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McAvoy playing Sir Ian Fleming?
Another rumour, for there's not much concrete coming out of Hollywood at the moment, is that James McAvoy is to be the actor to play Sir Ian Fleming, the man who created James Bond. From reading about it, this Ian Fleming project doesn't appear to be...
Stalked: Flash Gordon, Thundercats, Avatar 2, Ghostbusters 3, The A-Team cameo
There are a bunch of rumours and conjecture racing around the Interflab at the moment, and while a couple of them actually have some grounding in reality, and a couple have the men behind the films talking about them, they're still a bit vague and a ...
Stalker\'s Top Ten 2009: Mark Buckley: Things I Learned This Year
This year's Stalker's Top Tens are a little late coming, but they're kicking off with a good one, and later on we're even going to hear from a group of guys that are a rather successful Scottish film-making group. Mark Buckley has produced a rather s...
Avatar: An Xmas visit
I just finished a second screening of Avatar (Filmstalker review), this time with my wife and my father of sixty-nine, so we were covering quite a few demographics there, and I thought I'd let you know the general consensus of opinion from us all and...
Merry Xmas from Filmstalker
Merry Xmas from Mr and Mrs Filmstalker, that's what my wife calls herself. It's just turned midnight on Xmas Eve here in Aberdeen, Scotland so I thought it apt to leave a little Xmas message to you all. I hope that you're sitting with friends, family...
Filmstalker Reader\'s Top Tens 2009: Call for submissions
So far the interest in the Filmstalker Readers Top Tens for 2009 is low, and I need that to change, and we need you to do something about it. Submit your top ten of anything film related and see it published on Filmstalker. It's easy enough, why not ...
Cronenberg tackles Freud and Jung
David Cronenberg looks set to put The Matarese Circle and Cosmopolis to the side in order to work on a new project called The Talking Cure, an adaptation of the play and novel by Christopher Hampton, the man who wrote Dangerous Liaisons, The Quiet Am...
Singer reveals more X-Men: First Class
Bryan Singer has been talking about various things, mainly X-Men: First Class and has given us a little more of the intended plot and direction. Although there's not much more on the plot he does suggest that there's more focus on the two leads than ...
Peter Jackson on Mortal Engines
Peter Jackson is working on another film according to reports, and this is an adaptation of a series of books that also sound incredibly CG heavy, even more so than the Temeraire novels that he's working on, the books about the Napoleonic Wars that u...
Trejo talks Machete and Rodriguez talks Sin City 2
Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo has been talking about Machete and Sin City 2, two films that are hotly anticipated from the director and have been talked about for a very long time, at least Machete will be happening before Sin City 2, that's somet...
Doc Holliday film franchise
A film in the style of Pirates of the Caribbean set in the old western days of American settlement with the gunfighter and tuberculosis sufferer Doc Holliday at its core sounds like a bizarre idea, and yet that seems to be the next film added to the ...
Singer confirmed for X-Men: First Class
It's confirmed, Bryan Singer is directing X-Men: First Class with Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg producing, so that means a definite continuation of the franchise, just with cheaper talent in the form of the X-Kids. Apparently though there is...
U.S. Film Critics Awards 2009
This year, rather than separately announce the winners for each of the U.S. Film Critics Awards, I'm going to pull them all together into one post and tally them up as we go, updating the article. I don't know yet if it will work, but it might provid...
Update: 3D Blu-ray approved, coming to PS3 and Bravia
3D in the home is not as crazy as you might think, and today it's taken an incredibly huge step forward. Before this morning it seemed a little more than a dream of the future, probably as far apart as a standard cinematic film is from Avatar. Now th...
Screen Actors Guild Award Nominees announced
The Screen Actors Guild have announced their nominees for this years awards, and there's a good list with plenty of nominees to chose from. Inglorious Basterds and Up in the Air both seem to be doing well and Sandra Bullock is nominated for a non-sil...
Bello and Sheen on Beautiful Boy
Here's an eclectic cast, Maria Bello, Michael Sheen, Moon Bloodgood, Alan Tudyk, Kyle Gallner, Austin Nichols and Meat Loaf, some great names in there for various different reasons, and the film? It's an independent that has just finished filming cal...
Wild Hogs 2, Wedding Banned and 20,000 Leagues halted
This is starting to get pretty significant for Disney, and probably very good for the audience, as the studio have now dropped their third big title since the studio took on new management in the form of Rich Ross, and two of these projects sound ter...
Bryan Singer directing X-Men: First Class?
There's a rumour going about that Bryan Singer is set to direct X-Men: First Class and return to the X-Men series for the kiddies version. Well it might be more than just rumour as apparently Singer revealed live on a MyMarketingSpace feed from the r...
Buck Rogers loses Frank Miller
Frank Miller has apparently left the film adaptation of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, or rather the Buck Rogers comic and the serials that followed, that he was previously attached to. Apparently he was involved in an early version of the film pro...
Francis Lawrence reshooting Jonah Hex
I'm not really sure if I want to be writing about re-shoots on films all the time, and I am getting a little tired of doing it, mainly because it is so common and I don't think it's a big a sign of impending doom on a film as some like to think. Howe...
Dream Viking film from Mel Gibson
While most people are getting excited about the fact that Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in the lead of a Viking film, I'm more excited that William Monahan is writing the script and Mel Gibson is going to be directing. If you think to Apocalypto (...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows rewrites on set
We're hearing a lot about re-shoots and rewrites during filming at the moment, often it's not a big deal because it happens on many film sets that we don't hear about because it is a bit of a standard practice, to a degree, and the films usually turn...
Stalked: Big casting on The Hobbit, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, UFO, Hereafter
The Hobbit may gain some familiar faces... Pride and Prejudice and Zombies gets a big name... UFO has a potential cast member identified... Eastwood's Hereafter gains a female lead......Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protec...
Avatar: Revisited
I've been mulling over Avatar a lot in the last day since I saw the World Première and reviewed it, and also looking at others comments about the film, and I'm rather surprised by some of the reactions. Some reviewers have been picking out that the ...
The Black List 2009
The 2009 list of the most liked scripts around important studio executives and/or their PA's and EA's has been released, well the top ones have at least, and it has some interesting stories on there. I'm not going to go and steal someone else's thund...
Fallen, the next Twilight
The next Twilight series is around the corner. Just as Harry Potter brought to life so many other options for similarly themed films, so has Twilight, and the latest is the adaptation of the novel Fallen by Lauren Kate (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com). Th...
Wife vs. Ninja comedy
While we're keen to talk about the lack of creativity in Hollywood, well I am anyway, there's also some great imaginative ideas out there, and Wife vs. Ninja sounds like one that has something rather unique in it, and when you read the blurb you'll m...
Deadpool rumours and Ryan Reynolds
There are a number of rumours going around about the X-Men Origins: Wolverine spin-off film for the character of Deadpool, first there’s the rumour of two new writers, and then there’s the one of the director, the latter coming from the lead acto...
James Cameron\'s next science fiction film
There's a tiny piece of information just been released online regarding James Cameron's upcoming schedule, and it's another science fiction film from writer Shane Salerno. Information is sparse on it, and while some are thinking this is a new project...
Brolin in Men In Black 3?
The first, and most important question, is why make a third film anyway? The second was pretty poor in my eyes, all that talking dog nonsense taking over the entire film, but we've heard that the series will return and that they've started work on th...
