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New Wolverine CinemaCon Footage Hits
3 hours ago
A couple of weeks ago, when 20th Century Fox was making its big pitch to the various cinema chain owners and other business types at CinemaCon, we were a little surprised to see there wasn’t more made of The Wolverine, which finds James Mangold directing the latest cinematic adventure for Hugh Jackman’s hairy hero. But there was a quick footage reel, largely culled from trailers but also featuring some new material, and it’s now officially online via Us chain AMC Theatres. Check it out… The Wolverine finds Logan looking to put the ghosts of his past from his mind, and travelling to Japan at the behest of someone he saved years ago. Naturally, he can’t just have a quiet time scarfing down sushi and admiring the landscape, but instead ends up clashing with the Yashida crime family on behalf of love interest Mariko (Tao Okamoto).With »
New Pacific Rim Poster Online
6 hours ago
Clanking ominously towards a screen near you is Guillermo del Toro's tribute to Toho monster movies, Pacific Rim. There's been a poster or two - or 149 - along the way, but our appetite for Pacific-based destruction remains somewhere between 'feverish' and 'frenzied'. This new banner, courtesy of JoBlo, for the movie shows the scale of what Earth's saviours will be dealing with. Not the bridge. The ginormous stegosaurus-looking bastard that's about to eat Sydney.Bearing in mind that Sydney Harbour Bridge towers a not-inconsiderable 134 metres about the surface of the harbour, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam and the rest of the Jaegers crews have their work cut out battling the towering, extra-dimensional Kaiju.For more on the movie, revisit the trailer below and then head over to Empire's micro-detailed trailer breakdown here. There are extra pics to be found here and here, and a special primer can be »
Abrams Wants Williams For Star Wars
21 hours ago
When J.J. Abrams got the job of reigniting the Star Wars flame in that galaxy far, far away, one of the earliest considerations – after the lens flare jokes were out of the way – was who would score Episode VII. Now Abrams, out doing press for Star Trek Into Darkness, has answered a direct question about the subject, and indicated that he believes long-time Star Wars composer John Williams will craft the score once more.There had been some speculation that, given their own long working relationship, Michael Giacchino might be the man for the job going forward, since he’s scored almost everything Abrams has produced. It appears, however, that the director is sticking with Star Wars tradition on this one."Michael Giacchino is an incredible composer, who I was lucky enough to begin working with on Alias. He's truly one of the most influential members of our crew, and I think [on] this score, »
New Star Trek Character Banners Online
21 hours ago
Here's something to assuage our jealousy of the jammy Australians who got to see Star Trek Into Darkness at the Sydney premiere: new character banners for the cast. Ok, so it's not quite as good as seeing the film, but it will tide us through a few more days.These posters do, of course, pose a few questions: Where does Benedict Cumberbatch get those cool coats with the awesome collars (see also: Sherlock)? Is it the same place where Zachary Quinto gets Spock's trendy hoodies? When did Star Trek's ladies get so kick-ass, with both Alice Eve and Zoe Saldana brandishing phasers? And who is getting the side-eye from both Karl Urban and John Cho?Update: Now with even more posters - including one of Benedict Cumberbatch's hella big ship...{Star Trek Into Darkness Character Posters}The J.J. Abrams film is, of course, shaping up to be »
Bryan Singer Posts New X-Men Pic
21 hours ago
Official X-Men: Days Of Future Past PR man (and also director) Bryan Singer’s at it again. Recently, he posted a Vine of the various actors’ chairs, in the process making the rumours about a couple of possible characters official, and also a picture of Halle Berry’s new cropped look as Storm. Today, he unveiled evidence that Hugh Jackman is on set, with the first picture of Wolverine. Yes… Logan’s back. Fitting @realhughjackman twitter.com/BryanSinger/st…— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) April 30, 2013 Actually, it is just Logan’s back. Maybe he’ll be sporting a massive porn ‘tache look that Singer doesn’t want to give away yet. That, or it’s just the kind of teasing image the director likes to taunt us with. It appears Jackman had arrived for a fitting, so Singer got the image snapped before the adamantium claws could come out and spear his phone. »
