• Will Smith To Star In Sci-Fi Film 'Brilliance' From Legendary And Universal

    Will Smith is in talks to star in Brilliance, an adaptation of a novel by Marcus Sakey, to be directed by Julius Onah. It's set in a futuristic world where some people are born with special abilities, and one man uses his higher intelligence to hunt terrorists. Think X-Men meets Zero Dark Thirty. The Wrap broke the…

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  • Gwyneth Paltrow And Ewan McGregor Join Johnny Depp In 'Mortdecai'

    The Lone Ranger was a low point for Johnny Depp, but the actor's already brushed himself off and moved on. Wally Pfister's Transcendence is shooting now, Rob Marshall's Into the Woods enters production later this year, and he's got David Koepp's Mortdecai coming together after that. The last film on that list got a nice…

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  • Johnny Depp And David Koepp Reuniting For 'Mortdecai'

    Johnny Depp's The Lone Ranger died at the box office last weekend, and looks likely to land as one of his films that finds particularly minor traction in the minds of audiences. In other words, most of the people who'll remember The Lone Ranger in ten years are those who made and paid for it.…

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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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  • New 'Premium Rush' Trailer Emphasizes Action

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a plucky, intense bike messenger in David Koepp's Premium Rush, and Columbia has released a new trailer for the film in advance of its August opening. The studio dropped a fairly middling trailer last year that opened with a dodgy voice-over, and this version thankfully eliminates most of that. This is also…

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