José Padilha’s upcoming remake of RoboCop begins shooting in the fall, and MGM hasn’t been wasting time with casting. Last week we discovered that Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson had joined the cast, and now Abbie Cornish and Hugh Laurie look to star in the remake/reboot of the 1987 sci-fi thriller.
Disney has been upping the ante in the edginess department lately. Maleficent, a revisionist take on Sleeping Beauty, will enter production this summer and now the Mouse House plans to make a film based on, well, the stuff of legend.
There’s been quite a bit of hoopla regarding who’ll play Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the sequel to this year’s pop-culture phenomenon The Hunger Games. With so much attention on who’ll play Finnick Odair, the casting of another character almost went unnoticed.
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah has been on quite the casting spree. However, until today, we haven’t had any official word on who’ll play the antagonist. Thankfully, all of that’s changed, and Noah seems to have finally found his villain in Ray Winstone.
We need a hero and this week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases offer a lot of them, from Sherlock Holmes to Superman to Spider-Man. The Criterion Collection also offer us three rereleases, including a Charlie Chaplin classic.
Religion and violence are far more synonymous than most people of faith would care to admit and with Machine Gun Preacher — now out on DVD and Blu-ray — Gerard Butler’s criminal-turned-man-of-god certainly embraces that twisted mantra with a fervor.
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 Marvel making a Black Panther movie and Universal’s upcoming adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey.
