Michael Douglas 'very disappointed' by Edgar Wright's exit on Marvel's Ant-Man

Source : hitfix.com

Over the weekend, Marvel confirmed Peyton Reed as the new director of "Ant-Man," with "Anchorman" and "Step Brothers" mastermind Adam McKay working on the script. Previously, McKay was rumored to direct the film, but he ultimately passed on that job.

Reed steps in to fill the void left by Edgar Wright, who exited "Ant-Man" late last month due to creative differences with Marvel. However, even with a new director in placed, there’s an air of disappointment surrounding the Wright’s departure from the long-developing project.

“I was very disappointed,” Michael Douglas, who plays Hank Pym, told Schmoes Know. “I’m a big fan of his movies. It was a very disappointing situation. It happened very late into the game. I don’t think anybody’s quite recovered.”

“My heart goes out to Edgar,” he continued. “He’d been involved with the project for a long time. But he’s talented enough that you’ll be hearing a whole lot from him, and I’m sure with a little vengeance.”

Opening July 17, 2015, "Ant-Man" also stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, with Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Michael Peña, Patrick Wilson and Matt Gerald all reported to have roles.

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Hercules The New Trailer and Poster has arrived!

Starring :
Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Joseph Fiennes, Peter Mullan, John Hurt, Rebecca Ferguson, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Aksel Hennie, Reece Ritchie and Tobias Santelmann
Directed by : Brett Ratner 

Story :
The film is based on the Radical Studios graphic novel "Hercules: The Thracian Wars."

Haunted by a sin from his past, Hercules has become a mercenary. Along with five faithful companions, he travels ancient Greece selling his services for gold and using his legendary reputation to intimidate enemies. But when the benevolent ruler of Thrace and his daughter seek Hercules' help to defeat a savage and terrifying warlord, Hercules finds that in order for good to triumph and justice to prevail... he must again become the hero he once was... he must embrace his own myth... he must be Hercules.

Hercules The New Trailer

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Sinister Director will be tasked with Marvel's The Doctor Strange

Source : inquisitr.com

With Marvel’s Avengers lineup providing hit after hit, The House That Stan Lee Built is moving into some of its lesser-known properties for summer action fare. One of the next up will be Doctor Strange, master of the mystic arts, and Marvel is tapping a notable horror director to helm it.

For the uninitiated, Scott Derrickson ( Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose ) will be tasked with the tale of Doctor Stephen Strange.
Fans can also expect that Derrickson’s Strange will feature some cameos or shouts-out to other Marvel properties. Strange was already mentioned in other Avengers-related Marvel fare, even before Derrickson was given the director’s chair.

Since Derrickson is a horror director, he and the good Doctor could be a perfect pairing, like Robert Downey Jr. being cast as Tony Stark.

Derrickson will be working with Marvel’s Kevin Feige, for whom a Doctor Strange movie is a long-lived dream come true. Executive producing Derrickson’s work will be Louis D’Esposito, Vitoria Alonso, Alan Fine, Stan Lee, and Stephen Broussard.

Variety has praised Derrickson being named to helm Strange, pointing out that he’s quite capable of pulling big box office receipts out of smaller budgets. Derrickson’s Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose cost less than $20 million each, but both brought in more than twice that in profits.

While Derrickson prepares to get Doctor Strange out by 2016 or 2017, Marvel is still looking for directorial talent for another of its lesser known superheroes. Ant-Man recently lost its director, but it’s still set for a July 17, 2015 release. Marvel says another director will be announced soon.

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Sony in early talks with Jordan Vogt-Roberts to direct Metal Gear Solid movie

Source : deadline.com

Sony is finally getting it in gear on Metal Gear Solid, the live-action feature based on the top-selling video game. The studio is in early talks with Jordan Vogt-Roberts to come aboard and direct the film. Vogt-Roberts helmed The Kings Of Summer. The project is produced by Avi Arad, and it’s being steered by production president Michael De Luca.

