uk cinemas listings

UK Cinemas

Cinema listings with film information and movie reviews

Entertainments Search:

UK Information » UK Cinemas » Film & Cinema news » News Headline Archives » News for December 2012

Film & Cinema news

News for December 2012

Jay-Z Confirmed To Score Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby
Both full-length trailers for Baz Luhrmann's currently delayed The Great Gatsby have been marked by the studio's music selections (which, we have to assume, the director himself approved).
From: Cinema Blend 31/12/2012

Quentin Tarantino Talks The Music Of Django Unchained In New Soundtrack Commentary
The movies that Quentin Tarantino writes and directs are special in their own right, but typically just as special are his soundtracks.
From: Cinema Blend 31/12/2012

Listen To Unreleased Portions Of Jonny Greenwood's Score For The Master
I'm not entirely sure how, but it would seem that New Year's Eve 2012, at least when it comes to movie news, it's all about remembering some of the best film soundtracks of the year.
From: Cinema Blend 31/12/2012

Oscar Nominations Voting Extended To January 4th
Working as a film critic/reporter you realize something about the movie industry: it never stops. At least one new feature, if not five, is put into theaters nationwide every week of the year, and that's not even counting all of the indies, small releases, VOD, and international titles. Hundreds if not thousands of movies come out every single year and you just have to do your best to see as many as you can.
From: Cinema Blend 31/12/2012

Maggie Gyllenhaal Is Joining Michael Fassbender In Lenny Abrahamson's Upcoming Comedy Frank
The Dark Knight damsel and the X-Men nemesis are putting aside their respective comic book characters to play leading roles in a new rockstar comedy.
From: Screenrush 31/12/2012

Maggie Gyllenhaal On For Frank She's joined the comedy
Ah, the old story of a chunk of casting revealed by a local paper bringing word of filming plans (and spotted by The Film Stage). In this case, the movie is Lenny Abrahamson's Frank, and the casting in question relates to Maggie Gyllenhaal.
From: Empire Online 30/12/2012

Western Veteran Harry Carey Jr dies at 91
Legendary veteran Western actor Harry Carey Jr has passed away ay the age of 91. Carey was born on May 16, 1921 and in 1946 after leaving the Navy became an actor.
From: Film-News 30/12/2012

R.I.P. Irving Saraf
Academy award winning filmmaker Irving Saraf died December 26 at his home in San Francisco. Saraf, 80, succumbed to ALS, which he battled for the last three years. He is the father of Peter Saraf, producer of such films as Little Miss Sunshine and partner with Marc Turtletaub in the film financier/production company Big Beach.
From: Deadline 30/12/2012

OSCARS: Striving For "Factual Realism" In 'Les Miserables' Production Design
It's not likely that any of the 60 million theatergoers who saw the musical LesMisérables would have thought the stage production limiting,
From: Deadline 29/12/2012

OSCARS Q&A: Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman has carved out an image as a major movie star who can easily switch gears from action to drama to comedy and all things in between.
From: Deadline 29/12/2012

Quentin Tarantino Says He Could Complete His Revenge Trilogy With Killer Crow
Quentin Tarantino is famous for talking about projects that are never going to happen. After it was revealed that Vincent Vega (John Travolta) from Pulp Fiction and Vic Vega (Michael Madsen) from Reservoir Dogs were siblings there was talk of a Vega Brothers movie that never managed to get off the ground.
From: Cinema Blend 28/12/2012

Giveaway: Win A Copy Of Looper Along With A Badass Pocket Watch
Rian Johnson's Looper crossed time travel with action sequences and extremely smart writing in a low budget sci fi flick that never feels as if it were made for little money.
From: Cinema Blend 28/12/2012

OSCARS Q&A: Ann Dowd
Although Ann Dowd has been working regularly in theater, film, and TV for more than two decades, this year marks a decided breakthrough for the actress.
From: Deadline 28/12/2012

Quentin Tarantino To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Rome Film Fest
Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained had been rumored as a surprise addition to November's Rome Film Festival, but it never materialized on the roster.
From: Deadline 28/12/2012

Katie Holmes' 'Dead Accounts' Ending Broadway Run Early
Dead Accounts, in which Katie Holmes co-stars, is closing on January 6, nearly two months early, according to media reports.
From: Deadline 28/12/2012

Fleming Q&A's David O. Russell On 'Silver Linings Playbook'
Talk about a high degree of difficulty. David O. Russell, trying to find laughs in a love story where one of his Silver Linings Playbook protagonists is bipolar and fresh from a stint in a mental institution, and the other is freshly widowed with more than a few problems of her own.
From: Deadline 28/12/2012

New Trance Pics Online A look at Danny Boyle's latest
Not only did Danny Boyle do the country proud with a dazzling Olympic opening ceremony this year, he's also found the time to work on another film, psychological heist thriller Trance. Some new pictures from the film have arrived at USA Today and can be seen in the gallery further down the page.
From: Empire Online 27/12/2012

Project X And Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Top 2012 Most Pirated Movies List
From a domestic box office perspective, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and The Hunger Games were the winners in 2012, with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 and Skyfall coming in fourth and fifth respectively.
From: Cinema Blend 27/12/2012

Christoph Waltz Might Still Cameo In The Muppets Sequel
The idea of Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds standout Christoph Waltz in a Muppets movie was so unusual that minute we heard it was a possibility, we immediately wanted it to happen.
From: Cinema Blend 27/12/2012

Paul Thomas Anderson Hopes To Shoot Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice In 2013
While Paul Thomas Anderson started his career making films at a rapid pace - releasing Hard Eight, Boogie Nights and Magnolia in the span of three years, the last decade has seen his speed slow considerably.
From: Cinema Blend 27/12/2012

Thunderbirds & Captain Scarlet Creator Gerry Anderson Has Died
Sad news this week as Gerry Anderson, creator of iconic shows such as Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Stingray and, of course, Thunderbirds.
From: Screenrush 27/12/2012

Kate Winslet weds third husband Ned Rocknroll in private ceremony
Oscar-winning actor given away in New York by Leonardo DiCaprio, her co-star in Titanic and Revolutionary Road.
From: The Guardian - Film News 27/12/2012

Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson dies aged 83
Animator behind popular puppet TV shows Captain Scarlet, Stingray and Joe 90 died in his sleep, his son announces
From: The Guardian - Film News 26/12/2012

J.J. Abrams Says He Turned Down Involvement In Star Wars Episode VII
To say that hopes and expectations for the anticipated Star Wars sequels are high would probably be something of an understatement. Fans of the beloved sci-fi franchise are waiting for word on who will direct them.
From: Cinema Blend 26/12/2012

Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel Adds Tilda Swinton And Harvey Keitel
Tilda Swinton and Harvey Keitel had small but important roles in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, but apparently they had a great time working on the project because they are getting set to do more with the writer/director.
From: Cinema Blend 26/12/2012

Natalie Portman Named Forbes' Best Actor For The Buck
Natalie Portman's only film appearance in 2012 came as a still photograph in Joss Whedon's The Avengers the actress dedicating her time to raising her newborn child but her hiatus came after a period of being just about everywhere.
From: Cinema Blend 26/12/2012

Star Wars Fans Building Full-Size Millennium Falcon In Tennessee
I was an avid builder when I was a kid, playing with Legos, rockets, model airplanes and Lincoln Logs, but when Star Wars entered my life it completely dominated the arena.
From: Cinema Blend 26/12/2012

Hollywood Titans Charles Durning and Jack Klugman both die on Christmas Eve
Hollywood has lost two of America's best known and loved actors this holiday break with the death of both Charles Durning and Jack Klugman on Christmas Eve.
From: Film-News 26/12/2012

Leonardo DiCaprio really bled for his Django Unchained part
Now that Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is out in theaters, people are commenting on a scene in the film where Leonardo DiCaprio shed his real blood for the role of slave plantation owner Calvin Candie.
From: Coming Attractions 26/12/2012

Quincy and The Odd Couple star Jack Klugman dies, aged 90
Actor best known for playing languorous sportswriter and earnest coroner dies at his home, with family by his side.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/12/2012

Film challenges extremism by and against British Muslims
Combinations - featuring Olympic torch bearer and boxing trainer Imran Naeem - delivers blows against online propaganda.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/12/2012

Composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies aged 76
Versatile musician was equally at home writing jazz and film scores as music for the concert hall.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/12/2012

Charles Durning Passes Away At 89
Charles Durning, who worked in Hollywood for nearly six full decades working on over 200 titles, has passed away at the age of 89.
From: Cinema Blend 25/12/2012

First Look At Sharlto Copley In Elysium Playing the film's villain Kruger
A few weeks ago we mentioned we'd spoken to Sharlto Copley for reasons we preferred to keep mysterious.
From: Empire Online 24/12/2012

Chicago to become third longest running Broadway show ever
With that performance at the historic Ambassador Theatre, CHICAGO surpassed the original Broadway production of Les Miserables to become the third longest-running show in Broadway history.
From: Film-News 24/12/2012

Chad Michael Murray Will Be Left Behind He's set to join Nicolas Cage
We were already reeling somewhat from the news back in October that Nic Cage and stunt veteran Vic Armstrong would be working on a new adaptation of the post-Rapture thriller novels in the Left Behind series.
From: Empire Online 23/12/2012

