http://www.comingsoon.net Do you know what's coming? en-us Feb 9, 2012 The trailer for Focus Features' Seeking a Friend at the End of the World has debuted at Yahoo! Movies and you can check it out below. The comedy stars Steve Carell and Keira Knightley and marks the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Lorene Scafaria ( Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist ). Set in a too-near future, the movie explores what people will do when humanity's last days are at hand. As the respective journeys of Dodge (Carell) and Penny (Knightley) converge, the two spark to each other and their outlooks – if not the world's – brighten. The poster for the film debuted yesterday and you can check it out here . Seeking a Friend at the End of the World is scheduled for a June 22nd release. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86883 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86883 Feb 9, 2012 Patton Oswalt looks likely to play a supporting role in 20th Century Fox's upcoming remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty , Variety reports. The film, which will both star and be directed by Ben Stiller (his first directorial project since 2008's Tropic Thunder ), is a remake of a 1947 film that featured Danny Kaye in the lead. That film was, in turn, based on the James Thurber short story first published in The New Yorker in 1939. In the story, a henpecked husband (Stiller) copes with the frustrations of his dull life by imagining he is a fearless airplane pilot, a brilliant doctor, and more. Wiig would play a co-worker to Mitty and also an alternate version of that character in the fantasy sequences. The current version of the film will feature a script from Steve... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86882 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86882 Feb 9, 2012 DreamWorks has plans to bring Daphne du Maruier's 1938 novel Rebecca back to the big screen. Variety reports that Steven Knight has signed on to re-adapt the original book, which was famously adapted for the screen in a 1940 effort directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The book tells the story of an unnamed American woman who marries a rich Englishman, Maximilian de Winter. Moving into his estate, though. she finds herself confronted by the echoes of her new husband's first wife, Rebecca and beings to unravel a mystery that lives on even after Rebecca's death. The film version starred Joan Fontaine as the central heroine and Laurence Olivier as de Winter. Knight is best known for supplying the screenplays to 2002's Dirty Pretty Things and 2007's Eastern Promises . http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86881 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86881 Feb 9, 2012 John Cusack and Evan Peters have joined the cast of Treehouse Pictures and Anonymous Content's Adult World , Deadline reports. They'll appear opposite Emma Roberts in the leading role of a story officially described is as follows: Amy (Roberts) is fresh out of the Ivy League and has dreamed of being a great poet since childhood. However, she discovers that adult life is not conducive to achieving her dreams. After exhausting all of the help-wanted ads in the newspaper, she ends up working as a clerk in an adult bookstore after her parents boot her out of their house. Scott Coffey will direct the project with a script from Andy Cochran and shooting has just begun in Syracuse, New York. Cusack, who will play a mentor to Amy named Rat Billings, can soon be seen in The... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86880 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86880 Feb 9, 2012 Though she was confirmed to be joining the production last November , EW is now reporting that Miley Cyrus has dropped out of the Sony Pictures Animation project Hotel Transylvania . Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky ("Samurai Jack," "Dexter's Laboratory"), the film is officially described as follows: Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's (Sandler) lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free from meddling from the human world. But here's a little known fact about Dracula: he is not only the Prince of Darkness; he is also a dad. Over-protective of his teenage daughter, Mavis, Dracula fabricates tales of elaborate dangers to dissuade her adventurous spirit. As a haven for Mavis, he opens the Hotel Transylvania,... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86879 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86879 Feb 9, 2012 HBO has released 17 photos from the second season of "Game of Thrones" which premieres on April 1st. The pics feature many of your favorite denizens of Westeros and give you a first look at Brienne, Melisandre and some of the other new characters who will be introduced. You can check them out by clicking here or on the photo below! http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=86878 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=86878 Feb 9, 2012 Announced last October , Clint Eastwood is planning a return to acting with Trouble with the Curve , to be directed by Robert Lorenz. Today, Variety confirms that the film will be a family affair with his son, Scott Eastwood, signing on as well. Scott joins a cast that also includes Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman. From screenwriter Randy Brown, Trouble with the Curve features Eastwood as a baseball scout who is losing his vision with his age just as he and his daughter (Adams) take a final road trip to Atlanta to check out a prospective talent. Scott will play Billy Clark, a minor league player. Director Lorenz has been working with Eastwood as an assistant director as far back as The Bridges of Madison County . This project will mark his full directing... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86876 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86876 Feb 9, 2012 In the new "Bourne"-style thriller Safe House , Ryan Reynolds plays a young CIA agent trying to prove himself by trying to turn in a criminal mastermind played by Denzel Washington. Along the way he begins to question whether he can trust anyone, and does what he can to protect his girlfriend. She is played by 22-year-old French beauty Nora Arnezeder, who made a splash in the 2008 musical Paris 36 . We had an exclusive 1-on-1 chat with Nora about her first major Hollywood role, her recent Sundance debut The Words , and her part in the remake of 1980's slasher classic Maniac . CS: Tell us about your character, Ana Moreau. Nora Arnezeder: She's a French girl working in the medical field. She's the lover of Matt, Ryan Reynolds' character. Her dream would be to go to... