Halle Berry’s movie output has been very up and down, with some good movies interspersed amongst a lot of rubbish. She’ll be hoping her new film, The Call, fares better than the likes of Dark Tide and Frankie & Alice.
The Brad Anderson (The Machinist) movie sees Berry as a 911 operator who gets call from a kidnapped teenager (Abigail Breslin). Jordan soon realises that the abduction has ties to an incident from her past, and that she must face her demons if the girl is to get out alive.
It’s one of those premises that could make for an okay movie, but already sounds slightly unbelievable. Hopefully the film will be okay. Check out the trailer below. No UK date is currently set, but it’s out in the US in March. [Read more…]
Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg are having a good week. The Norwegians landed a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination for Kon-Tiki, which is about explorer Thor Heyerdal’s epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947.
After the release of Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Disney suggested they wanted to get a fifth movie into production as quickly as possible. However with Johnny Depp and producer Jerry Bruckheimer busy with Lone Raner, Pirates 5 has slightly been on the back burner.
In its first week of wide release, Zero Dark Thirty has topped the US Box Office chart, taking $24 million as it expanded onto over 2,800 screens from just over a hundred. Its success came as a surprise to many, who’d expected Gangster Squad to top the chart.
Ben Affleck should have a big smile on his face this morning, having picked up Best Director for Argo at the Golden Globe Awards, while the movie also won Best Film, Drama. They weren’t the only ones with reasons to be happy, as Les Miserables got the Best Film, Musical Or Comedy gong, while Hugh Jackman got Best Actor, Musical Or Comedy and Anne Hathaway swiped Best Supporting Actress for the movie.
John McAffee made his name founding the anti-virus software firm that made his name, but more recently he’s been making headlines for being a fugitive, hiding out in Belize and being suspected of the murder of his neighbour.
Comedian and star of the comedy/drama Louise, Louis C.K., is in talks to star in the currently untitled next project from director David O. Russell, according to 
Ever since the release of Jurassic Park III in 2001, there’s been talk of a Part IV. Over the years the likelihood of more rampaging dinos has risen and sunk, with much of the problem stemming from finding a worthwhile story. However it seems there’s been a breakthrough, as Universal Pictures has set a June 13th, 2014 release date and confirmed that it will be shot in 3D.
Ever since the Star Wars prequel trilogy came to an end there’s been talk of a live action TV series set between the two trilogies. George Lucas worked on it for years, and it’s even been said there are over 100 scripts completed for the show.