Hugh Jackman Confirms One Of The X-Men Will Cameo In The Wolverine
That's the thing about the X-Men movie franchise: You never know which mutant is going to show up.
From: Cinema Blend 23/12/2012

Star Trek Villain Specifics Shared By J.J. Abrams And Benedict Cumberbatch
The internet has speculated and speculated (and speculated some more) about the villain Benedict Cumberbatch is playing in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness.
From: Cinema Blend 23/12/2012

CIA Director Reminds Us Zero Dark Thirty Isn't A Documentary
In case you were wondering why Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty isn't on the short list of eligible documentaries in this year's Academy Awards race, it's because the director's intense, seemingly thorough procedural on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden isn't actually a documentary at all.
From: Cinema Blend 23/12/2012

Endemol India ropes in Sekhar Kammula for Kahaani remake
After announcing the remake of Bollywood blockbuster Kahaani in Tamil and Telugu, Endemol India and Select Media Holdings Pvt. Ltd have roped in critically acclaimed film maker Sekhar Kammula to direct the film for the South market.
From: Film-News 23/12/2012

OSCARS: The "Very Specific World" Of 'Silver Linings Playbook'
The least saleable aspect of David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook is also one of its central themes: obsession.
From: Deadline 23/12/2012

OSCARS Q&A: Grant Heslov
Having a script that everyone loves doesn't always ensure the quickest path to production. Just ask Argo producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Pictures.
From: Deadline 23/12/2012

R.I.P. Jerry Virnig
Industry veteran Jerry Virnig, former president of independent film lab CFI, died on Thursday from natural causes. He was 80. Virnig was a graduate of USC and joined CFI in 1966 as an assistant in the public relations department.
From: Deadline 23/12/2012

OSCARS Q&A: Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson is a genuine auteur, a writer/director who works when he wants, makes what he wants, and is considered now to be one of the film industry's true talents.
From: Deadline 22/12/2012

'Les Misérables' Starts International Run By Beating 'The Hobbit' In Japan & Korea
Universal opened its big holiday musical Les Misérables first overseas this weekend before it hits North America on Christmas Day.
From: Deadline 22/12/2012

Oscar Singles Out Nine Foreign-Language Films For Consideration
Oh, how I wish every major category at the Oscars gradually whittled down which movies were eligible for an Academy Award.
From: Cinema Blend 21/12/2012

Les Miserables Movie Soundtrack Available For Purchase And Download
Those who just can't wait until Tuesday to see Les Miserables when it arrives in theaters for its Christmas release might find the soundtrack for the film to be a perfect way to pass the time between now and then. The album is now available for purchase and download.
From: Cinema Blend 21/12/2012

Kristen Stewart Confirms She'll Be Back For The Snow White And The Huntsman Sequel
Over the last six months or so there has been some confusion about whether or not Kristen Stewart would return for the sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman.
From: Cinema Blend 21/12/2012

Vin Diesel Moving Forward With His Hannibal The Conqueror Trilogy
Vin Diesel has been trying for years to make another Riddick movie, and just this week it was announced that Universal Pictures is planning to release the film next fall. But now another one of Diesel's long-awaited passion projects is finally getting somewhere
From: Cinema Blend 21/12/2012

Cars Spinoff Planes Gets A 2013 Release Date
You probably know that the Cars universe has been extremely lucrative for the Walt Disney Company.
From: Cinema Blend 21/12/2012

Milo Ventimiglia To Star In And Produce Adaptation Of 'How Soon Is Never?'
Milo Ventimiglia is set to produce and star in the indie film adaptation of Marc Spitz's autobiographical novel How Soon Is Never? As its title suggests, the story has a connection to seminal 1980s band The Smiths.
From: Deadline 21/12/2012

OSCARS: Nine Films Make Foreign Language Shortlist
Last weekend, I profiled 15 films that were generating the most buzz ahead of the compilation of the Academy's shortlist for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar category.
From: Deadline 21/12/2012

Angelina Jolie set to direct second world war drama
Joile's second outing as director will tell real-life story of air force officer who survived on raft for 47 days after plane crash.
From: The Guardian - Film News 20/12/2012

John McCain criticises Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of torture
Former Republican presidential candidate says Kathryn Bigelow's film about hunt for Bin Laden is 'grossly inaccurate'
From: The Guardian - Film News 20/12/2012

After Earth Official Site Offers Details On Jaden Smith's Character And An Ark Invitation
Earlier this month, we saw the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming sci-fi adventure film After Earth. While we still have until June to wait for the film to arrive in theaters, the website for the movie gives us a bit more information about Jaden Smith's character.
From: Cinema Blend 20/12/2012

Damon Lindelof Says He Won't Be Involved With A Prometheus Sequel
Damon Lindelof took a beating after Prometheus. Some, myself included, would say it was an unfair slamming. Yet, when Sir Ridley Scott's supposed Alien prequel arrived with more questions than answers, the rally cry mounted by anonymous ranters on Twitter and in message boards was similar to the overheated "George Lucas raped my childhood" statements that followed the Star Wars prequel trilogies.
From: Cinema Blend 20/12/2012

Luke Skywalker May Not Be Creating A Jedi Academy In Star Wars Episode VII After All
It seemed strange that a writer over at Reuters would have an inside track about what Star Wars Episode VII would be about, so this rumor debunking story should come as a surprise to few.
From: Cinema Blend 20/12/2012

Will Loki Be Back For The Avengers 2?
We already know that Loki will play a part in next year's Thor: The Dark World, even though the "Big Bad" villain will actually be Malekith, the leader of the dark elves played by Christopher Eccleston.
From: Cinema Blend 20/12/2012

Lincoln Screens Before The U.S. Senate
One of the many advantages of being President of the United States of America is that you can request special screenings of movies that interest you, since a POTUS trip to a movie theater is literally a national security concern. Senators, however, are not often so lucky as to get private screenings of big releases.
From: Cinema Blend 20/12/2012

Anchorman sequel release date confirmed
A release date for Anchorman: The Legend Continues has been announced. The follow-up to the hit 2004 movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy starring Will Ferrell will hit cinemas in the US on December 20 2013.
From: Film-News 20/12/2012

Ricky Gervais Will Replace Jason Segel As The New Lead In The Muppets Sequel
He'll star alongside Ty Burrell in the follow-up to the 2011 hit reboot.
From: Screenrush 20/12/2012

The Black List 2012 Has Been Released: Which Screenplays Make The Cut?
Check out the best screenplays that didn't become movies this year.
From: Screenrush 20/12/2012

Post-White House, Business Is Good For Kal Penn
After taking a risk and putting his career on hold for a year to work in the Obama White House, Harold & Kumar's Kal Penn has regained his stride nicely.
From: Deadline 20/12/2012

Kristen Wiig Film 'Imogene' Gets New Title And July 19th Release Date
Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions, which made one of the splashiest deals at the last Toronto Film Festival in acquiring U.S. distribution rights to the Kristen Wiig-Annette Bening-starrer Imogene, has set the film for a July 19 nationwide release.
From: Deadline 20/12/2012

Summit Puts 'Red' Scribes Jon And Erich Hoeber On Female-Centric Actioner
After scripting Red and seeing it hit as an action comedy built around an aging cast, Jon and Erich Hoeber have been set by Summit Entertainment for another action comedy. This one doesn't have a title, but I'm told it's a female-centric Ocean's Eleven-esque action film that originally was set up as a pitch by David Weisberg & Douglas Cook.
From: Deadline 20/12/2012

'Blancanieves' To Open Palm Springs Film Festival
Spanish director Pablo Berger's re-imagining of the Snow White fairytale Blancanieves will kick off the Palm Springs Film Festival on January 3. The festival's closing-night presentation January 13 will be Paul Andrew Williams' Unfinished Song starring Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave.
From: Deadline 20/12/2012

2012 Black List unveils best unproduced screenplays
List of scripts yet to be made into films includes biopics of Sam Peckinpah, Hillary Clinton and Marlon Brando.
From: The Guardian - Film News 19/12/2012

Bret Easton Ellis apologises to Kathryn Bigelow for 'hot woman' tweet
Author and screenwriter says sorry for suggesting The Hurt Locker director only won Oscars because she was 'a hot woman'.
From: The Guardian - Film News 19/12/2012

Emma Thompson wins Effie lawsuit
Film about love triangle between John Ruskin, Effie Gray and John Everett Millais to go ahead after US court clears Thompson of plagiarism.
From: The Guardian - Film News 19/12/2012

Hugh Jackman On For Days Of Future Past Singer confirms Wolverine's attendance
It had been strongly hinted at in late November, but now it's been officially confirmed by Bryan Singer himself: Wolverine (as played by Hugh Jackman) will appear in the sequel to X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days Of Future Past.
From: Empire Online 19/12/2012

Joe Roth Signs For New Teen Fantasy Daughter Of Smoke And Bone on its way
Acclaimed novel Daughter Of Rust And Bone is another young adult tale shaping up to follow The Hunger Games and, soon, The Mortal Instruments onto the big screen.
From: Empire Online 19/12/2012

Angelina Jolie Gets Unbroken In talks to direct first studio picture
While the rest of us are wrapping things and trying to figure out which one of the fairy lights is up the wazoo this time, Saint Angelina of Jolie is hard at work with movie business.
From: Empire Online 19/12/2012

