Walton Goggins from The Hateful 8 is in final negotiations to join the MGM and GK Films reboot of Tomb Raider, starring Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, as the antagonist. MGM acquired the rights to the classic video game series back in 2013 in a partnership with Graham King of GK Films, who acquired the franchise from Square Enix in 2011 with...
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Apparently, Angelina Jolie is in “early talks” to join a remake of the classic film Murder On the Orient Express. The original film was released in 1974, and it was based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name. The remake of the classic is helmed by Kenneth Branagh, who will both direct the film and act in the role of Hercule...
Deadline has reported that Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) will take over playing the iconic Tomb Raider character Lara Croft in MGM GK Films, and Warner Brothers’ reboot of the franchise. Angelina Jolie was once the face of the film, based on a video game by Eidos (now owned by Square Enix). Vikander certainly fits...
How many Peter Pan films do we have now? Who cares! You’re getting another one! It’s Disney’s turn to make a live-action film of the boy who will never grow up, and now it has a director. David Lowery is set to direct the film based on a script he helped write with Toby Halbrooks. Fun fact: they also worked on the new live-action...
UPDATE: MARCH 10, 2016 10:11AM PST: Warner Bros. has no comment on the report. We’d love to hear what you think! Daisy Ridley who played Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens may be in the running for another iconic role. According to Deadline, she’s one of the actresses being considered to play Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb...
Back in the day, movies based on comic books were hit-and-miss. Statistically they were mostly misses, or just mediocre. Now we raise said movies to an astounding standard for all summer popcorn flicks. If comic books can be huge cash cows today, why not give video games a try…again? Right? Guys? Video games? Okay. I see your hesitation...
DreamWorks Animation has just released the teaser trailer for Kung Pu Panda 3. The film will revisit Po (Jack Black), who travels with his biological father (Bryan Cranston) to the paradise of pandas. However, the evil spirit Kai (J.K. Simmons) defeats all the kung fu masters in China, leaving Po to train a village full of non-fighters into a...
In sad news that likely surprises no one, the number of female directors in Hollywood has gone down in the past 17 years, according to a report in Variety. The report comes from the San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film and tells us that women directed only 7% of the top 250 grossing films...