Everyone calm down! It’s all gonna be OK! By which I mean, that if you were hideously disappointed by the news the other day that Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse had been put on indefinite hold, there is still hope. Mr. Spielberg himself claims that the project has not died, but only changed gears.
The heist film really needs to get its due. If it's well done, it can be sexy, violent and as mind-bending as an art house feature. And of all countries, Britain certainly does its heist movies well: The Italian Job, anyone? So it’s no surprise that the trailer for Danny Boyle’s heist movie Trance looks pretty damn awesome.
Well, no one will ever accuse Guillermo del Toro of slacking. Yesterday we learned all about how he was approached to direct Star Wars: Episode VII and is going to try again on his At The Mountains Of Madness adaptation. Today, del Toro confirmed that he’s working on an adaptation of DC Comics’ Dark Universe (once called Heaven Sent).
With the new Evil Dead red-band trailer just recently released, I have come to expect some serious gore and/or nudity in my red-band trailers. What’s the point of making them ‘mature’ if you don’t get the good stuff? Now that the new Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters red-band trailer has hit, I'm honestly a little worried.
She was Cap’s main squeeze in Captain America: The First Avenger, and a fine job she did with it too. But it looks like we won’t be seeing Hayley Atwell back on the big screen as Peggy Carter in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Robert Zemeckis doesn’t want to play any more. Coming off of his slightly acclaimed but low-scoring Denzel Washington feature Flight, Zemeckis has crossed another hotly anticipated film off his list: the remake of the Beatles animated feature Yellow Submarine.
Directors like Paul Thomas Anderson and Terence Malick are basically the Jonathan Franzen and Thomas Pynchon of the cinematic world; they take a lot of time between works, which either means that they’re allowing projects to gestate, or they take a long time to write. Or they can’t be bothered. But for once both PT Anderson and Malick have stepped up their game and begun releasing films like normal filmmakers – i.e. more than one every ten years. Malick has To The Wonder, and Anderson? Well, he’s planning to shoot Inherent Vice sometime next year
Wes Anderson is known for putting together massive ensemble casts of some pretty stellar stars, but it seems like The Grand Budapest Hotel will take the multi-tiered cake. Anderson has finally released a more or less complete cast list, confirming some rumors and putting to rest some old ones – I’m still disappointed about Johnny Depp – and I’ve got to say that the cast list really is impressive.
If you’re like me, than your first introduction to Edgar Allan Poe was via Roger Corman’s inspired and low-budget films starring Vincent Price. Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, Corman brought Poe to the drive-in and cineplex with films like The Raven, Pit and the Pendulum, The Tomb of Ligeia, and (my personal favorite) The Masque of the Red Death. Well, now it seems that the 86 year old horror legend plans to bring back those overheated classics by remaking eight of them.
Terrence Malick can be a polarizing director: you’re either on board with his lyrical, slow-moving and sparsely plotted works, or you can’t be bothered. I don’t know anyone who only had a ‘meh’ feeling about The Tree Of Life. The same seems to be true for his latest film To The Wonder, which did not quite get the critical reception on the festival circuit that he was probably hoping for. But for those of us who did not go to Venice or Toronto this year, there’s been very little about To The Wonder to go on.
