie Han/Jan. 29, 2015 3:30 pm EST Teeth director Mitchell Lichtenstein is back with a very different kind of horror story. Based on the novel by Arthur Phillips, Angelica stars Jena Malone as a wife and mother haunted by spirits in Victorian England. The Angelica trailer is full of the shadows, bumps, and ominous warnings typical of the genre, but there’s a psychosexual bent to it that should keep things interesting....
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Will Have All The Superheroes, But What About ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’? By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 10, 2016 10:00 am EST There’s a big shockwave that will be sent through the Marvel cinematic universe once Captain America: Civil War arrives in a few months. But it sounds like that will be nothing compared to what’s in store when Avengers: Infinity War hits theaters in 2018. We already know that Civil War is packed with plenty of Avengers, but Infinity War promises to be even bigger, and Anthony and Joe Russo promise that fans “will not be disappointed in the amount of characters in the movie....
‘Fantastic Mr. Foxcatcher’ Trailer Makes Things Weird For Wes Anderson’s Animated Film By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2014 1:30 pm EST Foxcatcher is getting a lot of attention for its tone, its performances, and Steve Carell’s nose. But that title proved to be irresistable for one editor, and now we can show you something that was probably inevitable. Fantastic Mr. Foxcatcher is exactly what you think it might be: a mash-up of the trailers for Foxcatcher and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr....
‘High-Rise’ Trailer: Be Prepared For Moderate Resistance By Jack Giroux/March 15, 2016 2:00 pm EST High-Rise started dividing audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival. I was lucky enough to see Ben Wheatley’s (Kill List) adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel a few short weeks later at Fantastic Fest, where it was embraced more warmly by festivalgoers. High-Rise is far from a movie for everyone, and it’s better for it. Watch the latest High-Rise trailer below....
‘Interstellar’ Returns To IMAX For One Night With 12 Minutes Of BTS Footage By Germain Lussier/Feb. 16, 2015 8:45 am EST Fans who want one final chance to see Christopher Nolan’s latest film on the big screen will get that this weekend. Paramount is releasing the multiple Oscar-nominee Interstellar to select AMC IMAX Theaters on February 21. The screenings will take place at 3 p.m. local time and feature “more than 12 minutes of never-before-seen exclusive behind-the-scenes content....
‘Justice League Dark’ Getting A Straight-To-DVD Animated Movie By Ethan Anderton/June 8, 2016 6:30 am EST There have been rumblings of a Justice League Dark movie in the works since as far back as 2012. Director Guillermo del Toro was once supposed to be behind the camera for an assembly of DC Comics characters such as Constantine, Swamp Thing, Jason Blood/The Demon, Madame Xanadu and Anton Arcane, but he ended up falling away from the project nearly a year ago....
‘Lord Of The Rings’ Fans Crowdfunding Billions To Build Lifesize Minas Tirith In England By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2015 2:30 pm EST Much to the chagrin of fantasy fans, Middle Earth is not a real location. While you can visit certain areas of New Zealand where shooting locations from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies have been turned into tourist attractions, it’s just not the same, and a lot of fans can’t afford to fly over there....
‘Morgan’ Trailer: Scientists Play God, With Predictably Horrifying Results By Angie Han/June 27, 2016 7:00 am EST Anya Taylor-Joy came seemingly out of nowhere to wow audiences in The Witch earlier this year. It was the kind of star-making performance that had us dying to see where she’d end up next, and luckily we haven’t had to wait too long for an answer. Taylor-Joy will be seen this fall in Morgan, a sci-fi thriller that marks the directorial debut of Luke Scott (son of Ridley Scott, who gets a producer credit)....
‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Revival Now The Largest Crowd-Funded Project Ever By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 12, 2015 11:00 am EST For the past month, we’ve been reporting on the progress of a Kickstarter campaign to bring back the cult favorite, movie-mocking TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000. Creator Joel Hodgson started an ambitious crowd-fund campaign to raise $5.5 million in order to produce 12 new episodes of the show with a whole new cast, and last night the campaign ended with even more good news than expected....
‘Powers’ Trailer: Sharlto Copley Isn’t Coping With Being Normal By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2014 7:18 pm EST Here’s the first Powers trailer, giving us the first really good look at the PlayStation Network adaptation of the comic book series from Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. In the show, Sharlto Copley and Susan Heyward star as Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, two cops who specialize in cases involving “powers,” or people with superhuman abilities....
‘The 5th Wave’ Trailer: Chloë Grace Moretz Battles Aliens By Angie Han/Sept. 15, 2015 6:30 am EST If aliens were going to invade Earth, you could do worse than pin your hopes on Chloë Grace Moretz. The former Hit-Girl leads The 5th Wave as Cassie, a teen girl trying to survive in a world that’s been torn apart by alien attacks — four waves of them, in fact, with a fifth one on the way....
