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Robin Williams went above and beyond to stop his image being used
Good Will Hunting actor signed deed banning use of his likeness in films and adverts in future despite privacy laws, and other celebrities could follow.
From: The Guardian - Film News 31/03/2015
Keira Knightley: 'Where are the female directors and writers?'
Keira Knightley has spoken out over the lack of women working behind the camera in Hollywood, in a new interview.
From: The Guardian - Film News 31/03/2015
Jackie Chan to shoot first Chinese-Indian co-production
A groundbreaking treaty between the film industries of India and China results in the shooting of Kung Fu Yoga this autumn.
From: The Guardian - Film News 31/03/2015
The grey knight: Burt Ward and Adam West announce animated Batman film
Stars of the 1960s TV show reveal they will be voicing the comic-book characters for a forthcoming feature-length animation.
From: The Guardian - Film News 31/03/2015
BBC drama chief Ben Stephenson joins JJ Abrams' Bad Robot
Executive responsible for shows including Sherlock, Call the Midwife and Wolf Hall to leave corporation after 11 years.
From: The Guardian - Film News 31/03/2015
Disney Developing Live-Action Mulan
Following Alice In Wonderland, Maleficent, the just-released Cinderella and the currently-filming Beauty And The Beast, Disney are heading east for their next live-action fairytale. The Mouse House are now putting together a new retelling of the Chinese legend Mulan. Newcoming team Elizabeth Martin and Lauren Hynek are at work on the screenplay.
From: Empire Online 31/03/2015
Colin Trevorrow Opens Book Of Henry
With the journey to Jurassic World already complete, director Colin Trevorrow already has Intelligent Life in his sights for the future. But he's now also signed up for a mysterious new project called The Book Of Henry.
From: Empire Online 31/03/2015
Metal Gear Solid Movie Finds A Writer
With director Jordan Vogt-Roberts apparently still attached to direct, the job of nailing down an actual screenplay for Sony's video game adaptation Metal Gear Solid is of slightly more pressing concern. That gig has fallen to Jay Basu, the British writer fresh from Monsters: Dark Continent.
From: Empire Online 31/03/2015
Tron 3 May Be Titled Tron: Ascension
The surprise news broke earlier this month that Joseph Kosinski's follow-up to Tron: Legacy was suddenly gearing up for an autumn shoot. Now it looks as if the title may have been revealed too. Tweets from industry journal Production Weekly casually suggest that it's Tron: Ascension, as if everybody knew that already.
From: Empire Online 31/03/2015
Stephen Dorff On For Leatherface
When news about the latest stab at a Texas Chainsaw prequel, now simply called Leatherface, arrived, it was that EastEnders' Sam Strike was being considered for the title role. There's no confirmation on his status, but Deadline reports that Stephen Dorff is on for a key character.
From: Empire Online 31/03/2015
Robert Z'Dar 1950-2015
The instantly recognisable movie actor Robert Z'Dar, who found cult stardom through roles like the titular villain in the Maniac Cop series, has died. He was 64.
From: Empire Online 31/03/2015
Hobbit star Martin Freeman appears in Labour election broadcast
Actor joins former Doctor Who star David Tennant in endorsing Ed Miliband for prime minister on the first day of the election campaign.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/03/2015
Hugh Jackman says next Wolverine movie will be his last
Hugh Jackman has confirmed the next solo Wolverine film will mark his final turn as the adamantium-clawed comic book anti-hero.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/03/2015
Robin Williams's wife and children take estate dispute to court
Susan Williams seeks to keep personal belongings in late comedian's San Francisco home, a request his children say goes against trust agreement.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/03/2015
Spock doc: Leonard Nimoy's son to direct film about Star Trek character
Announced a month after the actor's death, Leonard Nimoy's son Adam is to line up the documentary For the Love of Spock to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Star Trek's first appearance on TV.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/03/2015
James Bond crew investigated over 'rampage' on flight
Spectre crew members probed by FAA for drunken incident on board plane to Mexico to shoot 'biggest ever opening' for a Bond movie.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/03/2015
Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn collaborating with Steve McQueen
The author is co-writing McQueen's next film, a remake of Lynda La Plante's TV series Widows.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/03/2015
Sequels in disguise: Transformers cinematic universe on the way
Paramount planning an Avengers-style expansion of Michael Bay's robotic franchise.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/03/2015
Antonio Banderas: People are the paps now
Antonio Banderas thinks "everyone" is a paparazzo these days.
The actor is best known for parts in films such as Evita and The Mask of Zorro but is now targeting a very young audience by voicing Burger Beard in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
From: Film-News 30/03/2015
Weinstein Company Wins 8-Figure U.S. Rights Auction For Matthew McConaughey Starrer 'Gold'
The Weinstein Company has acquired U.S. rights to Gold, the Stephen Gaghan-directed film that will star Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez. The deal is in the vicinity of a $15 million minimum guarantee and a P&A guarantee north of $20 million to properly market a release on at least 2500 screens.
From: Deadline 30/03/2015
First Teaser For Patrick Stewart's Blunt Talk
Nearly a year ago, we learned that US TV was giving Patrick Stewart a platform on which to be funny again, via the Seth MacFarlane-produced cable sitcom Blunt Talk. The first full teaser for the show has arrived.
From: Empire Online 29/03/2015
Simon Helberg Set For Florence Foster Jenkins
Simon Helberg is probably best known at the moment for playing nerdy engineer Howard Wolowitz in sitcom The Big Bang Theory (or if you're into deep geeky cuts, Moist from Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog). He's had a few parts in movies, but it set for a bigger role in Stephen Frears' new film, Florence Foster Jenkins, which will see the actor sharing the screen with Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant.
From: Empire Online 29/03/2015
Audra McDonald Joins Beauty And The Beast
Bill Condon has been building quite the ensemble for Disney's new live-action Beauty And The Beast and he's just upped the movie's theatre cred by one. Tony winner Audra McDonald has joined the cast to play living wardrobe Garderobe.
From: Empire Online 29/03/2015
Alessandra Ambrosio Joins Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
There has been little buzz around the fact that Paramount is pushing ahead with a sequel to last year's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But the studio, looking to capitalise on the $485 million worldwide box office of the reboot, has the cameras rolling with Earth To Echo's Dave Green directing. We know that Will Arnett will be back as smarmy cameraman Vernon Fenwick and The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Victoria's Secret supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio is set to join him as the character's new girlfriend.
From: Empire Online 29/03/2015
Bill Hader Finds The BFG
Having entered the post-production phase on his latest, Cold War thriller Bridge Of Spies, Steven Spielberg is now splitting his time between finishing that and gearing up to make Roald Dahl adaptation The BFG. He's just hired Bill Hader to play one of the giants.
From: Empire Online 29/03/2015
Interstellar Wins Best Film At The Empire Awards
Empire magazine's night of nights - the 25th Jameson Empire Awards - lit up London's Grosvenor House ballroom.
From: Empire Online 29/03/2015
11 Major Things We Learned From The Set Of Spectre, The New James Bond Movie
The pressure is high. Sam Mendes is on his fourth day of shooting Spectre in Mexico City when press arrived on the set, and rain was derailing the day.
From: Cinema Blend 29/03/2015
Pegg: Star Trek movie will be like series
Simon Pegg has revealed the new Star Trek film will have the same spirit as the original television show.
As well as starring in the upcoming movie - the third in the rebooted franchise - Simon is also helping to write the screenplay.
From: Film-News 29/03/2015
Bill Hader Joins Steven Spielberg's The BFG, Get The Details
Mid last year it was announced Steven Spielberg would direct an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's classic The BFG. With a still only a small cast thus far announced, the project has most definitely generated some fan interest with the latest addition of Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader.
From: Cinema Blend 28/03/2015
How Joss Whedon Feels About The Flash And X-Men Comparisons To His Quicksilver
With Quicksilver to show up in Avengers: Age of Ultron in just over a month, fans are likely to have lots of thoughts and comparisons to that of his X-Men: Days of Future Past counterpart.
From: Cinema Blend 28/03/2015
How Many More Wolverine Movies? Hugh Jackman Just Told Us
Last we heard from Hugh Jackman, he made it fairly clear he did not want to give up his signature role as Wolverine in the X-Men franchise. But, looks like Jackman may be letting go of his adamantium claws a little sooner than we had previously thought.
From: Cinema Blend 28/03/2015
Get Hard highlights Hollywood's 'toxic representation' of gay characters
Critics have criticized Will Ferrell's new film for its negative portrayal of homosexuality, but campaigners say it is symptomatic of a wider problem.
From: The Guardian - Film News 27/03/2015
Star Wars sets are safe from Isis, say Tunisian officials
CNN stated that the sets used in Star Wars, and the town of Tataouine that inspired George Lucas to name the planet Tatooine, were under threat - but Tunisian authorities are reassuring visitors that the report was inaccurate.
From: The Guardian - Film News 27/03/2015
Matthew McConaughey to lead wine fraud drama The Billionaire's Vinegar
The Oscar-winner will star in story of how wine collectors were led to believe they were buying bottles that had belonged to Thomas Jefferson.
From: The Guardian - Film News 27/03/2015
Julia Louis-Dreyfus set to star in Force Majeure remake
Seinfeld and Veep actor in talks to lead Hollywood take on award-winning Swedish dark comedy.
From: The Guardian - Film News 27/03/2015
Ben Mendelsohn set for Star Wars spin-off Rogue One
Animal Kingdom and Bloodline star tipped to take the lead opposite Felicity Jones in Gareth Edwards' new episode in the Star Wars saga.
