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Anthony Hopkins In Talks To Play Alfred Hitchcock For Director Sacha Gervasi Just yesterday we told you thatAnvil! The Story of AnvildirectorSacha Gervasiisin talks to write and direct a filmbased onStephen Rebello’s bookAlfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. In the source article for that piece there was a mention thatAnthony Hopkinswas one of the actors mentioned as a possible on-screen Hitch. That stemmed in part from a different version of the same film that was in development a few years ago underRunning With Scissorsdirector andGleecreator Ryan Murphy....

Bob Wall, Frequent Bruce Lee Collaborator And Martial Arts Expert, Has Died One of the world’s greatest martial artists is no longer with us. Bob Wall, best known as the trainer for martial arts legendBruce Lee, passed away on Sunday at the age of 82. In addition to training Lee, Wall opposed the martial arts legend in classic kung fu films including “Enter The Dragon” and “Game of Death,” mostly serving as a major foe for Lee’s protagonist....

British Film Institute Says It Won’t Fund Movies That Depict Villains With Facial Scars For as long as I can remember, scars have been used as a visual shorthand for villainy in movies. I can’t count the number of henchmen I’ve seen who have scars across one eye, and major characters like Le Chiffre fromCasino Royale, The Joker fromThe Dark Knight, and Kylo Ren from the newStar Warstrilogy are recent examples which prove that shorthand is still regularly used today....

Casting Bits: Clint Eastwood Wants Leonardo DiCaprio For ‘A Star Is Born’, Haley Joel Osment Will ‘Wake The Dead’, Jamie Chung Nabs Indie Drama ‘Eden’ Clint EastwoodcastBeyonce Knowlesas the female lead in hisA Star is Bornremake some time ago, but he’s been searching for someone to take on the male lead. Now it’s being reported that his top choice for the part isLeonardo DiCaprio, who worked with Eastwood on the biopicJ....

Disney Locks Down New Release Dates Through 2019 For Live-Action Projects Riding high off the recent success ofThe Jungle Book, Disney has gone ahead and locked in four more release dates through 2019. Two of those will go to live-action fairy tales — which, combined with earlier announcements about Disney’s release dates, brings the total of live-action fairy tales on the studio’s slate to six. And to help you figure out which ones might go where, the studio has also released official details on several live-action projects currently in development....

Here’s A First Look At Theo And Bronwyn In The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power You know, I was just starting to think that after a couple of months away from thedeluge of new postersreleased for Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” series that focused almost exclusively on zoomed-in hands, what we really needed these days was yet more out-of-context images of characters (likely new ones we’ve never even heard of, or obscure ones that most of us have never even heard of) milling around the fantasy world of Middle-earth....

How Ron’s Gone Wrong Directors Made A Film About Connection While Disconnected [Interview] “Ron’s Gone Wrong,” from 20th Century Studios and Locksmith Animation, tells the story of Barney and his robotic B-bot companion, Ron. Ron is part of a brand new product line of small, social media connected bots intended to be your “best friend out of the box,” but there’s a catch: Ron’s broken. Unable to connect to the cloud, he’s forced to learn how to befriend Barney and build his own personality the old-fashioned way: by spending time together....

How Star Trek: Lower Decks Animators Sneak Easter Eggs Into The Show At its heart, “Star Trek” is a workplace drama. While we may become attached to the characters and their relationships, or enjoy the little hits of philosophy taken from the miniature morality plays in “Trek,” at the end of the day, its the ship or station — and its complex operational machinations — that bring us back. A good captain can be seen as not just a military commander, but a good manager overseeing a team of employees....

John Cena The Wrestler Never Impressed Me – But I Love John Cena The Actor I have been a fan of professional wrestling for nearly three decades. My fandom began in the early 90s when my cousin Christopher introduced me to the World Wrestling Federation. Unfortunately, he passed away in the mid-90s, so he was unable to go on the journey with me from the Federation Years to the Attitude Era, World Wrestling Entertainment, and beyond....

Joss Whedon Discusses ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘Dr. Horrible 2’, And His Possible Future At Marvel [Comic-Con 2012] All-star geekJoss Whedontook over Ballroom 20 at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday to thunderous applause, and although he confessed that he hadn’t properly prepared for the panel, it did little to dampen his fans' enthusiasm. Whedon took the mic alone at the front of the room, and for an hour fielded questions from an appreciative audience....

Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State’ Cast Will Return For ‘Hit Somebody’ Kevin Smithhas unveiled the final credit card of his upcoming horror filmRed State, which promises that “almost this entire cast will return inHit Somebody.” Based on theWarren Zevonsong, Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song), the story is about an insanely passionate hockey player named Buddy who gets his chance play professional hockey for the World Hockey Association, but as an enforcer (aka the “guy who goes out there and beats the s*** out of people”)....

Listen To A Track From Nicholas Britell’s ‘The Underground Railroad’ Soundtrack Barry Jenkinshas worked with composerNicholas BritellonMoonlightandIf Beale Street Could Talk, and now they’ve reunited forThe Underground Railroad. Jenkins directs the Amazon series based on the award-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, and Britell is handling the score – which, like most of his scores, is sure to be gorgeous and breathtaking. There will be multipleUnderground Railroadsoundtracks released, and the first – Volume 1 – is arriving next week....

Love, Death And Robots Director Alberto Mielgo Talks About His Stunning New Short, Jibaro [Interview] Artist, animator, and director Alberto Mielgo just wants people to take animation seriously. Mielgo has won Emmys for his short “The Witness” from the first season of “Love, Death + Robots,” and justthis yearwon the Academy Award for Best Animated Short for his film “The Windshield Wiper.” Mielgo took the stage at the Oscars toplead with audiencesto give adult animation a chance, because it’s an art form deserving of love and attention....