This is a long-gestating project because it just took so long for the game creators and the studio to find themselves on the same page in how to tell the story of protagonist AFI FEST 2013 Presented By Audi Closing Night Gala Screening Of "Inside Llewyn Davis" - Red CarpetSolid Snake. Created by Hideo Kojima, the game has been around on PlayStation since 1998. Snake is a soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons facility to neutralize the terrorist threat from Foxhound, a renegade special forces unit. Snake must liberate two hostages — one the president of a major arms manufacturer — confront the terrorists, and stop them from launching a nuclear strike.

I’ve always thought that the transfer of video games to movies has been largely disappointing considering how imaginative the games are, but Hollywood is running out of superheroes and kiddie toys, so maybe it’s high time vidgames took center stage.

New Regency and Ubisoft have Michael Fassbender and Macbeth helmer Justin Kurzel poised to reteam on Assassin’s Creed, and they also have Doug Liman and Tom Hardy ready to go on Splinter Cell. Both movies seem to be on a fast track. Then there are others that should have but didn’t happen like Halo, which nearly got made as a Fox/Universal co-production with Neill Blomkamp directing and Peter Jackson producing, and then there was a version of Bioshock that Gore Verbinski planned to direct for Universal. Both of those projects faltered because the studios were wary of the budgets. Vogt-Roberts is repped by UTA.

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Ben Foster will be Playing The Role of Medivh in Warcraft Movie

Source : joystiq.com

We've known for almost half a year now some of the names attached to the Warcraft movie directed by Duncan Jones, but we haven't known who the actors would be playing. However, actor Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma, X-Men: The Last Stand) recently revealed to IGN that he will be playing the role of Medivh when the film hits theaters in 2016.

"He came up in a time protecting an area, and the way he protected this area was through magic," Foster said. "As peace returned to this land he took a break. He hung up his staff, so to speak, or let his guns get dusty. We meet him as his friends are returning asking for his help in a battle." We won't spoil how closely that does - or doesn't - fit with the established Warcraft lore, but you can always read up on the character if you like.

Warcraft has already finished filming, but will require extensive post-production work due to the movie's use of CG characters. Foster himself seemed impressed with the work done so far. "The way that they're pushing motion-capture - I just saw some of the test footage - it's unlike anything I've ever seen," he said. "It's performance-capture. It pushes it to the next level. It's going to be one hell of a 3D event."

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The Equalizer Movie Trailer 2014

Release Date: September 2014 

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Cast: 

Chloe Moretz, Denzel Washington, Melissa Leo, Haley Bennett, Marton Csokas, Vladimir Kulich, Johnny Messner, Robert Wahlberg

Story :

Based on famous tv's series The Equalizer, a former black ops commando who faked his death for a quiet life in Boston comes out of his retirement to rescue a young girl and finds himself face to face with Russian gangsters.

The Equalizer Movie Trailer 2014

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The Equalizer Movie Trailer 2014

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Robert De Niro will join Robert Pattinson in Idol's Eye

source : joblo.com

Director Olivier Assayas just scored a welcome addition to his new film IDOL'S EYE. Robert De Niro will now join Robert Pattinson for the movie which is being described as a sophisticated heist action-thriller.

The plot is still under wraps but is said to be based on a 2007 Playboy article called "Boosting The Big Tuna" by Hillel Levin which is inspired by actual events. The story follows a bunch of regular criminals who accidentally rob a porn store backed by Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo.

Checking out Accardo’s Wiki page, one can easily assume that De Niro might be up for the role of said mafia boss. Robert Pattinson, who is doing a great job of stepping away from being a glittery lust object by taking on more dramatic (THE ROVER) and sometimes bizarre (MAPS TO THE STARS, COSMOPOLIS) roles, should make for a good pair up with De Niro.

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Dwayne Johnson Reveals a new image from the set of San Andreas

Source: comingsoon.net

Cameras are officially rolling on director Brad Peyton's action disaster thriller San Andreas, starring Dwayne Johnson. As he did with the film's preproduction, Johnson is back on his official Facebook page today, revealing a new image from the set.

