The Empire Strikes Back co-writer Lawrence Kasdan and X-Men: First Class co-writer Simon Kinberg are negotiating to be involved in some kind of producer/writer capacity with Episode VIII and Episode IX.
Daniel Day-Lewis towers over Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln in a way that thankfully distracts from Tony Kushner’s painfully dry screenplay.
The Red Dawn remake pulls a switcheroo by substituting North Koreans for the original’s Soviet and Cuban villains. Could other 1980s classics be remade with a Korean makeover?
The blogosophere deemed James Cameron’s Avatar a game-changer in 2009. Many lauded its use of motion-capture and 3D technology, and Ang Lee’s take on Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi seems to have similar praise thus far.
It is a small week of DVD and Blu-ray, but there are some juicy releases in the form of The Expendables 2, Grave of the Fireflies and the release of a major director’s boxset.
Now the fourth film of 2012 to open north of $100 million, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 shot to the number one spot with a gigantic $141.1 million, the second best debut of the franchise after New Moon’s $142.8 million.
Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will see Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone reprising their roles as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy. Shailene Woodley recently joined the film as Mary Jane Watson, but the film’s still seeking its Harry Osborn.
