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Nobody Tells Tom Hardy Anything: 'Mad Max 4' Starts Filming In A Week, Says Charlize Theron
24 May 2012 7:39 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Poor Tom Hardy. First the actor is forced to grow an unwieldy beard as prep for his starring role in the upcoming “Mad Max” reboot, only to have the start date pushed back countless times. Then, while in Cannes this week helping to promote John Hillcoat's “Lawless,” Hardy confessed he still had no clue when shooting began. However, it seems Hardy was either off trimming his beard when news struck, or co-star Charlize Theron is just more aware of these things, because the actress today revealed the film is set to shoot very soon, as in next week.
In an interview with MTV promoting the upcoming “Snow White and the Huntsman,” Theron confirmed, for her part at least, production on “Mad Max: Fury Road” will start June 2nd, but considering Hardy is playing the (newly interpreted) title character and all, his call time can't be too far behind. “We've »
- Charlie Schmidlin
Mad Max: Fury Road Production Begins June 2!
24 May 2012 5:44 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Finally! Australia’s greatest hero, Mad Max, will return to the big screen. The stars have been long attached, the script long-finished, the location shifted from Max’s native Australia to Namibia (floods ruined the original location. Again, I say: Australia is a desert with surrounding coastal cities. Not sure why the move had to go intercontinental instead of down the road, but don’t mind the Aussie, he’s just bitter).
With respected thespian, soon to be megastar and possible Bat-breaker, Tom Hardy filling the leather pants this time around and Charlize Theron to play his main squeeze (don’t forget your dead wife, Max!), as well as the creator George Miller returning to helm the film, along with some cracking shots of the finest in new post-apocalyptic automotive engineering already out there, it’s fairly safe to not-so-boldly predict that we’re looking at a winner here.
With »
- Cameron Ashley
Charlize Theron says Mad Max sequel begins in June
24 May 2012 12:56 AM, PDT | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Mad Max: Fury Road has been lingering in development hell for quite some time now, but according to star Charlize Theron, filming is set to begin on the project as soon as 2 June. Pre-production on the film began way back in 2009, when Theron and Tom Hardy were signed to pick up the reins from the departing Mel Gibson. A location had been found in Australia, and filming was set to begin in 2010. However, torrential rains meant the area was no longer suitable for Mad Max's sun-blasted locales, and director George Miller was forced to announce...
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- George Wales
Charlize Theron Says Mad Max: Fury Road Starts Filming June 2
23 May 2012 3:20 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Director George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road has been a long time coming. The film was planned as a reboot of sorts for Miller’s Mad Max series that launched Mel Gibson’s career. Pre-production began in 2009 with Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron set to star, and when filming was finally gearing up to commence in late 2010 on the ambitious, large-scale project, Miller announced that they would have to postpone production until 2012. Torrential rains flooded the area in Australia where Miller was planning to shoot, so he decided to wait until the landscape returned to its desert-like nature. Hit the jump for more. Late last year Hardy revealed that production would be beginning in April, but that month came and went and filming had still yet to begin. We saw some snapshots of Mad Max vehicles being shipped to Nambia, but just a few days ago Hardy said he »
- Adam Chitwood
Exclusive: Mondo’s Rocky 3 Poster by Jay Shaw
23 May 2012 2:26 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The Alamo Drafthouse’s Summer of ‘82 series is the hottest ticket in Austin, Texas this summer, and not only because the Drafthouse’s consistently-brilliant programmers are bringing back some of the most beloved genre classics from the “Me Decade”: on top of several months’ worth of kick-ass classics like The Thing, Poltergeist, and The Road Warrior, the Drafthouse is also using this series to debut some brand-spanking new artwork from Mondo (the movie-poster producing arm of the Alamo Drafthouse, as if you needed to be told). This Friday, the Summer of 1982 series is delivering Rocky 3 upon the city, and Collider.com is co-hosting the event. Wanna see the Mondo print that’s set to debut during the show? Meet me after the jump, folks. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably already heard about the Alamo Drafthouse’s ongoing Summer of ’82 series (presented in conjunction »
- Scott Wampler
Tom Hardy is Getting Ready to Shoot Mad Max: Fury Road. Probably.
