It’s been five years since one of Hollywood’s most influential pioneers of the action screenplay, Shane Black, stepped behind the camera for his critically-praised directorial debut Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Now Black may be settling back into the director’s chair in order to revive the long-dead silver screen legacy of classic adventure hero Doc Savage.

Doc [...]

Really, Hollywood? You’re giving us another remake? Great.
This time, Columbia Pictures is tackling the Audrey Hepburn classic My Fair Lady, the story of a flower girl’s transformation to fit in high society under the guidance of a snobby professor.
My Fair Lady itself was actually based off George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, although it did [...]

Columbia Pictures picked up the rights to a screen adaptation of the video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune back in June, and Kyle Ward was quickly attached to write.
Due to other commitments, Ward has now gracefully bowed out of the project, and screenwriting duo Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer stepped in to take his place.
The [...]

The day of the screening I was joking around with some friends at my day job and came up with this snazzy catchphrase regarding the new movie 2012: “Only John Cusack can outrun disasters of massive proportions but not be able to stop the disaster that was his character’s marriage.” I knew that Amanda Peet [...]

I didn’t fall head over heels in love with Tropic Thunder as many other people did; I found it overlong and Jack Black’s performance sucked all the air out after Robert Downey Jr. would fill it up again. That’s not to say it’s bad. It’s really very good, just not mind-blowing.
One film that was very [...]

Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie. Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire. John Travolta in Hairspray. These are among some of Hollywood’s big name men to let their feminine sides shine through on screen by playing the role of women (granted, Hoffman and Williams were both men playing men playing women…)
The next star to don a dress for [...]

I have trained myself to roll my eyes every time I read the words “pirate film” in the headline of an article, but this is different: we’re not dealing with swashbuckling Jack Sparrow or a gaunt Kiera Knightley, but instead real life Somali pirates that have peppered the news for over a year.
Columbia Pictures is [...]

Perhaps in a Julie & Julia-inspired agenda, Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures TV (in conjunction with HBO) have signed first-look deals with the New York Times for film rights to their column “Modern Love,” which is essentially a weekly romantic comedy-drama bundled into a page or so. Thus, each week the column provides enough ammunition [...]

I’m somewhat convinced that Ridley Scott — either by his own nature or by the wishes of studios — will eventually attach his name in some capacity to every film on the horizon. A quick scan of IMDb reveals that the director of Blade Runner and Gladiator has twenty two films in the works, including [...]

Coming into theaters for two weeks only starting on October 28th is the highly anticipated Michael Jackson’s This Is It. Deriving from his comeback tour that the late king of pop was never able to act out, the film consists of behind the scenes footage of Jackson himself on and off stage. Tickets are now [...]