Advice to anyone who may be interviewing Quentin Tarantino about Django Unchained: Ask him about slavery, NOT VIOLENCE. It seems like discussing the violence in his movies, especially in the wake of the incredibly violent Django Unchained, would be a logical thing to do considering the tumultuous state of the media industry in relation to the violent mass-murders in the last year. However, Tarantino made it very clear to one reporter that he has said his part about violence, and he's done talking about it.
Ellen Page has been keeping things relatively low key since her role in Christopher Nolan's 2010 blockbuster Inception, but she has been quietly getting involved with some smaller films recently, including two that will play at Sundance next week, Touchy Feely and The East. To follow up those projects, Page is now attached to the adaptation of Jean Hegland's novel Into The Forest.
Not giving himself a moment to dwell on being the biggest Oscar snub of the year, Ben Affleck is moving right onto his next directorial project, Live By Night, and although there isn't a specific time-frame set for the film, he has recently made some comments that make it seem as if production will begin in the foreseeable future.
Baseball films have always been dominant among sports flicks, and in 2011 we got to see one of the best ever in Moneyball. Hoping to follow the success of that great film is 42, which deals with possibly the greatest story in the history of sports, the story of the man who broke the color barrier, Jackie Robinson. Today, the first full-length trailer for the film hit the internet.
What do you do once you've become a master of horror, directing and producing an array of exceptional scary movies by the time you're 40 years old? Well you take a stab television of course, or at least that's what you do if you're following the path of Eli Roth.
It's been almost six months since Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises hit theaters and in that time Nolanites have waited with baited breath to see what the director's next project would be. Well, the wait is now over as Nolan has found his next film in the form of Interstellar, written by none other than his brother, Jonathan Nolan.
Ryan Gosling has been included on dream casting lists for Aquaman, the Flash, and just about every superhero in between. With Justice League hitting theaters in 2015, casting speculation for that film is in full force, and many fans would like to see Gosling play one of the heroes. Unfortunately for those fans, in a recent interview Gosling seemed far from excited about the possibility of donning spandex and a cape.
Last summer Warner Bros. bought a script by Vera Blasi titled Pontius Pilate, about the man who ultimately let Jesus Christ be put to death, despite his mixed feelings about the matter. Not much has been said about the project since it was bought, but now Brad Pitt is reported to be interested in the titular role.
The consensus among the majority of fans of the Caped Crusader is that the Tim Burton Batman films were great and as for the Joel Schumacher ones, well not so much. However, Michael Keaton says that the direction the franchise went was not at all what he wanted. Instead of the more glamorous Batman in Batman Forever, Keaton wanted the third film to be Batman's origin, similar to Batman Begins.
Back in November Guillermo del Toro said that he wasn't considering directing Star Wars: Episode VII, but that didn't keep some fans from hoping that his name would be the one ultimately announced by Disney. Well, it's now official that del Toro will not be at the helm of Episode VII as he says Disney contacted him about the role and he politely declined.
