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Star Wars fans predict The Force Awakens will be the most stellar film of the franchise
Close to two-thirds of Star Wars fans are expecting the latest episode in the long-running space opera, The Force Awakens, to be the best yet, according to a new poll.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/09/2015
Daniel Craig: I will keep playing Bond as long as I can
With his fourth 007 film Spectre due out in November, Craig says he has no intention of stepping down imminently, even though he says the role is 'getting harder'.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/09/2015
The Game Of Thrones Movie: Is It Happening, Or Not?
Aside from the fate of Kit Harington's Jon Snow, the biggest question facing Game of Thrones fans is whether or not there will be a movie.
From: Cinema Blend 30/09/2015
Aaron Sorkin's Lucille Ball Biopic? Here's What He Said
Aaron Sorkin, the man behind The Newsroom and the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, was reported to be developing a script for a Lucille Ball biopic.
From: Cinema Blend 30/09/2015
Wait, Ridley Scott Wants More Than One Blade Runner Sequel?
For a man who is 77-years-young, Sir Ridley Scott sure does plan on making quite a lot of feature films in the twilight of his career. Fresh off revealing that Prometheus will have not one, not two, but three sequels, Ridley Scott has now confirmed that he wants to do the same with Blade Runner.
From: Cinema Blend 30/09/2015
Why Fully Crossing Over Marvel Movies And TV Shows Is Really Hard
When it comes to the relationship between Marvel Studios films and television shows, things have really only flowed in one direction: the small screen stories have functioned as preambles and consequences for the big screen stories (in addition to borrowing characters), but we have not yet seen movies reflect what's going on in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter or Daredevil.
From: Cinema Blend 30/09/2015
The Ridiculous Way Quentin Tarantino Explains What He Wants, According To Samuel L. Jackson
As a writer and director, Quentin Tarantino is well known for his knowledge of film, and his movies are peppered with references and allusions to movies from all throughout the history of the medium.
From: Cinema Blend 30/09/2015
The Next Nightmare On Elm Street Sequel Is Going To Need A New Freddy
Horror films are a classic part of the film industry. What would we do if we couldn't drown our real-world fears in a cinema seat while sucking down a giant soda and mixing candy into our popcorn buckets?
From: Cinema Blend 30/09/2015
The X-Files 2016 series trailer revealed
The X Files will return to television in January 2016 and the first trailer has surfaced.
From: Film-News 30/09/2015
John Guillermin Dies: Directed 'Towering Inferno' & 1976 'King Kong'
John Guillermin, a prolific British filmmaker who specialized in action and adventure pics including The Towering Inferno and the 1976 version of King Kong that launched Jessica Lange's career, has died at his Los Angeles home. He was 89.
From: Deadline 30/09/2015
Jessica McNamee Moves From 'Sirens' To 'CHiPs' & More
Jessica McNamee, a regular on USA Network's comedy Sirens, has cuffed a role in CHiPs, writer-director Dax Shepard's adaptation of the old NBC series for Warner Bros.
From: Deadline 30/09/2015
Nina Dobrev Joins 'Arrivals' Pic With Asa Butterfield & Maisie Williams
Former The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev is taking another trip to the big screen.
From: Deadline 30/09/2015
MastersFX Locks Packed 2016 Slate Of Television Projects
MastersFX is going to have a busy fall. The effects studio has announced a robust slate of current and upcoming television projects that includes The CW's The 100 and SyFy's The Magicians, in addition to completed projects soon to be seen on shows such as NBC's Heroes Reborn, and the CW's iZombie and The Flash. The work will involve practical effects and digital.
From: Deadline 30/09/2015
Jim Carrey 'shocked' at death of former girlfriend
Irish national Cathriona White, reported on-off partner of actor, apparently killed herself at her Los Angeles home.
From: The Guardian - Film News 29/09/2015
Jessica Chastain: Hollywood oversexualises female action stars
Oscar nominee says studios should follow example of Alien's Sigourney Weaver and The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence to avoid creating sexualised women 'in some catsuit'.
From: The Guardian - Film News 29/09/2015
Marion Cotillard says feminism has no place in the film industry
The Oscar-winning actor Marion Cotillard has said there is no place for feminism in Hollywood because the very term itself creates "separation" between the sexes.
From: The Guardian - Film News 29/09/2015
'Total bull': Into Thin Air author's opinion of Everest movie
Journalist Jon Krakauer, who was on the catastrophic 1996 climb, derides his portrayal in Jake Gyllenhaal-starring film.
From: The Guardian - Film News 28/09/2015
Roles in UK for black and minority ethnic actors worse than ever, claims David Oyelowo
Selma star blames lack of diversity in Britain's creative industries on 'white middle-class men' who are curators of culture.
From: The Guardian - Film News 28/09/2015
Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None set for new big-screen version
The author's bestselling mystery is to be adapted by Morten Tyldum, whose movie The Imitation Game, about Alan Turing, won acclaim last year.
From: The Guardian - Film News 28/09/2015
Morten Tyldum Finds Mystery With And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie is one of those authors whose work is always being adapted in some fashion or other. And 20th Century Fox is now the home for a long-in-the-making deal to turn her book And Then There Were None into a film. The Intimidation Game's Morten Tyldum is aboard to call the shots. And probably the stabs.
From: Empire Online 27/09/2015
John Goodman Boards Kong: Skull Island
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has found two more hardy souls willing to venture into dangerous territory for Kong: Skull Island. John Goodman and Me And Earl And The Dying Girl's Thomas Mann have joined the cast of the adventure film.
From: Empire Online 27/09/2015
Sigourney Weaver Cameoing In Paul Feig's Ghostbusters
With shooting now wrapped on his version of Ghostbusters, you might think that Paul Feig wouldn't have to worry about leaks from the set. But after the likes of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd's cameos got out, he's had to get ahead of one last info-spill, announcing on Twitter that Sigourney Weaver will also show up in some capacity.
From: Empire Online 27/09/2015
Joe Wright defends casting of Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily in Peter Pan film
Director says he understands complaints over 'whitewashing' in Pan but hails Mara's take on the Native American warrior as 'badass' and 'empowering'.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/09/2015
Max von Sydow 'plays character named Lor San Tekka' in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
If confirmed, rumour about Swedish actor would complete identities of major cast members of JJ Abrams's highly anticipated new Star Wars film.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/09/2015
Glaad: Hollywood films are failing gay people
US group releases video featuring examples of homophobia in movies from the past five years and warns anti-gay message is being exported around the world.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/09/2015
Richard Stanley To Direct The Colour Out Of Space
At The Mountains Of Madness may have ultimately defeated Guillermo Del Toro, but Richard Stanley is not a man to avoid a challenge.
From: Empire Online 25/09/2015
First Image Of Woody Harrelson As Lyndon Johnson
A passion project of director Rob Reiner's for years, the American political biopic LBJ is finally in production in New Orleans and Washington D.C. And with that news, here's our first look at an unrecognisable Woody Harrelson in the title role of 36th President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
From: Empire Online 25/09/2015
Former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin To Launch Parkinson's Treatment Center
Jerry Levin has come out of retirement. The former Time Warner CEO has teamed with his wife, the CAA agent-turned-psychologist Laurie Ann Levin, to form The Levin Center For Parkinson's Transformational Health. It is an enterprise dedicated to removing the stigma and working on the emotional well-being of Parkinson's sufferers.
