In this edition of TV Bits: Watch the trailer for the final season of Vikings. Josh Hartnett will star in the Southern gothic drama Paradise Lost. See a poster for Castle Rock season 2. The trailer for the 15th and final season of Supernatural is here. Black Monday adds new cast members for season 2. High School Musical:…
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Watch the first Paradise Lost teaser, starring Benicio del Toro as legendary cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. Josh Hutcherson also stars.
Read MoreOliver Stone, Antoine Fuqua, Joe Carnahan, and Brad Furman have all tried to bring Pablo Escobar to the big screen in recent years, to little avail. But now first-time director Andrea Di Stefano could succeed where his colleagues have not. Sort of. Di Stefano's debut feature Paradise Lost is not exactly an Escobar biopic,…
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Over the past few years, we've seen several filmmakers try their hand at a Pablo Escobar biopic, with not much success. Neither Oliver Stone's Escobar nor Jor Carnahan's Killing Pablo managed to get off the ground, and the Brad Furman effort announced in 2011 doesn't seem to have gotten very far either. But it looks…
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Briefly: There's not much info at this point, but both Variety and Deadline are reporting that Legendary Pictures has scrapped the Alex Proyas film Paradise Lost. The big-budget film was originally set to shoot early this year in Australia with Bradley Cooper playing Lucifer and Benjamin Walker, Casey Affleck, Djimon Housou, Diego Boneta, Camilla Belle,…
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Several studios have been actively trimming and shedding projects over the past year. Universal cut loose a handful of board game movies (Ouija, Monopoly, etc.) and scrapped Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness, while Warner Bros. has paused or scrapped films like Akira, Arthur & Lancelot and Paradise Lost. That last one is…
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If you've been following the development of Paradise Lost, which Alex Proyas was planning to direct early next year with Bradley Cooper starring as Lucifer, and which is said to feature a few massive battles between armored airborne angels, you might have thought, "gee, that sounds really expensive." Turns out Disney isn't the only company…
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Find it hard to keep up with what films are casting and which actors and actress are doing what? You're not the only one. It's all but impossible to keep up with everything, which is why we bring you Casting Bits. Today we've got a bunch of big names in smaller movies, a few studio…
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Legendary Entertainment and Alex Proyas are pulling more people into the big-budget and effects-heavy version of Paradise Lost that will feature several major sci-fi tinged battles between armies of angels and, er, fallen angels. The latest to sign on are Diego Boneta, who will play Adam opposite Camille Belle's Eve, and Dominic Purcell from Prison…
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Fresh from his turns in Captain America and The Devil's Double, Dominic Cooper is getting bigger roles. One is looking like the lead part in Motor City, the revenge thriller that Joel Silver is producing and Albert Hughes will direct. The film is about "a felon who, after being released from prison, begins tracking down…
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The latest addition to Alex Proyas' adaptation of Milton's canonical poem Paradise Lost is Casey Affleck, who is in talks to play the God's messenger, the angel Gabriel, in the film. Along with him comes Camilla Belle (10,000 B.C.), who is reportedly the top choice to play Eve. Deadline reports that Belle is the choice…
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The West Memphis Three -- Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., and Damien Echols -- may be free, but their story isn't over. Driven to enter guilty pleas and accept 'time served' sentences in order to return to the free world, the men are saddled with felony records for crimes that very few believe were ever…
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It's the 'supporting actors in big movies' Casting Bits, with a confirmation of a report that surfaced last week, and two nice additions to big projects at Legendary Pictures. After the break, you'll find: Jonah Hill is confirmed for the action comedy Neighborhood Watch, Rufus Sewell joins Paradise Lost, and Clifton Collins, Jr. fights monsters…
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I talked about the very serious film Paradise Lost earlier today -- the documentary about the just-freed West Memphis Three. But there's that other Paradise Lost being developed by Legendary Pictures and director Alex Proyas. That's the very loose adaptation of the epic poem by Milton that chronicles the break between Lucifer and Heaven. The…
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Benjamin Walker, the star of rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, walked away from playing Beast in X-Men: First Class, only to end up in the title role of Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Now he is finishing a deal to appear in another big movie that will revamp an old tale. Only this…
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Last week we saw a few pieces of concept art for the planned Legendary Pictures version of Paradise Lost, which Alex Proyas will direct with Bradley Cooper playing Lucifer. The art shown at Comic Con isn't online in high resolution at this point, but the company has released a new piece of concept art teasing…
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For their appearance at Comic-Con this year, Legendary Pictures hosted a panel showcasing four of their upcoming films. Two of those were the fantasy projects The Seventh Son, Sergey Bodrov's YA adaptation featuring Jeff Bridges and Ben Barnes, and Alex Proyas' Paradise Lost, which stars Bradley Cooper as Lucifer. (Click here to read Russ' coverage…
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For the first time ever, Legendary Entertainment is coming to San Diego Comic Con and they're bringing some heavy hitters. They're bring along: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Rinko Kikuchi along with writer Travis Beacham and director Guillermo Del Toro for Pacific Rim Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Alicia Vikander and director Sergei Bodrov…
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Whatever contract Bradley Cooper signed with the devil to make his career blossom into leading man status just paid off in strangely appropriate fashion. Because he's now the first contender to play Lucifer in the first person shooter -- oops, sorry -- action movie version of Paradise Lost that Alex Proyas and Legendary Pictures are…
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The director of Dark City is ready to take a trip to the darkest city: Hell. Alex Proyas, who also directed I, Robot and Knowing, has signed on to direct Paradise Lost, a film based on the epic 17th century poem by John Milton. It'll be produced by Legendary Pictures who has a production and…
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