Goyer Hints At A Title For The Superman/Batman Movie – Big 6 Morning Report
Zack Snyder mentioned a quote from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns when the Superman/Batman movie was announced at comic con, one that would guide his approach. Now David Goyer has dropped a hint as to just how important that quote will be. The writer told Comicbook.com that “we’re actually not sure whether the title is Superman vs. Batman or Batman vs. Superman but yes, it’s–that rematch, that combination, the two guys onscreen and that’s happening.” (Comicbook.com) The Toronto International Film Festival announced the line-up for its 2013 fest, with the Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate opening the event and other Oscar hopefuls like August: Osage County and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom also set to premiere there. (Yahoo!) Christopher Walken has joined Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of the stage musical Jersey Boys. The actor who has starred in musicals like Romance & Cigarettes and Hairspray will...
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Channing Tatum To Direct MAGIC MIKE 2 With Soderbergh As His DP?
Because every actor is directing now, it makes complete sense to have Channing Tatum direct a sequel to his autobiographical stripper movie, Magic Mike, right? The film grossed more than $167 million worldwide, mostly because audience thought it was going to be hot guys being hot and not the downer exploration of the Great Recession and American capitalism that it was. Still, that’s no reason to stop Soderbergh and Tatum from continuing with Magic Mike’s story. One problem according to Tatum who sat down with THR ahead of his upcoming thriller White House Down: We’re developing Magic Mike 2, but [Soderbergh] really wants to be done directing movies. But wait, it sounds like Soderbergh has made Magic Mike himself an offer that he can’t refuse: That’s sort of where we are at — either [my producing partner] Reid Carolin and I will direct...
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ANCHORMAN Exhibit to Open at DC’s Newseum – Big 6 Morning Report
Anchorman was once a simple cult comedy. Now, with a blockbuster sequel on the way, Anchorman is big enough to make history. Sort of. The Newseum in Washington, D.C., will pay tribute to the most important broadcast journalist of the 21st (and 20th) century with an exhibit dedicated to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The exhibit will feature footage, props and costumes from the 2004 comedy, including Ron Burgundy’s jazz flute. Anchorman 2 opens in December. (AICN) Steven Soderbergh has long stated that his Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, which premiered on HBO last week, was “too gay” for Hollywood. When Hollywood execs told Mother Jones writer Asawin Suebsaeng that Soderbergh was lying, the director fired back, naming names and dropping bombs. Check out his interview on MJ for all the details. (Mother Jones) Mark Wahlberg is entering the Oscar race as Universal moves the...
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Big 6: JEDI changes rebuttal, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS essay, more
Stop hating George Lucas, and stop loving Star Wars so much: Why it’s time to grow up The reason why our first response is to hate George Lucas is not because Lucas is ruining our childhoods. Far from it. Lucas is, perhaps accidentally, forcing us to admit two things: First, that our childhoods are over; and second, that the things we enjoy when we are children tend to be silly. Read the full EW post Friday Night Lights: Very Deep in America The series wants Dillon to function as a microcosm of larger working- and middle-class America: it takes its fifty or so hours and opens a window on American family, education, community race relations, athletics, social class and its various brokennesses. But lest you go away, it keeps you involved with the drama of high school—its romantic student soap operas,...
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BIG 6: Soderbergh’s HUNGER GAMES role, DESCENDANTS at Telluride, more
Why Was Steven Soderbergh on the Set of ‘The Hunger Games’? Steven Soderbergh Tells Us the Whole Story Back in April, [director] Gary [Ross] — who is a close friend of mine I’ve exchanged creative favors with non-stop over the last 15 years — when he got the boards for the shoot in April called me and said, “Hey, first week of August, I got these two days of second unit. Is there any way you can come down and help me out? Because I’d rather have you do it than hire somebody who I don’t know.” I said, “Actually, that works out.” We’ll just be finishing ‘Contagion’ and prepping ‘Magic Mike’ and, yeah, it could be fun. Read the full Moviefone post From Clooney’s Descendants to Pixar’s La Luna: 10 Buzziest Films at Telluride Love for Payne’s film would have...
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Big 6: Realism in CONTAGION, Women Directors, more
Contagion: A Virus Movie Determined to Get Real “It’s an ultrarealistic film about a pandemic, and that’s the key phrase,” the film’s director, Steven Soderbergh, said. “We were looking for something that was unsettling because of the banality of the transmission. In a weird way, the less you trump it up, the more unsettling it becomes.” Read the full NYT article Oscarwatch: Can Women Directors Break Through? This year, several female directors are already making their mark, and there are still others yet to come. Madonna and Angelina Jolie will both be bringing films to audiences. Can you imagine someone taking that sentence seriously ten years ago? The times, they are a-changing, even if they change a-slowly. Read the full Awards Daily post Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Rock Hudson, Hollywood’s Most Eligible Bachelor The problem, then, was that when Rock Hudson...
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