The results for Rango look promising and early reviews are raves, saying the film could finally break Pixar’s streak of winning Best Animated Feature at next year’s Oscars. So, what appears to be a successful switch from live-action to animation begs the question: if Verbinski can do it, who else could? Here are five directors that ought to be able to make an awesome animated feature.
Diane Lane is set to portray Clark Kent’s mother Martha in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman reboot. The Academy-Award nominee most recently led the Disney sports drama Secretariat; her next project is Cinema Verite, an HBO film also starring James Gandolfini and Tim Robbins, according to TheWrap.
Tim Allen and Tom Hanks look to collaborate yet again for Walt Disney Pictures to shoot Jungle Cruise, another film based on a popular theme park attraction in the vein of Pirates of the Caribbean. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Roger S.H. Schulman (Shrek) will write the screenplay, set to be produced by The Fighter producers Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman. According to Deadline Hollywood, Disney has yet to secure a director.
The villains in the upcoming Avengers flick, due out in May of 2012, have finally been revealed! Major spoilers lie ahead, so you can’t say we didn’t warn you.
LatinoReview picked up the scoop that “the main villain for The Avengers is none other than …
Did you have a busy Thanksgiving? Couldn’t make it to the theater? Well, three of our four new releases came out during Turkey time. If something classic interests you, there’s the newest version of Disney’s Bambi and the entire original “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy on Blu-ray in case you need to brush up before Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides out this May.
There had been talk for eight years about a film adaptation of Capcom’s “Devil May Cry” franchise, but little developments had occurred outside of rumors. Now, Variety reports that the series is moving forward with a film adaptation, as Screen Gems—the company behind the “Resident Evil” film franchise—has acquired the film rights to the “Devil May Cry” series. The fact that Kyle Ward, who just finished writing the screen adaptation of Kane & Lynch for Lionsgate, has been signed to pen the script means (this time!) they’re serious about getting it made.
Director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) and Matt Damon have left quite a standard in their wake. With Universal looking to maximize on the well-received series with a spin-off focusing on a new spy (Bourne without Bourne), Deadline reports that director Tony Gilroy, penned the originals, is casting a wide “net” for a new lead actor.
