'The Crow' Remake Will Finally Open In 2019 (Maybe)
The long-delayed The Crow remake starring Jason Momoa and directed by Corin Hardy finally has a release date: October 11, 2019.
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Director Alex Proyas Calls 'The Crow' Remake "Unnecessary"
The Crow remake has been delayed again and again, which is probably okay with Alex Proyas. The Gods of Egypt director isn't fully onboard with the remake.
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'Gods Of Egypt' Director Alex Proyas Really Hates Film Critics
After his latest film received terrible reviews and opened to poor box office, Gods of Egypt director Alex Proyas went on a tirade against film critics.
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'Gods Of Egypt' Super Bowl Spot: Bow Before Gerard Butler Or Die
Lionsgate has debuted a 60-second Gods of Egypt Super Bowl spot to get football fans interested in this insane action epic that looks like a shiny 300.
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'Gods Of Egypt' Trailer: In Which Giant Monsters And Raging Gods Somehow Look Boring
A new Gods of Egypt trailer has arrived and if you like giant monsters, thrashing guitars, and Jaime Lannister as a one-eyed god, here is the movie for you!
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'Gods Of Egypt' Trailer: Alex Proyas' Fantasy Adventure Tries To Get Back On Track
Watch the new Gods of Egypt trailer. Alex Proyas directs the fantasy adventure starring Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Brenton Thwaites.
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Alex Proyas And Lionsgate Apologize For 'Gods Of Egypt' Whitewashing
Gods of Egypt is based in Egypt, so it's a puzzling choice that all the major leads are white. Lionsgate responds to the Gods of Egypt whitewashing.
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First 'Gods Of Egypt' Trailer Looks Just As Crazy And Nonsensical As Those 'Gods Of Egypt' Posters
Watch the new Gods of Egypt trailer. Alex Proyas directs the fantasy epic starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, and Gerard Butler.
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WTF: The 'Gods Of Egypt' Character Posters Are... Something Else
Our first glimpse Alex Proyas' newest film doesn't inspire confidence, but then again, they're just posters. Check out the Gods of Egypt character posters.
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'Step Up All In,' 'Allegiant' And 'Gods Of Egypt' Get Release Dates
Summit Entertainment just dated three movies, two big sequels and a major fantasy adventure. Arriving first is Step Up All In, the latest film in the dance franchise directed by Trish Sie. As the title suggests, it takes place in Las Vegas. It'll be released July 25, 2014. Next is Allegiant, the third film in the…
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Geoffrey Rush Will Be One Of Alex Proyas's 'Gods Of Egypt'
After spending much of the past decade with Jack Sparrow on the high seas, Geoffrey Rush is headed to warmer, drier climates in Gods of Egypt. The Oscar-winning actor will join Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the Alex Proyas-directed fantasy, which follows a mortal who gets caught up in a dispute between deities. Hit…
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Alex Proyas Set To Direct 'Amped,' From 'Robopocalypse' Author
Briefly: Author Daniel H. Wilson is in a great position: his early books such as How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and How to Build a Robot Army, lead to the novel Robopocalpyse, which was immediately developed as a directorial effort for Steven Spielberg. (It's Spielberg's next film, following Lincoln.) Now Wilson has another novel…
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Alex Proyas To Script And Direct Hellboy Creator's 'Joe Golem And The Drowning City'
The last Alex Proyas film, Paradise Lost, came apart at the seams before it really got moving, thanks to budget issues that made the production unfeasible in the eyes of the Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. beancounters, and technological hurdles that got in the way of realizing the film's ambitious sci-fi vision of battles in…
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Alex Proyas To Direct 'Gods Of Egypt'
Paradise Lost may have turned out to be a bust, but director Alex Proyas seems to have no shortage of new projects to move on to. Last month, he announced that he was getting the pieces together to shoot The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, an adaptation of the novella by Robert A. Heinlein, and…
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Alex Proyas Moving On To Robert Heinlein Adaptation 'The Unpleasant Profession Of Jonathan Hoag'
In the three years since his last directorial effort Knowing, director Alex Proyas has seen not one but two of his potential follow-ups killed for budgetary reasons. Legendary Pictures scrapped his epic Paradise Lost in February, and though Universal revived Dracula: Year Zero in the same month, it was a new incarnation of the project…
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'Paradise Lost,' Indeed: Legendary Pictures Kills Big-Budget War In The Heavens
