Will HBO's 'The Night Of' Get A Second Season?
The Night Of was never envisioned as a continuing television series but now HBO is discussing the possibility of The Night Of season 2.
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'The Night Of' Trailer: "Don't Talk To Anybody Anymore"
Based on the BBC series Criminal Justice, HBO's upcoming remake of the miniseries has no shortage of talent behind it. Watch The Night Of trailer now.
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'The Night Of' Teaser Trailer: Screenwriter Steven Zaillian Is Finally Directing Again
Steve Zaillian directed eight out of the nine episodes of HBO's The Night Of, which stars John Turturro and Riz Ahmed. Watch The Night Of teaser trailer.
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Steven Spielberg May Direct Dalton Trumbo's 'Montezuma', With Javier Bardem And Steve Zaillian
Steven Spielberg has been plenty busy as a producer over the past couple of years, but as a director he hasn't made any moves since 2012's Lincoln. For a while it looked like Robopocalypse would be next, but then it was postponed indefinitely. Some months after that, he wound up dropping American Sniper as well.…
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Robert De Niro Replaces The Late James Gandolfini In HBO's 'Criminal Justice'
One of James Gandolfini's last projects is picking up steam once again. At the time of his passing, the Sopranos actor had been working on an HBO miniseries called Criminal Justice. But since the network could not move ahead with the pilot they had already shot with him, there was some question of how the…
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Joel Edgerton In Talks For Ridley Scott's 'Exodus'
Briefly: Ridley Scott is prepping Exodus, his film about Moses, at Fox. Christian Bale is set to play Moses, and now Scott is looking to Joel Edgerton to play Ramses (or Ramesses II). The actor is in early talks now for the role. Adam Cooper and Bill Collage scripted the film, and Steven Zaillian did a rewrite.…
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Roger Ebert's Memoir Optioned By Steve James And Steven Zaillian; Martin Scorsese To Produce
The world's most famous film critic is having a documentary made about him by some of the most famous filmmakers around. Documentarian Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List) have optioned the rights to Ebert's 2011 memoir, Life Itself. Martin Scorsese will executive produce. Read more after the jump. Ebert tweeted…
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Sequel Bits: Chuck Norris Is Done With 'The Expendables,' Plus 'Snow White And The Huntsman,' 'The Girl Who Played With Fire,' 'The Inbetweeners 2'
The sequel news today involves from pretty big franchises, or some high-profile ones at least. After the break read about the following: One Expendables film was enough for Chuck Norris, David Koepp is no longer working on a Snow White and the Huntsman sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire remains in development, but David…
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Timur Bekmambetov To Direct Edison/Westinghouse Battle 'The Current War'
Briefly: Timur Bekmambetov now has a project to possibly follow up Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. He has just been attached to direct The Current War, which isn't about a war taking place now, but rather about a battle over electricity. Specifically, Michael Mitnick's spec script is about "the competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse…
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'Stranger Than Fiction' Writer Zach Helm To Adapt Patricia Highsmith's 'Deep Water'
Zach Helm doesn't have too many produced screenplays on his resume at this point, but the writer got off to an auspicious start with 2006's flawed but charming Stranger Than Fiction before making his directorial debut with 2007's Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, which he also wrote. Although the latter wasn't quite as well received as…
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Sony Will Make 'The Girl Who Played With Fire,' But David Fincher Still Isn't Locked
Here's a minor update to Sony's continuing plans to adapt Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. US box office is low, if holding relatively steady, for David Fincher's version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. As the movie has opened outside the US, foreign returns have been low, too. Foreign box office has become the salvation…
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Will Sony Greenlight 'The Girl Who Played With Fire,' And Will David Fincher Direct?
Over the last couple weeks, one studio announcement has been conspicuously absent. With the launch of most major film franchises -- that is, the opening of a film that is envisioned as a gateway to more of the same -- it doesn't take long at all for studios to greenlight the second entry. With films…
Read More'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Review: David Fincher's Frostbitten, Dispassionate Thriller
(This review originally ran last week when Sony lifted the review embargo, but we're running it again today to coincide with the film's wide opening.) Something at the center of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels has captured the attention of millions. Actually, make that 'someone.' The first novel, Män som hatar kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women,…
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Steven Zaillian Wants To Direct The Remake Of 'Timecrimes'
It doesn't feel like the last time we reported on a US remake of TimeCrimes was almost a year ago. But it was back in January that Steven Zaillian was reported as the screenwriter responsible for the roadmap for the remake of Nacho Vigalondo's fan-favorite time-travel thriller. He was working from a previous draft from…
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Check Out Empire Magazine's Stunning 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Photos
We've already got a fairly good idea of what David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will look like, thanks to all those previously released photos, trailers, and whatnot, but since everything has looked pretty damn stunning so far, we're more than happy to flip through a few more pictures. Empire Magazine has unveiled…
Read More'Moneyball' Review: Brad Pitt Hits A Triple Off The Wall
Moneyball is a baseball movie, an underdog tale, a true story and a Brad Pitt vehicle. But more than any of those things, Moneyball is a character study about what it’s like to stand up against everyone and everything because you have faith in an idea. In 2001, the Oakland Athletics, with a payroll of…
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'Moneyball' Trailer Is A Little 'Oceans Eleven,' A Lot 'Friday Night Lights'
Did you skip the awful Entertainment Tonight presentation of the trailer for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, which came complete with unwanted additional voiceover? So did I, but we're all in luck now, as Sony has released a clean HD version of the trailer to Yahoo. Check it out below. I like the arc of this trailer…
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Now David Koepp Is Rewriting 'Moscow,' The New Jack Ryan Film
The backstory of the new telling of Jack Ryan's origin story is becoming quite an origin story of its own. Paramount has been trying to kickstart the rebirth of the Jack Ryan franchise for two years -- it stalled out in 2002 with the Ben Affleck-led The Sum of All Fears. Now the latest screenwriter…
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Why David Fincher's New 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Ending Is A Good Thing
Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is of the great cultural success stories in recent years.
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