There's A Tom Hanks Movie In Theaters And You Didn't Even Know About It
Tom Tykwer's A Hologram for the King recently opened in theaters, but the new Tom Hanks movie has yet to connect with a mass audience, which is unfortunate.
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'A Hologram For The King' German Trailer: Tom Hanks Gets A Second Chance In The Desert
We haven't heard much about Tom Tykwer's A Hologram for the King, but we now have another look at the film. Watch A Hologram for the King German trailer.
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Alicia Vikander Joins Tom Hanks In James Ponsoldt's 'Circle'
Read up on the Alicia Vikander The Circle casting. The Ex Machina actress joins Tom Hanks in the upcoming techno-thriller by James Ponsoldt.
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Tom Hanks Attached To James Ponsoldt's 'The Circle'
James Ponsoldt has adapted the Dave Eggers book, The Circle, and he's got one of the biggest stars along for the ride. Read about Tom Hanks Circle here.
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Tom Hanks And Tom Tykwer Reunite To Adapt Dave Eggers Novel 'A Hologram For The King'
Some of the Cloud Atlas team is coming back together for another literary adaptation. Tom Hanks and Tom Tykwer are teaming up to adapt A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers. Hanks and his company Playtone will produce, and Hanks will star, while Tykwer will produce and direct. (Presumably he could do the film's…
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Casting Bits: Eva Green, Emma Stone, Carey Mulligan On 'The Thin Man' Shortlist; Gerard Butler In 'Motor City;' Hal Holbrook In 'Promised Land'
Johnny Depp and Rob Marshall are working to make a new version of The Thin Man, the Dashiell Hammett novel about drunk detective socialite Nick Charles, his charming young wife Nora and the unusual family mystery in which they become embroiled. The question is: who plays Nora? Deadline says there is a shortlist that will…
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Gus Van Sant Will Direct The Film Previously Set As Matt Damon's Directorial Debut
Matt Damon has been planning his directorial debut for months now -- the film would be one he wrote with John Krasinski, based on a timely story that Krasinski cooked up with Dave Eggers. But just this week Damon backed out of directing the film, because scheduling issues, personal and professional, made the project impossible…
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Matt Damon Will No Longer Direct His Planned Directorial Debut
For the past few months Matt Damon has been planning to direct his first feature film, a currently untitled movie with a story concocted by John Krasinski and Dave Eggers, and with a script by Krasinski and Damon. The story is that Damon would play a salesman who shows up in a small town, and…
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Jonathan Demme Adapting Dave Eggers' Zeitoun As Cartoon
This summer Dave Eggers published his non-fiction book Zeitoun, an account of a New Orleans family experiencing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Abdulrahman Zeitoun stayed in the city after the floods, using his canoe to get about the city in order to help people and it is his testimony, gathered via interviews, that herein provides…
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Cool Stuff: Dave Eggers' Wild Things Novel
Amazon are now taking pre-orders for The Wild Things, Dave Eggers' novel "based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze". The hardback is set to street in October, just ahead of the Where the Wild Things Are movie. Jonze' film must be one of my most anticipated pictures…
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Tom Tykwer Adapting Dave Eggers' What Is The What
Last week it was reported that Tom Tykwer (The International, Run Lola Run) was working on an adaptation of Cloud Atlas for The Wachowski Brothers. But that isn't the only thing he's working on. Tykwer told our friends at Film School Rejects that he is also working on an adaptation of Dave Eggers' 2006 novel…
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Page 2 For April 22nd 2008
Here is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! The Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull billboards in Los Angeles are out of control. [Rejects] Louis Leterrier is downplaying The Incredible Hulk dispute with actor/screenwriter Edward Norton and…
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Forest Whitaker Not Cool With Where The Wild Things Are Reshoots, Loves Spike Jonze's Vision
There was an instance where I was arrested at a student protest and it would have been great if Forest Whitaker had suddenly appeared to passionately articulate and argue my case to the police rather than the guy who yelled, "Dude! Run! No! Don't!" Whitaker, who plays one of the main Wild Things in in…
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Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are To Be Entirely Reshot?!
Sabotage!?! There's incredibly weird, and increasingly depressing, buzz coming off Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, and now Chud reports that execs at Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are considering reshooting the entire $75 million friggin' movie! This news, of course, comes on top of the rather cool test footage that leaked last weekend,…
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Clip From Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are...But Is It Real?
I was just about to go drown myself in Pabst and orange juice when a tipster sent me an email with the words "Hunter, What Do You Think?" and a link to the following vid. I can't believe what I just watched. It appears to be a clip from Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things…
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Sam Mendes Making Dave Eggers Comedy
If you've never had the pleasure of spending five or so minutes looking for an "unstuffy, blue skies" photo of Sam Mendes, try staring at a piece of gray construction paper until your eyes glaze over. At least this new, upcoming project sounds like a nice change of pace (color?) for the director of American…
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