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....
Vera Farmiga is in talks and Michelle Monaghan is set to star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Duncan Jones' next film, Source Code, which is being financed by Vendome Pictures and the Mark Gordon Company to be distributed by Summit Entertainment....
With Brooklyn's Finest coming out in March, filmmaker Antoine Fuqua is prepping his next action-fused dramafest: an adaptation of Vince Flynn's novel Consent to Kill, for the new film production division CBS Entertainment....
Sony Pictures has decided to reboot the Spiderman franchise by replacing all involved with the original trilogy. Including Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire....
With print news dying faster and faster each day, many publications are implementing pay-walls on to their Web sites, attempting to salvage dwindling profits. For Variety, it seems their new pay-wall (which began on December 10th, 2009) is not panning out that way....
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.