The cast list for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel just keeps getting … well, grander. /Film confirms that Anderson has cast Saoirse Ronan, the young star of Hanna and Atonement, as the star of his latest ensemble work.
When I heard that Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook was making a gothic thriller with a supernatural edge called Stoker, I assumed that it was going to be about Bram Stoker, the author of the ultimate gothic novel, Dracula. Apparently not though, but if the recently released poster is any indication, it still looks pretty gothic.
Last week we got a look at the ark that Darren Aronofsky felt it necessary to build for his new film Noah. Now we’ve got set photos of the big bad villain Ray Winstone to Russell Crowe’s faith-based initiative.
It was a depressing day when Wes Anderson confirmed that Johnny Depp would not be appearing in The Grand Budapest Hotel. But never fear, this is not an announcement concerning Pirates of the Caribbean 15: Captain Jack in Space. Johnny Depp has now been confirmed to star in Transcendence, the directorial debut of The Dark Knight Rises director of photography Wally Pfister.
It’s been awhile since Michael Fassbender signed on to play the lead character in the video game to film adaptation of Assassin’s Creed. News on the project has been hard to come by over the last few months but now Comic Book Movie reports that the adaptation has found a distributor with 20th Century Fox.
Let me repeat that: Nicolas Cage to star in reboot of Left Behind trilogy. That is to say, Nicolas Cage will star in a movie version of the Apocalyptic Christian-themed books about the survivors on earth following – ahem – the Rapture. Oh. My. God. Literally.
They’ve been threatening to do it for years, despite fans, despite critics, even despite Bill Murray’s total dismissal of the subject in numerous interviews and comments. But now it’s finally happening. Ghostbusters 3 will start shooting next summer.
Did you know that Universal was planning to remake Poltergeist? I didn’t. Did you know that horror director extraordinaire Sam Raimi is producing said remake, and now there’s a rumor that he might even be directing it? Well, you know now.
Before production even began on Lars Von Trier’s newest film The Nymphomaniac, the film was already a source of controversy, mostly because Shia LaBeouf would not shut up. The cast list has been in a perpetual flux, adding big names and dropping others. This week, The Playlist reports that Von Trier regulars Willem Dafoe and Jean-Marc Barr have been added to the cast, while Nicole Kidman has dropped out
/Film reports that Sanders is making a deal with Sony and New Regency for his next film The Juliet, based on a short story by sci-fi godfather Alfred Bester
