Steven Soderbergh's next project is titled Side Effects, and though that doesn't promise either "Magic" or "Mike", this movie does contain Channing Tatum, ladies, so you can surprise your boyfriend when you mention that, "Hey, doesn't Side Effects look interesting, honey?" without actually meaning it. Given that Soderbergh’s last film with Tatum made a profit of around $150 million on a minuscule budget, I've no doubt as to why he's brought him in again for a movie that offers no male strippage. At least, I don't think it does. Should it? Is that the key to Hollywood success? Check out a whole bunch of new images for the upcoming film below, anyway.
The internet has allowed for rumors to rise up and spread at a terrifying rate, granting us time to speculate on what might be for roughly 24 hours before somebody steps in to squash our dreams. Today that fun-loving process dominates yesterday's rumors that Joseph Gordon-Levitt had signed on to play Batman in a Justice League movie, only for his reps to announce today that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has - you guessed it - done no such thing. Who could've guessed that such a thing might not be true?
Join us in our decade-based film retrospective, as we delve backwards all the way from 2009 to 1910. Most decade-based best movie lists grant you a whooping 50-100 entries, which makes perfect sense given all the years you have to take into consideration. But what if you were defining a decade in just ten films? Which movies would you recommend to somebody who might only watch a handful from a given decade? This week, we look back at the Eighties.
Colin Trevorrow's name has now become synonymous with the Star Wars brand, purely because he was rumored to be directing the next installment for, like, a week, and nobody really knew him before all that. The Safety Not Guaranteed director caused a bit of a stir when he announced that he was working on something for Disney, see, something from our childhood that he didn't want to mess up. And though the internet pounced on that revelation and starting shouting "Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars" until it just became a blur of noise, it turned out the internet was wrong. Again.
Kevin Costner's Waterworld is considered one of Hollywood's big jokes, mainly because it cost so much money and didn't make nearly enough money back, but also because it's a story about fish people and jet-skis, it also stars Kevin Costner. Though most would do their very best to disassociate themselves with a movie whose title alone causes people to grin uncontrollably, Syfy (as in, the TV channel) are looking to develop a series set in Costner's post-apocalyptic pirate-world.
There's nothing quite like directing and starring in your own movie, especially if the subject matter also happens to fall around you. That's the kind of egocentric project none of us need, but Beyonce, who is set to direct and star in a documentary about herself, is going to go ahead with it anyway. And why not? It is about her. And at least it'll be her own fault if she looks bad, although since she's making it that probably won't happen. Maybe it'll be boring? Is Beyonce boring?
Because we all secretly want to live in a Wes Anderson film, where everyday occurrences include banding about dry remarks and being friends with Bill Murray, Moonrise Kingdom - Anderson's latest and arguably greatest film - took the top honors at the 22nd annual Gotham Awards. No, that doesn't mean that they were hosted by Commissioner Gordon or Bane or whatever other character you think it'd be funny to reference.
Leonardo DiCaprio is apparently much more than a pretty face and an accomplished actor - he's also really good at persuading other movie stars to work with Steven Spielberg, not that anybody would turn down such an offer... would they? Well, that's according to the filmmaker himself, who cites Leonardo DiCaprio has the reason why Daniel-Day Lewis signed on star as Abraham Lincoln in Spielberg's upcoming biopic, Lincoln.
Movie franchises decay at an alarming rate. Narratives which had no business continuing in the first place have soaked the realms of cinema with thousands of unnecessary continuations, most of which have proved mediocre and damaging to their source material. Think Resident Evil, or Saw, two perfect examples of movie franchises which constantly have to drum up banal reasons for bringing their characters back into the fray. Sequels like these only serve to push their characters into territories which compromise their established personalities and motives, or to rehash the same plot elements all over again, essentially destroying the integrity of the original story.
You'll know Lenny Kravitz for his skilled musical output, flirting with Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games, and for those little pirate earrings. Marvin Gaye... well, he's the guy who guided you through countless awkward dates by means of the sexiest songs ever recorded. And now these two are set to unite, with Lenny Kravitz taking on the role of Marvin Gaye in upcoming biopic Sexual Healing (one that we hope, unlike the last four attempts, will actually get made).
