The casting blitz for Zack Snyder ‘s Superman reboot Man of Steel keeps adding surprising but well-liked members to its cast (see Movieline’s growing gallery here ), with Deadline reporting that Law & Order: SVU ‘s Emmy-nominated Christopher Meloni is negotiating for an unknown but “major” role in the pic.
Had he not passed away on April 9 , famed director Sidney Lumet would have turned 87 years old on Saturday. The five-time Academy Award-nominee was responsible for some of the most indelible films from the last half-century, including 12 Angry Men , Network , Dog Day Afternoon , The Verdict and Running on Empty , to name just five. Lumet was remembered at the Los Angeles Film Festival this week, and if you didn’t get a chance to participate in that event, Movieline is here to provide a sounding board. In honor of what would have been Lumet’s birthday, celebrate the director’s career ahead.
It’s Questionable Poster Day here at Movieline! Hot on the heels of that not-so-good poster for Straw Dogs comes an equally not-so-good poster for John Carter . The 2012 Disney adaptation of the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs featuring John Carter (a Civil War veteran and not John Carter of E.R. , FYI ) recently dropped the of Mars from its title, but the poster makers apparently weren’t aware of that fact. Kinda. Click through for the first look.
The films of John Hughes belong to a class of nostalgia and greatness all their own, but 25 years on, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is a particularly universal moment of brilliance in the late director’s career. On June 11, 1986, the Matthew Broderick vehicle about delinquency, high school malaise, and budding adulthood opened in theaters, and now, Movieline is thrilled to rehash its most underrated moment.
Big reveals, mildly scandalous controversies, a delicious bit of vampire honeymoon sex and a heaping of good, old fashioned nostalgia dominated the week here at Movieline HQ. Speaking of nostalgia, it’s never too early to look back on our favorite top stories, right? RIGHT ! Take a trip down memory lane and relive this week’s biggest moments as if they hit the web only yesterday . Go on, embrace the sentimentality. Consider it Movieline’s way of celebrating the the past, a la J.J. Abrams and his childhood wage labor overlord .
ZOMG, Twi-hards: The first teaser trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is set to hit the web this Sunday, June 5 after it debuts during the MTV Movie Awards . Check back Sunday to squeeee over the trailer with your friends at Movieline, and follow along on Twitter at @Movieline as we livetweet the MTV Movie Awards red carpet! [ IMDB ]
A short holiday week didn’t mean we could let up with the coverage at Movieline HQ; there was just to much to see, too much know, too much to gawk at in baffled amazement. (Micheal Fassbender and Zoe Kravitz, we’re looking at you.) And it doesn’t stop here! We’ll be around all weekend with box-office dispatches and news from both the MTV Movie and Guys’ Choice Awards. Keep us company, and either way, have a splendid weekend!
Every month at Movieline, we collect the best interviews, smartest features, and most compelling reviews we’ve produced, and curate them in one easy-to-use table of contents called the Virtual Newsstand, which pays tribute to our print magazine history. Here’s the Virtual Newsstand for April 2011.
Over at Movieline sister site Deadline, Nikki Finke’s got a whopper of an interview with Simon Cowell , who revealed to her his proposed line-up of judges for the U.S. version of the British reality contest series The X Factor . Will reuniting with fellow American Idol judge Paula Abdul draw in the ratings? Bigger question: Who is Cheryl Cole?
I’m relieved that Kevin Williamson is back in our lives, even tangentially , thanks to Scream 4 (or Scre4m , if you prefer your horror cinema Ke$hified). But while he’s giving fine, diplomatic interviews in 2011, the Kevin Williamson of 1999 who confessed his insecurities to Movieline magazine might be even more entertaining. Did his predictions about teen slashers and Neve Campbell (not to mention the cast of Dawson’s Creek ) manifest? Let’s visit the Movieline vault and see.