From: The Guardian - Film News 26/03/2015
Sam Taylor-Johnson departs Fifty Shades of Grey movie sequels
Director will not return for Fifty Shades Darker; also departing is screenwriter Kelly Marcel, with novelist EL James taking reins.
From: The Guardian - Film News 26/03/2015
Steven Spielberg to direct adaptation of virtual reality novel Ready Player One
Oscar-winning director will take on cult sci-fi book after making Roald Dahl's The BFG.
From: The Guardian - Film News 26/03/2015
Hannibal Writer Turns To Friday The 13th
There's been an eerie silence at Crystal Lake since the 2009 Platinum Dunes Friday The 13th, which was followed only by legal tangles and creative problems. Since then there's been talk of a new TV series, but the 13th film in the franchise is now moving forward again too. David Bruckner, as previously reported, is directing, and the film now has a new screenwriter in Hannibal's Nick Antosca.
From: Empire Online 26/03/2015
BBC Films reach 25th anniversary with Armando Iannucci's David Copperfield
The BBC will briefly be distracted from the Jeremy Clarkson controversy on Wednesday as the 25th anniversary of its feature film arm, BBC Films, is celebrated with a reception at the Radio Theatre inside its New Broadcasting House building in central London.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/03/2015
Fest and furious: Mad Max reboot to premiere at Cannes
The premiere of Australian director George Miller's return to the Mad Max franchise has been announced as part of this year's Cannes film festival.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/03/2015
Idris Elba linked to villain role in Star Trek 3
Luther star eyed for lead baddie role in upcoming sci-fi sequel opposite Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/03/2015
Idris Elba to headline Harmony Korine revenge drama The Trap
Miami gangster-rap follow-up to Spring Breakers will also star Al Pacino, Robert Pattinson, James Franco and Benicio del Toro.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/03/2015
Bryan Singer Casts Jubilee For X-Men: Apocalypse
After a couple of trade magazine newsbreaks, we're back in more normal territory for the latest casting announcement for X-Men: Apocalypse.
From: Empire Online 25/03/2015
Jason Segel Creating Lego Spin-Off Film
Not content with two spin-offs and one sequel to The Lego Movie, Warner Bros. is making plans for another related film to be built by Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Roy Lee's Bricksburg Chamber of Commerce. The team has Jason Segel and Iron Man 3 writer Drew Pearce developing The Billion Brick Race.
From: Empire Online 25/03/2015
Super Troopers 2 Is A Go
Way back in 2001, a comedy troupe calling themselves Broken Lizard - that would be Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske - launched their second full-length film on the world with Super Troopers.
From: Empire Online 25/03/2015
Fox Wants To Revisit The Alien Nation
Alien Nation arrived in cinemas in 1988, using a sci-fi concept of aliens integrating into human society to explore ideas of immigration, segregation, culture clash and slavery wrapped in a mismatched buddy cop action film starring James Caan as human cop Matthew Sykes and Mandy .
From: Empire Online 25/03/2015
Armando Iannnucci Plans New David Copperfield
As part of an event to celebrate 25 years in business, BBC Films has launched a big new slate of projects. One of the cornerstones will be The Thick Of It's Armando Iannucci working on a new version of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield with regular collaborator Simon Blackwell.
From: Empire Online 25/03/2015
Bruce Campbell Will Be Ronald Reagan
With the success of the first season behind it, Team Fargo is preparing to travel back in time narratively for the second set of episodes featuring "true" crimes in frosty climes. Creator/show runner Noah Hawley has been busy building his cast and has scored a fun addition: Bruce Campbell will play Ronald Reagan.
From: Empire Online 25/03/2015
First Look At Jesse Eisenberg As Batman V Superman's Lex Luthor
More than a year after his casting was first announced, we're finally getting a first proper, official look at Jesse Eisenberg as he appears in Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, playing the key antagonist role of classic Superman troublemaker Lex Luthor. And yes, he's gone suitably shiny-bonced for the role, as seen in this image via Entertainment Weekly.
From: Empire Online 25/03/2015
The X-Files Are Officially Re-Opening
After years of wondering whether The X-Files would come back in any form - TV, movies, sock puppet show - it looked good for a return to television earlier this year. That has now been confirmed by Fox: the show and its characters will return to investigate more mysteries in a six-episode "event series" much along the lines of 24: Live Another Day.
From: Empire Online 25/03/2015
Star Trek 3 May Pick Idris Elba For A Major Villain Role
Star Trek 3 is placed in a quandary. How does it up the villain ante after Benedict Cumberbatch's Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness? The second installment had its fair share of critics — actually, a lot of them — but the Sherlock star bathed his lines with glorious purpose. Who could possibly top that? How about Idris Elba?
From: Cinema Blend 25/03/2015
Maggie Trailer: Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Protect His Zombie Daughter
If you've ever wondered what happened to the little girl from Little Miss Sunshine, the answer is here: she became a member of the walking dead. The first Maggie trailer proves this is zombie flick like none you've ever seen before. Who knew Arnold Schwarzenegger was a big ole' softie, but he'll shed a tear or two if it means keeping his infected daughter safe from the government.
From: Cinema Blend 25/03/2015
10-Year-Old Is Convinced He's The Reincarnation Of An Old Hollywood Actor
Have you ever looked at a still from an early Hollywood movie, pointed out some random obscure extra and thought, "That's me. That's who I was." No? Well then you're probably on the same boat as anyone else on the planet who isn't a specific 10-year-old Oklahoma boy named Ryan. His peculiar predicament since the age of 4 has allegedly forced him to reconcile with a voice from his past…life, that is. He believes that he's the reincarnation of an obscure old-time Hollywood figure named Marty Martyn, and he's been citing eerily accurate facts to back up his claims.
From: Cinema Blend 25/03/2015
The Actors Who Can Make $20 Million For Acting In One Movie
The movie business is in kind of a "best of times, worst of times" state. While big-budget bonanza tentpoles are practically printing money, the collective state of the film industry is looking at a slow but inevitable sea change.
From: Cinema Blend 25/03/2015
Jason Segel Is Going Into Business With The LEGO Movie Franchise
It appears that the burgeoning film franchise that was launched last year with The LEGO Movie is getting a rather curious choice of filmmakers for one of its upcoming spinoff films.
From: Cinema Blend 25/03/2015
Guillermo del Toro to publish first children's book
Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro will publish his first children's book TROLLHUNTERS in the UK with Hot Key Books.
Rights have already sold to 11 translation territories and the UK & Commonwealth rights were won in a hotly contested auction.
From: Film-News 25/03/2015
'Apu Trilogy' Restored, PBS Gets 'Inside The Court Of Henry VIII' — Global Briefs
Janus Films has announced the release of new 4K restorations of Satiyajit Ray's Bengali-language cinematic milestone The Apu Trilogy. With the original negatives severely damaged in a nitrate fire in 1993, restoration of the trilogy, considered to be perhaps the greatest film in Indian film history, was long thought impossible.
From: Deadline 25/03/2015
Roger Mayer Dies; Longtime MPTF Chairman Was 89
Roger Mayer, a philanthropist and former studio executive who served as the chairman of the Motion Picture and Television Fund for eight years, died Tuesday, the MPTF said today. He was 89.
From: Deadline 25/03/2015
Sony Assembles 1980s Sci-Fi Anime 'Robotech'; Idris Elba Eyed For 'Star Trek 3′
1980s sci-fi anime series Robotech is being fast-tracked for the big screen by Sony. The studio acquired rights to the toon with an eye on developing it as a worldwide franchise.
From: Deadline 25/03/2015
Patty Hearst Kidnapped Heiress Story To Be Fox 2000 Film; Jeffrey Toobin Book Sells With 'Big Eyes' Scribes Adapting
Elizabeth Gabler's Fox 2000 has acquired an untitled book that Jeffrey Toobin is writing about Patty Hearst, the heiress kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 and brainwashed into becoming a bank robber and spokesman for the radical group's causes before serving 22 months behind bars.
From: Deadline 25/03/2015
'Likeable' host James Corden wins over critics on his first Late Late Show
Star-studded guest list, including Tom Hanks, help British actor to successful debut as frontman for chat show on US network CBS.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/03/2015
Films that pass the Bechdel test plummet in 2014
The number of films featuring positive depictions of women has dropped significantly, according to new research.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/03/2015
Cross training: Universal releasing Christian edition of Unbroken
Special edition 'Legacy of Faith' DVD will feature an extra disc with bonus material aimed at a religious audience.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/03/2015
Charlie the Abusive Teddy Bear creators drop lawsuit against Seth MacFarlane's Ted
Bengal Mangle productions concede that 'Ted character was independently created by Seth MacFarlane using his own efforts and creativity'
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/03/2015
Peta claims owls mistreated on Harry Potter studio tour
Complaints from fans of the boy wizard prompt protest against the alleged exploitation of animals for entertainment at Warner Bros Studio Tour.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/03/2015
Gary Barlow reveals musical based on Calendar Girls
The Girls is set for premiere in Leeds in November, with Barlow hoping the production will have the feel of a village hall.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/03/2015
Charlotte Gainsbourg returns to the end of the world for Independence Day 2
Melancholia star to face apocalypse again in Roland Emmerich's belated follow-up to the alien-busting blockbuster.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/03/2015
Mail Online puts shallow gloss on Salma Hayek's comments
Actor speaks out about the representation of women in the media - but site's coverage focuses largely on her appearance.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/03/2015
Abel Ferrara accused of 'slinging mud' over Welcome to New York US edit
IFC Films claims the director's lack of involvement forced it to re-cut his satire inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/03/2015
Carole King musical to be made into a Hollywood biopic
The film, based on the Broadway and West End hit, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, will be produced by Sony.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/03/2015
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation TV Spot Sneaks Online
We've all been wondering, especially since the film is due out in a scant few months, what the latest Mission: Impossible movie is called, beyond, you know "Five."