From: Deadline 25/09/2015
Larry Aidem, Former Sundance Channel Head, Named CEO Of Fandor
Larry Aidem, the former head of the Sundance Channel, is joining Fandor, the on-demand streaming service for independent and international films, as its President and CEO. Principal investor and interim CEO Chris Kelly, Facebook's first general counsel, now will serve as chairman.
From: Deadline 25/09/2015
John Goodman Joins Cast Of 'Kong: Skull Island'
John Goodman has joined the cast of Legendary Pictures' Kong: Skull Island, which is being directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts from a script by John Gatins and Max Borenstein (Godzilla).
From: Deadline 25/09/2015
Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' Bought By Fox For Morten Tyldum To Direct
20th Century Fox has acquired the feature rights to Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel And Then There Were None, and the studio has set The Imitation Game's Morten Tyldum to direct.
From: Deadline 25/09/2015
Mike Leigh steps in to force withdrawal of unpaid producer ad
Director and chairman of London Film School says ad for role on shoot school had part-funded is regrettable error, and he strongly opposes unpaid labour.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/09/2015
Maggie Gyllenhaal to star in David Simon porn industry drama
Maggie Gyllenhaal will star in David Simon's new porn drama The Deuce as Eileen Merrell AKA Candy, "a Times Square hooker and veteran with an entrepreneurial bent who is drawn into the fledgling porn industry", according to the Hollywood Reporter.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/09/2015
Emma Stone, Kate Winslet and Olivia Colman set to star in The Favourite
New film by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos set during the 18th-century reign of Queen Anne due to have a heavyweight female cast.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/09/2015
Richard Madden Joins Medici: Masters Of Florence
Given what his character experienced on Game Of Thrones, we'd think Richard Madden would be worried stepping into another drama about powerful families and their dangerous enemies. But with Dustin Hoffman also signing on, he's showing no qualms about joining new historical miniseries Medici: Masters Of Florence.
From: Empire Online 24/09/2015
Sarah Silverman On For The Book Of Henry
With Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher and Jacob Tremblay already booked in to star, Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow is adding to the cast of his next film, The Book Of Henry. Sarah Silverman, Lee Pace and Dean Norris are all now aboard.
From: Empire Online 24/09/2015
Jake Gyllenhaal And Benedict Cumberbatch May Electrify The Current Wars
That's it, it's war! No, Jake Gyllenhaal and Benedict Cumberbatch aren't looking to go into battle over who can deliver the funniest talk show anecdote or whose name causes the most trouble for spellchecking. They're both in talks to play rival inventors in The Current War.
From: Empire Online 24/09/2015
Drew Simon Joins STX As SVP Production
Drew Simon has joined STX Entertainment as SVP Production. He had been VP Film at the Mark Gordon Company. Simon joins Robert Simonds' burgeoning film company as it produces and releases a slate of 12-15 features.
From: Deadline 24/09/2015
U.S.-China Film Summit Set For November 5 In LA
Hollywood and Chinese movie industry figures will convene for the 6th annual U.S.-China Film Summit on Thursday, November 5, 2015 at the onetime home of the Oscars, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the L.A Music Center.
From: Deadline 24/09/2015
Ridley Scott plans three more Prometheus films before linking to Alien
Ridley Scott is now planning up to four Prometheus films, with the final instalment linking up to the events of his classic 1979 space horror Alien, the veteran film-maker has said.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/09/2015
Doris Day denies role in new Clint Eastwood film
Spokesperson quashes report the 91-year-old star will make comeback in new movie for her Oscar-winning California neighbour.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/09/2015
The Martian screened for crew on International Space Station
Critically acclaimed Ridley Scott science fiction thriller The Martian has been screened for astronauts on board the International Space Station.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/09/2015
Shaun the Sheep creator takes majority stake in US animators Nathan Love
Aardman, also behind Wallace and Gromit, makes first move to set up permanent studio outside UK since being founded in 1972.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/09/2015
Lara Pulver Joins Underworld 5
Kate Beckinsale, Theo James and Tobias Menzies are the confirmed cast members for Underworld 5 so far, and they'll now be joined by Lara Pulver. Sherlock's Irene Adler has signed up for the sequel - still listed on the IMDb as Underworld: Next Generation, although nobody else can quite believe it's called that.
From: Empire Online 23/09/2015
John Wick 2 Shoots This Autumn
We already knew it was happening, but now we have a timescale. Following up the stonking original with some alacrity, John Wick 2 will rage into production in the autumn of this year. Keanu Reeves, directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski, and producer Basil Iwanyck are all returning for more mayhem.
From: Empire Online 23/09/2015
Patrick Heusinger Will Be Jack Reacher 2's Villain
With shooting scheduled to start in November, co-writer/director Ed Zwick is locking in the elements he needs for Jack Reacher 2. He now has Patrick Heusinger in talks to play the film's villain.
From: Empire Online 23/09/2015
Paramount Plans Jack Ryan TV Serie
Paramount's most recent attempt to jumpstart the Jack Ryan franchise with Shadow Recruit (starring Chris Pine as the Tom Clancy-created character) may not have sparked a new film series, but the studio is instead passing the baton to its TV department, hiring Bates Motel man Carlton Cuse and fellow writer/producer Graham Roland to develop a small screen incarnation.
From: Empire Online 23/09/2015
A Piece Of Star Wars History Is Going Up For Auction
I'm going to guess that there are plenty of people who might be interested in acquiring the latest piece of Star Wars history that has suddenly become available. That's because, if they've got enough money and are willing, fans now have the opportunity to buy Princess Leia's metal bikini from Return Of The Jedi. Ladies and gents, form a queue.
From: Cinema Blend 23/09/2015
Famed Producer Fighting Warner Bros. Over Goodfellas Profits
Paying people with "back end" money, has been a fairly consistent practice since practically the beginning of film. The idea is that the studio can save money up front, and what the end up paying is based on the film's success.
From: Cinema Blend 23/09/2015
Why Robert De Niro Stormed Out An Interview For The Intern
Robert De Niro looks kind of grouchy. I think we can all admit that. Sure, he's probably the greatest actor of his generation, but that also just means that he's pretty much earned the right to not really care about conversations with the media.
From: Cinema Blend 23/09/2015
Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote Has Been Delayed Again, Of Course
Terry Gilliam is not dead yet, regardless of what you may have read. At the same time, however, the filmmaker has continued to have trouble bringing life to his passion project.
From: Cinema Blend 23/09/2015
Ridley Scott Is Thinking About Way More Than One Prometheus Sequel
Prometheus might not have been the rollicking, caustic, and intense sci-fi masterpiece that we all hoped for, but it still returned a healthy box office amount when it was released back in 2012.
From: Cinema Blend 23/09/2015
Sean Penn sues Empire creator Lee Daniels over domestic abuse comments
Actor Sean Penn has filed a $10m defamation lawsuit against Empire co-creator and Oscar nominated writer/director Lee Daniels, whose films include Precious and The Butler.
From: The Guardian - Film News 22/09/2015
Female film-makers poorly represented at major film festivals
New research has established that women film-makers are being sidelined in selection for major film festivals, even in programmes expressly designed to nurture emerging talent.
From: The Guardian - Film News 22/09/2015
China enters Jean-Jacques Annaud's Wolf Totem into Oscars 2016 race
Following its 2015 choice, Philippe Muyl's The Nightingale, China has once again entered a film by a French director for best foreign language film.
From: The Guardian - Film News 22/09/2015
Watch Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling in trailer for Oscar-tipped The Big Short
Steve Carell and Christian Bale also star in the true story of those who profited from the housing crash of 2008.
