In recent years, Disney has become increasingly successful in its live-action ventures, such as the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise. The Mouse House hopes for its upcoming Maleficent to become a franchise, and with that big-budget property being just two years away, the studio isn’t wasting time assembling its cast.
From the Criterion Collection this week is the Blu-ray re-release of the critical classic La Haine. Like most Criterion re-releases their Blu-ray of La Haine has the use array of documentaries, director commentaries and booklet as well interviews with a trio of sociologists.
It is a real offering of variety this week from the vampire actioneer Underworld: Awakening and Blu-ray box-set of the whole series, the romantic movie The Vow and on the international front movies from Iceland and South Korea. But there is a lack of re-releases with only two other Blu-rays coming out.
Its all The Avengers all the time on this special edition of The Plot Hole as Simon, Kieran and Steven talk our favorite and least favorite (though mostly favorite) moments, which Avenger was portrayed the best, how writer/director Joss Whedon handled the material and where we think Marvel will go with the next outing.
Holy box office … Iron Man. Debuting to an opening weekend nothing short of astonishing, Marvel’s big-budget superhero epic amassed a record-smashing $207.4 million over just three days.
When Gary Ross pulled out of the sequel to The Hunger Games, it not only mean the loss of a director, but a writer. Lionsgate has hired another writer with an excellent pedigree, Michael Ardnt, to rewrite the script to Catching Fire.
Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain‘s improbable boom to stardom in just a year looked like it would continue two weeks ago when she began negotiating for a role in Iron Man 3. Unfortunately, fans of the The Help actress hoping to see her in the Marvel property have just been let down a bit.
Since coming into the spotlight, Sharlto Copley has been very selective with his projects. Mostly known for his debut performance in Neill Blomkamp’s science fiction film District 9, the actor now negotiates for what might be his biggest role yet in Disney’s Maleficent.
