DISCussion: New on DVD and Blu-ray (11.27.12)
There are eight new releases on DVD and Blu-ray. Find out which animated hit was able to beat Men in Black 3 and Lawless to be our Recommendation of the Week.
There are eight new releases on DVD and Blu-ray. Find out which animated hit was able to beat Men in Black 3 and Lawless to be our Recommendation of the Week.
Nothing’s confirmed at the moment, but “sources” say Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play the new Batman in Warner Bros.’ Justice League.
Sleeper-hit horror flick Insidious will get a sequel and director James Wan returns for what will be titled Insidious Chapter 2.
The Empire Strikes Back co-writer Lawrence Kasdan and X-Men: First Class co-writer Simon Kinberg are negotiating to be involved in some kind of producer/writer capacity with Episode VIII and Episode IX.
It is a small week of DVD and Blu-ray, but there are some juicy releases in the form of The Expendables 2, Grave of the Fireflies and the release of a major director’s boxset.
Now the fourth film of 2012 to open north of $100 million, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 shot to the number one spot with a gigantic $141.1 million, the second best debut of the franchise after New Moon’s $142.8 million.
Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will see Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone reprising their roles as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy. Shailene Woodley recently joined the film as Mary Jane Watson, but the film’s still seeking its Harry Osborn.
Playwright and Fair Game scribe Jez Butterworth has been hired by Universal to do a new draft for a long-gestating adaptation of Atari’s classic, Asteroids.
Jane Goldman will lend her screenwriting talents to Warner Bros.’ latest take on Pinocchio, in which Geppetto (most likely Robert Downey Jr.) goes on an adventure to find the title character.
CBS Films is keen on moving forward with an adaptation of the popular Square Enix game Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