From: The Guardian - Film News 22/09/2015
Liam Neeson to star in suspense thriller The Commuter
The Northern Irish actor will play a businessman who becomes embroiled in a criminal conspiracy on his journey home.
From: The Guardian - Film News 22/09/2015
Maisie Williams Ventures Into The Forest Of Hands And Teeth
It's a busy old time for Game Of Thrones favourite Maisie Williams. Just this morning, word arrived about her co-starring with Asa Butterfield in indie drama Arrivals. Now she's also joined a post-apocalyptic tale called The Forest Of Hands And Feet.
From: Empire Online 22/09/2015
Ernie Hudson to cameo in Ghostbusters, despite calling reboot a 'bad idea'
The original fourth ghostbuster will join original gang members Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd in Paul Feig's female-fronted remake of the 80s supernatural comedy.
From: The Guardian - Film News 21/09/2015
Netflix drama Beasts of No Nation to hit UK cinemas before reaching subscribers
Surprise deal with Curzon cinemas for Cary Fukunaga's Oscar-tipped movie suggests Netflix may want to use screenings to boost profile of its core business.
From: The Guardian - Film News 21/09/2015
Brie Larson set to play Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes
Star of Toronto-winning Room in talks to play tennis ace in new movie about 1973 tennis match in which No 2 female player was challenged by retired former Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs.
From: The Guardian - Film News 21/09/2015
Brie Larson Will Be Billie Jean King
Back In April, it was announced that Steve Carell would be up against former on-screen daughter Emma Stone in tennis pic Battle Of The Sexes. A date change means Stone can't now take part, but Carell won't have to hit tennis balls against a wall - he's now facing Brie Larson.
From: Empire Online 21/09/2015
Kristen Bell Recruited For The CHiPs Film
With Dax Shepard announced as writer, director and star of a cinematic take on cult cop action show CHiPs, we put out a quiet call to the universe for his wife, Kristen Bell to join him. Whaddya know? The universe heard us! Or… Dax just decided it was easier to cast from within his family.
From: Empire Online 21/09/2015
Game Of Thrones Takes Best Drama At The 2015 Emmys
Though some had predicted departing series Mad Men winning the big drama prize at this year's Emmy Awards, handed out in Los Angeles on Sunday night, it was actually Game Of Thrones that took its total past The West Wing in terms of Emmys won in a single year with 12 (which includes eight from the Creative Arts awards handed out before the night).
From: Empire Online 21/09/2015
Amanda Seyfried Heads For Twin Peaks
It was announced last year, but then looked it it was all off again for a while. But now David Lynch's new Twin Peaks series is back on, to the extent that shooting is now underway in Washington State. And proving that it won't just be a nostalgia-fest with the surviving original cast, Amanda Seyfried has reportedly signed up for a mystery new role.
From: Empire Online 21/09/2015
Will Loki Return For Thor: Ragnarok? Here's What Tom Hiddleston Says
Thor: Ragnarok is easily one of the most anticipated titles of Marvel Studios' upcoming Phase Three slate, but the reality is that we know very little about it. Chris Hemsworth is attached to star, but the movie is currently without an announced supporting cast, plot description, or even a director.
From: Cinema Blend 21/09/2015
Benicio del Toro's Disney dates with Rod Stewart
Actor Benicio del Toro enjoys going to Disneyland with Rod Stewart, much to his friends' amazement.
The 48-year-old actor has four-year-old daughter Delilah with Kimberly Stewart, whose father is rocker Rod. Although Benicio and Kimberly aren't together romantically they raise their little girl together, meaning the Traffic actor has got to know Rod very well.
From: Film-News 21/09/2015
'The Martian' Screened For Crew On The International Space Station
As movie promotions go, the Twitter feed for Ridley Scott's The Martian is kinda cool, especially this weekend after Fox arranged to show the movie based on Andy Weir's novel to the crew of the International Space Station.
From: Deadline 21/09/2015
Empire's Spectre Subscribers' Cover Revealed
In Mexico, Dia de Muertos is celebrated every year in a flurry of street parties and skull-based iconography. It is, of course, a key setting within Sam Mendes' Spectre. This month, Empire brings a taste of it to subscribers' doormats with a very collectible cover brought to you direct from the man himself.
From: Empire Online 20/09/2015
Room wins Toronto film festival's People's Choice Award
Lenny Abrahamson's adaptation of the Emma Donoghue bestseller about a woman trapped in a room with her young son has taken the festival's top prize, generally reckoned as a key Oscars indicator.
From: The Guardian - Film News 20/09/2015
Space experts challenge accuracy of The Martian
Hurricane-force blast depicted in Matt Damon film would not happen in thin atmosphere of red planet according to space policy authority.
From: The Guardian - Film News 20/09/2015
Francis Lawrence Heads To Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman fans who know Neverwhere probably break down into two groups, roughly by age: those who were introduced to the stories by the not-so-satisfying (but fondly remembered) 1996 BBC TV version and novel and the more recent Radio 4 dramatization. Hunger Games regular director Francis Lawrence is looking to add a third group, those who know a planned new drama series.
From: Empire Online 20/09/2015
Orange Is The New Black's Ruby Rose Joins Final Resident Evil
History will attest as to whether 2017's Resident Evil: The Final Chapter truly was the last entry in the franchise (it's not like horror movie series don't have form announcing themselves as the last midway through the run), but the new one has certainly been locking down its cast with production underway.
From: Empire Online 20/09/2015
Bart & Fleming: How 'Spotlight' And 'Truth' Flatter Journalism; Why 'Black Mass' Blew It By Ignoring Scribe Storyline
I'm back from the Toronto Film Festival, a messy affair where deals took forever, and two films — the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace and London Fields — were kicked out because of legal disputes.
From: Deadline 20/09/2015
'Room' Wins Toronto Fest's People's Choice Award: Will It Be An Oscar Predictor?
Room has won the much-desired and sometimes Oscar predictive Grolsch People's Choice Award at the 40th Annual Toronto International Film Festival. The film — directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Brie Larson, Joan Allen, William H. Macy and 8-year-old Jacob Tremblay in a remarkable performance — won high praise in its World Premiere at Telluride and received a raucous reception at TIFF as well.
From: Deadline 20/09/2015
'Sicario' Sizzles, But 'Pawn Sacrifice', Other Newcomers So-So: Specialty B.O.
Straight outta Toronto, Denis Villeneuve's Sicario, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin was a hit in a half-dozen locations for the year's best opening-weekend average — also easily the weekend's top performer in a fairly crowded arena of limited release debuts.
From: Deadline 20/09/2015
Hollywood giant that made Casablanca and Harry Potter to expand UK studio
Warner Bros says thousands of jobs will follow expansion of historic Hertfordshire home to blockbusters.
From: The Guardian - Film News 19/09/2015
Kristen Bell Joins The CHiPs Reboot, Which Has A Stellar Cast
Perhaps this won't come as the most shocking news, especially considering that her husband is directing the film, but Kristen Bell has joined the cast of hubby Dax Shepard's upcoming adaptation of the fan-favorite 1970s and '80s cop drama CHiPs. While you may be thinking, "Oh, great, yet another reboot," this one is setting itself apart, in part thanks to what has become a really good cast.
