Summit has summoned Ryan Reynolds to lead its reboot of Highlander. The studio went after the Green Lantern and Safe House star last month and according to the Tracking Board, he has recently accepted the offer of immortality.
The CGI-animated Lego movie, now titled Lego: The Piece of Resistance is coming along just super. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (21 Jump Street) had previously alluded to the possibility that some of the properties to which Lego has the building block toy rights would sneak into their film, and it turns out they will.
Nature films are a tough sell—often they are gorgeous and vast but suffer from staggering pretension that crushes any and all hope for character development and story. With Beasts of the Southern Wild, we are treated to the wonders of nature (sans pretension) while following the story of a truly compelling father/daughter relationship.
Recommendation of the Week has a cleaner winner this time in the Christopher Nolan Director’s Collection boxset. It features five top movies from one of the most celebrated directors around. What more do you need? Best Picture winner The Artist and early-year comedy favorite 21 Jump Street also arrive.
If it’s late June, it’s Pixar’s time to dominate the box office. Brave, the studio’s first fairy tale, took in $66. 3 million this weekend, good for its fifth biggest opening and 13th straight film opening at number one.
We’ve heard a lot about lately The Hunger Games: Catching Fire lately as Lionsgating is trying to get things set for when production begins at the end of the summer. We just reported that either Zoe Aggeliki or Mia Wasikowska might play former Hunger Games champion Johanna Mason in the The Hunger Games sequel, and now we can add Jena Malone to that list.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World portrays Earth only weeks away from undeniable obliteration and having lost all sense of rationality and decorum. To be fair, though, wouldn’t you break all the rules if you and everyone else had less than a month to live?
