Recommendation of the Week has a cleaner winner this time in the Christopher Nolan Director’s Collection boxset. It features five top movies from one of the most celebrated directors around. What more do you need? Best Picture winner The Artist and early-year comedy favorite 21 Jump Street also arrive.
If it’s late June, it’s Pixar’s time to dominate the box office. Brave, the studio’s first fairy tale, took in $66. 3 million this weekend, good for its fifth biggest opening and 13th straight film opening at number one.
We’ve heard a lot about lately The Hunger Games: Catching Fire lately as Lionsgating is trying to get things set for when production begins at the end of the summer. We just reported that either Zoe Aggeliki or Mia Wasikowska might play former Hunger Games champion Johanna Mason in the The Hunger Games sequel, and now we can add Jena Malone to that list.
Genndy Tartakovsky has finally broken into the film world in a big way. He directed Sony Pictures Animation’s upcoming film Hotel Transylvania featuring Adam Sandler and now the studio has handed him the reigns to one of the most beloved cartoon characters of all time.
Andy Lau, who previously joined Iron Man 3 as someone who will help Tony Stark take down antagonists, left the upcoming sequel so he could spend quality time with his newborn child.
Who’s afraid of the big black bat? Universal, apparently. The studio has moved The Bourne Legacy from Aug. 3 to Aug. 10 in order to give its would-be late-summer hit some more breathing room from Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated trilogy-closer, The Dark Knight Rises.
We’ve been hearing quite a bit about The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the sequel to this year’s mega-hit The Hunger Games. With new characters joining the action, speculation has been rampant in regards to casting.
With an all-star cast and source material that’s captured the hearts of millions, Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful might be 2013’s first big hit. The film finished shooting some time ago, and we’ve finally got an official look at James Franco as the titular wizard.
With the help of director/producer Luc Besson, Liam Neeson reinvented himself as a gritty action hero in the 2008 film Taken, which grossed $226.8 million worldwide off a budget of $25 million. A sequel quickly became a foregone conclusion for 20th Century Fox, and we finally have a trailer to showcase its inevitable badassery.
Universal Pictures has been very quietly trying to reboot the “Jurassic Park” franchise for the last year in hopes of having more bankable properties in its arsenal than the “Fast and Furious” franchise. Now, the studio has finally taken a big step by hiring Rise of the Planet of the Apes scribes Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver to write a new treatment for the dangerous dinosaurs.
