Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 classic The Conservation is a highly regarded movie from The Godfather director and also by us at Player Affinity, making it as our Recommendation of the Week. Another highlight of the week is the release of the superhero hit
Captain America: The First Avenger, a must have if you want to complete your Marvel collection.
It’s another day and another news piece on how Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar seem to be working/sleeping together. Not long after announcing his intention to adapt Superior to the screens, Vaughn, along with Millar and artist Dave Gibbons (of Watchmen fame) have announced a new comic called The Secret Service, one in which Vaughn holds the movie rights.
Despite Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows still a couple months away, Deadline reports that Warner Bros. is already planning to make “Sherlock Holmes 3.” There is a lot of positive buzz towards the highly anticipated sequel and Drew Pearce has been hired to script the follow-up.
The reaper commeth. As if the largest opening of the franchise wasn’t enough, Paranormal Activity 3’s mammoth $54-million opening also shattered the record of another threequel (Jackass 3D) for the biggest October opening and biggest fall opening, not to mention it now lays claim to the largest horror movie opening — ever.
Bradley Cooper, who broke out in 2009’s The Hangover and proved himself to be a moderate box-office draw withLimitless earlier this year, has been offered the leading role in Soderbergh’s spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E., based on the 1960s spy series of the same name.
The big screen exploits of Ubisoft’s assassins are becoming more of a reality. Sony Pictures, the same studio looking to turn the “Uncharted” and “inFamous” games into blockbusters as well, has closed a deal with Ubisoft to adapt their “Assassin’s Creed” series for film.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been acting since the late 1980s, but became a bigger name thanks to Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer and Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Now you can catch him in 50/50, and next year he’s in several films, one of which might be Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.
Variety relays that Gordon-Levitt is negotiating to take a role in Tarantino’s spaghetti Western. However, “several scheduling issues that could prevent him from participating” need to be sorted out. Not coincidentally, his thriller Premium Rush has just been bumped from an early January bow to an August release. The Playlist surmises that the bump was a direct result of Gordon-Levitt wanting to star in “Django,” and it’s hard to disagree.
Aw frak. Deadline is reporting that Bryan Singer’s (X-Men, Valkyrie) Battlestar Galactica project is beginning to pick up major steam, hiring John Orloff (Anonymous, Band of Brothers) to pen the screenplay for the project. For those of you not aware (and thus, do not understand what “frak” means), “Galactica” was a 1978 TV series that started out with humanity—spread across 12 planets—being attacked by the Cylons, intelligent robots created by humans that eventually rebelled. With their worlds decimated, it was up to the Galactica, humanity’s last know warship, to protect the remaining civilization from the pursuing Cylons.
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Da Vinci Code sequel The Lost Symbol is inching closer to the big screen, as Deadline reports that Sony Pictures has been eyeing Mark Romanek to fill the director’s chair for the next Robert Langdon adventure.