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86613 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86613 Feb 9, 2012 Man of Steel star Henry Cavill is in negotiations to next star in Legendary East's The Great Wall , to be directed by Edward Zwick, reports Variety . The film was written by Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. According to the trade, the film "looks at the mystery behind how China's Great Wall was constructed from a story conceived by Legendary Pictures chairman Thomas Tull and Max Brooks." Zwick, Herskovitz, Tull and Legendary's Jon Jashni will produce along with Atlas Entertainment's Alex Gartner and Chuck Roven. (Photo Credit: WENN.com) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86864 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86864 Feb 9, 2012 Despite putting the movie on hold to sort out budgetary issues, Legendary Pictures is shelving Paradise Lost , the film from director Alex Proyas and starring Bradley Cooper. Budgetary issues were, once again, the concern, says Variety . Not long ago, pre-production was brought to a stand-still when Legendary thought it would be beneficial to take another crack at the script to bring the costs down. That remedy didn't seem to help out. Sources tell the site that the technology to pull the film off wasn't there. Based on John Milton's 17-century poem, the film was to focus on a war in heaven and the rivalry between the archangels Michael and Lucifer. Cooper was to star alongside Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Purcell, Callan McAuliff, Camilla Belle and Casey Affleck. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86863 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86863 Feb 9, 2012 Following our set visit report earlier today, Walt Disney Pictures has released this new action-packed TV spot for John Carter , coming to 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on March 9. Directed by Andrew Stanton, the film stars Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy, Daryl Sabara, Polly Walker, Bryan Cranston, Thomas Hayden Church and Willem Dafoe. John Carter tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86862 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86862 Feb 9, 2012 Morgan Freeman is joining the Joseph Kosinski-directed film that has gone by both the titles "Oblivion" (which is what the comic is called) and "Horizons." He'll be joining Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough and Olga Kurylenko in the Universal release. The film is based on Kosinski's own Radical Publishing comic book series, which is described as follows: In a future where the Earth's surface has been irradiated beyond recognition, the remnants of humanity live above the clouds, safe from the brutal alien Scavengers that stalk the ruins. But when surface drone repairman Jak discovers a mysterious woman in a crash-landed pod, it sets off an unstoppable chain of events that will force him to question everything he knows. Michael Arndt is rewriting a script by... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86861 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86861 Feb 9, 2012 The Weinstein Company has announced that Sean Combs has joined the Oscar-nominated documentary Undefeated as executive producer and will executive produce the upcoming remake: The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that Grammy® Award-winning rapper/producer/actor/entrepreneur Sean Combs has signed on as an executive producer of the studio's new documentary UNDEFEATED, which has been nominated for the 2012 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature. Combs will also be an executive producer on TWC's planned feature remake of UNDEFEATED. Directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, UNDEFEATED is a coming-of-age verite-style documentary centering on several young student-athletes and the volunteer coach who guides them through a rough, yet rewarding, football season in... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86860 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86860 Feb 9, 2012 Since his serialized magazine debut 100 years ago, Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter has fueled the world's imagination as a man caught between two worlds. Traveling from Earth to Mars, Carter uses the strength, skills and morals of the former to forge his destiny in the latter. It's only appropriate then, that Andrew Stanton, the man responsible for finally bringing Carter to the screen, is simultaneously crossing worlds of his own, moving from directing animated fare like Finding Nemo and WALL-E to embracing an epically scaled live-action production roughly five years in the making. In an unprecedented invitation, ComingSoon.net traveled twice to see two very different sides of Stanton's film. The first set visit, in February of 2010, took place at Surrey, England's... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86102 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86102 Feb 9, 2012 SEGA today revealed the cover art for Aliens: Colonial Marines which you can view below. In partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products and developed by Gearbox Software, Aliens: Colonial Marines will bring new levels of bone-chilling suspense and adrenaline-filled action to the renowned franchise. The game pits players against the universe's ultimate alien killing machines, the Xenomorphs, in claustrophobic environments guaranteed to produce blood curdling thrills that the movie is renowned for. Aliens: Colonial Marines begins with an ostensibly abandoned ship, the U.S.S. Sulaco, recovered in orbit around LV-426. Players lead a group of highly trained United States Colonial Marines as they board the deserted craft to uncover the fate of the crew. They will have... