Movie News: Weekly Round-Up
Movie News:
- Don’t forget to read our Oscars’ Coverage: The Wrap-Up, Worst Looking Gals, Best Dressed later today!
- Fox picks up pulp comic The Shadow (Latino Review)
- Warner Brothers will release creature-feature Splice June 4th (Collider)
- Francis Lawrence to direct Marco Polo fantasy (Variety)
- Green Lantern going 3D (SlashFilm)
- HBO’s Rome adapted for the silver screen (First Showing)
Casting News:
- Robert DeNiro cast in Neil Burger’s The Dark Fields (Variety)
- Hugh Jackman cast in civil rights movie Selma (USA Today)
- Jonah Hill replaces Demetri Martin in Moneyball (The Playlist)
- Rachel McAdams in talks to join Owen Wilson, Marion Cottilard in Woody Allen’s next film (THR): A few weeks ago, I wrote about Owen Wilson teaming up with Red’s beloved Marion Cottilard in this Woody Allen flick and look who is joining them! First Terrence Malick’s movie a few weeks ago, now Woody Allen’s, great to see Rachel get to work with some legendary directors.
- Benicio Del Toro cast in crime drama Making Jack Falcone (Deadline)
- Rachel Nichols cast in Marcus Nispel’s Conan (Latino Review): Rachel Nichols was the only reason to watch GI Joe and probably the only reason to see Conan and I’m not speaking in terms of acting chops here…
- Lenny Kravitz cast in Lee Daniels’ Selma (The Playlist)
- Liam Hemsworth cast in Arabian Nights (Heat Vision)
- Anna Faris cast in comedy What’s your Number? (Variety)
- Jessica Lucas cast in Big Momma’s House 3 (Variety)
- Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, Terrence Howard, Charlie Hunnam join suspense film The Ledge (THR): This sounds like a promising movie with a decent cast. Charlie Hunnam will play a suicidal man ready to jump off a building before noon while Terrence Howard will play the cop trying to convince him that life doesn’t suck!
- Ryan Gosling join Steve Carrell in new untitled comedy by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (Variety)
- Viggo Mortensen joins David Cronenberg again in Talking Cure (Deadline)
- Mike Vogel and Garrett Hedlund top candidates for Captain America, not Krasinski as reported earlier (Deadline): Does anyone actually have any idea what the hell is going on?
Trailers:
- Zombie flick Survival of the Dead (First Showing)
- Legend of the Guardians teaser (Yahoo)
- The Runaways with Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart (Yahoo)
- Harry Brown with Michael Caine: This is like Taken, check out the trailer! (First Showing)
- New trailer for Iron Man 2: This almost seem too… full of excess? (Apple)
- MUST WATCH: Tron Legacy first teaser trailer (First Showing)
Links: Is this a slow week or what?
- Check out Heather’s Top 10 Childhood Performance (Movie Mobsters)
- Andrew Top 10 (of 25) Best Scenes of 2009 (Encore’s World of Film and TV)
- Darren writes about the lack of success comics have with adults (the m0vie blog)
- “I heart Zooey Deschanel”: ok she might have somewhat limited range as an actress but isn’t she adorable? (Cinematically Correct)
- Jose’s top 10 best dressed at the Oscars (Movies Kick Ass)
- Ruth’s Oscar detailed coverage! (Flix Chatter)
11 Comments
Thanks for the link!
The piece I’m most curious about there is the Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg re-team. Eastern Promises wasn’t as good as A History of Violence (hint: more Ed Harris), but the two work well together.
Survival of the Dead seems to be getting bashed around like a zombie with no legs but I’m still going to check it out. I personally liked Romero’s last film and can’t wait for this one. Very weird that it goes on Xbox Live almost a month before limited theatrical run. I’m hoping I can actually get it up here in the Great White North and not have to wait another month to see it.
Allen’s films has a talented cast, but he hasn’t made anything worth watching since Match Point.
That should Allen’s film
Thanks for the shout out, Castor! I’m excited to see Viggo joining The Talking Cure (he should’ve been amongst the Best Actor noms btw), though it’d be fun to see Christoph co-starring with Michael Fassbender again. Wow, Ryan Gosling in a comedy? Is it a dark comedy? I have yet to see Lars & the Real Girl but I heard that’s a hoot. What do you think of Zach Snyder’s Legend of the Guardians trailer? Never have owls look so beguiling, love the visuals! And that TRON Legacy looks interesting, didn’t know much about it but my hubby gladly explained it to me (and showed me the trailer of the original). Wow, Jeff Bridges looked soooo young then!
I’m pretty excited about Cronenberg and Viggo teaming up again.
@ Darren: My pleasure! I also did not enjoy Eastern Promise as much as A History of Violence. Hope they fix that on their next collaboration.
@ Will: Yea, as always I hope it’s good but those horror flicks tend to disappoint these days.
@ Fitz: I haven’t seen Vicky Cristina Barcelona yet but he sure works at a fast pace.
@ Ruth:
Not much is known about that Carrell/Gosling movie but that’s definitely an intriguing combination. One thing you have to respect about Gosling is that he always tries to do new things so I hope that works out for him. Definitely see Lars and the Real Girl, it’s a terrific movie. As for the Legend of the Guardians, it looks (visually) good especially for kids. Like I told you before, I rarely ever see animations in the movie theater because they are almost always for kids and this doesn’t look different.
I think the Legend of the Guardians looked pretty promising. What shocked me about it was that they didn’t use Zach Snyder’s name at all. I figured there would at least be a “From the Director of 300″…but notta.
Hi Red, perhaps because it’s an animated feature for kids, the audience might not have seen (or allowed to) see ’300′? But it’s definitely got Zach’s signature all over it. But like Castor said, I usually don’t spend my money on animation at the theater … though I might make an exception with Toy Story 3!
Hooray! Thanks for the link!
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