Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters now has a villain. Actress Famke Janssen has been cast as “the leader of the witches” according to The Playlist. Given that little detail, she’s probably the main antagonist.
Rosamund Pike will play Andromeda in Wrath of the Titans, sequel to the financially successful Clash of the Titans. Alexa Davalos, who
played the same character in the Warner Bros. predecessor, is unavailable
according to Deadline Hollywood.
Though Sanctum wasn’t really up to snuff, one spelunking nightmare done right shows us what this premise is capable of. The Descent was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival back in 2006 in the horror-oriented Park City at Midnight section. Featuring an all-female cast and a relatively green director, the film frightened audiences with its claustrophobic compositions and bleak, realistic outlook on the situation.
Shawn Levy will direct the upcoming sci-fi flick Fantastic Voyage; famed director James Cameron will take up producing duties. Deadline Hollywood reports that directors Darren Aronofsky, Louis Leterrier, and Timur Bekmambetov each discussed the project with Cameron upon Paul Greengrass’s departure from the director’s seat. Fantastic Voyage is based on the 1966 film of the same name, which focused on shrunken scientists trying to save the life of a colleague.
It was a good week for stalkers at the cinema this weekend. The youthful reimagining of Single White Female called The Roommate lurked around at number one with $15.6 million in sales. Not even close was critically maligned 3D adventure Sanctum. The James Cameron underwater thriller failed to tickle audiences, who got their adrenaline rush from football instead. The Fighter and Yogi Bear were the fatalities of this week’s charts, dropping out of the top ten.
First Robert Downey Jr. passed. Now, Johnny Depp says no. So when Hollywood’s two biggest middle-aged male stars say no, who do you turn to? James Franco, apparently. Franco has yet to sign on or even talk to director Sam Raimi about the roles, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog, but he’s the next name on the list.
People in both the Superman reboot and Lohan camp have been conversing over the past several weeks, and she’s reportedly in contention to play a major character. According to TMZ, who apparently got a tip from
“sources close to LiLo,” this character will not be Lois Lane.