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/gamenews.php?id=86857 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/gamenews.php?id=86857 Feb 9, 2012 Entertainment Weekly has revealed the first photo from In Bruges writer/director Martin McDonagh's new action-comedy Seven Psychopaths , starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits and Olga Kurylenko. Farrell stars as a struggling screenwriter, who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Rockwell) and (Walken) kidnap a gangster's (Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu. The movie is expected to hit theaters this fall. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86852 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86852 Feb 9, 2012 It was announced earlier this week that Robert Rodriguez is planning an April shoot for Machete Kills , which will return Danny Trejo to the character he played in a fake trailer featured in Grindhouse and then the 2010 feature Machete . We now have a look at sales art that was made to promote the film at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin this week. Rodriguez had announced last summer that Machete Kills was greenlit and will include a Grindhouse-style trailer for the third (at the moment fictional) entry in the "Machete" franchise, Machete Kills Again... In Space! . The new film is said to have Machete teaming with the U.S. Government to take on a Mexican drug cartel and a James Bond-style villain who seeks world domination with a satellite weapon.... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86851 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86851 Feb 9, 2012 Ecosse Films has announced that British-born Academy award-nominated actress Naomi Watts ( J. Edgar , Eastern Promises , Fair Game , 21 Grams ) will play the role of Princess Diana in the upcoming movie Caught in Flight . Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Academy Award-nominated Downfall ), and based on the screenplay by Stephen Jeffreys, production will begin in the UK later this year. Caught in Flight is a compelling portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales during the last two years of her life. It charts how finding true personal happiness for the first time allowed her to achieve her defining successes evolving into a major international campaigner and humanitarian. Speaking earlier, Naomi Watts, who will next be seen starring in The Impossible opposite Ewan McGregor... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86850 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86850 Feb 9, 2012 German helmer Daniel Stamm ( The Last Exorcism ) is set to helm psychological thriller The Darkness , which HanWay Films will unveil to buyers at the Berlinale this week. The project will topline Mary Elizabeth Winstead ( Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ) as an American student looking after her tutor's two children in a remote English manor house. She soon comes to believe that she and the children are being haunted when their lives are threatened by mysterious events. Megan Holley penned the script, while Occupant Entertainment’s Joe Neurauter and Felipe Marino and Management 360's Ben Forkner will produce. Genre-specialty banner XYZ Films, whose Gareth Evans helmer The Raid has been a critical success at festivals, will executive produce The Darkness . The film is... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86849 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86849 Feb 9, 2012 Columbia Pictures has released a fourth clip from Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance which you can watch below. To check out the previously-released clips, click here . Coming to 3D and 2D theaters on February 17, the action adventure stars Nicolas Cage, Fergus Riordan, Ciaran Hinds, Violante Placido, Idris Elba and Johnny Whitworth. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor directed the PG-13 release. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86847 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86847 Feb 8, 2012 Confirmed earlier today to be re-teaming for the action-thriller The Tomb , Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone will next appear on the big screen in August 17th's The Expendables 2 . Between now and then, however, they're real-life hospital partners as you can see in the below image, just posted by Schwarzenegger with the following comment: "After all the action, stunts & physical abuse shooting The Expendables 2 and The Last Stand, it was time for a little tune up on my shoulder. Look who was coincidentally waiting in line behind me for his shoulder surgery. Now we're ready for another round of great times and action when we shoot The Tomb. #greattobeback" The good news is, both are safe and appear to be in good spirits. Since the image isn't one... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86830 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86830 Feb 8, 2012 Billy Connolly is joining the cast of Peter Jackson's highly anticipated film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic The Hobbit . The announcement was made today by Jackson, who directed all three "The Lord of the Rings" films and is currently in production on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again , with the films shooting back-to-back in New Zealand. In the films, Connolly ( The Last Samurai , Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events ) will play Dain Ironfoot, a great dwarf warrior and cousin of Thorin Oakenshield. Peter Jackson welcomed the news of Connolly to Middle-earth: "We could not think of a more fitting actor to play Dain Ironfoot, the staunchest and toughest of Dwarves, than Billy Connelly, the Big Yin himself. With... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86828 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86828 Feb 8, 2012 Sullivan Stapleton ( Animal Kingdom ) could be headed to the fifth century, B.C. as Variety has word that he's being eyed to play a leading role in Noam Murro's 300: Battle of Artemisia . The film, a sequel to Zack Snyder's 300 (in turn based on Frank Miller's 1998 comic book miniseries), will tell, in part, the story of Greek General Themistocles, who lead Athens against Persian invaders in a battle that played out simultaneously with the Battle of Thermopylae (depicted in the first film). ComingSoon.net spoke with the film's producers last fall and got an update on the status of the quasi-sequel. "We have to say that Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, his writing partner, have killed it," said Mark Canton of the screenplay. "They've done a tremendous... