Friday, November 20

• Underworld 4 Gets a Screenwriter

  

  THR reports that former Shield writer John Hlavin will write the screenplay for Underworld 4. The fourth installment in the franchise is supposedly going to be shot in 3-D and will set up another trilogy of Underworld movies. Hlavin wouldn't say too much about the plot, but he did note that "it's not a prequel."

  It will satisfy old fans and excite new audiences, meaning that we don't want to redo the first three movies, so steps are being taken to honor what fans have loved but at the same time introduce fresh elements.

  Len Wiseman, director of the first two Underworlds will produce, while neither Kate Beckinsale, who starred in Underworld and Underworld: Evolution, nor Rhona Mitra, who starred in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, are signed on to return. However, Beckinsale has said that she could be interested in returning if she liked the script.

  
  

  Posted 11/20/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Len Wiseman | Rhona Mitra | John Hlavin | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans | Underworld: Evolution | Underworld

Thursday, September 17

• Official Everybody's Fine Trailer Debuts

  Today Miramax debuted an online trailer for family dramedy Everybody's Fine at Yahoo Movies. The flick stars Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, and Lucian Maisel. De Niro plays a lonely widower who realizes that his only connection to his family was through his now-deceased wife, so he sets off on a road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.

  It reminds us a little of Four Christmases, or maybe The Royal Tenenbaums.

  
  
  Next Showing: Everybody's Fine releases December 4th, 2009

  Posted 09/17/2009 by Jim

  Related: Drew Barrymore | Kate Beckinsale | Sam Rockwell | Robert DeNiro | Everybody's Fine

Sunday, September 13

• Box Office Results: I Can Do Bad Done Good

  

  Title	Weekend	Total	Analysis
  I Can Do Bad All By Myself	$24.0M	$24.0M	Tyler Perry's 2nd movie of year -- and the best-reviewed movie of his oeuvre -- dominates.
  9	$10.9M	15.3M	"Tweener" animated flick too scary for kids and suffers.
  Inglourious Basterds	$6.5M	$104.3M	Tarantino pic breaks $100M blockbuster barrier and puts beleaguered Weinstein brothers back on the map.
  All About Steve	$5.8M	$21.8M	Brutally reviewed rom-com fades fast, but not as fast as Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper would hope.
  The Final Destination	$5.5M	$58.3M	With math like this ($40M budget) we can certainly expect a #5 in the series.

  
  

  Bomb of the Week: This week's winner is Whiteout, starring Kate Beckinsale. Maybe it was the lukewarm early reviews, or Kate Beckinsale trying to pull of the role off a U.S. Marshal, but this pic has the indignity of being out-earned by Sorority Row.

  
  

  Posted 09/13/2009 by reelz

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Whiteout | I Can Do Bad All By Myself

Friday, September 11

• Whiteout Reviews

  If a thriller starring Kate Beckinsale as a badass U.S. Marshal sounds a bit off, based on early critic reviews for Whiteout, you're correct. But there is an extended, gratuitous Kate Beckinsale-in-her-undies scene.

  "...a conventionally jam-packed, dutifully ludicrous action thriller..."

  — Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

  "While the setting can be mesmerizing, little else about this movie is captivating. It's a standard-issue thriller, with a twist you see coming a continent away."

  — Claudia Puig, USA Today

  "...like the Antarctic setting, this overly confusing expedition leaves us cold."

  — Pete Paras, E! Online

  "Dull and draining, Whiteout should have been offered under one of these preferable alternate titles — Washout, or even better, Wornout."

  — Bill Gibron, filmcritic.com

  "...a severely nonthrilling thriller..."

  — Kyle Smith, New York Post

  
  

  Posted 09/11/2009 by reelz

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Whiteout

Tuesday, September 1

• Kate Beckinsale Suprised by News of Underworld 4

  

  News of a fourth Underworld broke nearly four weeks ago, much to the surprise of Kate Beckinsale, who starred in both the first and second installments. Underworld 4 is slated to be shot in 3D and will be the first of a new trilogy of Underworld movies, but when Collider asked Beckinsale about Underworld 4, she wasn't aware of the new developments:

  God, three whole more! I don't think my daughter needs to see my bottom in rubber for another ten years. But I don't know, I've heard they're talking about a fourth one, but I don't know if that's officially happening or if that's a rumor. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a rumor.

  According to studio Screen Gems, it's not a rumor, especially after Underworld: Rise of the Lycans scored $91 million dollars worldwide, almost triple its budget. However ignorant Beckinsale may have been about Underworld 4, her return to the series is still possible:

  [Underworld] was always conceived as a trilogy, which I was never going to be in the third one. I think if they came up with an amazing script I wouldn't be adverse to it. But it's not planned or anything.

  Well it is now. Underworld 4 will arrive in theaters in January of 2011, with or without Beckinsale.

