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Radical Publishing is excited to announce that Sam Worthington (Clash of the Titans and James Cameron’s Avatar) has signed on as both star and producer for the film adaptation of The Last Days of American Crime, based off of Radical Publishing’s comic book series, The Last Days of American Crime, created and written by critically acclaimed author Rick Remender (Punisher, Fear Agent). Sam Worthington will be a producer along with producing partner, Michael Schwarz, and Radical’s president and publisher, Barry Levine. Rick Remender will be the executive producer/screenwriter for the film and Radical’s Executive Vice President, Jesse Berger, will executive produce.
The latest star to join the Thor movie cast is Idris Elba, who will be playing Heimdall, the guardian of Asgard. Filming for the movie begins in mid-January in Manhattan Beach, California.
Boom! Studios has announced that the Mark Sable created mini-series Unthinkable has been optioned by Mandalay Pictures to be turned into a feature film.
“Unthinkable” centers on a brilliant man who was recruited just after 9/11 into a government think tank consisting of America’s most imaginative minds and tasked with dreaming up wild scenarios for possible attacks on U.S. soil. Years after the think tank was disbanded, the attacks the man concocted begin to occur, and he becomes the only one who can stop them. But the government has become his pursuer.
We’ve covered the series since it first debuted, and commented early on that this was a story that was perfect for a big screen adaptation. This is the sixth Boom! Studios title that has been optioned for a motion picture.
A lot of websites are reporting the rumor from their various sources that claim H’Wood is looking at Anne Hathaway to play Black Cat in the upcoming Spider-Man 4 movie.
Nikki Finke has a lot of insiders at the studios and reports
While Sony Pictures insists no decisions have been made, sources tell me that the producers have approached Anne Hathaway to star in the film.
As we have no inside sources in H’Wood, which is probably a good idea on so many levels, we’re just going by the stories everyone else is running. I’m not sold on Hathaway in anything other than a Disney movie from 9 years ago. What do you, The Major Spoiler Legion think? Does Hathaway do it for you, or should the studio keep looking?
Way back in the day, before the advent of NES, SNES, Sega, Xbox, and those hack machines that followed, we had to go to a video arcade to play video games – one quarter at a time. The early devourer of my quarters was Space Invaders. A lot of button mashing and left-right joystick controlling is all the skill one needed to defeat the invaders…from space…
Flash forward to today, where Galaga has been replaced by Halo, and someone (actually Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger) has sold the idea that this video game would make an excellent movie. The duo of Lisbe and Reger have gone so far as to hire Justin Theroux to write the script.
(film) centers on a man who decides to go to space after he suspects that his longtime girlfriend, an astronaut, is cheating on him with another spacewalker. Will Arnett is attached to star.
If the Theroux name sounds familiar, then good for you for paying attention, as Theroux wrote Tropic Thunder, and the upcoming Iron Man 2 movie, and is currently working on a feature film remake of Air Guitar Nation.
Variety posted, then took down an article, which prompted Marvel to officially announce that Stuart Towsend, Ray Stevenson, and Tadanobu Asano have been cast the play The Warriors Three, in the upcoming Kenneth Branagh Thor movie. Good news for those who have been wanting to know who would play the Asgardians who fight alongside the Norse god. Rumors were tossed around the last couple of weeks that everyone from Robert De Niro to Jude Law would be playing the warrior team.
Disney has released the third and final promo poster for the upcoming Tim Buron Alice in Wonderland movie.
via Disney
Here’s an interesting take on the comic book movie – the story in the comic book appears to be influencing the real world events of those trapped in a plane. Twilight Zone, Cthulhu, and many more Creepy Eerie Strange bizarre events make this a must watch when it comes to cable movie.
According to Bloody Disgusting, Stephen Susco has been tapped to write the live-action adaptation of Tim Seeley’s HACK/Slash comic book series.
The focus of the series is on a horror victim, Cassie, who strikes back at the monsters, known as “slashers”, with Vlad, a freakish man who frequently wears a gas mask.
Susco is no stranger to horror films, as he is also writing The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D movie and Butcherhouse Chronicles for Paramount Pictures. HACK/Slash is being directed by Fredrik Bond. While all of this is well and good, the big question is, “who will play Cassie Hack?” Some have pointed to Kat Denning as the avenging victim, Megan Fox has also expressed interest in playing the title role.
Quinton Jackson certainly does look like a bad-ass in this set shot from the upcoming A-Team movie.
2012 may have dominated the box office this weekend, and while it may have been a CGI lovefest, I doubt any of the creators thought of using this music as the soundtrack.
For some reason it seems to work perfectly.
If you make it a habit to read USA Weekend, you may have seen the interview with Chuck star Zachary Levi, who said he had been cast as Fandral in the upcoming Thor movie to be directed by Kenneth Branagh. Unfortunately, NBC extended the third season, which means Zach had to drop out of the flick.
Levi was cast as Fandral, one of Thor’s Warriors Three in the comic book adaptation, and the actor had even been working out especially for the role, but had to walk away when they got the extra pickup. (Levi admits that producers had asked him to audition for the role of the usually beefy God of Thunder, but told them no. “I’m tall and in pretty good shape, but I’m not big and girthy like that,” he says.)
We’ve only seen the trailer for the upcoming remake of Clash of the Titans, and while it has sparked many people to question why there needs to be a remake, perhaps this trailer to the original film, might make you feel better.
Some will say the above trailer is in no way a representation of how good/bad the original film was, and perhaps the same can be said for the trailer of the remake.
Lionsgate released a new Kick-Ass poster for the world to take in and examine. The bloodied face of Aaron Johnson should give audiences a hint that this is going to be a blood and splatter fest when it comes to kicking…er..um… ass.
MGM has been having financial problems for a while, and now it looks like the company will have to sell off a large part of its assets if it hopes to keep afloat. The movie studio restructured this past summer in order to move some of the $3.7 billion in debt around. While the studio does have The Time Machine, The Zookeeper, and the remake of Red Dawn coming out mid to late 2010, the biggest movie on the company’s docket has to be The Hobbit, and The Hobbit 2, which could end up making as much or more than the Lord of the Rings films did years ago. The Hobbit two-parter are scheduled for a 2011, and 2012 release.
There are two options facing the company now; sell-off completely, or sell off its 4,000 title film library, which includes the James Bond, Die Hard, Robocop, Stargate, and Showgirls movies and hope that the money earned from the library can finance the company for a while longer.
Any sort of auction would need approval of a two-thirds majority of the bondholders, and a couple of the bondholders insist they have not been contacted as yet. Some sources believe a pre-packaged bankruptcy is still an option, and there is still an expectation that Time-Warner might make a last eleventh hour bid.
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