Hot from winning the Best Director Oscar last year, The Artist’s Michel Hazanavicius is looking into working on a project with Paramount entitled Will@. Unfortunately, The Film Stage doesn't have any other details yet, which makes this really little better than an interesting aside.
Shia LaBeouf is not quite in the running to be the next Sean Penn, but he's making a run at it by being all ... Method, apparently. According to The Playlist, LaBeouf claimed that he dropped acid for his role in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, taking his inspiration from Penn at al.
“Mother is not quite herself today,” drawled Anthony Perkins in Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal thriller Psycho. Well now Mother will never be quite the same again. Screen Rant informs us that the A&E prequel series Bates Motel has cast Vera Farmiga as Mrs. Norma Bates.
When Michael Bay announced that he would reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and make them into aliens), the fan uproar was predictable and extreme. Now with script details leaked on the website TMNT, NOT TANT, the news is even more dire. Apparently, the script looks absolutely dreadful.
If the news that we may get to see Shia LaBeouf having real sex on a big screen isn’t enough to make you flee into the night, try this: we may get to see Tintin naked too! Twitch reports that The Adventures of Tintin star Jamie Bell has joined Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, along with Connie Nielsen of Gladiator fam
It looks like we can potentially add Vince Vaughn to the list of actors back for Anchorman 2. The Playlist reports that Vaughn has teased the return of Ron Burgundy’s nastiest rival, Wes Mantooth of the KQHS Channel 9 Evening News Team.
As always, Martin Scorsese cannot stop working. The Wolf of Wall Street with Leonardo DiCaprio will start shooting this weekend in New York. Meanwhile, Marty has at least two more films in the dock: Sinatra and the long-delayed Silence.
Sean Penn’s next directorial outing Crazy For The Storm has its leading man in Josh Brolin, according to The Playlist. Brolin is set to take on a paternal role in the film as the father of the main character, an eleven-year-old boy who must descend a mountain after a plane crash.
Just keep swimming, Ellen! Screen Rant reports that Ellen DeGeneres will likely return as Dory in Pixar’s anticipated Finding Nemo sequel. The talk show host and comedienne is in negotiations to reprise her role from the 2003 film that, along with Toy Story, made Pixar a household name.
With Oz: The Great and Powerful coming out next March, we might not have expected to hear more on the Sam Raimi front for a little while. Luckily, horror geeks and fans of The Evil Dead can now soberly rejoice! as Raimi plans to return to horror in the near future.
