Hot on the trail of yesterday's news where we reported that Benicio Del Toro had passed on the role of the villain in the upcoming Star Trek sequel, comes more news that a new frontrunner has emerged for the part.
For fans of Star Trek, it’s a good news/bad news kind of day as it’s being reported that actor Peter Weller has joined the cast of J.J. Abrams’s upcoming sequel to his Star Trek reboot, but also that Benicio Del Toro has passed on the role of the villain.
Earlier today, The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association voted on their annual awards, and as usual, there are not that many surprises to be had, but there are a few choices that seemed questionable.
The National Board of Review has announced the winners of their annual film awards today. A lot of the winners were expected, but there were also several surprises.
In an unusual move, The New York Film Critics Circle are the first to give out their awards this season. Usually it is the National Board of Review that officially kicks off the awards, but the NYFCC opted to move theirs earlier to start things off.
We haven’t been getting very much news about the long-planned remake of Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy, other than that Josh Brolin has signed on to play the lead and that Colin Firth has been offered the role of the villain, but today First Showing gives us a few words from producer Roy Lee, who had a few things to say about the upcoming film.
More potential casting news comes to us today from /Film who reports that eight actors will be reading for the part of Tetsuo in the upcoming adaptation of the graphic novel Akira.
First Showing is reporting that actor Bill Nighy has been cast in the upcoming adaptation of Kevin Grevioux’s comic I, Frankenstein.
The film follows “a Frankenstein monster, who is being hunted by demons that want to learn the secret of his creation in order to build an army of reanimated corpse demons.” Nighy will be playing a “demon prince,” supposedly one that is hunting down the monster. Nighy is always a fascinating presence on screen whether he’s showing us his villainous side while covered in digital tentacles for Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 or showing us his more comedic side in films like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
In an excellent decision by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Ricky Gervais has been invited to host the Golden Globes again next year, making it his third time in a row.
After his performance earlier this year met with a lot of scrutiny from people who thought that Gervais went a little too far with his humor, taking jabs at many celebrities like Johnny Depp (who had been nominated for the critical disaster The Tourist), Tim Allen, and even the HFPA president, it’s a surprise that he would be invited back the very same year to host the star-studded event again.
Most of us know of those typical, clichéd horror films that feature a hillbilly or redneck character, or characters, who lives in the woods and ends up being an insane killer. You need look no further than the Wrong Turn series, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Hills Have Eyes for prime examples. But what if these people were simply misunderstood? What if their image had simply been tarnished by such stereotypical use of their kind? That’s exactly what “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil” attempts to explore.
