ZOMBIELAND 2 is doing it, JACKASS 3 is doing it, Studio Canal who owns TERMINATOR 2 wants to do it, AVATAR is obviously doing it and banking tons of money, next summer we’ll have TOY STORY 3 doing it. Ridley Scott doesn’t wanna feel left out of the 3D frenzy. So how about ROBIN HOOD in 3D?… Read the rest of this entry »
Heyuguys has the first int’l poster for ROBIN HOOD (Check out the int’l trailer) starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Mark Strong who if you hand’t noticed, is pretty much in almost every current and upcoming notable movies (Sherlock Holmes, The Young Victoria, The Eagle Of The Ninth, The Way Back, Kick-Ass, The Guard, John Carter of Mars). How on earth did he find the time? Is he the most wanted Brit thesp around or what! View the whole image after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve seen the domestic teaser trailer and now Universal has released the international trailer for ROBIN HOOD, via YahooUK, that tells more of the plot and the characters, you can watch it using the media player below. Are you sold on this yet or still not convinced by Russell Crowe’s take on the prince of thieves? Watch the trailer after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »
A behind-the-scenes video from the set of ROBIN HOOD, (check out the teaser trailer) starring Russell Crowe, made its way to the web today, via Filmstar. Check out the guy choreographing the battle scene, even he looks intense, signaling the guys to follow his instructions as practiced, in the middle of the chaos. The video ends with a shot of Crowe and his merry men practicing in a stance. Watch it after this jump… Read the rest of this entry »
After so many spy and set photos, the first official images from Universal’s new take on ROBIN HOOD have showed up online, via couriermail. There are shots of Russell Crowe as Robin Hood in action, as you can see Cate Blanchett has brought back her Elizabeth long hair but with darker color for the role of Maid Marian. And on the background are Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, Alan Doyle as the merry men. View all images and the complete synopsis after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been one helluva weekend, but time to get back to business shall we?! The great Liam Neeson who can be seen in the set photo above playing Hannibal Smith in THE A-TEAM movie has signed on to star in THE NEXT THREE DAYS. According to Variety, Neeson joined the cast of the Lionsgate thriller, adapted and directed by Paul Haggis (Crash) already starring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Brian Dennehy, Lennie James, Olivia Wilde, Aisha Hinds (HBO’s True Blood), Daniel Stern (Whip It) and Jonathan Tucker.
Based on an English remake of the 2008 French film Pour Elle directed by Fred Cavaye. In the movie, Crowe will play a husband, a teacher whose wife (Banks) gets arrested for a murder she said she didn’t commit. The happy uneventful married couple got their world shaken and she got sentenced to 20 years in prison. He loves her so much, he’s willing to bust her out of there.
Wilde will play a young mother who befriends the husband while Tucker will play a street tough running a meth lab.
Neeson plays the mentor, an ex-con who has broken out of jail multiple times, has written a book about it, and shows Crowe how it’s done. They couldn’t have cast a better man to do the job.
Real quick now, casting info is simple and straightforward. According to Hollywood Reporter, Hottie Olivia Wilde (TV’s House) who will be in TRON LEGACY and actor Jonathan Tucker (The Ruins) have joined the cast of THE NEXT THREE DAYS, directed by Paul Haggis (Crash) starring Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks. Based on an English remake of the 2008 French film Pour Elle directed by Fred Cavaye. In the movie, Crowe will play a husband whose wife (Banks) gets arrested for a murder she said she didn’t commit. The happy uneventful married couple got their world shaken and she got sentenced to 20 years in prison. He loves her so much, he’s willing to bust her out of there.
Wilde will play a young mother who befriends the husband while Tucker will play a street tough running a meth lab. Production starts this week in Pittsburgh.
I so wish that title above meant this was a contest where you could win some time chillin’ with Elizabeth Banks. But THE NEXT THREE DAYS is just the title of her next gig. Last month, it was announced that Russell Crowe is going to collaborate with writer/director Paul Haggis on THE NEXT THREE DAYS, an English remake of the 2008 French film Pour Elle directed by Fred Cavaye. In the movie, Crowe will play a husband whose wife gets arrested for a murder she said she didn’t commit. The happy uneventful married couple got their world shaken and she got sentenced to 20 years in prison. He loves her so much, he’s willing to bust her out of there.
