Empire News

50 Cent Is A Dead Man Running

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:09:00 GMT

Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson has joined the cast of Dead Man Running, a British gangland thriller that has been partially funded by England footballers Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole, a fact that will have absolutely no bearing on the rest ...

Exclusive: Scott Talks Blood Meridian

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:55:00 GMT

We talked to Sir Ridley Scott recently about his new Middle East-set spy thriller Body of Lies and he told us a little bit about his long-mooted adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's blistering Western, Blood Meridian, and the difficulties of adapting a book th...

Exclusive: Scott talks Blood Meridian

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:55:00 GMT

Spike Jonze On Where The Wild Things Are

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:46:00 GMT

AICN recently sat down with Spike Jonze to discuss his new film Where The Wild Things Are, and bagged some new pics from the film.Based on Maurice Sendak's classic novel, the story follows Max, a naughty boy who's sent to his room after causing havoc in t...

Nothing But The Truth Trailer

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:26:00 GMT

Rod Lurie, purveyor of smart political films like The Contender and TV show Commander In Chief, is back with a new drama about a government scandal, leaked information and a reporter who faces prison rather than reveal her source. See the first trailer fo...

Captain America Recruits Two Writers

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:26:00 GMT

Marvel is really cranking up the pace on First Avenger: Captain America. Just over a week ago, the fledgling studio brought Joe Johnston on board as director, and now it’s hired writing team Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely to give Cap stu...

Spielberg/Smith's Oldboy Gets A Writer

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:21:00 GMT

We thought we might have been dreaming when we wrote last week that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith were teaming up for a remake of the ultra-violent, deeply twisted and utterly fantastic South Korean thriller Oldboy.It seems that we were wide awake, thou...

Fox Lines Up X-Men: First Class

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:17:00 GMT

If a movie studio can develop mutant powers, then we’ve discovered Twentieth Century Fox’s: the ability to create X-Men spin-offs. Not content with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, out next May, and the in-the-works X-Men Origins: Magneto, Fo...

Gale Anne Hurd To Produce Gearhead

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:56:00 GMT

Producer Gale Anne Hurd has had a decent amount of success with comic book movies – she’s overseen both Hulk movies and both Punisher movies through her company, Valhalla Motion Pictures – so it’s no huge surprise t...

The Days Before Appeals To Warners

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:25:00 GMT

Warner Bros. has snapped up the rights to The Days Before, a sci-fi action spec script by Chad St. John that, in our humble opinion, has an absolute belter of a premise.It revolves around an alien invasion of mankind – been there, done that, you...

Justin Chadwick To Direct Ironbow

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:24:00 GMT

Justin Chadwick has a tall tale to Tell. The British director, whose last film was The Other Boleyn Girl, is staying period for his next, Ironbow: The Legend Of William Tell, which – strangely enough – will be the first major English-l...

The Host Remake - Now With Added Gore

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:22:00 GMT

In his review of South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s genre-melding monster movie, The Host, Empire’s own Simon Crook advised readers thus: “catch it before the inevitable remake.”That was in 2006. And two years lat...

Warners Loves Sparks' The Lucky One

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:15:00 GMT

Nicholas Sparks appears to have replaced Stephen King and John Grisham as Hollywood’s go-to author.The writer has already seen several of his romantic dramas turned into movies, including The Horse Whisperer, Nights In Rodanthe, The Notebook, Me...

Steve Carr To Direct Love On A Bet

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:09:00 GMT

Steve Carr has signed on to direct Love On A Bet, a remake of a 1930s RKO comedy that will be produced by the resurrected company. A word of warning, though: the last time Carr directed a remake of an RKO movie, for RKO, it was the ghastly Are We Done Yet...

Exclusive: Fired Up Red Band Trailer

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:13:00 GMT

Unless you run in terror from teen movies (and why would you do that? WHY?) we have a treat for you. We've got a first look at upcoming sports comedy Fired Up and you can see the new red-band trailer for it below.The film stars Heroes' Nicholas D'Agosto a...

Race To Witch Mountain Trailer

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:05:00 GMT

His Rockness is back, and this time it’s alien. Yes, our favourite ex-wrestler, Dwayne Johnson, is starring in Disney’s kid-friendly sci-fi remake romp, and you can see the first trailer for Race To Witch Mountain here. The st...

Schumacher's Inland Saints Changes Tack

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:02:00 GMT

The last time we checked, Joel Schumacher’s next movie, Inland Saints was called Fix, and was a gritty urban thriller about a gang leader who falls in love with the daughter of a detective tasked with bringing down the gang. Well, not any more. ...

Murphy's The Nutty Professor May Return

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:25:00 GMT

Despite the fact that absolutely nobody Empire knows is demanding it, The Nutty Professor may be about to make a comeback after eight years away.Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, the companies behind the first two Eddie Murphy vehicles, have s...

Warners Presses Control-Alt-Delete

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:19:00 GMT

Warner Bros. has picked up the spec script for a new comedy, Control-Alt-Delete. Tim Kelleher – whose last writing credit was the 1996 comedy, First Kid – and Danny Zuker wrote the script, about which little is known.We do know, though...

Disney Snaps Up Annoying Man Comedy

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:05:00 GMT

Disney has snapped up The World’s Most Annoying Man, a spec script by Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert.Despite the title, apparently it’s not a Cristiano Ronaldo biopic, but a comedy about a guy who must travel cross-country to his wedd...

Disney Snaps Up Annoying Man comedy

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:05:00 GMT

Sammo Hung to Star In War Monkeys

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:45:00 GMT

The great movie martial artist Sammo Hung has signed on to star in War Monkeys, a horror comedy that sounds absolutely demented. In the best possible way, of course.In a story that has shades of Return Of The Living Dead, Hung will play one of two janitor...

Vampire Books House Of Night Snapped Up

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:32:00 GMT

Twilight, you just might have a lot to answer for. With the first movie adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s wildly successful series of teen vampire novels set to make a big splash at the US box office this weekend, Hollywood is already scouting arou...

Vampire Novels House Of Night Snapped Up

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:32:00 GMT

Vampire novels House Of Night snapped up

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:32:00 GMT