Jack Nicholson's retired. At the age of 76, he's decided to take a back seat and not star in films anymore. According to a well-placed Hollywood source talking to Radar Online, the actor has simply stopped taking work.
J. Blakeson is set to direct an adaptation of Rick Yancey's young adult sci-fi novel The 5th Wave for Sony. The British director's debut was The Disappearance of Alice Creed.
Bill Murray will be teaming up with Rain Man and Good Morning, Vietnam director Barry Levinson for Rock the Kasbah, a comedy from Scrooged writer Mitch Glazer's screenplay.
Today (September 3rd) marks fifteen years since the original Japanese release of Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation. Hideo Kojima's masterpiece, still never bettered in the series, was one of Konami's biggest titles ever. Originally planned for release on the 3DO Active Multiplayer in 1994 as a straight sequel to Metal Gear: Solid Snake for the NES, that console's lack of traction gave Kojima the impetus to reboot the series as their stated intention to create "the best game ever."
The long-gestating The Secret Life of Walter Mitty finally seems close to completion. Sure we've had a beautiful trailer, a few still images, even some serious Oscar buzz after a rapturous showing at CinemaCon in April, but now we have an official poster, courtesy of MSN.
Christopher Nolan likes to keep audiences guessing at just what his movies will be about, a trait that puts him alongside J.J. Abrams and, well, pretty much nobody else in modern mainstream movie making.
All that anticipation for the fourth season of Arrested Development, and now it's done. Everybody splurged the first day, despite Mitch Hurwitz's explicit warnings not to do that, and now the fans are bereft. We enjoyed it, but the popular opinion appears to be that it was a little underwhelming. Although, when your first three seasons are amongst the best of any sitcom ever, with the benefit of being eulogised during the show's absence, the returning fourth season will always be difficult to pull off, and looking at the season objectively, they definitely did it in style.
Flush with success from starring as baseball player Jackie Robinson in biopic 42, Chadwick Boseman has signed with Universal and Imagine to play another, very different African-American icon - James Brown. The as-yet-untitled story will be directed by The Help's Tate Taylor, who will produce alongside Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins.
Everyone and their grizzled aunt Marie knows that pre-production on Star Wars: Episode VII has already started at Pinewood Studios, but it was starting to seem like an actual date for start of production would never come.
The rage circle that erupted when Ben Affleck was cast as Batman in the sequel to Man of Steel, the Zack Snyder-directed Batman vs. Superman, overtook Twitter when it was announced on Thursday night. Every social network, even Bebo (maybe?), exploded with anguished cries of either "Affleck as Batman? NOOOOOOOOOOO!", or "Another person complaining about Affleck as Batman? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" in an enjoyable ring of pain. It's died down somewhat now, and we can look back on that time and examine the wreckage to help identify the factors that led to such a surprising announcement.