If this is turning into a good, old-fashioned Hollywood feud, it's one of the most bizarre ones in recent memory. While chatting with Coming Soon last week to promote Non-Stop, producer Joel Silver opened up about his failed attempt to make Watchmen with Time Bandits director Terry Gilliam, revealing the ending they would have preferred over director Zack Snyder's version. If you'll remember, Silver had none too many kind words for Snyder's adaptation of the iconic graphic novel, calling it "too much of a slave to the material." Now, in an interview with The Huffington Post, Snyder is hitting back.
After completely creeping us out in American Horror Story and making a thoroughly unbelievable premise watchable in Hostages, Dylan McDermott has just booked another high-profile television gig, toplining Kevin Williamson's currently untitled CBS show about detectives who handle stalking incidents as part of the Threat Assessment Unit of the LAPD.
Though The Artist star Bérénice Bejo's last film, the tense drama The Past, inexplicably failed to earn a much-deserved Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, the actress is still signing on to projects that have us very optimistic about her future on the awards circuit. Most recently, Bejo has agreed to topline an Italy-set psychological thriller called After The Storm, for The Giraffe's Neck director Safy Nebbou.
Whether this finely acted slow-burner can unravel the exhausting amount of mysteries introduced in its pilot remains to be seen, but I'm looking forward to travelling down The Red Road.
However Oscar night plays out this Sunday, Barkhad Abdi can't really complain. The Somali-American actor, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing lead hijacker Abduwali Muse in Captain Phillips, came out of literally nowhere (he was working as a limo driver before answering a Minneapolis casting call) to steal Paul Greengrass's thriller out from under Tom Hanks. Now, it appears that the extremely in-demand actor has finally locked down his next project, a marathon drama called The Place That Hits The Sun.
Widely billed as "the gay man's answer to Girls," HBO's new comedy Looking premiered to a disappointing 338,000 viewers back in January, which immediately threw its future on the premium cable network into jeopardy. However, the network clearly likes what it's seen so far from the comedy, which is about three gay men on the search for love in modern-day San Francisco.
It's really hard to make a great movie and really easy to disparage a bad one, and that's in large part why it's so rare to hear people inside Hollywood publicly calling out or even mocking their colleagues for ill-received projects. However, in a recent interview to promote his Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop, prolific producer Joel Silver didn't hold back about a project he once spent years fruitlessly developing: Zack Snyder's adaptation of the iconic graphic novel Watchmen.
Now that the mad rush by every major studio to schedule their buzziest projects in the summer of 2015 appears to have subsided, savvy execs are beginning to look further forward to book slots in 2016. Yesterday, we brought you news that Warner Bros. had slotted romantic comedy How to Be Single for that year's Valentine's Day weekend, and now Sony is getting in on the action by handing their children's book series adaptation Goosebumps a spring release date of March 23, 2016.
Though the jury is still out on whether or not Robert Rodriguez remaking his iconic 1996 film From Dusk Till Dawn for his recently launched El Rey television network is a good idea, no amount of fan trepidation is going to delay the arrival of the show, officially titled From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series. Set to run for ten episodes starting in March, From Dusk Till Dawn is by far the buzziest project that El Rey currently has going, and the directors involved should alone be enough to attract horror fans of every variety.
In my mind, the mark of a truly great film is its ability to make viewers lose themselves in its storytelling. By that measurement, Gravity isn't just the greatest film of 2013, but also one of the greatest films I've ever had the pleasure of losing myself in.
