Maple Leaf Snuggle Bunny to direct a fairytale Your favourite colouring book subject, hug toy, v-neck wearing man puppy is becoming a director. Ryan Gosling announced today that he’s written a “modern day fairytale” called How To Catch A Monster and that he’ll assume directing duties himself. He’ll be working with the same producers from By Lainey • Aug 29, 2012 02:22 pm
Media Manipulation Thor is a free agent Literally, he is free of an agent. Deadline reports that Chris Hemsworth, after the success of The Avengers and coming off his biggest payday ever, Snow White and the Huntsman, has broken up with his agent of four years, IFA’s Ilene Feldman. They cite differences stemming from negotiations for By Sarah • Aug 27, 2012 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo from the 80s Leonardo DiCaprio is shooting a new movie with Martin Scorsese called The Wolf Of Wall Street. Here he is on set in New York the last few days wearing dark hair and a suit cut from the 80s. Costume designers don’t get enough credit sometimes for hitting exactly the By Lainey • Aug 27, 2012 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JKL NYC Oh look it’s Matthew McConaughey chilling on a street bench in New York today, wearing and living his motto... Just Keep Livin’ I mean, where else would you find him? This is what he actually does. As he tries not to think about food. McConaughey is supposed to lose By Lainey • Aug 22, 2012 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’ leading lady is… Captain America 2 is casting its female lead, with the final choice said to be down to Anna Kendrick, Imogen Poots and Felicity Jones. That’s an intriguing list, not only for what it says about which character they might be playing, but what we can expect Cap 2 to By Sarah • Aug 21, 2012 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Master in Chicago The crowd stretched down the block and around the corner, hundreds of people pouring onto Southport on a night when the Cubs weren’t in town for the special Chicago screening of The Master last night. People were palpably excited, checking and re-checking tickets, everyone worried about an oversell. I By Sarah • Aug 17, 2012 10:40 am
Media Manipulation Jake Gyllenhaal could take a cue from Chris Evans That is a truly bizarre sentence to write. The last time Jake G had a movie in theaters was nearly eighteen months ago, last spring’s Source Code. Since then, he’s kept a relatively low profile as he recalibrates after his Movie Star dreams died a slow, inexorable death By Sarah • Aug 16, 2012 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colin Farrell’s date: mom Colin Farrell took his mother to the Irish premiere of Total Recall last night in Dublin. No, you can’t say Total Recall sh-t the bed. But it’s also fair to say that they would have wanted it to do better. A lot better. Nikki Finke over at Deadline By Lainey • Aug 15, 2012 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What’s next for Jeremy Renner and Bourne I’ve been tracking the rise of Jeremy Renner as his bid for legit Movie Stardom culminated with The Bourne Legacy. The late shift in schedule turned out to be a really good idea, puting enough distance between it and The Dark Knight Rises, allowing Legacy to take the #1 By Sarah • Aug 13, 2012 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bourne Legacy’s expectation gap I saw The Bourne Legacy, and I liked it. It’s not a perfect movie and it definitely has some issues (you can read my full review here) but it’s not bad, not by a long shot. And I certainly wasn’t disappointed by it, probably because I didn’ By Sarah • Aug 09, 2012 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pippy & Shelfy release trailers Gerard Butler’s Playing For Keeps was pushed back from its original release date more than once. Now they think the holiday season might be a good time for it to meet audiences. Gerard Butler + Jessica Biel as parents in a movie...in theatres... one week before The Hobbit and By Lainey • Aug 08, 2012 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joss Whedon, King of the Superheroes For those of us who’ve been Joss Whedon fans since the Buffy days, those of us who’ve suffered through cancelled TV shows and canned film projects, Whedon’s monster success with The Avengers is sweet. It’s like saying—See, we told you this guy was good, we By Sarah • Aug 08, 2012 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James McAvoy’s cut-off sleeves James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain continue to work on The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby which, to me, based on pap photos only and no other knowledge so, yes, an ignorant assumption, feels a little like One Day. Anyway, as you can see, their characters have an argument and he gets By Lainey • Aug 06, 2012 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews When bad movies attack: Total Recall edition Look, it’s not like I expected Total Recall to be good. The 1990 original isn’t really good, but at least it’s fun in that way that bad movies can be. So while I didn’t expect the remake of Total Recall to be good, per se, I By Sarah • Aug 06, 2012 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart: onward She’s been embroiled in a cheating scandal but today some good news for Kristen Stewart: Vulture is reporting exclusively that Stewart has been confirmed to play Peyton in the film adaptation of Styron’s Lie Down In Darkness. She beat out Jennifer Lawrence for the job. Peyton is... certainly By Lainey • Aug 02, 2012 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel wants to take over your TV, too In the wake of the success of The Avengers, Marvel is, of course, looking for ways to keep expanding their brand. Over the last few years, they’ve pursued traditional cross-platform partners with comic book tie-ins and an animated series (The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes), but now they’re By Sarah • Aug 01, 2012 10:04 am
