The Dark Knight Rises to Box Office Glory
In what can only be described as a bittersweet victory for the third entry in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises still claimed the third-highest opening weekend of all time.
In what can only be described as a bittersweet victory for the third entry in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises still claimed the third-highest opening weekend of all time.
The Dark Knight Rises solidified its status as one of the year’s biggest films this weekend, and Anne Hathaway similarly re-established herself by silencing early critics with her universally well-received performance as Catwoman.
On Friday, Warner Bros. made the decision to remove the trailer for Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad from before showings of the film, as it contains a scene in which theater attendees are killed by gunfire. Now it’s considering a more drastic decision.
Welcome to Rumor Has It, Player Affinity’s weekly roundup of highly buzzed-about movie rumors circulating throughout Tinseltown. On this week’s docket, we have rumors about Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” films, Wreck-It Ralph and Thor: The Dark World.
Back in March, a digitally animated short film called Ruin made the rounds on a lot of sites, earning praise for its post-apocalyptic visuals and high-energy chase sequence. Well, Hollywood was watching, as the film’s creator, Wes Ball, is in talks with 20th Century Fox to turn it into a feature film.
When Marvel Studios cast him as Thor, people were upset True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgård didn’t get the part. Since then, Chris Hemsworth has quickly become one of the biggest and most bankable young action stars on the planet, and now, Steven Spielberg wants him.
As soon as talks broke down with Jessica Biel, it appears 20th Century Fox went right down the list to its second choice among actresses to play Viper a.k.a Madame Hydra in The Wolverine. Twitch reports Russia’s Svetlana Khodchenkova is negotiating to play the role of the Hungarian orphan-turned-assassin.
At least one exec at Columbia Pictures is unsure if The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb will be back to direct the already green-lit sequel.
Talks between Jessica Biel and 20th Century Fox have broken down for the actress to appear as Viper a.k.a. Madame Hydra in The Wolverine.
Bat-mania is getting a bit too literal for the folks over at rottentomatoes.com, as for the first time ever, they’ve had to suspend user commenting on incoming reviews for a movie. By Tuesday, positive reviews were only garnering a handful of comments each, while write-ups from early nay-sayers like Christy Lemire had over 700, forcing Rotten Tomatoes to freeze all discussion on the film. As Deadline notes, Rotten Tomatoes put the unprecedented lockdown on comments despite being owned by parent company Warner Bros., who made the movie in the first place.The vast majority of sane Batman fans don’t really care what someone in San Jose thought of the movie, but now a few bad apples have passed a bum rap onto the whole of the caped crusader’s fanbase. An early prank review by Eric Snider of Film.com certainly didn’t help matters, when he wrote a scathing byline that linked to his review, where he revealed he hadn’t actually seen the movie. “It just got to be too much hate,” said Rotten Tomatoes editor-in-chief Matt Atchity of the comments; he’s already concerned about a similar backlash from fans occurring when Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is released later this year. Nolan hasn’t made his Batman movie more like the real world, he’s made the real world more like one of his Batman movies.
