• This Week In Trailers: Roger Waters The Wall, The Closer We Get, Miss You Already, Aaaaaaaah!,

    Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we…

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  • This Week In Trailers: I Am Eleven, We The Economy, Showrunners, Ambition, Spandau Ballet: Soul Boys Of The Western World

    Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…

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  • Catherine Hardwicke To Direct Swedish Boxing Biopic Starring Noomi Rapace

    Good news, Thirteen-fans-who-are-also-Twilight-haters (what can I say, you are a very specific group): Catherine Hardwicke will be stepping away from supernatural teen romance and back toward her indie roots for a biopic of Swedish boxer Bo "Bosse" Hogberg. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace and her ex-husband Ola Rapace have been attached to…

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  • Catherine Hardwicke To Direct 'The Bitch Posse'

    Catherine Hardwicke will forever be known as the director of Twilight, but she has been and hopefully will again be more than that. (Even Red Riding Hood, which was more like Twilight than not, was at least much weirder one than I expected.) She's now set to direct an adaptation of The Bitch Posse, a…

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  • 'Red Riding Hood' Theatrical Trailer

    Warner Brothers has released the full theatrical trailer for Catherine Hardwicke's brand new interpretation of the classic fairy tale, Red Riding Hood, starring Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman. It basically takes the key visual from the previous trailer and adds in an extra minute of montage cut to hard rock. If you've been counting down…

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  • Young-Adult Novel 'The Maze Runner' Adds A Screenwriter

    The latest bestselling young-adult novel to get a feature film adaptation has found itself a hot new screenwriter. Noah Oppenheim will adapt The Maze Runner, a New York Times bestselling adventure book by James Dashner, that follows a group of kids who must navigate a deadly maze to make it out of an alternative dimension.…

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  • Catherine Hardwicke In Talks To Direct 'The Maze Runner'

    Catherine Hardwicke has seemingly moved on from her early days as a director of arthouse films with a youth-oriented bent. (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown) Now she's enmeshed in more mainstream films with a youth-oriented bent. To follow up Twilight, she is in post-production on Red Riding Hood, which Warner Bros. will release in February of…

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  • Movie Trailer: Catherine Hardwicke's 'Red Riding Hood' Starring Amanda Seyfried

    Catherine Hardwicke may not have really been given the chance to play with werewolves in the Twilight series, but she's done the next best thing: she's directed Red Riding Hood, in which Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman are inhabitants of a medieval village that is beset by a werewolf. Sadly, if predictably, the film looks…

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  • First Look: Amanda Seyfried In 'Red Riding Hood'

    UPDATE: There is a tiny bit of footage available now, too. It's embedded below, and the footage is right towards the end of the embed clip. Original article follows. Here's your first look at Amanda Seyfried as the title character in Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. The scan comes from the latest issue of Entertainment…

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  • Catherine Hardwicke In Talks To Direct ABC's 'Romeo & Juliet' Series

    Catherine Hardwicke’s proposed contemporized Hamlet retelling with Emile Hirsch didn't work out as planned, but she may yet have her shot at tackling one of Shakespeare's classic works. The director is currently in talks to direct the pilot for Romeo & Juliet, a TV series adaptation of the play that "follows the famous love story…

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  • Catherine Hardwicke's 'Haml3t' With Emile Hirsch Won't Happen

    Did we really need another film rendition of Hamlet? Probably not, but I'd be lying if I said Emile Hirch and Catherine Hardwicke's "suspense thriller" take on the material didn't intrigue me at least a little, if only to see how it'd turn out. Alas, looks like we'll never know. For reasons that haven't yet…

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  • A Ton Of New Release Dates Announced For 2011, 2012 And 2013

    Warner Bros, Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Fox have announced new release dates for a sixteen films to be released over the next three years. We have information and dates for all of the films, after the jump. New Line's follow-up to Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve will be released on December 9th 2011.…

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  • Casting Notes: Cameron Diaz And Benicio Del Toro In An Ex To Grind, Liam Hemsworth In The Throwback, Shiloh Fernandez In Girl With The Red Riding Hood

    This might be the year's most unlikely romantic comedy pairing: Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro are tapped to appear in the screen version of Jane Heller's novel An Ex to Grind. Del Toro would be a star athlete who has supported his wife, a waitress. But an injury sidelines his career, after which he…

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