November 2012

Saorise Ronan Joins Grand Budapest Hotel Cast

Saoirse Ronan the star of Hanna and Lovely Bones will reportedly be the female lead in Wes Anderson next film The Grand Budapest Hotel.   Ralph Fiennes and Jude Law have also joined the cast alongside his usual repertoire of returning actors Owen Wilson, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jason Schwartzman, and Bill [...]

Christoph Waltz Joins Muppets Sequel Cast

Christoph Waltz, best known for his Oscar winning role as a ruthless Nazi in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, is now reportedly set to star in the next Muppets film. He’s in talks to join James Bobin’s currently untitled sequel to The Muppets triumphant 2011 big screen return, paying the role of an Interpol agent investigating [...]

Jamie Foxx for Spider-Man Sequel Villain Electro

Jamie Foxx is reported to be in talks with Sony about taking on the villainous role of Electro in Marc Webb’s sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man. Electro is one of the few of Spider-Man’s familiar foes who hasn’t yet been brought to life on the big screen, so it’s not a total surprise to see him emerge [...]

George Lucas gives Star Wars Billions to Charity

  Following the extraordinary news of Disney’s multi-billion dollar acquisition of Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise rights, George Lucas will according to a Lucasfilm spokesperson be donating “The majority of the (Disney acquisition) proceeds to his philanthropic endeavours”. Confirming these intentions George Lucas himself released the following statement: “For 41 years, the majority of [...]

Mark Hamill talks about New Star Wars Films

In a recent interview Star Wars leading man Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker, has admitted that he and co-star Carrie Fisher have known since August about the recent sensational news that the Star Wars Saga is now expanding to include Episodes VII, VIII and IX.  ”[L]ast August, [Big George] asked Carrie and I to have [...]