The Dark Knight Rises solidified its status as one of the year’s biggest films this weekend, and Anne Hathaway similarly re-established herself by silencing early critics with her universally well-received performance as Catwoman.
On Friday, Warner Bros. made the decision to remove the trailer for Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad from before showings of the film, as it contains a scene in which theater attendees are killed by gunfire. Now it’s considering a more drastic decision.
Welcome to Rumor Has It, Player Affinity’s weekly roundup of highly buzzed-about movie rumors circulating throughout Tinseltown. On this week’s docket, we have rumors about Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” films, Wreck-It Ralph and Thor: The Dark World.
Back in March, a digitally animated short film called Ruin made the rounds on a lot of sites, earning praise for its post-apocalyptic visuals and high-energy chase sequence. Well, Hollywood was watching, as the film’s creator, Wes Ball, is in talks with 20th Century Fox to turn it into a feature film.
When Marvel Studios cast him as Thor, people were upset True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgård didn’t get the part. Since then, Chris Hemsworth has quickly become one of the biggest and most bankable young action stars on the planet, and now, Steven Spielberg wants him.
Well Bat-boys and Bat-girls, it’s finally here. After years of Internet speculation, months of binging on promotional material, and more than a few movie tickets bought as a shameless excuse to watch the new trailers, The Dark Knight Rises is here.
As soon as talks broke down with Jessica Biel, it appears 20th Century Fox went right down the list to its second choice among actresses to play Viper a.k.a Madame Hydra in The Wolverine. Twitch reports Russia’s Svetlana Khodchenkova is negotiating to play the role of the Hungarian orphan-turned-assassin.
