Time for
your weekly notable news update! Below you'll find a
slew of sentences meant to provide a brief glimpse of what's
been going on over the past week in movieland. If
something leaves you desperate for more info then my advice
is to do a little extra research on one or all of the
following fantastic sites:
Latino Review,
Dark Horizons,
Ain't It Cool News,
CHUD and/or
JoBlo. Now, read on!
Movie News
Rundown
Seth Gordon (King
Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters) has been hired to direct
a remake of WarGames.
Tom Wilkinson is said to be in talks to play a villain in
The Lone Ranger.
Captain America: The First Avenger has a new
trailer, and it's pretty great.
Michael Fassbender has dropped out of Trance, and
James McAvoy is reportedly in line to replace him. The
movie is said to follow a group of thieves who hire a
hypnotist to help their injured accomplice remember where he
hid a valuable painting.
Emma Stone has reportedly turned down an offer to star in
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.
The Skin I Live In looks great. Here's the
teaser.
Ron Howard is said to be interested in doing a live action
movie based on the 60s cartoon Spy Vs Spy.
Evangeline Lilly (Lost) has joined the cast for
The Hobbit. Peter Jackson says she will play a
Woodland Elf.
Alex Tse (Watchmen) has been hired to pen the Crow
remake.
Action! It's the
trailer for Killer Elite.
Could be a fun flick.
Christopher Meloni (Law And Order: SVU) and Julia
Ormond (Curious Case Of Benjamin Button) have joined
the cast for Man Of Steel.
Jamie Foxx has officially landed the lead role in Quentin
Tarantino's Django Unchained.
Idris Elba (Thor) has been cast in Guillermo Del
Toro's Pacific Rim.
The
trailer for A Dangerous Method is
well done. Can't wait to see the movie.
The title of Woody Allen's next film will be Bop
Decameron.
The next Fast And Furious entry has been given a
release date of May 24, 2013.
Puss In Boots looks incredibly stupid, but I'm in.
Check out the first
trailer.
Joel Courtney (Super 8) has been cast as the lead in
a new adaptation of Tom Sawyer.
Director Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling are set to
team up again (previously: Drive and Blue
Valentine) for Only God Forgives. The movie
is said to be about a guy who meets a retired cop and then
sets out to settle things with this mother.
I love Craig Brewer, but I'm not sure about the
trailer for the Footloose remake.
Warren Beatty is reportedly all set to direct and star in a
currently untitled Howard Hughes biopic for Paramount.
Mark Heyman (Black Swan) has reportedly written a
Facebook-based thriller titled XOXO. No word
yet on a director, but Darren Aronofsky will produce.
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