From: Empire Online 22/03/2015
Gal Gadot Had This Awesome Response To Her Boobs Being Too Small For Wonder Woman
There's been a lot of talk about Gal Gadot's body, with regards to how it compares to that of Wonder Woman's, the character she will soon embody in a slew of DC films set to hit theaters over the course of the next four years.
From: Cinema Blend 22/03/2015
Weekend Box Office: Insurgent Commands Top Spot, Gunman Misfires
The Divergent Series returned to theaters this weekend with the second of four movies in the film franchise. One year after Divergent opened at number one with $54 million, its sequel did exactly the same thing.
From: Cinema Blend 22/03/2015
Tony Winner 'Beautiful: The Carole King Musical' Gets Film Adaptation From Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures is turning the Tony Award-winning 'Beautiful: The Carol King Musical' into a feature film, the studio announced today. Douglas McGrath, who wrote the book for the hit production, will be adapting it, with original stage producer Paul Blake sharing production credit with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone.
From: Deadline 22/03/2015
Kenneth Branagh's corseted Cinderella fails the Frozen test, say critics
Remake criticised for putting clock back to a time before fairytale heroines became feisty and strong - and for the severely tight waistline on Cinders' gown.
From: The Guardian - Film News 21/03/2015
Afghan skateboarding? A call-to-prayer contest? New Muslim channel has it all
Tucked away in a former chocolate factory in Wood Green in north London, a team of producers are huddled around footage of a man enthusiastically practising the call to prayer.
From: The Guardian - Film News 21/03/2015
The Rock's Black Adam May Be Featured Sooner Than We Thought
While there were previously some rumors, speculation and teasing that Dwayne Johnson may appear as Black Adam in a Warner Bros./DC film released prior to 2019's Shazam, nothing has thus far come to light to give fans any certainty. We still can't etch it in stone, but it now sounds a bit more promising that the highly-anticipated character may indeed pop up much sooner than we thought.
From: Cinema Blend 21/03/2015
GLAAD Awards: 'Transparent' Creator Jill Soloway Accepts Comedy Series Honor
"Amazon. What were they thinking?" This feels right, to some of us at least. Accepting the GLAAD Media Award for Best Comedy Series, Transparent creator-writer-producer Jill Soloway had plenty to say (see video of her acceptance speech here), but pretty much sums up her feelings with "GLAAD makes the world safer for people to walk out of their front door." Awards were handed out tonight at the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
From: Deadline 21/03/2015
Abel Ferrara And 'Welcome To New York': Is The Controversy Just For Show?
Abel Ferrara's Welcome To New York premiered in Cannes last May as it simultaneously went out on VOD in France in an unconventional release strategy for Wild Bunch.
From: Deadline 21/03/2015
Down at Fraggle Rock: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor signs up for big screen version of the popular kids' show, which featured cave-dwelling puppets created by Jim Henson.
From: The Guardian - Film News 20/03/2015
The Interview: South Korea bans balloon drop of DVDs into North
Government in Seoul says it will intervene to stop stunt as it would do more harm than good, putting residents along the border at risk of retaliation.
From: The Guardian - Film News 20/03/2015
Ian Colletti Is Preacher's Arseface
We still don't have a Jesse Custer, but following yesterday's announcements of Ruth Negga as Tulip, the Preacher TV series has now also found its Arseface. Ian Colletti, most recently seen as Finn in Fox's legal drama Rake, will be taking on the legendary mantle and wearing what's presumably going to be quite an extensive facial prosthetic.
From: Empire Online 20/03/2015
Sony Heads To Verona
What light through yonder studio exec's window breaks? Tis the dawn of a new version of William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet, Verona, that Sony is currently looking to bundle onto its slate, like an apothecary stocking up on marketable potions.
From: Empire Online 20/03/2015
Wayward Pines Teaser Drives In
Small, isolated towns that seem perfectly wonderful always have to end up harbouring dark, violent and potential twisted secrets. It's a rule. It's a thing. It's a wonder anyone ever goes near them. But sometimes you just have to, or there'd be no drama. The teaser for M. Night Shyamalan and Chad Hodge's new mystery series Wayward Pines is online.
From: Empire Online 20/03/2015
Keanu Reeves Finds The Bad Batch
The intriguing The Bad Batch - whose title really doesn't give much of a hint as to its out there concept - already boasts Jason Momoa in the lead. Now an eclectic group of actors is joining him in the film, with Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Suki Waterhouse and Diego Luna jumping aboard.
From: Empire Online 20/03/2015
Lionsgate Developing Robin Hood: Origins
Despite its Lincoln green - sorry, evergreen - nature as a story that can be told again and again across a variety of movies and TV shows through the years, can even Robin Hood withstand not one, not two but now three different takes on one character in development? We'll find out, because Lionsgate wants to develop Joby Harold's script Robin Hood: Origins.
From: Empire Online 20/03/2015
Ehren Kruger Scripting Brothers Grimm TV Series
Fairy tales on telly? Nah, no-one wants to watch that, surely? Because we don't already have Once Upon A Time, Grimm, Beauty And The Beast... Miramax clearly sees there's an appetite for them, and has pressed Brothers Grimm screenwriter Ehren Kruger to develop and TV series based on the Terry Gilliam film.
From: Empire Online 20/03/2015
Mark Millar's Chrononauts Head For Universal
Fast becoming his own comicbook movie mogul to rival Marvel and DC, Kick-Ass and Kingsman creator Mark Millar has just sold yet another property into screen development. His Chrononauts series has just been nabbed by Universal, to be produced by Fast & Furious honcho Chris Morgan.
From: Empire Online 20/03/2015
Director Sarah Polley paired up with Little Women adaptation
Canadian film-maker to helm latest big-screen version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about four sisters coming of age in 19th-century New England.
From: The Guardian - Film News 19/03/2015
Sean Penn: shooting The Gunman doesn't make me a 'geri-action hero'
Sean Penn has denied suggestions he is moving into a Liam Neeson-style "geri-action hero" era after shooting upcoming geopolitical thriller The Gunman.
From: The Guardian - Film News 19/03/2015
James Bond producer says Mexico didn't make changes to Spectre script
The producer of the new James Bond thriller Spectre has denied the script was changed to get incentives in Mexico.
From: The Guardian - Film News 19/03/2015
Dane Dehaan On For Two Lovers And A Bear
For our money one of the most watchable and unusual young actors about, Dane DeHaan has been mixing quirky indie films with bigger box-office fodder. For every ill-fated (in every sense) appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, there's been a Kill Your Darlings and a Place Beyond The Pines, and now he's dipping his toes back into indie waters with romance Two Lovers And A Bear.
From: Empire Online 19/03/2015
Nick Frost Back For The Huntsman
Back in January, there was some concern that the Snow White And The Huntsman prequel - simply called The Huntsman - would be rather lacking in the dwarfular department thanks to story directions and scheduling issues. Good news on that front! Nick Frost, who played Nion in the first film, will be back for this one, with Sheridan Smith, Rob Brydon and Alexandra Roach also signing on.
From: Empire Online 19/03/2015
The One Superhero Jim Parsons Really Wants To Play
Jim Parsons has made a name for himself playing the offbeat, often times patronizing, lovable genius Sheldon Cooper on CBS' hit series The Big Bang Theory.
From: Cinema Blend 19/03/2015
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is Making A Fraggle Rock Movie, And We're All-In On It
We've been hearing reports about a Fraggle Rock movie dating back to 2009 - and while we've been burned multiple times since then, it now sounds as though the project is legitimately moving forward.
From: Cinema Blend 19/03/2015
Morena Baccarin's Deadpool Character Revealed
The Deadpool movie is finally starting production shortly, and one of the side-effects of that seems to be character confirmations.
From: Cinema Blend 19/03/2015
Keanu Reeves & Jim Carrey Top 'The Bad Batch' Cast; Jason Momoa Confirmed
Dystopian love story The Bad Batch has pulled together a cast that would set even stone hearts aflutter. Diego Luna and Suki Waterhouse along with Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey have joined the Ana Lily Amirpour-directed pic from Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures and VICE. As rumored, Jason Momoa also is on board. Amirpour was announced as the director on the film back in January.
From: Deadline 19/03/2015
Bryan Cranston-led Dalton Trumbo biopic pitched for 2016 Oscars run
With a post-Breaking Bad Bryan Cranston in the lead role and a storyline that delves into the worst excesses of the anti-communist McCarthy era, the biopic Trumbo always had the potential for awards-season success. Now distributor Bleecker Street has confirmed the film will get a US theatrical release in the autumn, timing which suggests it is being pitched for a run at the 2016 Oscars.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/03/2015
Lady Gaga Oscars performance a travesty, says Stephen Sondheim
The Broadway legend slams Gaga's performance, in which she performed a medley of songs from the Sound of Music.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/03/2015
Ashley Judd to press charges against Twitter users over sexual harassment
The star of the Divergent series has said 'the amount of gender violence I experience is absolutely extraordinary'.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/03/2015
Love is ... five gay films going global in the name of human rights
Five gay-themed films are to be made available free of charge to a worldwide audience and actively promoted in more than 70 countries, the British Council and the British Film Institute will announce on Wednesday.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/03/2015
Let The Right One In To Be Adapted Again
First it was a novel, then an acclaimed Swedish movie, then a surprisingly classy English-language remake, and then two separate stage productions. Now John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let The Right One In is heading for yet another adaptation, this time as a TV series for the American cable network A&E.
