Tower Heist director Brett Ratner will no longer produce this winter’s 84th Academy Awards telecast due to several offensive and highly questionable comments made while doing press rounds for his new film.
All good things have to come to end and that is certainly the case of the “Harry Potter” series. After seven books and eight movies, the fantasy series has finally come to its conclusion. So not only is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part 2 coming out to DVD and Blu-ray, but also an eight-film collection which is our Recommendation of the Week.
MGM has announced that it has acquired film rights to the perpetually in-hiding lover of striped shirts, big glasses, and exotic locales. According to a studio press release, Where’s Waldo? will come “to the big screen in a live-action family adventure.”
With the absence of a
kid-centric holiday, DreamWorks’ Puss in Boots held on to the number one spot with a spectacular
second weekend. In second, with less spectacular but still decent results, was the Ben Stiller/Eddie
Murphy comedy Tower Heist, followed by another soft opening for the 3D Christmas
stoner spectacular A Very Harold &
Kumar 3D Christmas.
20th Century Fox is getting closer to casting Bruce Willis’ co-star for the upcoming A Good Day to Die Hard. Early reports of actors reading for the role of John McClane’s son included Aaron Paul, who remains on the shortlist, along with Liam Hemsworth, James Badge Dale and D.J. Cotrona.
Once producer/director J.J. Abrams finished working on and promoting Super 8, he finally committed to a Star Trek sequel as his next project. Now it seems that Abrams has found his film’s main villain in Benicio Del Toro.
Visionary director Tarsem Singh has entered the final stretch in promoting his new film Immortals, which comes out next week on Nov. 11, but his other anticipated “Snow White” project has finally jumped a major hurdle: picking a title. Relativity Media has now settled on Mirror, Mirror.
After the disappointment of X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, fans of the Marvel superteam the world over rejoiced when X-Men: First Class was released and won over critics and audiences. A sequel seems even more likely now that Simon Kinberg has been hired to write the script.
One of pop culture’s greatest questions may finally be answered, as Walden Media has acquired the film rights to Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? The live-action adaptation of the children’s edutainment series is rumored to star Jennifer Lopez, though as of now she is only signed to a producing role.
What once was a project being mocked by many (including this writer), now has turned into a $450-million-plus winner for 20th Century Fox. As such, it’s no surprise that the studio and Andy Serkis have struck a massive deal for him to return to the revitalized “Apes” franchise.
