Startling news from the set of Joss Whedon’s big-budget Avengers movie: Stuntman Jeremy Fitzgerald was injured last Friday while performing a death-defying stunt that featured a 30 foot fall from a building. Details on the grisly superhero set accident below.
Chris Weitz ‘s L.A. -set drama A Better Life features no stars (well, its lead is ‘the George Clooney of Mexico’) and no vampires, but it got a profile boost Tuesday night when two of the stars of Weitz’s last movie, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner , made a red carpet appearance in support of their former director. Fresh off of filming on November’s Breaking Dawn , the Twilight duo posed for photos but left the media spotlight to Weitz and Co. to talk up their potential awards contender, about an illegal immigrant father and his teenage son struggling to make it in East L.A.
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Snow White and The Huntsman lines up more dwarves… Ron Howard could go to the races… Spike Lee and Mike Tyson hit HBO… and more ahead.
You know that report about Darren Aronofsky wanting to spend $130 million on an “edgy retelling” of Noah’s Ark? Well, he’s really serious! In a new interview with IFC. com , the Black Swan director gave a few more details about his biblical dream project.
It’s not Sunday , but that doesn’t mean Man of Steel casting news can’t slip out from Hollywood. Variety reports that Russell Crowe is in talks to play Superman’s father, Jor-El, in the Zack Snyder-directed reboot. Marlon Brando famously portrayed Jor-El in Superman: The Movie , and earned roughly $12 million for his ten minutes in the film . Here’s guessing Crowe won’t be that financially lucky. Otherwise, nice! Developing… [ Variety ]
Shortly after hearing that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is in talks to join Channing Tatum in Jon M. Chu’s G.I. Joe sequel, word comes that Elodie Yung, the badass French actress from District 13: Ultimatum , is also circling a role.
In other Sony sequel news today, the Angelina Jolie thriller Salt is getting a second installment . Hooray! I think! Jolie was appealing in the original, and if any runaround spy-related actioner deserves another chapter, it’s this one. But what shall we call it?
The trailer for Steven Spielberg’s new Fox sci-fi serial Terra Nova , where groups of people travel to prehistoric times to save the overcrowded Earth of 2149, is filled with touches of the director’s old favorites: Jurassic Park ‘s wonderment creeps up, E.T ‘s innocence plays a part, and maybe a touch of the non-Spielbergian Lost sneaks in as well. Check the trailer after the jump.
Something tells me that when you were playing Nintendo Duck Hunt back in ’87, you never thought to yourself: “This is a true work of art that enhances the public good.” Nearly 25 years later though, that is exactly what the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts is saying about Duck Hunt ‘s sophisticated spawn by allowing the medium to be recognized as a legitimate art form that deserves federal funding.
A day after Tim Hetherington was tragically killed while covering the ongoing conflict in Libya, a final interview with the acclaimed war photographer and documentarian has surfaced. Conducted a few weeks ago, Hetherington discussed the difficulty and uncertainty of making a documentary in a war-torn country.