Quentin Tarantino On His Luke Cage Movie
In a parallel universe, Quentin Tarantino directed a Luke Cage comic book movie, with Laurence Fishburne as the titular Hero For Hire and the film coming out at around the same Pulp Fiction did in our version of reality.
From: Empire Online 19/12/2012

The Avengers Almost Had Wasp Instead Of Black Widow, Joss Whedon Wanted A Second Villain
With the possible exception of his tendency to kill off beloved characters, the story element that writer/director/showrunner Joss Whedon is best known for is strong female leads.
From: Cinema Blend 19/12/2012

Riddick Finally Finds A Release Date Next Fall
It's been nearly a decade since we last saw Vin Diesel slap on a pair of round goggles and go around space being called Riddick, but that streak is coming to an end.
From: Cinema Blend 19/12/2012

The Matrix And Breakfast At Tiffany's Added To National Film Registry
If you want to, you could probably put together a pretty strong argument in favor of abandoning the National Film Registry.
From: Cinema Blend 19/12/2012

Tom Hardy Tops List Of 2012's Biggest Movie Stars
Who were the biggest stars of 2012? Well, a lot of that depends on what your definition of "biggest" would be.
From: Cinema Blend 19/12/2012

Mark Wahlberg involved in 'every aspect' of movie
Mark Wahlberg had to be involved in "every aspect" of Broken City. The 41-year-old stars in and produced the thriller, which also features Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Due to his multiple roles in the project, Mark had to make sure he was a part of the whole process.
From: Film-News 19/12/2012

'A Christmas Story', 'Breakfast At Tiffany's', 'Slacker' Make National Film Registry
The Library of Congress has unveiled its annual list of 25 films that will join the National Film Registry. The movies span from 1897-1999 and were selected for their "important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking.
From: Deadline 19/12/2012

Wong Kar Wai's 'The Grandmaster' To Open 63rd Berlin Film Festival
The international premiere of The Grandmaster by Chinese director and president of this year's jury, WONG Kar Wai, will open the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival
From: Deadline 19/12/2012

Fox Acquires Sci-Fi Pitch 'Theory Of Everything'
20th Century Fox is closing a deal for Theory Of Everything, a pitch for a sci-fi action thriller that follows a disgraced scientist as he seeks to rescue his wife from a parallel dimension a woman who was previously assumed dead.
From: Deadline 19/12/2012

Ricky Gervais in talks for Muppets sequel
Comedian tipped to star alongside Kermit, Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in follow-up to 2011 Muppets film.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/12/2012

Django Unchained premiere cancelled after Connecticut shooting
Production company behind Quentin Tarantino film will 'forgo' scheduled event at time of national mourning.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/12/2012

Amour and The Master lead charge for London Film Critics' Circle awards
Directors Michael Haneke and Paul Thomas Anderson will go head to head with nominations in seven categories.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/12/2012

Vin Diesel to star in Kojak remake
Fast & Furious actor earmarked for Telly Savalas role in movie reboot of series about maverick New York superintendent.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/12/2012

Samuel L. Jackson Cast In Kite An unknown role in the anime adaptation
In his time, director David R. Ellis has helmed Final Destination 2, Cellular, Shark Night and, um, Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, but now he's got the toughest challenge of his career ahead of him: adapting the furiously violent and much-loved anime Kite into a live-action Hollywood thriller.
From: Empire Online 18/12/2012

Jamie Foxx Talks Spider-Man 2's Electro Could he be Spidey's ally for a time?
Jamie Foxx may out on the promotional trail for Django Unchained, but that doesn't mean everyone interviewing him is asking about Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti Western.
From: Empire Online 18/12/2012

Paramount Gets A Hellified Writer Michael Finch on for satanic action film
Three years ago, Paramount bought a spec script called Hellified from writer Andy Burg, who wrote family film Alaska way back in the day.
From: Empire Online 18/12/2012

Eddie Redmayne On For Jupiter Ascending In talks to join the Wachowskis' sci-fi
Eddie Redmayne is looking to swap the empty chairs at empty tables of Les Miserables for a plateful of Lana and Andy Wachowski's grand ambition with a part in the pair's latest, Jupiter Ascending.
From: Empire Online 18/12/2012

Josh Hutcherson Finds Paradise Lost Hunger Gamer in Pablo Escobar drama
Josh Hutcherson clearly doesn't watch Entourage. The young actor could be sniffing from the poisoned chalice that is Pablo Escobar, going where Vincent Chase wished he hadn't and signing up for Paradise Lost, a production that will see Benicio Del Toro playing the notorious drug baron.
From: Empire Online 18/12/2012

James Franco Says He May Not Be Back For Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
A big part of the reason why Rise of the Planet of the Apes was so successful as a piece of storytelling was that it really knew where to focus the story's attention: directly on Caesar (the intelligent chimp played by Andy Serkis).
From: Cinema Blend 18/12/2012

Science Explains Why The Hobbit Looks Weird In 48 Frames Per Second
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey trekked into theaters last weekend with a bevy of storylines stuffed in its travel pack. It marked Peter Jackson's return to Middle-earth after a lengthy hiatus, and set a tone that will continue through two more Hobbit films: The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again.
From: Cinema Blend 18/12/2012

Watch Samuel L. Jackson And Anne Hathaway In A Profanity-Laden Christmas Sad-Off
Christmas is about bringing people together. But award season is about pitting the best and brightest of Hollywood's stars against each other in a battle for fame, acclaim and Oscar gold.
From: Cinema Blend 18/12/2012

How The Les Miserables Cast Bonded: Singalongs At Russell Crowe's House
It's hard to tell if Anne Hathaway is joking when she says she wanted to get a tattoo to commemorate her experience on Les Miserables.
From: Cinema Blend 18/12/2012

There's Greatness In This New Teaser For Star Trek Into Darkness
J.J. Abrams gives us an extended look at his upcoming Star Trek Sequel.
From: Screenrush 18/12/2012

Jack Reacher premiere postponed after Connecticut school shooting
Studio puts back Saturday screening of Tom Cruise film, which features sniper killings in opening scene, with premiere for new Billy Crystal comedy Parental Guidance cancelled.
From: The Guardian - Film News 17/12/2012

New Stills From The Hangover 3 The Wolfpack make like The Beatles
The Hangover 3, the concluding part of Todd Phillips' boozy pill-ogy, probably won't be diverging too much from the formula that's worked thus far.
From: Empire Online 17/12/2012

Jack White No Longer Scoring Lone Ranger No more Seven Nation Armie
Sad news for lovers of the multi-gifted guitarist, collaborator and former White Stripe, Jack White.
From: Empire Online 17/12/2012

New Star Trek Into Darkness Teaser
Last week brought the"announcement trailer"; now Star Trek Into Darkness has a full-on teaser right here that drops a few more hints about the film.
From: Empire Online 17/12/2012

The Hobbit's Bizarre Budget Facts: Wigs, Weapons And Tons Of Coffee
As he did with his Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson shot the three Hobbit films back to back to back on location in New Zealand.
From: Cinema Blend 17/12/2012

Aubrey Plaza And John C. Reilly To Star In Zombie Comedy
This year Parks and Recreation's sulking beauty Aubrey Plaza made strides toward becoming a leading lady in film with her starring role in the quirky indie romance Safety Not Guaranteed.
From: Cinema Blend 17/12/2012

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Vin-Diesel-Kojak-Movie-Brings-Skyfall-Writers-34656.html
Screenwriting team Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have made a career out of penning James Bond thrillers from The World is Not Enough to Casino Royale and Skyfall.
From: Cinema Blend 17/12/2012

Hot Trailer: 'Drift'
Australian distributor Hopscotch has posted a trailer for the upcoming surf drama Drift that stars Sam Worthington, Myles Pollard, and Xavier Samuel. Wrekin Hill acquired North American rights to the movie in September with a view to an early 2013 release.
From: Deadline 17/12/2012

Chinese Filmmaker Blasts Local Movie Censors, Calls For System Overhaul
In a letter addressed to Chinese authorities, award-winning filmmaker Xie Fei has accused local film censors of being "a corrupt black spot for controlling the prosperity of the cultural and entertainment industry," wire reports say.
From: Deadline 17/12/2012

Director Baltasar Kormakur On The Harrowing Experience Of Making 'The Deep'
While Baltasar Kormakur has become a prominent director in Hollywood (he just wrapped the Denzel Washington-Mark Wahlberg-starrer 2 Guns for Universal), the helmer hasn't given up making films in his home country of Iceland.
From: Deadline 17/12/2012

Tom Hardy In Talks For 'Animal Rescue' As Fox Searchlight Eyes Noomi Rapace
Fox Searchlight is in final talks with Tom Hardy to star in Animal Rescue, and is offering the female lead to Noomi Rapace.
From: Deadline 17/12/2012

Anna Karenina's Alicia Vikander Could Join Benedict Cumberbatch In Wikileaks Drama
Swedish ingénue Alicia Vikander has been flirting with a breakthrough in America since her name was placed on the shortlist to front Snow White And the Huntsman back in the winter of 2010.
From: Cinema Blend 16/12/2012

Michael Apted Adapting Novel Eight Months On Ghazzah Street
For an Western woman who is free to go to school, socialize as she likes, wear what she wants, and drive wherever she chooses, the life of women in more restrictive cultures might seem incomprehensible.
From: Cinema Blend 16/12/2012

WGA Nixes 'Django Unchained', 'Les Miserables', Several Others From Ballots
Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and Les Miserables (William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer) are among a bunch of prominent movies whose screenplays the Writers Guild of America excluded from nominating ballots for its WGA Awards this year.
From: Deadline 16/12/2012

