A couple of months ago, Tony Scott [TSCOT] announced that a prequel to Alien [ALEN5] will be directed by Carl Rinsch, a commerical director working at Scott Free Productions, the company belonging to Tony and Ridley Scott [RSCOT]. However, Fox did not take too kindly to the preemptive announcement, especially when it turned out Rinsch was rumored to be dating Ridley's daughter. The studio was not going to greenlight the prequel unless the director of Alien himself takes the helm. Fox, who...
Adam Sandler [ASAND] hooks up with director Judd Apatow [JAPAT] for the R-rated dramedy Funny People [FUNYP]. Sandler’s PG-13 rated summer comedies typically are guaranteed $35-40 million openers. However, his young male fans are not the target audience for a movie that deals with mortality and lost love. Universal hopes Funny People connect with the same moviegoers who turned Apatow’s previous R-rated comedies into breakout hits. To their credit, the marketing campaign has not hid the...
Directed by Wes Anderson [WANDE], Fantastic Mr. Fox [MRFOX] is a stop-motion animated film based on the book by Roald Dahl. George Clooney [GCLOO] voices the title character who puts together a crew of his wilderness neighbors to fight back against a farmer out to get rid of them all. It's Ocean's 11, except with talking animal puppets. Meryl Streep [MSTRE] voices Mrs. Fox, while the rest of the cast is rounded out by Anderson regulars like Bill Murray [BMURR], Owen Wilson [OWILS] and...
This first weekend of August has a diverse lineup of new releases. Aliens in the Attic [ANATC] is a kids film about aliens taking over their neighborhood. Adam [ADAM] is s sensitive love story starring Hugh Dancy [HDANC] and Rose Bryne [RBRYN] about a man with Asberger’s Syndrome who finds love with a neighbor. The film to watch for is definitely Adam Sandler’s [ASAND] Funny People [FUNYP]. It is the latest in the Judd Apatow [JAPAT] line of comedies.
Gordon Gekko will make his comeback on April 23, 2010. Fox has set the release date for Wall Street 2 [WALS2], the sequel directed once again by Oliver Stone [OSTON]. Shia LaBeouf [SLABE] stars opposite Michael Douglas [MDOUG].
The untitled romance comedy [TRBLM] reuniting Tom Cruise [TCRUI] and Cameron Diaz [CDIAZ] gets a prime summer slot of July 2, 2010. Incredibly, the Born on the Fourth of July actor has never opened a film over the Fourth of July holiday during his career. Even...
Rachelle Lefevre,who played the role of Victoria in Twilight and the upcoming sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon [TWLI2], will be replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard [BDHOW] in the following film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse [TWLI3]. Victoria becomes one of the lead villain in the third film, so it's understandably that the producers would recast with a more famous actress. So why not just say so? I know Summit Entertainment wants to be polite, but saying Lefevre left "due to scheduling...
The horror film The Wolfman [WOLFM] has been pushed back from its release date this November to next year. The classic monster revival was originally scheduled for Valentine's Day weekend this year, but now will be released a full year later on the next Valentine's Day weekend of Feburary 12, 2010. Universal picked up The Fourth Kind [4KIND] and slotted the thriller starring Milla Jovovich [MJOVO] into the vacated November 6 date.
Universal also added three other films to their release...
Disney’s animated guinea pigs beat out the teen wizard to top the weekend box office. G-Force [GFORC] grossed an estimated $32.15 million as cute talking animals proved irresistible to family audiences.
After captivating the box office last weekend, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince [HPOT6] wore off 61% in its second outing to $30 million. The sixth film in the series has booked $221.8 million in 12 days.
The romantic comedy The Ugly Truth [UGLYT] scored $27.0 million to debut in...
According to a production listing on My Entertainment World, Steven Spielberg will next direct Interstellar [NTSTL] with a production start date of August 24, 2009. The film will explore physicist Kip Thorne's theories of gravity fields, wormholes and several hypotheses that Albert Einstein was never able to prove. The screenplay is written by Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight). The cast has yet to be announced.
