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Jackson Says Tintin Done & Hobbit Staying 2D
Peter Jackson has updated the world on Tintin and the upcoming Hobbit movies. “Tintin is great. It’s made,” he said while in London for the premiere of The Lovely Bones. “The movie is cut together and now [we] are turning it i...
Uncharted Adaptation Gets Conan Writers
Of the upcoming video game to movie adaptations Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune seems like one of the more likely to be successful. The game has a reportedly compelling story based around a wise cracking treasure hunter very much in the vein of Indi...
Judd Apatow & Aziz Ansari Pitch ‘Funny People’ Spin-Off
One of the minor characters in Judd Apatow’s latest directorial effort Funny People was stand-up comic Randy, who also starred in the viral marketing campaign for the movie. Randy was played by real life comedian Aziz Ansari whom US readers mig...
Hugh Jackman In Real Steel
I like Hugh Jackman, he seems like a genuinely nice guy, unlike most Hollywood types so I’m always interested when a story pops up involving the Aussie-born actor and this one is even more interesting than most. It looks like Jackman’s ne...
Brad Pitt In Video Game Adap ‘Dark Void’?
Brad Pitt (who I’m informed has been cured of that bizarre reverse ageing thing David Fincher documented) is potentially developing a big screen adaptation of the forthcoming shoot ‘em up Dark Void. The video game is about a pilot who cra...
Call Of Duty Movie?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is at the moment simultaneously being hailed as one of the greatest video games of all time and being condemned as one of the most gratuitously violent. Whatever your opinion, there is no doubt it has made a big impress...
Ridley Scott Protege To Direct Keanu In 47 Ronin
Carl Erik Rinsch will direct 47 Ronin, an 18th century samurai epic starring Keanu Reaves. It’s the story of a group of leaderless samurai (aka Ronin) who seek to avenge their master after he is forced to commit sepaku (suicide). It’s bas...
MGM For Sale
Got a spare $3.7 billion lying around? Check down the back of the sofa, that’s where the small change likes to hide. If you can scrape that much together, you’ll find yourself owning MGM Pictures. We had previously reported on MGM’s...
Harvey Keitel Reuniting With De Niro …In Meet The Parents 3
In a reunion that promised to be as momentous as when De Niro reunited with Pacino for Righteous Kill, word has reached us that De Niro will be joined by former Mean Streets co-star Harvey Keitel in the second sequel to perennial classic Meet the Par...
Ridley Scott’s Monopoly Movie - Plot Revealed
In addition to the forthcoming Robin Hood movie and Alien prequel, we can look forward to Ridley Scott’s big screen adaptation of one of the worlds most beloved board games - Monopoly! It still sounds crazy saying that. Ridley Scott’s Mon...
Abrams And Lindelof Abandon ‘The Dark Tower’
JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof, the masterminds behind Lost, have announced that their proposed adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower will not be going ahead after all. King is of course best known for his horror books and, as you know, his...
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus - Review
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus - Review Director: Terry Gilliam Starring: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield, Verne Troyer Release Date: Out Now (UK), 25th December (US) Watching a Terry Gilliam movie is a lot like hav...
J.J. Abrams To Enter The Microverse?
It has been reported that Cloverfield producer and Star Trek director J. J. Abrams is in negotiations to take charge of a big screen adaptation of The Micronauts, derived from a 1970s Japanese toy line which subsequently spawned an accompanying Marv...
Kick-Ass Character Banners
There is already plenty of excitement about Matthew Vaughn’s comic book adaptation Kick-Ass, and four freshly-released character banners offer further opportunity to whet your appetite ahead of the movie’s scheduled April 2010 release date. Based...
‘1 Day’ Banned From Home City’s Cinemas
1 Day, the new feature from acclaimed art-house director Penny Woolcock, is given a national UK release today (6 November 2009). But cinema-goers living in Birmingham, the city in which 1 Day is set and was filmed, will struggle to find the movie at...