Sean Penn blasts fellow actors for putting money before art
Campaigning actor hits out at Hollywood contemporaries for contributing to 'consumerist mosh pit' of modern movie business.
From: The Guardian - Film News 14/12/2012

Amber Heard Gets Three Days To Kill She'll help Kevin Costner, at least
Three Days To Kill boasts a high-concept plot spawned by Luc Besson and co-writer Adi Hasak and McG seated in the director's chair, and the action thriller has already scored Kevin Costner and Hailee Steinfeld. Amber Heard is the latest to join their ranks.
From: Empire Online 14/12/2012

Mark Wahlberg's American Desperado Ropes In The Departed Writer
William Monahan, best known for writing the Academy Award-winning script for Martin Scorsese's The Departed, has found his next project.
From: Cinema Blend 14/12/2012

Len Wiseman Wants To Make A Modern-Day Mummy Movie
Len Wiseman appears to be pushing ahead with his planned remake of the Mummy franchise, currently set up at Universal.
From: Cinema Blend 14/12/2012

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Producers Still Talking Sequel
Movies that make an estimated $80 million worldwide don't tend to spark much sequel talk.
From: Cinema Blend 14/12/2012

FilmDistrict Moves 'Olympus Has Fallen' To March 22, 2013
Perhaps trying to create more space between competing movies, FilmDistrict has moved Olympus Has Fallen to March 22.
From: Deadline 14/12/2012

British comedy awards: The Thick of It actors lead winners
Peter Capaldi and Rebecca Front both honoured, while Sacha Baron Cohen given outstanding achievement award.
From: The Guardian - Film News 13/12/2012

Peter Jackson plans Tintin 2 for 2015
Director to begin work on sequel to The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn before he completes Hobbit trilogy.
From: The Guardian - Film News 13/12/2012

Golden Globes 2013: Lincoln leads pack, with Django Unchained and Argo behind
Lincoln gets seven nominations, Django Unchained and Argo are on five, Les Miserables, Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty trail with four apiece.
From: The Guardian - Film News 13/12/2012

Lincoln riding high with seven Golden Globe nominations
Steven Spielberg's presidential drama set for landslide Oscars victory, with Argo and Django Unchained not far behind.
From: The Guardian - Film News 13/12/2012

The Hobbit UK Premiere Report Sir Ian, Sir Ian... Gandalf!... Sir Ian
They've travelled from the gilded halls of Khazad-dum to the bucolic surrounds of the Shire's hobbit-holes and onto the goblin-crept caverns of the Misty Mountains.
From: Empire Online 13/12/2012

2013 Golden Globes Nominations Arrive!
Awards season is getting seriously under way now with the nominations for the Screen Actors Guild awards already public and now the Golden Globe nominees revealed.
From: Empire Online 13/12/2012

New Look At Disney's Frozen
Disney has been working on Snow Queen-based-fairytale 'toon Frozen for so long now, we saw concept art back when we visited the company for The Princess And The Frog.
From: Empire Online 13/12/2012

Dylan McDermott Finds Mercy He'll join the Stephen King adaptation
Paranormal Activity producer/found footage maven Jason Blum's Blumhouse productions is targeting Stephen King in a big way at the momen.
From: Empire Online 13/12/2012

Olivier Megaton Will Be Taking Gotham Directing the action thriller
With a surname like his, Olivier Megaton was all but destined to end up either (a) directing action movies or (b) becoming a cheesy super-terrorist. Thankfully (depending on how much you enjoyed Taken 2), he chose the former route.
From: Empire Online 13/12/2012

Garrett Hedlund Back For Tron Sequel According to the man himself
Given how quickly studios tend to sign their actors to sequel deals when there's a franchise in the offing, it's not really a surprise to learn that someone who made it all the way through the first film will return for a sequel. And Garrett Hedlund has announced that he'll do just that for the new Tron film.
From: Empire Online 13/12/2012

2013 Golden Globe Nominations Announced
The Golden Globe Awards-- which are the more fun younger cousin of the Oscars or a ridiculous dog and pony show, depending on who you ask-- have announced their nominees for this year's awards, which are happening January 13.
From: Cinema Blend 13/12/2012

Little Miss Sunshine Directors Set For Argo-Esque Drama The Big Cigar
The success of Argo this fall has exposed a rich vein of potential stories for the movies, in secret missions that once were classified but are finally available for public consumption.
From: Cinema Blend 13/12/2012

Emily Blunt, Rebecca Hall, Rooney Mara Final Contenders To Join Johnny Depp In Transcendence
There are many, many reasons to get excited about Transcendence, starting with the fact that it's the directorial debut of Christopher Nolan's longtime director of photography Wally Pfister, and he's already got Johnny Depp on board to star in a film with a very secret plot.
From: Cinema Blend 13/12/2012

Garrett Hedlund Confirms He's In For Tron 3
It feels like about 10 years since Tron: Legacy came to theaters, as pop culture moved on pretty quickly from a brief flirtation with light cycles, director Joseph Kosinski dove into the new project Oblivion, and star Garrett Hedlund worked hard to prove he was more than just the blank pretty boy who seemed lost at the center of the Game Grid.
From: Cinema Blend 13/12/2012

Dylan McDermott Joins Stephen King Adaptation Mercy
When he isn't being mixed up with Dermot Mulroney on Saturday Night Live, Dylan McDermott has been appearing on American Horror Story, with his first on screen appearance in the FX drama series' second season taking place just last night.
From: Cinema Blend 13/12/2012

Peter Jackson Explains Why You Should See The Hobbit In 48 fps
Peter Jackson is taking what he hopes is a huge leap into the future this weekend, releasing The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 48 frames per second a high-frame-rate format that essentially gives you twice as much information about the world of Middle Earth.
From: Cinema Blend 13/12/2012

A Book Of Mormon Movie Looks Likely, But We'll Have To Wait A Little While For It
Broadway musicals have to be one of the most restrictive art mediums out there.
From: Cinema Blend 13/12/2012

Amber Heard Joins Kevin Costner In Three Days To Kill
Amber Heard is preparing to give Kevin Costner an offer he can't refuse. The young actress is now in final negotiations to star in Three Days to Kill, the new secret service action film set to be directed by McG (This Means War).
From: Cinema Blend 13/12/2012

Guillermo del Toro teams with Fox
Fox Animation Studios has confirmed it will make Guillermo del Toro's Book of Life movie.
From: Film-News 13/12/2012

New Wolverine Motion Poster: Hugh Jackman Is Cool, Calm And Collected Amidst A Brewing Storm
Channeling his inner zen master, The Wolverine takes some me-time to self-reflect atop a Tokyo city skyscraper in the middle of a dark and scary lightning storm.
From: Screenrush 13/12/2012

R.I.P. Gil Friesen
Gil Friesen, one of the few Hollywood executives to wear two hats as president of A&M Records as well as A&M Films (making The Breakfast Club among a dozen films), died today at his Brentwood home. His friends told Deadline his death followed a prolonged battle with leukemia. He was 75.
From: Deadline 13/12/2012

Paramount Brings On 'The Departed's William Monahan To Rewrite Cocaine Drama
Paramount has set Oscar-winning The Departed scribe William Monahan to rewrite American Desperado, the film that is being shaped as a star vehicle for Mark Wahlberg.
From: Deadline 13/12/2012

Zero Dark Thirty is not pro-torture, say film-makers
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal defend inclusion of waterboarding scene in film about hunt for Osama bin Laden.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/12/2012

Spielberg's Lincoln tipped for Oscar
Steven Spielberg's historical epic joins Les Misérables and Silver Linings Playbook in Oscars race after mighty nods from Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice awards.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/12/2012

Screen Actors Guild snubs Joaquin Phoenix as critics question The Master
Is the problem with the difficult film or with his over-the-top performance in it? Actor's star has fallen since film's debut.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/12/2012

British comedy awards: The Thick of It actors lead winners
Peter Capaldi and Rebecca Front both honoured, while Sacha Baron Cohen given outstanding achievement award.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/12/2012

SAG Award Nominations Announced
Like something out of a film itself - albeit perhaps not the most exciting spy thriller ever - the Screen Actors Guild across the pond suffered a security leak today, when it appeared that the nomination lists for its annual awards had made it online
From: Empire Online 12/12/2012

Del Toro Opens Book Of Life
While his biggest current project - that would be a certain action epic named Pacific Rim - has just been trailered today, there is also news about a much more tangential Guillermo del Toro project.
From: Empire Online 12/12/2012

Mark Wahlberg Finds Hacker Thriller He'll produce some technofear
Argo, and, to a lesser extent* Zero Dark Thirty, are just the most recent examples of newspaper and magazine articles fuelling movies.
From: Empire Online 12/12/2012

SAG Award Nominations Throw Some Curveballs, Like Javier Bardem For Skyfall
The Screen Actors Guild has become for the first group to honor their peers in the movie industry by announcing their nominees for this year's SAG Awards this morning in West Hollywood.
From: Cinema Blend 12/12/2012

Listen To A James Brown/Tupac Mash-Up From Django Unchained Soundtrack
Why are we getting the Django Unchained soundtrack one song at a time? Is this the musical equivalent of the teaser trailer leading up to the bigger trailer, which in turn leads up to the actual movie?
From: Cinema Blend 12/12/2012

