The Real Reason 'Hudson Hawk' Is So Bonkers
Screenwriter Steven E. de Souza explains the real reason why Hudson Hawk turned out to be such a bonkers movie.
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'Logan's Run' Remake Finds A Screenwriter In 'Colony' Co-Creator Ryan Condal
A remake of 1976's Logan's Run has been in the works for a long time, attracting all sorts of high-profile talent. Check out the latest Logan's Run update.
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Interview: 'The Nice Guys' Director Shane Black Discuses His Latest Urban Western
Shane Black's (Iron Man 3) latest film, The Nice Guys, which stars Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, is now in theaters. Check out our Shane Black interview.
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'Sherlock Holmes 3' May Shoot This Fall, Probably Won't Be The Last Sequel
Producer Joel Silver confirms hopeful plans for Sherlock Holmes 3 to shoot this fall, and it may not be the last sequel in the franchise either.
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The Nice Guys Set Visit: Ryan Gosling And Russell Crowe Hilariously Discover A Dead Body
/Film writer Germain Lussier visited the set of Shane Black's new movie starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Read The Nice Guys set visit report.
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'Escape From New York' Remake Is Still Alive; Has Found New Writer
Some life has been breathed back into this in-development-hell film, as there's a new Escape from New York remake writer. No director is currently attached.
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Shane Black's 'The Nice Guys' With Russell Crowe And Ryan Gosling Set For Summer 2016
The last time writer/director Shane Black and producer Joel Silver worked together, the result was the very funny neo-noir Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which helped re-launch the career of Robert Downey, Jr. After festival appearances the film was given a low-profile fall rollout by Warner Bros., and it flew under the radar of most moviegoers.…
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Rumor: Chris Hemsworth Wanted For 'Lethal Weapon' Reboot [Updated]
There's new word on the Lethal Weapon reboot, which is now hoping to rope in Chris Hemsworth and director Justin Lin.
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Zack Snyder Blasts Terry Gilliam's 'Watchmen' Idea
Zack Snyder calls Terry Gilliam's Watchmen idea "completely insane," declares that he made his Watchmen "to save it from the Terry Gilliams of this world."
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Find Out How Terry Gilliam's 'Watchmen' Would Have Ended
Ever wonder what a Terry Gilliam Watchmen would've looked like? Producer Joel Silver explains the brilliant ending that the Brazil director had planned.
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Joel Silver Suggests 'Escape From New York' Remake Would Be At Center Of New Trilogy
So is a remake of Escape From New York actually happening? Producer Joel Silver hopes so. It's a project that's been in development for almost a decade, most recently switching rights between studios. Even with the struggles, the producer behind The Matrix, Lethal Weapon and Die Hard has a very strong vision of how Snake Plissken…
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Universal Remaking 'Weird Science' With Joel Silver And Michael Bacall
Michael Bacall's effort to bring 21 Jump Street into the 21st century proved more successful than anyone would've guessed. The 2012 remake picked up an impressive $200 million at the box office and a slew of glowing reviews on top of that. Now he'll try to recreate that success with another well liked '80s property, John…
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Jason Statham And Tom Hardy Rumored For 'Escape From New York;' Kurt Russell Insists Snake Plissken Be American
Today, Empire ran a great new photo of the original Escape From New York team of director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell. Along with the pic, Carpenter commented on the potential new reboot of Escape From New York ("they don’t know where they’re going with it") and Russell opined on the problem with casting…
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'Escape From New York' Reboot Gets New Life, Will Feature Origin Story Elements
Most of the biggest John Carpenter properties have either been remake or given some sort of new life (Halloween, The Fog, The Thing) or have been targeted for potential remakes (They Live, Escape From New York). Escape From New York tells the story of a convict who is sent into Manhattan -- now a maximum security…
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Live-Action 'Ben 10' Adaptation Adds Black List Screenwriter Ryan Engle
With movie adaptations being made of every book, TV series, video game, action figure, and boardgame in sight, it was only a matter of time before Cartoon Network's Ben 10 found its way to the big screen. Joel Silver signed on to make a live-action feature version of the popular sci-fi series back in 2011, and…
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Sean Penn To Become Action Franchise Star With 'Prone Gunman'
It seems like just about every aging actor is angling for their own action franchise nowadays, whether it's the geriatric warriors of the Expendables and Red films, Liam Neeson in the Taken movies, Bruce Willis in the ongoing Die Hard saga, or Kevin Costner with the upcoming Jack Ryan reboot. But we probably wouldn't have…
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Legendary Action Producer Joel Silver Out At Warner Bros.