22 May 2012 9:20 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Sooner or later, George Miller is going to get around to making “Mad Max: Fury Road”. Or maybe not. The guy is 67, after all, there isn’t exactly a lot of years left there for him to do everything he wants. And so if he wants to ever do those two “Mad Max” movies that he has been talking about doing for the last decade and change, he best get on with it. According to Tom Hardy, the new Mad Max (replacing Mel Gibson), there’s a very good chance that “Fury Road” will shoot soon. Or at least, he’s treating his face like he’s getting ready to shoot the post-apocalyptic movie, thick bear stubble and all. He tells USAToday: There are not a lot of razors out there in that world. I’m at least going to show up on set with a beard and say (to »
- Nix
Tom Hardy Uncertain About ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Start Date
22 May 2012 7:36 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
There hasn’t been a Mad Max film since 1985, but George Miller has officially been trying to make one – Mad Max: Fury Road – since 2003. First with Mel Gibson, and then with Tom Hardy, the man who will be Bane in The Dark Knight Rises.
Hardy has been sporting a massive beard for the role for the past few months in preparation for the impending start date. Unfortunately, the film has yet to begin shooting and Hardy has no idea when it will.
Empire talked to the actor at Cannes – who’s there representing his other upcoming film Lawless, co-starring Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential, Prometheus) – about the status of the ...
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- Ben Moore
What It’s Like to See ‘The Road Warrior’ In the Alamo’s Post-Apocalyptic Raceway from Hell
22 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
If you live near an Alamo Drafthouse, you probably already know that Tim League, Zack Carlson, Lars Nilsen and co. have coordinated an amazing summer series devoted to the blockbusting year of 1982. If you’ve been reading Fsr lately, you already know that our site co-sponsored a screening of George Miller’s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior in coordination with the Drafthouse’s site-specific Rolling Roadshow series. And if you live anywhere within five hundred miles of the Thunderhill Raceway in Kyle, Texas, then you probably attended said screening. But for you feral kids who may have not had a chance to witness this awesome event, or for those of you that did, here’s a first-person account of the happenings by one of Fsr’s own. The Road Warrior is something of a sweet spot in Mel Gibson’s history. The peak entry in the Mad Max series (sorry, Tina Turner »
- Landon Palmer
A Candid Tom Hardy at Cannes on Beards, Beer, Batman, and Brando
22 May 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
In the Cannes Film Festival entry Lawless, Tom Hardy plays a bootlegging brother of Shia Labeouf who manages to convey the import of an entire monologue with a single, hesitant "um" or "uh." In real life, though, the talkative Hardy is the exact opposite of his character, and in a free-wheeling conversation with Vulture on the Croisette, the British up-and-comer (best known for his roles in Inception, Bronson, and Warrior) was game to discuss just about anything. Read on for Hardy's thoughts on fame, fuck-ups, and future projects like The Dark Knight Rises — where he plays the masked villain Bane — and George Miller's long-in-the-works remake of Mad Max, which will have him taking over the lead role from Mel Gibson.You always go to great lengths to modify your look and your body shape for a role. What did you want to do for Lawless?Well, I wanted to »
- Kyle Buchanan
Tom Hardy Says 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Still Doesn't Have A Start Date
21 May 2012 11:05 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Status report check-in time. If you've paid attention to interviews with Charlize Theron, you'll know she almost didn't star in Jason Reitman's "Young Adult" because she was supposed to play the female lead in George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road," the long-awaited continuation of the Mad Max saga, this time with Tom Hardy in the lead instead of Mel Gibson. She was also set to be the star of "Prometheus," but had to bail on that role that Noomi Rapace eventually took because of "Fury Road" once more (she instead, eventually took a smaller role in the film).