From: Empire Online 18/03/2015
UK Govt Unveils New Incentives For Media Biz In Pre-Election Budget
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne today unveiled improved incentives for the film, TV and videogame business as he delivered his final budget before the country's general election May 7.
From: Deadline 18/03/2015
Asif Kapadia's Amy Winehouse Docu Sets July UK Release Via Altitude
The UK's Altitude Film Distribution has set a July 3 release for the Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, almost four years to the day of her untimely death at 27. The story of the British singer's life and career is directed by BAFTA-winning Senna helmer Asif Kapadia.
From: Deadline 18/03/2015
Steven Spielberg Replaces John Williams On His Tom Hanks Thriller Bridge Of Spies
Having big time collaborators on board a project are almost always a sure fire way to make sure a filmmaker's cinematic vision makes it to the big screen intact. Just ask Steven Spielberg, who's two biggest collaborators, Tom Hanks and John Williams, were all set to join him on his latest film - the formerly untitled Cold War drama, now entitled Bridge Of Spies.
From: Cinema Blend 18/03/2015
Star Wars: Rogue One - Alexandre Desplat set to score
The Oscar-winning composer of The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alexandre Desplat, has revealed he will score the new Star Wars spin-off movie Rogue One, according to reports.
From: The Guardian - Film News 17/03/2015
Clint Eastwood: American Sniper and I are anti-war
American Sniper director Clint Eastwood has said that the film, about legendarily lethal marksman Chris Kyle and his tours in Iraq, is anti-war.
From: The Guardian - Film News 17/03/2015
Batman 'to have bogeyman role' in Suicide Squad
Reports suggest Ben Affleck's dark knight will be a shadowy background figure in the all-star supervillain epic.
From: The Guardian - Film News 17/03/2015
Blue Thunder Remake Rumbling At Sony
Surveillance and the militarisation of the police is a tightly topical theme at the moment, much as it was when chopper thriller Blue Thunder flew into cinemas back in 1983. Sony has decided to update the idea with a reboot, hiring Marvel regular Craig Kyle to write the script.
From: Empire Online 17/03/2015
Annabelle Wallis Recruited For Guy Ritchie's King Arthur
With filming under way, we're learning a lot about Guy Ritchie's first film in his planned series of movies about the Arthurian legends, Knights Of The Round Table: King Arthur. Now we also know that Annabelle Wallis is part of the cast.
From: Empire Online 17/03/2015
Freddie Stroma Joins 13 Hours
The cast for Michael Bay's new true-life military thriller 13 Hours continues to fill out. Freddie Stroma, a veteran of the Harry Potter films and Pitch Perfect, has landed a role.
From: Empire Online 17/03/2015
Fox International Productions Acquires Hot Commercials Director Anthony Hoffman's 'Fox Hunt' Project
Acclaimed international commercial director Antony Hoffman has set up his feature directorial debut Fox Hunt with Fox International Pictures' president Sanford Panitch. Panitch, widely respected as one of the savviest studio execs working in the international arena, sparked to Hoffman's pitch about making a car chase action pic in China.
From: Deadline 17/03/2015
Warner Bros Acquires Tony Jaswinski Sci-Fi Pitch 'Variant'
Warner Bros has made a low-six-figure deal for Variant, a female-driven sci-fi action script from screenwriter Tony Jaswinski that was pitched in a competitive situation. Weimaraner Republic Pictures, also behind the scribe's shark tale spec In The Deep that recently sold to Sony Pictures in another bidding battle, is producing this one too.
From: Deadline 17/03/2015
Annabelle Wallis Joins Guy Ritchie's 'Knights Of The Roundtable: King Arthur'
Busy British actress Annabelle Wallis has been cast in Guy Ritchie's epic project Knights Of The Roundtable: King Arthur. I've learned that the Annabelle star will play Maid Maggie in the film that sees Charlie Hunnam as the man who pulled the sword from the stone. Warner Bros has dated it for July 22, 2016.
From: Deadline 17/03/2015
Paul Feig: Ghostbusters reboot criticism is 'vile, misogynistic shit'
The Bridesmaids director has hit back at detractors who said the announcement of his all-female Ghostbusters had destroyed their childhoods.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/03/2015
Ex Machina stunt at SXSW has users falling for a robot on Tinder
App-users at the SXSW festival in Austin have been unwittingly mimicking the plot of Alex Garland's new film, by finding themselves quizzed by a gorgeous robot-in-disguise.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/03/2015
Judd Apatow's Trainwreck stays on the right track at SXSW
Director and producer's latest muse Amy Schumer stars in work-in-progress version of the film, screened at the festival in Austin.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/03/2015
Alexandre Desplat To Score Star Wars: Rogue One
As an addendum to last week's details about Gareth Edwards' Star Wars spin-off Rogue One, it's been revealed that Alexandre Desplat will be providing the score. John Williams will be busy with Episodes VII-IX, but he can't do everything.
From: Empire Online 16/03/2015
What PETA Wants Tim Burton To Change Dumbo's Ending To
With the recent announcement confirming that Tim Burton will direct a live-action rendition of Dumbo, the venerable animated Disney tale about a young circus elephant whose big ears allows him to fly, expectations were certainly formed in the minds of a lot people.
From: Cinema Blend 16/03/2015
What Was With That Bizarre Cameo In Run All Night?
If you saw Run All Night this weekend, you either loved it or you hated it. While it is a film that primarily focuses on surface level emotional detail, it makes up for this shallowness by providing a seriously intriguing chase through the back alleys of a New York we don't often see in the movies.
From: Cinema Blend 16/03/2015
How Batman Probably Will Be Used In Suicide Squad
Batman is expected to cast a long shadow over the events of David Ayer's Suicide Squad, and not just because he's probably responsible for most - if not all - of the characters featured in the super-villain team up being in jail.
From: Cinema Blend 16/03/2015
Furious 7 Is A Ridiculous, Fun Ride
The SXSW Film Festival has an absolutely packed line-up this year, with great movies from interesting filmmakers playing all through the week, but on Sunday the annual event added one more title to its roster.
From: Cinema Blend 16/03/2015
'Blackbird' YA Novel Acquired By Lionsgate With Danny Mackey In Talks To Adapt
Lionsgate has acquired the novel Blackbird from author Anna Carey in a competitive situation and is in negotiations with Danny Mackey to pen the adaptation. It will be the latest YA book-to-film play from the studio that has reaped such enormous windfalls for Summit's The Twilight Saga and its own The Hunger Games. Alloy Entertainment will produce.
From: Deadline 16/03/2015
Studio 8 Picks Up Short 'The Brain Hack' For Feature Treatment
Jeff Robinov's Studio 8 has just picked up another project as it is hitting the ground running since joined with Sony and Chinese investor Fosun Group. Studio 8 has just acquired the feature rights to the high concept thriller The Brain Hack from writer/director Joe White.
From: Deadline 16/03/2015
Nat Wolff Takes Lead In James Franco's 'In Dubious Battle'
Nat Wolff, who stars this summer in Fox's John Green adaptation Paper Towns, has just been cast as the lead in the James Franco-directed In Dubious Battle, based on the 1936 Steinbeck novel.
From: Deadline 16/03/2015
'Beauty And The Beast' Redo Gets March 2017 Release Date
Riding the momentum of its live-action revamps of classic fairy tale stories including this past weekend's big debut for Cinderella, Disney has set a March 17, 2017, release date for Beauty And The Beast.
From: Deadline 16/03/2015
'Captive' Starring David Oyelowo & Kate Mara Acquired By Paramount
Paramount Pictures has secured worldwide distribution rights to Captive, the based-on-a-true-story thriller starring Selma's David Oyelowo and Kate Mara. The studio has already set a September 18, 2015 release date.
From: Deadline 16/03/2015
Lionsgate UK Jumps For 'Eddie The Eagle'
Lionsgate UK has acquired UK rights to Dexter Fletcher's Eddie The Eagle, the story of Great Britain's first ski jumper to enter the Winter Olympics. The film has just gone into production in the Alps and will move to the UK next month.
From: Deadline 16/03/2015
Marvel Unveils A New Star Wars Comic Cover
A few days ago, Disney revealed plans to launch a Bantha-sized load of books, comics and other media to plug some of the Star Wars narrative gaps between Return Of The Jedi and this year's The Force Awakens. With Marvel a key part of the Mouse House's sprawling franchise tent, the comics company was naturally involved. Now it has launched the cover for one of the titles aimed for later this year, Star Wars: Journey to The Force Awakens - Shattered Empire.
From: Empire Online 15/03/2015
Jordan Vogt-Roberts Adapting The Stars My Destination
As he prepares to make his first leap from the lower budget likes of Kings Of Summer with Kong: Skull Island, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts is looking to add other big projects for the future. He's now attached to handle Paramount's take on Alfred Bester's classic sci-fi novel The Stars My Destination.
From: Empire Online 15/03/2015
Josh Gad Joins Disney's New Beauty And The Beast
Josh Gad firmly entrenched himself in Disney history thanks to his voicing (and singing as) loveable living snowman Olaf in Frozen. He'll be back for more frosty frolicking in the sequel, but appears ready to tackle a live-action challenge for the Mouse House. He's set to play a bumbling sidekick in the new version of Beauty And The Beast.