Sharlto Copley Grabs Blomkamp's Chappie
21 hours ago
Though he usually tries to keep future projects under wraps, District 9 / Elysium director Neill Blomkamp actually let slip that the world could be seeing his Chappie at some point in the future. Quit giggling: Chappie is his planned sci-fi comedy film. Given their long working relationship and clear rapport, we wondered how long it would be until Sharlto Copley was announced, and now we know for sure that he's involved.It’s hardly a surprise that the man who played the bumbling yet heroic Wikus Van De Merwe in District 9 and is back on our screens as the hard-assed, ruthless Kruger in Elysium would lock in the lead for a future Blomkamp project, but nothing had been made official until Copley posted on Facebook and EW picked up the story.So what do we know about Chappie so far? Talking at Comic-Con last year, Blomkamp said: "I was »
Natalie Portman Set As Lady Macbeth
21 hours ago
In fair Verona where we lay our sc… No, that’s Romeo & Juliet. A tempestuous noise of thunder… Nope, The Tempest, obviously. When shall we three meet again! There we go… Macbeth. Right. Yesterday we told you that Michael Fassbender would be lusting after power as Macbeth in a new film planned by Snowtown’s Justin Kurzel. Now Natalie Portman has agreed to take on the role of the equally scheming Lady Macbeth.Adapted this time for the screen by Todd Louiso and Jacob Koskoff, the latest Macbeth will be set, as originally written, in the 11th century and will boast proper Shakespearian dialogue. The action will be a little more visceral than is possible on stage, however, with big battle scenes. The film is set to begin shooting later this year.Portman and Fassbender have already worked together on Terrence Malick’s latest, untitled film and were due to »
Lily James Will Be Cinderella
21 hours ago
It's another Downton Abbey actor making the jump from the mansion to the movies! Lily James – perhaps better known as Lady Rose – is set for her biggest role yet, securing the lead in Disney’s new version of Cinderella.Not much is known about what (if any) changes the new film will make to the traditional story of the poor girl and her wicked stepmother/stepsisters, the handsome Prince Charming and the dance that decides their destinies, but Cate Blanchett is attached to play the evil, calculating stepmother.The film has been through some creative and casting wobbles already, with Mark Romanek ditching the director’s chair over creative differences and Emma Watson passing on the chance to wear the glass slippers.James, who has already appeared in the likes of Fast Girls and Wrath Of The Titans, is likely to see her star rise that bit higher if the new fairytale film works, »
Jon Hamm Voicing Herb Overkill
21 hours ago
Jon Hamm is something of a favourite around Empire Towers, so we’re always glad to hear when the Mad Men star nabs new work. This time, he’ll be putting his tonsils to work on Despicable Me spin-off Minions.Hamm has signed on to voice a character called Herb Overkill, the inventor husband of the scheming Scarlett Overkill (Sandra Bullock, who locked in the lead recently).The story winds the clock back to 1960 (long before they meet Despicable's Gru) where the little yellow chattering guys are in a collective funk after accidentally wiping out all their previous masters. They head to a villain convention, looking for someone to lead them. Audrey Hepburn-styled baddie Scarlet seems like the best option, because she’s aiming to become the world’s first female supervillain.1960, eh? Well, at least we know that Hamm suits the suits of the time. With a script »
Firth Locked For Woody Allen's Latest
21 hours ago
They’ve been likely candidates for a couple of days, but now Emma Stone and Colin Firth are officially confirmed as the first two pieces of casting for Woody Allen’s latest, still-to-be-titled film.As of right now it’s still lumbering along under the familiar stand-in name of Untitled Woody Allen Summer Project, but this will see the Woodster taking a group of actors to the South of France for a new comedy script he’s cranked out. We imagine that the combination of Allen and such a tasty location should lure quite an impressive cast.While most of the cast is yet to be announced, behind the camera Allen will lean on a roster of regular collaborators including cinematographer Darius Khondji, production designer Anne Seibel and costume designer Sonia Grande.Trivia fans will be pleased with the knowledge that this is Allen's second time shooting in France after »
Jamie Foxx In Talks For Annie
30 April 2013 12:59 AM, PDT
