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
Ben Affleck has
signed on to direct an adaptation of Stephen King's The
Stand.
Black Gold now has a
trailer. Looks like it could be a
good one.
Columbia and Universal are said to be interested in adapting
Mark Millar's War Heroes. The comic supposedly
follows a super soldier project that goes wrong.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is reportedly considering a role in
Django Unchained.
The Flowers Of War may end up being a good movie, but
I'm not a fan of the first
trailer.
Carey Mulligan will star in the next Coen Bros. film,
Inside Llewyn Davis. The movie is said to center
around the 60s folk scene in Greenwhich Village.
Ben Stiller is reportedly set to direct a horror film called
The Mountain. It's said to follow a woman who
finds a mysterious object that forces her to deal with past
secrets.
Chronicle will either be really cool or a giant waste
of time. See the
trailer.
George Romero recently said he's looking at adapting The
Zombie Autopsies. The book deals with a group of
scientists who figure out that the government is behind
what's turning people into zombies.
I really hope Red Tails ends up being good.
Here's the latest
trailer.
Sony is reportedly looking at doing a big screen adaptation
of the game Assassin's Creed.
Mark Romanek is said to be in the running to direct the
adaptation of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol.
The new
trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of
Shadows is pretty great.
London Boulevard looks great. Check out the
trailer.
Anne Hathaway has joined the cast of Les Miserables.
Bradley Cooper has replaced George Clooney in Steven
Soderbergh's The Man From UNCLE.
There's a rumor that the Wachowskis have set up a movie at
Warner Bros. called Jupiter Ascension. As of
now, nothing else about it is known.
I can't wait to see The Adventures Of Tintin.
Here's the latest
trailer.
Jaume Collet-Sera has officially signed on to direct a live
action version of Akira. Garrett Hedland (Tron:
Legacy) is said to be in the running to star.
James Franco has dropped out of The Iceman. No
word yet on why.
Guy Ritchie is rumored to be the lead candidate to direct
the Cannonball Run remake.
The Devil Inside now has a
trailer. Looks silly, of course.
Image Of The Week:
A poster for Red Tails.
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