From: Empire Online 15/03/2015
Kevin Smith Says He's Writing A Mallrats Sequel
Years since he said he was retiring from directing to focus on podcasting and his love of weed, Kevin Smith is still going strong, with his filmmaking fire seemingly re-ignited by the likes of Red State, Tusk, the upcoming Yoga Hosers and more. With Clerks III already planned, he now appears ready to re-visit another part of his early career, letting slip that he's working on a sequel to 1995's Mallrats.
From: Empire Online 15/03/2015
Genndy Tartakovsky Departs Sony's CGI Popeye
Bad news for anyone anticipating Samurai Jack/Hotel Transylvania director Genndy Tartakovsky bringing his life-long Popeye obsession to fruition at Sony Pictures Animation: he's no longer involved. Tartakovsky has announced that he's off the project and will focus on other films for the studio.
From: Empire Online 15/03/2015
Spectre crew 'spruce up Rome'
James Bond film crews have helped clean up downtrodden parts of Rome.
The next instalment in the 007 franchise, Spectre, has been filming in the Italian capital and initially its inhabitants were worried about the disruption it might cause.
From: Film-News 15/03/2015
Cate Blanchett's evil step-mother studies
Cate Blanchett considered what makes people ugly and wicked before shooting Cinderella.
The Oscar-winning actress stars as evil step-mother Lady Tremaine in the upcoming live action retelling of the fairytale, directed by Kenneth Branagh.
From: Film-News 15/03/2015
Bart & Fleming: On Alex Gibney's HBO Scientology Documentary And Tom Cruise
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.
From: Deadline 15/03/2015
Robert Durst Of 'The Jinx' Arrested On Los Angeles County Murder Warrant
Robert Durst, the subject of HBO documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, was arrested Saturday night in New Orleans in connection with a Los Angeles County murder investigation. The New York Times first reported the news.
From: Deadline 15/03/2015
Ava Duvernay: 'Studios not lining up to make films about black protagonists'
Selma director delivers keynote speech at SXSW and talks about struggles as an independent filmmaker, furor over Selma and how awards aren't everything.
From: The Guardian - Film News 14/03/2015
SpongeBob coming to London
On Monday March 16, everyone's favourite sea-based character will be heading to our shores to spread his trademark-brand of joy for The Day of Positivity.
SpongeBob and a troop of over 60 of his cheeriest friends will be travelling across London, spreading joy in our capital. Locations include:
Canary Wharf
Waterloo Station
Trafalgar Square
Leicester Square
From: Film-News 14/03/2015
'Big Hero 6′: No. 1 Animated Movie Worldwide 2014
Inspired by the Marvel comic books about a group of improbable heroes, Big Hero 6 has also surpassed Tangled to become Disney's third biggest animated release globally, after Frozen and The Lion King.
From: Deadline 14/03/2015
Hearst Castle to screen Citizen Kane in newspaper baron's private theater
Hearst Castle is hosting a screening on Friday of Citizen Kane, the classic Orson Welles film that infuriated the castle's former owner, William Randolph Hearst.
From: The Guardian - Film News 13/03/2015
Russell Brand cancels same-day SXSW appearance
Brand has pulled out of helping promote documentary Brand: A Second Coming, calling the experience of watching it 'uncomfortable' and cancelled keynote speech planned later in festival.
From: The Guardian - Film News 13/03/2015
Welsh assembly refuses James Bond licence to film
Goings on in the Welsh assembly's main building, the Senedd, have long been criticised as boring and sterile.
From: The Guardian - Film News 13/03/2015
Clearing the air: Disney to ban smoking in all future movies
Cigarettes to be excluded from forthcoming films, including Marvel and Star Wars properties, CEO Bob Iger tells shareholders.
From: The Guardian - Film News 13/03/2015
Mexico offered James Bond film studios millions to shoot its good side
Officials offered Sony Pictures and MGM up to $20m in tax incentives to make changes to upcoming Bond film that cast country in positive light.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/03/2015
Mother of Midnight Rider victim Sarah Jones shames Hollywood Reporter for publishing autopsy
The mother of the camera operator who died while filming a biopic of the southern rock musician Gregg Allman - leading to the imprisonment of its director - has expressed her shock that the US trade magazine printed details from her daughter's autopsy report.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/03/2015
Star Wars: Episode 8 set for take-off in May 2017
Release date set for the follow-up to The Force Awakens, while the Felicity Jones-starring spin-off has been given its official title.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/03/2015
Rihanna feature documentary to be directed by Peter Berg
The Friday Night Lights director announces plans to make music documentary about the Bajan pop star, in the style of Bob Dylan film Don't Look Back.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/03/2015
White male cinemagoers dominated US audience for top blockbusters in 2014
Top five highest-grossing releases were mostly seen by white men, according to new study, but Latino audiences continue to punch above their weight.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/03/2015
Still Alice co-director Richard Glatzer dies aged 63
Film-maker who, alongside husband, directed Oscar-winning performance from Julianne Moore as professor with Alzheimer's, dies of complications from ALS.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/03/2015
Michele Bachmann sinks her teeth into meaty Sharknado cameo
Former Republican presidential candidate is once again a member of Congress as she is playing herself in the third instalment of the campy Sharknado series.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/03/2015
Before The Force Awakens: Disney to publish 20 new Star Wars books
The gap between Return of the Jedi and this year's Episode VII will be filled in via a new set of stories.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/03/2015
Paddington film prompts surge in marmalade-making
Sales of liquid pectin - the gelling agent in fruit jam - are massively up, with manufacturers pointing to Paddington bear as inspiring a homemade marmalade movement.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/03/2015
Zoolander returns: Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson bring blue steel to Paris fashion week
In character as Zoolander and Hansel, the actors made the fashion crowd lose their cool - and caused the internet to melt - with their 'walk-off' at the end of the Valentino show.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/03/2015
Bruce Willis, Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg star in new Woody Allen film
Woody Allen's hold over Hollywood's casting directors appears as strong as ever, as Bruce Willis, Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg have all signed up to appear in his next project, which is due to begin shooting later this year.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/03/2015
Sony plans Ghostbusters 'cinematic universe' with Channing Tatum movie
Sony Pictures is planning to create a Marvel-style "cinematic universe" based on the Ghostbusters films, debuting with an all-male standalone movie starring Channing Tatum.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/03/2015
Unreleased Kurt Cobain song to feature on Montage of Heck film soundtrack
Kurt Cobain fans have another reason to look forward to film director Brett Morgen's forthcoming music documentary about the troubled and talented musician. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is set to feature a previously unheard Cobain solo track, according to a recent tweet sent by Morgen.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/03/2015
Mexico's Stephanie Sigman named as third Bond girl in new 007 film Spectre
Star of acclaimed thriller Miss Bala joins Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci for 24th official Bond movie.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/03/2015
Walking Dead Spin-Off Picked Up For Two Seasons
Announced last summer as gearing up for a pilot episode, AMC's 'companion' to The Walking Dead has not only earned itself a full series, but has secured itself a guaranteed two seasons. Still untitled (but going by the codename 'Cobalt'), the show stars Cliff Curtis, Kim Dickens, Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam Carey.
From: Empire Online 10/03/2015
Lucy Lawless Joins The Fray In Ash Vs. Evil Dead
As Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert prepare to bring the ancient battle of The Chin and The Deadites to the small screen with Ash Vs. Evil Dead, they've added an actress they know fairly well to the cast. Lucy Lawless is set to join the fun.
From: Empire Online 10/03/2015
Zoolander 2 Officially Set For 2016 Release
After years of possible plots, rumoured casting and shifting behind the scenes, the idea that Zoolander 2 will actually, properly hit screens has just hit its peak. Paramount has announced that the comedy sequel will hit screens - in the US, at least - on February 12 next year.
From: Empire Online 10/03/2015
That Controversial Star Wars Lightsaber Has Roots In Star Wars Canon
It could be the case that the newly-acknowledged Star Wars Expanded Universe canon may have just settled a tempestuous debate about a questionably designed weapon that has been raging ever since we got our first glimpse of the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
From: Cinema Blend 10/03/2015
11 Classic Disney Villains, Ranked By How Well They'd Survive In Jail
With the debut of Disney's live-action Cinderella comes a new, more notorious version of a classic Disney villain, the wicked stepmother.
From: Cinema Blend 10/03/2015
Green Lantern Casting: Why Common Wants Another Shot At Playing John Stewart
Since DC announced that a new Green Lantern film will be released in 2020, there's been a lot of debate over which character will wield the emerald ring in the DC Cinematic Universe.
From: Cinema Blend 10/03/2015
Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 Set Attacked By An Actual Pirate
While the fifth film in Johnny Depp's maritime money-making franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales continues shooting off the Gold Coast in Australia, it seems that an uninvited cast member tried to sneak his way onto the set. (And no, not Orlando Bloom.)
From: Cinema Blend 10/03/2015
Broad Green Acquires Sundance Sarah Silverman-Starrer 'I Smile Back'
Broad Green Pictures has acquired North American rights to I Smile Back, the Adam Salky-directed film that premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at January's Sundance Film Festival and won strong notices for its downward spiraling heroine, played by Sarah Silverman.
From: Deadline 10/03/2015
Amy Ryan, John Leguizamo & More Join 'The Infiltrator' With Bryan Cranston
Principal photography has just begun in London on thriller The Infiltrator from director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer). Amy Ryan, John Leguizamo, Olympia Dukakis, Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In) and Juliet Aubrey (The White Queen) are now confirmed to have joined the cast of the fact-based drama about a fearless undercover agent.
