Although Skyfall's Sam Mendes recently denied that he'd make himself available for Bond 24, the sneaky devil is still hanging around the franchise, apparently involving himself enough in the process to even be helping develop the story for the next outing. That's according to Robert Wade, James Bond writer since 1999, who mentioned during a conversation regarding Bond 24 that “John Logan and Sam Mendes have come up with a plot for another one.”
Animals die every day in abundance. There are hundreds of different reasons that such a thing might occur to each of God's precious creatures, but getting a job on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey probably didn't seem like it'd end in death for the 27 animals who were killed making the movie. After being moved into their stables during production, many of the unsuspecting creatures came to meet their end when they were "kept at a nearby farm filled with bluffs, sinkholes and other death traps." That's according to four wranglers, anyway, who have lodged complaints against Peter Jackson and his company for their apparent mistreatment of the deceased.
Presumably jealous of the perfectly-formed face that God granted Ryan Gosling upon his birth, the marketing team for Only God Forgives have come together muttering phrases like "That'll show him" having released a new image of the Drive actor all banged up for Nicholas Winding Refn's new flick. The pity is that - despite the horrific nature of his wounds - Gosling's inherent handsomeness shines through somehow, still making the rest of us feel more like Matt Damon in Neill Blomkamp's upcoming movie.
Pedro Almodovar has made great films in a whole variety of genres, but one might have never expected the Spanish auteur to base his next film around Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. That's exactly what's happening, though, given that Almodovar recently announced his plans for the project:
I'm super-psyched for the director of Star Wars: Episode VII to reveal themselves, and not because I want to see how they take on George Lucas' iconic series. No. I just can't bear to hear anymore stories about who or who many not take the reigns, given that it's almost definitely a new person every day, despite the fact that said individuals reveal themselves hours later to be uninvolved in every way. Same goes now for Colin Trevorrow, who insists that the odds of him directing Star Wars are "3720 to 1." For anybody unfamiliar with odds, those are considered not good.
If you've been wandering about recently thinking,"I wonder if there were any posters for The Dark Knight Rises that Warner Bros. chose not to use," then what the heck is wrong with you? Although ultimately we can't deny that you're amazing attuned to the cultural zeitgeist, given that three unused posters for Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie have just been released online. Check 'em out below, wanderer.
For that select few who've always wondered what Matt Damon would look like without his hair, you might want to check out the latest pictures from Neil Blomkamp's upcoming sci-fi flick Elysium. The Bourne star has gone for a look we can only describe as Bruce Willis-ian, although that's absolutely not a term we expect to catch on. There are other bald films stars, you know.
Well, 51% of the world's population are female, I suppose, so it's not massively surprising that the final (yes!) film in the Twilight franchise pulled in $141.3 million at the box office over the weekend. That's right: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, which is actually the name of a film, beat Skyfall, which took in just $100 million by comparison.
Ever since we saw them having it out in Knocked Up, it looks to be Judd Apatow's intention to use his own family to tell us all about his own family, though the director has conveniently replaced himself with Paul Rudd, because, well, who wouldn't replace themselves with Paul Rudd? So ignoring the fact that Apatow has cast his wife and two children to play the exact same roles they would serve in his own personal life, This Is 40 looks to be another strong comedy from the guy who makes all the comedies.
We've all encountered books that've proved impossible to get through for one reason or another. For a lot of people, it's those infernal "classics" your English professor was always going about: Finnegans Wake, To A Lighthouse. For others, it's anything written by Dan Brown (for completely different reasons). But for Ben Affleck, it's Stephen King's post apocalyptic novel The Stand that's causing him a whole bunch of trouble, what with its 800+ pages, layered characters, and multiple plot strands. Gosh.
