Oscar Winning Jamie Foxx, star of one of this [Australian] Summer’s biggest releases “Django Unchained”, is in talks to play the villain in the next “Spider-Man” movie. Variety revealed Foxx was to star opposite Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in 2014′s “Amazing Spider-Man 2″ (or whatever it ends up being called; I’m sure Sony will [...]
November 2, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
FilmNation Entertainment will handle international sales for “Genius”, which will star Academy Award® winner Colin Firth (”The King’s Speech”) and Michael Fassbender (”Prometheus, Shame”). Based on an inspirational true story, “Genius” is written by three-time Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe winner John Logan (“Slyfall”), and will be directed by Michael Grandage, who recently served [...]
November 2, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
Update : Clint tells me Kimble Rendall isn’t onboard to direct the sequel. All sorts of large-postered goodies hanging about the American Film Market in Santa Monica this week. One film being promoted, pre-production, that caught Bloody Disgusting‘s eye was “Bait 2″, a sequel to the Kimble Rendall directed shark-in-a-supermarket movie from a few months [...]
November 1, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
AFM gets underway officially tomorrow - and no doubt you'll hear much, much more then - but today, a slab of pre-film market announcements namely due to do with who is doing what with whom. [...]
October 31, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
If you’re a twitterer, you’ll start spotting the hashtag #AFM around a lot over the next few days. AFM stands for the American Film Market, and it’s a convention where filmmakers, producers and distributors gather to promote and ideally sell – sometimes before the films have even been completed, or, in some occasions, cast – [...]
October 30, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
Seems “Glee” actor Chris Colfer is just as popular with the film studios as he is viewers of his top-rating weekly teen-talent-show-masquerading-as-soap. The young actor, who plays Kurt on Ryan Murphy’s somewhat groundbreaking series, is now making waves in the movie world – in particular, in the surprising arena of writing and producing. Colfer’s film [...]
October 30, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
One of the most profitable films of the year, “The Best Marigold Hotel” – lovely little film too, with great performances from the likes of Dame Judi Dench and Tom Wilkinson – could get a sequel, if the studio brass have their heads switched to ‘on’. According to Vulture, the film’s screenwriter Ol Parker will [...]
October 30, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
Hurricane affecting shows, "Office" spin-off plans canned, "Up All Night" gets reworked, Sevigny has a new series, Official still from "Arrested Development", "Neighbors", "Scandal" and "Hell on Wheels" back for more... [...]
October 30, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
2015 will mark the 65th anniversary of the debut of the “Peanuts” comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the landmark television special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” [...]
October 10, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
Ruth Wilson also rumoured for the role in the sequel, due to be released 2015 [...]
October 8, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
O'Hare's Commander Jeffrey Sinclair was a regular on the first season of "Babylon 5" [...]
September 30, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
The actor expects he'll definitely be asked back to reprise Alan Bradley in a sequel that he's optimistic will happen [...]
September 28, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
The Swiss actor plays a tribute boy in director Francis Lawrence's blockbuster [...]
September 28, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
The film, starring Ashley Tisdale (standing in for series regular Anna Faris), is largely a spoof on "Black Swan" [...]
September 28, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE
When Elena’s (Emma Fitzpatrick) friends take her to a secret party at an undisclosed location, she never imagined she would become the latest victim of The Collector, a psychopathic killer [...]
September 28, 2012 OLIVIA MARNE