From: Deadline 10/03/2015
India's Reliance To Form Joint Venture With Anurag Kashyap's Phantom Films
DreamWorks financier Reliance Entertainment is partnering with India's Phantom Films, a leading production outfit formed by four of the country's brightest indie filmmakers; Anurag Kashyap among them.
From: Deadline 10/03/2015
Ben-Hur remake filming banned from Rome's Circus Maximus
Italian authorities prevent producers using ancient Roman chariot race site for Morgan Freeman and Jack Huston version of 1959 Charlton Heston film.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/03/2015
Rodent recall: false but happy memories implanted in sleeping mice
Researchers at CRNS in Paris create artificial positive feelings in mouse's memory for first time during sleep, highlighting possible new treatment for depression.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/03/2015
Here's what made Emma Watson angry on International Women's Day
Actor recalls that she was 'raging' after online nude photo threats but continues to stand up for women's rights and explains how femininity is devalued.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/03/2015
Activist arrested for showing rape documentary in Indian village
Ketan Dixit used borrowed equipment and bedsheets to screen India's Daughter, which has been banned by the authorities, to 60 people.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/03/2015
Smash-hit Chinese pollution doc Under the Dome taken offline by government
Under the Dome drew hundreds of millions of viewers for its insight into the extent of the country's pollution problem, but has now been removed from Chinese video websites.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/03/2015
Paloma Faith 'not cool enough' to sing Bond theme
Brits winner says she 'messed up' chance to sing the 007 theme by admitting how much she wanted to do it.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/03/2015
Sean Penn surprised by 'flagrant stupidity' of reaction to his Oscars joke
Mystic River star's green card comment when presenting best film Oscar offended some but he has 'no apologies'.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/03/2015
Benjamin Bratt Joins The Infiltrator
With Bryan Cranston and Diane Kruger already on board, the excellently-titled customs and excise drama The Infiltrator is lining up to be a return to form for director Brad Furman. Now the perennially underappreciated Benjamin Bratt (Law & Order) is on board, things are that extra little bit more exciting.
From: Empire Online 09/03/2015
Mikael Persbrandt Joins Guy Ritchie's King Arthur
Charlie Hunnam and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey are already at the top of the cast as Arthur and Guinevere, but Guy Ritchie's upcoming Knights Of The Round Table: King Arthur is now gathering more players. Just arrived on the field of battle is Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt. If the name's unfamiliar, you may know him as The Hobbit's shapeshifting Beorn.
From: Empire Online 09/03/2015
This Rotten Week: Predicting Run All Night And Cinderella Reviews
Daylight Savings time messing you up too? Losing that extra hour throwing off your typical schedule? Me too. It sucks. But we do have some movies on the docket to brighten your day. This week we are running all night with Cinderella.
From: Cinema Blend 09/03/2015
Sigourney Weaver In The Ghostbusters Reboot? Here's What She Said
Sigourney Weaver is already helping her Chappie director Neill Blomkamp continue plotting Alien's resurrection with an all-new installment, but what about another one of her other properties that's returning from the dead? Paul Feig is rebooting Ghostbusters with an all-female principal cast, but will Weaver have some part to play in the new film?
From: Cinema Blend 09/03/2015
Parkes + MacDonald, Black Bear Land 'Undone;' Legal Thriller First Sale For Ex-Litigator Melissa London Hilfers
In a mid-six figure deal made in a competitive auction, Parkes+MacDonald and Black Bear Pictures have partnered to acquire and produce Undone, a spec script by first time writer Melissa London Hilfers, who was a litigator at the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Parkes+MacDonald (through their Image Nation partners) & Black Bear have an option to finance or co-finance the picture. The script has a Gone Girl meets Primal Fear vibe to it.
From: Deadline 09/03/2015
'Midnight Rider': Sarah Jones' Mother Elizabeth Jones Speaks Out In Victim Statement
The late Sarah Jones' grieving mother Elizabeth Jones gave a victim impact statement to the court this morning in Jesup, GA, following the guilty plea of Midnight Rider director Randall Miller.
From: Deadline 09/03/2015
'Jupiter' Ascends To Top Of International B.O.; 'Chappie' Lively In Asia - Update
China was key to the top two movies at the international box office this weekend: Jupiter Ascending and Big Hero 6. At the same time, two local titles which emerged from the Lunar New Year holiday landed in the 8th and 10th positions on the overall overseas chart: The Man From Macau II ($10M/$133M cume) and Wolf Totem ($9.5M/$95M cume). Still, numbers are off by about 8% across the Top 10 studio releases this frame versus last, and a little more than 20% versus last year overall.
From: Deadline 09/03/2015
Juliet Stevenson on the rewards of playing Mother Teresa
Actor says she was unprepared for the adulation she received while filming the biopic The Letters in the slums of Calcutta.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/03/2015
The stunning locations cashing in on Britain's film and TV fame
Tourism chiefs hope 'set-jetting' will drive visitors out of London and into the regions as film production in the UK intensifies.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/03/2015
Jay Roach Ready To Go All The Way
They've just worked together on screenwriter biopic Trumbo and it appears Jay Roach and Bryan Cranston are ready to keep things historical. The director is now attached to make the HBO adaptation of Tony-winning play All The Way, which finds Cranston as 36th US president, Lyndon Johnson.
From: Empire Online 08/03/2015
Octavia Spencer Is God
Move over Morgan Freeman: there's a new God in Hollywood. And her name is Octavia Spencer. The Oscar-winning actress has secured the role in Stuart Hazeldine's new drama, The Shack.
From: Empire Online 08/03/2015
Colin Trevorrow And Derek Connolly Find Intelligent Life
After making a splash with low budget, good-natured sci-fi comedy Safety Not Guaranteed, director Colin Trevorrow and co-writer Derek Connolly were recruited for the plum assignment to re-script and make Jurassic World. With the dino-thriller now nearly complete, the pair is looking to rework an old concept of theirs for a new movie, setting up Intelligent Life with DreamWorks.
From: Empire Online 08/03/2015
Why Mission: Impossible 5 Didn't Bring Back Paula Patton
The upcoming Mission: Impossible 5 will be bringing back multiple actors from the cast of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - including Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames - but fans have taken notice that there is one key name misting from that core ensemble: Paula Patton.
From: Cinema Blend 08/03/2015
The One Thing Josh Hutcherson Hated The Most About Doing The Hunger Games
Josh Hutcherson surely has very little to complain about where the Hunger Games movies are concerned. After all, he has a lead role in the series, and the movies have been both huge financial successes, and also critical hits.
From: Cinema Blend 08/03/2015
'American Sniper' Passes 'Mockingjay' As Top-Grossing U.S. 2014 Release - Update
As expected, Warner Bros/Village Roadshow's American Sniper shot past Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I this weekend to become the highest-grossing domestic film of 2014, the latest benchmark for the Clint Eastwood war drama that hasn't stopped going since its record platform release on Christmas Day.
From: Deadline 08/03/2015
Fashion icon celebrated in final film by Albert Maysles
Albert Maysles, the legendary documentary maker who died last week aged 88, left a final addition to his canon of cinéma vérité classics from Gimme Shelter to Grey Gardens.
From: The Guardian - Film News 07/03/2015
India's bar council meets to decide action against rape trial lawyers
Complaint lodged with police by women's group about remarks in India's Daughters about the rape and murder of a student in Delhi in 2012.
From: The Guardian - Film News 07/03/2015
Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton adopt baby girl
Actor and her husband confirm Australian Women's Weekly report that they have adopted a girl to join their three sons.
From: The Guardian - Film News 07/03/2015
Another Avenger Has Been Added To Captain America 3
In less than two months Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of Ultron will blast into theaters with what's sure to be the most epic onscreen Marvel showdown to date.
From: Cinema Blend 07/03/2015
Chris Evans: I've hit my Captain America stride
Chris Evans is finally "making some core progress" with Captain America.
The 33-year-old actor began playing the comic book character in 2011's First Avenger and has since starred in the sequel The Winter Soldier and The Avengers, which saw various Marvel superheroes come together in an epic feature.
From: Film-News 07/03/2015
Alicia Vikander talks film family
Alicia Vikander considers her co-stars "family".
The actress seems to be producing film after film right now, starring in Ex Machina, Tulip Fever and Testament of Youth.
From: Film-News 07/03/2015
Tom Selleck: Leonard Nimoy won me over
Tom Selleck was horrified when he heard Leonard Nimoy was directing Three Men and a Baby because he thought he had "no emotion".
From: Film-News 07/03/2015
Grey Gardens documentary-maker Albert Maysles dies aged 88
Film-maker behind celebrated film about reclusive socialites, as well as Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter, dies at home in New York.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/03/2015
US teacher who screened sexually explicit horror film jailed
Substitute Spanish teacher Sheila Kearns, jailed for 90 days, claimed that she wasn't aware of graphic content in The ABCs of Death, which includes ultraviolence, masturbation and drug use.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/03/2015
Dan Stevens to monster Emma Watson in live-action Beauty and the Beast
Disney's live action remake of the classic fairytale will star the Downton Abbey aristo as the spellbound prince opposite the Harry Potter star as Belle.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/03/2015
Bondi Hipsters film will be 'Pineapple Express meets Enemy of the State'
The incorrigible Bondi Hipsters, from ABC show Soul Mates, are due to take their "w-neck" t-shirts, Ayahuasca trips and judgement free yoga to the big screen.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/03/2015
Exclusive: Neill Blomkamp Shares More About His Alien Movie
"2014 was a really weird year for me because I usually know quite decisively what I want to do, and in the process of post-production on Chappie, I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do. I had a bunch of different ideas for different films. My favourite, on a gut instinct, artistic level, was Alien, by a long way.
