Since picking up the rights to Godzilla from Japan’s Toho Co. in March, Legendary Pictures has been on the hunt for a director to bring the famous cinematic destruct-a-saur back to the big screen. According to Heatvision, the studio has found their man. Gareth Edwards, the British filmmaker who wrote and directed the low-budget sci-fi flick [...]
As soon as comic book blockbuster guru Christopher Nolan signed on to produce Warner Bros’ next installment of their “Superman” franchise, the web was atwitter about who would fill those big red leather directing boots. Deadline reports that the search is over and “Watchmen” director, Zack Snyder, will take the helm of the world’s most [...]
Legendary Pictures is hoping to capitalize on the fanfare generated this year by the 40th anniversary of Woodstock with a feature film about guitar-god, Jimi Hendrix. Thomas Tull is attached to produce the flick along with Bill Gerber. Variety is reporting that Max Borenstein will write the script. Borenstein is the writer of “What Is [...]
Godzilla, the giant Japanese dinosaur-monster that has terrorized Tokyo dozens of times in nearly 30 movies over the last 50 years isn’t done yet. Making his debut in 1954′s “Gojira” from the Toho Company, Godzilla is a giant kaijū monster that lives in the sea and periodically emerges to feed on humans. Bloody Disgusting has [...]
Carla Gugino, who starred as Silk Spectre in Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen,” has joined the cast of the director’s upcoming project, “Sucker Punch,” reports THR. “Punch” is Warner Bros’ and Legendary Pictures’ 1950s action fantasy that centers on a girl who is confined to a mental institution by her diabolical stepfather who plans to have her [...]
Jeremy Renner, star of Kathryn Bigelow’s recent critical success, “The Hurt Locker,” is in negotiations to join Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall in Ben Affleck’s “The Town,” says THR. “Town” is a romantic crime thriller from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, adapted from Chuck Hogan’s novel “Prince of Thieves,” that Ben Affleck will direct. The [...]
Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”) and Rebecca Hall (“Please Give”) have been named as the latest additions to Ben Affleck’s “The Town,” a Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ romantic crime thriller, reports THR. Affleck is starring in and directing the Graham King produced pic. “Town” is an adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel “Prince of Thieves,” [...]
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