"The boys are back in town," he writes. "Strong 1st day of shooting, SAN ANDREAS (biggest earthquake of all time). On the sides are two of the best producers in Hollywood, Beau Flynn & Hiram Garcia. Next to me, my trusted, brilliant and handsome as a sumbitch director, Brad 'Fear The Beard' Peyton. Spielberg inspires us all... #TeamSanAndreas"

Set in the aftermath of a devastating California earthquake, the movie follows a helicopter pilot (Johnson) and his quest to save his estranged daughter. Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Colton Haynes and Art Parkinson also star in the June 5, 2015 release.

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New X-Men: Days of Future Past Character Video Spotlights The Wolverine

Source : superherohype.com

20th Century Fox has brought online a new character video that spotlights Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Opening in theaters on May 23, the film also stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Daniel Cudmore, Fan Bingbing, Boo Boo Stewart, Adan Canto, Evan Peters, Josh Helman, Lucas Till and Evan Jonigkeit.

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The beloved characters from the original "X-Men" film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class, in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.

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Ray Fisher will appear in Batman vs. Superman as Cyborg

Source: Variety

Broadway star Ray Fisher has joined the cast of Batman vs. Superman, with Variety revealing that he will appear in the forthcoming film as Cyborg.

For non-fans of the comic-books, Cyborg is the alter-ego of Victor Stone, the son of a pair of scientists who used him as a guinea pig for their various experiments.

When one of said experiments went badly wrong, Stone was critically wounded, and only revived by being kitted out with a host of bionic prostheses.

Fisher's casting confirms the rumour that Zack Snyder was looking to cast a black superhero for the production, while Henry Cavill had also made noises that he would like to see Cyborg in the forthcoming sequel.

Variety reports that Cyborg will appear in a minor role in Batman vs. Superman, before getting a good deal more screen time in the Justice League movie, whenever that eventually arrives.

Directed by Snyder and co-starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill and Jesse Eisenberg, Batman vs. Superman will open in the UK on 6 May 2016.

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Will Smith Eyes to star Superhero Tale Brilliance

Source: The Wrap

Will Smith is targeting Universal and Legendary Pictures' upcoming adaptation of Marcus Sakey's sci-fi/superhero novel Brilliance. The Wrap reports that Smith would play the lead role of Federal Agent Nick Cooper in the big screen version, to be directed by Julius Onah with a script by David Koepp.

The original book, published last year, is officially described as follows:

In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called “brilliants,” and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way. Nick Cooper is among them; a federal agent, Cooper has gifts rendering him exceptional at hunting terrorists. His latest target may be the most dangerous man alive, a brilliant drenched in blood and intent on provoking civil war. But to catch him, Cooper will have to violate everything he believes in—and betray his own kind.

Producers on Brilliance include Jon Jashni, Joe Roth and Thomas Tul with Alex Hedlund, Eric McLeod and Palek Patel executive producing.

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Twentieth Century Fox has cast the new Marvel's The Fantastic Four!

Source: TheWrap

Twentieth Century Fox has cast the new Marvel's The Fantastic Four! Jamie Bell, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Miles Teller are Josh Trank's The Fantastic Four. TheWrap broke the news, confirming months of rumors surrounding the involvement of Jordan, Mara and Teller and were the first to name Jamie Bell as the studio's choice for Ben Grimm, aka The Thing. Bell seems to be the only one without an official offer on the table, but it is very much expected that he will be confirmed by the studio shortly.

Teller will play Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), Mara will be Sue Storm (The Invisible Woman), Jordan is set to play Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) and Bell (likely through motion-capture) would be Ben Grimm (The Thing). Previous reports have suggested that Trank's iteration of the story also involves Dr. Victor Von Doom, so expect more casting on The Fantastic Four very soon.

Filming on The Fantastic Four is expected to begin in Baton Rouge this March. Josh Trank will direct the big screen adaptation, which is currently set for release on June 19, 2015.

