As it turns out, Tom Cruise will head into Oblivion. Deadline reports that Cruise has committed to star in the $100 million-budgeted Oblivion from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski. The project -- which Universal will produce -- was originally set up at Disney, but deemed too adult for the family film pioneers. Reading the plot description, however, might make you think otherwise.
On the Late Show with David Letterman last night, Jennifer Lawrence -- who sports a giant Naomi Shihab Nye braid on the newest EW cover as Katniss in The Hunger Games -- compared that upcoming film to the Twilight franchise. Well, sort of. She proved why Hunger Games is better than Twilight using one word: "sick."
On Thursday, Movieline relayed the news that MGM and Screen Gems are planning to remake Stephen King's high school horror classic Carrie. Now, the author is sharing his conflicted thoughts on the remake, and even offering his own suggestions for the director and lead actress.
A photo may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes you only need one to describe the image immortalized in that frame. Like, "Eww."
In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Johnny Depp reprises the most popular and beloved character of his career, Captain Jack Sparrow. How did Depp transform himself from an '80s teen TV idol to one of the most talented and idiosyncratic actors in film today?
· Earlier this week, James Cameron and Michael Bay sat down to discuss Transformers: Dark of the Moon and the technical aspects of its 3-D. Movieline was there (read the recap of the event here), and now you can watch a brief clip of what happened between these two blockbuster-y titans for yourself. Click through for the video, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
Because of his unique brand of hilariously discomfiting stand-up comedy and, in particular, his mock-confrontational talk show satire Between Two Ferns, which lampoons the celebrity interview itself with clear-eyed vitriol, you might not peg Zach Galifianakis for a warm interviewee. But, like most comics, he's nothing like any of his own characters -- including Alan Garner, the delusional man-child who, along with his fellow "Wolf Pack"-ers (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and, this time around, a monkey) wakes up in a seedy Bangkok hotel room after yet another night of black-out debauchery in The Hangover Part II.
Forget The Dark Knight Rises; when it comes to movie marketing, The Tree of Life is the real trailblazer. Well, at least for the Ridley Scott-produced film Life in a Day, which has a new poster that recalls some initial imagery from highly anticipated Terrence Malick tone poem. Click through for a look.
So you might have heard that our remaining days on Earth are numbered. Like, to one. At least that's how a group of fundamentalist Christian doomsday prophets are calling it, prompting followers and skeptics alike to come to grips with the enduring resonance of life after the apocalypse. But filmmakers have never needed an excuse to genuflect when it comes to the End of the World. With this in mind, consider these entertaining and/or potentially instructive movies for your post-apocalyptic viewing pleasure:
That didn't take long. With filming on The Dark Knight Rises officially underway, Warner Bros. has started the hype machine early in anticipation of the July 20, 2012 release. A new website went online late Thursday (www.thedarkknightrises.com), and while it initially seemed like nothing more than a black page with some bizarre chanting on loop, a closer investigation has revealed a bit of viral marketing tied to -- what else? -- Twitter, and a subsequent first look at Tom Hardy as Bane in the new film.
2011: the year of cinematic hook-up buddies. A mere six months after No Strings Attached found moderate success at the box office, Sony will release Friends with Benefits. Judging from the trailer -- and the fact that it stars Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake instead of Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher -- Benefits could be the better of the two friends-with-benefits comedies, a fact which makes this new poster such a shrug. Not that any pictures of Timberlake and Kunis smiling could be bad, but: boring? Click ahead to decide for yourself.
Also in this Friday edition of The Broadsheet: Another Arnold Schwarzenegger project will likely take a break... Holly Hunter circles two big roles... Alec Baldwin could team with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg... and more ahead.
It's a sparse week for new releases at the movies, with exactly one blockbuster and one art-house darling dropping in for a run at early-summer lucre. Both are expected to handily finish first in their fields, but not without at least a little competition from a few sturdy holdovers.
With all of the remakes being churned out in Hollywood these days (like Bloodsport, The Idolmaker, Straw Dogs, Fright Night and The Thin Man to name a few), it is even bigger news when movie studios don't target your favorite childhood film for an easy reboot. So maybe we should not be surprised that MGM and Screen Gems have hired a scribe to rewrite Stephen King's high school horror classic Carrie. Sigh.
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