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Rupert Wyatt Might Direct Fox's Planet of the Apes Prequel?

And I thought this project was dead! Deadline is reporting that British director Rupert Wyatt is Fox's top choice to direct the Planet of the Apes prequel. Wait - there's a Planet of the Apes prequel? We've been reporting various rumors and rumblings about a new Apes movie for years, but it never got off the ground. Now this hits almost out of nowhere. Deadline's report is also suspiciously brief, stating: "No start date, but Wyatt's come aboard to develop to direct." They also say the script they're using was written by Rick Jaffa (The Relic) and Amanda Silver (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle). So who is this Rupert Wyatt guy anyway?

⥤ Posted March 11 in Movie News, Opinions, Rumors | 19 Comments

Gary Fleder Attached to Direct Allan Loeb's Script 'Protection'

By Ethan Anderton

In the past three years, writer Allan Loeb has become quite the hot commodity, moving from writing the indie Things We Lost in the Fire to the higher profile 21, and then scoring huge by giving new life to Wall Street 2. Now it seems Loeb is also responsible for reinvigorating the Escape from New York remake as well as having plenty other projects in active development. Now Variety reports Gary Fleder (The Express) will direct Protection, a spec script from Loeb centering on a college professor investigating the disappearance of his wife and daughter and must confront authorities from the Witness Protection Program to find them.

⥤ Posted March 11 in Movie News, Opinions | No Comments Yet

Check This Out: Another Nifty Poster for Pixar's Toy Story 3

By Alex Billington

Although we originally said that the poster we featured a week ago was the "final" poster for Pixar's Toy Story 3, that doesn't look to be the case (and I'm sure there are still more coming). Empire has debuted another new (UK) poster for Toy Story 3 with one of the most clever taglines we've seen in a while. And if you don't get it, well maybe you should go watch some of the trailers again. Anyway, Disney packs in just about every character they can on this, at least all the main guys, which is impressive considering the last one did that as well and it left no room for anything else on the poster. Check out the new poster below.

⥤ Posted March 11 in Hype, Opinions, Posters | 11 Comments

Jason Segel & Ed Helms Join Duplass Brothers Stoner Comedy

By Ethan Anderton

Earlier this year at Sundance, the Duplass Brothers (Mark and Jay) made quite a splash with their most recent film Cyrus, starring John C. Reilly and Jonah Hill. Now the writing/directing duo are teaming up with another pair of comedic stars for what looks to be another stellar comedy as THR reports Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Ed Helms (The Hangover) have joined the stoner comedy Jeff Who Lives at Home, which chronicles a day in the life of two brothers, one a loser (Segel) who lives at home and the other (Helms) more together, but overbearing. Judy Greer is also in talks to play Helm's wife.

⥤ Posted March 11 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 10 Comments

Leonardo Da Vinci is Warner Bros' New Action-Adventure Star

By Ethan Anderton

After having his name thrust into controversy and new facets of our pop culture with Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code, historical icon, painter and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci will be getting quite the fictional makeover as THR's Heat Vision reports that Warner Bros has picked up a treatment entitled Leonardo Da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever, which re-imagines Da Vinci as a member of a secret society who falls headlong into a supernatural adventure that pits the man against Biblical demons in a story involving secret codes, lost civilizations, hidden fortresses and fallen angels. So Da Vinci is the new Indiana Jones? Read on!

⥤ Posted March 11 in Movie News, Opinions | 27 Comments

Casting Tidbits: Hall Pass and Criminal Empire for Dummys

By Ethan Anderton

Richard Jenkins, Milo Ventmiglia, Gary Oldman

I love the smell of Casting Tidbits in the morning! First up, Variety has another in a long stream of casting updates for the Farrelly Brothers comedy Hall Pass. This time it's Richard Jenkins (The Visitor, Step Brothers) and Bruce Thomas (Let Me In, "Kyle XY") who have both been added to an all-star cast which already includes Owen Wilson, Jenna Fischer, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate and Alyssa Milano. In the story of two married couples whose wives give the husbands a "hall pass" to engage in extracurricular affairs, Jenkins will play Coakley, a man who never settled down and Thomas a baseball player. Read on!