From: Cinema Blend 19/09/2015
Je Suis Charlie film-makers: 'We have to put focus back on the dead'
After the Charlie Hebdo attack, debate raged over whether to print the cartoons. This misses the point, argue Daniel and Emmanuel Leconte: nobody should die for exercising their right to free speech.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/09/2015
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Snowden is a patriot
Actor, who is to play Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone's forthcoming film, had four-hour meeting with US dissident.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/09/2015
Tom Hardy: sexuality question was 'inelegant and humiliating'
The star of Mad Max: Fury Road and Kray twins biopic Legend has explained why he dismissed a reporter's line of questioning at the Toronto film festival.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/09/2015
Schoolboy calls for more disabled characters in children's books
A 14-year-old boy has called on the UK's publishers to include more disabled characters in children's books, and asked why the villains of children's stories are so often "deformed".
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/09/2015
Guillermo Del Toro Says He's Still Working On Pacific Rim
Alarms bells howled in the Shatterdome a couple of days ago when, as part of a report on the internal wrangling between Legendary Pictures, Universal and Warner Bros., mention was made that Pacific Rim's planned sequel - subtitled Maelstrom - had been put on indefinite hold and might never see the light of day. But according to co-writer and director Guillermo del Toro, while there will be a delay, it's not yet a cause for panic.
From: Empire Online 18/09/2015
More Cast For Game Of Thrones' 6th Season
When Ian McShane was cast in an unspecified secret role in Game Of Thrones' sixth season last month, there was some speculation that he might be playing Randyll Tarly, Samwell's father. Well speculate on, since Randyll Tarly has now been officially cast, as have Melessa and Talla.
From: Empire Online 18/09/2015
The Best Boston Movies Of All Time, Ranked
In the movie world, locations like Los Angeles, New York, London and Paris are far and away the most commonly seen settings, but Boston has proven time and time again to be a compelling and fascinating backdrop for movies of all genres.
From: Cinema Blend 18/09/2015
Is Sex And The City 3 A Possibility? Sarah Jessica Parker Has An Update
Sex and the City has die-hard fans that will make your average Trekkie or Whovian look utterly well adjusted. These fans are so committed that even the critically-trashed Sex and the City 2 hasn't killed their appetite for more about Carrie Bradshaw and her friends. Unfortunately, if you're waiting for Sex and the City 3 you'll need to keep waiting. Possibly forever.
From: Cinema Blend 18/09/2015
The New Star Trek Movie Just Got Delayed, Get The Details
Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond is set to come out next year in time to celebrate the franchise's 50th anniversary. The good news is that plan is still in place. The bad news is that fans will have to wait a little while longer to see it. This is because Paramount Pictures has announced that the movie is being pushed back a bit in the release schedule.
From: Cinema Blend 18/09/2015
Turns Out Marvel Studios Actors Aren't Limited To Just One Role
With continuity being key to the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one would think that once you're done playing a role, you're done in the MCU. Apparently, this isn't so, as Zachary Levi got the scoop from Kevin Feige himself that actors can play more than one Marvel character.
From: Cinema Blend 18/09/2015
How Scientists Are Using A Tim Burton Movie To Study Psychosis
Even the most fledgling cinephile can likely identify the surreal, otherworldly filmmaking style of director Tim Burton. From Edward Scissorhands to his innovative take on Gotham city in his Batman films, the director has developed a style that has become decidedly signature. However, beyond their artistic merit, his films have now become a means by which scientific progress can be achieved.
From: Cinema Blend 18/09/2015
Producers Of Halle Berry Pic 'Kidnap' Slam Relativity Over Proposed Sale
The producers of the Luis Prieto-directed thriller about a mother who will do anything to get back her child tonight say the Ryan Kavanaugh-run company has no right to hand over their unreleased Halle Berry-starring film to a new owner - and Relativity also owes them $176,000 for re-shoots and an on-set photographer.
From: Deadline 18/09/2015
Brazilian Pic 'Neon Bull' Acquired By Kino Lorber - Toronto
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Neon Bull, writer-director Gabriel Mascaro pic that won a Special Jury Prize this month at the Venice Film Festival and is now playing the Platform section in Toronto.
From: Deadline 18/09/2015
Disney & Sony Want Revived Animation Anti-Poaching Suit Scratched Out
Sony may have come to a proposed settlement over the lawsuits from its massive hacking last year but the studio, Disney, Pixar and Lucasfilm has no inclination to make such deal over wage-fixing and anti-poaching allegations against the 'toon studios.
From: Deadline 18/09/2015
Toronto cancels London Fields premiere after director Mathew Cullen sues producers
Makers of star-studded mystery thriller based on Martin Amis's classic 1989 novel imposed 'false, distorted and perverted associations' on director and cast members Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and Billy Bob Thornton, claims suit.
From: The Guardian - Film News 17/09/2015
Ice Cube to play Scrooge in Christmas Carol movie Humbug
Rapper-turned-actor reunited with Ride Along director Tim Story, and could pocket $10m for role of Dickens's miserly curmudgeon in wake of success for NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton.
From: The Guardian - Film News 17/09/2015
Elizabeth Reaser Joins Ouija 2
Oculus' Mike Flanagan is directing, working from a script he wrote with regular collaborator Jeff Howard.
From: Empire Online 17/09/2015
Jason Statham Says Viva La Madness
Aside from a few talk show appearances, Jason Statham's screen career has largely been limited to the cinema. But he's got plans to change all that, aiming to star in and produce a telly adaptation of J.J. Connolly's book Viva La Madness.
From: Empire Online 17/09/2015
Aldis Hodge Joins Jack Reacher 2
Beyond its big success at the box office, Straight Outta Compton has become something of an incubator for new talent that other studios have been grabbing up at a quick rate. Joining co-stars Jason Mitchell and Corey Hawkins on the hired list is Aldis Hodge, who is in talks for Jack Reacher 2.
From: Empire Online 17/09/2015
James Franco's New Horror Movie Review Column Is Even Weirder Than You'd Expect
You probably already know this already, but James Franco is a bit of a jack of all trades. Best known as an actor in movies, television, and now on the stage, he is also a writer, director, and poet. Yeah, the guy certainly has varied tastes and interests. Now he is trying his hand at film criticism, and if you guessed that his are not your standard, run of the mill movie reviews, you would be correct.
From: Cinema Blend 17/09/2015
Why Elizabeth Olsen Really Doesn't Want A Scarlet Witch Movie
Like her fellow Avengers Black Widow and Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch didn't get a solo movie to set her up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Instead, she and her brother Quicksilver were among the many characters introduced earlier this year in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
From: Cinema Blend 17/09/2015
The DC Character Gal Gadot Almost Played Instead Of Wonder Woman
Gal Gadot made a name for herself in Hollywood playing Gisele Yashar in the Fast & Furious movies, but she was propelled to new levels of fame last year when she was cast as Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe. However, that wasn't her only opportunity to appear in a DC movie. It turns out she was almost cast as one of the villains in Man of Steel.
From: Cinema Blend 17/09/2015
Rachel McAdams confirms Doctor Strange role
Rachel McAdams has confirmed her role in Doctor Strange.
Rumours had been swirling for some time that The Notebook actress would join Marvel's adventure fantasy, which is due out next year.
From: Film-News 17/09/2015
Michael Winship Re-Elected WGA East President For Final Time
Michael Winship, running unopposed, has been re-elected president of the WGA East. Winship, who guided the guild through the 2007-2008 writers' strike, said this would be his last two-year term as president.
