Amityville: The Awakening gets an April Fools release date

Posted 10 years ago

It has been seventeen months to the day since we shared the trailer for the Dimension Films release AMITYVILLE: THE AWAKENING, the latest entry in the long-running franchise that began with 1979's THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. At that time, the movie...

Will Brittain flies to Kong: Skull Island

Posted 10 years ago

I can't say I'm familiar with Will Brittain, an up-and-coming actor who had roles in the student affair drama A TEACHER and the Viola Davis/Jennifer Lopez revenge thriller LILA & EVE, but he's about to reach a much wider audience...

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon exits Will Smith drama Collateral Beauty

Posted 10 years ago

The Allan Loeb-scripted drama COLLATERAL BEAUTY just can't catch a break. First the planned movie lost its leading man, then Rooney Mara left the project last month, and now New Line is on the hunt for a new director, as...

John Ortiz and Shea Whigham journey to Kong: Skull Island

Posted 11 years ago

Legendary Pictures recently moved their King Kong project KONG: SKULL ISLAND from Universal to Warner Bros., and the transition seems to have been seamless because the casting process is still running smoothly.  Before the studio move, Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson,...

Gyllenhaal & Cumberbatch in talks for Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War

Posted 11 years ago

THR has learned that Jake Gyllenhaal and Benedict Cumberbatch are in talks to star as George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison in The Weinstein Co.'s THE CURRENT WAR, a film about the Edison-Westinghouse feud over the distribution of electricity. Although ME...

Will Smith replaces Hugh Jackman in Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Collateral Beauty

Posted 11 years ago

Will Smith is set to take over Hugh Jackman's lead role in COLLATERAL BEAUTY, according to Deadline. Jackman left the project last month due to his WOLVERINE 3 commitments, and although Johnny Depp was apparently being eyed for the part,...

Jason Segel may join Hugh Jackman in Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Collateral Beauty

Posted 11 years ago

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is trying to land Jason Segel for his ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL follow-up, according to Variety. The site has learned Segel is in talks to join PAN actors Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara in...

Review: Me and Earl & the Dying Girl

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: An awkward high school senior, Greg (Thomas Mann) who moonlights as an aspiring filmmaker with his best pal, Earl (Ronald Cyler II) befriends a leukemia-stricken classmate, Rachel (Olivia Cooke). What begins as a simple friendship soon blooms into something...

Exclusive Interview: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Director and Cast!

Posted 11 years ago

It is easy to play for sympathy in a film dealing with a serious subject such as cancer. Thankfully, when a very talented director like Alfonso Gomez-Rejon injects such grace and humanity to it, it becomes something truly special. ME...

Franck Khalfoun’s Amityville: The Awakening gets title change, MPAA rating

Posted 11 years ago

We've been stoked about MANIAC remake director Franck Khalfoun's AMITYVILLE: THE AWAKENING ever since first laying eyes on the trailer for the haunted house horror, and we were bummed when Dimension Films delayed the flick's release, from January 2, 2015...

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