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DreamWorks Pictures has brought Online New Need for Speed Featurette

Source: DreamWorks Pictures

DreamWorks Pictures has brought online a new featurette from director Scott Waugh's Need for Speed that focuses on one particular police chase sequence. Check it out in the player below!

Based on the most successful racing video game franchise ever, the March 14 release captures the thrills of the game in a real-world setting. Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Dominic Cooper, Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek, Harrison Gilbertson, Scott 'Kid Cudi' Mescudi, Michael Keaton and Dakota Johnson star in the Scott Waugh-directed film titled Need For Speed.

New Need for Speed Featurette

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Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Movie Trailer

Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Movie Trailer 

Source: Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios 

Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Studios have revealed the first trailer for director James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy which you can watch below!

Guardians of the Galaxy features an unlikely cast of characters who must team up in order to defeat a cosmic force of epic proportions. The August 1 release stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, Benicio del Toro, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, Gregg Henry, Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel.

Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Movie Trailer 

Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Movie Trailer

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New Action Movie Trailer - The Counselor

Source: comingsoon.net


A Russian teaser trailer for director Ridley Scott's The Counselor has come online and can be viewed below. We'll post the English version when it becomes available.

Starring Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Dean Norris, John Leguizamo and Natalie Dormer, the October 25 release tells of a present-day Southwest lawyer who gets in over his head in the drug trade.

New Action Movie Trailer - The Counselor

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New Action Movie Trailer - The Counselor

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Taken 3 to bag Liam Neeson $20m fee

Source : www.guardian.co.uk

Liam Neeson is on course for a huge payday to reprise his role as ass-kicking hardman Bryan Mills in a third Taken film, reports Deadline.


20th Century Fox and Luc Besson's EuropaCorp production company, which were partners on 2008's Taken and last year's Taken 2, is ready to make the Ballymena-born actor a member of the select $20m-a-movie club. Liam Neeson, 61, plays an ex-CIA operative in the series, which sees him taking bloody revenge a variety of thugs keen to mess with his family.

Having secured Neeson's services – the actor was reportedly wary of returning for a second Taken – Fox and EuropaCorp will now turn their attentions to his co-stars Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen. Grace plays Mills's daughter, while Janssen is his ex-wife – the pair having reconciled in part two. Olivier Megaton, who directed Taken 2, is unlikely to be back, according to Deadline. However, a screenplay by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, who wrote the first two films, is complete for part three and production is expected to begin in February 2014.

The first Taken movie made Liam Neeson a surprise action hero in his mid-50s, and the $20m (£13m) payday for part three suggests he has lost none of his currency in Hollywood. To date, the Taken movies have cost a total of $60m, yet returned more than 10 times that amount at the box office globally. Taken received a one sctar review from the Guardian's Xan Brooks, who called it a "dubious, morally bankrupt movie". Taken 2 fared better with Peter Bradshaw. He described the sequel as "tamer, [but] just as ridiculous" in his two star review.

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'World War Z' sequel in the works

Source : insidemovies.ew.com

Source close to Brad Pitt’s World War Z told The Associated Press on Monday that Paramount Pictures is likely to develop a sequel to the apocalyptic zombie thriller. The person was not authorized to announce the plans and spoke on condition of anonymity.

World War Z, based on Max Brooks’ novel, was always intended to spawn a trilogy for Brad Pitt, who stars as a United Nations inspector. But that seemed in doubt when the film ran significantly over budget, the ending had to be reshot and reports of turmoil among the filmmakers surfaced.

But the film opened strongly over the weekend, earning $66.4 million domestically and another $45.8 million internationally. That put it on course to easily recoup its production budget of about $200 million. Reviews, too, have been mostly positive, and the film earned a B+ CinemaScore from moviegoers over the weekend.


Brad Pitt, who’s also a producer on the film, has spent recent weeks traveling around the world to aggressively promote World War Z. When asked about the possibility of sequels in an interview last week, Brad Pitt said there was plenty of fodder.

“We’ve got so many good story lines stemming from the book or inspired by the book and then just generated from our own powwows,” he said. “It might still be fun. We’ve got enough material, that’s for sure.”