⥤ Posted March 11 in Casting Tidbits, Movie News | 2 Comments

Steve Martin is Having a 'Big Year' Instead of Dustin Hoffman

By Ethan Anderton

For a little while now, Dustin Hoffman has been attached to star opposite Jack Black and Owen Wilson in the comedy The Big Year, an adaptation of Mark Obmascik's book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession. But now THR reports that Steve Martin, fresh off last weekend's stint as co-host of the Academy Awards, is in negotiations to take over the lead role instead of Hoffman in the story of three men who try to outdo each other in a bird-watching competition to spot the rarest birds in North America. The rivalry is an allegory for the challenges each faces in his own life. Oh, fancy movies and their allegories!

⥤ Posted March 11 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 4 Comments

Oscar Winner Michael Giacchino Scoring John Carter of Mars

By Alex Billington

Fresh off of his well deserved Oscar win for Pixar's Up, composer Michael Giacchino has lined up at least one new project. MovieScore Magazine reports that Giacchino will score Disney's John Carter of Mars being directed by Andrew Stanton. The movie has already been shooting since January in both England and Utah and stars Taylor Kitsch as John Carter as well as Lynn Collins, Mark Strong, Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton, and Thomas Haden Church. The story takes place on the planet Mars where Civil War veteran John Carter is imprisoned by 12-foot tall green alien creatures, escapes, and encounters the Princess of Helium.

⥤ Posted March 11 in Movie News, Opinions | 10 Comments

Paramount Launching Micro-Budget Division Insurge Pictures

By Alex Billington

Apparently the success of Paranormal Activity had a bigger impact on Paramount than we initially thought. The studio is launching a new division called Insurge Pictures that will be specifically focused on "micro-budget" movies (news on indieWIRE). The division has been given $1 million in funds to spread across 10 movies with $100,000 budgets each. This fresh new idea is said to be the creation of Amy Powell, the SVP of Interactive Marketing at Paramount. They're also trying to build a community via the official website, which hasn't yet launched. "We want to try something different and deconstruct the Hollywood system." Read on!

⥤ Posted March 11 in Indies, Movie News, Opinions | 15 Comments

Get an Encom I.D. Now - New Tron Legacy Viral Mini-Game!

By Alex Billington

If you've been following the viral updates for Tron Legacy and are excited for the movie, you'll definitely want to participate in this! Earlier this week, we wrote about an update on the Flynn Lives viral site that lead to the discovery of the new teaser trailer. Another update arrived on FlynnLives.com today and found in the message boards was a new post about some new game on another new viral (you following?). Found there is a mini-game called The Challenging Stage involving finding video game names in a pixel city. What do you get in the end? Your own official Encom Employee ID badge which will be mailed out to you soon.

⥤ Posted March 10 in Hype, Tron Legacy, Viral News | 13 Comments

Chris Nolan Talks About the Superman Reboot and Batman 3

By Alex Billington

Earlier today, the LA Times' Hero Complex published a big new update from Christopher Nolan covering all things Superman and Batman. I know our readers have been anxiously waiting to hear our thoughts on all that he had to say, so let's get right down to it. It's a meaty article with lots of juicy new quotes, but Nolan does confirm that he is developing the big new Superman reboot and is also working on the final Batman movie. In fact, the way he ended up working on Superman is that he came to a point where he couldn't agree with David S. Goyer about the story on the third Batman and took this temporary detour as a "distraction."

⥤ Posted March 10 in Editorials, Hype, Movie News | 77 Comments

Must Watch: Epic Final Full-Length Trailer for Robin Hood!

By Alex Billington

"Rise and rise again until lambs become lions." Universal just debuted a brand new, full-length theatrical trailer for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and it looks incredible. The first trailer for this in December with a couple of other follow-up trailers and TV spots. But this is the trailer you've all been waiting to see from the start. We finally find out what the story is all about and we also get to see more Robin Hood-specific action, which looks quite awesome (like when they're sneaking through the woods) and not as much like Gladiator any more. I'm still excited for this - I love seeing Ridley and Russell Crowe work together. Watch & enjoy!

Watch the Trailer ›

⥤ Posted March 10 in Hype, To Watch, Trailers | 78 Comments

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