For director David Cronenberg, marrying up stunning and grotesque visuals with Hollywood's choicest talent is not unusual. The cast roster for his latest directorial effort, Maps To The Stars is already mightily impressive. Stars are chomping at the monstrous bit to have the chance to work with the Canadian filmmaker.
If you grab a hold of a copy of Stephen King's Under The Dome, you'd be let off for thinking it was a doorstop. King's mammoth tome, first published in 2009, has been in development for the last few years. CBS are now running full steam ahead on the series which has filmed a roomy 13-episode run. To tantalise you in preparation for its arrival, a trailer has arrived! Check it out below.
Caesar the ape will be back on our screens next year, in Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes. Forthcoming details on the plot have been sparse, and little marketing material has been leaked out by the studio. The tiny amount revealed up until now confirmed that the film takes place fifteen years after the events of its predecessor.
As is the case with big blockbuster franchises, characters dip in and out of films, pop up for the occasional cameo and stick around long after the credits. Today, rumours are circulating that indicate a specific X-Men stalwart is to appear in The Wolverine. When it was revealed Famke Janssen would take up her role as Jean Grey in James Mangold's latest Wolvie outing, storms settled and fans assumed that was the extent of the cameo-araderie. It would appear this is not the case.
As Oscar season appears on a, err...distant horizon, The Weinstein Company are revving up one of their main contenders, The Butler. In the last year, set photos of various cast members suited, booted and dressed up to the nines in prosthetics have landed showcasing the film's mammoth scale. Lee Daniels' upcoming historical drama now has its first trailer online courtesy of Yahoo! Movies.
Joe Johnston, director of Captain America: The First Avenger, has signed up to direct the long-time-coming mobster biopic, Gotti. For the last two years, the film has been kicking around with everyone bar the Queen attached to star. Gotti once had Barry Levinson confirmed as director, Al Pacino as a crime boss, Joe Pesci as a ruthless gangster, Kelly Preston and...gulp, Lindsay Lohan as Gotti Jr's wife. There's no word on whether any of these supporting cast announcements still stand.
What's that sound? Listen. Hear it? Oh yes, it's your childhood wincing. Standard practice for Hollywood now is their insistence on not leaving any stone unturned. Or any popular culture phenomenon without a reboot. It's been confirmed that Warner Bros have purchased the rights to Dungeons and Dragons in order to kickstart a rebooted film franchise.
The last bite of Edgar Wright's The Cornetto Trilogy is just around the corner. and soon to be dribbling down our collective cinematic cheeks. The World's End will soon be unleashed in cinemas worldwide and luckily the film's first trailer has arrived for your viewing pleasure!
Any adaptation of a well-loved book, particularly a genre novel, is often met with shrill yelps of "Really? Why can't they leave it alone? It's my FAVOURITE book! I loved it before anyone else read it. Even the author!" Such cries from Orson Scott Card fans fell on deaf ears when Hollywood stepped up to adapt his sci-fi classic, Ender's Game. It's not the only sci-fi tome this year that's made the move from page to screen - and this first full length teaser attests that it might possibly be the most successful.
After a long and litigious journey, Martin Scorsese's next project Silence has landed his next leading man: Andrew Garfield. Yep, Spider-Man will shed his lycra ensemble and don an outfit of an entirely different variety...cloth. Garfield is lined up to play take the starring role in Silence as Father Rodrigues, a 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit who embarks on a quest to Japan with another priest to confront allegations that Rodrigues’ mentor has abandoned the Church. Ken Watanabe has signed up to star as the priests' interpreter.