From: Deadline 17/09/2015
Orson Welles' manuscripts for Citizen Kane go to auction in California
Orson Welles' personal manuscripts for Citizen Kane will be auctioned, including the film's final revised shooting script.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/09/2015
Jennifer Lawrence in line for spy thriller Red Sparrow with Hunger Games director
Oscar-winner would play a Russian agent trained against her will in the art of seduction in adaptation of Jason Matthews' New York Times bestseller.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/09/2015
Albert Hughes Discovers The Solutrean
Five years on from The Book Of Eli, and following a dalliance with Akira and the collapse of Motor City, Albert Hughes finally has his next project lined up. He'll direct The Solutrean, under producer Jeff Robinov's new Studio 8 production banner.
From: Empire Online 16/09/2015
Woody Harrelson Recruited For War For The Planet Of The Apes
Woody Harrelson has had some experience with a big franchise thanks to the Hunger Games series. He'll be tapping his villainous side for another as he's joining the cast of War Of The Planet For The Apes.
From: Empire Online 16/09/2015
Ato Essandoh On For The New Bourne Film
The film is already in production, but we still don't know that much about the new Bourne outing, beyond the fact that Matt Damon is back as the titular hero surrounded by a crop of faces both new and old. And while we don't know what he'll be up to, we do know that Copper's Ato Essandoh has landed a role in the film.
From: Empire Online 16/09/2015
Liam Neeson Will Be The Revenger
We have now, apparently, reached the stage of Liam Neeson's action career where he's ready to take spoofing it to the next natural stage - an entire action comedy on the big screen. All right, so we don't know for sure that it will be exactly that, but The Revenger sounds like it could be.
From: Empire Online 16/09/2015
3 Major Superman Characters Who May Appear In Man Of Steel 2
There's been a lot of talk lately about what Warner Bros' plans are for Superman. Although the Kryptonian will play key roles in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and, presumably, the following two Justice League films, there hasn't been any word on whether he'll get to star in another solo adventure again, a.k.a. Man of Steel 2.
From: Cinema Blend 16/09/2015
Frozen May Get Overtaken As The Most Popular Animated Movie Ever
We're not sure if the entire universe knows the words to Let it Go yet, but it's safe to say that the entire planet Earth does. That movie was kind of a big deal. However, another animated film is on the verge of taking down Elsa and Anna. It turns out that Minions has made nearly enough money to take over as the biggest animated feature of all time.
From: Cinema Blend 16/09/2015
How Jeremy Irons' Alfred Will Be Different From Michael Caine's
While we have seen many different actors take on the role of Batman over the years, we have actually only seen two big screen Alfred Pennyworths.
From: Cinema Blend 16/09/2015
'Midnight Rider' OSHA Case: Filmmakers Must Pay Up
A federal court has upheld the Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety violations and fine against production company Film Allman, LLC, which was set up by director/producer/co-writer Randall Miller and producer/co-writer Jody Savin to film the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider.
From: Deadline 16/09/2015
The Deadline Q&A: Indie Legend Jeremy Thomas Reflects On 'High-Rise' And Four Decades In The Mix
For forty years, iconic British producer Jeremy Thomas, whose latest feature High-Rise world premiered at Toronto, has been challenging audiences- and his financiers- with uncompromising, auteur-led fare through his Recorded Picture Company.
From: Deadline 16/09/2015
At Toronto film festival, London directors call for more movies about the middle-class
Panel of UK-based directors protest capital's middle class cultural chokehold while also calling for industry to spotlight gentrified masses, rather than more period dramas and social realism.
From: The Guardian - Film News 15/09/2015
Toronto 2015: Room adaptation doesn't directly reference Fritzl case, say film-makers
Although both Emma Donaghue's novel and the well-received film adaptation recall the horrifying Fritzl case, the film-makers said they stayed away from the story in the making of the drama.
From: The Guardian - Film News 15/09/2015
Iraq war translator memoir from American Sniper co-writer heading to cinemas
The film based on the bestselling memoir about an Iraqi who helped US Navy Seals, and adapted by Straight Outta Compton screenwriter Alan Wenkus, will be touted to buyers at this week's Toronto film festival.
From: The Guardian - Film News 15/09/2015
Disney And Rob Marshall Are Making A New Mary Poppins Film
Given her well documented objection to anyone - and particularly Disney - adapting her stories into other media, we can't imagine P.L. Travers, were she alive today, would be thrilled to learn that the Mouse House is returning to the Mary Poppins well.
From: Empire Online 15/09/2015
Frances O'Connor Joins The Conjuring 2
He's getting ready to shoot The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist (assuming it doesn't opt for a shorter name before release), and James Wan is busy building up the cast around returning veterans Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. Frances O'Connor is the latest addition to the line-up.
From: Empire Online 15/09/2015
Jenny Slate Added To Gifted
We already know that Chris Evans will swap his shield and superpowers for something a little more ordinary in Mark Webb's Gifted. Now Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer, Lindsay Duncan and newcomer McKenna Grace will join him in the film.
From: Empire Online 15/09/2015
How Much Of Beauty And The Beast's Singing Will Actually Be Live?
Harry Potter's Emma Watson stars as Belle in Disney's upcoming live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, and you can bet there will be singing involved. The question is, will it be all pre-recorded tunes, or did the actors sing them live on the set.
From: Cinema Blend 15/09/2015
The Animated Troll Doll Movie Has A Really Impressive Cast
Not only is a movie based on those plastic Troll dolls with the crazy hair actually happening, it's putting together what has become a shockingly good cast of huge names. The latest addition to the party is none other than global pop superstar Justin Timberlake, who joins Pitch Perfect lead Anna Kendrick.
From: Cinema Blend 15/09/2015
DirecTV And A24 In Exclusive Negotiations For 'Into The Forest' - Toronto
DirecTV in partnership with A24 is moving into an exclusive negotiation for Into The Forest, the Patricia Rozema-directed drama that stars Max Minghella, Ellen Page, Callum Keith Rennie and Evan Rachel Wood.
From: Deadline 15/09/2015
Emily Ratajkowski & Spencer Boldman Go For 'Cruise'; Natalie Paul Joins Untitled Colin Warner Pic
Emily Ratajkowski (We Are Your Friends) and Spencer Boldman (Lab Rats) are set to star in the indie pic Cruise, a period youth-culture drama from writer-director Robert Siegel. Set during summer 1987, it centers on Gio Marchetti (Boldman), a working-class Italian-American who has little on his mind but racing cars and chasing girls.
From: Deadline 15/09/2015
'Hardcore' Has Three Suitors And Spirited Bidding Battle - Toronto
It took a few days, but bidders have found a movie worth fighting over. It's the Ilya Naishuller-directed film Hardcore, which premiered in Midnight Madness on Saturday at the Ryerson Theatre.
From: Deadline 15/09/2015
High Rise director Ben Wheatley: societal collapse is imminent
Speaking after the premiere of his adaptation of JG Ballard's novel, High Rise director and star, Tom Hiddleston, discuss imminence of large-scale civil disorder, levels of nudity and eating dogs.
From: The Guardian - Film News 14/09/2015
Indian clerics issue fatwa against makers of Muhammad: The Messenger of God
An Indian Islamic group has issued a fatwa against Iranian film-maker Majid Majidi and the Oscar-winning Indian composer AR Rahman over the depiction of the prophet Muhammad in a new film, reports the Indian Express.
From: The Guardian - Film News 14/09/2015
Tom Hardy in Toronto: 'I'm here to promote Legend'
In Toronto to promote his double turn as the Kray twins, the actor discusses his relationship to the film, and nothing else.
From: The Guardian - Film News 14/09/2015
Frank D Gilroy, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, dies aged 89
Writer whose best-known Broadway drama, The Subject Was Roses, led to a movie adaptation, has died in Monroe, New York.
