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"Oi, an' You Too, Brett?" Mandalay Options 'Julius'
Filed under: Action, Drama, Independent, Thrillers, Deals, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek  That's no typo -- in Antony Johnson's graphic novel Julius, the classic William Shakespeare play gets rewritten into modern, Guy Ritchie London where Julius is shot down by Brett, Cassidy, Dennis, Steve, Lee, and Kostas. And according to The Hollywood Reporter, it's just been optioned by Mandalay Pictures.
Julius is the story of a London crime king named Julius, who is worshipped by the public as if he's royalty. His closest fellow gangsters conspire against him and eventually shoot him up. Oops, too late to add a spoiler alert. I imagine...
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Dean Cain is a 'Maneater'
Filed under: Horror, Thrillers, Casting  It would be great to see the old Superman, Dean Cain, tamed by the purr of a Jaguar, but Maneater is a little less Hall & Oates and a little more blood and guts. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Dean Cain, Conrad Janis (The Cable Guy), Stephen Lunsford (Bratz), Walter Phelan (House of 1000 Corpses), Maximillian Roeg (7th Heaven), and Lacy Phillips (Pushing Twilight) have signed up to take on the Native American legend, Wendigo.
As Elisabeth told us last month, director Michael Emanuel's version of Wendigo will center on a small-town sheriff who used to...
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Tom Cruise Wants to be a 'Sleeper' With Sam Raimi
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Casting, Deals, Warner Brothers, Newsstand, Tom Cruise, Comic/Superhero/Geek  Tom Cruise has decided it's his turn to get in on the comic book action -- and he's teaming up with Sam Raimi to do it. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the duo is setting up the DC/Wildstorm comic series Sleeper at Warner Bros. At this point, Raimi is only producing, but Cruise is hoping to star.
Penned by Ed Brubaker, Sleeper was a 12-issue series set in the Wildstorm universe, which means it steers clear of all those...
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Indie Weekend Box Office: French 'Girl Cut in Two' on Top
Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Foreign Language, Thrillers, Box Office, Cinematical Indie  The French are at it again! After last month's unexpected breakout success of French thriller Tell No One, surely it's no surprise that French thriller A Girl Cut in Two opened on top, grossing $9,750 per screens at the two theaters in New York where it opened, according to Box Office Mojo. Claude Chabrol's latest (and perhaps last) has delighted critics, including our own Jeffrey M. Anderson ("superbly made ... highly enjoyable").
Amidst a hailstorm of reviews, interviews, and offers of threesomes, Woody Allen's
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Columbia is Getting 'Goosebumps'
Filed under: Horror, Thrillers, Deals, Mystery & Suspense, Scripts, Newsstand  If you were a young whippersnapper in 1992, chances are the Goosebumps books were a lurid staple on your bedside table. My sister was an enormous fan, whereas I preferred, shockingly, Star Wars novelizations and sword-and-sorcery. I was just a little too old for their goofy twist endings -- although the single one I read gave me nightmares, I think because a dog was killed or something. (Let's ascribe it to a fragment of underdone potato, shall we?) In retrospect, you really are what you read as a kid -- my sister went on...
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Backtrack! 'Punisher: War Zone' Still Has Its R Rating
Filed under: Action, Thrillers, Lionsgate Films, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels  The silliness continues! Vic Holtreman at ScreenRant has passed along a post (sent to them by a poster who's been a steady presence in the comment field on every Punisher: War Zone story -- hi, Nomad) that cinematographer Steve Gainer made on The Raw Board. Gainer is pretty fed up with all the rumors circulating, and insists that Lexi Alexander is not off the film, she's very much involved in the editing process, the film will not be PG-13, and that she did get married. Gainer writes, "When...
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Red-Band Trailers for 'Death Race', 'Righteous Kill', 'Sex Drive'
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Thrillers, Universal, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips To paraphrase the scariest horror movie currently in theaters -- Mamma Mia! -- you wait long enough for a red-band trailer and then three come along at once, at least two of which deal with hitting the road in the name of action, so without further ado...  First up is the age-restricted trailer for this week's Death Race. I've yet to watch this one myself, since reactions posted elsewhere have assured me that whatever meager hopes I have for it being just a fun piece of trash cinema -- from
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Summer 2009 Plays a Delayed 'Game'
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Lionsgate Films, Newsstand, Games and Game Movies  It has not been a good week on the "Movies Elisabeth Wants To See" front. First there was that wretched news that Warner Bros isn't particularly interested in RocknRolla, then Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was delayed a whole year. And now, producer Gary Lucchesi told SciFi Wire that Game has been pushed back to the increasingly crowded summer of 2009.
Game is a futuristic thriller directed by the insane duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, and stars the ever-so-lovely
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From McLovin to McBadass
Filed under: Action, Independent, Thrillers, Casting, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek  Matthew Vaughn is set to direct an adaptation of Mark Millar's comic Kick-Ass -- and part of the cast he was hinting at back in June has been announced:Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin, as predicted in the comments two months ago) and Chloe Moretz are joining the production.
Kick-Ass is the ultra-violent (surprise, it's Millar) story of a high school dork, Dave Lizewski, who reinvents himself as a superhero named Kick-Ass. Unfortunately, he's pretty bad at it, until he's forced to face real bad guys, who pack real weapons.
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Johnny Depp's 'Rex Mundi' Has Script, Needs Director
Filed under: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Noir, Mystery & Suspense, Warner Brothers, Scripts, Newsstand, Johnny Depp, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Religious  It's been a while since we heard anything about Johnny Depp's second foray into the world of comic book adaptation, otherwise known as Rex Mundi. Back in 2006, Depp purchased the rights to Arvid Nelson's Dark Horse series under his Infinitum Nihil banner, with the intention to star as Dr. Julien Sauniere.
To refresh your memory, Rex Mundi is set in an alternate history where Martin Luther was assassinated, the...
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