From: Empire Online 06/03/2015
Allison Janney On For Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
The cameras are already rolling on his latest, Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, but that isn't stopping Tim Burton from boosting the cast's numbers. He has Allison Janney set for a role in the movie.
From: Empire Online 06/03/2015
How The Hulk Could Be A Villain In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
After three years away (excluding Bruce Banner's Iron Man 3 cameo), Hulk is finally returning to the MCU in two months for Avengers: Age of Ultron, with an even bigger role than before.
From: Cinema Blend 06/03/2015
How Jared Leto's Joker Will Be Different From Previous Versions
Once again, we are graced with an update on Jared Leto's upcoming role as The Joker in next year's super-villain team-up, Suicide Squad.
From: Cinema Blend 06/03/2015
Freddie Highmore Up For Spider-Man? Here's What He Said
Freddie Highmore has confirmed that he would love to star as Spider-Man in Marvel and Sony's upcoming reboot of the beloved superhero.
From: Cinema Blend 06/03/2015
Harrison Ford survives plane crash
Harrison Ford is "battered but OK".
The 72-year-old actor was seriously injured when the two-seater vintage plane he was flying crashed into a golf course in Santa Monica on Thursday.
From: Film-News 06/03/2015
'Loneliest Whale' Film Frozen Out By Worldview Hopes For Social Media Rescue
It's a fascinating and heartwarming story of what is known to scientists as the world's loneliest whale and two determined filmmakers, Adrian Grenier (Entourage) and Joshua Zeman (The Station Agent), are trying to help the mammal which has captivated world attention.
From: Deadline 06/03/2015
Lorene Scafaria Helms 'The Meddler' With Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, JK Simmons
Lorene Scafaria wrote and will direct The Meddler, a film that will star Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne and freshly minted Oscar winner J.K. Simmons. Pic is Scafaria's directing follow-up to Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World.
From: Deadline 06/03/2015
Benjamin Bratt Joins Bryan Cranston In 'The Infiltrator'
Benjamin Bratt has been set to star alongside Bryan Cranston and Diane Kruger in The Infiltrator, a fact-based thriller that will be directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer).
From: Deadline 06/03/2015
Next Year's Oscar Race Is Already On: Will Redmayne & Inarritu Return For Round 2?
With the 2014 Oscar race fading further into memory, I say it's never too early to look ahead to what's in store for the nascent 2015 contest.
From: Deadline 06/03/2015
Relativity Sets Adam Targum To Adapt SEAL Team Six Hero Tale 'Fearless'
Relativity Studios set Banshee exec producer Adam Targum to adapt Fearless, the Eric Blehm bestselling book about SEAL Team Six operator Adam Brown, who overcame personal demons including drug addiction and jail time, to fulfill his dream of making the SEAL squad.
From: Deadline 06/03/2015
'Justified' EP Dave Andron To Adapt 'Stone Rider' Sci-Fi Novel For Working Title
Working Title has set Dave Andron to adapt Stone Rider, the David Hofmeyr dystopian science fiction novel about a young man who wants a chance to escape Blackwater, the dust-bowl desert town he grew up in and lead a good life with the beautiful Sadie Blood.
From: Deadline 06/03/2015
Vet PR Guys Craig Bankey & Kevin McLaughlin Form Main Stage Firm
After spending the past seven years as an account executive at BWR on both coasts, Kevin McLaughlin has joined Craig Bankey in Main Stage Public Relations, a bicoastal firm.
From: Deadline 06/03/2015
'Man Of The Year' Filmmaker Dirk Shafer Found Dead
The former Playgirl centerfold who came out as gay and made the 1995 mockumentary Man Of The Year about his experiences, has died. Dirk Shafer was found dead in his car Thursday in West Hollywood, law enforcement officials told Deadline. The model, actor and fitness trainer was 52.
From: Deadline 06/03/2015
Albert Maysles Dies: Documentary Filmmaker Was 88
The co-director of acclaimed films such as Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens and Salesman passed away Thursday. Maylses died in New York City after suffering from a bout of cancer.
From: Deadline 06/03/2015
England Ashes heroes among cricketers facing large bills for tax avoidance schemes
David Gower and several members of 2005 winning side could face 'substantial' losses as HMRC seeks repayment for film investments.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/03/2015
Mel Gibson to make Australian homecoming with Hacksaw Ridge
Mel Gibson is set to return to Australia to direct his first film since 2006's well-received Mayan thriller Apocalypto.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/03/2015
Yippee-ki-Broadway: Bruce Willis takes stage role in Stephen King's Misery
Die Hard actor will play the part of captive author Paul Sheldon in adaptation by William Goldman.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/03/2015
Leonardo DiCaprio to make more nature docs with Netflix after Virunga success
Leonardo DiCaprio has signed a deal between his production company and Netflix, to create a stream of environmental and conservation-focused documentaries.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/03/2015
Living doll: Diablo Cody working on rewrite of live-action Barbie film
While plastic princess Barbie might have made a mint on the small screen (she's starred in more than 30 straight-to-DVD movies), it's taken a while for her to make her way to the cinema. But, eager for a new franchise, Sony has joined forces with Mattel and they've recruited Diablo Cody for help.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/03/2015
Dan Stevens In Talks For Beauty And The Beast
All-round good bloke (and Empire spirit animal following his barnstorming performance in The Guest) Dan Stevens is going to be beastly again. But this time, it's for a good cause as he's in talks to will play one of the title roles opposite Emma Watson in Disney's new, live-action take on Beauty And The Beast. And he's not the only one. Luke Evans is also close to a role in the film, looking to be Gaston.
From: Empire Online 05/03/2015
Ridley Scott Wants To Bring Flashman Back To Screens
The cad to end all cads, Sir Harry Paget Flashman, has already stepped once from the pages of George MacDonald Fraser's work and on to the screen, in the shape of Malcolm McDowell in 1975's Royal Flash. Ridley Scott thinks the character can still work in movies, as he's teaming up with 20th Century Fox to develop a film around him.
From: Empire Online 05/03/2015
Lionsgate Creating Movie From Dust
Best known for comedies like Dodgeball and We're The Millers, writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber is taking a rather different direction for a future project. He's developing a movie based on the board game and graphic novel Dust, which has just found a home at studio Lionsgate. Dan Lin (Sherlock Holmes, The Lego Movie) is producing.
From: Empire Online 05/03/2015
Vince Vaughn proud of Hollywood handprints
Vince Vaughn is astounded to be famous enough to be included at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
From: Film-News 05/03/2015
Jeffrey Archer calls Bollywood 'a bunch of thieves' who steal his storylines
The former MP and convicted perjurer accuses Indian films of plagiarising his novels, which have sold tens of millions in the country.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/03/2015
Bryan Singer to direct The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
X-Men director signs on for new adaptation of sci-fi classic by Robert Heinlein, author of Starship Troopers.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/03/2015
James Franco and Richard Gere headline Tribeca film festival lineup
Franco's drama The Adderall Diaries will receive its world premiere at the Robert De Niro-founded festival, as will Gere's indie hopeful Franny.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/03/2015
Netflix's Beasts of No Nation boycotted by big four US cinema chains
Oscar-tipped drama starring Idris Elba as an African warlord is refused a spot at cinemas owned by major distributors after Netflix plans an online launch.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/03/2015
Steven Spielberg's New Film Now Titled Bridge Of Spies
Steven Spielberg completed shooting on his Untitled Cold War Thriller last year without ever settling on a name. That appears now to have changed, however, since screenwriter Marc Platt has casually revealed that it's actually called Bridge Of Spies. Tom Hanks stars in the film, which boasts a screenplay begun by Matt Charman and overhauled by the Coen Brothers.
From: Empire Online 04/03/2015
Steve Martin Joins Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Now that Ang Lee has found his main man in newcomer Joe Alwyn, he's locking in the rest of the cast for his latest, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Steve Martin is set to co-star alongside Garrett Hedlund.
From: Empire Online 04/03/2015
Game Of Thrones' Rose Leslie Joins Luther
A new two-part Luther special is underway, no doubt boasting all the growly detective work we've come to expect and love from everyone's favourite bellowing London copper.
From: Empire Online 04/03/2015
Cary Fukunaga Updates On It
Cary Fukunaga has recently delivered True Detective's masterful first season and completed the Idris Elba-starring Beasts Of No Nation.
From: Empire Online 04/03/2015
Jeff Goldblum Back For Independence Day 2
Roland Emmerich's Independence Day sequel has been lurking in the inky blackness of space for almost as long as that alien mothership in the first movie, but it's finally taking shape and has an increasingly familiar hue to it.
From: Empire Online 04/03/2015
Guardians Of The Galaxy Leads The List Of The 2015 MTV Movie Awards Nominees
Amy Schumer has been preparing us for her stint as host of the 2015 MTV Movie Awards with a series of funny video segments teaming her with the likes of Anna Kendrick and Bill Hader.
From: Cinema Blend 04/03/2015
Jessie Usher joins Hemsworth and Goldblum in Independence Day 2
Jessie Usher has been cast in the highly-anticipated sequel Independence Day 2.
From: Film-News 04/03/2015
Chris Evans: I was terrified as Captain America!
Chris Evans was "terrified" about taking on the part of Captain America.
