Highlights from this week’s film and TV show releases: Lockout A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates. The Three Stooges While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show. Get The Gringo A career criminal named Driver is...
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah is teeming with star actors and actresses including Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, Ray Winstone. It is now being reported that Sir Anthony Hopkins will take a role in the film, further solidifying an already stellar cast. Hopkins is reportedly set to play the role of Methuselah, a man who lives to be 969 and is Noah’s grandfather. The extent of the role is unclear as his character dies before the great flood. Hopkins’ latest roles...
We’ve got an absolutely epic banner released today for The Hobbit via Entertainment Weekly. The banner shows us 12 scenes from the upcoming first part of Peter Jackson‘s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s The Hobbit, titled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The scenes include Gandalf’s (Ian McKellen) arrival at Bag End, a feast with all the dwarves, a scene in Rivendell, a meeting with a certain possessive creature and Bilbo (Martin Freeman) floating down a river along...
After rumors of being unsure whether he would accept a role in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Lionsgate has officially announced via a press release that Philip Seymour Hoffman (Moneyball) will play the new head gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee. The role is a fairly small one in the second film though it could be expanded upon much like Seneca Crane’s role was; either way the role will become much more prominent in the third film. Getting an extremely experienced and talented actor like...
Peter Jackson announced via his Facebook page that principal photography has ended for The Hobbit films. Both films were shot at the same time with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey releasing on December 14, 2012 and The Hobbit: There and Back Again being released a year later on December 13, 2013. This is fantastic news as we know The Hobbit is going to be at Comic-Con so expect more news to come possibly with some footage as well. Jackson posted this on his Facebook page: “We made it!...
The first official image from Neil Blomkamp‘s upcoming sci-fi film, Elysium has now been released. Blomkamp and Sony have kept details surrounding Elysium under wraps so this picture is our first look at what the director of District 9 has under his sleeve. The film is set in the year 2159 where the rich live in opulence on the space station Elysium while they try to keep the poor of Earth from illegally immigrating. The image shows us a bald Matt Damon (We Bought a Zoo) wielding a very...
Paramont Pictures has released the first official teaser trailer for the Tom Cruise (Rock of Ages) thriller Jack Reacher via Yahoo. The film is based on Lee Child‘s best-selling novel “One Shot“, which Christopher McQuarrie (Valkyrie) adapted with Josh Olson (A History of Violence). The film also stars Rosamund Pike (Wrath of the Titans), Robert Duvall (Jayne Mansfiled’s Car), David Oyelowo (Red Tails), Richard Jenkins (Killing Them Softly), Alexia Fast (Supernatural),...
The search for the actress to play the role of Johanna Mason is over. After several different names were attached to the role, Jena Malone is now reported to have landed the role. It was previously reported that the decision would be between her and Zoe Aggelicki. The Sucker Punch star seems like a great fit for the character and I’m hoping she can infuse the character with the appropriate amount of fun and badassness that Suzanne Collin‘s character embodies. It seems like there is...
The official synopsis for M. Night Shyamalan‘s upcoming sci-fi feature After Earth has just been released via SDCC. While there were some vague details know about the the plot, such as the fact that it takes place 1,000 years in the future and it was focused on the relationship between a father (Will Smith) and his son Kitai (Jaden Smith), we did not have a better understanding of this new universe that Shyamalan has created and what situations led to their marooning on a strange...
Magnolia Pictures has released the first official trailer for Craig Zobel‘s Compliance via Apple Trailers. The film centers around a fast food joint of some sort and a phone call that the manager of the store receives from a “police officer” asking about an employee that works there and a theft of some money. What transpires following this seems incredibly far-fetched, but it is inspired by true events making all the more creepy and gut wrenching. The trailer itself is very...
