You may remember Hot Rod director Akiva Schaffer’s new movie The Watch from its formal title, Neighborhood Watch. (The film’s marketing team decided to change the name in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting.) The film stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade, and is about four suburban dads who create a neighborhood watch program because they’re bored at home. But then the guys discover aliens in their neighborhood, and things get a whole lot more interesting.
Harry Potter star Rupert Grint continues his journey to transition into more adult fare at the movies. He’s dabbled in some other projects in between trips to Hogwarts, but now that the series has come to a close, he can start really pushing himself as an actor. Variety reports that Grint has signed on to two smaller films, CBGB opposite Potter co-star Alan Rickman and The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman with Shia LaBeouf.
We last heard about Shadow of the Colossus, a movie based on the popular video game, way back in 2010 when word came out that it would be in 3D. I thought the project was dead, but it appears that the studio simply needed to find the right director. Deadline reports that Sony has signed Chronicle director Josh Trank to bring the video game to the big screen. More after the jump. click to continue…
In a move that has shocked the movie blog community, Paramount has decided to bump G.I. Joe: Retaliation from June 29th, 2012, all the way back to March 29, 2013, to do a massive post-conversion process to 3D. More info below. click to continue…
John Kennedy Toole’s novel “A Confederacy of Dunces” became a cult classic upon its release in 1980, eleven years after the author’s suicide. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the next year, and a film version was put in the works shortly afterward. Groundhog Day director Harold Ramis was once set to go behind the camera with John Belushi starring, but the actor’s death brought the production to a halt. Years later, John Candy and Chris Farley were both in talks to play the lead role of Ignatius J. Reilly at various points, but they both tragically died early deaths as well.
As recently as 2005, Will Ferrell was attached to star in a film version of the story for director David Gordon Green, but that too fell apart. Now it appears Ferrell’s co-star in The Campaign, Zach Galifianakis, is the latest actor in talks to bring the iconic character to life. click to continue…
Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, the adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel set in New York City during the Roaring ’20s. The 3D movie has a stellar cast comprised of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton, and more. Take a look below and see it for yourselves. click to continue…
You know something is wrong when the top film makes more money in its 3rd weekend than the rest of the new releases put together. Not just that but The Avengers could have made half the money it did on each weekend and still finish 1st.
I’m guessing Aerosmith won’t be too happy about this title, but The Hollywood Reporter says that Natalie Portman is all set to star in a western for director Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin) called Jane Got A Gun. Based on a Black List script (one of the best unproduced screenplays of the year), the story “centers on a woman whose outlaw husband returns home barely alive and riddled with bullet wounds. She is forced to reach out to an ex-lover and ask if he will help defend her farm when her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.” More below. click to continue…
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