Spider-Man Producer Planning Series Of Superhero Stories Based On Chinese Mythology
Hollywood producers have been eyeballing China as a territory to explore for a while. Lately, lip service has turned into action, with projects like Iron Man 3 choosing to shoot scenes in Beijing to strengthen partnerships with Chinese filmmakers and producing teams.
From: Cinema Blend 12/12/2012

Gus Van Sant Presents Xavier Dolan's Transgender Drama Laurence Anyways
With 30 years of filmmaking under his belt, acclaimed indie auteur Gus Van Sant has cemented his reputation as a challenging filmmaker willing to tackle tricky topics from gay rights (Milk) to school violence (Elephant) and fracking (The Promised Land.) Now, he's working to raise up new daring filmmakers, shepherding the release of Xavier Dolan's third feature Laurence Anyways.
From: Cinema Blend 12/12/2012

Mark Wahlberg To Produce True-Life Hacker Thriller For Universal
Mark Wahlberg has been behind a surprising number of critically-acclaimed television shows and movies as a producer, from The Fighter to HBO shows Entourage and Boardwalk Empire, and now he hopes to bring his magic touch to a new project about a digital terrorist.
From: Cinema Blend 12/12/2012

Guillermo Del Toro's Book Of Life Goes To Fox Animation
Guillermo del Toro is having a pretty damn good week. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which he co-wrote, arrives in theaters on Friday; today saw the release of both the first trailer and a new poster for his next directorial effort, Pacific Rim; and now one of his gestating production projects is heading further into development.
From: Cinema Blend 12/12/2012

2013 Golden Globe Nominations Announced
The Golden Globe Awards which are the more fun younger cousin of the Oscars or a ridiculous dog and pony show, depending on who you ask have announced their nominees for this year's awards, which are happening January 13. Check out the full list of nominees below, which we're updating as they are announced.
From: Cinema Blend 12/12/2012

Michael Shannon And Samantha Morton To Star In John McNaughton's Horror Film The Harvest
The Revolutionary Road actor and the In America actress will play over protective parents with a very sick son in the upcoming psychological horror thriller.
From: Screenrush 12/12/2012

A Beastly New Poster For Jack The Giant Slayer Arrives: There's No Turning Back For Jack Now
Jack braces himself before entering the water-gushing mouth of the giant's lair the latest poster for Bryan Singer's fast approaching fantasy adventure.
From: Screenrush 12/12/2012

The Hobbit wins delay on release of 'mockbuster' Age of the Hobbits
Judge cites 'likelihood of confusion' between Tolkien adaptation and film by The Asylum - famous for Titanic II and Almighty Thor.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/12/2012

Les Misérables and Lincoln among AFI top 10 films of 2012
Oscar frontrunners Argo and Zero Dark Thirty also make list, with no place for Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/12/2012

Peter Strickland Finds Duke Of Burgundy
You already know we think a lot of Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio (which just scooped four BIFAs). So we're excited to learn that he's hard at work on another project, The Duke Of Burgundy.
From: Empire Online 11/12/2012

Joel Edgerton Knows Jane Got A Gun
Natalie Portman and director Lynne Ramsay have managed to wrangle the elements (and funding) together successfully so far for Western vengeance drama Jane Got A Gun, including locking down Michael Fassbender.
From: Empire Online 11/12/2012

Michael Shannon Reaps The Harvest A new horror with Samantha Morton
If you caught that fleeting glimpse of Michael Shannon in Man Of Steel's new trailer and began thinking, "Hhhm... I wonder what he's planning for a future role?"
From: Empire Online 11/12/2012

Bay May Have Transformers 4 Leads
With new best mate Mark Wahlberg locked in place for Transformers 4, Michael Bay has turned his attention to casting the other main roles in the film. You know, besides Optimus and the rest of the 'bots.
From: Empire Online 11/12/2012

Alice Eve's Star Trek Into Darkness Role Revealed
Since Star Trek Into Darkness went into production people have been asking one main question: who the hell is the villain being played by Benedict Cumberbatch?
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

The Hobbit's Faster Frame Rate Was Inspired By Star Tours
For decades 24 frames-per-second has been seen as the standard frame rate that filmmakers have chosen to shoot their films with.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Quentin Tarantino Finally Gives Up On Kill Bill 3
Quentin Tarantino is notorious, more than just about any other director, for talking constantly about projects he's never going to make. He's holding out hope for a spinoff about the Vega Brothers.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Transformers 4 Adds Young Stars To Join Mark Wahlberg
After fronting three blockbusters in the Transformers franchise, Shia LaBeouf has moved on from the world of Autobots and Decepticons, leaving a void Michael Bay has been forced to fill.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Danny Boyle Counts Himself Out Of Directing James Bond
English director Danny Boyle took on a task few filmmakers before him have dared shoulder with last summer's Olympic opening ceremonies.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Andy Samberg Tapped To Host The 28th Annual Independent Spirit Awards
While Billy Crystal was an absolute bore at the Academy Awards this year (I actually had to look up who hosted the show because I completely forgot), there was one award show host during the 2011 season who actually did a pretty damn good job: Seth Rogen at the Independent Spirit Awards.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Alan Cumming Would Be Up For Playing Nightcrawler Again In X-Men: Days Of Future Past
Despite being one of the most popular elements of Bryan Singer's beloved X2, the character Nightcrawler - as portrayed by Alan Cumming - has been missing from all three X-Men movies that have been released since his live-action debut (albeit two of the titles were prequels).
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Another Earth Director's Next Film Looks To Emphasize Science And Heart
There are certainly plenty of examples of great works of science fiction that use extraordinary circumstances as a means of exploring human drama.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Joel Edgerton May Join Natalie Portman And Michael Fassbender In Jane's Got A Gun
As though it weren't enough that director Lynne Ramsey has already hired Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender to star in her upcoming project Jane's Got A Gun, she's also close to bringing in one of the fastest rising stars in Hollywood.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

75 Contenders Announced For The 2012 Oscars' Best Original Song
For movie lovers, complaining about the Oscars and their frustrating if not baffling,choices is as much a part of this time of year as stressing out over the holidays or watching A Christmas Story on a 24-hour loop.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Michelle Williams Frontrunner For American Remake Of The Double Hour
Normally this time of the year, we're discussing where Michelle Williams can position herself in the developing Oscar race. The immensely gifted actress has found herself campaigning on behalf of films like Blue Valentine and My Week with Marilyn in years past.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Community's Gillian Jacobs Joins Elizabeth Banks For Walk Of Shame
Elizabeth Banks may soon be doing the Walk of Shame on the big screen, but at least she will have a best friend to help her through the experience.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Johnny Depp To Become A Supercomputer In Wally Pfister's Transcendence?
If you're a science-fiction fan, chances are that you've heard of something called the singularity. Known more accurately as the "technological singularity," the term refers to a theory that it's possible for technology to acquire intelligence greater than that of a human.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Wild Things Director To Helm Psychological Thriller The Harvest
Director John McNaughton has been gone from the feature world for a good long time. Starting as a rising talent in Hollywood back in the mid-80s, the filmmaker made a name for himself with titles like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Wild Things, but after directing the romantic comedy Speaking of Sex in 2001 he disappeared from theaters.
From: Cinema Blend 11/12/2012

Nicolas Winding Refn is first in line for Sony's The Equalizer remake
Drive director in early talks to steer Denzel Washington-starring Hollywood reboot of hit 80s TV series.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/12/2012

Broken wins top prize at British independent film awards 2012
Rufus Norris's directorial debut also won best film and best supporting actor for performance by Rory Kinnear.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/12/2012

Michael Haneke's Amour takes top prize at Los Angeles film critics awards
Acclaimed drama beats Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master to win best picture.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/12/2012

Film classification chiefs to tighten policy on 'sexual or sadistic violence'
BBFC decision comes after research finds public concern over effect on 'vulnerable viewers', especially young men.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/12/2012

Ty Burrell Cast As Inspector in Disney's Muppets Sequel
The Hilarious Modern Family man will get to hang out with Kermit and the gang in the sequel to the 2011 Muppets musical comedy.
From: Screenrush 10/12/2012

LA Film Critics Name Michael Haneke's Amour Their Film Of The Year
The Palme d'Or winner pipped The Master to the post and the LA critics included some other surprises in their annual awards annointing the most serious group of front-runners in the Oscar race since 2007.
From: Screenrush 10/12/2012

New Iron Man 3 Cast Member Announced
Iron Man 3 has cast a new actor, and his name is Wang Xuequi. Who he? Well, he's the man set to play Dr. Lu in the upcoming superhero threequel, and if he's Tony Stark's doctor, he's a man worth knowing.
From: Empire Online 10/12/2012

Sheen On For Amazing Spider-Man 2
At the risk of spoiling both 2002's Spider-Man and 2012's Amazing Spider-Man, Uncle Ben dies.
From: Empire Online 10/12/2012

Samuel L. Jackson Talks Star Wars VII
In the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Jedi Master Mace Windu falls to his death out of Darth Sidious' window or so you thought.
From: Empire Online 10/12/2012

Glenn Close On For Always On My Mind
Writer/director Chris D'Arienzo already has one music-based project out in the world - he co-created the Rock Of Ages stage show and wrote the script for Adam Shankman's film version earlier this year.
From: Empire Online 10/12/2012