  
  

  Posted 09/01/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Underworld: Evolution | Underworld | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

• Whiteout Creator Praises Kate Beckinsale

  

  Writer Greg Rucka has waited a long time to see his comic book series Whiteout on the big screen. Rucka said that the comic was first optioned in 1998, the year the series debuted, but one option after another lapsed and he was beginning to think the adaptation was never going to happen. A fateful call from producer Joel Silver later, and Rucka was on his way to realizing his dream of seeing his tough U.S. Marshal, Carrie Stetko, transformed into flesh and blood in the form of actress Kate Beckinsale.

  Kate is a very talented, subtle actress who just knows exactly what she's doing with the character ... she was great. Since there are a lot of close-up shots during some of the more action-oriented scenes, Kate had to do those instead of the stunt people to show that it was her, but she was just great in carrying those out.

  In Whiteout, Stetko is the only deputy marshal assigned to Antarctica and she has only three days to solve a murder before the brutal winter beings. Rucka said that the environment of the story is one of the most crucial elements.

  Antarctica is a violently intolerable place. It has its own rules and its own personality. It's not responsible for the care and feeding of people, and environments like that provide many great insights into other characters and their humanity. There are rules to surviving there.

  

  Though shot in Canada rather than Antarctica, Beckinsale agreed that the environment could be terrifying:

  There were times when I looked out and couldn't distinguish where the land and the sky met; it was just one huge whiteness. Totally disorienting. It's easy to imagine how scary that would be if you were alone. You could turn away from your camp for a moment and not find your way back.

  Whiteout is directed by Dominic Sena and also stars Gabriel Macht as Robert Pryce and Tom Skerritt as Dr. John Fury.

  
  
  Next Showing: Whiteout opens September 11
  

  Whiteout - Trailer

  Deadly forces in Antarctica in this trailer for the thriller

  Posted 09/01/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Whiteout

Friday, August 28

• Kate Beckinsale Gets Rough in New Clips for Whiteout

  

  The studio has released an avalanche of new clips for the Antarctic suspense flick Whiteout, giving the most complete indication to date of what the movie is likely to be about. The incredibly harsh environment clearly holds onto center stage, with new recruits to the research station getting the dangers drilled into them, without the benefit of coats, by Tom Skerritt.

  Meanwhile, Kate Beckinsale shows off her dark side, as a federal marshal willing to go beyond the letter of the law to solve the continent's first murder. In the following clip, she even goes all Jack Bauer on a suspect, wielding a nasty-looking pair of clippers and warning bodily harm. Later we see that, no matter the weather, she also has a pretty good right hook.

  
  

  Posted 08/28/2009 by Bill

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Tom Skerritt | Whiteout

Monday, August 24

• Series of TV Spots Revs Up Whiteout Campaign

  The Antarctic mystery/thriller Whiteout starring Kate Beckinsale has finally started to get a little bit of traction. It must be pretty slippery out there with all that ice and stuff. Seriously, though, the movie has been in development for what seems like forever. The studio made a big deal out of it at the 2008 Comic-Con but it was nigh invisible at the most recent one. This despite the fact it's scheduled to hit theaters on September 11. The lack of a major promotional push by the studio has led to speculation that there's something wrong with the movie.

  No real sign of that in the trailer, though. Now promotion has finally started to get serious, with four new action-heavy TV spots giving a further glimpse of what potentially looks like a pretty interesting flick. Certainly, nothing appears to be wrong with Beckinsale, whose crystalline beauty is front and center in the new Whiteout poster.

  
  

  Posted 08/24/2009 by Bill

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Whiteout

Thursday, July 23

• "Something Big" Uncovered in Whiteout Trailer

  Whiteout has been one of the most weirdly under-publicized movies of the year. Now, finally, the first full trailer has been released, and it looks like there's a bit more to the story than had first appeared.

  An atmospheric murder mystery set in Antarctica, Whiteout stars Kate Beckinsale as a lone U.S. Marshal who has just three days to solve the continent's first murder before darkness falls. Now we see that what sets events in motion is the discovery of "something big" under the ice. This definitely ratchets up the suspense a notch or two.

  
  

  Posted 07/23/2009 by Bill

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Whiteout

Wednesday, June 17

• First Trailer for Whiteout

  The on-again, off-again unofficial teaser trailer for Whiteout is now finally available. It had popped up on various sites last night only to be removed by the powers that be at the studio. But now it's back again. The project, itself, has had a similarly interrupted history. Shot in 2007 and briefly promoted a few years back, the movie is now just ready to make its way into theaters this September.

  Adapted from an award-winning comic series, Whiteout stars Kate Beckinsale as a U.S. Marshal who travels to a base in Antarctica to investigate the continent's first murder. The voice-over in the trailer lays out the forbidding setting of the story with quite a bit of gusto and drama. The tag line sets the tone: "Nature never intended for you to survive here. But this Fall, nature isn't the only thing to fear."

