Gary Oldman's Oscar nomination has been a long time coming, so excuse the Englishman for getting a little cast crazy in the post-ceremony celebration.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Oldman is entering final negotiations to play the villain of "Motor City," a movie about "a small-time hood who is framed and sent to prison, only to exact revenge years later to get back the woman he loves." Directed by Albert Hughes, who previously helmed "The Book of Eli" and "From Hell," it will look to start shooting in April.
In May of this year, Albert Hughes walked away from the live-action adaptation of 
Who knew that hangovers could pay so well?
"Menace II Society" certainly doesn't seem like the work of immature filmmakers. Though the 1993 film tells the story of teens living in Los Angeles, there is nothing juvenile about the searing portrait it paints of violence, fellowship and survival, nor of the cinéma vérité style in which it is told.
"The Book of Eli" officially has my interest. We've watched the film rack up a pretty nice casting line-up in Denzel Washington, 
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