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'Snow White' Director Believes He Can Make 'Halo' Movie Work

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Studios have been trying to bring "Halo" to the big screen for several years now, and all have tried and failed. But in a new interview with MTV News, "Snow White and the Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders said he thinks he has what it takes to make "Halo" a successful film.

"I believe that given the freedom, I could make it work," he said. "I think the problem is that there are so many laws existing and so many people you have to be beholden to. [I would make it] if they said to me, here's the 'Halo' world, go do it, which would never happen."

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Disney Puts 'Order Of The Seven' On Hold

Posted 24 hours ago by in News


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It seems like "Snow White and the Huntsman" and "Mirror Mirror" won the battle of the Snow White movies. Disney had been developing their own dark take on the beloved fairy tale called "The Order of the Seven," but new reports say that they have put the project on hold indefinitely.

The Hollywood Reporter has the news, citing the movie's large budget as a reason for the cancellation. Apparently after the deemed box office failures of Disney's "John Carter" and Universal's "Battleship" -- both with budgets over $200 million -- Disney has decided to reassess their big tentpole movies.

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Natalie Portman To Star In Western 'Jane Got A Gun'

Posted 5/22/12 4:53 pm EST by in News


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Natalie Portman is lining up yet another big screen project, this time teaming her with "We Need To Talk About Kevin" helmer Lynne Ramsay. According to new reports, Portman is going to star in and produce Ramsay's upcoming Western, "Jane Got a Gun."

The Hollywood Reporter has the news, reporting that CAA is shopping the project around at the Cannes Film Festival. Apparently it has sparked quite the bidding war over there in southern France.

The movie follows titular character Jane after her outlaw husband returns to their home "barely alive and riddled with bullet wounds." She then is forced to turn to her ex and ask for his assistance in defending her home from her husband's gang, who are looking to finish off their former member.

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'Prometheus' Featurette Introduces Meredith Vickers, Charlize Theron's Company Creep

Posted 5/22/12 4:03 pm EST by in News


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With only two and a half weeks left until "Prometheus" hits the big screen, we're being treated to a more in depth look at the characters in the film. We've already learned about David and got to know Elizabeth Shaw, and now we're being introduced to Charlize Theron's villainous Meredith Vickers.

"She works for the Weyland company who built this spaceship and has basically funded this mission to find the origins of where we come from," Theron said in the newest featurette revealed through the "Prometheus" viral. "She really is the character that in many ways goes against everything that everybody else is there to do."

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Tom Hardy Controls The Fear In 'Lawless' Clips

Posted 5/22/12 3:11 pm EST by in News, Video


We wouldn't consider ourselves in a superhero overload right now, but it is nice to have other movies that aren't about caped (and suited and masked) crusaders to look forward to. That's why we're so thrilled for movies like "Prometheus," "Snow White and the Huntsman" and John Hillcoat's latest, "Lawless," to finally hit theaters.

The latter doesn't come out until August 29, but two new clips for the Depression-era crime drama have hit the web that make us wish it was coming out this Friday. The scenes continue the drama that was set up in the first trailer released, namely the tension between Tom Hardy's Forrest Bondurant and Guy Pearce's Special Deputy Charlie Rakes and the relationship between Forrest and his younger brother Jack, played by Shia LaBeouf.

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Tom Cruise To Star In 'Magnificent Seven' Remake

Posted 5/22/12 2:15 pm EST by in News


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Get ready to saddle up, because Tom Cruise is aiming to star in a remake of "The Magnificent Seven."

Keep in mind that this is actually a remake of a remake, as MGM's 1960 Western was actually a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic "Seven Samurai." This project is still in its very early stages of development -- it doesn't even have a writer yet -- so we hope that the studio turns to the original source material in their creation of this film.

Variety broke the news about the project, stating that MGM is starting its search for a writer, though no director is on board yet. Apparently Cruise has been looking to develop the movie for a while now, which is why he's agreed to join the film even though it's still a long ways off.

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Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy Set For Paul Feig's Cop Comedy

Posted 5/21/12 4:22 pm EST by in News


When we heard that Paul Feig was directing a buddy cop movie next, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy weren't the first actors' names to come to mind to star in it. But that is exactly who the "Bridesmaids" director has pegged to be the leads in his new untitled comedy, and now they seem like a match made in heaven.

The movie will follow Bullock as an FBI agent who is forced to work with McCarthy, an "unconventional" Boston police officer. The Hollywood Reporter describes their relationship as "strained," which means we should be in for a treat once this flick hits the big screen.

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Duncan Jones To Direct Biopic About James Bond Creator Ian Fleming

Posted 5/21/12 3:53 pm EST by in News


With the "Skyfall" teaser still hot off the presses (and viewable below no less!), it was just announced that "Moon" director Duncan Jones will helm a biopic about "James Bond" creator Ian Fleming.

Variety has the news, saying that Jones is already busy casting the film, and it should begin shooting within the year. The project will be based on Andrew Lycett's biography, "Ian Fleming, the Man Behind James Bond."

For those of you who don't know much about Fleming, his life was almost as exciting as that of the British Secret Service agent that he created. He worked as a writer for Reuters before being recruited into the Royal Navy during World War II. There he formed a group of specialized intelligence troops and blossomed in the position. Following the war, he worked as a journalist again before he started writing the "James Bond" novels in his Jamaican home, Goldeneye.

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Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs Biopic Announces Title: 'jOBS'

Posted 5/21/12 2:06 pm EST by in News


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Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs biopic now has a name: "jOBS."

The folks over at Five Star Feature Films decided to go with that name as a way to honor the lowercase 'i' branding that Jobs made famous with his iMacs, iPods and iPhones. The film will begin filming in June, and had been tentatively called "Jobs: Get Inspired."

"jOBS" is being directed by "Swing Vote" helmer Joshua Michael Stern. It also stars "Book of Mormon" star Josh Gad as Apple's other co-founder, Steve Wozniak. According to a press release released by Five Star, "jOBS" will follow Jobs from "his early years as an impressionable youth and wayward hippie, through his initial successes and infamous ousting, to his storybook return and ultimate triumphs as a man who set out to change the world and did just that."

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Peter Berg Explains The Reference To 'Battleship's' Famous Line

Posted 5/18/12 5:06 pm EST by in News


Spoiler alert: No one says "you sunk my battleship" in "Battleship." But director Peter Berg has a very good explanation for that. No one said it in the movie because the Regents didn't sink the Navy's battleships.

But before you get all up in arms about the omission, there is an homage to the famous admission of defeat from the Battleship pencil and paper game in the feature film. Fans just might miss it during their first go around.

"We have a version of it though. There was a reference to the line," Berg promised in a recent interview with MTV News.

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