The movie, comic and geek community has always held Iron Man director Jon Favreau in high esteem. Now he’s about to renew his fanboy certification: Cowboys & Aliens, his latest film starring Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde and Harrison Ford, will have its world premiere in San Diego at Comic-Con 2011.
Ziskin was perhaps most famous for her production work on the three “Spider-Man” features as well as next year’s The Amazing Spider-Man, which will be the last credit to her name. Earlier in her career, her biggest success was executive producing Pretty Woman. What’s more, she also produced the telecast for the Academy Awards in 2002 as the first female to do so. In 2008, she helped to set up Stand Up To Cancer.
Much of the conversation seems to be humorous, but some interesting things have been revealed from the chat. /Film reports that Shane Black (Iron Man 3‘s director) has asked Favreau to be a consultant. That’s interesting, but what’s even more interesting is that Favreau has accepted the offer. He’ll be extremely busy for a while with promoting Cowboys & Aliens and making Magic Kingdom for Disney. Favreau also brings up a possible inconsistency in the overall framework of the Marvel universe: how would Iron Man 3 work to be a story all about Tony Stark since it (likely) takes place after The Avengers? Does he just lose all the other heroes’ cell phone numbers?
Vulture is reporting that Emmerich has seen a script written by Matt Lopez, who also penned the recent Race to Witch Mountain and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
scripts. Seeing how the game was literally two dimensional, and only
focused on a triangle shooting asteroids, perhaps a manageable script
can be mustered.
The F-Men are united for Episode 10 of The Plot Hole, Player Affinity’s own movie podcast. In this installment Dinah, Steven, Max, and Kieran debate all the latest movie news and the burning questions they inspire, including what makes a Bond girl a Bond girl and what is the obsession with happy endings in American movies? The main feature is on the place of censorship in Hollywood and we will, of course, review Super 8.
Super 8 stood on relatively sturdy legs this weekend. Although meager for a summer opening, the E.T. and Cloverfield hybrid managed to knock $38 million off of its $50 million dollar budget in its first three days. Bolstered by fairly positive reviews and a nontraditional marketing campaign J.J. Abrams latest earned $0.5 million in midnight shows and another $1 million in sneak previews. The other option, Judy Moody and the NOT bummer Summer made $6.2 million; that was good enough for seventh place.
When Darren Aronofsky left the helm of The Wolverine earlier this year, it left 20th Century Fox in quite the predicament. A matter of a couple weeks ago, however, a list of eight directors on the studio’s shortlist emerged, and now it appears that one of those eight definitely won’t be occupying the director’s seat.
