Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More According to news coming from Deadline Hollywood, Paul WS Anderson has signed on to direct a Buck Rogers film. He’ll be working from a script by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man). Anderson has said “Buck has already been such a huge influence on action-adventure franchises like Star Wars …
Read More »Sherlock Holmes Surpasses $500 Million
Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the legendary detective and Jude Law as his formidable ally Watson, has crossed the $500 million mark globally. The film, which began its worldwide rollout on Christmas day, earned $207.9 million in the United States, and is poised to cross $300 million …
Read More »Maleficent Nabs Alice’s Screenwriter
Hot on the heels of the success of Alice In Wonderland, Disney has hired Alice scribe Linda Woolverton to pen the live action screenplay of Sleeping Beauty from the wicked queen Maleficent’s point of view. Maleficent will probably be in the same spirit of the book and Broadway musical “Wicked”, …
Read More »Toy Story and Toy Story 2 Remastered For Hi-Def
This Spring, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) proudly presents the eagerly awaited high definition debuts of Disney/Pixar’s original animated classics Toy Story and Toy Story 2. In 1995, Toy Story made history as the first feature-length computer animated film and, together with its beloved sequel Toy Story 2, helped …
Read More »Wes Craven and Cast Scream 4 More
In a move that everyone and their grandma saw coming, Dimension Films announced today that the fourth installment of the Scream Series is starting production this spring, with all the original players in tact. Wes Craven announced via his twitter feed that he will direct, and creator of the Scream …
Read More »Popeye to Return to Big Screen in 3D
In the world of animation, looks like everything old is new again, and this time in 3D. Sony has just announced that work has begun on a 3D CGI animated film based on the classic character Popeye. The film is being produced by former Marvel boss Avi Arad. On Monday, …
Read More »Kellan Lutz Joins Cast of War of the Gods
The cast of the film War of the Gods is now coming closer to being complete. Twilight’s Kellan Lutz is going from sparkly vampire to a young god for Tarsem Singh’s War of the Gods. According to Variety, Lutz will play Poseidon, god of the seas. War of the Gods …
Read More »Official! Chris Evans is Captain America
It’s official. According to both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Evans has accepted the role of Steve Rogers/Captain America from Marvel Studios. He will be playing Captain America in nine other features including potential sequels, “The Avengers” and other unannounced projects. Word came out late last week that he …
Read More »Box Office Remains In Wonderland
Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” pulled off an impressive win at the weekend boxoffice, beating the highly-anticipated “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” with an estimated $34.5 million. The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, March 21, 2010 include: Rank Title Distributor Weekend Gross …
Read More »Calling All Wimpy Kids
Meet the kid who made “wimpy” cool, in a family comedy motion picture based on the best-selling illustrated novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, the first in a series that has thus far sold 28 million books. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID chronicles the adventures of wisecracking …
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