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The next potential 'tween franchise has no vampires or werewolves, but does have magic and romance in the humid South.
Last year saw the end of the Harry Potter movie franchise and, this November, the Twilight franchise will release its final installment with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. Considering the success of both, studios have been scouring young adult novels to find the next potential movie franchise, and, while Sony is pursuing The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Warner Bros. may have hit the jackpot with their adaption of Beautiful Creatures. The studio just released the movie's first trailer.
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watch the trailer and read Emmy Rossum's comments on the adaptation >> Posted 09.20.12 by Ryan -
Warner Bros. casting for their upcoming live-action adaptation of Akira, based on the Japanese manga ("comic book") series by Katsuhiro Otomo has been pretty, well, Caucasian so far. Garrett Hedlund is set to play heroic biker gang leader Shotaro Kaneda, while Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga) has been offered the role of Kei, a powerful medium and Kaneda's love interest, and Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter were offered the roles of The Colonel and Lady Miyako, respectively. Like we said, pretty Caucasian.
Of course, the live-action Akira will take place in New Manhattan, unlike the Neo-Tokyo of the manga series and 1988 anime adaptation, but that hasn't stopped a furor of online criticism. George Takei (Star Trek) has led an online petition against the "whitewashing" of Akira and recently told The Advocate that if the studio continues with its casting, they could "offend Asians, number 1; number 2, they offend the fans". Whatever the motivation, it seems like Warners is finally looking to bring an Asian actor onto the cast, with Ken Watanabe possibly stepping in for Oldman.
several contenders up for the role of Tetsuo >> Posted 11.23.11 by Ryan -
The careers of at least two hot young Hollywood actors could be headed in an upward trajectory very soon. According to THR, casting sessions for Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way-produced Akira adaptation for Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox's fifth Die Hard movie, A Good Day to Die Hard, will be held within the next couple of weeks and both projects are looking to turn relative unknowns into future stars.
which actors will test for which roles in Akira and Die Hard 5? >> Posted 11.06.11 by BrentJS -
This summer has been filled with casting rumors regarding Sony's upcoming Spider-Man reboot, but this is perhaps the thinnest rumor we've found. Still, it's not a terrible possibility, so we thought we'd share it. According to IMDb (via SlashFilm), Anton Yelchin, former candidate for the role of Peter Parker before Andrew Garfield ultimately landed it, is up for the part of Harry Osborn, the role originally played by James Franco in the original trilogy.
More on the Rumor >> Posted 07.13.10 by Ryan -
The rumors that have surrounded the casting of the new Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, in director Marc Webb's Spider-Man franchise reboot may soon be coming to an end. According to Deadline, the decision-makers at Sony viewed the screen tests of most of the top contenders for the role on Friday, including Jamie Bell, Anthon Yelchin, Aaron Johnson, Logan Lerman, Andrew Garfield, and Alden Ehrenreich.
who else is also in contention? >> Posted 06.27.10 by BrentJS -
So much for that narrowed list of five contenders THR reported a couple of weeks ago: Jamie Bell, Alden Ehrenreich, Frank Dillane, Andrew Garfield, and Josh Hutcherson. A sixth name is now officially in the mix, along with a seventh, according to the LA Times.
You can add two names to the growing list of (very early) candidates for the young Peter Parker, and one of them is Aaron Johnson, who played the titular nerd-hero in "Kick-Ass," sources say.
Who's #7? And when does a shortlist become too long? >> Posted 06.11.10 by reelz -
It appears that the highly controversial "Is he or isn't he?" debate about whether or not Percy Jackson star Logan Lerman will be taking over the role of Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, from Tobey Maguire in the Spider-Man reboot is at an end. Lerman sparked the debate himself back in February when he announced that he had been in talks with Sony to take over the role, but he recently admitted to MTV that he didn't know anything about director Marc Webb's Spider-Man movie and had not tried on the classic red-and-blue Spider-Man suit.
Lerman's Out, Who's In? >> Posted 06.06.10 by BrentJS