  
  

  Posted 06/17/2009 by Bill

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Whiteout

Monday, December 22

• First-Look Photos for Whiteout

  With the comic book adaptation Whiteout a good distance from its September 11, 2009, opening day, news has been brief on the Kate Beckinsale thriller about a U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica to solve a murder.

  Now Warner Brothers has finally released some promo photos to keep comic fans teased and excited.

  
  

  Posted 12/22/2008 by reelz

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Whiteout

Monday, November 10

• Top Ten Women We'd Like to See as Bond Girls

  Daniel Craig recently completed his second mission as James Bond. Early reviews are positive, and the best Bond since Sean Connery is signed on for at least two more flicks. Besides the improvement in Bond, himself, this latest incarnation of the slick 007 secret agent is bolstered by his credible leading ladies, Eva Green and Olga Kurylenko.

  Denise Richard's painful performance as nuclear physicist Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough proved that the dapper Bond is better suited to a challenging leading lady who can keep up with him, both physically and mentally.

  So which Hollywood actresses fit the bill as future notches on Bond's storied bedpost? Here's a countdown of 10 Women We'd Like to See as Bond Girls.

  
  

  Posted 11/10/2008 by reelz

  Related: Daniel Craig | Kate Beckinsale | Megan Fox | Angelina Jolie | Quantum of Solace

Tuesday, April 8

• Beckinsale, Barrymore and De Niro Headline All-Star Cast

  Variety reports that Miramax has acquired the worldwide rights to Everybody's Fine. The pic is a remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's Stanno tutti bene.

  Miramax has landed an all-star cast that includes Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell.

  De Niro will play a widower who has lost touch with his children after his wife's passing. He embarks on a road trip to visit and try to reconnect with his kids.

  
  

  Posted 04/08/2008 by reelz

  Related: Drew Barrymore | Kate Beckinsale | Sam Rockwell | Robert DeNiro

Sunday, March 2

• Beckinsale won't be seen in Underworld 3

  ReelzChannel.com caught up with Kate Beckinsale the other day at the junket for her upcoming indie flick Snow Angels, and she affirmed fanboys fears that she will not be making any appearances in Underworld 3 (the prequel to Underworld that is to be entitled Underworld: Rise of the Lycans).

  Beckinsale said her only involvement with this installment of the franchise is "in a wifely, supportive type way." The actress, who starred in Underworld and Underworld: Evolution, is married to the movies' director, Len Wiseman.

  "They’re shooting right now in New Zealand and my husband is not directing, he’s producing it," Beckinsale continued. "And my ex (Michael Sheen, who plays Lucian in the series) is the lead."

  "Family franchise," she joked.

  
  

  Posted 03/02/2008 by reelz

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans | Underworld: Evolution | Underworld

Friday, October 26

• Underworld 3 gets the go-ahead. Whoop dee do.

  It appears that one of the more unfortunate side effects of the success of the splendid vampire flick 30 Days of Night is a renewed interest in lesser vampire-oriented franchises. Variety reports today that a Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans is officially moving forward, sans the one element that made the previous two Underworld movies tolerable: Kate Beckinsale. Billed as a prequel, the movie's story centers on the origins of the centuries-old battle between Vampires and Werewolves. B-list heavyweights Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen and Rhona Mitra are slated to star. What -- they couldn't get Kevin Sorbo? Pity.
  
  
  

  30 Days of Night - Trailer

  An Alaskan town is attacked by a gang of vampires.

  Posted 10/26/2007 by reelz

  Related: Kate Beckinsale | Rhona Mitra | Kevin Sorbo | Michael Sheen | Underworld: Evolution | Underworld | 30 Days of Night

Thursday, July 19

• Movie dealz: Powder Blue, Nothing But the Truth

  Actor Ray Liotta (Goodfellas, Wild Hogs) has joined the cast of Powder Blue, a Christmas movie written and directed by Timothy Linh Bui.

  The drama, which was adapted from a short story by Stephanie  Gauger, will follow four desperate Los Angelenos whose fates intersect on Christmas Eve. It will also star Forest Whitaker and Jessica Biel.

  The story of the Valerie Plame case will make it to the silver screen in the form of Nothing But the Truth, written and directed by Rod Lurie (The Contender). The political drama will take the perspective of former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who went to jail for refusing to reveal her sources in the Plame story.

  Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga, Edie Falco, and Alan Alda are in talks to star.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 07/19/2007 by reelz

  Related: Edie Falco | Forest Whitaker | Jessica Biel | Kate Beckinsale | Matt Dillon | Ray Liotta | Alan Alda | Rod Lurie | Timothy Linh Bui | Vera Farmiga | Powder Blue | Nothing But the Truth