David Cronenberg's Maps To The Stars has struggled to get out of the gate since 2006, but now that the proverbial carrot of Rachel Weisz has been dangled in front of it -- it's off like the clappers! Weisz will join previous Cronies Viggo Mortensen and Robert Pattinson for an outing Cronenberg suggests will be "very extreme." Bring your sick bags.
I believe it was Shakespeare who declared “If there’s one thing better than having one play adapted into a Hollywood blockbuster, it’s having TWO plays adapted into Hollywood blockbusters.” A notion Daniel H. Wilson will soon familiarise himself with as THR has just announced that Alex Proyas will helm his novel, Amped.
Channing Tatum is undoubtedly an actor who relishes his work and stretches his acting chops in a variety of roles, despite having a name that's the wrong way round. Whether he's delivering comedy schtick in 21 Jump Street, romantic silliness in Dear John or going all-out action in upcoming G.I. Joe: Retaliation, it's hard to deny he's got star quality. In what is being touted as Steven Soderbergh's last film, Side Effects, he plays a doting husband to a woman who's a bit unpredictable and we can catch a glimpse of that in the first trailer which has just arrived.
Simon West and Jason Statham are remaking Heat. No, no, not the Michael Mann epic, the other one. The one with Burt Reynolds. West landed the gig after elbowing Brian De Palma out of the director's chair and will now re-team with Statham who he worked with before on Mechanic and Expendables 2.
For those of you unaware of Don Coscarelli's sci-fi horror adaptation, John Dies At The End, this latest trailer offers more gore, goo, guns and monsters constructed entirely from frozen meat. In comparison to the teaser which was released over a year ago, this time around the trailer crams in a variety of moments from the film. Due to the psychedelic plottings of the novel, luckily the film isn't trounced by a spoiler-heavy trailer as it's hard to untangle what the various scenes mean.
Cloud Atlas arrives in selected theatres this weekend accompanied by the smog of its all-encompassing and mouth-agog-inducing premise which slithers across time like a large hypothetical python. With no regard for traditional tropes and early on touted as unfilmable, the sci-fi genre-blend novel by David Mitchell spans the entire history of time plucking out characters and incidents for the purpose of proving that everything is connected. Also proving that everything except House Of Leaves can be adapted into a movie.
While The Carrie Diaries could easily be a horror spin-off offering a glimpse into the journal of telekinetic teenager, Carrie White, alas it is an upcoming prequel TV series based on Carrie Bradshaw of Sex And The City. But chances are they’d both complain about menstruation anyway.
Riding on the success of cop drama End of Watch, director David Ayer is already in production on his next feature, Ten which is currently shooting in Atlanta. One of film's stars, Arnold Schwarzenegger this afternoon tweeted "I'm having a great time working with David Ayers on my new movie, Ten" with a first look photo of himself in character.
The sci-fi classic Logan’s Run has been languishing in development for a while now, suffering a stream of directors joining then leaving the project. Unfortunately, another blow arrives today as Ryan Gosling has also dropped out of the Warner Bros. flick.
If you sat through last year's Jonah Hill comedy, The Sitter, you must have watched a different film to most audiences as the general consensus suggests that the film is as much a comedy as The Evil Dead is an archaeology documentary. Nevertheless, someone thought it's writers Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka have skill as they've landed a deal to write and direct their own feature, The King Of The Castle. Now the film has attracted the surly talent of Clive Owen, who has seldom ventured into the genre.