From: The Guardian - Film News 14/09/2015
Triumph revival fuelled by continuing nostalgia for 1960s retro chic
Growth of classic bike market sees models used in TV shows and even forging new affinity with fashion world.
From: The Guardian - Film News 13/09/2015
Why Black Mass Would Feel Right At Home With Scorsese's Best Gangster Films
It's no small compliment when I tell you I believe Scott Cooper's Black Mass can run with Scorsese's mob trilogy of Goodfellas, Casino and, especially, the South Boston-flavored The Departed. It's that dirty, nasty and compelling.
From: Cinema Blend 13/09/2015
Momentum Pictures Acquires Stephen Frears' 'The Program' For North America - Toronto
Stephen Frears' Lance Armstrong drama The Program has been acquired for North America by Momentum Pictures. The film, starring Ben Foster as Armstrong, screens in Toronto today. StudioCanal is handling international rights.
From: Deadline 13/09/2015
Sony Pictures Classics Comes Out Swinging With Three World Premieres - Toronto Film Festival
Sony Pictures Classics literally has taken the 40th Toronto International Film Festival by storm in the past 24 hours.
From: Deadline 13/09/2015
Robert Redford, Jane Fonda Teaming At Netflix On 'Our Souls At Night'
Netflix is here at Toronto unveiling Beasts Of No Nation and chasing acquisition titles including the Michael Moore documentary Where To Invade Next.
From: Deadline 13/09/2015
Venice film festival 2015: Golden Lion goes to Venezuela's From Afar
Unheralded first Venezuelan film to be selected for Venice competition takes top prize, with Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa taking second spot.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/09/2015
Glenda Jackson laments continuing lack of key acting roles for women
As ex-Labour MP returns to acting, she expresses her dismay as to why women still can't get the best roles.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/09/2015
Australian movie Tanna wins two major awards at Venice film festival
Co-directed by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, the film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/09/2015
Zoe Saldana Nabs Starring Role In Another Comic Book Adaptation
What with comic books being all the rage there are a lot of bigger and smaller properties being turned into movies. And with Hollywood being what it is, there are only so many actors to go around.
From: Cinema Blend 12/09/2015
Deadly Plane Crash Occurs On Set Of Tom Cruise Film Mena
Breaking news has come in that a deadly plane crash occurred on set of Tom Cruise's latest movie Mena. A small plane which was assigned to the crew of the film had a horrific accident leaving two dead and one seriously injured.
From: Cinema Blend 12/09/2015
The Hilariously Sexual Reason Marvel Won't Let James Gunn Use A Comic Book Alien Race
Those who saw Guardians of the Galaxy know that James Gunn jam-packed it with a myriad of references to the greater Marvel universe.
From: Cinema Blend 12/09/2015
Jurassic World Slammed For Most Mistakes In A Movie This Summer
No one can argue with the unprecedented success of Jurassic World this summer. The nostalgia packed, Chris Pratt-led reboot of the popular dinosaur franchise continually smashed record after box office record, becoming the third highest grossing movie of all time - behind Avatar and Titanic. Just because a film performs well with critics and audiences, however, does not make it perfect.
From: Cinema Blend 12/09/2015
The Danish Girl Boasts An Oscar-Worthy Performance, But It's Not Who You Think
Most coming to Hooper's biopic of pioneering transgender Einar Wegener likely are enticed by the transformation of Oscar-winning Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) from fey male painter into semi-confident female model, Lili Elbe -- who Einar realizes has been resting inside him all along.
From: Cinema Blend 12/09/2015
EuropaCorp, FilmNation Team For John Madden-Helmed 'Miss Sloane:' Toronto
EuropaCorp has partnered with FilmNation to produce the political thriller Miss Sloane, which John Madden will direct and Jessica Chastain will star in. The topic is hot button stuff, the issue of gun control. Script is by Jonathan Perera.
From: Deadline 12/09/2015
Julianne Moore in Toronto: 'Go see movies with women in them'
The Oscar winner for Still Alice discusses how her two films at Tiff this year - Freeheld and Maggie's Plan - fit into her back catalogue, and urges for increased female visibility in Hollywood.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/09/2015
Bidding war rages over Where To Invade Next as Demolition fails to fell all critics
Studios fight to distribute Michael Moore's documentary as Jake Gyllenhaal's grieving banker who writes to customer services struggles harder to connect.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/09/2015
Star Wars novelist strikes back at gay character slurs
Chuck Wendig says critics claiming 'gay agenda' in Star Wars: Aftermath, his bestselling new expanded universe book, are out of step with Jedi worldview.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/09/2015
Matt Damon: the refugee crisis is a reason to release The Martian
The actor spoke about the optimistic message of his new sci-fi adventure alongside at the Toronto film festival.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/09/2015
King Kong May Move To Warner Bros.
While it seemed that King Kong's new home - outside of Skull Island, that is - would be Universal thanks to the company's deal with Legendary, it would appear that the latter studios' executives want to keep the dream of a Kong Vs. Godzilla film alive and are now in talks with Warner Bros. to move the creature there.
From: Empire Online 11/09/2015
Elizabeth Olsen Talks Captain America: Civil War
With principal photography having wrapped a few weeks ago, there are no location shots from which to glean information about Captain America: Civil War, so the wider world has to rely on the actors talking about the movie. One such thesp is Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Wanda "Scarlet Witch" Maximoff in the movie and sat down with French film magazine Premiere to talk about her upcoming films and let slip some details and opinions.
From: Empire Online 11/09/2015
Resident Evil Stuntwoman Is In A Coma After Motorcycle Crash
We've all heard of the phrase "occupational hazard," but what happens when hazards are the focal point of your occupation? Even with the advances in CGI and visual effects over the last few decades, stunt workers remain a necessary, and underappreciated, aspect of filming the action sequences we take for granted.
From: Cinema Blend 11/09/2015
The Animorphs Are Getting Their Own Movie Because Nostalgia
Film adaptations of young adult book genres have become increasingly profitable over the years.
From: Cinema Blend 11/09/2015
How Natalie Portman Realized People Make Fun Of Garden State
Garden State is a weird film. Upon its release all the way back in 2004 it was initially met with pretty impressive reviews, as well as a healthy box office return. But it has since been turned into a rather cult commodity. In fact, some people even turn up their noses at it. Its star Natalie Portman is now fully aware that people don't like it, and it's all because of Broad City.
From: Cinema Blend 11/09/2015
This is not the island you're looking for, Irish wildlife groups tell Star Wars
Film crews for episode eight of the franchise set to return to Skellig Michael, as Irish government hopes island's film appearance will boost tourism.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/09/2015
Star Wars stuntwoman in coma after film set crash
Olivia Jackson sustains severe head injuries and punctured lung after colliding with metal camera arm on set of Resident Evil sequel.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/09/2015
The toys are coming: Playmobil to follow Lego on to the big screen
Shrek 2 and Puss in Boots animator Bob Persichetti will make his directorial debut on the latest toy-based project to graduate to the cinema.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/09/2015
Ronda Rousey grapples with Patrick Swayze's role in Road House remake
UFC champion has reportedly won the blessing of the late Dirty Dancing star's widow, Lisa Niemi, to take the tough bouncer role.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/09/2015
As the Toronto film festival turns 40, directors seek to avert mid-life crisis
This year's anniversary edition is set to premiere major Oscar contenders and expand horizons with new programming, including a nod to the primacy of TV.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/09/2015
Terry Gilliam laughs off Variety's dead Python blunder
Film director takes to Facebook to apologise for his own 'death' after website publishes premature obituary.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/09/2015
Mission: Impossible Is Going To Make A Fortune In China
Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation has already made a ridiculous of money. It's still in the top five at the domestic box office - even after six weeks of release, which is regularly unheard of during summer blockbuster season. It's far from done making money, though. The movie just had one of the biggest openings in Chinese box office history.
