20th Century Fox is getting closer to casting Bruce Willis’ co-star for the upcoming A Good Day to Die Hard. Early reports of actors reading for the role of John McClane’s son included Aaron Paul, who remains on the shortlist, along with Liam Hemsworth, James Badge Dale and D.J. Cotrona.
Once producer/director J.J. Abrams finished working on and promoting Super 8, he finally committed to a Star Trek sequel as his next project. Now it seems that Abrams has found his film’s main villain in Benicio Del Toro.
When done right, few tales are more riveting than a person’s descent into madness. Alfred Hitchcock proved this time and time again and Jeff Nichols reinforces it in Take Shelter, a film likely to have been lauded by the master of suspense himself. Anchored by the performances of Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain, “Shelter” broods and festers, but ultimately thrives on the brink between buildup and utter chaos.
Shannon, far from a household name, but a favorite of cinephiles since his head-turning supporting role in Revolutionary Road, stars as Curtis, a construction worker and father living in a rural town with his wife, Sam (Chastain), and their young daughter, Hannah (Tova Stewart). Their daughter has developed extreme hearing loss and Curtis’ job provides them the benefits necessary to afford cochlear implants, but Curtis’ recent slew of horrifically real nightmares seems to be the real issue here.
With Tower Heist coming out this weekend, we take a look at its director, the infamous Brett Ratner, director of X-Men: The Last Stand, and ask the question, “Is ‘hate’ too strong a word?”
Visionary director Tarsem Singh has entered the final stretch in promoting his new film Immortals, which comes out next week on Nov. 11, but his other anticipated “Snow White” project has finally jumped a major hurdle: picking a title. Relativity Media has now settled on Mirror, Mirror.
After the disappointment of X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, fans of the Marvel superteam the world over rejoiced when X-Men: First Class was released and won over critics and audiences. A sequel seems even more likely now that Simon Kinberg has been hired to write the script.
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