Benedict Cumberbatch appears to want to do something mountainous. He was attached to Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak but ended up backing out of that, however now he’s going to be scaling the indie thriller Blood Mountain instead, according to Variety.
Jonathan W. Stokes wrote the original script, with extra work done by John Romano. Sergei Bodrov (Mongol, Seventh Son) is set to direct.
The movie ‘follows a private military contractor whose special forces team is ambushed and killed during a covert raid, forcing him to personally escort one of the world’s most wanted terrorists over hostile terrain in order to bring him to justice. With a bounty at stake and insurgents and rival mercenaries hunting them, the two find themselves facing not only their enemies, but each other in their fight for survival.’
It’ll start shooting in Morocco in April.
Justin Lin has mainly worked with Universal on the Fast & Furious franchise and also has a first-look deal there. However he’s stretching his wings as Fox has picked up the rights to the live-action family adventure Toymageddon for Lin to produce, according to 
2012 was supposed to be the year gay men took over US TV, but both The New Normal and Partners failed to make it past a short first season. Now it’s the ladies’ turn, as 
Warner Bros. needs to make up its mind. In December 2011 it cancelled the movie Arthur & Lancelot shortly before it was due to shooting over budget concerns – and as a result the likes of Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman were out of a job. However now it’s planning not just one Arthurian movie, but potentially six of them.
Pitch Perfect was proof that you don’t always need an original plot if you can make a familiar story incredibly funny and heartwarming. What many don’t realise is that Elizabeth Banks didn’t just have a small role in the movie, she also helped originate the idea for it and produced the film.
LGBT projects have done pretty well at Sundance. A couple of days ago we reported that
If I, Frankenstein had been hoping to be a big hit, its dream came crashing down over the weekend. It could only manage sixth place with an $8.2 million start, which means it’s now going to really struggle to make back its $65 million budget. The makers had been hoping it would open with similar numbers to the Underworld films, but it ended up starting with less than half of those movies.