>> New Line Tries Their Hand at Animation

New Line is venturing into the animation business for the first time in its 40-year history by acquiring Ilion Animation Studios’ $60 million feature “Planet 51″ from Handmade Films International.Written by Joe Stillman (“Shrek”), the story is set on a planet whose inhabitants live in fear of an alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when [...]

>> “G.I. Joe” Finds a Baroness in Miller

Sienna Miller is the first thesp to enlist in Paramount Pictures’ big-budget tentpole “G.I. Joe.”British actress will play the film’s female lead, described as a raven-haired baroness and sexy femme fatale skilled in espionage.
Stephen Sommers directs the live-action film based on the Hasbro toys, comicbook and TV series.
Paramount, which has set a mid-February start date, [...]

>> Christian Bale cast as John Connor in “Terminator 4″

Harry Knowles spills the beans over on AICN…
“Just got off the phone with an extremely trusted source who has never been wrong before. he revealed exclusively to AICN that in the upcoming McG reboot, TERMINATOR SALVATION: The Future Begins, that they have cast CHRISTIAN BALE as none other than JOHN CONNER.”
The crazy capitalization is all [...]

>> Beowulf (John’s Review, 7.5/10)

Despite Square and Sony’s adult-oriented CG-animated box office dud of some years back, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, maybe there is an actual audience for something like this? Director Robert Zemeckis can’t seem to shake his fascination with motion-capture technology–the process in which actors are tracked by a computer while wearing a [...]

>> Mulberry Street (John’s Review, 8/10)

When this film was over, I had to tell someone what I just saw. Mulberry Street is not a revolutionary film, barely an original film, but an effective film. It’s a harrowing nightmare of urban paranoia with the feel and depth of a well-made independent drama.
This is a fast-paced, low-budget take on plague [...]

>> P2 (Brandon’s Review, 4/10)

Let’s not mince words here. I really like Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levassuer they are an imaginative duo who really like gore and they make intense films (“High Tension”) but when they are at their best they make intense films with real people and real stakes (“The Hills Have Eyes” remake), but as producers and [...]

>> Saw IV (Brandon’s Review, 6.5/10)

I don’t know what there is left to say about the franchise. Do you like blood and guts and flashbacks? You’ll get all of those. Do you want complications, contradictions and contrivances? You’ll get those too. I don’t completely hate the “Saw” franchise– part two works best, one is just the shoddy realization of what [...]

>> Gone Baby Gone (Brandon’s Review, 9/10)

I’ve been sitting on this film for a couple of weeks now, I’ve seen it twice and it haunts me. It’s brutally good and emotionally devastating. Ben Affleck’s film isn’t as grim and depressing as “Mystic River” (the last Dennis Lehan novelization to come to life on the big screen) although I wouldn’t say there [...]

>> The Rock to Play Bad Guy in “Shazam”

Ain’t It Cool News verified the long-standing rumor that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was in talks for a key role in John August’s live-action Shazam film–he’ll be playing Captain Marvel’s arch-enemy Black Adam.
The film is based on the long-running comic book, first published by Fawcett then DC, about a young orphaned boy who gains ancient [...]