“Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof delighted Fox executives Saturday by turning in an apparently very good script for Ridley Scott’s “Alien” prequel. Nondisclosure agreements about the plot have been signed by everyone involved but The Vulture was able to intercept a few details. The film is set 35 years before Scott’s original 1979 horror/sci-fi classic and [...]
A collective stink-eye from the geek community was aimed squarely in director Darren Aronofsky’s direction when it was reported days ago that Fox had offered him the reigns of the sequel to the much maligned “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” That collective stink-eye may have just turned into a collective sigh of relief. Guillermo Arriaga, screenwriter of [...]
It was a poorly kept secret that Emma Stone (“Zombieland”) was sitting at the top of the heap to play Peter Parker’s love interest, opposite Andrew Garfield, in Sony’s upcoming reboot of the “Spider-Man” franchise. As expected, it was announced officially by the studio earlier today via twitter: “BREAKING NEWS: SPIDER-MAN GETS HIS GIRL: EMMA [...]
Set to begin filming in coming weeks, “Young Adult,” the flick that reunites the duo behind the Oscar-winning “Juno” (Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody) has added a couple of prominent thesps to its ranks. Patton Oswalt will join Charlize Theron in the film (which examines the experiences of a ghostwriter of young adult novels who [...]
Sacha Baron Cohen has finalized a deal to play Queen front man Freddie Mercury in an upcoming GK Films project, reports Deadline. The comedic actor best known for his outrageous and controversial performances in films like “Borat” and “Bruno” will star in the Peter Morgan-scripted story which details the band’s formative years, and culminating in Queen’s [...]
Ron Perlman has signed on to star opposite Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn’s (“Bronson”) action drama “Drive,” according to ScreenDaily. Perlman is the latest addition to an already stellar cast featuring Gosling as a loner Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for robberies and finds himself in trouble when he helps the [...]
The search for a new star to carry Paramount’s latest installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise is over. Oscar-nominated star Jeremy Renner, who anchored Kathryn Bigelow’s acclaimed Iraq War drama, “The Hurt Locker,” has been hired to carry on the mantle of international espionage. Deadline reports that Renner won’t replace, but rather star alongside, Tom [...]
We pride ourselves here at The Moving Arts on reporting only vetted, reliable news from trustworthy sources. The one time we decided to skate that ethical code and dip our feet into the rumor pool, it came back to bite us. Yesterday we reported that Josh Hutcherson was cast in Sony’s reboot of the “Spider-Man” [...]
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