Danny Huston has been announced as the latest actor to sign up for Ridley Scott’s new Robin Hood movie. Huston will play King Richard the Lion Hearted. The movie also stars Cate Blanchett, William Hurt and Russell Crowe as Robin Hood. There’s still a ton of rumors about how this re-telling of Robin Hood will …
The Hollywood Reporter has released a short-list of actors for the upcoming ‘Green Lantern’ flick. On the list, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds, and Justin Timberlake, On the final list was Jared Leto, Henry Cavill, and Michael Fassbender. The studio is making things much more difficult with the casting decision, as each individual has a different …
Gary Ross, director of Seabiscuit and Pleasantville is doing re-writes on the script for Spider-Man 4. The script was originally written by James Vanderbilt, and soon rewritten by David Lindsay-Abaire. The project will go into production early next year for a May 2011 release. Personally, I think Spider-Man 3 was completely off the rails, and …
Michael Moore’s new documentary has a name. Having launched the teaser trailer on youtube as “Untitled Michael Moore Documentary,” Variety reports the title now is “Capitalism: A Love Story.” Moore said “It will be the perfect date movie. It’s got it all — lust, passion, romance and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day. It’s a …
Put away the robots that are little more than an advertisement for the tie-in merchandise. This is what a summer movie can, should and could be. Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies,” is a study of gangster John Dillinger and the things that make a folk hero tick.
Ok. This is getting ridiculous. Dreamworks is currently negotiating the acquisition of the film rights to the View-Master. Those red Fisher-Price 3D toys that you’d put a little disc into and look at mountain vistas. The film is being written and produced by Brad Caleb Kane, and be produced by Tranformers writing-duo Alex Kurtzman and …
‘Hangover’ rewriter Jeremy Garelick is taking on a new project, a film send-up of ‘Baywatch.’ Apparently, the current script has a lot of action, but Garelick’s new rewrite of ‘Baywatch,’ gives it a Police Academy feel. The script focuses on two unlikely candidates vying for a lifeguard position alongside the other hot and buff lifeguards. …
The trailer for the new Megan Fox/Diablo Cody movie, “Jennifer’s Body,” will be attached to prints of “Bruno,” on Friday. However, writer Cody and producer Jason Reitman think this red band trailer is a much better example of what kind of movie we’re going to see. The website Shock ‘Til You Drop has the red …
Sergio Leone made his name with the Man With No Name trilogy, three movies starring Clint Eastwood, set in the American west. However, by 1971, Eastwood wasn’t eager on repeating himself and he turned down Leone’s movie, “Once Upon a Time… The Revolution.”
I have to admit, the idea of Michael Mann making a film about John Dillinger was something that excited me quite a bit. If anyone could do the story justice, it’d be the director of Heat. Though, what worried me was Mann’s current obsession of shooting everything on the Sony CineAlta HD camera. Would the …