The 33-year-old actor first starred as the hero in Captain America: The First Avenger back in 2011. Since then he has reprised the role in a sequel and the first Avengers movie.
From: Film-News 04/03/2015
Asia House Film Festival announces 7th programme
Asia House is thrilled to announce the full programme of its seventh annual Asia House Film Festival which will take place from 27 March to 31 March 2015, generously supported once again by Prudential plc.
From: Film-News 04/03/2015
Adrien Brody Scores In China, Fosters Global Ambitions With Local Partners
With seemingly all of Hollywood eager to get a piece of the increasingly lucrative Chinese pie to help fuel their global ambitions, Adrien Brody has succeeded in doing just that by embracing the local biz.
From: Deadline 04/03/2015
Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens Joins Beauty & The Beast
Today was a rather big day for Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast. Earlier this afternoon we learned that The Hobbit star Luke Evans is now in negotiations to play the villainous Gaston in the fairy tale film, and now word has come down that Dan Stevens has landed the role of the titular Beast opposite Emma Watson's Beauty.
From: Cinema Blend 04/03/2015
First look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone drama
While this year's Oscars have only just passed, 2016's ceremony is a mere 12 months away and some early favourites are starting to be unveiled. Last week gave us a first look at Eddie Redmayne in Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl and now, we have a newly released still from Oliver Stone's hotly tipped Snowden.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/03/2015
Leeds fan group to meet Russell Crowe for talks over club investment
The working group that is supporting fan ownership of Leeds United has confirmed it will try to meet with the Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe next month.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/03/2015
Eddie Redmayne invited to cameo on Neighbours after praising stars of show
After winning an Oscar, actors are given a rather short amount of time to utilise their moment in the spotlight and make some prime decisions as to what to work on next. Just ask Halle Berry.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/03/2015
Steven Spielberg to direct Jennifer Lawrence in war photographer biopic
Warner Bros, teaming with Steven Spielberg and Jennifer Lawrence, have won a bidding war to adapt a war photographer's harrowing memoir.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/03/2015
Westboro Baptist Church's attempts to protest at Leonard Nimoy funeral thwarted by inability to find it
The Westboro Baptist Church were foiled in their attempts to protest at the funeral of Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy on 1 March, because of their failure to find it.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/03/2015
Drew Goddard Circling The Spider-Man Reboot
A new Spider-Man filmmaking team is now required with a changing of the guard that has seen Marvel taking an active interest in the character's future development and Sony returning to the drawing board, with an approach that hopefully won't involve yet another origin story.
From: Empire Online 03/03/2015
Idris Elba Heads To Netflix For Beasts Of No Nation
Netflix's pedal-to-the-metal drive for fresh programming and movies continues apace. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network is in final talks to pick up the global rights to Idris Elba-starring drama Beasts Of No Nation in a $12 million deal.
From: Empire Online 03/03/2015
Ethan Hawke Rides In For The Magnificent Seven
Although the new version of The Magnificent Seven was feeling more like an Equalizer reunion, with Antoine Fuqua directing, Denzel Washington starring and one of the film's co-stars, Haley Bennett, aboard, we now have a Training Day trifecta instead. Ethan Hawke has signed on to share the screen with his old sparring partner Washington.
From: Empire Online 03/03/2015
Iko Uwais Runs To Mile 22
Iko Uwais is known for his outstanding martial arts abilities on The Raid and its sequel. Ronda Rousey is a UFC veteran and has appeared in the likes of The Expendables 3 and the upcoming Fast & Furious 7. When they met, it was moider! Wait, no, that's the opening narration for Hart To Hart. Uwais and Rousey are meeting for an action thriller called Mile 22.
From: Empire Online 03/03/2015
Joseph Kosinski Races To Gran Turismo
Currently more known for sci-fi than the screech of tyres, Tron: Legacy and Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski is the latest name to be attached to Sony's long-developing Gran Turismo movie. He's in talks to direct and to develop a new screenplay for the rubber-burning car racing project.
From: Empire Online 03/03/2015
Why Terrence Howard Totally Bombed At The Oscars, According To Terrence Howard
You might think it's easy to get up in front of hundreds of the top actors and filmmakers in Hollywood and present an award at the Oscars. Terrence Howard thought so. But it's not.
From: Cinema Blend 03/03/2015
Why Hawkeye Isn't A Team Player In The Avengers: Age Of Ultron
The very first moment we meet Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye in The Avengers, we really start to learn everything we need to know about him. Claiming to see better from a distance, he sets himself up as a bit of a loner and detached from all the action and people that he is monitoring on the floor below him.
From: Cinema Blend 03/03/2015
Clue Ending Explained: Why There Are 3 Endings And What Happens In Each
Like its classic board game inspiration, Clue is a careful scramble. It's a fast-talking typhoon of belligerent chaos that upon further review, is a well-oiled, well-balanced photograph. It blends shit jokes, social musings and singing telegrams into one of the most intelligent, childish and unruly cult classics ever produced. Forget that it's based on a consumer product.
From: Cinema Blend 03/03/2015
MGM Shuts Down James Bond Parody Film, Citing Copyrighted Material
For the second time in less than two weeks, producer Adi Shankar has had another one of his bootleg videos shut down, this time by MGM.
From: Deadline 03/03/2015
Tribeca Firms World Narrative, Docus And Viewpoint Titles For Fest
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) - World Premiere. James Franco plays a writer who tries to rise from being blocked and Adderall addicted by jumping into a high profile murder case. Amber Heard, Ed Harris, and Cynthia Nixon co-star.
From: Deadline 03/03/2015
UK-China Co-Production Treaty Ratified
Javid made the announcement while attending at the GREAT Festival of Creativity in Shanghai, China alongside Miao Xiaotian, president of the China Film Co-production Corporation.
From: Deadline 03/03/2015
A star is reborn: Judy Garland to be played by daughter in new show
Lorna Luft will take the lead in a jukebox musical about her mother, Judy Garland, authorised by the star's estate and with Arlene Phillips as creative director.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/03/2015
Director sues Cannes for rejecting his movie
Parisian director Paul Verhoeven is suing the Cannes film festival, claiming that his 2009 drama Teenagers was not accepted because of sexual prejudice.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/03/2015
Bruce Lee's daughter to develop new biopic of martial-arts icon
Bruce Lee's daughter Shannon Lee has announced a new biopic about her father, the actor who helped turn martial arts into a global phenomenon.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/03/2015
Leonardo DiCaprio finding room for 24 characters in The Crowded Room
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in the real-life tale of a man acquitted of rape and robbery after convincing a jury that he had 24 different personalities, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/03/2015
Michelle Rodriguez apologises for telling minorities to 'stop stealing white superheroes'
The Latino actor Michelle Rodriguez, known for her tough characters in Avatar, Machete and the Fast & Furious franchise, has apologised for her "a tendency to speak without a filter" after she addressed minority actors and film-makers by saying: "Stop stealing all the white people's superheroes. Make up your own."
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/03/2015
Leonardo DiCaprio Moves To The Crowded Room
Not everyone is in a position to pursue a project across 20 years in their career, but Leonardo DiCaprio is taking full advantage of his ability to do just that. Like a dog that will not stop chasing a speeding car, he's inching closer to a film he's wanted to work on for many moons, making a deal with New Regency for The Crowded Room.
From: Empire Online 02/03/2015
Kristen Stewart On For Kelly Reichardt's New Drama
Night Moves director Kelly Reichardt does not yet have a title for her new drama. But she has still been building an impressive cast of previous collaborators and new faces, with Michelle Williams, Jared Harris, Laura Dern, James Le Gros and Sara Rodier all aboard. Now Kristen Stewart will join them in the eventual film.
From: Empire Online 02/03/2015
Adventure Time Heads To Cinemas
Adventure Time on the US Cartoon Network has quickly become something of a phenomenon with kids, fans of more surreal animation and those who enjoy cartoons while, shall we say, chemically enhanced. Or, to use the scientific term: tripping balls.
From: Empire Online 02/03/2015
This Rotten Week: Predicting Chappie, Unfinished Business And The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Reviews
Suffering from a little Oscar hangover? Getting through the movie awards season have you tired? Too bad! The movies just keep on coming, and this week is no different. And in a few days we'll be meeting Chappie, visit an exotic hotel and take care of some unfinished business.
From: Cinema Blend 02/03/2015
Auds Check Into 'Marigold Hotel 2′; 'Grey' Bound To Top Spot: Intl Box Office Update
The international weekend was down about 15% from last frame with Fifty Shades falling 43% but maintaining its No. 1 dominance around the globe. Newcomer Focus had a soft launch in 31 markets, although only two of them major: Russia and the UK.
From: Deadline 02/03/2015
Golden crop of Welsh screen stars emerges from the proud land of their fathers
Leading roles are not the sole property of public schoolboys. There's never been a better time for Welsh actors.
From: The Guardian - Film News 01/03/2015
UK director gets star backing for 'daughters of India' campaign
Global drive to tackle violence against women takes title from documentary about Delhi rape.
From: The Guardian - Film News 01/03/2015
Jared Leto's Joker Performance In Suicide Squad, Described In One Word
There is a great deal to look forward to in David Ayer's Suicide Squad, from the look of the first ever live-action Harley Quinn to the chemistry that exists within the ensemble, but right at the top of the list is the fact that the movie will be bringing us a brand new cinematic version of The Joker.
From: Cinema Blend 01/03/2015
Bart & Fleming: Tom Rothman Rises; Adam Goodman Exits; Raunchy Comediennes
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.
From: Deadline 01/03/2015
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