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.
Read MoreScreenwriter Steven E. de Souza explains the real reason why Hudson Hawk turned out to be such a bonkers movie.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreShane 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.
Read MoreProducer 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.
Read More/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.
Read MoreSome 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.
Read MoreThe 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.…
Read MoreThere's new word on the Lethal Weapon reboot, which is now hoping to rope in Chris Hemsworth and director Justin Lin.
Read MoreZack 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."
Read MoreEver wonder what a Terry Gilliam Watchmen would've looked like? Producer Joel Silver explains the brilliant ending that the Brazil director had planned.
Read MoreSo 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…
Read MoreMichael 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…
Read MoreToday, 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…
Read MoreMost 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…
Read MoreWith 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…
Read MoreIt 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…
Read MoreJoel 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…
Read MoreProject 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…
Read MoreFor 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…
Read MoreBriefly: 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…
Read MoreSo, 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…
Read MoreWarner 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 &…
Read More"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…
Read MoreJust 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.…
Read MoreAndy 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…
Read MoreIt 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…
Read MoreLet'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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