With January fast approaching, any news regarding Kenneth Branagh's Thor gets more and more exciting, all adding to the possibility of this long-gestating comic book adaptation actually getting underway. So far the film's casting news has been rather spectacular, from Anthony Hopkins to Natalie Portman, and this news follows suit: Idris Elba is in....
Director Chris Weitz, the slightly less-accomplished half of the Weitz brothers (who came on to the scene with American Pie), has decided to call it quits, right after he makes a Bicycle Thief-inspired script titled The Gardener. ...
With official news that Rob Marshall is directing Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides with Johnny Depp just out in the open comes further news that Disney's McG-steered Captain Nemo film is dead in the water, with no McG or start date or cast to speak of (not that there was ever a cast)....
Universal has bought the script for TMI (which concerns "the comic premise is that while honesty is the best policy for a relationship, 'too much information' might not be the best thing") with the intention of Anna Faris and Ryan Reynolds starring....
And there's a little Nicole Kidman in there too, with some Fergie and Daniel Day-Lewis to boot. The song, "Cinema Italiano," fits Hudson's character in the film, 60s American journalist Stephanie, and will most likely offer a film history backdrop to Rob Marshall's adaptation...
And let the Bridges buzz continue, here now with the official trailer for Crazy Heart, courtesy of Apple.Much like the film's poster, the trailer is sweet and bare, showing its cards without a grin or smirk....
Talk about selling what you got - and selling it well. Angelina Jolie is the star of Salt, and she is very beautiful and cool-looking. Speaking of wonderful taglines against strikingly simple one-sheets of a movie stars, here is the new poster for Crazy Heart....
As if the world needed more trailers/featurettes/gossip/financial projections concerning this impending theatrical great disaster/great success, here is another Avatar featurette, courtesy of 20th Century Fox....
It looks as though we'll be seeing a lot of Nine on ABC. The Weinstein Company, still struggling to stay above financial waters it seems, has signed a pact with Disney/ABC Unlimited to pepper the high-profile Rob Marshall musical all over ABC television, whether it's applying the song "Be Italian" (from the "Nine" musical) into Dancing With The Stars or name-dropped in day-time soaps....
I guess it's safe to be officially excited for this remake come March. Thank you well-cut, excitedly-scored and firey brimstone teaser trailer! Louis Leterrier hit-or-miss directing past (Unleashed, Transporter 2, The Incredible Hulk) seem to come to a head in this ridiculously epic [...]...
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.
