Jeremy Renner has made a name for himself in the action genre with features such as The Town and next month’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. He’s been locked and loaded for next summer’s Bourne Legacy in that time and recently spilled some details on the project.
It has been difficult waiting for the official statements out of
Christopher Nolan’s camp (while avoiding those crappy on-set videos),
but now we have our first hints at what is to come in TDKR, and dammit
all, Nolan has pulled a fast one on us again.
We at Player Affinity had an easy choice for Recommended of the Week this time, the American classic 12 Angry Men. Based on a play 12 Angry Men is a movie that is considered great and the Criterion Collection re-release contents a variety of documentaries, interviews, commentaries and the 1955 television version. The big new release is the J.J. Abrams’ character driven sci-fi hit Super 8, a movie that divided audiences but was massive interest to film fans. From France we have the Holocaust themed historical mystery, Sarah Key’s. Wes Anderson fans will be happy with the re-release of Rushmore and two of D.W. Griffith’s silent film classics have earned a re-release.
Though not reaching a new
high for the series, the behemoth opening weekend of Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part I still clinched the fifth biggest
opening weekend of all time, towering over all other films in play. The
opposite of gleeful was Happy Feet 2
which failed to find any kind of an audience, opening to half of what the
predecessor pranced away with in 2006.
Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow on HBO’s Game of Thrones, has been cast as King Arthur in Warner Bros. medieval action movie Arthur & Lancelot.
When David Fincher came aboard to direct a remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for Disney, you already knew the project would be darker and have a kick-ass trailer. Now it looks like the project has recruited Andrew Kevin Walker, who wrote Fincher’s much-praised thriller Se7en
Steven Soderbergh is a very busy man and a man on a mission. So much so that he has left Warner Brothers’ film adaptation of the 60s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a project Soderbergh has been working on, with his Contagion writer Scott Z. Burns, since 2010.
Playlist has reported Soderbergh has left the project over budgetary and casting concerns. George Clooney was originally set to star, but had to pull out because of a back injury, and other actors such as Michael Fassbender, Joel Kinnaman (The Killing), Johnny Depp, Matt Damon and Channing Tatumhave been linked to the movie. But there was no casting conformation and Soderbergh clashed with Warner Brothers executives, who wanted a younger star.
Stow the quarters and break out the big bills, Rampage is coming to theatres. New Line Cinema has announced that the classic Midway arcade game will be coming to the silver screen courtesy of producer John Rickard, who is currently meeting with writers to nail down a story.
If you’ve been paying any attention to the film adaptation of The Hunger Games and its production history so far, you know that Lionsgate is very serious about turning the bestsellers into the next big film series. With the reception of the first trailer going over very well, they’re now making their next move: hiring a writer to adapt the second book in the series, Catching Fire.
Who they’re aiming for is an interesting choice: Simon Beaufoy, who won an Oscar for penning Slumdog Millionaire as well as a nomination for 127 Hours. Originally, it was thought that Gary Ross, director of “Hunger Games” would adapt the second book with original author Suzanne Collins, but due to the post-production schedule of the first film—and the speed at while Lionsgate wants to get the ball rolling on the second installment—they went hunting for a new writer.
The Hunger Games is set to debut next March, giving Lionsgate plenty more time to build steam while ramping up for the second film. With Ross said to be returning for “Fire” and Beaufoy so close to being nabbed, the series may be on the road to its intended goal.
Sure, you could argue that man is the real monster in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, but for Lionsgate’s upcoming modernization, I, Frankenstein, they’ve picked Bill Nighy to play the film’s supernatural villain. He’ll be joined by Australian actor Socratis Otto and the pair is set to menace star Aaron Eckhart, who joined the project last October. You can hear Nighy later this month in the animated Arthur Christmas, while newcomer Otto will be appearing in next year’s serial killer thriller, Gone.
Based on the comic-book from Underworld creator Kevin Grevioux, I, Frankensteinwill follow Eckhart’s Adam as he gets embroiled in a war between rival clans while being pursued by a demon prince, played by Nighy, who seeks the genetic secret that has made Adam immortal. Otto will be playing Nighy’s lackey, and the film is set for release in early 2013, with fellow Australian Stuart Beattie directing.
