Movies

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Negotiating for Role in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been acting since the late 1980s, but became a bigger name thanks to Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer and Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Now you can catch him in 50/50, and next year he’s in several films, one of which might be Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

Variety relays that Gordon-Levitt is negotiating to take a role in Tarantino’s spaghetti Western. However, “several scheduling issues that could prevent him from participating” need to be sorted out. Not coincidentally, his thriller Premium Rush has just been bumped from an early January bow to an August release. The Playlist surmises that the bump was a direct result of Gordon-Levitt wanting to star in “Django,” and it’s hard to disagree.

John Orloff Penning Bryan Singer’s ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Film

Aw frak. Deadline is reporting that Bryan Singer’s (X-Men, Valkyrie) Battlestar Galactica project is beginning to pick up major steam, hiring John Orloff (Anonymous, Band of Brothers) to pen the screenplay for the project. For those of you not aware (and thus, do not understand what “frak” means), “Galactica” was a 1978 TV series that started out with humanity—spread across 12 planets—being attacked by the Cylons, intelligent robots created by humans that eventually rebelled. With their worlds decimated, it was up to the Galactica, humanity’s last know warship, to protect the remaining civilization from the pursuing Cylons.

Box Office Wizard (10.21.11)

Welcome to Box Office Wizard, Player Affinity’s Movie Box Office Prediction Contest. Just read through this post and tell us your top five box office predicted finishers for this weekend. Finish out 2011 on top and you will win something COOL.

The Found Footage Phenomenon: Will it Ever Die?

In a class of its own, the “found footage” film is, in relative terms, just a baby to the papa genre and one that has not yet had the time to run its natural course of mainstream popularity. But seemingly gearing up more than powering down, when will the detractors of this gimmick finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief? A few years? Five? A decade?

Rolling in their Graves: 10 Classic Authors Hollywood has Butchered

Many bestsellers have been turned into fantastic movies, but sadly, the film industry has also made poor adaptations that are disloyal to the original work. Now that Paul W.S. Anderson has turned The Three Musketeersinto a steampunk fantasy, we at Player Affinity are going to look at some dead authors whose works have been ruined by Hollywood.

Sony Wants Mark Romanek For ‘Lost Symbol’ Adaptation

Da Vinci Code sequel The Lost Symbol is inching closer to the big screen, as Deadline reports that Sony Pictures has been eyeing Mark Romanek to fill the director’s chair for the next Robert Langdon adventure.

‘Akira’ Finally a Go, Garrett Hedlund a Frontrunner to Star

Warner Bros. has given Akira the go-ahead for production, which will begin either in late February or early March. Katsuhiro Otomo, director and writer of the original feature, has signed on as an executive producer. Tron: Legacy star Garrett Hedlund is currently the frontrunner for the lead role of Kaneda.