Of the handful of up-and-comers rumored to be in contention for Tony Gilroy's upcoming spy spin-off The Bourne Legacy, 30-year-old Taylor Kitsch's name was frequently bandied about as a potential front-runner for the action franchise. Speaking with Movieline over the weekend while discussing his upcoming film The Bang Bang Club, Kitsch hinted that his turn in Oliver Stone's Savages might make a Bourne outing impossible.
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After nearly five months of speculation, Lionsgate has finally (finally!) chosen a director for its Natalie Portman-produced adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's best-seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Craig Gillespie. The commercial-turned-feature director helmed Lars and the Real Girl and the upcoming Fright Night remake from DreamWorks. Congratulations to all, and let the casting (finally!) begin! [Deadline]
Logan Lerman is giving up lightning thievery to star in The Only Living Boy in New York, an indie film "in which a young man (Lerman) learns that his overbearing father is having an affair. The son tries to stop it, only to become involved with the woman as well." Kinky! But the most interesting part of this news is the movie's title, which references the classic Simon and Garfunkel tune. Turns out when you put together a list of movies based on song titles, the results are pretty uneven. Where will The Only Living Boy in New York figure in this dubious group?
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Last month it was revealed that Sylvester Stallone was looking for a new director to helm the follow up to his $274 million worldwide-grossing action pic, The Expendables -- and Deadline reports that is still the case. Will Sly take Movieline's humble suggestion of five potential replacement directors who'd be well-suited to helm Expendables 2? And which veteran action stars (Seagal! Van Damme! Snipes?) will join the cast this time around? [Deadline]
· The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off this week, and on Monday organizers announced the cavalcade of stars who will be responsible for rewarding the best of the best during the 11-day fest. (Rhyme!) Click ahead for the full list and stick around for more Buzz Break.
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Judging from the trailer for Melancholia -- which interrupts marital bliss with the pending end of humanity -- Lars von Trier has not gone all warm and cuddly. Though, as the director tells Empire, he did take it easy on star Kirsten Dunst -- if only because her role was fairly hands off.
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Overlooked in the Scre4m-y rush of the weekend was an interesting article from the Guardian film blog, where Danny Leigh postulated about the long history of first impressions gone wrong. Not just any first impressions, though -- critics' first impressions, some of which, for better or worse (often better, believe it or not), have notably tended to fall on the wrong side of history.
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Poor David R. Ellis. It looks like the Snakes on a Plane director lost his battle to keep the title to his next film as literal as everyone had hoped. Instead of Untitled 3D Shark Thriller, the Relativity film will hit theaters in September with the less-literal title of Shark Night 3D. Oh, well. It doesn't mean there won't be sharks, extra dimensions and thrills. Click ahead for your first look at the planned mayhem.
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Congratulations to the gang behind Rio, which cemented its burgeoning global superpower over the weekend with the biggest domestic opening of the year to date: $40 million, give or take a few bucks when the dust clears today. That kind of showing can only mean one thing: Time for a Monday Morning Talkback!
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Today in mind-blowing numbers: The film shoot for both parts of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows lasted 261 days. 261 days! It was so long, in fact, that the thought-to-be final moments on set for Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint were not actually their final moments; the reshot epilogue was fittingly the end for the young stars, and it will save fans from having to sit through some interminable home movies during the closing credits.
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Also in this Monday edition of The Broadsheet: Wes Craven reveals an alternate (and awesome) Scream 4 beginning... Festival fave Like Crazy gets a release date... Mortal Kombat: Legacy is the filet of web series... and more ahead.
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Scream 4 had a rocky road to your local multiplex, going through multiple script revisions, much to the chagrin of its director and actors. But given the infinite number of possibilities that a Scream 4 script could go in, the ending that audiences saw was, to my eyes at least, odd and particularly unsatisfying. Is this really the ending (and the killer) that director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson intended? Major Scream 4 spoilers ahoy!
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As Nicolas Cage settles back into life after lock-up, a couple choice nuggets about his fateful arrest have emerged. First, it appears that Cage stumbled into a New Orleans tattoo shop, seemingly arguing with his harried wife, and demanded to be tattooed. He also asked said tattoo shop proprietors to call the cops because he "just didn't remember where he lived." So maybe Cage daring the cops to arrest him was all part of his ingenious plan? And once he was arrested, celebrity bondsman and total non-racist Dog Chapman, was the one to bail him out. God, Nicolas Cage even has to get bailed out extravagantly. Check out the photos from the tattoo shop below. [TMZ]
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Speaking to Coming Soon, Zak Penn, the man who gave us Last Action Hero, Elektra and the third X-Men movie, claims that, for all his comic book movie credits, the only hero he didn't want was Spider-Man. "Actually Spider-Man was one of the only ones I didn't want to do because I thought it was a little too cheesy." Again, that's the visionary who wrote the virtually unwatchable Elektra, which features a resurrected assassin who has OCD, crapping on two of the best superhero movies ever made (we'll ignore the studio-driven mess of the third). Glass house? Blackened pot? Willfully obtuse? I can't figure out which one best suits him. [Coming Soon]
For the third week in a row, chatty cartoon animals ruled the box office as the birds of Rio took the top spot with a blockbuster $40 million opening. Coming in a distant second place was the 90s nostalgia curio, Scream 4, which netted a horrifying $19 million; you'll recall that Scream 3 had a $34 million opening weekend and that was back when ticket prices were lower and this all used to be orange groves. And speaking of wayback when, Robert Redford's The Conspirator opened in ninth place; sorry James McAvoy! I still love you, boo!. Your weekend receipts are here.
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