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If I wasn’t looking forward to this movie before, this poster isn’t helping. The photo-shop job on Tony Scott’s latest assault on cinema doesn’t tease as much as assure me that there is no need to see this movie. The original, which is wonderful, is still available and still worth seeing. Maybe we, as a …
The new film of Hunter S. Thompson’s first book might be adding a few new faces to the cast. Aaron Eckhart is in talks to join the project, while Oscar-nominated actor Richard Jenkins has already signed on. Jenkins joins previously signed actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, who played Raoul Duke, another one of Thompson’s …
Michael Pena, Brad Dourif and Bill Cobbs have signed on to join Werner Herzog’s latest movie, “My Son, My Son, What Have You Done?” The movie is loosely based on the story of a San Diego man who sees a series of bizarre mystical sights and ends up killing his mother with a sword. Already …
If you wondered how things worked out between Carrie and Big, wonder no more. Variety is reporting that Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis have all signed on for a “Sex and the City,” sequel. The first film, which opened last summer, made $152 million in the US and an additional …
Steven Soderbergh apparently never sleeps. Even though, “Cleo,” his Cleopatra rock opera fell apart after Hugh Jackman bailed, (one would assume the performance of “Australia,” didn’t help make the backers sleep easy,) Soderbergh already has his next proejct lined up. Based on Michael Lewis’ book of the same name, “Moneyball,” is about Oakland A’s manager …
When it rains, it pours… Pictures, some 400 of them, taken behind-the-scenes of Michael Mann’s latest movie, “Public Enemies,” have surfaced on-line. First Showing has taken the liberty of going through them and grabbing the really choice shots. Check them out. There are reports that the movie has already had a couple of sneak peaks …
Variety is reporting that James Bond veteran Martin Campbell is very close to signing to helm the Green Lantern movie for Warner Bros. Campbell directed Pierece Brosnan’s first Bond film, “Goldeneye,” as well as Daniel Craig’s debut film, “Casino Royle.” Having Campbell take on this project gets things going- Warner Bros. is now thinking “Lantern” …
If you’re like me, you’re wondering why studios aren’t developing more board games for the big screen. I mean, sure, Ridley Scott is doing “Monopoly,” but what about “Candyland?” Good question. Thankfully, Universal has heard your worries. “Tropic Thunder,” co-writer Etan Cohen is working on a script and “Enchanted” director Kevin Lima is making this …
USA Today has published the first picture of Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movie. Of course, the movie also stars Jude Law as Dr. Watson and Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes. The Adler character first made her appearance in the Holmes stories in “A Scandal in Bohemia,” but I’ve read …
Aaron Sorkin, (he of “The American President,” “The West Wing,” and “A Few Good Men,”) has adapted Jonathan Mahler’s book, “The Challenge: Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld.” The story is about the Navy lawyer representing Osama bin Laden’s driver, who was imprisoned at Gitmo for over five years. According to Variety, George Clooney is interested in playing …