With the romantic comedy drama The Rosie Project falling apart last month, Boyhood director Richard Linklater has now set an adaptation of Maria Semple’s 2012 bestseller Where’d You Go, Bernadette? as his next project, with Oscar winner Cate Blanchett in talks to star. The project has been written by screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (Paper […]
Cate Blanchett set to play Lucille Ball in new biopic from Aaron Sorkin
Cate Blanchett (Carol) is set to play legendary actress Lucille Ball in a new biopic to be written by Steve Jobs and The Newsroom scribe Aaron Sorkin, according to The Wrap. The film is set to be produced by Sony’s Escape Artists and is said to focus on Ball’s marriage to actor Desi Arnaz who […]
Sony picks up Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett’s Truth at Cannes
We have reached the halfway point in this year’s prestigious Cannes Film Festival over in France, and a big portion of talk across the Channel is focused on Cate Blanchett and her performance alongside Rooney Mara in Todd Hayne’s critically-acclaimed Carol. And her good form continues today with Deadline reporting that her next project, Truth, […]
Movie Review – Cinderella (2015)
Cinderella, 2015. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Holliday Grainger, Sophie McShera, Helena Bonham Carter, Hayley Atwell, Stellan Skarsgard, Ben Chaplin and Derek Jacobi. SYNOPSIS: When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up […]
Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book: Origins officially begins shooting
In a somewhat similar scenario to what we saw in the late 1990s with Armageddon and Deep Impact, as well as Dante’s Peak and Volcano, we have two different adaptations of Rudyard Kipling’s beloved The Jungle Book on the horizon, with the second of which, directed by Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the […]
Movie Review – Cinderella (2015)
Cinderella, 2015. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Holliday Grainger, Sophie McShera, Helena Bonham Carter, Hayley Atwell, Stellan Skarsgard, Ben Chaplin and Derek Jacobi. SYNOPSIS: When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up […]
Sandra Bullock’s Debbie Ocean assembles her crew in Ocean’s 8 trailer
Warner Bros. has released a trailer for Gary Ross’ upcoming female-led spinoff to the Ocean’s trilogy, Ocean’s 8, which stars Sandra Bullock leading an ensemble that include Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Rihanna, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, and Awkwafina; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Ocean’s 8 character promos showcase the all-female crew The tide has turned […]
Second Opinion – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, 2014. Directed by Peter Jackson. Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Evangaline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, Aidan Turner, Dean O’Gorman, Mark Hadlow, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Hugo Weaving, Christopher […]
Warner Bros. pushes back Jungle Book: Origins to 2017
Warner Bros. has announced that its movie Jungle Book : Origins will be pushed back by a year. Initially the film was set for an October 2016 release but will now come out the following year in October 2017. This is not the only Jungle Book movie in development, with Disney making a live-action version which […]
Memories of Middle-earth featurette for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
As we prepare to venture back to J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world one last time with the release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, a new featurette has arrived online which sees the cast and crew sharing their memories of Middle-earth; check it out below… The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies […]
