Hugh Jackman has been working on the musical PT Barnum biopic Greatest Showman On Earth for a long time, but it’s only now that it’s finally moving towards shooting. They’re currently busy filling out the cast, with Zac Efron starting negotiations to appear a couple of weeks ago.
Now THR reports that Michelle Williams is also in talks for the movie. Williams has previously shown off hr singing skills in Dawson’s Creek, My Week With Marilyn and on Broadway in Cabaret, so she’s certainly had plenty of practice for a movie musical.
The film will life of Barnum, who was known for his elaborate hoaxes before creating the three-ring circus. The story will also look at his pining for Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (the role that presumably Williams is in talks for). It’s not clear who Efron would play.
Michael Gracey is attached to direct. The project has been in the works for over five years, but apparently Fox has now made is a priority, partly because they know what a passion project it is for Jackman.
Jonah Hill & Miles Teller aren’t the first people you’d think of as military contractors, and neither are the characters they play in War Dogs. The first trailer for the based-on-a-true-story movie has now arrived.
Daniel Radcliffe has quickly become one of the more interesting actors out there, searching out unusual and different project that both challenge his skills and make for interesting viewing. Now Imperium is coming to join that list.
It’s the most popular short film series in the world, and now the Boys On Film collection is returning with its 15th instalment, Time & Tied. While Boys On Film has previously taken us around the world, this time it’s concentrating on gay-themed British shorts, from a night in a gay sauna turning into a fight for survival, and two men sit on a park bench speaking Polari, to a relationship becoming heated on a night out in London’s Soho streets,and sexual adventures awaiting two men in Sir John’s Trouser Bar.
Ever since Britain voted to leave the EU, there’s been a lot of talk about the possible effects, not least for the entertainment industry and investment in film, TV and web projects in the UK. Now it seems one of its first casualties is the lesbian-themed web series, Different For Girls.
Wonderkid got a big boost during its crowdfunding campaign last October when Ian McKellen stepped up to support the film, helping ensure it reached its targets. Now the trailer for the short film has arrived, which you can take a look at below.
Synopsis: ‘Over the holidays, Ned (Bryan Cranston), an overprotective but loving dad and his family visit his daughter at Stanford, where he meets his biggest nightmare: her well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend, Laird (James Franco). The straight-laced Ned thinks Laird, who has absolutely no filter, is a wildly inappropriate match for his daughter. The one-sided rivalry – and Ned’s panic level – escalate when he finds himself increasingly out of step in the glamorous high-tech hub, and learns that Laird is about to pop the question.’
Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger is famous for something that took less than 10 minutes – crash landing the airplane he was piloting into New York’s Hudson, an miraculously saving all the passengers. That might not sound like enough for an entire movie, but there will be plenty more to it in Clint Eastwood’s Sully, which has just released its first trailer.
If you starred in True Blood, it was pretty much certain you were going to end up in a gay sex scene at some point. As a result the cast and crew got pretty good at it, to the point where the sadly straight Alexander Skarsgard has been sharing some tips on how to look good shagging a guy on-screen.
In the old days it was just book and TV shows that had a shot of being turned into movies, but now Hollywood has realised the pretty much anything is fair game, as long as it’s something that was popular at some point. Trolls, though, is an odd one, as there are plenty of kids around now whose parents are too young to remember the fuzzy haired figures’ heyday in the 70s. Admittedly though back then they were so popular that no youngster could expect to be seen as cool without a Troll pencil topper.