Damon Had Jonah Nolan Look At Bourne
Following The Bourne Ultimatum, the Matt Damon-starring franchise went through something of a creative spasm, with different possible scripts in play and Paul Greengrass deciding he didn't want to direct whatever film would come next.
From: Empire Online 10/12/2012

Burr Steers Finds Horror In Breed Summit hatches new book adaptation
Burr Steers, the director who has more recently been known for films such as Charlie St. Cloud and 17 Again, is looking to shake things up. He's now attached to adapt and director horror tome Breed for Summit Entertainment.
From: Empire Online 10/12/2012

Snitch's Ric Roman Waugh To Direct And Rewrite Tipping Point
Rising writer,director Ric Roman Waugh has had an unconventional path to the director's chair.
From: Cinema Blend 10/12/2012

Find Out Why Peter Jackson Was 'Really Panicking' When Casting The Hobbit
The process of making The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was far, far more complicated than you'd imagine for follow-ups to a massively successful film franchise.
From: Cinema Blend 10/12/2012

Could Sean Connery Be Daniel Craig's Father? A Skyfall Theory Digs Deep
James Bond movies usually don't earn the same kind of obsessive speculation that superhero or sci-fi movies do, since the world of those films is generally pretty simple.
From: Cinema Blend 10/12/2012

Will And Jaden Smith Are Both Legend In After Earth Teaser
When a movie is directed by M. Night Shyamalan you might expect a twist somewhere near the end, but a twist right there in the trailer? That's some next-level shit.
From: Cinema Blend 10/12/2012

Kristen Stewart Confirms She's Doing Focus With Ben Affleck
Twilight star Kristen Stewart has had a year full of ups and downs. The ups included the long-awaited and much-anticipated finale to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, Part 2, and her biggest starring role outside of the world of Bella and Edward, in the fantasy adventure Snow White and Huntsman.
From: Cinema Blend 10/12/2012

Iron Man 3 Begins Filming Scenes In Beijing
As promised, Iron Man 3 has begun filming scenes in Beijing, and in the process, has added actor Wang Xuequi for a supporting part, Deadline reports.
From: Cinema Blend 10/12/2012

Zero Dark Thirty Teases Samples Of Alexandre Desplat's Score
We all listen to different types of music to help get us pumped up for certain situations. But what on earth would you listen to if you were hunting the world's most vile terrorist, Osama Bin Laden?
From: Cinema Blend 10/12/2012

Horror Novel Breed's Movie Rights Acquired By Summit
Summit's had some success with feature adaptations of popular novels these days, with The Twilight Saga and The Perks of Being A Wallflower among the studio's credits in recent years, and Warm Bodies and Ender's Game among its upcoming films.
From: Cinema Blend 10/12/2012

Salt 2 Lands Seven Years In Tibet Writer
When Phillip Noyce's Salt came to theaters in 2010 it didn't exactly set the world on fire critically or domestically, but it was definitely a big hit overseas.
From: Cinema Blend 10/12/2012

The Hurt Locker Writer Mark Boal Starting His Own Production Company
Mark Boal is in an enviable position in Hollywood. While his resume isn't that long, his first screenplay was 2007's In The Valley of Elah,his career skyrocketed in 2010 when he won two Oscars for his work on Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker.
From: Cinema Blend 10/12/2012

Star Trek Into Darkness secrets revealed
Some of the mysteries are being revealed about the characters we'll see in Star Trek Into Darkness. But, as is usually the case with a J.J. Abrams production, new questions are emerging.
From: Coming Attractions 10/12/2012

Broken Named Best British Indpendent Film Of 2012 But Berberian Sound Studio Takes Four Prizes
This year's BIFAs reward Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio with four awards and Broken with a pair, including Best Film
From: Screenrush 10/12/2012

Kevin Smith Plans Clerks III As Swansong
For a long time now, Kevin Smith has been saying that hockey movie Hit Somebody will be his final film, as he shifts his focus to his ever-expanding Smodcast empire and his TV ambitions.
From: Empire Online 09/12/2012

Disney Heads Back To Wonderland
Linda Woolverton writing Alice sequel.
From: Empire Online 09/12/2012

Will Ferrell Wants To Get Hard
Stop sniggering! The headline does not mean that the star of Anchorman is now turning to a career in porn.
From: Empire Online 09/12/2012

Berberian Sound Studio Scores At BIFAs
The British Independent Film Awards were handed out Sunday night, hosted by The Hobbit's James Nesbitt at Old Billingsgate.
From: Empire Online 09/12/2012

Critics Groups Pick Zero Dark Thirty, Amour And The Master As The Year's Best
We are officially in the onslaught part of the awards season, where every critic's group from New York and Los Angeles to Tulsa gathers together, picks their favorites, and announces their winners for the world to decide whether or not they're important.
From: Cinema Blend 09/12/2012

Quentin Tarantino defends depiction of slavery in Django Unchained
Director tells Bafta audience that, violent as his revenge western may be, the reality of slavery in the deep south was 'far worse'
From: The Guardian - Film News 07/12/2012

Clare Balding honoured at Women in Film and Television awards
BBC sports presenter, praised for knowledgeable, engaging style during London 2012, wins achievement of the year.
From: The Guardian - Film News 07/12/2012

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John reunite for charity single
Grease stars reprise their roles as innocent lovers to raise money for charity with Christmas record.
From: The Guardian - Film News 07/12/2012

Constantin Film Heads For The Dog Stars Adapting Peter Heller's recent novel
Best known as an "adventure" writer contributing to the likes of National Geographic and Outside, Peter Heller embarked on a different sort of professional journey last year, and wrote a novel.
From: Empire Online 07/12/2012

First Hobbit: There & Back Again Image!
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now mere days from release. But with that film wrapped, signed, sealed and delivered, Peter Jackson's mind has switched to looking ahead.
From: Empire Online 07/12/2012

Guillermo Del Toro Turning Pan's Labyrinth Into Stage Musical
In 2006, Mexican writer-director Guillermo del Toro drew worldwide notice for his original fantasy feature Pan's Labyrinth. The Spanish-language film.
From: Cinema Blend 07/12/2012

Friday Night Lights' Kyle Chandler Seems Uninterested In Potential Movie
Every once in a while, one of the former cast members or writers of NBC's Friday Night Lights is asked about the status of the potential FNL movie, to which they might respond with something vague about it possibly happening if the cast and writers availability can be sorted out and noncommittally positive about their interest in appearing in the follow-up film.
From: Cinema Blend 07/12/2012

Jean Dujardin Heist Flick Getting American Remake
Long before French star Jean Dujardin two-stepped into our hearts in the glorious silent romance The Artist, he was starring opposite Albert Dupontel in the French crime-thriller Le Convoyeur.
From: Cinema Blend 07/12/2012

Wreck-It Ralph Sequel Happening, And A Big Name Character May Finally Appear
Wreck-It Ralph has been one of the biggest hits of the fall season, already netting more than $200 million worldwide on the power of family audiences, with kids attracted to the candy-colored world and parents getting nostalgic for the video games of their youth.
From: Cinema Blend 07/12/2012

Terrence Howard Joins Hugh Jackman In Prisoners
Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve first drew the eye of the world with his staggering 2010 drama Incendies. The film was nominated for an Oscar, BAFTA and César for Best Foreign Film, and won a slew of Genie Awards, which recognize the best of Canadian cinema.
From: Cinema Blend 07/12/2012

Kevin Smith Plans Clerks 3 As His Final Film
Kevin Smith has spent more than a year now promising that he was almost done with filmmaking, and that the hockey movie Hit Somebody would be his last film or maybe two films.
From: Cinema Blend 07/12/2012

James Marsden Cast As Elizabeth Banks' Love Interest In Walk Of Shame
The two 30 Rock regulars will be uniting on the big screen for the upcoming Steven Bill directed romantic comedy.
From: Screenrush 07/12/2012

Terrence Howard Joins Illustrious Chain Gang In Alcon's 'Prisoners'
Alcon Entertainment has added Terrence Howard to round out the impressive cast that has mobilized for Prisoners.
From: Deadline 07/12/2012

Kristen Wiig takes on KVWN-TV boys in Anchorman sequel
Bridesmaids actor to play Steve Carell's love interest in 70s spoof followup, according to reports.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/12/2012

The Hobbit works as a trilogy, says Peter Jackson
An Unexpected Journey film-maker defends decision to split JRR Tolkien's 1937 novel into three parts, as Warner Bros counters claims of nausea induced by high frame rate.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/12/2012

Zero Dark Thirty wins best film at National Board of Review awards
Kathryn Bigelow's film about hunt for Bin Laden gathers Oscar momentum with second major honour of the week.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/12/2012

Les Miserables Premiere Masters o'the house dolin' out the charm
Despite the cold, no-one appeared miserable at the London premiere of Les Miserables in Leicester Square last night.
From: Empire Online 06/12/2012

Hush, Hush Saga Set For The Screen Becca Fitzpatrick's novels optioned
We've had vampires. Werewolves. Zombies. Demons. Faeries. Beasts of all stripes and allegiances have become staples for romantic themed young adult novels and their attendant film adaptations.
From: Empire Online 06/12/2012

Pan's Labyrinth Headed To The Stage Guillermo del Toro goes musical
Good grief. Just when you thought Guillermo del Toro had actually reached the limit of projects he's involved it (several steps beyond most human beings' abilities), he goes and adds something else.
From: Empire Online 06/12/2012

