Last week, Universal announced Bourne series writer Tony Gilroy would helm the fourth film in the hit spy thriller franchise and Damon’s involvement was still up in the air. This week, Gilroy tells Hollywood Elsewhere that not only will Damon not be involved, but also that the currently titled The Bourne Legacy will feature a different character(s) altogether.
The Social Network is the big movie on campus. For the second week in a row the Facebook movie held the number one spot at the box office. The film edged out three new entries from the week, though not by a landslide. Life As We Know It was the runner up with $14.6 million. Katherine Heigl has done better in the past even withKillers, her most recent critical abomination with 12% on Rotten Tomatoes
Rhys Ifans has been offered the role of the villain in Marc Webb’s upcoming Spider-Man reboot. It has yet to be revealed who this villain will be, but speculation has included that the villain might be Venom. Since the Gwen Stacy plot in the comics dealt with the Green Goblin, he is also a possible villain. Having the Green Goblin as the villain could be too reminiscent of Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man film. Additionally, Venom appeared in Spider-Man 3, which is perhaps one of the most reviled sequels in motion picture history. Fans were upset that Venom didn’t get his own film (he had to share with Sandman and Harry Osborne’s “New Goblin”). Perhaps Webb will solve that problem here.
Sports dramas have the power to entertain, to uplift, to inspire. Unfortunately, Disney’s Secretariat does none of those things. Besides the dull and vapid writing that poorly tells the racehorse’s incredible story, the real problem here is director Randall Wallace. He never infuses Secretariat with any tension or true conflict whatsoever, preferring formulaic scene set-ups and tired clichés.
Filled with embarrassingly obvious tangents, plot holes, and low quality 3-D effects, Wes Craven’s latest flick, My Soul to Take, is a muddled and terribly paced failure to thrill or even entertain. In fact, it might just be the most poorly crafted film of the year.
One cannot argue against the fact that Ridley Scott altered the horror and sci-fi landscape with his 1979 film Alien. Now, 30 years after his original film, Scott hopes to return to the franchise that helped launch his name, in the form of a prequel. It being an “Alien” project means it’ll have a strong female lead. Deadline reports that Noomi Rapace, internationally recognized for playing Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its subsequent sequels, is rumored to be in talks to play the lead.
Move over, boys. The girls are taking over, and this isn’t just any group of girls. These are the ones who demand your attention, who don’t take “no” for an answer, the ones you don’t want to mess with. You know, tough girls.
