Welcome to Rumor Has It, Player Affinity’s weekly roundup of highly buzzed-about movie rumors circulating throughout Tinseltown. On this week’s docket, we have rumors about the sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Robocop and – of course – The Avengers.
Even three diverse newcomers were unable to topple the box office juggernaut that is The Hunger Games. The action flick easily took the number one spot for a fourth week – the first film since Avatar to do so.
Rumors back in February suggested that Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt were among those vying for a role in Ridley Scott’s next film, The Counselor, and it looks like the Prometheus director has chosen … both.
Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive sneak peak yet again, this time of The Dark Knight Rises. Here are six new scans from the issue, including a good look at Anne Hathaway as Catwoman.
It seems that we’ve been hearing about Disney’s live-action Maleficent for an eternity, and now that it’s in motion, you’ll probably hear a lot more about this loose reinterpretation of Sleeping Beauty starring Angelina Jolie as the titular villain. The Mouse House has already set a release date of March 14, 2014.
In a disappointing week of DVD and Blu-ray releases, Tyrannosaur is the stand out candidate. The Iron Lady, Into the Abyss and A Streetcar Named Desire are also available this week.
Last weekend we played the game “will he or won’t he?” with regards to The Hunger Games director Gary Ross returning for his duties to the sequel. Word was negotiations were rough, then news broke he had walked, and then Deadline, following up on the story, said he hadn’t. Well, the “won’t he” side won.
Looks like Sacha Baron Cohen will be unleashing The Dictator on us all just a little bit later; Paramount has moved its release back five days to May 16, a Wednesday.
Despite being a three-week-old leftover, blockbuster The Hunger Games crushed the return of 1990s properties American Reunion and Titanic 3D. The adaptation also cruised past the $300-million mark domestically.
As Tony Stark prepares to go solo again after playing with the other superfriends in this summer’s The Avengers, Marvel Studios has been looking for his next nemesis. Turns out that Ben Kingsley will play this villainous role in Iron Man 3.
