Aronofsky Eyeing The Tiger

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/aronofsky ... -the-tiger






http://www.totalfilm.com/news/sandra-bu ... to-gravity

Quite curious about that one


Tom Cruise taking on El Presidente? Could re-team with Jack Nicholson

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/tom-cruis ... presidente




Burke and Hare trailer online, Landis' horror comedy hits the web

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/burke-and ... ler-online


Bourne Legacy gets director Tony Gilroy - Ultimatum writer to helm fourth Bourne flick

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/bourne-le ... ony-gilroy


Idris Elba talks Alex Cross - 'I battle with it every day'

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/idris-elb ... alex-cross




http://www.totalfilm.com/news/emily-blunt-joins-looper


Trespass image released online - Nic Cage and Nic Kidman look scared

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/trespass- ... sed-online

I could be very wrong, but I suspect that'll be sh1te


Bruce Willis talks Expendables 2 - Stallone’s “going for all the marbles this time”

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/bruce-wil ... endables-2

With any luck he'll be 'going for a script this time' too - seriously, the dialogue makes the worst output of each of it's stars look fcuking golden

DIE HARD 5 Rolls In 2011?? Bruce Willis Says 'Probably'...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46890

Please just leave it alone


Why Snyder's On SUPERMAN!! And Has A Plot Point Been Revealed??

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46908


Peter Jackson Talks The HOBBIT Movie. No Greenlight Yet - 'You can’t believe everything you read'...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46953


See New AVATAR Footage!! A Trailer (And Details) For The Forthcoming, Newly Expanded, Blu-Ray Is Here!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46954

Holy rip-off...


David O. Russell to write and direct UNCHARTED: DRAKE'S FORTUNE!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46959

Good Lord, it may stand a chance!

The Hobbit 'could be most expensive film ever made'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film ... -made.html

New Halo Trilogies, Film Could Roll Out Starting in 2012


http://news.filefront.com/nycc-new-halo ... g-in-2012/

I see that the article mentions that legal costs have caused things to spiral out of control but the actual story of The Hobbit is much less complicated than Lord Of The Rings so unless it is going to have a lot of extra SFX sequences thrown in I don't see why it should cost $500 million. That's a ridiculous amount of money. I wonder if that figure includes all the advertising and promotion that would be needed as it used to be reckoned that you needed at least half as much again of the film's budget for that purpose.

Personally I don't think its worth making the Hobbit at such expense as its all been done so well in the LOTR trilogy.

Isn't it because the film's split into two parts? Though presumably a (effectively) combined production should be a fair bit cheaper than £500m?

The costs are partly hype, look see if you can work out where we spent the money!

Really depends on how it's been scheduled, how much work has to go into props, SFX, costume, make up, location fees etc.
If Peter Jackson came knocking on your door saying 'I need to use your land to get this shot', and bearing in mind what LOTR took, you're not likely to say 'Sure, you just carry on - buy us a pint and we'll call it quits.'
I suspect a lot of key people have upped their rates, is what I'm saying.

Its called Hollywood accountancy. Movies can take hundred of million of dollars if not billions in revenue above the "budget" but by clever and highly dubious accountancy methods they somehow never make a profit or it gets reduced massivly.

Yeah, the 'Babylon 5 Effect'

Hollywood accountancy usually happens after event, not before, however.
The cost of these two films - is it that unusual for a big event movie to cost $200 million?
Depending on what they're putting in these two films, $500 million is perhaps not out of the way. It's exceptional, yes, but then perhaps so is this project.

That is the budget and it might be designed to get attention, extra hype for the pre-sales to the TV companies. It helps with that aspect, plus they might have to keep within the budget with the credit conditions.

Zoolander 2 will “blow your mind” - Script is almost ready for the studios

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/zoolander ... -your-mind


Bourne Legacy will be a “stand-alone project” - Jason Bourne not in the fourth Bourne film

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/bourne-le ... ne-project

Sounds like a good idea, hope they can pull it off


They Live remake is sans sunglasses

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/they-live ... sunglasses

Peter Morgan talks Freddie Mercury biopic

Sacha Baron Cohen will soon be shrugging into the glittery stagewear of Freddie Mercury for a big screen biopic of the Queen singer, and writer Peter Morgan has been talking about what we should expect from the film.

Firstly, he reveals that it will not revolve entirely around Mercury’s contraction of AIDS, placing the focus instead on the frontman’s relationship with his other band members.

“I didn't want to write an AIDS movie, to be honest with you,” he tells Cinema Blend. “And then, I just looked at the period. It's sort of where he rejects [the other members of Queen] and comes back to them.

“It's sort of like a family movie. It's sort of like I hate my family, I want to be independent, and then I come back.”

The writer goes on to reveal that the film’s producers – Queen band members Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon – are giving him advice, though he’s unsure “how much they’ll like what I write”.

Sounds emotional. One thing we’re quite sure of – the film will include a re-staging of the 1985 Live Aid performance at Wembley Stadium.

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/peter-mor ... ury-biopic

Nice


Danny Boyle up for 28 Months Later?

Danny Boyle is rumoured to be interested in taking on a second sequel to his apocalyptic 28 Days Later.

Currently being pedalled about under the unofficial title 28 Months Later, Dread Central got word from the director himself on the threequel. Asked if he’d produce, Boyle responded: “Actually, I want to direct it.”

The project has been quietly moving around behind the scenes since 2007, with Russia a favoured setting. Though he didn't return for first sequel 28 Weeks Later, Boyle has mentioned in the past that he’d be interested in directing a third flick. Back in 2007, he had this to say:

“It’s to do with Russia actually. It’s to do with that part of the world. Not France. The second film hints that it gets to France eventually, and wipes out the French. But this third idea is actually more to do with Russia, but that’s actually all I can say.”

Three years on, could he be seriously considering it? Boyle’s next project will actually be a theatre production of Frankenstein, while he has a three year contract with Fox Searchlight, of which the upcoming 127 Hours is a part. But after that, he’s more than free enough for another 28 movie.

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/danny-boy ... nths-later

I wish they'd done more with Weeks, so I'm looking forward to this