Relativity Media, the studio whose recent releases include Bridesmaids and Cowboys & Aliens, have announced that Alex Tse (Watchmen) will be penning the script for their “reimagining” of the 1994 cult classic The Crow.
This summer has been quite a bummer, Judy Moody. After the debacle that was 2010, true movie fans hoped that this year would be a comeback year for Hollywood. No more shrinking revenues or slimming attendance due to lackluster titles no one cared about. Yet somehow, even with bigger tentpoles in place, plenty of hype and excitement, and burgeoning production and marketing budgets 2011 is already being written off in favor of next year’s offerings like The Avengers, Prometheus, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Dark Knight Rises.
For all intents and purposes, Pixar’s Cars is a delightful animated fantasy that fires on more cylinders than do many works from rival studios combined. But then comes that dastardly theory of relativity. Cars, of course, must always face comparisons to the impossibly high standards achieved by other films in the Disney subsidiary’s filmography, which many have deemed masterpieces.
At long last, Quentin Tarantino cast Jamie Foxx for the title role in his Sergio Leone-inspired Western Django Unchained. Even though that’s the most crucial role in the film, there are still some characters that don’t have actors attached just yet, including that of Django’s lover, Broomhilda.
Despite no new releases in three years and his inability to get The Hobbit and At the Mountains of Madness off the ground, Guillermo Del Toro remains one of Hollywood’s most sought-after directors. With his new project Pacific Rim picking up casting steam, Deadline is now reporting that Idris Elba (Thor, The Wire) has been tapped to play the role of Sensi.
With Joss Whedon’s The Avengers on tap for May of next year, one would expect a panel with some teasing footage at the San Diego convention this year, but the LA Times says it ain’t so. A Marvel insider told the publication that the studio decided to “go big or stay home,” and with “Avengers” still filming, the studio didn’t figure to have anything to wow fans with akin to last year’s big casting reveal.
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained quickly emerged as one of the most anticipated films of the next several years when the project was officially announced. However, there were several ideas flying around about who’d play the title character, a freed slave attempting to save his family from a treacherous ranch owner with the help of a German bounty hunter.
