February 12, 2006 - February 18, 2006 Archives
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It's official: Eva Green is the new Bond girl. The actress will play Vesper Lynd, co-starring with Daniel Craig and Mads Mikkelsen in the upcoming Casino Royale. Green, who had parts in The Dreamers and Kingdom of Heaven, beat out several other actresses for the role, none wort... / Continue →
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Earlier in the week, Avi Arad mentioned that a Captain America script was in production, but failed to say who the writer was. Now, a reliable informant has told IGN FilmForce who the screenwriter is: David Self. Self has worked on two other Marvel projects, The Sub-Mariner (a ... / Continue →
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In an interview on Suicide Girls, Michel Gondry revealed that his next project, an adaptation of Rudy Rucker's novel Master of Space and Time, will be written by comic book author Daniel Clowes, creator of Ghost World. Jack Black is already set to overact in the film. I think t... / Continue →
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Contrary to an earlier report from a dining Michael Keaton that a Beetlejuice sequel may be in the works, Tim Burton has now said in an interview that he doesn't have plans on creating any sequels to his works, and hopes to resist any urge to do so. I, for one, am grateful. In... / Continue →
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The trailer for Lucky McKee's The Woods has actually been out for a while, but has now finally been hosted online, though still not in an official capacity. The plot follows a girl's move to an all-female private school where supernatural events have gone on in the surrounding... / Continue →
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The long struggle to cast the upcoming Bond film, Casino Royale, has nearly ended, with the role of the nemesis Le Chiffre filled by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. From the pictures I've seen of him, he looks a bit pretty-boy to be a villain. I don't have any names in mind, but I... / Continue →
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Fans hoping for another X-Men movie to follow Brett Ratner's The Last Stand will be disappointed by the director's words in a recent interview, where he claims the series has become a trilogy: Well, it seems to be the last of the series. We wanted to make sure the audiences kne... / Continue →
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While preparations are being made for the third chapter of the Jason Bourne saga, The Bourne Ultimatum, producer Frank Marshall revealed that the series may continue even further: "It's kinda up to Matt [Damon]," series producer Frank Marshall recently said of how far "Bourne" w... / Continue →
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The first image from Genndy Tartakovsky's Power of the Dark Crystal has made its way online, showing an elderly Kira from the original film. The sequel is set hundreds of years after the first film, showing that the Gelflings age at a different rate than us, and do not, in the... / Continue →
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Paul Giamatti and Clemence Poesy have signed on to star in Hungarian filmmaker Ildiko Enyedi's upcoming sci-fi movie, Tender Interface. The English language sci-fi film, scheduled to shoot in the first half of the year, is about a young girl playing video games who gets dragged ... / Continue →
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In an interview with UGO, Rob Schrab, creator of Channel 101, Scud, and writer of the upcoming Monster House, discussed the future of Heat Vision and Jack. Schrab co-wrote the comedy, featuring a Knight Rider style story about a man and his talking motorcycle, over five years ag... / Continue →
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The new horror-thriller Stay Alive released its poster with the catchy slogan, "You die in the game - You die for real." As it implies, the plot follows a group of teenagers who discover their in-game deaths cause their actual death, and for whatever reason they have to keep p... / Continue →
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New stills from Silent Hill have emerged online, including this horrifying image of a woman with some kind of metal pyramid head, wearing a dress made of a patchwork of flesh, hauling off with a bloody child. It's funny how something you didn't know existed one minute can the ... / Continue →
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In a recent interview, Avi Arad has dropped some cryptic clues about the future of a Captain America film. The movie will focus on the changes that have taken place over the last 60 years, questioning which world was better, the past or today. There are currently no directors ... / Continue →
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Jeff Goldblum is set to take on the lead role in a new pilot being made at NBC titled Seeing Red: "Red," from NBC Universal TV Studio, will be directed by Oscar-nominated Frank Darabont from a script by Graham Yost. It centers on an eccentric, brilliant cop (Goldblum) with the a... / Continue →
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First it was Howard Hughes, now it's Theodore Roosevelt. An informant, whose mother works as a curator for the Theodore Roosevelt birthplace, claims Martin Scorsese will be directing a film titled The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, with Leonardo DiCaprio taking on the title role. ... / Continue →
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Ah, Moviefone. What you lack in spelling correctness you more than make up for in trailer exclusives. Go watch the trailer for The Break-Up there, starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. It's Aniston's "Oh no you didn't" to Brad Pitt's Mr. and Mrs. Smith, "Yeah, I did th... / Continue →
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Eddie Murphy has signed on to star in Peter Segal's Starship Dave. The story involves a group of small aliens looking to save their doomed planet, leading to their use of Dave (Murphy) as a starship. I'm quite excited for Eddie Murphy's return to the genre he first nailed with ... / Continue →
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In a deal with Time Warner, Ashton Kutcher's production company Katalyst Films, creators of Punk'd, will make a short-form series for AOL.com and AOL Instant Messenger service. Katalyst co-owner Jason Goldberg said of the show: The programming is going to have a serious attitud... / Continue →
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Several new rumors have popped-up about casting in the next Batman film. First, Brad Dourif, who played Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings, may be up for the role of Dr. Arkham. Bob Hoskins, too, may have landed a part as Italian mobster Salvatore Maroni, presumably because ... / Continue →
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The trailer for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is now up on Sony's site. It's another collaboration between Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, the same creative team of Anchorman, so you'd think it should be pretty good, but the trailer didn't really sell me. Hopefully... / Continue →
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While promoting Superman Returns this weekend, Bryan Singer dropped a reminder that he's still going to remake Logan's Run with his Usual Suspects co-writer, Christopher McQuarrie: I'm taking concepts in the book and the movie, the 1976 movie, and some of my own concepts and me... / Continue →
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Here's the teaser poster to Oliver Stone's upcoming 9/11 film, World Trade Center. I worry people "won't get it." With just the title and the giant silhouettes of the World Trade Center-- is it to subtle? Maybe there should be a cartoon Osama bin Laden dressed like the Red ... / Continue →
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Bernie Mac, the man we know and love for his comedy and having his eyes sometimes look in different directions, will soon be dropping the jokes (retaining the eye thing) for a dramatic turn: Bernie Mac is in final negotiations to sign on for his first dramatic role, co-starring ... / Continue →
