Spinoff Online’s Anna Pinkert considers why leading men like Tom Cruise, George Clooney and Robert Downey Jr. continue to age on screen while their female co-stars keep getting younger — and why it matters.
Life of Pi director Ang Lee is interested in helming Cleopatra, the historical epic set to star Angelina Jolie. “It just feels right to me after all the other types of films I’ve done,” he says.
Betsy Johnston, the writer of movies like The Prince of Tides and the upcoming Arthur Newman, is in talks with Columbia Pictures to pen the sequel to the hit 2010 Angelina Jolie spy film Salt.
The long-promised sequel to Wanted is pushing ahead without Angelina Jolie, as James McAvoy moves into the mentor role, co-writer Derek Haas teased.
Disney has announced the start of production on Maleficent with the release of the first image of Angelina Jolie as the villain from the studio’s 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty.
Director Robert Rodriguez has confirmed that Mickey Rourke and Rosario Dawson will reprise their Sin City roles for the sequel A Dame to Kill For. However, he says he hasn’t yet spoken to Angelina Jolie, who’s long been his first choice to play Ava Lord in the adaptation of Frank Miller’s neo-noir crime comic.
Elle Fanning is in talks to star opposite Angelina Jolie in Maleficent, the live-action Disney film centering on the wicked fairy-sorceress from Sleeping Beauty.
Universal Pictures has hired original screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas to begin work on a sequel to the 2008 action film Wanted.
Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer has begun work on a sequel to the 2010 thriller, which grossed more than $295 million worldwide. Star Angelina Jolie reportedly is interested in reprising her role as a CIA operative accused of being a Russian sleeper agent.
Kung Fu Panda 2 is nearly everything the first movie was, only set in a larger world and bolstered by some gorgeous 3D effects.
Heavyweight producer Graham King (The Departed, The Town) plans to reboot the Tomb Raider franchise with a movie centering on the origins of the popular archaeologist-adventurer.
DreamWorks Animation has unleashed a new trailer for Kung Fu Panda 2, which finds Po and The Furious Five threatened by a villain who plans to use a secret weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. The movie opens in 3D on May 26.
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