Jodie Foster’s latest directorial effort, Money Monster, has just received its first trailer. The brand new footage from the film shows George Clooney (Tomorrowland) portraying a Jim Cramer-esque investment guru/TV personality named Lee Gates who is taken hostage during a live taping of his show by a man with a grudge against him. See the trailer, […]
Jamie Foxx to play Little John in Robin Hood: Origins
Deadline is reporting that Jamie Foxx has signed on to the cast of Lionsgate’s Robin Hood: Origins, where he’s set to play the character of Little John alongside Taron Egerton’s Robin and Eve Hewson’s Maid Marian. Foxx’s Little John is described as “a battle-hardened but war-weary veteran of The Crusades who starts out distrustful of […]
Quantico’s Priyanka Chopra in talks for villain role in Baywatch movie
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Quantico star Priyanka Chopra is in talks for Paramount’s upcoming big screen version of Baywatch, where she would play the film’s main villain. The remake of the classic TV series is being directed by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) and sees Dwayne Johnson (Fast & Furious 7) leading a cast […]
Director Juan Antonio Bayona exits World War Z 2
2013’s Brad Pitt-led zombie movie, World War Z, is well-known for suffering numerous production setbacks, including multiple script rewrites, reshoots and scheduling conflicts, so when the film was successful and Paramount announced a sequel, the studio was probably hoping for smoother sailing the second time around. While everything seems to have been going well, Deadline reports […]
Clark Gregg hoping to see Avengers guest starring in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Despite the fact that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is now in its third season, so far there’s been no indication that Phil Coulson is alive and well as far as the big screen side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is concerned, with Avengers director Joss Whedon even stating last year that “in the films, he’s dead.” […]
Fox’s Mark Millar adaptation Superior finds screenwriters
Variety is reporting that 20th Century Fox is pushing ahead with its plans to bring Mark Millar and Leinil Francis Yu’s comic book series Superior to the big screen, tapping screenwriters Brandon and Phillip Murphy to pen the adaptation of the seven-issue series. Superior tells the story of Simon Pooni, a 12-year-old boy suffering from […]
Aaron Sorkin to make directorial debut with Molly’s Game
Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Steve Jobs) is set to direct Molly’s Game, an adaptation of the memoir by Molly Bloom. Sorkin, who was originally only attached to pen the script, will make his directorial debut on the project, which tells the story of Bloom, a former athlete and […]
DVD Review – Guns For Hire (2015)
Guns For Hire, 2015. Directed by Donna Robinson & Katherine Brooks. Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ben Mendelsohn, Ever Carradine, Michele Hicks, Orlando Jones, Tony Shalhoub, Raffaello Degruttola and Sarah Shahi. SYNOPSIS: A tough loner who works as a part-time assassin takes on a job to kill a suicidal on the run from her crooked boss. Beatle […]
Movie Review – Anesthesia (2016)
Anesthesia, 2016. Written and Directed by Tim Blake Nelson. Starring Sam Waterston, Kristen Stewart, Tim Blake Nelson, Corey Stoll, Jessica Hecht, K. Todd Freeman, Michael K. Williams, Gretchen Mol, Mickey Sumner, Ben Konigsberg, Katie Chang, Hannah Marks, Yul Vazquez, and Glenn Close. SYNOPSIS: Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a […]
Men Are Being Turned Off To Film: Time To Blame All the Boys
Samuel Brace on the current state of cinema… It’s that time again, folks. Time to get angry. Angry because our precious films are being tainted, forgotten, turned into something less than, becoming half-hearted imitations of a superior product that was made for adults by adults. 2015 — for film, for this art that we love […]
