Posted 11/21/11 5:08 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Dailies
"Immortals" is a movie for the guys, and Relativity wants you to know it, "Twilight" fans.
A new ad for the Tarsem Singh-directed action flick is trying to sell the film to a male audience while "the girls are at 'Twilight.'" "Real men can still get some action," the TV spot promises. Then again, I can highly recommend "Immortals" as a female-friendly flick as well (hell-ooo Henry Cavill). Your move, "Breaking Dawn -- Part 1."
Check out the rest of today's film news after the jump!
Posted 8/2/11 12:46 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Casting Call
Bradley Cooper should be looking at his silver linings as he and his "Limitless" costar Robert De Niro are in talks to team up with director David O Russell for "The Silver Linings Playbook."
Deadline has the news that Cooper and De Niro are in negotiations for the flick. Cooper would be replacing Mark Wahlberg, who departed due to other obligations. Jennifer Lawrence is still committed as the movie's leading lady.
Check out the rest of today's casting news after the jump!
Posted 5/23/11 10:16 am EST by Josh Wigler in Casting Call, News
Disney managed to avoid it, but Universal and Tom Cruise won't escape "Oblivion."
The movie studio and "Mission Impossible" star have committed to making the $100 million science fiction epic "Oblivion" from "Tron Legacy" director Joseph Kosinski, reports Deadline. Production is set to start in October on the film about an apocalyptic future where mankind has moved into the clouds over an uninhabitable surface. Cruise plays a soldier who works alone on the surface, where he meets a beautiful woman and begins questioning everything he knows.
There's more casting news past the jump, including new additions to "The Dark Knight Rises" and a new project for "Hunger Games" actress Jennifer Lawrence!
Posted 5/11/11 11:33 am EST by Josh Wigler in Casting Call, News
Rachel Weisz is following the yellow brick road, and it's leading her to… Jason Bourne's replacement?
Following up on last week's report that the Oscar-winning actress was in talks for a role in Sam Raimi's "Oz the Great and Powerful" comes word from Deadline that Weisz is in even deeper talks to join Jeremy Renner in "The Bourne Legacy." No details on who Weisz would be playing, sadly, and it's possible that she won't be able to pursue both projects due to overlapping shooting schedules. As always, stay tuned.
There's plenty more casting news past the jump, including Alec Baldwin's potential departure from "Rock of Ages" and Kiefer Sutherland's latest heist!
Posted 8/9/10 1:19 pm EST by Adam Rosenberg in News
Ethan Hawke's been an Interpol agent, a philosophizing dream-walker, a vampire with a conscience, a good-guy cop, a bad-guy cop and all sorts of other things in his career. Violinist is a new one though.
Variety reports that Hawke has joined the cast of director Yaron Zilberman's "A Late Quartet." He'll star as a depressed second violinist who feels he doesn't spend enough time in the spotlight. Some marital infidelity ensues and Hawke's character is left feeling miserable as a result of his actions. Serves him right. After that, the actor will be returning to the theatrical stage for a pair of upcoming productions: "Blood From a Stone" and "The Numbers Station."
Posted 3/12/10 4:00 pm EST by Adam Rosenberg in News
One of my favorite movies at Sundance in 2009 was Antoine Fuqua's cop drama "Brooklyn's Finest," which finally hit theaters last week. One thing I've noticed about the movie since that Sundance cut is a small yet significant change made to the ending. When MTV's Josh Horowitz spoke to Fuqua recently at the film's press junket, I requested that he ask about the ending and why it was changed.
"That ending was an experiment," Fuqua said. "The Sundance cut was a chance for me to put the movie in front of a real audience. It wasn't done at all, by far. Everything is temporary. What it did was it allowed me to watch it with an audience reaction and then go back and go to my original notes, and then follow... again why I wanted to tell the story which dictated that ending."
This is all pretty vague so far, and that's because I'm trying to keep spoilers after the jump. So if you haven't seen the movie, click onwards at your own risk. Read More...
Posted 1/8/10 2:30 pm EST by Adam Rosenberg in Photos
"Daybreakers" hits theaters today, a surprisingly original vampire sci-fi flick from Michael and Peter Spierig. I've seen it twice now, and I really enjoyed both trips. It might not achieve the same numbers that "Avatar" has at the box office, but it's an action-packed, blood-soaked vampire tale which ought to appeal to people who want a change of pace from Stephenie Meyer's sparkling romances.
The stars came out last night for the New York City premiere of "Daybreakers," including the movie's two main protagonists, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe. You can see them and others in our flipbook image gallery from the event; just click the image below to check it out!
FROM MTV.COM: Things would be real different if vampires ruled the world. Coffee would come spiked with hemoglobin, not half-and-half. Tooth-whitener ads would feature fangs. And the most compelling public-service announcement would be an hourly sunrise advisory. Some things would suck in a new way, too. As one weary vampire puts it in "Daybreakers," the inventive new genre flick from Australia, "Life's a bitch, and then you don't die."
The movie presents us with a world in which vampires do rule. Humans have been so successfully blood-farmed by a vampire corporation called Bromley Marks that they're now an endangered species. Only small bands of them remain at large, armed with stake-shooting crossbows and hiding out in the sunny countryside, where they're hard for the undead authorities to catch. With the vampire food supply running low, and consumer unrest on the rise, the corporation's elegantly sinister CEO, Charles Bromley (Sam Neill), is driving his staff scientists to find a blood substitute. His chief researcher, Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke), is on the case; but Dalton sympathizes with the humans, and his real goal is to find a cure for vampirism — which is not what the profit-oriented Bromley has in mind. ("Besides," he asks, sipping from a glass of arterial claret, "what's to cure?")
Continue reading 'Daybreakers': Blood Types, By Kurt Loder
Posted 1/5/10 3:30 pm EST by Adam Rosenberg in Video
Ah "Daybreakers." Much like Stephenie Meyer's phenomenally popular "Twilight" series, you give us a fresh, original viewpoint on a long-since-established cornerstone of popular culture: the vampire myth.
The world of "Daybreakers" is one that has been overrun by a humanity transformed into the blood-suckers. Few humans remain and blood supplies are dwindling. Life has in many ways carried on as it always has when the story opens, only now blood is mixed into everyone's diet. In this exclusive clip, we see star Ethan Hawke's Edward treating a patient with a synthetic blood substitute that he's developed. Things do not go as planned...
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'Daybreakers' Vampire Edward Dalton And 'Twilight' Vampire Edward Cullen Aren't So Different
Posted 1/8/10 5:00 pm EST by Adam Rosenberg in Commentary
As anyone who has seen both "Daybreakers" and "Twilight" will tell you, there's a night-and-uhhh... other night difference between their respective treatments of the vampire mythos. You might also expect that each story's hero vampire -- high-schooler Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and scientist Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke) -- are vastly different. Wrong. Despite the vast differences in tone between the two movies, the two Edwards are actually remarkably similar in some fundamental ways.
Let's delve a little deeper into the similarities, shall we? Readers beware: spoilers lie ahead for both movies. I won't be spoiling any major twists for "Daybreakers" (there are a few), but if you want to remain entirely pure, you'd best wait until after seeing the movie to read this feature. Read More...
Tags Ethan hawke, Kristen-Stewart, New Moon, robert pattinson, Twilight