Jonas Cuarón, co-writer of this fall’s out-of-this-world success story Gravity, has inked a deal with Warner Brothers to pen the script for their long-in-development Atlantis property, The Lost City. Rumored to once have Peter Jackson circling the project, The Lost City has become a priority project for the studio now that Cuarón is on board to provide the screenplay for this decidedly earth-bound (albeit underwater) tale.
Colin Trevorrow’s dinos-run-amok extravaganza Jurassic World has purportedly attained the services of up-and-coming thespian Nick Robinson, as casting continues on the Steven Spielberg-produced Universal tentpole which roars into release in 2015.
With the Star Wars: Episode VII rumor mill in full-gear and manufacturing wild speculation at an unprecedented rate, it should come as no surprise that today we receive word on possible titles for the proposed seventh chapter in the Star Wars saga. Not soon enough either, as the silence out of the Disney/Abrams camp as it relates to the next chapter in the beloved Star Wars franchise has been nothing less than deafening.
During a recent appearance on the U.K. chatfest The Graham Norton Show, Harrison Ford curmudgeonly downplayed any involvement in the soon-to-shoot and hotly anticipated Star Wars: Episode VII.
Speculation is running rampant throughout the fanboy community as to just which female character is currently being cast to star alongside Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill in 2015’s titanic superhero team-up, Batman vs. Superman.
Despite starring above-the-line A-listers Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, New Regency’s $30 million poker thriller Runner Runner debuted last week to a paltry $7.7 million at the box office; leaving industry insiders scratching their collective heads as to how such a sure thing could misfire so badly. A high-profile film (with two of the industry’s biggest stars) which fails to open to at least $20 million over opening weekend is definitely cause for alarm and has executives at 20th Century Fox (the film's distributor) and Warner Brothers (Affleck’s Batman Vs. Superman home) scrambling for answers.
Prolific filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has chosen the Grindhouse-esque month of October to present us with what he feels are the Top Ten theatrical releases for the calendar year of 2013. Despite there being a few months left to go before we officially hit 2014, the always unpredictable director has deemed this a perfect time to share with us his picks for what he feels are the best that Hollywood had to offer in 2013.
The enigmatic first moving images of the upcoming Godzilla reboot were unveiled for all to see today in a tantalizingly brief teaser trailer, which eradicates with numbing ease the memory of the cataclysmic failure that was Roland Emmerich's 1998-version of the titular monster.