As Will Smith, Jay-z and Sony finally see their efforts to launch a remake of Annie take off, the cast is coming into focus. Quvenzhané Wallis landed the lead already, but the other key role of Daddy Warbucks was still up for grabs. Until now, that is, because it appears Jamie Foxx will take it on.In what seems to be a fitting move for this hip-hop-flavoured update, Foxx has been offered the role of Benjamin Stacks, the Warbucks for the new millennium. The name, of course, is another gag on cash – meaning his stacks of Benjamins, aka hundred dollar bills (these show President Benjamin Franklin, fact fans). It’s all about the Benjamins. He’ll be the one to take Annie in and away from her horrible orphanage, assuming he makes a deal with the studio.Easy A’s Will Gluck came aboard in January to direct and re-write »
Michael Fassbender Will Be Macbeth
30 April 2013 12:58 AM, PDT
Sooner or later, it seems that every young actor is drawn to Macbeth. James McAvoy performed the role on stage recentlty and a castle-load of people have embodied the character on screen, including Orson Welles and Sam Worthington. Now Michael Fassbender seems set to join the ranks of the crown-coveting fraternity.Snowtown director Justin Kurzel is set to wield the megaphone for this one, based on an adaptation of the Shakespeare play by Todd Louiso and Jacob Koskoff. According to Screen Daily, the script has been a hot property and the new film – particularly with Fassbender in the central role – should attract plenty of buyers once the Cannes Film Festival market kicks off next month.Kurzel is planning to start directing this one later in the year, with the story of the ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord who seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and three witches »
Joe Carnahan Tracking Sugar Bandits
30 April 2013 12:57 AM, PDT
Bouncing back from disappointment over his Daredevil pitch and abortive attempt to remake Death Wish, Joe Carnahan has been throwing himself into working on the pilot for TV drama Those Who Kill. Now, in addition to several other bubbling big screen projects, he’s in talks to tackle Sugar Bandits for Universal.The script, written by The Town/The Strain’s Chuck Hogan and based on his novel Devils In Exile, deals with an Iraq War veteran named Neal Maven who returns from the conflict with little hope of a good job or a satisfying future.He and a group of fellow soldiers decide to team up and rip-off the ill-gotten gains of some local drug dealers, which naturally puts them in real danger. Oh, and he’s also sleeping with his employer’s girlfriend.This sounds like something Carnahan can really tear into, and makes us hopeful he’ll »
Worthington Enters The Keeping Room
30 April 2013 12:48 AM, PDT
With Clash and Wrath Of The Titans, Avatar and its future sequels, and his recent work with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the action thriller Ten, it's fair to say that Sam Worthington gravitates towards big, blockbuster-type projects. But there's at least one smaller-scale indie flick on the horizon for the Aussie actor, in the form of American Civil War drama The Keeping Room. He's just signed up for the film which will co-star Brit Marling (Another Earth) and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit). Daniel Barber (Harry Brown) is the director.The story takes place towards the end of the North vs. South conflict. Worthington plays a Union soldier who has become separated from his unit, and finds his way to a commune of women who are fending for themselves while the men are off whistling Dixie (or Battle Cry Of Freedom, depending on preference).This all sounds very familiar. In fact, Deadline's »
Kevin Costner In Black And White
29 April 2013 5:05 PM, PDT
There comes a time in every star's life when he's been around long enough to start playing grandad roles. Fair play to Kevin Costner then, who'll be Clark Kent's pa in Man Of Steel and who will be moving up a generation for the rather smaller scale Black And White. The film's director is Costner's Upside Of Anger collaborator Mike Binder.Binder also wrote the screenplay, which involves Costner in a racially-charged custody battle. Costner's character lost his daughter in labour, and since the subsequent death of his wife he has been bringing up his mixed-race granddaughter alone. When the child's paternal grandmother shows up to make her own claim, tensions flare over the question of where the child should be raised, and who she should be raised with.Not quite as broad a canvas as Costner's recent Superman and Jack Ryan form then, but it sounds like he'll be »
Cahill & Marling Reveal I Origins
29 April 2013 5:01 PM, PDT
