The title of iconic movie spy James Bond‘s 23rd theatrical adventure will be titled Skyfall. Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson made the official announcement this morning along with director Sam Mendes and the principal cast, including star Daniel Craig.
The Warner Bros. remake of Clash of the Titans grossed almost four times its hefty $125-million budget. WB naturally wanted a sequel despite the heavy criticism, and that’ll come with Wrath of the Titans next year. But before we get that, the studio’s already prepping for a third installment.
A biopic on the life and career of porn icon Linda Lovelace has been making the rounds around Hollywood and now has found its leading lady in Amanda Seyfried. Seyfried, who currently can be seen in Andrew Niccol’s In Time, landed the role shortly after news broke that Peter Sarsgaard was in negotiations to play Lovelace’s husband Chuck Traynor.
Joel Edgerton may become the new king of college dorm room posters, as Vulture is reporting that the Aussie actor is in talks to play the lead in 300: Battle of Artemisia. A sequel to one of the biggest surprises from 2007, “Artemisia” will chronicle the Athenian general Themistocles as he leads Greek forces against the invading Persian army from the first film. Edgerton has been busy in the last few months, filming on Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsbywhile starring in both Warrior and last month’s The Thing prequel.
Should the film prove as financially and pop culturally successful as its predecessor, Edgerton could see his profile blow-up the way that Gerard Butler’s did after playing the geographically assured Spartan king Leonidas. “Artemisia” is being co-written by 300 director Zack Snyder, with Smart People director Noam Murrocurrently set to helm the project. The film will be based on Frank Miller’s Xerxes, an unreleased 300 prequel that stars the titular Persian emperor who was the first graphic novel’s villain.
Jonah Hill stars alongside Channing Tatum in this TV series remake/undercover cop comedy about two police officers and former high school friends assigned to be pose as teenagers in order to find the source of a popular new synthetic drug.
We at Player Affinity are fans of the Toy Story trilogy, a series of movies we all grew up with (minus the third one, obviously). Now the 3D versions of the movies are coming onto Blu-ray, including a box set, which is our Recommendation of the Week.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies hit another snag on its shambling path to cinemas last Thursday, this time due to directorCraig Gillespie leaving the project. Though the parting is being described as amicable, it’s been reported that casting decisions ultimately led to the director’s departure.
Puppet domination continues as New Regency Productions has purchased the feature film rights to the TV series Fraggle Rock. Part of the Jim Henson “Muppet” brand, Fraggle Rock aired on HBO between 1983 and 1987. The show starred the Fraggles, a diminutive group of colorful humanoid fuzzballs that inhabit Fraggle Rock.
The shoe fit quite well for a lovably feisty feline at the box office, as the “Shrek” spinoff Puss in Boots clawed its way to the top of the box office with an estimated $34 million debut. The three other newcomers didn’t fare quite as admirably, with their combined gross totalling less than DreamWorks’ animated fairytale.
It’s exasperating when a talented enough cast and crew turn out such a spiraling mess of a film. In Johnny Depp’s latest, The Rum Diary, that’s pretty much what you get: a good looking/sounding mess, but a mess all the same that overstays its welcome with little payoff to the characters, let alone the viewers.
