There’s quite a bit of anticipation for Maleficent, Disney’s revisionist take on its own adaptation of Sleeping Beauty starring Angelina Jolie. Looking to cast a well-known young actress as Princess Aurora, the studio has been speaking to Elle Fanning (Super 8).
When Nicolas Cage lost his copy of Action Comics No. 1, which features Superman’s first appearance, it made the headlines across the globe. Apparently this story has enough going for it to become a movie.
Producer extraordinaire Jerry Bruckheimer has tweeted the first still for the upcoming Lone Ranger film adaptation. Featuring star Armie Hammer as the masked cowboy John Reid and Johnny Depp as his sidekick, Tonto, the pic is mostly a mood setter and a first peek at the wardrobe.
From the title Boy Scouts vs. Zombies, it’s not difficult to unravel a plot. Highly acclaimed comedy screenwriter Etan Cohen will step into the director’s chair for the project about boy scouts who must fight zombies to rescue girl scouts.
Josh Trank has been courted for several projects, including the intended reboot of the “Fantastic Four” series. Sounds like “Four” might be out of the picture as Sony has reportedly begun negotiating with him to helm the much-delayed Spider-Man character spin-off Venom.
Disney’s long-suffering adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen‘s The Snow Queen, which was revived around Christmas under the new title Frozen, now has a lead voice actor in the loveable Kristen Bell.
This week’s Recommendation of the Week is the comedy classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail. First releases include Immortals, Jack & Jill, My Week with Marilyn and more.
The heads at Universal Pictures have decided to resurrect their once-dead adaptation of the board game Ouija. This is, of course, the same Universal that returned the film rights to Hasbro back in August, along with a $5-million penalty payment for failing to deliver a feature.
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the director’s of this month’s comedy 21 Jump Street, were hired years ago to make a mainstream Lego movie. Now that “Jump Street” is about to hit theaters, it appears this will finally be the duo’s next project.
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 an upcoming biopic overseen by Harvey Weinstein and Salt 2.
