With just a week before Assassin’s Creed III hits shelves, Ubisoft has some even bigger Assassin’s Creed news to announce. After bringing in Michael Fassbender back in July, the series’ first motion-picture adaptation has found a financier and distributor.
In a week featuring the releases of Magic Mike, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and four classic monster movies from Universal. See which important sci-fi movie beat them to become our Recommendation of the Week.
Acclaimed performance capture actor Andy Serkis (the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, Rise of the Planet of the Apes) has announced that he will direct a new version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The project will be the first from Serkis’ own studio, The Imaginarium.
Acclaimed director David Fincher, attempting to get his adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20000 Leagues Under the Sea off the ground, has reportedly offered the plum role of Ned Land to star and frequent collaborator Brad Pitt. However, there has been no official committment to the project yet from either Pitt or Walt Disney Pictures.
Mark Millar, Fox’s new superhero movie consultant, talks a bit about what we can expect from X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Nicolas Cage will be here after the Rapture – at least on the silver screen. The Oscar winner will star in an upcoming reboot of the Bible-based Left Behind franchise to be directed by Vic Armstrong, an iconic second-unit director and stunt coordinator.
After landing the role of Mary Jane Watson last week in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the sequel to Marc Webb’s reboot from this summer, Shailene Woodley is closing a deal to star in Divergent, a futuristic YA novel adaptation for Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment. Neil Burger (Limitless) is set to direct.
Marvel Studios has barely taken a breath after the massive success of The Avengers before moving on to its hotly anticipated Phase 2 projects. Earlier Thursday, Marvel released a couple of press releases that provide some clues to the plots of Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, both slated for a 2013 release.
Warner Bros. plans to shoot Justice League next year and release the film in summer 2015. The studio can move along with the development of the film, based on the conglomerate of DC Comics heroes, as it recently resolved some courtroom drama.
It hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for 20th Century Fox’s sequel to 2011 summer hit Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Director Rupert Wyatt suddenly exited the project last month and had to be quickly replaced by Cloverfield helmer Matt Reeves.