Briefly: There's not much info at this point, but both Variety and Deadline are reporting that Legendary Pictures has scrapped the Alex Proyas film Paradise Lost. The big-budget film was originally set to shoot early this year in Australia with Bradley Cooper playing Lucifer and Benjamin Walker, Casey Affleck, Djimon Housou, Diego Boneta, Camilla Belle,…
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'Paradise Lost' Could Shoot In June, Says Bradley Cooper
Several studios have been actively trimming and shedding projects over the past year. Universal cut loose a handful of board game movies (Ouija, Monopoly, etc.) and scrapped Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness, while Warner Bros. has paused or scrapped films like Akira, Arthur & Lancelot and Paradise Lost. That last one is…
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'Paradise Lost' Shoot Delayed; Meanwhile, Bradley Cooper Still Planning To Script 'Hyperion'
If you've been following the development of Paradise Lost, which Alex Proyas was planning to direct early next year with Bradley Cooper starring as Lucifer, and which is said to feature a few massive battles between armored airborne angels, you might have thought, "gee, that sounds really expensive." Turns out Disney isn't the only company…
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Casey Affleck Joins 'Paradise Lost' As Gabriel; Camilla Belle May Play Eve
The latest addition to Alex Proyas' adaptation of Milton's canonical poem Paradise Lost is Casey Affleck, who is in talks to play the God's messenger, the angel Gabriel, in the film. Along with him comes Camilla Belle (10,000 B.C.), who is reportedly the top choice to play Eve. Deadline reports that Belle is the choice…
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Casting Bits: Jonah Hill In 'Neighborhood Watch;' Rufus Sewell In 'Paradise Lost;' Clifton Collins, Jr. In 'Pacific Rim'
It's the 'supporting actors in big movies' Casting Bits, with a confirmation of a report that surfaced last week, and two nice additions to big projects at Legendary Pictures. After the break, you'll find: Jonah Hill is confirmed for the action comedy Neighborhood Watch, Rufus Sewell joins Paradise Lost, and Clifton Collins, Jr. fights monsters…
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Djimon Hounsou Cast As The Angel Of Death In 'Paradise Lost'
I talked about the very serious film Paradise Lost earlier today -- the documentary about the just-freed West Memphis Three. But there's that other Paradise Lost being developed by Legendary Pictures and director Alex Proyas. That's the very loose adaptation of the epic poem by Milton that chronicles the break between Lucifer and Heaven. The…
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Benjamin Walker To Play The Archangel Michael In 'Paradise Lost'
Benjamin Walker, the star of rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, walked away from playing Beast in X-Men: First Class, only to end up in the title role of Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Now he is finishing a deal to appear in another big movie that will revamp an old tale. Only this…
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New Lucifer Concept Art From Alex Proyas' 'Paradise Lost'
Last week we saw a few pieces of concept art for the planned Legendary Pictures version of Paradise Lost, which Alex Proyas will direct with Bradley Cooper playing Lucifer. The art shown at Comic Con isn't online in high resolution at this point, but the company has released a new piece of concept art teasing…
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Comic-Con Panel And Concept Art: Legendary Pictures' 'The Seventh Son' And 'Paradise Lost'
For their appearance at Comic-Con this year, Legendary Pictures hosted a panel showcasing four of their upcoming films. Two of those were the fantasy projects The Seventh Son, Sergey Bodrov's YA adaptation featuring Jeff Bridges and Ben Barnes, and Alex Proyas' Paradise Lost, which stars Bradley Cooper as Lucifer. (Click here to read Russ' coverage…
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Alex Proyas To Produce And Godfather Shane Abbess' 'Future Perfect'
Most of the best filmmakers got their starts when another, more experienced, filmmaker took them under their wing. Famous examples include Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth (who was also mentored to a lesser extent by David Lynch), Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp, Roger Corman and everyone and next up,…
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Bradley Cooper In Talks For 'Paradise Lost'
Whatever contract Bradley Cooper signed with the devil to make his career blossom into leading man status just paid off in strangely appropriate fashion. Because he's now the first contender to play Lucifer in the first person shooter -- oops, sorry -- action movie version of Paradise Lost that Alex Proyas and Legendary Pictures are…
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Alex Proyas Developing Adaptation Of Sci-Fi Thriller 'AMP'
Alex Proyas (Dark City, Knowing) will produce and may direct AMP for Summit Entertainment. The studio just picked up the rights to the Daniel H. Wilson thriller novel, which is being called "a mix of scifi action and political allegory reminiscent of District 9." The plot of the unpublished book, which will hit shelves in…
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