In an exclusive interview with MTV News, “WALL-E” writer/director Andrew Stanton dished the most details yet about the progress of his next feature, “John Carter of Mars,” an adaptation of a nearly hundred-year-old serialized novel about a Civil War vet mysteriously transported to the Red Planet, where he encounters all manner of alien adventures.
“It’s real,” Stanton assured us. “We’re full bore on it right now. We’re over the hump of the writing phase, and we’re certainly far from rewrites.”
Before he could even get to that point, Stanton had to solve a problem that had stymied filmmakers for eighty years: How do you turn the six separate installments of the novel into a coherent whole? Read More...
Of all the questions surrounding the May 2009 “Terminator” reboot -- did the epic failure of “T3” kill the franchise forever? Can Christian Bale convincingly play both Bruce Wayne and John Connor? -- perhaps the biggest one is why Warner Bros. would hand the keys to such an important, beloved property to the director of such vaunted fare as “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and an episode of NBC’s “Chuck”?
It's a pairing made in tomb raider heaven. Brendan Fraser, man of all those
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Imagine that you’re an actress not even forty years old, and you’ve already been nominated for the Oscar four times, won it once, and worked alongside everyone from Steven Spielberg to Leonardo DiCaprio to Peter Jackson and many others. Where does
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Dear Drew,
It's fitting that a pair of dark rags-to-riches stories in which the underdog endures great pain to rise up triumphed Sunday night at the
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