source: traileraddict.com A brand new trailer for the upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street has debuted online. The Samuel Bayer film comes from Michael Bay‘s production stable Platinum Dunes, and believe it or not, it actually looks good. The film stars Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger, a wrongly-accused child molester burnt alive […]
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Archive | February, 2010
Zoolander 2 very close! Jonah Hill to play villain?
February 25, 2010 
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source: deadline.comThe long-touted sequel to Zoolander looks like it might actually be happening. Ben Stiller and Paramount have reportedly enlisted Iron Man 2 screenwriter Justin Theroux to write the film and also direct. Stiller will, obviously, reprise his role as dim-witted Derek Zoolander. Theroux and Stiller previously co-wrote Tropic Thunder together. Theroux also had a […]
Read moreWill John Krasinski be Captain America?
February 25, 2010 0 Comments
source: deadline.com Deadline have revealed a shortlist of actors in contention to take on the lead role in Joe Johnston‘s The First Avenger: Captain America. The list of actors include Gossip Girl‘s Chace Crawford, Cloverfield‘s Mike Vogel, Brothers’ Patrick Fleuger, Smallville’s Michael Cassidy and Friday Night Light’s Scott Porter. However, the only name that has […]
Read moreDedicated follower of fashion – A Single Man review
February 25, 2010 0 Comments
A Single Man – Starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode. Directed by Tom Ford. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Tom Ford’s directorial debut A Single Man is unspeakably gorgeous to behold. From the glorious cinematography to the impossibly beautiful actors and actresses; no frame is wasted on anything even close to ugliness. It […]
Read moreDamon and Gyllenhaal approached to star in Avatar?!
February 24, 2010 0 Comments
source: latimesblog.com Did you know that Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal were approached by James Cameron to star as Jake Sully in Avatar? You didn’t?! In a recent report by the L.A. Times, it is revealed that Cameron’s first choice for the role of Jake Sully was always the relatively unknown Sam Worthington. However, the […]
Read moreCoen Brothers find young girl with True Grit
February 24, 2010 0 Comments
source: deadline.com Joel and Ethan Coen have found the young girl to take on the lead role in their upcoming western True Grit. After auditioning more than 15,000 teenage actresses for the role of the bloodthirsty orphan Mattie, the Oscar-winning brothers selected 13-year-old Hailee Steinfeld. Although Steinfeld has a couple of minor credits to her […]
Read morePirates 4: Knightley and Bloom out! Ian McShane in!
February 23, 2010 1 Comment
source: slashfilm.com Everyone’s favourite saloon keeper, Ian McShane, is in talks to play Blackbeard in the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. McShane will join Johnny Depp (once again reprising his role as Jack Sparrow) and Penelope Cruz (who is playing an unknown character that is “Sparrow’s foil and equal in many […]
Read moreNow is the season of our discontent – The Damned United review
February 23, 2010 0 Comments
The Damned United – Starring Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney. Directed by Tom Hooper. Rated M. Originally published October 20, 2009. By Simon Miraudo. Ask any soccer fan and they’ll tell you the same thing: You’ll find more drama in one season of football than in any of Shakespeare’s artsy-fartsy works. Take the […]
Read moreKevin Smith pulls Seann William Scott off the bench for Hit Somebody
February 22, 2010 0 Comments
source: nhl.com Kevin Smith has revealed that Seann William Scott will star in his next project, the ice hockey comedy Hit Somebody. The screenplay is based on Warren Zevon’s song of the same name, with lyrics by Mitch Albom, about a hockey enforcer named Buddy who wishes to score just one goal in a game. […]
Read moreThe Hurt Locker, Up in the Air win top WGA awards
February 22, 2010 0 Comments
source: wga.org The Writers Guild of America recognised the best screenplays in film and television this past weekend, with top prizes going to Oscar favourites The Hurt Locker and Up in the Air. Mark Boal won Best Original Screenplay for The Hurt Locker, beating the scripts for (500) Days of Summer, Avatar, The Hangover and […]
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