Bennett’s Miller FOXCATCHER Moves to Sony Picture Classics, Stakes Out Awards Season Release Date
Director Bennett Miller’s latest film Foxcatcher starring Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo and Steve Carell will hit theaters on Dec. 20, just in time for awards season, with Oscar player Sony Picture Classics releasing the film. Originally Miller’s film about Olympic wrestlers Mark Schultz (Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Ruffalo) and their relationship with Dave’s friend and murderer John duPont (Carell) was scheduled to be released by Sony’s Columbia Pictures. However, someone decided that Columbia wasn’t the place for a movie that is “unique and complex.” That’s what SPC does. SPC, of course, released similarly-themed Miller’s Capote and got Philip Seymour Hoffman the Oscar for Best Actor, while the movie was also nominated for Picture, Director, Screenplay and Supporting Actress. It doesn’t really matter who distributes Foxcatcher, in the end. I was planning to be there either way. Miller’s films aren’t movie that ever...
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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Release Moved Again… This Time Because Of Toys
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has changed release dates once again. But unlike the script problems that moved the Michael Bay-produced Turtles back to 2014, this time it’s about merchandising. As anyone who has seen Spaceballs knows, “Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.” And Paramount is moving Ninja Turtles from June 6, 2014, to August 8, 2014, so that there’s enough room in between Turtles and Transformers 4 (which comes out on June 27, 2014) to sell all the toys and Happy Meals consumers can buy. The good news? It sounds like Paramount is giving Ninja Turtles the attention it deserves… even if it’s predictably favoring the massive Transformers franchise. Source: Deadline Image:...
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Just How Much Money Was Hugh Jackman Offered To Keep Playing Wolverine?
While I haven’t even posted on the rumored $60 million deal for Christian Bale to reprise his role as Batman because it smells of complete bullshit (I refuse to even link to it), I’m inclined to believe the somewhat questionable report from the National Enquirer about Hugh Jackman coming back for more Wolverine. According to the notorious pub, Hugh Jackman has been offered a whopping $100 million to reprise his role as Wolverine in an additional four X-men movies after X-Men: Days of Future Past. Breaking that down, we’re talking $25 million a picture, which isn’t an obscene amount of money. Still, pay days like that haven’t been seen since Jim Carrey’s The Cable Guy crashed and burned at the box office in the 90s. And unless Fox plans on making one X-Men film a year for the next five years, they...
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Bryan Cranston Would Consider Playing Lex Luthor in BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN
Those rumors that put Bryan Cranston in the running for Lex Luthor in the upcoming sequel to Man of Steel, which we’re calling Batman Vs. Superman? Well, the actor heard them. And in speaking with Metro.us (or at least that’s what I assume given the lack of context here), Cranston says he wouldn’t necessarily turn down the part. “Give me a call,” he says with a grin…”I like Lex Luthor. I think he’s misunderstood. He’s a loveable, sweet man,” Cranston says… Well, my informal polling of blog comments, tweets and Facebook comments doesn’t have fans backing Cranston. They much prefer the obvious choice Mark Strong. And apparently Cranston’s wife would prefer someone else, too: “She wasn’t so keen on the bald head,” Cranston admits. “The bald head ages a man. It’s just that she didn’t know me that way, and the last...
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Rogue Almost Made It Into THE WOLVERINE
Could Rogue have been in The Wolverine? As a complete film and one that totally makes up for that horrible X-Men Origins flick, The Wolverine is fine without her. But bringing Rogue back into the X-Men Cinematic Universe (that’s a thing now, ya know) is something I hope can happen someday. Apparently so do the The Wolverine‘s writers. In an interview with Creative Screenwriting, writer Mark Bomback was asked if there was any character he wanted to use but wasn’t able to. Bomback revealed that he wanted to include Rogue and he even tried to get her in the script: So I was trying to do something with Rogue in the script. I even had a set of ideas that the old man possessed a version of Rogue’s power and that was going to be indicated by a white stripe in his hair. While...
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Watch Saoirse Ronan Go From Sassy To Survivor In The Trailer for HOW I LIVE NOW
Kevin MacDonald’s adaptation of Meg Rosoff’s young adult novel How I Live Now wasn’t on my radar until the trailer hit. Which is surprising because the film combines two of my guiltiest pleasures: Science fiction and teen drama. The story of a girl from Manhattan who falls in love outside of London during WWIII appears at first to be your standard rebellious urban teen goes to the farm story. Then the bomb goes off. About the time Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra’s “Do It with a Rockstar” starts playing, I’m hooked. Now this, my friends, is how you cut a trailer. Whether the film is actually good, is another story. But I’m banking on the talented Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play) at the very least churning out something watchable. I mean, science fiction and teen drama....
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