And even John Hillcoat might have "Fury Road" delays to thank because it freed up Tom Hardy to lead his prohibition drama "Lawless." Recently, the shaggy beard Hardy's been sporting in Cannes lead many to speculate that he's getting ready to shoot "Fury Road" imminently. Not the case, however.
“We keep moving that [start date] around, »
- Edward Davis
Tom Hardy Says He’s Unsure About New Mad Max Start Date
21 May 2012 11:01 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Tom Hardy talked to the Cannes Film Festival press corps this past weekend to help promote his role in director John Hillcoat’s Depression-era drama Lawless but the conversations frequently shifted to his lead role on director George Miller’s fourth film in the future apocalypse franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road. Miller was planning to start production on the film in April in Namibia with Hardy, the villainous Bane in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises, committed for the lead role alongside Charlize Theron and Hugh Keays-Byrne but the start date came and went. According to Empire, Hardy admitted he’s unsure when he’ll finally get his shot to walk in the boots made famous by the original Mad Max, Mel Gibson. »
Diff 2012 Reviews: ‘Extraterrestrial,’ ‘Bindlestiffs,’ ‘Quick,’ ‘Robocop’
18 May 2012 1:54 PM, PDT | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »
“Extraterrestrial”
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Writer: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Michelle Jenner, Carlos Areces, Julián Villagrán
“Extraterrestrial” is a movie I’ve been excited about for a while, in part because of how it was marketed – the small, almost invisible glimpses of the alien ships in the posters, and the creative viral marketing aspect to it all. Later on, when it was revealed to be something of a comedy, with a smirking Spaniard looking out and holding a glowing tennis ball, everyone cocked their eyebrows, and wondered just what this thing was going to turn out to be.
It’s a slighter film than one would initially expect, being more dependent on the inter-dynamics of the three people and their ever-revolving love triangle at the heart of it than on any kind of spectacle that you would expect from an alien invasion movie, but that’s not particularly a bad thing. There »
- Henry J. Baugh
On The Rise 2012: 10 Directors Who Look To Be Bright Sparks Of The Future
15 May 2012 11:33 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Like it or not, filmmaking is undeniably a director's medium. It wasn't always like that, of course: it was only the coming of the auteur theory in the 1950s and 1960s that popularized the idea of the director as the person responsible for all that was great and terrible about a picture. And while anyone who's worked in film knows that it's a collaborative medium, there's still no better way of seeing where the form might be going in the next few years than by looking at the directors who've been making splashes of late.
So, hot on the heels of our On The Rise pieces focusing on actors, actresses and screenwriters, we've picked out ten directors who've arrived in a big way in the last year or so, and look set for even greater things in the near future. Any tips of your own? Let us know in the comments section below. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
What Next For Joss Whedon, Marvel & Hollywood After The Mammoth Success Of 'The Avengers'?
7 May 2012 11:02 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Most people thought "The Avengers" would make money. The five official Marvel movies to date, from 2008's "Iron Man" to last year's "Captain America" had, after all, made over $2.2 billion worldwide. But most figured that, given that the film followed on to four franchises simultaneously, that there would be a cap on it: surely if "Iron Man 2" made $600 million worldwide, that was the ceiling for the film's grosses? But thanks to sterling reviews, phenomenal word of mouth, and a strong marketing campaign, the film has already made that sum in less than two weeks of international release, topping it off with a record-breaking U.S. opening weekend of $200 million, $50 million ahead of estimates, and $30 million more than the previous record holder, last year's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2"
We're looking at a giant, giant blockbuster, and the only question is how high it gets: it's nearly certain »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Mad Max: Fury Road: Abbey Lee Kershaw cast in Mad Max 4
6 May 2012 3:23 PM, PDT | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
Abbey Lee Kershaw cast in Mad Max Fury Road. Abbey Lee Kershaw’s casting in Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller‘s Mad Max 4, answers the question of who will fill the role that Teresa Palmer left vacant when she departed from the film because of its constant delays. We previously reported on Mad Max: Fury Road casting here: [...]
