It's been frustrating to witness the discussion surrounding the complexities and ambiguities within Zero Dark Thirty devolve into people shouting back and forth whether the film shows torture as either awesome or the worst. Whether you have ignorant fools such as Sean Hannity and Liz Cheney saying it’s awesome for showing how effective “enhanced interrogation” is or the liberal stalwarts like Glenn Greenwald blasting the movie for not focusing entirely on characters decrying the use of torture, the conversation is being dominated by people primarily looking to voice their own views on torture and using the movie as a topical means by which to do so.
Today it’s being reported that instead of writing the upcoming Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX, as had been previously believed, screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg may actually be writing separate spinoffs of the main storyline that will focus on side characters.
Following the first trailer released back in June, Blue Sky Studios has released a second trailer for their upcoming animated film Epic, scheduled for release on May 24 of next year.
Among all the big names rumored to be directing the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII, there remains one curious figure apparently still in the mix. Colin Trevorrow is still being talked about alongside the likes of Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class) and Jon Favreau (Iron Man), and there is now further speculation that he may already have the job locked down.
As if you needed another reason to see The Hobbit as soon as possible, Paramount Pictures announced today that the first 9 minutes of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness will be shown on 500 IMAX 3D screens before the first of the new Peter Jackson Middle Earth trilogy, which opens December 14.
Following last week’s spectacular trailer, some more gorgeous images for Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables were put out by Vogue today, with portraits of the featured characters taken by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz at the film’s studio location.
As part of the “make movies about things you see around the room” trend, Warner Brothers is making a Lego movie and today, Deadline is reporting on some new voice talent being add to the cast of the upcoming animated film.
After many months of negotiations and schedule configuration, it’s now official: Dwayne Johnson has signed on to play the mythological hero in Hercules, the new action film to be directed by Brett Ratner.
Many of us who went to school in the 90s will be familiar with the 1993 Lois Lowry novel The Giver. Since the book’s release it has been in Hollywood’s sights, and the adaptation is coming closer to finally being realized with director Phillip Noyce of Salt fame reportedly in talks to helm the film version.
One week ago, rumors were making the rounds throughout every tube of the internet that Michael Bay was looking to cast Mark Wahlberg in Transformers 4 after their collaboration on the upcoming Pain and Gain. Bay himself denied this speculation, stating that the two were merely discussing a different future project altogether. Now, Bay has implied on his blog that the internet may have persuaded him to cast Wahlberg in the new Transformers movie after all.
