With the rumored casting of Django himself as villain Electro for upcoming sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 doing the internet rounds, Jamie Foxx has once again hinted that he's in the running to star. Speaking out recently, he had a few words to say on the character and meeting with director Marc Webb and Spider-Man himself Andrew Garfield:
Either Seth MacFarlane likes having his name branded around the internet or he's got a lot of free time on his hands, given that in the last week alone he's announced a Family Guy movie and a guest spot on The Simpsons, whilst also previously agreeing to host the Oscars and to make a sequel to his foul-mouthed CGI bear comedy Ted. That's not enough for this guy, apparently, now that he's also signed on to star in upcoming western comedy A Million Ways To Die, an upcoming western comedy that he also happens to have written - and also plans to direct. Seth MacFarlane, you madman!
The expectations for the upcoming "One Shot" adaptation Jack Reacher are notoriously mixed. Some are saying, "Hey, won't you just give Tom Cruise a chance?", whilst most are saying, "What the hell is Tom Cruise doing in this? Please, God, give me an answer. Why won't you give me an answer?"
With just ten days to go until Peter Jackson's fourth Middle-Earth-based film hits theatres worldwide (the reviews so far remain somewhat mixed), we've been granted a welcomed six minutes of footage from the upcoming The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to whet our greedy appetites. So far critics have praised the exciting action sequences and general scope of the journey, but remain critical of a middling opening hour and Jackson's decision to shoot in 48FPS. Until you get yourself into a theatre to judge it for yourself, though, check out the clips below.
Recently, we unveiled a rumor that grumpy slash-handed X-Men Wolverine might be set for a cameo in Bryan Singer's upcoming time-travel flick X-Men: Days Of Future Past, with Hugh Jackman in talks to reprise his role. Yes, last time we saw Wolverine was in X-Men: First Class, where he told Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy to... well, we can't repeat that kind of language here, but it was damn rude.
Given that Guillermo del Toro changes his mind as to what he might like to direct next about as often as Hollywood actors seem to break up with Jennifer Aniston, you're warned to take his next directorial effort - which he has announced to be horror flick Crimson Peak - with a pinch of salt. Or, just, don't, because otherwise we're not allowed to get excited about it, and that's kind of our thing around here.
You're probably already well-aware that Ashton Kutcher was cast as Apple founder and "hero of cool" Steve Jobs for an upcoming biopic - apparently based on a passing physical resemblance. Well, now you can see just what Kutcher looks like when he's leaning over a desk all seductively (but equally serious) in super-Steve Jobs mode, given that the first official image of the actor has been unveiled (that's it above).
Even though we've already got our hands full with all the new things that might happen to the franchise when Star Wars: Episode VII hits theatres in 2015, Ewan McGregor has suggested that he'd be willing to reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi despite being a) dead and b) Alec Guinness according to the current timeline. Speaking out during an interview for McGregor's upcoming flick The Impossible, the Scottish actor said: "I guess, yeah, of course. If they need me, yeah, I'd be happy [to go back]."
It isn't long 'til Quentin Tarantino's seventh movie Django Unchained hits theatres, and going by the early reactions it's looking to be a doozy. After he's brought us defining works in the gangster, blaxploitation, samurai, war and slasher genres, we're practically giddy to see just what Tarantino has done with the spaghetti western. So whilst we wait for Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz to don their cowboy hits and ride out to meet Leonard DiCaprio, we've put together a list of 10 things you probably didn't know about Quentin Jerome Tarantino to help pass the time. We won't count his middle name - "Jerome" - as one.
What is a true friend but one who makes a documentary about the life of another? That's what Martin Scorsese is doing for his old buddy Roger Ebert, anyway, the infamous film critic who wrote one of the first positive reviews for Scorsese's debut film Who's That Knocking At My Door? and helped to launch his career. Ever since, the two have remained close friends, with Ebert often granting Scorsese's movies four star reviews, and Scorsese just, well, loving the heck out of that. Now it's pay-back time: Scorsese's documentary - based on Ebert's memoirs Life Itself - is set to debut at the Telluride Film Festival in 2013.