According to Hollywood Reporter, Elizabeth Banks is going to play the wife. I looked up IMDb, and learned that her career practically started in 1998 so in about a decade, she went from just some girl in the movie Shaft, to hanging out with Judd Apatow gang all the way to playing with the big boys like Oliver Stone and Haggis and Crowe. Quite an impressive climb for such a short period of time.
As a struggling screenwriter, writer/director Paul Haggis is one of my heroes, he’s up there with Quentin Tarantino, Eric Roth and the rest. I know some people argued that his 2005 movie Crash shouldn’t have won that Oscar for Best Picture, it should’ve been Brokeback Mountain. I admired both movies so I can’t really pick and choose between the two. It was a decision as tough as choosing between Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction back in 1995. Haggis’ next gig is an adaptation and I gotta tell ya I’m not too thrilled about this.
According to Variety, Russell Crowe, who’s still filming that untitled ROBIN HOOD Movie for Ridley Scott, is going to star in THE NEXT THREE DAYS, an English remake of the 2008 French film Pour Elle directed by Fred Cavaye.
Now I haven’t seen the original film but I like French movies, which is why I always drive clear to Irvine to catch it at a local theater there that only plays foreign language and independent films, it’s heartbreaking to know that French filmmakers bend over backwards to make their films to the best of quality only to find that Hollywood thinks they’re not good enough and want to do a remake. But hey, I guess if you want your original work remade, you might as well have it remade by Haggis.
In the movie, Crowe will play a husband whose wife gets arrested for a murder she said she didn’t commit. The happy uneventful married couple got their world shaken and she got sentenced to 20 years in prison. He loves her so much, he’s willing to bust her out of there.
Sounds like the original version is a definite must-see.
In the remake, is Crowe going to have tattoes all over his body that contain codes, clues and hints to breaking out of the prison? Wait, I’m confusing it for a certain series, besides.. his wife would be in a female prison system.
THE NEXT THREE DAYS will reunite Haggis with Lionsgate. Production starts in September
Haggis said the reason he chose Crowe for this role is because Crowe embodies the Everyman in many of his movies.
Really? which one? Gladiator, State of Play, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man?
Here’s something that happened this past weekend. I don’t wanna miss out on this once since I admire the movie at hand. Russell Crowe talked to AP recently and revealed that he might reprise the role of Jack Aubrey from Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World in a new movie version that he said is in the early stages of negotiations.
The 2003 Best Picture nominee was based on several of the late Patrick O’Brian’s 20-novel series, all set during the Napoleonic Wars. Crowe said that this new movie already has a script written based on the eleventh novel, THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL, published in 1986, the story takes Aubrey in the Caribbean in his ship HMS Surprise, where he meets his illegitimate son Samuel Panda, a Catholic priest born from an illicit liaison. He can’t say when the filming would start but it was one of the many projects he’s considering.
Back in 2003 when I heard this movie was about to be released, I didn’t have much anticipation for it because Pirates of the Caribbean had just hit theaters with such huge success that I thought Master And Commander was just another competition movies much like Deep Impact vs. Armageddon back in 1998, but boy was I wrong. Master And Commander turned out to be an outstanding masterpiece, the cinematography was stunning, the speeches were powerful, the performances were brilliant, I thought actor Paul Bettany got snubbed by the Oscars.
The whole thing cost $150 Million to make but earned only $93 Million in domestic box office. It didn’t matter because it got nominated for 10 and it won for Cinematography and Sound Editing. I should have never doubted the great filmmaker Peter Weir who’s brought us (Dead Poet Society, Witness, The Truman Show)
But is a sequel necessary? Is bringing the character Jack Aubrey back after all these years a good idea?
If Peter Weir is not involved in this new movie, then I won’t keep my hopes up.
