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'Notorious' Director Hired to Helm Biopic on Jazz Musician Miles Davis
After directing a biopic on the late hip-hop artist Notorious B.I.G. with the aptly titled film Notorious, director George Tillman, Jr. is slated to bring another influential musician's life story to the big screen. Risky Biz reports the filmmaker has been hired to develop and direct a film about iconic jazz musician Miles Davis, a biopic with the unpredictable title of Miles. Loosely based on his son Gregory Davis' book Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde of Miles Davis, the film will focus on the musician's rise to fame, collaborations with legends like John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk, and his struggles with drug addition.
⥤ Posted November 9 in Development, Movie News | 5 Comments
Watch: 'Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel' Official Trailer
"Clearly my unconscious mind is a boiling inferno." You've gotta check this out! Anchor Bay Films recently debuted an official trailer for the documentary Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood's most prolific writer-director producer, and seminal influencing force in modern moviemaking over the last 60 years. The trailer has appearances by Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Robert De Niro, Eli Roth and even Jack Nicholson, plus plenty of fantastically wacky/badass footage from Corman movies. Even if you haven't seen his films, it's a fun trailer!
⥤ Posted November 9 in Indies, Opinions, To Watch, Trailers | 5 Comments
Watch: Teaser Trailer for 'Journey 2: The Mysterious Island' 3D Sequel
"Who's up for an adventure?" WB/New Line has just debuted the first "teaser trailer" for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, the 3D adventure follow-up to 2008's Journey to the Center of the Earth. Yes, they somehow made a sequel. While this doesn't look as bad as the first movie, it still looks insanely cheesy and filled to the brim with mediocre CGI. Josh Hutcherson returns, joined by Dwayne Johnson, Vanessa Hudgens, Luis Guzmán as the comic relief, and somehow Michael Caine as his grandfather adventurer lost on the mysterious island. Despite his charm simply by being tere, this looks as awful as expected. Enjoy!
⥤ Posted November 9 in Hype, Opinions, To Watch, Trailers | 20 Comments
Check This Out: Disney's Official 'Beauty and the Beast' in 3D Poster
Be our guest... in 3D! Disney has released an official poster via Yahoo to tease the 3D re-release of Beauty and the Beast, which it looks like will finally happen on January 13th next year. We've been hearing about this 2D-animation-converted-to-3D re-release for a few years now, I previewed footage way back in 2009, but The Lion King got the actual 3D release first, now it's finally time for Belle and the Beast to make their triumphant return to the big screen. Beauty and the Beast was directed by Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise and won two music Oscars and was even nominated for Best Picture. Take a look! It's a tale as old as time...
⥤ Posted November 9 in 3D Posts, Hype, Posters | 3 Comments
Mickey Rourke Out, as Woody Harrelson Joins 'Seven Psychopaths'
Though the star of Iron Man 2 and Immortals (which hits theaters this Friday) has been attached to Seven Psychopaths since the project was revealed back in May, a recent interview with Moviefone had Mickey Rourke saying that he would not be appearing in the thriller from In Bruges director and writer Martin McDonagh. In a rather bitter statement, Rourke said, "The director was a jerkoff. He wanted a whole lot for nothing. He can go play with himself." Now Deadline has word that Woody Harrelson has stepped up to replace him, and he's joined by Tom Waits (The Book of Eli) and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace).
⥤ Posted November 9 in Casting, Movie News | 8 Comments
Video Interview: Actor Luke Evans on Tarsem's 'Immortals' & 'Hobbit'
"Prove me right!" is one of the many fierce and iconic lines Zeus has in Tarsem's Immortals. A few weeks ago I sat down with actor Luke Evans, who plays Zeus, for an interview discussing playing a Greek god in a Tarsem epic. Evans is Welsh actor on the rise appearing in a number of high profile movies all within a few years: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, the other Clash of the Titans, Tamara Drewe, Blitz and W.S. Anderson's Three Musketeers. He's also playing Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, which I couldn't help ask about near the end, as he's already shooting that. It's a brisk but engaging interview, please enjoy.
