It was never going to be cheap to produce X-Men: Days of Future Past. Combining the cast of Bryan Singer's original X-Men films with that of 2011's reboot, X-Men: First Class, along with the prospect of shooting in 3D, was going to make for an expensive production no matter how you sliced it.
Never one to give up, director Terry Gilliam (Brazil) may yet make his notorious adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. The seemingly un-filmable novel has destroyed the careers of other directors, like Orson Welles, and nearly bankrupted Gilliam the first time he tried to make it.
Having now gone toe-to-toe with the likes of Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro, Ben Kingsley (twice) and Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield (Ender's Game, Hugo) has signed on to play Clive Owen's adversary in the upcoming comedy King of the Kastle.
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) as been so acclaimed for his work as a director lately that it's easy to forget that he's not only a prolific writer, but that he often writes scripts that he has no interest in directing himself. One such script is a horror film that he's hoping will be directed by torture porn guru Eli Roth (Hostel).
Today sees the release of the official theatrical one-sheet and six new character posters for the upcoming stop-motion animated film The LEGO Movie. Written and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who brought us the first Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, along with 2012's hugely successful 21 Jump Street, the film looks to similarly utilize the director's playful spirit and sardonic wit.
An image was Tweeted out today from the Bad Robot Twitter account, and it gives us our first, albeit thoroughly benign, look at the behind the scenes world of Star Wars: Episode VII.
Anyone with a daughter can tell you what Monster High is, but for those not in the know, they are Mattel dolls that purport to be the offspring of famous monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein and more. They're hugely popular amongst young children so it's no surprise that Universal is headed into production on a live-action film based on the toys.
While it didn't set the US box office on fire, this past summer's The Wolverine was a gigantic hit overseas, making it the second highest grossing entry in the X-Men franchise. Naturally, 20th Century Fox locked up the film's director James Mangold for the sequel and now, star Hugh Jackman is telling us that they have some "really cool ideas" for the follow-up.
Now that Marvel has proven to be tremendously successful with their Cinematic Universe, Warner Bros. seems to be emulating that formula with their upcoming Man of Steel sequel Batman vs. Superman. A new interview with director Guillermo del Toro seems to suggest, however, that their plans for the DC Universe are much deeper than we originally thought.
One of the more notoriously cursed properties in all of Hollywood is a film version of the life of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Though the project has been on and off for a while, Warner Bros. is back in development on a new film about the famous historical figure, simply titled Napoleon, and they have hired director Rupert Sanders to helm.