From: Cinema Blend 09/09/2015
Ronda Rousey Is Starring In A Road House Reboot, Pray For Her Future Victims
Don't do it, Hollywood. Don't ever try to remake Road House. It's perfectly perfect, in its own glorious, 1989 way. It's bad enough that we lost Patrick Swayze.
From: Cinema Blend 09/09/2015
Our Brand is Crisis trailer: Sandra Bullock is back, with suicidal llama
The first trailer for David Gordon Green's spin doctor satire is out, featuring a shifty politician played by Billy Bob Thornton, and Sandra Bullock's first role since Gravity.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/09/2015
Nasa astronauts have read The Martian and hope to see the movie in space
The book The Martian is earning high praise from space, and the astronaut-reviewer can't wait to see the soon-to-be-released movie.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/09/2015
China accused of fraud as government-backed film outperforms Terminator: Genisys
The state allegedly offered cinemas a financial incentive to post bogus box-office revenues for the patriotic war epic The Hundred Regiments Offensive.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/09/2015
The Actress Halloween Wants To Lead The Reboot
Often times it feels like classic horror franchises are in a perpetual state of being rebooted and expanding with sequels, often at the same time.
From: Cinema Blend 08/09/2015
Is Marvel Setting Up A Massive Villain Team-Up For A Future Movie?
Although certain villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe have joined forces in the movies, there has yet to be a grand evil team-up akin to the heroes forming the Avengers.
From: Cinema Blend 08/09/2015
10 Oscar Campaigns That Will Take Off During The Toronto Film Festival
Technically, the Oscar "season" is supposed to last all year long, with movies released at any time during the year considered in contention for the industry's top prize. Realistically, though, the awards season kicks into full gear when the annual trio of international film festivals held in Venice.
From: Cinema Blend 08/09/2015
Sam Smith hints that he will perform next James Bond song
Singer posts picture of Instagram of a ring bearing the insignia of Spectre, leading to speculation that he will follow in the footsteps of Adele and Shirley Bassey.
From: The Guardian - Film News 07/09/2015
Hollywood star Ethan Hawke's third novel is a 'parable for all ages'
The actor and writer addresses the big existential questions in Rules for a Knight, the story of a Cornish knight writing to his children before he rides into battle.
From: The Guardian - Film News 07/09/2015
Tilda Swinton: my Bigger Splash character doesn't speak because I had nothing to say
British actor plays singer with no voice in her latest collaboration with I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino, alongside Ralph Fiennes.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/09/2015
Michael Keaton: Hollywood needs more female directors
The actor spoke alongside Meryl Streep and Rachel McAdams in a panel about historical authenticity in cinema at the Telluride film festival.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/09/2015
Frank Marshall Producing Horror Thriller Cropsey
It's fair to say that Frank Marshall has, as a producer, had a pretty good summer, what with overseeing the success of Jurassic World. He's as busy as ever, and is now developing a horror thriller called Cropsey for DreamWorks.
From: Empire Online 06/09/2015
Summer Camp Horror Comedy Cropsey Wants To Be The Next Goonies Or Gremlins
When the description of a movie involves summer camps and horror, you usually imagine a bunch of horny teens being hacked to bits and otherwise dismembered by a hulking brute with a machete. However, the new film Cropsey is going to take some of those elements and work them into the same mold as movies like The Goonies and Gremlins.
From: Cinema Blend 06/09/2015
Rooney Mara: I watched Toy Story 3 to relax after Dragon Tattoo rape scenes
Rooney Mara has revealed that the secret to getting through the explicit rape scenes she filmed for David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was watching the sentimental Pixar sequel Toy Story 3.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/09/2015
Danish Girl director Tom Hooper: film industry has 'problem' with transgender actors
Director of film starring Eddie Redmayne, about Danish transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, says that 'access to roles' is key to progress.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/09/2015
Liv Ullmann: Films should be fantasies, not pornography
Ingmar Bergman's muse talks about ever-more explicit mainstream movies and her new version of Miss Julie.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/09/2015
Aretha Franklin documentary blocked from Telluride film festival by judge
A federal judge in Colorado has granted an injunction to halt the opening night premiere of Amazing Grace, a documentary which features footage of the singer shot by Sydney Pollack in 1972.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/09/2015
Johnny Depp: 'I killed my dogs and ate them'
Actor in Venice to attend the world premiere of his gangster film Black Mass jokes about the row in Australia over the fate of his Yorkshire terriers.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/09/2015
Mark Ruffalo: Hulk has been cut from Captain America: Civil War
The grumpy green giant will not be smashing his way through 2016's eagerly awaited superhero smackdown.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/09/2015
Sienna Miller cut from Johnny Depp gangster biopic Black Mass
Director Scott Cooper says scenes featuring British actor were excised from the movie for 'narrative reasons'.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/09/2015
Andrea Riseborough Signs Up For Bloodline
On its way to a highly anticipated second season, following the surprisingly dramatic events of its first, Netflix's Bloodline is assembling a new batch of characters to join the originals. Latest to sign up for a recurring role is Andrea Riseborough.
From: Empire Online 04/09/2015
Straight Outta Compton Sequel To Focus On Death Row Records
With the unprecedented critical and box office success of N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, some of those involved are, not unnaturally, musing ways to follow it up.
From: Empire Online 04/09/2015
Wow, Emma Thompson Does Not Want Another Spider-Man Movie
There have been several blunt opinions about superhero movies expressed as of late. It seems that the most important question any major Hollywood star can be asked is, "What do you think of all the superhero movies?" Well, it's Emma Thompson's turn to answer the question now, and while she doesn't hate the genre as a whole, she does have it out for one particular tights-wearing super human: Spider-Man.
From: Cinema Blend 04/09/2015
Neighbors 2 Adds Former Disney Starlet
With Neighbors, Zac Efron was given the opportunity to grow beyond his Disney Channel image and take part in something a lot more adult. Now new reports have confirmed that Neighbors 2 will offer a similar opportunity to Selena Gomez, who has signed on for a part in the Nicholas Stoller-directed sequel.
From: Cinema Blend 04/09/2015
What Benecio Del Toro Is Actually Doing In Star Wars Episode VIII
Benicio Del Toro said "no" when the Star Trek franchise came calling all the way back in 2011, but the same evidently did not go down when the Oscar-winning actor was approached about the possibility of joining the Star Wars saga.
From: Cinema Blend 04/09/2015
The Main Difference Between George Lucas And J.J. Abrams, According To C-3PO
Comparisons between J.J. Abrams and George Lucas were always going to appear at some point. Lucas' most recent efforts overseeing Star Wars Episodes 1-3 were widely lambasted, and Abrams is seen as the great hope for rejuvenating the franchise.
From: Cinema Blend 04/09/2015
Broadway & Film Dancer Vivien Eng Dies At 51 In Hell's Kitchen Fire
Vivien Eng, a one-time member of the famed Martha Graham Dance Company who appeared in musical ensembles and played a nurse in Lee Daniels' 2009 breakout film Precious, was found unconscious in her flame-engulfed apartment Tuesday afternoon. She was taken to the burn unit of New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she died Thursday as a result of burns and smoke inhalation.
