According to Variety, Christopher Nolan tops the shortlist to helm Warner Bros.' Twilight Zone reboot, but he's not alone on the list of potential candidates; Michael Bay, Alfonso Cuaron, and Rupert Wyatt are also in the mix to direct the big-budget, single-story version based on Rod Serling's original sci-fi television series. Nolan may have an in with producer Leonardo DiCaprio and the studio that released his last five films, not to mention the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises. But should he get the gig?
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Another still from Simon Curtis's drama My Week with Marilyn has surfaced, this time showing Michelle Williams swimming as the iconic bombshell. Click through to see the latest, semi-scandalous photo and hang around for more Buzz Break.
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In this weekend's 50/50, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a public radio employee who, when diagnosed with cancer, struggles to survive the disease and the changed attitudes of those around him. So how did a teenager best known for playing a sitcom alien transform himself into one of our most versatile actors who is capable of playing anything from a troubled teen prostitute to a lovelorn greeting card writer?
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The Hangover Part II may have been wildly popular everywhere else in the world -- in part thanks to the sexually-suggestive shenanigans its heroes get involved in, transvestite genitals and all -- but there's one place where those hijinks don't fly: Utah. Good old morally-stringent Utah, where one theater was fined $1,627 for screening the R-rated blockbuster comedy on account of its "attire and conduct violations." (That's $400 more than what a local restaurant was fined for serving alcohol to a minor, by comparison.)
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"I've made some bad movies, but some of those bad movies have been other people's dreams, so it would be sort of inelegant to tread on all that. I've made movies because I've thought, 'God, I really want my kids to have a house in the country.' It's depressing, not being in charge of one's destiny. So what you have the power to do as an actor is the power to say 'no'. You don't have the power to say 'yes'." And: "I think it might mean no more action films! I mean, I love action movies, I love all sorts of movies, but there are just too many of the fuckers and too few movies for grownups." [The Guardian via MovieCityNews]
Dream House promises to chill you with intrigue and suspense, but will the actual 'dream house' provide any of the scares? Here's hoping yes. Freaky houses are a touchstone in horror cinema, and today I'm building a blueprint for a spooky manse made only from rooms in creepy movies. Norman Bates, Jack Torrance and Leatherface all contribute to the interior decoration.
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Happy Friday! Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Woody Harrelson may be next up for Now You See Me... The Half Nelson team gets Hate Mail... Idris Elba "would definitely consider" James Bond... The English Patient spawns a lawsuit... and more.
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If it's Thursday, then it must be time to survey the latest new releases at the mutliplex and beyond. For what that's worth: This week's box-office turnout is likely to bear an uncanny resemblance to last week's -- particularly near the top, where Moneyball, Dolphin Tale and that stereoscopic flaxen-maned juggernaut that roared, The Lion King 3D are all expected to repeat last week's command performance in one permutation or another. Where will the rest fall? To the Forecast!
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Here we go again: Almost three years to the day after Sherwood Pictures -- the filmmaking enterprise of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. -- uncorked its self-funded Christian drama Fireproof to a shocking $6.8 million opening weekend, along comes the church's faith-based follow-up Courageous. And while no one should necessarily be surprised to hear that the film's early box-office estimates are strong, its potential hardly ceases to amaze.
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Check out the hot new cover of Entertainment Weekly, featuring various disembodied portions of Avengers stars Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johannson, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner and Chris Hemsworth slapped into an illustration that makes the Argentinian Jack and Jill poster look like a Norman Rockwell painting. Listen, EW: My floating-head Photoshop services are available for cheap any time you need them; inquire (and get the rest of today's Buzz Break) within.
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"We start shooting in October. Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team Of Rivals is much too big a book to be a movie, so the Lincoln story only takes place in the last few months of his Presidency and life. I was interested in how he ended the war through all the efforts of his generals... but more importantly how he passed the 13th Amendment into constitutional law. The Emancipation Proclamation was a war powers act and could have been struck down by any court after the war ended... But what permanently ended slavery was the very close vote in the House of Representatives over the 13th Amendment -- that story I'm excited to tell." Fine, but who will pay for the 3-D glasses? [Empire]
What keeps Tom Cruise relevant after 30 years in Hollywood? Take this hint from his Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol director Brad Bird: "You look at the directors he's worked with [...] It's a who's who. Scorsese and Kubrick and Spielberg and Oliver Stone -- when Oliver Stone was making better movies -- and Michael Mann and Sydney Pollack and on and on and on. It's kind of stunning. Not every one of them was a great movie, but he's worked with great directors over and over again, and you can engage him in those conversations." Or Paul Thomas Anderson. Or Ridley Scott. Or Brian De Palma. Or John Woo. Or Neil Jordan. Isn't Quentin Tarantino hiring at the moment? Let's make that happen. [LAT]
Happy Thursday! Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Paul Bettany has had enough... The only early Footloose review you'll need... Gangster Squad gets a release date... How about them Red Sox?... and more.
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Ever since hearing Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron promote their upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman project as dark, gritty and atypical of the Disney franchise at Comic-Con, we've been excited to see what the cast and director Rupert Sanders would come up with. Now, on the heels of the promising concept artwork, some set photos have surfaced showing Stewart as a horse-riding, cigarette-smoking, armor-wearing princess unlike any other.
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"The only thing I learned on this internship was to be more picky in choosing employment opportunities... Black Swan had more than $300 million in revenues. If they paid us, it wouldn't make a big difference to them, but it would make a huge difference to us." Recent college grad Alex Footman didn't pick up many useful lessons during his time making coffee on the set of the Darren Aronofsky Oscar pic, but he and a fellow intern are attempting to change how Hollywood exploits labor does business. Good luck to the little guys? [NYT via MovieCityNews]