⥤ Posted November 9 in Featured, Hobbit News, Interviews, To Watch | 15 Comments
Watch: Third Trailer for Lucasfilm's 'Red Tails' WWII VFX Extravaganza
"We fight, we fight, we fight!" If you haven't already been persuaded enough by the numerous trailers we've seen for the visual effects extravaganza that is Red Tails, we've got another new trailer to serve up via Apple today and coming in at a solid two-and-half-minutes, it packs quite a punch. It's also one of those we'll-show-you-everything trailers, but I still want to see this, the aerial sequences just look awesome, even if it is just ILM hard at work. This stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Ne-Yo, Method Man, David Oyelowo and Bryan Cranston as a racist. I'm honestly excited to see this! Fire up the final trailer.
⥤ Posted November 9 in Hype, Opinions, To Watch, Trailers | 17 Comments
Eddie Murphy Steps Down as Oscar Host Following Ratner's Debacle
Well that was a short run. Following the reveal yesterday that Brett Ratner was resigning as producer of the Oscars next year, the AMPAS has now announced that Eddie Murphy, friend of Ratner, has also withdrawn as host of the 84th Academy Awards. It began with Murphy, on his "comeback tour" with Tower Heist, being Ratner's "one and only one" choice to host, and now both are out, they're back to square one, without a host, missing a producer, and a little over three months left until the show. This is a huge fallout from Ratner's inappropriate slur, but maybe it's all for the better. I wasn't a fan of Murphy hosting anyway.
⥤ Posted November 9 in Awards News, Movie News, Opinions | 16 Comments
Morgan Freeman to Receive Golden Globes' Cecil B. DeMille Award
Though the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards won't hit the air until Sunday, January 15th next year, as usual, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association already has an award ready to hand out as THR reports that veteran actor Morgan Freeman will be the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. Though the actor has had 74 years of life, Freeman didn't make his debut on film until 1964 in an uncredited turn as a man on the street in The Pawnbroker. Of course, as many cinephiles are aware, in the decades since, Freeman has had an eclectic career working with some of Hollywood's finest talents.
⥤ Posted November 9 in Awards News, Movie News, Opinions | 3 Comments
Must Watch: First Powerful Oscar Campaign Video for 'Harry Potter'
Back in August we learned that Warner Bros. would be making a big push for their franchise finale Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II to get some Academy Awards love, at least in the form of some nominations, that could serve to honor the entire multi-billion dollar franchise. Now the first move in getting members of the Academy to pay attention to the epic conclusion has made its way online in the form of a short trailer (via Awards Daily) showing some of the finer moments of the film and praise from critics including Richard Roeper who calls it "one of the great cinematic journeys of our time." See it below!
⥤ Posted November 9 in Awards News, Featured, To Watch | 17 Comments
Brett Ratner Now Working on a Remake of 'The Last American Virgin'
Though last night we learned that the Rush Hour and Red Dragon director would no longer be producing the 84th annual Academy Awards show with host Eddie Murphy after some disparaging remarks put him in a bit of a tight spot in the public eye, it doesn't sound like Brett Ratner will be bored at home (unless he actually watches the Oscars). In his interview with The Howard Stern Show (via The Playlist), the same one where he talked about banging Olivia Munn, Ratner revealed that he's currently working on remaking the 1982 sexy comedy The Last American Virgin, which is actually a remake of an Israeli film. More below!
⥤ Posted November 9 in Development, Movie News | 4 Comments
Jake Abel Lands One of Two Male Leads in Adaptation of 'The Host'
No, this isn't about a remake of the 2006 South Korean monster movie, but instead it's an update on an adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's novel The Host, the science fiction story that take her outside of The Twilight Saga for the first time. We already know that The Lovely Bones star Saoirse Ronan will has taken the role of Melanie Stryder, one of the last humans putting up a fight against an alien species called Souls. Now Deadline reports I Am Number Four and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief star Jake Abel will play Ian, one of two lead male roles in the adaptation from In Time director Andrew Niccol.
⥤ Posted November 9 in Casting, Movie News | No Comments Yet
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