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Stories By Brendon Connelly
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Once the word broke that 500 Days of Summer's Marc Webb has been officially inked to direct at least the next Spider-Man movie, if not indeed a whole trilogy, the trades hit with their takes on the story. Firstly, it seems we can discount all of the casting rumours so far pushed forth because "a…
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Initially scheduled to hit cinemas this February was Disney's 3D rerelease of Beauty and the Beast. As the months went on and we heard nothing new, and there was definitely no trailer released or official announcements made, it began to seem like the film had just slipped off the sheet completely. A real shame, because…
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Variety's report that True Grit will be released on Christmas Day 2010 reveals two things. One - What I want for Christmas*. Two - that Paramount want to position the film for Oscar glory. Maybe their decision making was as simple as "Coens. Wide open spaces. Sounds like No Country For Old Men, bound to…
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Planning a break to South Korea's Gyeonggi Province in 2014? Fancy seeing an animatronic King Kong while you're there? You might just be in luck. Deadline Hollywood Daily are carrying some details of the Universal Studios Park and Resorts complex set to be built in Korea. We can expect it to contain "a state-of-the-art Universal…
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In The Hollywood Reporter's news break on Michael R. Perry being hired to script the second Paranormal Activity picture they also mentioned that his 2009 Black Listed script The Voices has been set up at Vertigo Entertainment with Doug Davison and Roy Lee producing. This picture certainly has an interesting premise: After Jerry Hickfang accidentally…
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When Robert Downey Jr. took the stage at the Golden Globes this weekend, he was wearing a rather famous beard, recognizable and beloved to geeks worldwide. Yep - for some reason, he'd come looking just like Iron Man's alter ego, Tony Stark. And this wasn't a glue-on, this was something he'd cultivated over recent weeks…
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It bodes well for Alice in Wonderland that Disney are now reportedly lining up another revisionist re-take on one of their cartoon classics for Tim Burton to direct. Maleficent will be a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story that focuses on the Mistress of all Evil instead of that pretty somnambulist and her slightly creepy…
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Images removed at request of Fox There's been a deluge of behind-the-scenes Predators images arrive online today, first surfacing at the AVP Galaxy Forum. I suppose they contain moderately serious spoiler material, so click on with due caution. I've put my selection below the break here, but there's even more on the forum. An eagle…
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It seems like it was only earlier today that I was writing about George Miller and his Mad Max sequel... oh waitaminute, it was only... et cetera, et cetera. According to (!) Jay Baruchel, Teresa Palmer has the prize part of "main chick" in Mad Max 4: Fury Road - so, move over Charlize, at…
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Now he's had his webby tights ripped off, what might be next for Tobey Maguire? The answer, according to Steven Zeitchik's synidcated article (see it at AZCentral, for example) might hinge on what kind of career Maguire is looking to mold. There's a big-budget franchise-friendly path, and there's a lower road of more 'dramatic' work,…
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According to a new post on Yahoo Movies, James Cameron's Battle Angel is already in pre-production for a 2011 release: If the Avatar sequel does happen, it'll be a few years before audiences can lay their 3D-glasses-enhanced eyes on it. Cameron is currently in pre-production on his next movie, Battle Angel in which he'll use…
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Somewhere down in Australia, work is racing ahead on George Miller's Mad Max 4: Fury Road, even as I type. Not many details are becoming public knowledge, though we do know that Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron apparently have the lead roles and we've even seen some of the car-stars on video. While the film's…
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Update: Shock Till You Drop have now edited their post to give a locked-in release date of August 27th - or at least that's what TWC are contacting everybody to claim now. Any reference to the film not being in 3D has been removed but on the other hand, there's no confirmation either. It will…
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Both Jenna Fischer, from the US version of The Office, and Ricky Gervais, star and co-creator of the UK original, seem to have new acting gigs lined up. Fischer's will be in a Farrelly Bros. comedy, while Gervais' is in... the US version of The Office? Hall Pass is an 'open relationship' comedy in which…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
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The last name touted as front runner for directorship of the new Spider-Man series was 500 Days of Summer's Marc Webb. Okay - there's that infamous Freakonomics theory that your name can shape your life, but maybe it seems this Webb might not stick. Another new name has been put forward, and this time it's…
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Sean Stone's first IMDB credits as director are video featurettes documenting the making of his father's ill-fated epic Alexander. Subsequently, he directed the science fiction short Singularity, again collaborating with the old man- at least in the sense that it's a loose remake of a film Stone Sr. had made in his youth. The film…
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Boy-oh-boy is the trailer for Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer melodramatic. This is some seriously loud filmmaking. It's embedded beyond the break, but I suspect you can already feel it rumbling from up here. The film is an adaptation of Robert Harris' thriller novel about a British Prime Minister based quite closely upon Tony Blair,…
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I'll probably be waiting a long time to hear that Ken Loach or Joe Swanberg is looking into 3D for their next production, but it seems that stereography really has caught on with franchise-type pictures, genre films and so on. Over the last few weeks there's been explicit discussion of an 'Avatar effect', a redoubled…
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Reports on Deadline Hollywood Daily are liquid, to say the least. One minute they might say one thing, the next... the complete opposite. As a result, I feel a little on-edge when I report on one of their stories but find curious inconsistencies popping up. The current headline is SOURCES: Halcyon Chooses Lionsgate As Stalking…
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After the break lurks the first trailer for Ironclad, comprising un-polished footage from only the first 2 weeks of shooting and originating as a Cinematical exclusive. You can also see a BBC video report from the set that, while considerably less intense and graphic shows just as much mud and medieval might. Jonathan English's film…
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Kristen Bell's cosplay in Fanboys not quite enough for you? Then get set for a trip to LA club Bordello in March when they'll be reprising their successful Star Wars burlesque night. Below the break you can see some images from Saturday night's premiere performance. What a curious spectacle. I think that the snaps of…
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Mark Millar's Nemesis is an upcoming comic series that, apparently, I shouldn't really describe with the phrase "What if Bruce Wayne was the Joker?" because the DC legal people really don't like it. That was Millar's great pitch in an interview back in December, and it immediately created a huge surge of interest in not…
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Overlapping slightly with everything from A Life Less Ordinary and Pushing Daisies to Stranger than Fiction and The Truman Show, Demetri Martin's screenplay Will made a few waves when it was recognized by the 2007 Black List. For a while it was set up at Dreamworks, whose interest eventually lapsed and it then set up…
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It seems that Transformers 3 is set to start rolling in May. So soon! You'd imagine they'd have a finished script and would have made all of their necessary big decisions too, like whether or not to film in 3D? Yeah... maybe not. The news of the May shoot came from a small aside in…
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The latest, definitely NSFW trailer for Atom Egoyan's Chloe comes from France where they're reputedly a lot happier about nudity and 'sensuality' than in the US. You can see for yourself after the break. It will probably leave you with the impression that the French are quite happy about women kissing each other too. I…
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I'm not too enthusiastic about a Spider-Man reboot, but that's probably not fair. Maybe somebody else can come along and make a film as good as, if not even better than, Spider-Man 2. Maybe. For me, though, immediate focus is shifting from the Spider-Man franchise to whatever else Sam Raimi decides to do next. We've…
