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Who Should Wear the Cape & Cowl?
It's still unclear how Warner Bros. (WB) plans to proceed with the Batman franchise now that director Christopher Nolan has wrapped up his trilogy. If you've seen The Dark Knight Rises, than you know that Nolan handed the keys to the bat cave to someone from within the universe he created just in case WB wanted to continue the story. However, since the studio announced in June that Gangster Squad scribe Will Beall had been hired to pen a movie based on DC Comics' preeminent super-team, the Justice League — the team's current roster includes Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Cyborg — it seems far more likely that a new Bruce Wayne/Batman will be chosen, one that has nothing to do with Nolan's universe.
It will be tough to fill Christian Bale's Academy Award-winning shoes, but there must be someone out there with the physicality to play a superhero and the acting chops to portray a man driven to prevent the kind of senseless violence that took his parents away from him. Help us choose the new Dark Knight.
Select the Top 10 Actors Who Could Play Batman >>
Posted 10.09.12 by BrentJS -
Millennium Entertainment has released a series of four character posters for Spanish writer-director Rodrigo Cortés' (Buried) upcoming psychological thriller, Red Lights. The movie stars Robert De Niro as Simon Silver, a legendary psychic who returns after a 30-year absence that followed the mysterious death of his biggest critic. His return prompts two paranormal fraud investigators (played by Cillian Murphy and Sigourney Weaver) to turn their debunking skills on Silver. However, they soon become obsessed with his seemingly inexplicable abilities. Elizabeth Olsen also stars and, based on the tagline on her poster, her character falls into the skeptic camp along with the characters played by Murphy and Weaver.
While some early reviews have complained that the movie plays a game of movie genre bait-and-switch, at least one reviewer compared Red Lights to classics like The Parallax View and Angel Heart, hailing it as a "unique cinema piece...with truly amazing performances."
see the new posters >> Posted 05.30.12 by BrentJS -
A suspenseful new trailer for Spanish writer-director Rodrigo Cortés' (Buried) upcoming paranormal thriller, Red Lights, has been released online. The movie, about a pair of paranormal fraud investigators played by Cillian Murphy and Sigourney Weaver who meet their match when they try to debunk a famous psychic played by Robert De Niro, debuted last month at the Sundance Film Festival and was quickly snapped up for U.S. distribution by Millenium Entertainment. According to Cortés, Red Lights is less about parlor tricks and more about "how the brain does not give a true picture of reality."
watch the new trailer >> Posted 02.02.12 by BrentJS -
A new trailer has been released for the futuristic sci-fi thriller In Time. In Sweden.
Don't worry, you won't have to learn another language to watch the trailer, which follows Justin Timberlake as the poor Will Salas, a factory worker living in a dystopian future where no one ages past the age of 25 and time is used as currency. When he inherits a surplus of time from a wealthy 105-year-old (Matthew Bomer), Will is accused of murder and hunted by the FBI-like "Timekeepers" led by Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins), who want to bring him in dead or alive.
The latest trailer does offer new footage from the trailer released in August, and not just Swedish subtitles.
Titta på trailern, er, watch the trailer >> Posted 10.14.11 by Ryan -
A biopic about Hall-of-Fame baseball star Jackie Robinson was first announced in June, and may be courting its first actor.
Vulture reports Jack Nicholson has been offered an unspecified role in the movie, titled 42 after Robinson's jersey number. The report speculates that Nicholson could be asked to play Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers executive who signed Robinson to a minor-league contract in 1945. Rickey would sign Robinson to a Major League contract two years later, making Robinson the first African-American player to join the league.
Brian Helgeland, who wrote the screenplays for last year's Robin Hood and L.A. Confidential, and wrote and directed 2001's A Knight's Tale, is attached to write and direct the biopic, with Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson collaborating to maintain biographical authenticity.
more added to The Dark Knight Rises; Noreiga to take on Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand >> Posted 10.14.11 by Ryan -
2011's Comic-Con was a first for Justin Timberlake, who was there to promote the upcoming sci-fi thriller In Time. Timberlake joined co-star Amanda Seyfried (Red Riding Hood) and director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Simone) at the Twentieth Century Fox panel to discuss the movie, which is set in a world where no one ages past 25, but once they reach that age, they only have one year left. Therefore, time becomes the currency that runs the world. Niccol explained the premise to WSJ after the panel ended.
Everyone has this body clock and it’s really that invention that’s the death of all other inventions. The poor have no time to create anything and the rich have no incentive.
watch the trailer >> Posted 07.23.11 by Ryan -
If you're making a movie about a group of survivors set against a backdrop where a deadly virus outbreak has the potential to wipe out humanity, than who better to call on than Cillian Murphy? After all, he's a veteran of that scenario after dealing with the zombie-causing virus in 28 Days Later.
And that's exactly who first-time filmmaker Carl Tibbetts has cast in the thriller Retreat. The movie is about a couple (Murphy and Thandie Newton) who are vacationing on a desolate island when they come across a psychopath, Jamie Bell, who has news of a deadly outbreak that is sweeping through Europe. And it's Bell's character who decides the only way to survive the outbreak is to board up the house and wait it out. That wouldn't be too hard, except that Bell is crazy.
watch the trailer >> Posted 05.06.11 by Chris -
Talk of a second sequel to Tron has been making the rounds on the internet since February 2010, ten months before Tron: Legacy opened in theaters, and Disney has had Tron: Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz working on the script for Tron 3 (working title) since at least April 2010. Recently, it was rumored that a Tron 3 teaser might be appearing on the DVD and Blu-ray release of Tron: Legacy. Now, confirmation of this fact comes from Harry Knowles at AICN, who was reportedly given several details about the November shoot for the teaser, including a breakdown of the scenes that were shot, a call sheet, a location map and two photos from the set.
what scenes will appear in the Tron: Legacy DVD extras? >> Posted 01.23.11 by BrentJS -
It's taken a couple of weeks, but THR reports that Disney's highly anticipated sequel Tron: Legacy has earned more than $100 million at the domestic box office, typically the benchmark for "blockbuster" status. Combined with the movie's foreign box office take, Tron: Legacy is now in pure profit mode, having conquered its $170 million budget.
Usually, when movies reach this level of profitability, a sequel announcement is not far behind. While Disney has yet to make that pronouncement, director Joseph Kosinski told MTV in a recent interview that he would be willing to return for another installment.
Olivia Wilde wants to return >> Posted 12.31.10 by Ryan -
Much of the marketing for Inception, has focused on the reality-warping special effects and mind-bending "dream thief" concept at the heart of the plot of the movie. Apparently, Warner Bros. feels confident that potential moviegoers finally have the concept down, because the studio recently released a huge selection of new still images that are less about the action and effects and more about the main characters of the movie, as played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Michael Caine, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy, and Ken Watanabe. Accompanying the stills are also several pictures from the set showing writer-director Christopher Nolan giving his actors some direction.
Posted 06.27.10 by BrentJS