Happy International Star Wars Day everyone!!! May the 4th be with you!!! In honor of today, Lucasfilm has announced the official date for the release of the complete Star Wars saga on Blu-ray – September 16th.
You may recognize her from Lars and the Real Girl or her stint as Jack Donaghy’s girlfriend on 30 Rock, and now Emily Mortimer has possibly landed what many actors would consider an incredible career highlight.
After the huge success of the clever, real and hilarious The Kids Are All Right, director Lisa Cholodenko is on to her next project, an adaptation of the classic children’s book, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” by Judith Viorst.
Could Shawn Levy and Hugh Jackman be the next dynamic movie duo like Tim Burton and Johnny Depp? It sure does seem that way. The two first worked together for October’s Real Steel and are also officially teaming up for a mystery flick written by Lost executive producer, Carlton Cuse. Not to mention that a sequel to Real Steel is already being written for the pair several months before the first even hits theaters. And now, Deadline is reporting that Levy is after Jackman for the leading role in his James Cameron-produced 3D remake of Fantastic Voyage.
I am a huge fan of The Wizard of Oz. It’s just one of those movies that is not only a timeless classic, but it is also one that I grew up watching and really love. It is this fact that makes me slightly skeptical that a prequel is being made. I admit, I found the Broadway prequel, Wicked, to be somewhat enjoyable and I know a film version is currently in the works, but I always feel like some of these things are just unnecessary and take away from the magic of the original.
Back in 2009, Stephen Sommers released the action blockbuster G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra to less than good reviews. The sub-par acting, excessive use of destruction to cover up a lack of storyline and some uncertain writing left most disappointed which could be why Sommers and most of the original cast will not be returning for the sequel.
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn has had Only God Forgives on his agenda for quite some time now, but it got pushed aside when Drive fell into his lap, which had Ryan Gosling on board to star and I don’t blame him. You’d have to be crazy to pass up a film with someone as incredibly talented as Gosling attached. With that finished now, though, and it being a competitor at the upcoming Cannes International Film Festival, Refn is getting in full gear for Only God Forgives.
Head of Marvel, Kevin Feige, spoke to The Playlist recently and revealed some interesting insights into the future of some of their comic book characters possibly making their way to the big screen. We’ve already seen Scarlett Johansson in the role of Black Widow in Iron Man and will see Jeremy Renner in action as Hawkeye in next summer’s The Avengers, but now Feige is talking about the possibility of these characters getting solo films.
Leslye Headland (Terriers) has penned and will be helming Bachelorette (currently just a working title) for the Will Ferrell and Adam McKay run comic production company, Gary Sanchez, THR is reporting. With an all-star cast that includes: Kirsten Dunst, Adam Scott, and Lizzy Caplan as well as Saturday Night Live’s Casey Wilson, the story follows three best friends (Caplan and Dunst – third friend has yet to be cast) who are invited to be bridesmaids at the wedding of a girl they deemed “Pigface” in high school.
In a day and age where we like our news fast and accessible via Internet, it is surprising to see an actual newspaper still triumphing while so many are going bankrupt. Despite the transformation of print news into social media, the New York Times, as Kevin Jagernauth of indieWIRE phrases it, “remains one of the banner institutions.” For yesterday’s Osama Bin Laden story, the NYT printed an additional 125,000 copies of the issue because people still turn to them as the reigning authority for the latest news.
