Morgan Freeman brought James Patterson’s Alex Cross to life in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. Since then we haven’t seen the character in a film nor has Freeman had a chance to bring back the character. But now QED will give audiences another chance to see Alex Cross on the big screen for a third time, but in a rebooted format.
A couple of weeks ago we reported that Steve Carell was in negotiations to star alongside Meryl Streep in Great Hope Springs. The film would have Streep play a wife who goes to a therapist to talk about her loveless marriage. Carell would be playing as the therapist. Now Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to play as the husband in that marriag
Although Red Dawn has yet to find a distributor, MGM isn’t letting that stop them from making some minor changes to the 1984 remake. The L.A. Times is reporting that the studio has begun to show the film off to potential distributors. The problem is that the distributors are nervous about becoming associated with the film. They are concerned that doing so would harm their ability to do business with the rising Asian superpower, one of the fastest-growing and potentially most lucrative markets for American movies, not to mention other U.S. products.
Universal Pictures has debuted a new trailer for Paul Feig’s comedy Bridesmaids, starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Chris O'Dowd, Matt Lucas, Jill Clayburgh, Rebel Wilson and Michael Hitchcock.
Studio representatives are never too far when film festivals are going down, and SXSW is no different. IFC Midnight has won the rights to distribute the festival’s biggest hit Kill List.
A movie is not just a movie without its cast and we’ve got some casting news to report so just sit back, relax and read some of the interesting roles that these actors have chosen.
Earlier this year, we reported that Zac Efron was cast in Matt Drake’s screenplay originally titled The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. The script was on 2007's blacklist and Efron has been circling the role of the male lead for quite some time. The film would have Efron star in the lead role as a kid who goes on an existential journey to Eastern Europe and falls in love with a young woman who has ties with the criminal underworld. The film had no director attached unti
Fox has released another image for X-Men:First Class, this time it features Lucas Till as Havok. It is still too early to tell anything about the film from this image especially after the average trailer, and a few not so great posters. But the more images that are released, the more it helps its publicity, so here it is, another image from X-Men: First Class.
Cars may not have been Pixar’s highest grossing movie, but it was one of the biggest concerning merchandising. The sequel on the other hand, may have a harder time making money, partially due to its unoriginal story. International espionage, car chases, and explosions, this film seems to lack the originality that Pixar prides itself in and it is because of that unoriginality that my interest in this film is at an all time low.
Looks like Guillermo del Toro and James Cameron will not be seeing that green light for At the Mountains of Madness lit by Universal any time soon. Mike Fleming of Deadline has received word that del Toro and Legendary Pictures is moving towards a new monster project called Pacific Rim. The monster flick script was written by Travis Beachman and is aiming towards a PG-13 rating. The site adds that the project has been under the radar and that del Toro has been in the loop through this process.
