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‘Catching Fire’ Update: Gary Ross Still in Talks to Direct ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel
Apr 9th
The Hunger Games has become a huge box office success, claiming the number one spot at the box office for three consecutive weeks, and grossing over $300 million domestically. But last week, word of Gary Ross not returning to direct Catching Fire , the sequel to The Hunger Games , flooded the Internet. Turns out we may have all jumped the gun, as word is now coming out that Ross may not have withdrawn his name as we previously reported.
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Loading ...‘Snow White’ Sequel Could Focus More on the ‘Huntsman’
Apr 9th
Snow White and the Huntsman , the Lord of the Rings -style fantasy treatment of the centuries-old princess fairy tale, is riding a high wave of positive buzz following nearly a months’ worth of newly-released trailers , featurettes , and TV spots . The promo materials suggest Universal and director Rupert Sanders (a respected veteran of the video game commercial industry) have a potential blockbuster hit on their hands. Snow White producer Joe Roth ( Alice in Wonderland ) made it known last summer that his new film could birth a new trilogy , should it indeed prove to be a satisfactory box office success.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Catching Fire’: 5 Good Replacement Directors for the ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel
Apr 9th
Gary Ross, the filmmaker behind the blockbuster hit The Hunger Games , is having a tough time negotiating his return for the sequel film, Catching Fire . Some argue that reports are overblown, but at the time of writing this, it’s questionable whether Ross will be returning for the second chapter in this series. With that in mind, we’ve come up a list of five possible directors who could successfully helm Catching Fire .
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Dark Knight Rises’ Officially Lands A PG-13 Rating
Apr 9th
Out of all the questions concerning Christopher Nolan’s concluding chapter to his Batman movie trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises , that of its rating was always one of the least interesting. It’s always been a forgone conclusion that the flick would be classified as a PG-13 affair – like its predecessors and a good chunk of Nolan’s filmography before it. Well, as it turns out… that’s exactly the case. Multiple sources (including Collider ) are now confirming that the MPAA has branded Dark Knight Rises with a PG-13 Rating, citing “intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language” as the basis
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Open Discussion – Apr 9, 2012
Apr 9th
As usual – talk about whatever you like as long as it’s related to movies, TV or Screen Rant itself – just remember to play nice. For you regular/return visitors, we’ll be testing some things on the site probably starting this week, so don’t be alarmed if you visit and things look different
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Mad Men’ Season 5, Episode 4: ‘Mystery Date’ Recap
Apr 9th
Taking a cue from a singular, horrific event that captivated the country in 1966, Mad Men threads the murder of eight student nurses in Chicago into the overall narrative of ‘Mystery Date,’ and creates an undercurrent of paranoia throughout the episode. As Pauline Francis (Pamela Dunlap) describes her upbringing to Sally (Kiernan Shipka), in which she was kicked across the room by her father and later told, “That was for nothing, so look out,” it largely sums up the feeling that part of being an adult is waiting for horrible things to happen, and having a certain amount of preparedness to combat them. But the horrible things don’t just come in the form of mass murder; they come as any number of grievances issued from one person to another.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: April 8th, 2012
Apr 8th
The Hunger Games remained the box office champion over the weekend, scoring another $33 million and upping its mighty cume to $302 million. The Jennifer Lawrence-led adventure has now scored over $400 million globally.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Movie Posters: ‘Cabin in the Woods’ & ‘Looper’
Apr 6th
Next week’s release, The Cabin in the Woods , sees Joss Whedon ( The Avengers ) and Drew Goddard (writer of Cloverfield ) try their hands at inverting the overdone slasher horror genre.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘American Reunion’: The Original Characters Then & Now
Apr 6th
It’s been thirteen years since the vulgar teen comedy American Pie exploded onto movie screens at the end of the 90’s. Since then, two sequels– featuring many of the original characters– were released in theaters, and a few wannabe Pies were sent directly to DVD. Arriving in theaters today is the eagerly-anticipated sequel American Reunion (read our review) , which reunites most of the original cast
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘X-Men: First Class 2′ To Begin Production In January 2013
Apr 6th
Pre-production for the next installment in 20th Century Fox’s semi-reboot/semi-prequel X-Men movie (tentatively titled X-Men: First Class 2 ) has been coming along at a fairly relaxed pace. That pattern continues today, with the news that cameras on the First Class sequel are slated to start rolling no sooner than the first month of 2013
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Awake’ Season 1, Episode 6: ‘That’s Not My Penguin’ Recap
Apr 6th
Since its premiere episode, Awake has been giving its audience reason to want to hold on to the two realities experienced by Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs), and those reasons are largely that after being introduced to his wife Hannah (Laura Allen) and his son Rex (Dylan Minnette), we find that they are two pretty compelling reasons for a man to want to engage in a split existence. The two characters also serve as an example to how the mystery of the show works contrary to most: like Britten, the audience doesn’t necessarily want the fragile balance of his two lives to be unsettled
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Titanic 3D’ Review
Apr 6th
Screen Rant’s Ben Kendrick reviews Titanic 3D Following the success of Avatar , James Cameron became the poster child for modern 3D in Hollywood – setting the gold standard for how filmmakers could approach the format artistically (i.e., subtle depth as opposed to gimmicky pop-out effects). As a result, more and more directors are coming around to the 3D format, and delivering their own enjoyable implementations of the effect (such as in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo )
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Director Gary Ross Talks ‘The Hunger Games,’ Katniss & Politics
Apr 6th
We are weeks into the release of director Gary Ross’s adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopic young adult fantasy The Hunger Games , and the film has continued to dominate at the box-office , with a domestic gross of $251 million and an international gross of a remarkable $364 million. We had the opportunity to sit down with Ross to talk about handling the challenges of adapting a first-person science-fiction novel with political overtones, into a film that works for all audiences.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Detailed New Image of The Hulk in ‘The Avengers’
Apr 5th
The Avengers promotional campaign is, at this point, threatening to go into overload mode. Stroll through the Internet these days and you’ll find a lot of fans who are starting to back away from any new trailers , TV spots , clips or featurettes about Marvel’s blockbuster superhero teamup, lest they see too much, too soon.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steven Seagal Offered ‘Expendables 3′ Role
Apr 5th
The Expendables was an unprecedented movie event in that it collected some of the biggest action stars in film (and/or sports entertainment) for a drag-out, blood-spattering, action flick orgy of violence and one-liners. Despite the kick of having stars like Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Randy Couture, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin in one movie, it was hard not to notice those stars who passed on the opportunity.
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