With a mere $10 million at the worldwide box office Jonah Hex will never make its $50+ million budget back. Warner Bros. tried to improve the movie by bringing in I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence for re-shoots at the beginning of the year, but when it came to marketing Warner Bros. pretty much wrote it off. They have a Harry Potter movie this year, afterall.
Now the promotional rounds are a distant memory Josh Brolin has shared this thoughts on the finished product, and he isn’t a fan.
According to Variety Mad Men actress Christina Hendricks will be joining Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan in Drive.
Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson) is directing the film which is an adaptation of the James Sallis novel about a nameless Hollywood stuntman (Gosling) who moonlights as a freelance getaway driver during robberies. When a bank heist goes wrong, he ends up on the run with a contract on his head and an ex-con’s girlfriend (Mulligan) in his car. Hendricks’ role has not been revealed.
Now is a good time to be a photographer in England. Not only is X-Men: First Class currently filming but Captain America: The First Avengers is also in production, which is providing opportunities for on-set snaps.
The Daily Mail managed to get some images of motorbike scenes being filmed just outside on London, one of which you can see above. Chris Evans wasn’t involved so the costume is looking slightly larger to accommodate the stunt man, but it gives us an idea what Captain America will look like.
After lots of development troubles and J.J. Abrams’s involvement, Stephen King’s epic book series The Dark Tower is finally being adapted for the screen. In a unique, multi-platform move, Ron Howard will helm the same continuity that will carry over into both a trilogy of feature films, and two seasons of a TV show. Read more after the break.
If you aren’t watching “Community,” you’re missing out. The NBC comedy, starring Joel McHale as smooth-talking ex-lawyer Jeff Winger, is one of the funniest shows on TV and a must-watch for pop culture junkies. McHale, also the host of “The Soup” on the E! Network, has been tiptoeing his way into feature films over the past couple of years.
Now, Variety reports the up-and-coming actor has joined Jessica Alba in Robert Rodriguez’s reboot of his own Spy Kids franchise, titled Spy Kids: All the Time in the World. continue reading »
Bryan Singer said the costumes in X-Men: First Class would have a more comic-book feel to them, and he was right. INF daily managed to snap some images from the set and got a good shot of January Jones as Emma Frost wearing “a short white coat, knee-high white boots, and a fuzzy white Russian hat.”
Check out the full image below!
British actor Martin Freeman (The Office, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) has been at the front of people’s minds for the past few years whenever the subject of ‘Who will play Bilbo Baggins?’ comes up. He looks the part, and he is a good actor.
Yesterday The Sun, a British newspaper responsible for those Eddie Murphy as The Riddler in Batman 3 rumors, reported that Freeman had to decline an offer to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit movies due to a scheduling conflict with the second season of the BBC series Sherlock, in which he plays Dr. Watson. The fact that MGM haven’t sorted themselves out yet lead people to question how likely it was that an offer had been made, but it may have some truth to it.
Zombieland was a movie I went into not expecting a great deal, but I came out incredibly entertained and wanting more. The first film made $100 million worldwide, which is a success given it is an R-rated zombie movie that only cost $20 million.
Columbia Pictures re-hired the original writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to write a sequel (the duo have also been busy with G.I. Joe 2 and Deadpool), and director Ruben Fleisher recently confirmed that he has read the script, but it still needs work before they can begin shooting.
Theatrical trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man
First official image from Skyfall released
Matthew Vaughn will direct the X-Men: First Class sequel
