Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Joins ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’
Whiteley will star in George Miller’s upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road, the long-gestating fourth film in the “Mad Max” franchise once led by Mel Gibson and now starring Bane himself, Tom Hardy.
Whiteley will star in George Miller’s upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road, the long-gestating fourth film in the “Mad Max” franchise once led by Mel Gibson and now starring Bane himself, Tom Hardy.
Director Paul W.S. Anderson (of the first and fourth entries in the series) looks to rectify his missteps with Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth outing of Alice and co. that looks to take the zombie pandemic set off by the Umbrella Corporation and go worldwide in this latest trailer.
Fresh off its E3 run, word has come down that a film adaptation of Ubisoft’s “Splinter Cell” series is once again being shopped to studios.
Judy Greer and Portia Doubleday have signed on for the remake. The actresses will respectively star as Miss Desjardin, the gym teacher who edifies Carrie, and Chris Hargensen, the cruel, popular girl responsible for the psychologically abused telepath’s violent rampage.
All of this summer’s biggest films (The Avengers, Prometheus, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises) have or will come out in the IMAX format, and now some of next year’s will too. Fans will be able to enjoy their return to the USS Enterprise on the biggest screens available when Star Trek 2 arrives on May 17, 2013.
José Padilha’s upcoming remake of RoboCop begins shooting in the fall, and MGM hasn’t been wasting time with casting. Last week we discovered that Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson had joined the cast, and now Abbie Cornish and Hugh Laurie look to star in the remake/reboot of the 1987 sci-fi thriller.
Disney has been upping the ante in the edginess department lately. Maleficent, a revisionist take on Sleeping Beauty, will enter production this summer and now the Mouse House plans to make a film based on, well, the stuff of legend.
There’s been quite a bit of hoopla regarding who’ll play Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the sequel to this year’s pop-culture phenomenon The Hunger Games. With so much attention on who’ll play Finnick Odair, the casting of another character almost went unnoticed.
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah has been on quite the casting spree. However, until today, we haven’t had any official word on who’ll play the antagonist. Thankfully, all of that’s changed, and Noah seems to have finally found his villain in Ray Winstone.
We need a hero and this week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases offer a lot of them, from Sherlock Holmes to Superman to Spider-Man. The Criterion Collection also offer us three rereleases, including a Charlie Chaplin classic.
