Muppets are the funniest things in the world. Just look at them. They're all furry and flappy and happy, and all they want to do is put on a good show. Well, they'll have a chance to do just that, this time with the genuine talents of Christoph Waltz at their side - he's just signed on to appear in the sequel to The Muppets (that's the latest one.... Disney made it in 2011).
Ever since Disney announced that they'd bought George Lucas' legacy for a measly $4 billion, the internet has gone into a state of shock and despair. The shock stems from the fact George Lucas, now 67, decided to sell his entire life's work, and the despair comes from the fact that the people who made Pirates of the Caribbean are now in charge of Star Wars.
Brian Epstein is an odd choice for a biopic, you say? You're not sure about a Brian Epstein biopic, to be perfectly honest?
Well, Tom Hanks doesn't agree with you, and he probably knows a bit more about the movies given that he's an actor, producer and millionaire. And a busy producer at that, it seems, given that Hanks recently announced he's working on a JKF movie and now he's working on this one, too, with Benedict Cumberbatch set to star as the infamous Beatles manager. Yes, that's his real name.
Ghostbusters 3 has had a hell of a ride so far, and it hasn't even started being made.
Such a ride, in fact, that it's worth asking as to whether or not Hollywood should just throw in the towel on this one. Especially given the latest news, which aligns perfectly with that of Halloween ('cause of the ghosts): Ghostbusters 3 is back into development hell again, apparenly, or something along those lines, which means you'll have to wait to see it more an ever ambiguously longer stretch of time.
What the heck is going on? Why does Hollywood suddenly love Stephen King and everything he's ever written? Is he dying? Is Stephen King dying? As far as we can tell, no, Stephen King isn't dying, but his books are apparently extremely ripe for adaptation, given that there are, like, a zillion of them in production at this very moment. And the latest update is regarding Cell, which was once to be made into a movie by Eli Roth, and is now to be made into a movie with John Cusack.
I'm the worst kind of sports fan, in the sense that I don't like sport (at all), so hearing that Gerard Butler has signed on to star in upcoming soccer movie Dynamo didn't get me all that excited. Well, not until I found out that it's set during World War II and has Nazis in it. Now you've got my attention, Hollywood.
No plot. No plot should be, above all, a director's incentive to halt production, go back to the drawing board and get one. You can't make a movie without a plot. You can make a movie - an action movie, yes - with a shitty plot, or a plot that verges on the non-existent, but no plot at all? You need something. And yet Michael Bay, in his dedications to all things CG and flaming, crafted a motion-picture in 2009 that managed something quite incredible: a movie with no plot, that actually managed to be fully incomprehensible at the same time. Such feats are rare.
Presumably done with World War II, space travel and turning up at every important historical event in the course of a single lifetime, Tom Hanks is producing a JFK assassination movie, just like that one Oliver Stone did. Well, since that one took the good name, this one is called Parkland, which is... also a name.
Bryan Singer, who did direct X-Men and X-Men 2, but didn't direct X-Men 3: The Last Stand, has signed on to direct another installment in the Marvel franchise: X-Men: Days of Future Past. Presumably because Marvel movies are the only ones being made nowadays, and the man has to work.
Not content with freaking you out with scenes of gore and mutilation, Martyrs director Pascal Laugier has released details as to what his next project is all about, describing it as a "twisted sex movie." Oh, Europe: that's so you.
