While Hailee Steinfeld’s show stopping performance as Mattie Ross in Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit earned her a Best Supporting Oscar nod, the star’s talent’s are in high regard over at Paramount who are currently crafting a new project around her called Forgotten. The novel by Cat Patrick is being published in June so […]
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New Director Signed for ‘Iron Man 3’
When news broke some months back that Jon Favreau was exiting the Iron Man series fanboys everywhere took a collective gasp. Favreau did a great job launching the franchise but on the second movie his hands were tied and he lost creative control over many elements to Marvel, who saw it as a launching pad […]
The Vampire Diaries Finds Klaus
So far this season,The Vampire Diaries has been leading up to the villain of the story, the original vampire Klaus. His character is sure to upset the status quo of Mystic Falls by season’s end and be something of a game changer. The role of Klaus has gone to Joseph Morgan who beat out over […]
T-Bag Breaks Out Of Prison
Robert Knepper is reprising his character of T-Bag in something of a TV cross-over to help kick-off a new show about convicts breaking out of prison. Breakout Kings is created by Nick Santora and Prison Break‘s Matt Olmstead, and the story focuses on a squad of U.S. Marshals who make deals with a group of […]
David E.Kelley Finds His Wonder Woman
David E. Kelley‘s re-imagining of the D.C. comic’s character has found it’s leading lady, with 27 year old Adrianne Palicki landing the iconic role of Wonder Woman. The actress was last seen in the short lived series ‘Lonestar’ and played the tough-as-nails Tyra Collette in ‘Friday Night Lights’. She also had guest stints on ‘Smallville’ […]
Reviving The Terminator Franchise
Universal is considering relaunching The Terminator franchise after the announcement of a return to acting by one of the films original stars. Arnold Schwarzenegger whose stint as Governor is now over, recently tweeted his desire to return to his thespian roots, and this has boosted interest in reviving the franchise that could take advantage of […]
Another Inception Star Joins ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
It seems that director Christopher Nolan is reuniting his cast from his flick ‘Inception’ for the rumored last installment of the Batman series. Marion Cotillard who played Leo Dicaprio’s suicidal wife to great effect in the mind bender, is said to be in talks to join the film along with previously announced Tom Hardy and […]
The Amazing Spider-Man – Revealed
After sometime without a complete title for the upcoming reboot, Columbia Pictures announced today that the title will be The Amazing Spider-Man. Simultaneously the studio has also released a photo of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, though we’ve seen the stunt double doing the rounds, this is the first shot of Garfield wearing the newly designed […]
Dominic Cooper To Play Abe Lincoln’s Mentor
The part of Abe Lincoln’s mentor Henry Sturges, has gone to British rising star Dominic Cooper. Last week, Joaquin Phoenix was reported to be the front-runner for the role but it seems that he passed, or that director Timur Bekmambetov wanted a lesser-known star. While it would’ve been cool to see Joaquin return with a […]
Dracula Boards The Last Voyage of the Demeter
It might just be the decade of the Vampire with another origin story The Last Voyage of the Demeter, set to embark on a journey that will capture fans of the genre. David Slade who directed ’30 Days of Night’ and ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’, is now attached to the project. Slade has become the go-to […]
Michael Rosenbaum Returns as Lex Luthor For ‘Smallville’ Finale
Fans of Smallville can rejoice in knowing that when the 2 hour finale arrives on May 13, it will have a fitting conclusion with the return of one the show’s favorite characters. A deal has recently been made that will see Michael Rosenbaum return to the CW series, reprising his role as Lex Luthor. While […]
Charlize Theron Boards PROMETHEUS
In early January word spread that the script to the untitled Alien Prequel was being revised to expand the role of ‘Vickers’ in order to entice Charlize Theron. Now it seems that she liked what she read and has officially inked a deal to star in ‘Prometheus’ for Twentieth Century Fox. She joins previously announced […]
Bram Stoker’s Mythology Revamped as ‘Harker’
Warner Bros is revamping the mythology of Bram Stoker’s original ‘Dracula’ that will be a departure from Francis Ford Coppola‘s overblown interpretation. The new story will be set in the present day and the ‘Van Helsing’ of the story will be the character Harker, a Scotland yard detective who hunts the elusive Dracula. Seems Vampires […]
J.J. Abrams Unveils Super 8
Super 8 is the new J.J. Abrams flick that’s shaping up to be an exciting throwback to the classic sci-fi genre, overrun by a deluge of today’s hi-tech alien invasion stories. In the tradition of ‘Close Encounters’ and maybe even ‘E.T’, ‘Super 8’ is set in the time when those films changed sci-fi adventure stories […]