The Contenders: Jennifer Lawrence Goes For Supporting In AMERICAN HUSTLE
Oprah Winfrey, your competition for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar just got a little steeper. On the heels of the announcement that Meryl Streep will be campaigned for Supporting Actress in August: Osage County, now we officially know that last year’s Best Actress winner is going supporting as well. In American Hustle, Jennifer Lawrence plays the wife of Christian Bale’s character, one of two con men who work with the Feds to bring down mobsters and criminal politicians. Instead of competing with co-star Amy Adams in the Best Actress category, a representative from the film told Gold Derby that Lawrence would be placed in the supporting actress category alongside frontrunner Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler) and perennial contender Streep. This could work out for Lawrence in the end because both Oprah and Streep in the mix for The Weinstein Company...
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New AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Photos Tease The Sinister Six?
Now here’s something that you probably weren’t expecting to see this morning. Columbia Pictures has released nine new photos from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, including one that teases the Sinister Six. Now not being a Spidey guy, it’s been a while since I’ve even thought of the Sinister Six supervillains. The group, most often headed by Dr. Octopus, is a motley crew of Spider-Man villains who band together to defeat the Web Crawler. Could we be in for a Sinister Six movie in the near future? Well, from the looks of it, that photo could simply be a nickname that some of the nerdier filmmakers on Spider-Man 2 gave sound stage #6. But with all of the talk of a superhero rally in The Amazing Spider-Man 4 it only makes sense that those heroes have a group to rally against, right? Regardless, here...
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Hugh Jackman Denies Big X-Men Pay Day
While no one would deny that Hugh Jackman is probably worth every cent of the rumored $100 million pay day for four more X-Men movies, Jackman is denying the reported offer. In speaking with EW, Jackman basically says that money isn’t the reason he’s played Wolverine: “No it’s not true… I would never do that. I’ve never done that mainly because, for the fans and for me, each time I’ve gone around there’s been a really good reason to do it and I don’t know what that reason is from here. I’m in the middle of making this and I just promoted the other and I’m really happy with the way The Wolverine came out.” So if it wasn’t about the money, then as one EW commenter put it “I would love to hear his ‘really good reason’ for making X-Men Origins:...
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Go From West To Bale With This Evolution Of Batman Movies Video
In the nearly 50 years of Batman movies, we’ve seen everything from Batman battling sharks to the Dark Knight battling depression thanks to a dead girlfriend. (God, I hate The Dark Knight Rises.) Oh what a run the Caped Crusader has had on the big screen. Seeing all of these movie trailers cut together just reinforces my belief that Batman Returns is the best Batman movies to ever hit the big screen. I’m sure I need to defend that in another blog post, but for now here’s a video of Batman’s big screen...
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Spike Lee Reached His Kickstarter Goal With A Little Help From His Friends
Zack Braff and Veronica Mars may have exceeded their Kickstarter goals quickly, easily, and with room to spare, but Spike Lee had a tougher go of it on the crowd-funding site. Thankfully, with only four days left to go, Spike Lee’s Kickstarter campaign for his yet-to-be-titled blood addicts joint has surpassed the $1.25 million it needed to get funded. There’s an obvious difference between what Lee did on Kickstarter and those other high-profile campaigns. While Braff and Rob Thomas of Veronica Mars both relied on grassroots giving, with their movies getting an average of $66.75/backer and $62.26/backer respectively, Spike Lee’s Kickstarter is coming in at about $235.34/backer right now. And Lee relied heavily on $10,000 pledges from the likes of Steven Soderbergh to get his campaign funded. He gets by with a little help from his friends, I guess. So...
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Is JURASSIC PARK 4 Moving To 2016?
When Colin Trevorrow was announced as the director for Jurassic Park 4, it wasn’t a huge deal, other than JP4 was actually moving forward. Nothing against the guy. His Safety Not Guaranteed is alright. But it’s not great. Personally, I’d rather have Joe Johnston back. But whatever. ANYWAY, Trevorrow’s production, it would seem, isn’t moving ahead fast enough. And Devin over at Badass Digest points us to a quote regarding the production from a recent JP fan podcast: Steven [Spielberg] has been very closely involved in this and he cares about the franchise very much and he does not want the movie to happen unless there’s a script that deserves to be shot and I feel the exact same way and that’s what we’re doing here. And Frank [Marshall] feels the same way, so when you have three guys who feel like that...
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