It's sometimes easy to forget the value of a good performance. And one would wager that this is the sole reason to pay good money to see CBS Films' Extraordinary Measures, a practice in viewership patience so great it defies the most lackluster of expectations. Harrison Ford's turn as the visionary Dr. Robert Stonehill is the single saving grace of the film....
Only two weeks after it was announced that both writer/director Levine and hot-to-trot actress Anna Kendrick had joined Mandate's untilted "Cancer" project, it appears the young filmmaker is still filling his plate. This time with a project "in a tone like 'Twilight'-meets-'Shaun of the Dead'"...
Gerard Butler's collaborating with director Marc Forster to "tell the story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers"...
Here's the thing about Reeves - he takes risks. He's an actor who's reach sometimes exceeds his grasp, which is to say he pushes himself. Where the [..]...
A while back, there was talk that Jackie Earle Haley was in talks to play super-villain Sinestro in the upcoming Green Lantern movie, directed by Martin Campbell and starring Ryan Reynolds as the titular hero. Well, let the talk begin again!...
It's hard to gauge how excited/worried on should get reading news like this. Director Joe Johnston, doing the PR thing for The Wolfman, talked to Box Office Magazine a bit about his upcoming Captain America film and the long-gestating Jurassic Park IV....
The life of Leo Tolstoy is certainly not as interesting as the man's works. Writer/Director Michael Hoffman knows this, and finds the conflict of his Tolstoy film The Last Station more in those around him and their respective reactions to his inherent greatness....
Reports here and there are saying this and that and the third about bankrupt Halycon and their Terminator rights, which they are looking to sell off. Possibly to Lionsgate it would appear....
Dan Mecca is the co-founder and managing editor of The Film Stage. He is a producer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh. He watches a lot of movies and tracks them on Letterboxd.