It's always the same: you wait ages for a Brit Marling story and then two come along at once. Alongside the news elsewhere this morning about The Keeping Room, Marling will be re-teaming with her Another Earth honcho Mike Cahill for the oddly titled and entirely unpunctuated I Origins.Like the excellent Another Earth, I Origins is an indie sci-fi tale, this time revolving around a scientist on the brink of a big discovery. His results, if proved correct, will be of historical significance, but depend on a young girl in India who is somehow the only person in the world who can verify them. The thrust of the film is reportedly the bringing together of international strangers with unlikely connections.Quite where the sci-fi fits into that plot remains to be seen (presumably it's our man's world-rocking theory). We might reasonably expect mumblecore musing rather than FX spectacle, however. »
Pacific Rim WonderCon Trailer Arrives
29 April 2013 12:07 PM, PDT
Never let it be said that Guillermo del Toro – and his backers at Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures – don’t listen to demands. Though the director announced at WonderCon that the Pacific Rim footage shown there would only be screened once more before release (at CinemaCon), he has heard the cries of the many and now the extended trailer is online for everyone to enjoy.The trailer lets Dr. Newton Geiszler (played in the film by Charlie Day) explain a little more about the motives of the monstrous Kaiju – to whit, they first made landfall in San Francisco and began their attacks on population centres so as to take out the “vermin” (or "the human race" as we prefer to be called). Admittedly, given their actions, it's not exactly the most original theory, though Geiszler seems to think we should try to understand them. “Or we could just blow ‘em to pieces, »
Firth Wants To Join The Secret Service
29 April 2013 12:01 PM, PDT
Last month, 20th Century Fox emerged bloodied but victorious in the battle for the rights to make Mark Millar’s latest comic adaptation The Secret Service, with Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn in the big chair. No casting was announced at the time, but that has now changed, with Colin Firth in talks to star.The man who scored an Oscar for his dramatic work in The King’s Speech has proved adept at comedy, but hasn’t really shown much interest in comic book movies before. Still, the pedigree of this one, along with the chance to work with Vaughn, has him lured. As does, we suspect, the chance to conquer another genre.Firth is set to play Jack, a suave, sophisticated, old school spy who decides that his rough-and-ready, street-smart nephew might just be what the agency needs to deal with a celebrity kidnap crime. Uncle Jack therefore aims to train him up, »
Jeremy Irvine On For Angel Of Death
29 April 2013 11:56 AM, PDT
He’s dealt with the horror and terror of war (for War Horse) and the pressure of great expectations (in, er, Great Expectations) but is Jeremy Irvine ready to have the life scared right out of him? He’ll need to be, because he and Phoebe Fox have signed on to star in The Woman In Black: Angel Of Death.The sequel continues the story four decades on from when Daniel Radcliffe’s Arthur Kipps tangled with the dark secrets lurking within Eel Marsh House. Now the property has been seized by the British government, and turned into temporary accommodation for evacuated children during World War II. Trouble is, the arrival of a group of youngsters awakens the dormant, terrifying spectre…Jon Croker wrote the script, working from a story by original novelist Susan Hill. Tom Harper is directing and seems upbeat about the casting choices. "Jeremy and Phoebe »
James Franco Tends Garden Of Last Days
29 April 2013 11:55 AM, PDT
Never one to rest when there are projects to be made (we like to imagine he’s had a special Franco Signal built to alert him when there’s a new assignment), James Franco is lining up his next directing gig, an adaptation filming Andre Dubus III’s The Garden Of Last Days.Dubus – whose House Of Sand And Fog was adapted for the screen in 2003 – published the book in 2009. Enigma writer Hanna Weg crafted the script, which is a modern-day thriller set in the criminal underbelly of America.Three stories warp and weave around each other, following a stripper who brings her three-year-old daughter to work, an angry, bitter man who is thrown out of the strip club and a foreigner on Us soil with a seemingly endless supply of cash and some dark intentions. Though the novel is set around the time of 9/11, Dubus has apparently given his »
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