With July having just arrived, 2012 is a book halfway written. Given that the movie calendar dazzles more from July through December, the films from the first half of the year often get lost. This year, however, they shouldn’t be. We’ve seen tons of surprise hits this year, many of which you’ll read about below.
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 Big Hero 6 and Iron Man 3.
You know the quiet guy in the class? Seemingly average and mundane, but inside he’s a whole other beast? That’s Magic Mike. On the surface it is one thing, but like our mothers told us: never judge a book by its cover.
Marvel’s movie plans are expanding out into the cosmos with Guardians of the Galaxy looking more and more like the studio’s big 2014 tentpole pic, but back on terra firma, Edgar Wright got cameras rolling on his long gestating Ant-Man adaptation, in the form of a test reel.
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has taken his love of characters who shouldn’t behave like humans behaving like humans to the next level — and the big screen — with Ted, a story of growing up — at the age of 35.
It is no secret that legendary comic-book writer Alan Moore has low opinions of the film industry and has disowned or been highly critical of all the adaptations of his work to date. But now, Moore has joined the dark side and is writing a series of short films, his first venture into screenwriting.
Well, that didn’t take too long. Zoe Aggeliki is currently negotiating to play Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Despite never having acted in a feature film, she beat out indie starlet Jena Malone for the highly coveted role.