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- Rollo Tomasi
Kickstart This: 'Killer of Men', 'Alden & James', 'Hudson River Project' + 'Narrated by Morgan Freeman'
4 May 2012 4:34 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Welcome back to another edition of Kickstart This, FirstShowing's weekly column dedicated to spreading the word about cool indie projects that need your help to become a reality. This week, we've got four film projects that we want to point you toward: a violent western called A Killer of Men; a pilot loosely based on Calvin and Hobbes called Alden & James; a cool NY-based documentary called The Hudson River Project; and a fun movie called Narrated by Morgan Freeman. Take a look at each of these projects, sound off in the comments below, and don't forget to toss them a few bucks if you can. Check them out! If you appreciate the revenge movie subgenre and admire the work of Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, George Miller and Clint Eastwood, this one is right up your alley. It's called A Killer of Men, and it's about a young boy who's raised »
- Ben Pearson
The Avengers Success Makes Justice League Film Inevitable?
30 April 2012 4:25 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
So with hundreds of reviews for The Avengers (Avengers Assemble in the UK) ranging from awesome to possibly the best comic book movie yet, Marvel Studios and its parent corporation, Disney, have a long, prosperous road ahead of them in terms of blockbuster franchises. That is as long as they continue to hire similarly talented and capable story tellers like Joss Whedon to take the helms.
And as The Avengers appears to solidify the characters’ continued cinematic success, the ever present elephant in the room just got a bit bigger and louder – and its name is DC/Warner Bros. Although they have been making comic book movies for decades longer than Marvel, with the exceptions of the first couple Superman movies (1978 and 1980) and Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), none of them have been much good and none made an especially positive impression of the genre.
Ever since X-Men »
- Joseph Kratzer
Recent Horror Anthologies: Just How Good Are They?
30 April 2012 12:58 AM, PDT | Best-Horror-Movies.com | See recent Best-Horror-Movies.com news »
I’ve always been a serious fan of horror anthologies. Over the decades we’ve witnessed the birth of numerous top notch collections. Back in 1983 we were treated to the amazing Twilight Zone film, which featured segments directed by legendary filmmakers like Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller and Steven Spielberg. It was an amazing effort that offered heartfelt tales as well as terrifying, and to this day, Twilight Zone: The Movie remains one of the greatest collections to hit the public market. »
‘Sin City’; ‘Mr. Toad’; ‘Muppets 2′; New Pixar films & ‘Battle Angel’ update
26 April 2012 12:17 PM, PDT | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
Dimension Films has announced that deals have been made and casting is underway on a sequel to Sin City –the film on which director Robert Rodriguez exited the DGA because they would not let creator Frank Miller share directorial credit.
Since Disney has had a huge success in turning their Pirates of the Caribbean ride into four movies (and counting), they’ve decided to adapt Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride -one their longest-running attractions- into a live action/CGI feature film. By the way, elements of Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 classic children’s book The Wind in the Willows have been adapted before by Disney, in particular the 1949 film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. And the ride is one of the few attractions that are still running at park since it opened in 1955. Pete Candeland, a commercial and video helmer, has been hired to direct, but the project is still seeking a writer. »
- spaced-odyssey
Hottie Aussie Abbey Lee Kershaw Set to Make Feature Debut in Mad Max: Fury Road
25 April 2012 | Horror Asylum | See recent Horror Asylum news »
Sexy Australian model Abbey Lee Kershaw (below) has joined the cast of George Miller's 'Mad Max: Fury Road'. Making her feature debut Kershaw is set to play a beautiful woman locked in a cage in the dystopian action movie sequel which follows on straight from 'Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome'. Production now will hopefully crack on following all the set backs and delays that have surrounded this troubled production. 'Inception' and 'The Dark Knight Rises' star Tom Hardy will be playing the title character, a role made famous by controversial actor Mel Gibson in the three previous 'Mad Max' chapters between 1979 and 1985. Hardy will be joined by the gorgeous Charlize Theron ('Prometheus'), 'X-Men: First Class' star Nicholas Hoult, Riley Keough and Adelaide Clemens ('Silent Hill: Revelation 3D') »
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