I recently sat down and watched Amanda Gusack’s In Memorium, and found it to be just as enjoyable as Oren Peli’s smash success Paranormal Activity. You can read my review of the film right here. I also had the chance to briefly interview the screenwriter/director about the state of In Memorium and the possibilities for [...]

It really was only a matter of time before a film was put into production that directly emulates The Hangover in style and content. Universal has their hands on what’s potentially the first of these knock-offs: a spec script from Ellen Rapoport entitled Desperados. The film will be produced my Mark Gordon and Jason Blum, [...]

Twilight is out of control, and now its floodgates have burst, spilling its contents everywhere. Bit players such as Ashley Greene from the Twilight films are now getting genre work — in this case, it’s The Apparition for Joel Silver’s Dark Castle production house. (To be fair, I have no idea how big or small [...]

It seems that Fox Searchlight, desperate to have at least one film out by the end of the year (looks like they oddly don’t have enough on their plate this season) will be bumping Crazy Heart up to a December 16 release date. It’s a little romantic drama of sorts, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and the [...]

The Tourist, which will tell the tale of an American tourist drawn into a plot of intrigue with a female Interpol agent, has had an increasingly hard time gearing up to launch into production this coming February. Avatar star Sam Worthington jumped ship a while back, along with director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, over “creative [...]

Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire) has found his next project with Fox Searchlight: 127 Hours, which will tell the true story of mountaineer Aron Ralston. Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter who won the Oscar for Slumdog, will take over writing duties for the film. Variety has the scoop on just what is [...]

It’s been a fair while since Anthony Hopkins has had the chance to stretch his legs within a role, and I can think of no better opportunity for him to remind people what a fine actor he is than by stepping into the shoes of Ernest Hemingway. That’s exactly what he’ll be doing for Andy [...]

We’ve got Ridley Scott’s Monopoly on the horizon. We’ve got Peter Berg’s Battleship. We have Ouija. Risk? Hey, why not? Sony Pictures has picked up the board game that is hell-bent on world domination. So what does that mean? Well, according to one of Columbia’s representatives, it means a world of possibilities: “The strategic thinking [...]