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Will Smith Not Returning For Independence Day 2

Source : www.ign.com

Roland Emmerich has revealed that Will Smith, who starred in the original Independence Day, will not be returning for the upcoming sequel.

Speaking to NY Daily News, the director confirmed that Smith wouldn't return as he'd need too much money, as well as being too big a name.

"Will Smith can not come back because he's too expensive, but he'd also be too much of a marquee name," he said. "It would be too much.

"We have like maybe half of the people that you know would know from the first film (in the script) and the other half people who are new."

It was announced last week that the sequel to the 1996 hit has a planned release date of July 3, 2015, 19 years after the original exploded into cinemas. There's still no official word on whether Bill Pullman will be back or not.

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Sony Announces THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3 and 4 Release

Source : collider.com

Just as Warner Bros. is celebrating its successful launch of what will hopefully be a fruitful DC Comics Movie Universe with the release of Man of Steel, Sony and Marvel have swooped in to steal some of that DC thunder.  Sony Pictures has announced that The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man 4 will be released in theaters on June 10, 2016 and May 4, 2018, respectively.  The studio rebooted the Spidey franchise last year with director Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man to the tune of over $750 million in worldwide box office, and Webb is currently hard at work filming the follow-up.  However, it appears as though Sony is wasting no time in continuing the franchise even further.  Hit the jump for more.

Given that we haven’t even seen a trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 yet, details for Spider-Man 3 and 4 are unsurprisingly non-existent.  The films don’t have confirmed writers or directors, but given that Andrew Garfield and co. likely signed multi-picture contracts, the main cast is presumably locked in to appear in Spider-Man 3 and 4.  Sony is basically confirming that it will never, ever, ever give up the rights to Spider-Man, so those holding their breath for Spidey to join The Avengers can probably let it go.

In lieu of Marvel’s successful Cinematic Universe over at Disney, we got a hint of a similar kind of connectivity at the end of Webb’s first film as we saw Rhys Ifans’ The Lizard locked away and being visited by a mysterious figure.  While The Amazing Spider-Man teased “the untold story” of Peter Parker, the character’s origin was subsequently retooled into more of a mystery as the studio opted to play it out over a series of films instead of wrapping up the new origin within the first pic.  We’ll likely get more of this with Spider-Man 2, but just how much of a gameplan Sony has in mind for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4 is unknown at this point.  Mary-Jane Watson is poised to be introduced in Spidey 2, played by Shailene Woodley, so one presumes that character will have a much larger role to play in these recently announced films.

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Dominic Cooper and Robert Redford talk about Captain America 2

Source : www.denofgeek.com

Much of the Marvel news of late has been centred around pieces falling into place for Guardians of Galaxy, as well as the small matter of Loki not not featuring in the Avengers 2. Now there's been some updates regarding Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

First up Dominic Cooper has been chatting about his role as Howard Stark in the film. "I went off and shot something, but I can't even work out how my character can be in it. Wouldn't I be dead? But anything is possible", he said to MTV. "They are quite secretive about where they are going to go with the characters and how it will slot in, you have no idea. So you turn up, put your costume on and do as you're told. I have definitely put the costume on. I have worn the costume and we have shot something, but how it's going to enter into the next phase of what they are planning I don't know. I sound so dodgy, I don't even believe myself! I have shot some scenes".

That's far from illuminating, but that's no fault of Cooper's seems as though he's as in the dark about the film as the rest of us. That's perhaps understandable given the frustrations Marvel isfacing with regards to pictures being snapped of the production against its wishes.

Robert Redford has also been chatting about what attracted him about the film to Total Film. “I've always liked all kinds of pitches. (laughs) curveball, fastball, slowball... but it's very simple: I'm only doing it because it's different. It's not a major part", he told the magazine.

The different part is interesting given that the film is rumoured to play out very much like a political thriller, which Redford of course is very familiar with. Perhaps the fact that a major superhero movie is being framed in such a way is the appeal. Even so, regardless of how big his part is it will be great to see him in the Winter Soldier when it's released next April.

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