George Merchan

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Robert Pattinson calls David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis script “insane and difficult”, plus Sarah Gadon joins the cast

Posted 15 years ago

After a brief period of casting uncertainties, it looks like David Cronenberg’s limo movie COSMOPOLIS is all set and ready to go. According to a press release issued by the film’s Canadian distributor Entertainment One, actress Sarah Gadon has been...

Salacious mermaids in the latest Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides poster

Posted 15 years ago

I’m looking forward to PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES, if for no other reason than that I’m hoping it’ll be better than the last two bloated messes Disney released. Today, a new one sheet for the film has...

Bill Murray will play Franklin D. Roosevelt in the adaptation of Hyde Park on Hudson

Posted 15 years ago

And God willing, he will wear that absolutely stupendous hat. According to spy reports over at Vulture, Bill Murray, one of the coolest, no-bullshit actors in the game, has officially agreed to play the 32nd President of the United States...

Star Trek 2 will be Chris Pine’s next film while script delays push back Paramount’s Jack Ryan reboot

Posted 15 years ago

Just when we thought screenwriter Steve Zaillian would swoop in to save Jack Ryan’s day, Deadline is now reporting that the SCHINDLER’S LIST/CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER scribe has “had a change of heart” and withdrawn from the project in recent...

Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris gets a poster and a trailer

Posted 15 years ago

While many have written off the legendary Woody Allen in recent decades, as an apologist, I feel the man still showcases flashes of brilliance akin to that seen during his very best years. Shit, there’s much to enjoy in stuff...

Will Sasso confirmed as Curly in The Three Stooges, Hank Azaria and James Marsden up for the remaining knuckleheads?

Posted 15 years ago

I have no problem with Will Sasso, the now officially confirmed Stooge in Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s long-in-development THREE STOOGES feature film. But what about Hank Azaria and James Marsden, the latest names to be linked to the project? I...

The guys behind Skyline will next be bringing us battling historical figures with War of the Ages

Posted 15 years ago

While the Strause Brothers’ sci-fi invasion film SKYLINE was a movie best enjoyed while not sober, their new directorial effort WAR OF THE AGES ironically sounds like something you’d come up with while high as f*ck. In a recent interview...

Antonio Banderas goes neo-noir in the trailer for The Big Bang

Posted 15 years ago

I’ve loved Antonio Banderas since DESPERADO and I will continue to always support his hammy ways. His latest is called THE BIG BANG, a film that’s taking its cues from the noirs of yesterday and instilling it with some true...

Will director Ivan Reitman get Big in China?

Posted 15 years ago

While GHOSTBUSTERS 3 continues threatening to exist, Ivan Reitman meanwhile is readying other potential directing gigs. One of them is BIG IN CHINA, an adaptation of the book Big in China: My Unlikely Adventure Raising a Family, Playing the Blues...

Ed Harris will play John McCain opposite Julianne Moore’s Sarah Palin in HBO’s Game Change

Posted 15 years ago

I decided not to use an image of grizzled actor Ed Harris (THE WAY BACK, THE ROCK) because we all pretty much know what he looks like and we know he’s visually more or less in the same ballpark as...

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