Russell Crowe May Finally Make Directorial Debut With Historical Drama The Water Diviner

By: Nick Venable It’s been a pretty solid year already for Russell Crowe, having starred in Allen Hughes’ so-so crime thriller Broken City as well as Zack Snyder’s summer blockbuster-on-kryptonite-crackMan of Steel, where he found his inner Marlon Brando to play Superman’s father. I’m pretty sure if a Justice League movie ever gets made, they’ll figure out a way to get Crowe involved. Perhaps by hologram and voiceover a la Superman … Continue reading Russell Crowe May Finally Make Directorial Debut With Historical Drama The Water Diviner

Jurassic Park 4 Back On For A 2015 Release?

By: Nick Venable If you really want to get your dinosaur fix in the next couple of years, you may only have Neil Nightingale and Pierre De Lespinos’ CGI animated Walking With Dinosaurs to look forward to. And while that actually does look like a pretty interesting little flick, sci-fi and adventure fans have been clamoring for another Jurassic Park movie, even though the recent Jurassic Park 3D re-release is almost definitely already … Continue reading Jurassic Park 4 Back On For A 2015 Release?

Star Wars: Episode VII Casting Teenage Girls And Other Attractive People

By: Katey Rich Just as J.J. Abrams managed to update Star Trek with younger, better-looking versions of all the original characters, he’s apparently bringing a lot of more attractive faces to Star Wars.Bleeding Cool has gotten its hands on what they swear is a 100% verified casting breakdown for agents hoping to get their actors on the call sheet for Star Wars: Episode VII, which has set up offices in the … Continue reading Star Wars: Episode VII Casting Teenage Girls And Other Attractive People

Sam Huntington And Amanda Noret Join Veronica Mars Movie

By: Kelly West These days, Sam Huntington can be found on the Syfy channel, battling his growly inner urges as a werewolf on the U.S. remake of Being Human, but once upon a time, about five minutes (give or take a year or two) before he played Jimmy Olsen in Superman Returns, he appeared in Veronica Mars. He reunited with Kristen Bell years later for Fanboys and it looks like … Continue reading Sam Huntington And Amanda Noret Join Veronica Mars Movie

Warner Bros Snag Rights To Hugo Winner’s Next Novel

By: Kristy Puchko Some of this summer’s most anticipated science fiction features are coming from Warner Bros, including Man of Steel and Pacific Rim. So it should be no surprise the studio that’s also bringing us the Wachowski siblings’ next sci-fi epic Jupiter Ascending is on the prowl for more original sci-fi content. And they’ve found it in Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh’s upcoming novel. The Wrap reports Warner Bros bought … Continue reading Warner Bros Snag Rights To Hugo Winner’s Next Novel

Hailee Steinfeld’s Romeo And Juliet Arriving in September

By: Nick Venable While certain repeated cinematic adaptations get quite long in the tooth with each retelling – see A Christmas Carol – certain stories inevitably deserve to get told over and over, as viewed through the eyes of the next generation. For his first feature since 1995’s Fluke, Italian director Carlo Carlei chose to adapt William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a love story as old as love itself, … Continue reading Hailee Steinfeld’s Romeo And Juliet Arriving in September

Justified’s David Meunier Joins Denzel Washington For The Equalizer

By: Kristy Puchko Character actor David Meunier has been a frequent face in television for over a decade, but he’s reached a new level of fame/familiarity thanks to his recurring role as Johnny Crowder on FX’s Justified . Playing the career criminal on the acclaimed drama series has helped Meunier catch the eye of film casting agents and director Antoine Fuqua. Deadline reports this TV … Continue reading Justified’s David Meunier Joins Denzel Washington For The Equalizer

Keira Knightley In Talks To Join Benedict Cumberbatch In The Imitation Game

By: Eric Eisenberg Keira Knightley is no stranger to being a part of films that center on some of our society’s most brilliant minds – having recently starred in A Dangerous Mind, a film about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung – but her next effort will have the Oscar nominated actress moving from the world of psychology to the world of math and code cracking. … Continue reading Keira Knightley In Talks To Join Benedict Cumberbatch In The Imitation Game

Jude Law’s Safecracker Dark Comedy Dom Hemingway Rights Picked Up At Fox Searchlight

By: Nick Venable With the exception of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies, Jude Law doesn’t often get to showcase any comedic abilities he has. Of everything that Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects was, a laugh riot wasn’t one of them. Via press release, Fox Searchlight Pictures announced they’ve acquired the North American rights to the dark comedy crime caper Dom Hemingway . The film was written … Continue reading Jude Law’s Safecracker Dark Comedy Dom Hemingway Rights Picked Up At Fox Searchlight

DC Comics’ Fables Gets A New Director And Screenwriter

By:  Eric Eisenberg DC Comics may be best known for their wide array of superheroes, from Superman to Batman to Green Lantern, but they actually have a lot more to offer to offer the film world. Take, for example, Fables, the long-running DC/Vertigo series that has just made some big strides towards getting a live-action adaptation. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Nikolaj Arcel, who earned acclaim … Continue reading DC Comics’ Fables Gets A New Director And Screenwriter