Joel Silver's producing resume reads like a laundry list of the best (or at least biggest) action films of the past three decades: Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, 48 Hours, Predator, Demolition Man, The Matrix, Sherlock Holmes and on and on. Many of those, especially over the past twenty years, were at Warner Bros. where his…
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Sequel Bits: 'Project X' Sequel Already In The Planning Stages, Plus 'Cloverfield 2,' Journey 3'
Project X, released last Friday, got some people angry, but Warner Bros. isn't among those irritated by the teen party movie. The low-budget film is considered a success with $21m earned so far, and the studio and producers Todd Phillips and Joel Silver are already putting together plans for a sequel. Michael Bacall (story and…
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Early Buzz: Todd Phillips-Produced Comedy 'Project X' Could Be "The New Superbad" Or "American Pie On Steroids"
For a while now we've been hearing about Todd Phillips and Joel Silver-produced low-budget hard-R comedy film Project X. The project was set-up at Warner Bros with a $12 million budget, with Phillips serving as producer and creative godfather' for commercial turned first time feature film director Nima Nourizade. The comedy follows three high school…
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Will A Successful 'Logan's Run' Let Nicolas Winding Refn Direct 'Wonder Woman'?
Briefly: It was a little over a year ago that we heard that Drive and Bronson director Nicolas Winding Refn would like to make a film featuring the long-running DC Comics character Wonder Woman. He has talked about the project here and there, saying that he thinks Drive co-star Christina Hendricks would make a perfect…
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Casting Bits: Sam Rockwell Replaces Jeremy Renner In 'Better Living Through Chemistry', Justin Timberlake Goes 'Fully Automatic', Gregg Sulkin Joins 'White Frog'
So, Jeremy Renner has finally given up one of the roughly five million roles he's been linked to since he became Hollywood's hottest rising star. The Playlist reports that Sam Rockwell is currently in negotiations to replace Renner as the lead in Better Living Through Chemistry, an indie drama by Geoff Moore and David Posamentier. Rockwell…
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Warner Bros. Buys David Dobkin's 'Arthur & Lancelot,' Nicholas Sparks' Latest Novel, & Hires 'Halo: Reach' Writer For Action Rewrite
Warner Bros. has been on a tear in the past few days, buying material for new films and/or setting up screenwriters to develop projects for the studio. After the break, we've got info on the following three projects, each of which is quite a bit different from the others: The David Dobkin script Arthur &…
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Joel Silver Producing Big-Screen 'Ben 10'
"I tried to do (something similar) with Speed Racer and failed miserably," says mega-producer Joel Silver of his last foray into family films. "You always learn more from the ones that don't work than the ones that do work." The story is really that Joel Silver has been tapped to produce a tentpole version of…
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Nicolas Winding Refn To Direct Ryan Gosling In 'Logan's Run' Remake
Just yesterday producer Joel Silver told MTV that the remake of Logan's Run, which has cycled through a couple directors in the past two years (like Bryan Singer and Carl Erik Rinsch), was still alive and could happen 'soon.' We sat on that quote because, well, "it is still happening" just isn't a huge update.…
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The Wachowskis Writing And Set To Direct 'Hood,' A Modern Robin Hood Tale
Andy and Lana Wachowski have been mulling a couple of possible directorial projects, chief among them their 'hard-R gay Iraq War love story' Cobalt Neural 9, and an adaptation of David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas. Now they'll reportedly do something completely different: Hood, "a modern, urban" version of the Robin Hood story. THR reports the…
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Rachel McAdams Says 'Sherlock Holmes 2' Script Not Done; Might Not Reappear
It seems things on Sherlock Holmes 2 aren't as cut and dry as once believed. The sequel, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law as well as Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry and Jared Harris, has been shooting for several weeks and though producer Joel Silver said that Rachel McAdams, who played…
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Found-Footage Project 'Dark Moon' Dropped By Warner Bros., Picked Up By Dark Castle
Let's untangle a possibly confusing scenario. Over the weekend, the Weinsteins picked up distribution rights to Apollo 18, a Timur Bekmambetov-produced film about a supposedly canceled moon mission that really happened in secret, leading to an alien discovery. But Warner Bros. was already set to make Dark Moon, which follows basically the same plot. (Investigation…
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