Taylor Lautner has become a sensation thanks to his role in the Twilight Saga, though at one stage it didn’t look like he’d return for the sequel when producers threatened to recast the role unless he bulked up for his turn as the werewolf. Looks like a little bit of pressure paid off and now […]
The return to the world of Alien was big news when Ridley Scott announced he would be helming new prequel stories, however towards the end of 2010 plans to make two films back to back slowly dwindled. Ridley had hinted that the new story would take place 30 years prior to the events of the first […]
J.J. Abrams has his hands full at the moment with a plethora of projects destined for both the big screen and your nearest TV. Recently he was at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour and at the party to celebrate the Fox / FX portion of the event, he fielded a series of questions […]
Charlize Theron has signed on to play the Evil Queen in Universal’s Snow White and The Huntsman with Michael Fassbender said to in the running for the huntsman character (Johhny Depp was originally considered). However there’s something of a race going on between Universal and Relativity Media who are also aiming to deliver a similar […]
From Blue Sky Studios comes the fourth installment of the ‘Ice Age’ series to be presented in the Digital 3d format. Ice Age: Continental Drift is set to hit cinemas July 13, 2012 and will star the vocal talents of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary & Queen Latifah. This animated series has truly come […]
The classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel is getting an updating which sees the eponymous duo all grown up and taking revenge on those that tried to harm them, in a modern spin entitled Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. The new flick which is set to start shooting March 7th in Berlin, will see the […]
Earlier this week Collider got to sit down with Colin Farrell during the press junkets for Peter Weir’s new movie The Way Back, which tells the true story of a group of soldiers who escape from a Siberian prison and journey across the harsh Asian terrain in order to reach British India. Towards the end […]
This week Sony released 7 clips from their upcoming movie The Green Hornet that pits Seth Rogen as something of a new action star with all his comic wit infused into his character. There was some initial skepticism whether the movie would work but at the recent test screenings all those bad vibes dissipated and […]
New Zealand-born filmmaker Andrew Dominik is about to re-team with the players from his Jesse James flick for his next movie Cogan’s Trade. Based on the 1974 best seller by George V. Higgins, it’s sizing up to be a comedic / crime thriller centering on Jackie Cogan, ‘a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that […]
The Troll Hunter is the latest in the wave of movies that are designed as ‘mockumentaries’ and borrow from the ‘found footage’ genre which was used to great effect in ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and ‘Cloverfield’. Most recently ‘The Last Exorcism’ used the genre style and now Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal is taking audiences on […]
George Clooney is set to play Douglas Preston in Fox 2000’s adaptation of The Monster of Florence. Christopher McQuarrie is writing the screenplay with his Valkyrie co-writer Nathan Alexander based on the best selling crime book by Preston and Italian crime reporter Mario Spezi. The book details the true events of the writer who after […]
Director Neill Blomkamp made it big with his Sci-fi flick District 9, the mockumentary style film which integrated a classic alien invasion story with themes of social segregation. Made with his friend and collaborator Sharlto Copley, it was a remake of their ambitious short film Alive in Joburg which became a launching pad for their […]
Jeremy Renner is set to debut his Hawkeye character albeit in a limited capacity in the upcoming movie Thor. Renner joined his acting cohorts at last years Comic-Con to promote their characters teaming up in The Avengers movie which Joss Whedon is still rewriting and will start shooting later this April in New Mexico. The […]
It seems it will be some time before we see Kiefer Sutherland bring his most successful character to the big screen. When the hit show 24 was canceled somewhat abruptly due to rising production costs and lagging ratings, the silver lining was that fans could expect a movie that would make up for the networks […]