From: Deadline 04/09/2015
Telluride: Benicio Del Toro Joins 'Viva' As Executive Producer Ahead Of World Premiere Today
Although he is not here in Telluride, Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro's presence will be felt as the official start of the film festival gets under way in the early evening hours in the Rockies.
From: Deadline 04/09/2015
Mark Ruffalo urges pope to use his new film to heal sex abuse victims
At Venice world premiere of docudrama Spotlight, actor calls on Vatican to right wrongs and bring disaffected Catholics back to the church.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/09/2015
Congo 'shutting down debate on rape', says director of banned film
DRC government cancels screenings of film about Denis Mukwege, the doctor who treats some of the many Congolese women raped by soldiers.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/09/2015
Dean Jones, star of the Herbie films, dies aged 84
Actor whose boyish good looks and all-American manner made him Disney's top choice for almost a decade had been suffering from Parkinson's disease.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/09/2015
Hugh Jackman would 'seriously consider' playing James Bond
The Australian actor was approached for the role eight years ago, as Daniel Craig hints Spectre could be his final time playing the British spy.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/09/2015
Uzo Aduba Joins American Pastoral
With Ewan McGregor busy preparing to make the Philip Roth adaptation American Pastoral as his directorial debut, he's adding more cast members to the ensemble. In his latest round of hires, he has Orange Is The New Black's Uzo Aduba ready to jump aboard alongside David Strathairn, Peter Riegert and Valorie Curry.
From: Empire Online 03/09/2015
Cary Fukunaga Explains His Exit From It
Having delivered the masterful first season of True Detective and completed his hotly anticipated Beasts Of No Nation, Cary Fukunaga's next project was, for a time, set to be a two-film adaptation of Stephen King's It.
From: Empire Online 03/09/2015
Mark Ruffalo Says The Hulk Was Cut From Captain America: Civil War
Given how many characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe show up in Captain America: Civil War, it's perhaps not that surprising there was little room left for one of the biggest. According to Mark Ruffalo himself, the Hulk will not be appearing in the film.
From: Empire Online 03/09/2015
How Idris Elba Almost Died On The Beasts Of No Nation Set
I'm going to guess that many of you, like myself, think that Idris Elba is basically unbreakable. Just look at him. The man is an Adonis. However, it turns out that there is one person who has the capabilities to kill Idris Elba, and that is Idris Elba himself.
From: Cinema Blend 03/09/2015
Concussion Controversy Continues As Sony Argues Against Supposed Cuts To Please The NFL
Ever since the movie Concussion was announced it was a forgone conclusion that the NFL was not going to be happy.
From: Cinema Blend 03/09/2015
The Rock Reveals A Key Detail About Disney's Jungle Cruise Movie
Many of the attractions at Disney theme parks are designed to transport riders to another time and place. And as rides are now totally acceptable fodder for movie ideas, the subsequent films based on them attempt to do the same thing.
From: Cinema Blend 03/09/2015
Cohen Media Group In Tune With 'Marguerite' - Venice
In the first U.S. acquisition of the Venice Film Festival, Cohen Media Group has picked up competition title Marguerite. Helmed by Xavier Giannoli, the French language pic stars Catherine Frot.
From: Deadline 03/09/2015
Oscars 2016 ceremony to be produced by Australian TV executive David Hill
Fox veteran will be tasked with boosting figures after a poorly received 2015 ceremony and significant drop in viewing numbers.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/09/2015
Mad Max: Fury Road voted year's best movie by international film critics
The Australian road movie will pick up the International Federation of Film Critics' Grand Prix at the San Sebastian film festival.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/09/2015
Alex Kingston Headed Back To Doctor Who
In her more recent appearances, Alex Kingston's River Song has become something of a divisive character for Doctor Who fans.
From: Empire Online 02/09/2015
Hugh Bonneville Enters Viceroy's House
Making the journey from Downton to Delhi, Hugh Bonneville is set to star as Lord Mountbatten in the historical drama Viceroy's House.
From: Empire Online 02/09/2015
Straight Outta Compton 2 Could Focus On This Rap Era
Universal's latest success story, Straight Outta Compton, continues to dominate the box office even after its third week in theaters.
From: Cinema Blend 02/09/2015
New Oscar Producers Want Two Hosts, May Have A Duo In Mind
Good things come in twos: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, Boy Scouts and zombies, etc. It seems like the producers behind the Oscars are finally getting hip to this concept.
From: Cinema Blend 02/09/2015
Paramount Dates 'Jack Reacher 2' For October 2016
Paramount announced today that the Tom Cruise action vehicle Jack Reacher 2 will be opening on Oct. 21, 2016.
From: Deadline 02/09/2015
Alfonso Cuarón On Jury Duty & Missing Guillermo Del Toro In Venice
Venice jury president Alfonso Cuarón blew the doors off of the festival two years ago when his out-of-competition Gravity debuted here on opening day.
From: Deadline 02/09/2015
London film festival 2015 will be 'year of strong women'
The organisers of the BFI London film festival have said 2015's event will be "the year of the strong women" in a bid to redress the gender imbalance in the film industry.
From: The Guardian - Film News 01/09/2015
Anthony Horowitz apologises after calling Idris Elba 'too street' to play James Bond
Author makes statement after being criticised for telling the Mail on Sunday that Idris Elba should not play Bond, and says he is 'mortified' by any offence caused.
From: The Guardian - Film News 01/09/2015
Steve Carell replaces Bruce Willis in Woody Allen's next movie
Carell, who worked with the veteran director on 2004's Melinda and Melinda, joins cast following action star's premature departure.
From: The Guardian - Film News 01/09/2015
Scott Eastwood Hitches A Ride With Overdrive
Sitting in the development garage since at least 2011, action project Overdrive has hardly lived up to its name so far, generating a lot of interest without actually gaining any momentum. Producer Pierre Morel and director Antonio Negret are hoping that will change now they have The Longest Ride's Scott Eastwood on board to star.
From: Empire Online 01/09/2015
Vincent Cassel Joins The New Bourne Film
With shooting set to kick off soon, Paul Greengrass is busily gathering the remaining cast for the next, as-yet-untitled Jason Bourne collaboration with Matt Damon. He now has a primary nemesis in line for our hero, with Vincent Cassel putting the film in its sights.
From: Empire Online 01/09/2015
Sam Neill Plays For Tommy's Honour
Clearly having inherited his father's love of golf, Jason Connery has just begun principal photography Tommy's Honour, based on Kevin Cook's acclaimed history of golfing pioneer Old Tom Morris and his son Tommy.
From: Empire Online 01/09/2015
Karen Gillan Completes 'Circle', Lands Final Lead In James Ponsoldt Pic
Karen Gillan has been tapped to co-star in James Ponsoldt's film adaptation of Dave Eggers' The Circle. The Doctor Who and Guardians Of The Galaxy actress joins a loaded cast that includes Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega.
From: Deadline 01/09/2015
Oscars: David Hill & Reginald Hudlin To Produce 88th Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced that David Hill and Reginald Hudlin will produce the 88th Annual Oscars.
From: Deadline 01/09/2015
Avi Lerner Goes After Illegal Downloaders In Oregon Over 'Survivor' Thriller
Mass piracy with The Expendables 3 burned them last year, and this summer Avi Lerner's Nu Image and Millennium Films aren't going to stand by to see the same thing happen again.
From: Deadline 01/09/2015
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