Film Review: Rush

Rush opens in theaters everywhere today, September 27. Check GoWatchIt for showtimes. International receipts are growing in importance. The box office used to be won and lost on American soil but things are certainly changing. Pacific Rim may have underperformed domestically but with an Asian market ravenously consuming it, sequel talks have managed to germinate. …

Film Review: Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock is a director whose contributions to cinema will live forever. Hitchcock’s films pushed the limit of what was acceptable at the time, and stand up even today as some of the most terrifying, exciting, and thrilling films ever made. One wonders why such a man, who is so well known for his movies, …

Aronofsky & Weisz Sign to ‘Jackie’

Darren Aronofsky has signed on to direct his fiancé Rachel Weisz in a biopic about Jackie Kennedy. Originally planned as a television movie, the project has now taken shape as a feature. The script was written by Noah Oppenheim, and covers the four days between John F. Kennedy’s assassination and his burial.

Hugh Jackman ‘Greatest Showman on Earth’

‘The Greatest Showman on Earth’ the new P.T. Barnum biopic will star Hugh Jackman as the lead. The film is a musical, and will focus on his relationship with singer Jenny Lind, written with Anne Hathaway in mind. The script is being written by Sex and the City scribe Jenny Bicks, with music being written …

Rums-found. W. Casting Announcement

Looks like good ole’ Ollie has cast has Donald Rumsfeld.  Stone has announced his next piece on the strange George W. Bush project, so creatively titled W.  Scott Glen (Backdraft, Silence of the Lambs), has been cast as Rumsfeld, Bush’s military cronie.  I think its a pretty good casting choice, as far as looks go, …

News: Oliver Stone Pursuing “Bush” project

Variety announced over the weekend that Oliver Stone has his sites on a biopic about George W. Bush, scripted by Wall Street co-writer Stanley Weiser. “It’s a behind-the-scenes approach, similar to ‘Nixon,’ to give a sense of what it’s like to be in his skin,” Stone told Daily Variety. “But if ‘Nixon’ was a symphony, …