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“The Pacific,” the follow up to their popular 2001 HBO mini-series, “Band of Brothers,” is coming next year from producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. This time, the focus is not on Europe as it was in “Band,” but instead, as the title would imply, it’s on the Pacific. The trailer makes it look like …
It looks like “Spiderman 4” is happening. After radio silence about the project, news, rumors and the like have been slowly trickling out over the past few weeks. The latest rumor? That the carjacker who killed Uncle Ben in the first Spiderman movie will be the villian in the fourth movie. The website Superhero Hype …
USA Today has published the first official pictures from Tim Burton’s 3-D motion capture, animated take on “Alice in Wonderland.” And the concensus? It’s going to scare the bejezus out of kids. Below are pictures of Johnny Depp, playing the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen and Anne Hathaway as the White …
Speaking in Paris, at the premiere of his new movie, “Whatever Works,” Woody Allen said that he’d love to work with the country’s first lady. Allen was asked what real-life personality would make a good character for one of his films, he said, “if I could, Carla Bruni. Without a doubt. I’m sure she’d be …
Focus Features has signed a two-year first look deal with Sam Mendes and his company Neal Street Productions. The deal also brings two projects that Mendes has been developing as potential directing vehicles. The first is ‘Butcher’s Crossing,’ a revisionist Western novel by John Williams, the film takes place in the 1870s, focusing on a …
Frank Marshall has confirmed that there is a likelihood that a fifth Indiana Jones is in the works, but is unable to give a firm timeline. Marshall placed major focus on the need for a good script. “Once we see that, we’ll see. We’re not going to wait another 20 years. We’d all love to …
Several trade papers are reporting that Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams are teaming up for “Mission: Impossible 4.” For now, they’re just producing the project, but maybe they just haven’t announced their full plans just yet. Right now, Abrams is working on developing the next “Star Trek” movie, and Cruise is already signed for a …
Apparently Shia LaBeouf says Indiana Jones 5 is in the works. The actor told BBC news that “Steven [Spielberg] just said that he cracked the story on it before I left and I think they’re gearing that up.” Well, I guess we’ll see what happens with this one.
Universal Studios and Imagine Entertainment are remaking the classic ‘Bride of Frankenstein,’ which comes as no surprise. The studio has continued to remake their back catalog, occasionally really, really, messing them up with films like ‘Van Helsing.’ The original classic was director by James Whale in 1935, and starred Elsa Lanchester. Neil Burger (The Illusionist) …
British Tabloids are reporting that James Bond’s nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofield will be returning to take on 007 in the next film. Blofield was the head of SPECTRE, the criminal organization that was the focus of the Sean Connery films, and was played by Donald Pleasance, and later by Telly Savalas, and Charles Grey. The …