Assorted Confirmations And Denials
Renee Zellweger has confirmed that there's no truth at all to recent rumours of a third "Bridget Jones' Diary".- Producers have confirmed that...
Miyazaki Opts For A Little Boy
Its now confirmed according to FilmIck that Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away", "Howl's Moving Castle") will next be working on an adaption...
Ecstasy Hard To Find In Scotland
The production of a film adaptation of Irvine Welsh novel "Ecstasy" has hit trouble and may be cancelled altogether.According to Film Stalker, the project...
Updated: Catch Aussie Release Questioned
**Update: Jan 9th**: Due to an internal miscommunication between departments in Sony, yesterday's news is a tad off. At present the decision has...
Animators Not Happy With Arthur
With under 75% of the overall length of "Arthur and the Invisibles" being animated, the film has been removed from the running for a...
Rickman Judges Sweeney To Be Bad
Alan Rickman has signed on to Tim Burton's ensemble musical "Sweeney Todd" for DreamWorks Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures reports Reuters.Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham...
Critics Awards Race Finally Over
The National Society of Film Critics voted the brilliant "Pan's Labyrinth" the best film of 2006, making it the final critics organisation to hand...
DePalma Gets Redacted In Iraq
Having dealt with badly behaved soldiers in Vietnam indulging in group rape in 1989's "Casualties of War", director Brian DePalma is going back to...
Spend Christmas With A Big Family
Christmas-themed movies have not had a good track record as "Christmas with the Kranks", "Surviving Christmas" and "Deck the Halls" have shown.Doesn't stop the...
Impressive Bush On Wonder Woman
There was a while back in 2006 when every other week came a casting rumour about who would play "Wonder Woman" in the Joss...
Dunst Turning Blondie For Gondry?
Some casting rumours just sound bad from the get go, and not because of the actor in question but rather them not suiting the...
More Helmers For Grind House Trailers
Pretty much every director of the 'Splat Pack' is participating in the upcoming "Grind House", contributing several 'faux trailers' sandwiched in-between the Rodriguez &...
Dreamworks Gets A Life With Glass
DreamWorks has inked a first-look deal with the popular personal storytelling radio show "This American Life" co-owned by host Ira Glass and Chicago Public...
Early Highlights Of CES 2007
The giant CES convention is underway this week in Los Angeles with many announcements trumpeted to the high heavens yesterday. Here's a breakdown...
Ladies, Mr. Neeson Wants To Be Taken
Liam Neeson is set to star in the EuropaCorp and 20th Century Fox drama "Taken" which Pierre Morel ("District B13") is directing reports Variety.Penned...
The Random Spiel: January 5th 2007
A first glimpse of footage from Disney's 2007 line-up is out. Aside from the perenially cheerful young hosts asking Johnny Depp about the best...
All Passengers Report To Wilson
Patrick Wilson ("Little Children", "Phantom of the Opera") has signed on to star as the male lead opposite Anne Hathaway in Mandate Pictures supernatural...
Look Out, Amini’s Got A Knife
New Line has hired Hossein Amini ("The Wings of the Dove", "The Four Feathers", "Jude") to pen "The Subtle Knife," the second part of...
Trade Breaks: Proposal, Rabbit, Halloween
"New Line Cinema has acquired an untitled comic pitch from "The Drew Carey Show" producer Les Firestein. The comedy twists the "Indecent Proposal" concept,...
You Can Tingler For A Price
Sony Pictures has selected "Project Greenlight" winners Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan ("Feast") to pen a complete rewrite of Greg Pace's 2003 draft for...
Sony Classics Detects A Sleuth
Sony Pictures Classics has signed on to distribute the long-gestating remake of the 1972 cat-and-mouse drama "Sleuth" which stars Michael Caine and Jude Law...
All Rhodes Lead To Rainn
MTV Films has picked up "Kanan Rhodes: Unkillable Servant of Justice," an action-caper comedy from "The Office" star Rainn Wilson and Bob Odenkirk reports...
Get Set For Total HD Discs
Yesterday's announcement of LG's dual-format Blu-ray/HD-DVD player isn't the only piece of electronics at next week's CES aiming at solving the compatability issue. ...
Clooney Joins DeNiro On 36
George Clooney is close to a deal to star opposite Robert De Niro in "Monster's Ball" director Marc Forster's next film "36".The thriller is...
Norbit Hitting Ratings Problems
After losing an appeal, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks will continue to work with the MPAA ratings board to secure a PG-13 rating for Eddie...
Trade Breaks: Hallström, Abrams, Mist
"Oscar-nominated Lasse Hallström ("The Cider House Rules", "Chocolat", "What's Eating Gilbert Grape") is set to direct and executive produce the Fox drama pilot "New...
The O.C. Gets Cancelled
Several years ago one couldn't escape the buzz over "The O.C.", the new hip prime time soap drama that broke through into the mainstream...
Thinkfilm Plans War/Dance Release
ThinkFilm has acquired worldwide rights to "War/Dance" which will have its world premiere in competition this month at the Sundance Film Festival says The...
Blu-ray/HD-DVD Combo Player Debuts
The high definition disc format war looks like it might come to an unofficial end next week with electronics manufacturer LG firing the killing...
Hunger Force Gets Cooking In March
Adult Swim's feature film version of the surreal animated series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" has been set for a surprisingly large 800 screen release...