I think we are all at least somewhat excited for the return of Matt Damon to the Bourne franchise, alongside director Paul Greengrass. But if you were expecting to see an overlapping of Damon's Jason Bourne with Jeremy Renner's Aaron Cross character from The Bourne Legacy, you are going to be disappointed. According to executive producer Frank Marshall, that crossover is not going to happen.
If you were among the many people who excitedly sat down for The Interview and, like our own Isaac Feldberg, did not find it funny, you are not alone: a number of North Korean citizens and defectors don't find it funny either.
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has long been considered a "women's director," not least because the vast majority of his film focus on the lives of female characters. His last effort, I'm So Excited departed from the paradigm just a bit, but the director says he now has plans to return to female-led dramas with his next feature, Silencio.
We all know Roger Ebert as a deeply influential film critic who changed the way we look at movies, for both good and ill. But we must remember that even Ebert had his little youthful follies, and one of them was called Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, a film which he penned and would probably have had harsh words for in his later career.
Scarlett Johansson is rapidly becoming Hollywood's go-to actress for badass action roles. In addition to showing the boys how it's done as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in the MCU, she made some waves in Luc Besson's Lucy, and quietly destroyed men's souls in Under the Skin. According to Variety, Johansson has now signed on to appear in DreamWorks' adaptation of the anime film Ghost in the Shell.
As Disney goes through the motions of updating many of their classic animated films to live-action, CGI-infused adventures, we can expect some to be good (Maleficent) and some questionable (Alice in Wonderland). It's anyone's guess which category Kenneth Branagh's new version of Cinderella will fall into, but at least it looks suitably bright and shiny with more emphasis on practical mis-en-scene than the usual CGI.
Sometimes it's easy to forget that there are film industries around the world that are not centered on Hollywood. After all, one of the largest film markets is India, with Bollywood productions making up a huge swath of worldwide film production. Nigeria also recently made headlines as one of the world's biggest film industries (according to UNESCO).
I have no doubt that by now you're probably tired of hearing The Interview and everything attached to it, so let's move on to other, less controversial topics...like Fifty Shades of Grey. The Hollywood adaptation of E.L. James' popular novel about a businessman who gets into an abusive "sexually liberated" relationship with a young woman will be hitting American theaters the day before Valentine's Day this year - but not before it has its international premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 11.
With Exodus: Gods And Kings opening this week, Ridley Scott is once more back in the limelight - as are Prometheus 2 and the Blade Runner sequel. Long-rumored, the two films seem to have been in the offing for years, but Scott has been rather short on the details. That's changing, though, as the director revealed to MTV News (via Screen Rant) some of what he has planned on the two films.
It has been a wopping five days since the name and cast of the new James Bond film was announced. While some of us (me) think that calling a Bond movie Spectre demonstrates a slight lack of creative thinking, the casting information has provided a bit more excitement. Christoph Waltz as a Bond villain? Yes, I think I can get behind that. Now that the title has been announced, we can expect some teaser images from the film to start popping up; beginning, apparently, with a tiny reference to Judi Dench's sadly deceased M.