James Marsden Set For Walk Of Shame He'll star with Elizabeth Banks
Having already secured the services of Elizabeth Banks to star in his new comedy Walk Of Shame, writer/director Steve Brill, it would seem, has clearly been watching a lot of 30 Rock recently.
From: Empire Online 06/12/2012

Jumanji Remake Gets A Screenwriter
In a way we already have a remake of Jumanji. In 2005 director Jon Favreau made Zathura: A Space Adventure, a carbon copy of the 1995 adventure comedy, only instead of the kids at the center of the plot playing a jungle based game the kids in Zathura played one set in outer space.
From: Cinema Blend 06/12/2012

Paramount's Insurge Pictures Buys New Thriller Family Vacation
Paramount Pictures created Insurge Pictures for exactly one reason: to produce ultra-small films like Paranormal Activity that can make their budget back from midnight screenings alone.
From: Cinema Blend 06/12/2012

Ready Player One Writer Ernest Cline Sells Movie Rights For Next Novel Armada
Fanboys screenwriter Ernest Cline sold the movie rights for his novel Ready Player One before the book was published, so it should come as no surprise that the same would be the case for his next planned novel, especially when you factor in the success of RPO since the book hit shelves last year.
From: Cinema Blend 06/12/2012

Star Trek Into Darkness IMAX Preview Locations Revealed
For the last 13 hours or so we've been buzzing about J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness.
From: Cinema Blend 06/12/2012

James Marsden Joining Elizabeth Banks On A Walk Of Shame
Can it really be considered a walk of shame when the person you're supposedly ashamed of being with is Elizabeth Banks?
From: Cinema Blend 06/12/2012

The Dark Knight Rises Borrowed From One Of Christopher Nolan's Dead Projects
Now that Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises is out on Blu-ray and DVD (in more formats than you can shake a stick at), collaborators who worked with Nolan on the whole of the trilogy have been coming out of the woodwork to talk about the various processes that went into creating what many consider to be the greatest superhero trilogy of all time.
From: Cinema Blend 06/12/2012

Jane Birkin and Jeff Mills to headline the Glasgow Music and Film Festival
Events for the fourth annual Glasgow Music and Film Festival went on sale today.
From: Film-News 06/12/2012

Casey Affleck Goes Back To His Native Massachusetts For 'The Boston Strangler'
The actor has successfully sold his pitch about the infamous serial killer to Warner Bros even though there isn't even a script yet.
From: Screenrush 06/12/2012

Mike Fleming's Q&A With Steven Spielberg: Why It Took 12 Years To Find 'Lincoln'
It's easy to imagine that when Steven Spielberg sets his sights on a movie, Hollywood's most storied director doesn't struggle like most others.
From: Deadline 06/12/2012

Tribeca Film Acquires Two Films By 'Girls' Star Alex Karpovsky
The co-star of HBO's Girls wrote or co-wrote, directed and starred in both the drama Rubberneck and comedy Red Flag, which have been acquired by Tribeca Film.
From: Deadline 06/12/2012

Eddie Murphy tops list of Hollywood's most overpaid actors
Star of Tower Heist joined by Reese Witherspoon and Katherine Heigl in 2012 breakdown of underperformers at the box office.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/12/2012

Matt Damon set to join George Clooney's Monument movie
Matt Damon latest name to figure in hunt for Hitler's stolen art in George Clooney project The Monuments Men, reports say.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/12/2012

Anne Hathaway On Catwoman Spin-Off
Now before anyone gets too excited, there are no plans for a Catwoman spin-off. Warner Bros
From: Empire Online 05/12/2012

Pacific Rim Sequel Script Ordered
We still have to wait until July to see everything that Guillermo del Toro is promising with his new, monsters-vs-robots action epic Pacific Rim.
From: Empire Online 05/12/2012

Matt Damon Wanted For Monuments Men,George Clooney ropes in an old pal
As if George Clooney's outstanding cast assembly for his new film The Monuments Men didn't offer enough comparisons with Ocean's Eleven, now he's looking to recruit an actual Ocean's veteran and has Matt Damon in negotiations.
From: Empire Online 05/12/2012

Skyfall Is The UK's Biggest Film Ever
After the weekend's screenings, Skyfall was on the precipice of breaking Avatar's.
From: Empire Online 05/12/2012

Ben Whishaw Joins Lilting He's on for a new drama
It's been a heck of a year for Ben Whishaw, between a hefty set of roles in Cloud Atlas (which UK audiences will have to wait until February 22 to see) and a little movie called Skyfall.
From: Empire Online 05/12/2012

Timothy Olyphant Finds Bone Tomahawk Set for the horror Western
The Western is such a flexible genre. And when it crossbreeds with other narrative styles such as horror, for instance the results can be a lot of fun if handled correctly.
From: Empire Online 05/12/2012

Disney Has Tron 3 Still In Play Legacy sequel has new writer
Wigutow, who previously wrote It Runs In The Family and has been at work on Parallels and Peter And The Starcatchers for Disney, is now also going to run what is currently known simply as Tron 3 through his word processor.
From: Empire Online 05/12/2012

Casey Affleck Hunting Boston Strangler Warner Bros. is developing the crime pic
Warner Bros. already has one talented Affleck on its roster. Now it's looking to develop a closer business relationship with the other one. Casey Affleck and writer Chuck Maclean have sold a thriller pitch called Boston Strangler to the studio.
From: Empire Online 05/12/2012

Kristen Wiig Could Join Anchorman 2 Might Brick find love... Beyond lamp?
As Adam McKay and Will Ferrell labour over the script for the Anchorman sequel, the rumours have begun to fly about who will be called up to co-star along with Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner and Christina Applegate.
From: Empire Online 05/12/2012

Johnny Depp Back With Don Quixote But for Disney, not Terry Gilliam
Johnny Depp can't get enough of tilting at windmills. He spent years working with Terry Gilliam to try to get the director's project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote up and filming, and anyone who has seen Lost In La Mancha knows how that turned out.
From: Empire Online 05/12/2012

Dennis Haysbert Taking Over For Michael Clarke Duncan In Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Those who have read Frank Miller's Sin City series have known that there would be a slight hiccup when it came to casting Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, namely the part of Manute. In Robert Rodriguez's 2005 film the character was played by Michael Clarke Duncan, but the Oscar nominated actor sadly died earlier this year.
From: Cinema Blend 05/12/2012

Harry Reid Wants Spielberg's Lincoln To Play For The US Senate
When the release date of November 9th was announced for Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, many of us movie blogger types were surprised that the film's domestic distributor Touchstone Pictures chose not to capitalize on the always-intense atmosphere of presidential campaign season by opening the 16th president docudrama one week earlier.
From: Cinema Blend 05/12/2012

Casey Affleck To Produce And Star In Boston Strangler Movie
In 2010, Casey Affleck branched out from acting, becoming a writer, producer, director and cinematographer on the controversial I'm Still Here, the faux documentary that riled audiences until Affleck confessed it was staged.
From: Cinema Blend 05/12/2012

Will Kristen Wiig Be Steve Carell's Love Interest In Anchorman: The Legend Continues?
After many, many years of waiting we are finally going to get a sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Adam McKay is set to direct and write the script with Will Ferrell, and stars Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner and Christina Applegate are all on-board to reprise their roles from the first movie.
From: Cinema Blend 05/12/2012

Sundance Premiere: Ashton Kutcher Is Steve Jobs In Joshua Michael Stern's Biopic
That 70s Show star is revisiting the disco-era to portray the life and work of Apple's late co-founder.
From: Screenrush 05/12/2012

'Revolution's Giancarlo Esposito Joins Indie 'Poker Night'
Giancarlo Esposito has come to the table for Poker Night. The Emmy nominee will play Detective A.J. Bernard in the indie thriller. Ron Perlman, Titus Welliver, Ron Eldard and Beau Mirchoff co-star in the Greg Francis-directed film, which is in production in Victoria, Canada.
From: Deadline 05/12/2012

'Justified's Timothy Olyphant Takes Aim At 'Bone Tomahawk'
Justified's Timothy Olyphant is set to star opposite Kurt Russell, Peter Sarsgaard, Richard Jenkins, and Jennifer Carpenter in Bone Tomahawk.
From: Deadline 05/12/2012

Steve Jobs biopic to close Sundance film festival 2013
Portrait of Apple co-founder, jOBS, in lineup for event, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut also set to feature.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/12/2012

Bully and Jafar Panahi make Oscar best documentary shortlist
Academy gets political with nods for This Is Not a Film, by imprisoned Iranian film-maker, and Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/12/2012

Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty triumphs at New York Film Critics Circle awards
Drama about the killing of Osama bin Laden won three top prizes, including best film and best director.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/12/2012

New Producer For Terminator 5 David Ellison jacks in
Although it's well over a year since the deal for further Terminator films was announced, it's taken this long for the contract between Annapurna Productions and Pacificorp to be signed and sealed.
From: Empire Online 04/12/2012

Jamie Foxx Is Spider-Man 2's Electro 'He's a genius electrician-type person'
Alongside the news that Chronicle's Dane DeHaan has been cast as Harry Osborn is the official confirmation that Jamie Foxx, long mooted as a potential Electro, will indeed by playing the high voltage villain in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
From: Empire Online 04/12/2012

