The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog tells us that television actor Campbell Scott will step into the role of Peter Parker’s father. Meanwhile, Julianne Nicholson might be playing Parker’s mother. Irrfan Khan of Slumdog Millionaire fame and Annie Parisse (TV’s Rubicon) are in discussion to play Nels Van Adder and his wife, respectively
There is something for everyone with this week’s releases. A wide range of genres are coming to DVD and Blu-ray; animation, comedy, horror, action, sci-fi, drama, a documentary and one of the biggest films of 2010. Inception was one of the most anticipated films of 2010, a bold intelligent sci-fi film from the director of The Dark Knight, Chri
MTV’s Rick Marshall visited Jon Favreau at the editing studio of his next film Cowboys and Aliens to ask him about all of the different films being made within the Marvel universe. Unfortunately, the acclaimed Iron Man director knows very little of these projects, including his very own Iron Man 3. Check out what he had to say, along with some commentary sprinkled throughout.
This weekends box office revenue bleeds harder than Kanye West after he stole the microphone from Taylor Swift. Holdovers held the top spots while the sole newcomer barely landed inside the top ten. Tangled dominated theater business for the second week in a row, narrowly displacing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 which overtook it last week. It was a horserace most people couldn’t be bothered with. Tangled enticed $21.5 million in sales and “Harry Potter” shrunk to $16.7 million.
But in an announcement as bizarre as it is ambitious, DreamWorks’ head Jeffrey Katzenberg has declared there to be at least two follow-ups to How to Train Your Dragon, a total of four “Madagascar” films and a whopping six “Pandas.” That should amount to a fair amount of bamboo in the bank.
The Warrior’s Way is some sort of amazing disaster, a bizarre hybrid of genre, filming techniques, moods, themes and pace. I would not go quite as far to deem it as “so bad it’s good,” though it certainly carries some sort of campy allure I haven’t seen since last 2009’s Viking/alien invasion mash-up Outlander. This martial arts Western does, however, play more like an initial idea than a fully realized movie and unfortunately carries more than enough similarities to be lumped in with the video game genre — not the most favourable association.
Disney apparently has no worries about the box office performance of this upcoming fourth film, helmed by Rob Marshall of Chicago fame; the Mouse House is already planning for two more movies, both to be filmed back-to-back just like “Dead Man’s Chest” and “At World’s End.” Apparently, Disney wants to get started on this “in the very near future” according to HitFix.
