After blowing by box-office projections with approximately $56 million last weekend, Snow White and the Huntsman looks to be getting a sequel. Deadline reports that Universal has begun to put the necessary pieces in motion for a follow-up, including hiring venerable screenwriter David Koepp to do the scripting honors.
Casting for Roland Emmerich‘s next action film, White House Down, has heated up quick. Channing Tatum became the first actor to sign a few weeks back and just yesterday we learned that Jamie Foxx has begun negotiations to play the president. Today, Maggie Gyllenhaal became the first lady to join the cast, no pun intended.
During the MTV Movie Awards, The Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobson addressed the rumors surrounding the casting of Finnick Odair for the film’s sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
So there’s this trailer going around the Internet at the moment. Maybe you’ve seen it … Django Unchained? Well, it’s a big day for Jamie Foxx, because he just went from a slave to President of the United States.
Fresh off his run as Nick Fury in The Avengers and headed into Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained this Christmas, Samuel L. Jackson is mapping out his future schedule, joining the MGM remake of Robocop.
Anthony and Joe Russo, executive producers and sometimes directors of NBC comedy Community and ABC comedy Happy Endings, have entered final negotiations with Marvel Studios to direct the sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger.
After the raging success of The Avengers, can you blame Warner Bros. for finally taking a Justice League movie seriously? The studio has tasked screenwriter Will Beall (this fall’s Ganster Squad) with uniting all of DC Comics’ greatest heroes.
Jon Favreau is perhaps best known for directing Iron Man, so what about making a musical?
Yesterday, we learned that Ridley Scott wants to make a film about the biblical figure Moses, but don’t forget that progress has been made in casting for Noah, Academy Award-nominated director Darren Aronofsky’s passion project that predictably centers on the ark builder of the same name.
It is a huge week of DVD and Blu-ray releases with big early 2012 films such as John Carter, Safe House and Act of Valor coming out and many classic movies from many different genres.
