Will Ferrell is not a man who immediately looks like he’d be a rugged adventurer setting off to do incredible and dangerous feats. However, it looks like he’s going to give it a go – or at least the character he’s planning to play in Ice Pack will – according to Deadline.
Loosely based on a true story, the film will follow, ‘the most unlikely snowy Arctic expedition in history — when a group of Minnesota guys in 1968 acted on a whim hatched on a night of drinking and set off to ride snowmobiles to the North Pole.’ Despite not exactly being a typical crew, the adventurers managed to secure a bit of sponsorship and the support of the National Geographic Society, and went to to try and be the first people ever to make it to the North Poles on snowmobiles.
The backers have bought Guy Lawson’s New York Times Magazine article, called, ‘Ice Pack: An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole.’ The plan is to build the movie around Ferrell, although it’s not clear when they plan to shoot it.
When Swiss Army Man debuted at Sundance, it got a rather mixed reaction, partly because nobody could believe that the movie featured Daniel Radcliffe as a farting corpse. The fact that despite being dead, his erection (covered up, of course) prominently features also got a lot of attention, while many pointed out it’s verging on the edge of a necrophiliac gay romance.
2011’s Untouchable (aka Intouchables) is one of the most successful non-English language movies ever made, grossing over $400 million around the world. However it made little impact in the US, other than to get Hollywood interested in a remake.
At the moment Disney is slightly obsessed with giving new, live-action spins to its classic animated movies, whether it’s Cinderella and Maleficent or the upcoming The Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast. However, Snow White has been trickier for it, due to the fact she’s had a couple of other movies by different studios in the last few years.
Jim Parsons has had huge success on TV and the stage, but he hasn’t done too much on the big screen. Indeed, his biggest role to date only featured his voice, in Dreamworks Animation’s Home. He’s now looking to change that, as he’s in talks to star in and produce the long-gestating movie, Man-Witch, according to 
For a few years now a sequel to Blade Runner has been in the works, which had the backing of both Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott. While Scott was attached to direct at one point, he’ll now only produce, with Denis Villeneuve helming.
Brits may be a bit confused about why a film called Mother’s Day is reaching cinemas over here until June, but it’s because Americans have a different Mother’s Day to us, so they’re getting the film in April, and we might as well wait until June. The movie itself is another Garry Marshall ensemble tale (after Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve).
They’ve sure taken a long time to bring us Warcraft: The Beginning. The film shot almost two years ago, but as this trailer shows, the reason for that is that it needed an awful lot of post-production and special effects work to create a convincing fantasy world, which wouldn’t seeming lacking in comparison the Peter Jackson’s take on Middle Earth.
Synopsis: ‘In Disney’s “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” an all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision to the spectacular world Tim Burton created on screen in 2010 with “Alice in Wonderland,” the film is written by Linda Woolverton based on characters created by Lewis Carroll and produced by Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd and Tim Burton with John G. Scotti serving as executive producer.
Julia Roberts hasn’t had many big hits in the past few years, partly due to the fact she cut down on her hectic acting schedule so she’s have more time to spend with her family. However, she certainly hasn’t retired, and now