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86826 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86826 Feb 8, 2012 It's been a busy week for updates on The Amazing Spider-Man with Monday's footage showcase event and the subsequent release of the new theatrical trailer . Today, director Marc Webb spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about some of the bigger stylistic elements that fans can expect in theaters later this summer. “There’s narrative differences," Webb explains, "like the Gwen Stacy saga is something from the comics that I’ve always really, really loved. There’s what happened to his parents, which is a huge thing. But there’s the villain, Dr. Connors and The Lizard, which never came to fruition in the movies.” Though the Lizard has had a few distinctly different artistic interpretations over the years, Webb says that he felt the key element in bringing... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86825 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86825 Feb 8, 2012 Jaimie Alexander has taken the female lead in the upcoming thriller Intersection , Variety reports. The film, already set to star Frank Grillo ( The Grey ), will feature Alexander as a woman who, along with her lover, plans to murder her husband. Things get complicated, however, when the lover and the husband wind up in a car accident together along a desert road in Morocco. Alexander is best know for her role as Sif in last year's Thor (a part she's confirmed to return to in next year's Thor 2 ). She's also set to appear in next year's The Last Stand opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Photo Credit: Adriana M. Barraza / WENN.com) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86821 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86821 Feb 8, 2012 Twentieth Century Fox has announced that The Three Stooges co-stars Jane Lynch and Kate Upton have been named Grand Marshals for the Daytona 500 and that Larry, Moe and Curly will deliver the Green Flag for the 54th Running of "The Great American Race." The studio has also provided us with two new photos from the film. As Grand Marshals, co-stars from the new Three Stooges movie Jane Lynch and Kate Upton will deliver the four most famous words in motorsports – “Drivers, start your engines.” Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos, and Will Sasso -- starring as Larry, Moe & Curly -– in the all new The Three Stooges movie from Twentieth Century Fox, will start the action by delivering the green flag at the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s most prestigious race, on Sunday, February... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86822 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86822 Feb 8, 2012 Glenn Close ( Albert Nobbs ), Tom Felton (the Harry Potter films) and Elizabeth Olsen ( Martha Marcy May Marlene ) are all negotiating to star in a big-screen version of Therese Raquin , Deadline reports. First published as a novel in 1867, Emile Zola's tale is arguably best known for its 1873 stage play version (also by Zola). The plot has the titular frenchwoman, Therese, plotting to murder her husband, Camille, with her new lover, Laurent. Though they successfully inact the deed, they find their subsequent married life haunted by the ghost of Camille. Olsen would play the part of Therese and Felton, Camille with Close appearing as Madame Raquin, the aunt of Therese and mother of Camille. Two of the bigger parts that remain to be cast are Laurent and Michaud, a police... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86820 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86820 Feb 8, 2012 Announced last October , Clint Eastwood is planning a return to acting with Trouble with the Curve , to be directed by Robert Lorenz. Today, Variety reports that John Goodman is joining the cast opposite both Eastwood and the previously announced Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake. From screenwriter Randy Brown, Trouble with the Curve features Eastwood as a baseball scout who is losing his vision with his age just as he and his daughter (Adams) take a final road trip to Atlanta to check out a prospective talent. Goodman will play Pete Klein, an old friend of Eastwood's character who also works in baseball scouting. Director Lorenz has been working with Eastwood as an assistant director as far back as The Bridges of Madison County . This project will mark his full... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86817 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86817 Feb 8, 2012 Production has now commenced on M. Night Shyamalan's next project, After Earth . Starring Will Smith and his son, Jaden, the film is shooting in Costa Rica and both Smith and Shyamalan have been sharing images and video from the set, which you can check out below. Set 1,000 years into the future, the film (formerly titled One Thousand A.E ) features a young boy who navigates an abandoned and sometimes scary Earth to save himself and his estranged father after their ship crashes. Written by Shyamalan, Gary Whitta and Stephen Gaghan, After Earth hits theaters on June 7, 2013. The first three photos are from Smith and arrive courtesy of his Facebook page while the video and the latter three images come from Shyamlan's official site and feature his comments.... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86816 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86816 Feb 8, 2012 Landing in theaters this Friday, Safe House stars Ryan Reynolds as CIA Agent Matt Weston. Responsible for guarding a secret facility in South Africa, Weston is suddenly tasked with watching over Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), a renegade former operative who has spent a decade evading capture. When the house comes under attack by heavily armed mercenaries, Weston is forced to flee with Frost as his prisoner. Pursued across South Africa as he tries to make his way to another safe house, one man begins to question his allegiances while the other slowly reveals his secrets. ComingSoon.net sat down to talk with the film's director, Daniel Espinosa, who is making his English-language debut. Best known for his 2010 Swedish film Snabba Cash ( Easy Money ), Espinosa talks about the... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86684 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86684