Strategy Game ‘Risk’ - Movie Moving Forward
Sony has has acquired the big screen rights to board game Risk. The toy giant Hasbo are co-producing. The success of Transformers (also a Hasbro product) has been the driving force bringing Risk and other toy/board games to the big screen. We’v...
Clooney And Payne To Make ‘The Descendents’
It looks like George Clooney’s next project will be a collaboration with the man behind Sideways and Election, Alexander Payne, called The Descendants. The movie will be based on a novel of the same name by author Kaui Hart Hemmings and has bee...
Hammer’s ‘The Resident’ - First Pictures
The first screen shots of the upcoming Hammer film The Resident have just been released. The Resident is set to be Hammer’s first film for over 30 years and stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Hillary Swank and Hammer veteran Christopher Lee. Lee provid...
Angelina Jolie To Star In Ridley Scott’s Gucci Movie
Angelina Jolie is set to play the infamous Patrizia Reggiani in Ridley Scott’s yet to be titled Gucci film. The formidable Italian fashion house was brought to worldwide attention by icons such as Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy ...
David Fincher’s Facebook Movie - Status Updated
Armie Hammer (Gossip Girl, and Batman in the aborted Justice League movie), Max Minghella (Agora, and son of the late Anthony) and Rooney Mara (Nancy in the new Nightmare On Elm Street) have joined the cast of David Fincher’s The Social Network. Th...
New ‘Monster Squad’ - But It’s Not A Remake
The Monster Squad is the classic 1987 comedy written by Shane Black (Lethal Weapon) and directed by Fred Dekker (Night of the Creeps). The story revolves around a group of teenagers that form a club, or ’squad’, to honor the classic movie...
The Scream Awards Are A Mockery
The Scream 2009 awards ceremony, where fans get a chance to honour their favourite films and TV shows of the year, took place at the weekend. The point of the ceremony is to honour the genres traditionally ignored by the more stuffy awards shows, suc...
Legion - Character Banners
Six new character banners have been made available for apocalyptic actioner Legion, starring Paul Bettany as a gun-toting Archangel Michael determined to serve humanity from the wrath of a terminally-peeved God. However, the functional moodiness evid...
Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life Movie Delayed
Director Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life was set to be released in December of this year, but has been pushed back to sometime in 2010. The chief of the film’s distributor, Bob Burney, said that the original release date was - Wishful....
Tensions On ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ Set
I don’t think Wes Anderson is known for being difficult to work for, but that is exactly what the crew on his new animated fable The Fantastic Mr. Fox are saying in a piece from the LA Times. [When asked about Anderson's decision to direct remo...
Justin Long Cast In Robert Redford’s Historical Drama
Justin Long has joined the cast of Robert Redford’s historical drama The Conspirator. The story follows Confederate sympathizer Mary Surratt (Robin Wright Penn), who was tried as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination, and Col. Frederick Ai...
World Of Warcraft Movie - Script Underway
Last week we speculated that the name change listed on the IMDB page for the World of Warcraft movie (from ‘Warcraft’ to ‘Warcraft: The Rise of the Lich King’) might have indicated that the film would be based on an existing n...
Warren Ellis’ Gravel Comic Headed To Big Screen
Warren Ellis, one of the comic world’s finest writers, is a very busy man these days. Apparently not satisfied with having six comic books on the go at once, a webcomic, a column on Second Life, a novel, a developing television series,…...
Marlon Wayans Replacing Eddie Murphy As Richard Pryor
A biopic of the late great Richard Pryor is on the way, and though it was once a vehicle for former foul-mouthed funny man Eddie Murphy, it now seems that Marlon Wayans has taken his place. Most famous for his performances in the much derided Spoof M...
The Lovely Bones - Poster
Behold, the new poster for Peter Jackson’s latest, The Lovely Bones: Now that’s a pretty pretty poster, no? Great composition, typography, tagline, and an interesting image with the leaves/birds. Very nice. It could be my imagination, bu...