Sam Jackson's Next Nick Fury Appearance Will Be In Captain America Sequel
Marvel Studios had a grand ambition of binding together various franchises into one intersecting mega-narrative. While such a thing is easily and often done in comics, in movies it proves much trickier, what with the wrangling of talent, and different visions from different directors risking a disconnect.
From: Cinema Blend 04/12/2012

Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer Arriving Online This Thursday
So you're saying that you don't want to wait until Dec. 14 to see that Star Trek Into Darkness trailer that Paramount has promised to put before prints of The Hobbit in neighborhood theaters?
From: Cinema Blend 04/12/2012

Bill Murray Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts As He Finally Signs Up To Ghostbusters 3
In a surprise turn of events, the unpredictable actor takes a look at the latest script and decides that he will do the long awaited sequel after all.
From: Screenrush 04/12/2012

The New York Critics Circle Suprise The World By Giving Zero Dark Thirty Their Top Prizes
The most influential group of critics give Best Picture to Zero Dark Thirty and Best Director to Kathryn Bigelow.
From: Screenrush 04/12/2012

R.I.P. Eileen Moran
Eileen Moran, a driving creative force at Weta Digital and longtime visual effects executive producer for Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Joe Letteri, died in New Zealand Tuesday.
From: Deadline 04/12/2012

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained wins critical plaudits on Twitter
Critics who attended advance screening of spaghetti western have praised its mix of extreme violence and witty humour.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/12/2012

Sundance Announces 2013 Premieres
We've had the competition announcement. And the Spotlight, Park City At Midnight and New Frontier Titles released.
From: Empire Online 03/12/2012

Seth MacFarlane Heads West He's planning a comedy Western next
He was already a big shot in telly with the likes of Family Guy and American Dad, but 2012 was the year Seth MacFarlane began his assault on the big screen.
From: Empire Online 03/12/2012

Guillermo del Toro Climbs Crimson Peak, He'll direct the ghost story.
Since he's usually developing about 15,000 projects at once (whether to make himself or produce for others) we always wonder how Guillermo del Toro gets around to choosing which of his various creations will crawl from the lab next.
From: Empire Online 03/12/2012

Dane DeHaan Is Harry Osborn In the Amazing Spider-sequel
Well, that didn't take too long: mere weeks after the search for someone to play Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hit the news radars, director Marc Webb has announced his choice of Dane DeHaan.
From: Empire Online 03/12/2012

Glee's Jacob Artist To Play Shailene Woodley's Love Interest In Gregg Araki's White Bird
Gregg Araki's White Bird already brings together a number of talented young performers, including The Descendant's Shailene Woodley, Shiloh Fernandez and Gabourey Sidibe, but now another is about to join their ranks.
From: Cinema Blend 03/12/2012

Academy Awards Announce Shortlist For Best Documentary
It's still hard to believe that 2012 is already coming to an end, but you need no further proof of it beyond the constant announcements about award season.
From: Cinema Blend 03/12/2012

Jamie Foxx Talks About Electro In The Amazing Spider-Man Sequel
One of the most challenging aspects of writing a superhero sequel has to be finding a way to introduce the new central villain.
From: Cinema Blend 03/12/2012

Django Unchained Soundtrack: Listen To Rick Ross' 100 Black Coffins Here
When the final Django Unchained trailer dropped (the domestic version, at least), we commented at how the music used in the clip reached back to Quentin Tarantino's roots.
From: Cinema Blend 03/12/2012

Steve Carell Will Lose The Lottery In Disney Comedy
Do you ever feel like you must be the unluckiest person in the world? Well, then you would probably relate on some level to the plight of one poor schmuck in Spain who was the only member of his very small town to not win the lottery.
From: Cinema Blend 03/12/2012

Saoirse Ronan And Two More Up For Mark Romanek's Cinderella
We've seen Snow White don armor and sword fight in Mirror Mirror and Snow White and The Huntsman as well as in the Disney-produced TV series Once Upon a Time.
From: Cinema Blend 03/12/2012

Justice League Movie Might Have Found A Villain
The Justice League of America movie is coming in 2015. Warner Bros. continues to make moves behind the scenes to ensure that D.C. Comics' mightiest heroes unite against a common foe that summer.
From: Cinema Blend 03/12/2012

Crimson Peak is Guillermo's new ghost story
Legendary Pictures seems to be liking their business relationship with director Guillermo del Toro. The Hellboy filmmaker is making Pacific Rim for the financier company, having fun building giant monsters and robots to fight it out next summer in theaters.
From: Coming Attractions 03/12/2012

Has the supervillain for the Justice League movie been revealed?
According to Latino Review, the baddie that will plague Superman, Batman and the other members of Warner Bros. Justice League movie has been identified.
From: Coming Attractions 03/12/2012

Movie 43 trailer
From the twisted minds of producers Peter Farrelly (Hall Pass, Shallow Hal) and Charles Wessler (There's Something About Mary, Dumb & Dumber), comes Movie 43-- the outrageous new ensemble comedy starring some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
From: Film-News 03/12/2012

Check Out Julianne Moore And Jeff Bridges In First Pics From Seventh Son
Bridges must train an apprentice to defeat the malevolent Moore in this upcoming dark fantasy adventure film.
From: Screenrush 03/12/2012

First Star Trek Into Darkness Poster Features Benedict Cumberbatch Looking At A Scene Of Destruction
The first Star Trek Into Darkness teaser poster down is a down to Earth affair as Benedict Cumberbatch emerges from the rubble of something or other.
From: Screenrush 03/12/2012

OSCARS: 'Life Of Pi' Score
For Life Of Pi, his third collaboration with director Ang Lee, composer Mychael Danna incorporated the sounds of Asia especially India into a multicultural stew of a score.
From: Deadline 03/12/2012

Lincoln Center Hosts Tom Cruise Retrospective, Screening Of 'Jack Reacher'
A Tom Cruise retrospective might seem atypical of the often rarefied fare at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which considers itself "a pioneer among film institutions and one of the film world's most respected and influential arbiters of cinematic trends and discoveries".
From: Deadline 03/12/2012

OSCARS: Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat is nothing if not prolific. This year the quadruple Oscar-nominated composer will have five films in theaters.
From: Deadline 03/12/2012

NY Film Critics Circle: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Named Best Film; 'Lincoln' Wins Multiple Honors
The New York Film Critics Circle has named Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty its film of the year in voting going on right now in New York.
From: Deadline 03/12/2012

Janet Montgomery Finds 10 Things
Janet Montgomery isn't having a lot of luck cracking US telly leading status.
From: Empire Online 02/12/2012

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Off Highlander
Tthe director's chair on Summit's planned remake of Highlander has become something of a revolving door. The latest to be spun back out into the unforgiving weather outside is Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.
From: Empire Online 02/12/2012

European film awards fall for Michael Haneke's Amour
Helen Mirren honoured for achievement in world cinema, and Wim Wenders calls for greater investment in European film.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/12/2012

Seventh Son Pics Arrive
Peter Jackson's return to the world of Middle-earth with The Hobbit isn't the only fantasy series getting the film treatment in the coming months and years.
From: Empire Online 02/12/2012

Michael Bay-Produced Almanac Cribs From Back To The Future Part II
Michael Bay has seen Back to the Future Part II, right? I mean, has he seen it recently? Because the story for Bay's planned Almanac lifts a crucial subplot right out of Bob Gale's BTTF II screenplay, and I'm wondering if there's going to be a lawsuit.
From: Cinema Blend 02/12/2012

Winehouse's father: Gaga could play Amy
Amy Winehouse's father thinks Lady Gaga would "be great" in a biopic of the late star's life. Amy passed away in London last year following an alcohol binge. She was 27 and her father Mitch has repeatedly suggested he would like a movie of her life to be made.
From: Film-News 02/12/2012

Michael Haneke's 'Amour' Sweeps European Film Awards
The 25th European Film Awards were held this evening in Malta with Michael Haneke's Amour taking the best picture, director, actor and actress honors.
From: Deadline 02/12/2012

OSCARS: Distinguishing The Best Visual Effects Not As Easy As It May Look
Although the visual-effects Oscar race has long been dominated by summer season superhero epics and action-heavy films, a subtle shift has been taking place over the last few years that makes predicting the outcome a little more challenging than it used to be.
From: Deadline 02/12/2012

OSCARS: Re-Visualizing 'The Hobbit'
Although the wait is nearly over for the familiar goblins and mystical forests of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
From: Deadline 02/12/2012

R.I.P. Don Rhymer
Screenwriter Don Rhymer, whose credits included 20th Century Fox Animation' hit Rio and the CBS comedy Evening Shade, has died.
From: Deadline 01/12/2012

OSCARS: Animating 'ParaNorman'
Details are everything in animation, but ParaNorman producer Arianne Sutner knows all too well how difficult it can be to get them right.
From: Deadline 01/12/2012

OSCARS: Animating 'Rise Of The Guardians'
As a child, William Joyce wanted more answers about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and other mythical figures than his parents were able to give him. "I know where Superman came from "from planet Krypton"so what about this guy, the Easter Bunny?" says Joyce.
From: Deadline 01/12/2012

Global Showbiz Briefs: Pope Benedict Biopic, Netflix Rival In Mexico And More
The Odeon Film company said German producers Marcus Mende and Peter Weckert have acquired film rights to an upcoming biography of Pope Bendict XVI by journalist Peter Seewald.
From: Deadline 01/12/2012

Return to the News archive.