Wednesday, June 17

• Universal and Imagine to Revive Bride of Frankenstein

  The Hollywood Reporter is saying on its Risky Biz Blog that Universal and Imagine Studios have plans to remake the 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein, which starred Boris Karloff as "The Monster" and Elsa Lanchester as "The Monster's Bride."

  The studios are apparently in talks with Neil Burger to direct the movie and write the screenplay with Dirk Wittenborn. Burger and Wittenborn collaborated on the script for The Lucky Ones, which Burger directed. Burger also wrote and directed The Illusionist and Interview with the Assassin.

  The Bride of Frankenstein project represents just one in a series of Universal monster-movie remakes. Benicio Del Toro is starring in a remake of The Wolf Man coming out later this year and the studio also has plans for a new version of the 1954 classic Creature from the Black Lagoon.

  
  

  Posted 06/17/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Benicio Del Toro | Boris Karloff | Jack Arnold | Neil Burger | George Waggner | Dirk Wittenborn | Elsa Lanchester | Bride of Frankenstein | Bride of Frankenstein | The Wolfman | Creature From the Black Lagoon | Creature from the Black Lagoon

Thursday, March 26

• Suprise Casting Choices in The Three Stooges

  Directors Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly finally found a home for their Three Stooges movie at MGM last year, and it looks like they have finally put together a surprising cast for the movie..

  Variety reports that Jim Carrey will play heavier Stooge Curly, and will gain 40 pounds for the role. With Carrey's history in comedies, this isn't as surprising as the next two choices: Academy Award winners Sean Penn as Larry and Benicio Del Toro as Moe.

  While neither Penn or Del Toro are strangers to comedies, Penn played the iconoclastic surfer Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Del Toro has made subtle comic turns in both The Usual Suspects and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, however, they are hardly two names that typically come to mind when thinking of the slapstick comedy of The Three Stooges.

  The Stooges movie is not a biopic but a complete remake, with a script by the Farrellys, which Bobby described as "Dumb, Dumber & Dumbest." The Farrellys will start shooting this fall for a 2010 release.

  
  

  Posted 03/26/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Benicio Del Toro | Bobby Farrelly | Peter Farrelly | Sean Penn | Jim Carrey | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | The Three Stooges | The Usual Suspects | Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Wednesday, January 14

• Emily Blunt Eyed for Iron Man 2

  Iron Man 2 casting news is all over the web this week, and besides the recent report about Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell in talks to play villains, we know of another potential pick being put out there -- that of The Devil Wears Prada actress Emily Blunt, who's being considered for femme fatale Black Widow.

  Variety says she's the frontrunner to play the role of Natasha Romanoff, a sexy Soviet super spy who wears a skin-tight black costume enhanced with high-tech weaponry. Now what would Miranda think about that?!!

  Blunt's career will be getting a big boost if this rumor turns out to be true. Her highest profile gig to date will come later this year as leading lady in Benicio Del Toro's The Wolfman.

  What do you think? Does Blunt have what it takes to be Black Widow?

  
  

  Posted 01/14/2009 by Jim

  Related: Benicio Del Toro | Emily Blunt | The Wolfman | Iron Man 2

Thursday, November 20

• Are Werewolves the New Vampires?

  Although vampires have been the creatures on everyone's lips lately due to the Twilight phenomenon, New York Magazine is taking stock of an overpowering wave of werewolves on Hollywood's horizon. The pack of cinematic lycanthropes will be led by the January 23 release of Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (check out the movie's new poster) to be followed on April 3 by the remake of the Wolf Man starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins. And there are a litter of lower budget films and not yet finalized projects -- including a rumored werewolf project with Ridley Scott at the the helm --nipping at their heels. The clincher though for NYM, is the prominence of werewolves in the next two Twilight novels, which Summit Entertainment is making moves toward turning into movies as well, starting with New Moon.

  
  

  Posted 11/20/2008 by reelz

  Related: Benicio Del Toro | Ridley Scott | The Wolfman | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Twilight | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Saturday, July 26

• New Info on Green Hornet and The Wolf Man Footage Revealed at Comic-Con.

  

  Fresh from Comic-Con are precious few details surrounding Green Hornet, as provided by Seth Rogen.

  Also present at Comic-Con were Benicio Del Toro and co-star Emily Blunt, showing off new footage of the upcoming old-school thriller, The Wolf Man

  
  

  Posted 07/26/2008 by reelz

  Related: Benicio Del Toro | Emily Blunt | Seth Rogen | The Wolfman | The Green Hornet

Monday, May 26

• Awards handed out at Cannes

  The The French film, The Class (Entre les murs), has won the top prize -- the Palme d'Or -- at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The Class, which is about contemporary society from the perspective of a French junior high classroom -- is the first French film to win Cannes in 21 years.

  Second prize went to Gomorrah, an Italian film about the mafia in Naples. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the director prize for a family drama called Three Monkeys. Paolo Sorrentino won the jury prize with Il Divo, Benicio Del Toro won best actor for playing the title role in Che (about Che Guevara), and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won best screenplay for Lorna's Silence.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 05/26/2008 by reelz

  Related: Benicio Del Toro | Il Divo | Che | Lorna's Silence | The Class | Gomorrah | Three Monkeys

Thursday, March 20

• New Wolf Man pix!

  Director Joe Johnston's (Hidalgo, Jumanji) remake of the 1941 horror classic, The Wolf Man, is under way.

  The first pictures of Benicio Del Toro in full Wolf Man kit are out--and they're killer.

  For a look at Del Toro in some truly amazing Wolf Man make up, check out the photo gallery on our The Wolf Man page.

  
  

  Posted 03/20/2008 by reelz

  Related: Benicio Del Toro | The Wolfman

Saturday, October 20

• From Hannibal the Cannibal to Sir Anthony the Wolf Man   

  Our friends over at MTV movies are reporting that Anthony Hopkins has joined the cast of Universal's The Wolf Man, a remake of the monster movie classic.

  Hopkins joins Benicio Del Toro, who will actually portray the inflicted wolf man. Hopkins will play his father, according to MTV. The Wolf Man is slated for a 2009 release and will be helmed by music video director Mark Romanek.

  
  

  Posted 10/20/2007 by reelz

  Related: Anthony Hopkins | Benicio Del Toro | Mark Romanek

Saturday, July 21

• Che gets a chica

  Director Steven Soderbergh just signed another castmember for his two-film series about Che Guevara.

  The Argentine and Guerrilla, which will star Benicio del Toro as the Latin American revolutionary, will now be rounded out by Columbian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno, who was nominated for her work in Maria Full of Grace.

  Julia Ormond, Benjamin Bratt, and Franka Potente are also contributing their talents. The films, which will be in Spanish, begin shooting next week in Spain.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 07/21/2007 by reelz

  Related: Benicio Del Toro | Benjamin Bratt | Catalina Sandino Moreno | Julia Ormond | Franka Potente | Che