According to /Film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest opus The Master opened this past weekend to a box-office draw of $736,311. Not very impressive, until you realize that The Master only opened on five screens, averaging $147,262 a screen. This gives it the highest per-screen average for a live-action, traditional release film.
Not so long ago we reported that Vera Farmiga had been cast as Mother Bates in A&E’s Psycho-prequel series Bates Motel. Now Hit Fix reports that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's Freddie Highmore has been cast as Norman Bates. The creepiest mother/son relationship in film is definitely beginning to take shape
First Michael Bay decided to destroy our childhoods by turning mutant turtles into aliens and now Waterman Entertainment plans to transform animated toasters into CGI iPhones … or something like that.
James Cameron has never been known for his pint-sized ego. Not that we can much blame him, at least in round terms: he’s made two movies that broke the $2 billion barrier at the box office, and that puts him in very exclusive company … with himself. But what does he think of this summer’s The Avengers, which very nearly hit that same $2 billion mark?
There was a time when the name Nicolas Cage conjured notions of respectability and Oscar wins. How the mighty have fallen. He’s now a byword for bad big-budget films like the remake of The Wicker Man or the confusing Season of the Witch. But there might be some sun among the clouds of Nicolas Cage’s career.
When it was announced that Johnny Depp will indeed be playing in Wes Anderson World in the director’s next film The Grand Budapest Hotel, it seemed like the high-profile cast couldn’t get much higher. Now, The Film Stage tells us that we get to add Jude Law’s name to the growing list of guests.
We've already got vampires and werewolves; all we really need now is the original Monster. Screen Rant informs us that Shawn Levy (Date Night, Real Steel) is off Twentieth Century Fox's proposed retelling of Frankenstein, and Paul McGuigan of Push fame is on. Which means that we need to gird our loins for the five hundredth adaptation of Frankenstein
The first international posters for the Michael Hoffman-directed caper comedy Gambit have been released via Coming Soon, and they look ... well, like character posters.
Ben Wheatley might not be a household name in America just yet, but he’s taking a good crack at it. With his nightmarish thriller Kill Lists cropping up on a number of Best of 2012 lists, Wheatley is poised to become a hot commodity on both sides of the pond.
Paul Thomas Anderson has never been one to shy away from the difficult or the strange and that's exactly the case with his attempt to adapt a Thomas Pynchon novel for the big screen.
