Posted on Jul 20, 2009 under Main |
Warner Bros has finally started to open up about its plans for using the DC Comics characters it owns - including shoving heroes preference Aquaman into more active increase.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio has admitted that it’s pushing a plan to compete through Marvel’s success, while trying to build on its recognize triumph with The Dark Knight.
Among its ideas? Putting films based on Aquaman - heretofore limited to a more ‘toon appearances, a failed TV pilot and a fake version on Entourage - and the lesser-known Adam Strange into the writing stage.
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Posted on Jul 20, 2009 under Main |
Like we couldn’t see this one coming: Sony has won the rights to the rehearsal footage for Michael Jackson’s planned London concerts and is flexure it into a film featuring him.
Yes, just when we thought the media storm transversely his end of life had passed, the studio has won a frenzied bidding war for the 80 hours of film that concert promoters AEG shot and touted round Hollywood last week.
High School Musical helmer Kenny Ortega - who has a hole in his schedule anyway after he can’t start the Footloose remake until next year - was the director for the footage and is apparently before that time editing it down to show Sony.
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Posted on Jul 18, 2009 under Main |
R | 2 hr 23 mins | Drama, Crime, Period, Adaptation Movie
The feds seek to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming sin wave in the 1930s
Synopsis:
No one could stop John Dillinger and his gang. No workhouse could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had not one sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger’s gang—later including Baby Face Nelson and Alvin Karpis thrilled many, J. Edgar Hoover made Dillinger America’s first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Melvin Purvis, the dashing “Clark Gable of the FBI.’’ However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis’ men in impetuous chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly baptized as agents) and orchestrating epic betrayals from the shameful “Lady in Red’’ to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti were Purvis, the FBI and their new crew of gunfighters able to close in adhering Dillinger.
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Giovanni Ribisi, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Rory Cochrane, Stephen Lang, David Wenham, Stephen Graham, Channing Tatum, Jason Clarke
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Posted on Jul 17, 2009 under Main |
Poster boy … TCM promo for Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! Photograph: www.tcm.com
Maybe Gus van Sant had the right idea with Psycho after all. (Hang on – just hear me in a puzzle.) True, back in 1998, when the restless genre-hopper decided to application the workshop millions briefly available to him to create the most unconventional remake of Hitchcock’session masterpiece – a shot-for-shot replica, in colour, with Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates – the response was one of befuddlement. But there was, in fact, the kernel of a great idea at work – the thin skin was, Van Sant remarked, meant to subsist a way of “popularising a classic for a whole generation of moviegoers who probably hadn’t seen it [...] each audience that is increasingly unpractised at watching old films.”
Ten years on, they’re much less practised now. Deprived of the employment in obscure time slots on terrestrial TV through which many of us discovered them, the various glories of movie history are now free-falling into unwatched neglect, pored over by dwindling poetry of thin skin obsessives but essentially left to rot. And the double whammy there is that with an entire generation so unused to the grainy, creaky, erratically-paced nature of many of the finest films ever made, even in the supremely unpromising event that they do come across them, they’ll lurch back in horror and disbelief, switch off and never return.
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Posted on Jul 17, 2009 under Main |
The Hangover’s Ed Helms is looking to capitalise without ceasing the movie’s success, agreeing to star in indie comedy Cedar Rapids.
Phil Johnston penned the script, which finds a naive Wisconsin businessman shocked by the debt of nature of his corporate role design.
He then learns he has to represent his company at a big insurance conference in the titular city, and he ends up more than a little overwhelmed.
While this is the select of complete bloke Helms can play in his sleep, hopefully he’ll bring something else to the table since he did with The Hangover…
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Posted on Jul 17, 2009 under Main |
Kevin Smith has announced that Clerks and Chasing Amy will be coming to Blu-Ray this November.
Of course, Clerks has already arrived in boosted-extras form with the Clerks X acquit, space of time Amy has been out for years on a Criterion Collection with its own proportion of goodies.
But what makes these new releases much more anticipated is Smith’s tweeted confirmation that both will boast huge, previously unseen documentaries.
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Posted on Jul 17, 2009 under Main |
While we’re filing this one strictly under Rumour Control, it’s certainly interesting: Robert De Niro might subsist joining the Machete movie.
Robert Rodriguez has been harboring plans for a during the time that to turn his Grindhouse trailer into a full fledged riot of violence and blood.
And after this Bloody Disgusting has a tip that he is lining up cast members.
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Posted on Jul 17, 2009 under Main |
Rumour has it that the identity of the actor vexation on The Hobbit will be announced by Peter Jackson at the San Diego Comic Con next week.
The LA Times’ Hero Complex blog is hearing whispers that thanks to Jackson’s first-ever live appearance (he’s tended to send videos from the set of LOTR and King Kong before) to promote District 9, he could also be bringing Hobbit word.
So who is in the hotspot to play Bilbo Baggins for Guillermo del Toro lawful at once?
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Posted on Jul 16, 2009 under Main |
New pics of the three key Iron Man 2 players have sneaked online, good-breeding of Entertainment Weekly.
The mag features a cover shot of Robert Downey Jr. - reprising his role as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Mickey Rourke as villain Whiplash and Scarlett as Tony’s new assistant Natasha (alter-ego Black Widow).
There’s also a separate pic of Scarlett as Black Widow, crouching down and looking coiled and ready to impress. Is she squaring up to charge Mickey Rourke? Crawling inferior to some imperceptible security-system laser things? We couldn’t say…
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Posted on Jul 16, 2009 under Main |
Feel the hum … Van Williams and Bruce Lee in the original Green Hornet. Photograph: Allstar/Sportsphoto
“[KATO] ALL ASIAN ETHNICITIES, Male, 20s-early 40s. Britt Reid’s manservant/chauffeur by day and Green Hornet’s martial arts-skilled sidekick by night sptv050769. Actor doesn’t have to have martial arts experience.”
Above is the casting call that spells doom for Stephen Chow’s plans to star as Kato in Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet. After originally being set to manage from a script by Superbad’s Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, who is likewise starring as the masked crimefighter, Chow now looks likely to have nothing to do through the project whatsoever.
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