Kevin Smith has been causing a bit of trouble with some promotions for his upcoming comedy ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno.’ In addition to blogs and video diaries, Smith has been known for his “internet-only trailers,” for many of his in-progress films. The MPAA called to tell Smith, this wasn’t possible when he posted …
Here’s a videogame movie some folks could get behind. Paramount Pictures and Leonardo DiCaprio will be producing a film called ‘Atari,’ a biopic about Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Atari, and one of the founding fathers of the videogame industry.
Despite my disappointment with Spider-Man 3, the idea of Sam Raimi still taking the reigns of a fourth still excites me. Raimi told Dark Horizons that James Vanderbilt is writing the script, and that he hopes Sony would still want him to do it. Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst are unlikely to return to the …
As ‘Prince of Persia,’ comes closer to its start date, the more news we get. Earlier this week we reported that Alfred Molina had been cast as the Sheik. Today we learn Ben Kingsley has been cast as Nizam, who plots to kill his brother King Shahrman, and blame it on Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal). …
F. Gary Gray has been tapped to direct a new biopic on music icon Marvin Gaye, who was shot to death by his father in 1984. The new film is being written by C. Gaby Mitchell (‘Blood Diamond), and will be titled ‘Marvin.’
Sony apparently has greenlit a Green Hornet film with Seth Rogan in the title role. The Green Hornet is a masked crime fighter which originally started as a radio play in the 30s, moving on to be a comic book series, and television series. The Green Hornet is a newspaper man by day, and a …
Guy Ritchie (Snatch, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels) has signed on to write and direct a new version of Sherlock Holmes for Warner Bros. The new film will be inspired by a new comic from Lionel Wigram which paints the classic character as more action oriented. Some of Holmes’ abilities will play a bigger …
Lindsay Lohan has signed on to “Labor Pains,” a comedy about an assistant who pretends to be pregnant as a desperate attempt to keep her boss from firing her. The film is directed by Lara Shapiro, and also star Chris Parnell, Cheryl Hines, Luke Kirby, and Connie Britton. The film starts shooting June 9th, and …
Wayne McClammy whose greatest claim to fame is directing “I’m F*cking Matt Damon,” and its response “I’m F*cking Ben Affleck,” has been tapped to direct a new comedy from 20th Century Fox, ‘Cool School.’ the movie is about ad executives in their early thirties who go back to high school to learn how to be …
Showtime has greelit a new Steven Spielberg backed series written by Juno scribe Diablo Cody. ‘The United States of Tara,’ is a half-hour comedy about a wife and mother who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. The show will focus on how the family (a husband and two children) deal with her various personalities. Toni Collette …