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Martin Freeman Confirmed as Bilbo Baggins in ‘The Hobbit’
Warner Bros./New Line Cinema and MGM announced in a joint press release that Martin Freeman (“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) will play Bilbo Baggins in “The Hobbit,” to be direct by Peter...
Oct 22, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongSacha Baron Cohen to Play Freddie Mercury in Pic
Sacha Baron Cohen has finalized a deal to play Queen front man Freddie Mercury in an upcoming GK Films project, reports Deadline . The comedic actor best known for his outrageous and controversial...
Sep 18, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Beetlejuice’ Actor, Glenn Shadix, Dies After Fall
Glenn Shadix, best known for his role as Otho, the eccentric, effeminate interior designer in Tim Burton’s gothic ghost picture “Beetlejuice” (1998), died Tuesday morning following a fall at his...
Sep 8, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongVisual Effects Oscar Noms Upped to 5; Sign of the Times?
After augmenting their rules for last year’s ceremony allowing 10 movies to be nominated for the prestigious Best Picture Oscar instead of five, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has...
Jul 8, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongClash of the Titans (2010)
Hollywood’s escalating war on originality is far-reaching. Independent films are finding it more difficult than ever to find distribution, tent-pole summer releases have a set a new precedent for...
Apr 16, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongShutter Island (2010)
Martin Scorsese, often cited as our greatest living director, is having something of a late-career crisis. He stormed onto the New Hollywood scene in the late 60s equipped with a singular vision, an...
Mar 16, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Lovely Bones (2009)
Peter Jackson’s first feature since 2005’s remake of “King Kong” is, contrary to first impressions, not so much a departure from that picture. The former gross-out horror auteur-turned Oscar-winning...
Jan 7, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #23 – Paranormal Activity, Zombieland
It’s been a couple of weeks since our last show, but this one is worth the wait (we hope). This week we tackle Oren Peli’s viral, scare-fest phenomenon “Paranormal Activity,” and then on to Ruben...
Nov 18, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #21 – District 9
Rookie director, Neill Blomkamp, has received untold accolades for his alien apartheid allegory, “District 9.” Can this $30 million socially conscious film please both the sci-fi fanboys and hardcore...
Oct 11, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongSony Moving Forward With Venom Spin-off
After 2007’s less than fan pleasing “Spider-Man 3,” loyalists have been pining for a worthy representation of Spidey’s arch nemesis, the symbiotic alien suit that clings to Eddie Brock know as Venom....
Sep 26, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDistrict 9 (2009)
The 1970s were to good science-fiction what the 1960s were to social and political unrest, and counter-cultural deviance. With genre classics like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Wars,”...
Sep 1, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Wolverine’ Sequel Gets Writer
Despite the intense fan and critical lampooning of 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” the studio has wasted no time in moving forward with a sequel. Variety reports that Christopher...
Aug 14, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongNatalie Portman Gets ‘Booksmart’
Natalie Portman will add another project to her already full plate with Fox’s high school comedy, “Booksmart.” Variety reports that Portman will produce that juvenile comedy concerning “two...
Aug 13, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongWorthington Replaces Tom Cruise in ‘The Tourist’
Sam Worthington will be replacing Tom Cruise on Spyglass Entertainment’s thriller remake, “The Tourist,” reports THR . The in-demand Aussie who starred in McG’s “Terminator Salvation” will be joining...
Aug 3, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRidley Scott’s ‘Alien’ Prequel Takes Off
It’s official. Ridley Scott is returning to the “Alien” franchise to direct a prequel for Twentieth Century Fox, reports Variety . Jon Spaihts has been hired to pen the script which Scott Free will...
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