Say what you will about a sequel to 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, but you can’t knock Paramount for casting Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The star began filming G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation today and tweeted an image of himself as Roadblock.
There were a few contenders for Recommendation of the Week, but the winner is The Coen brothers’ cult hit The Big Lebowski, a Blu-ray re-release featuring exclusive content in a 28-page book.
Fukunaga’s (Sin Nombre) gripping and photorealistic take on Jane Eyre, which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray today, doesn’t exactly provide an amazing revelation for bringing the story back to life, but it does prove that no classic can be so overdone that it becomes untouchable
Since his breakout in The Hangover, Bradley Cooper has risen to the A-list and he’s consequently had the opportunity for bigger film roles. Among many rumored leading roles, he was attached to head a remake of 1994’s cult classic The Crow.
Quite some time ago, Marvel announced a film adaptation of the comic The Runaways, which sees five teenagers in Los Angeles
fighting against their supervillain parents with special abilities of
their own. However, this project is still in the pre-production stages.
Despite already having a script from popular comic book scribe Drew Pearce, Marvel brushed it to the side to focus on The Avengers, a film that will see Iron Man, Captain America, and other popular Marvel heroes joining forces to save the world; that film is slated to hit theaters on May 4, 2012.
The Help overcame Final Destination 5 in an unforeseen upset at the weekend box office, but they were both no match for those damned dirty apes. Rise of the Planet of the Apes maintained its alpha dominance on the charts adding $27.5 million to its coffers.
