Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg will ride again. After gaining fans and traction with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Wright and Pegg have finally gotten a third comedy in motion: The World’s End. Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg will ride again. After gaining fans and traction with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Wright and Pegg have set a third comedy in motion: The World’s End.
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 a rumor about The Dark Knight Rises and one of its brilliant actors.
The records just keep on coming for The Avengers. After obliterating even the loftiest projections last weekend when it debuted with $207.4 million, the superhero flick became the first film to ever score $100 million in its second weekend.The records just keep on coming for The Avengers. After obliterating even the loftiest projections last weekend after debuting to a mammoth $207.4 million, The Avengers sunk by only a half, becoming the first film to ever score $100 million in its second weekend.
Tim Burton’s latest outing, Dark Shadows, marks his eighth teaming with lead Johnny Depp and takes a ghoulish soap opera (with a ’70s twist) and crafts it into a frequently funny (but tonally deaf) lark that eventually succumbs to its own fondness for the occult.Tim Burton’s latest outing marks his eight teaming with lead Johnny Depp and takes a ghoulish soap opera (with a 70’s twist) and crafts a frequently funny (but tonally deaf) lark that eventually succumbs to its own fondness for the occult.
Obviously pleased with the success of last year’s small-budget action thriller Unknown, producer Joel Silver has reunited star Liam Neeson and director Jaume Collet-Serra for the airborne thriller Non-Stop.
When the action-comedy RED came along in 2010, nobody knew what to expect, but a worldwide gross of almost $200 million ensured its success. Not too long ago, Summit Entertainment announced that the action-comedy would get a sequel, and now two new cast members join the already impressive ensemble.
Gothic comedy Dark Shadows – and number eight in the canon – debuts this Friday and Player Affinity is going to look at the sometimes ghoulish (always kooky) duo of Burton and Depp.
