Confirmed: Stephen Sommers To Direct GI Joe Movie, Stuart Beattie To Pen Script Varietyhas now confirmed a rumor thathit the movie websites a couple weeks ago:The Mummyseries director Stephen Sommers has signed on to direct a big screen live-action G.I. Joe movie. The studio is hiring a writer immediately,IESBis reporting that Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of Night, Spy Hunter) is the man for the job....

Disney Post-Fox Film Release Slate Pushes Back ‘Avatar’ Sequels To 2021, ‘Artemis Fowl’ To 2020 TheDisneyfilm slate has been a big question mark since the finalization of its 21st Century Fox acquisition. The historic deal came just as two of Disney’s biggest franchises were coming to the end of their respective eras — Marvel Studios withAvengers: Endgame, andStar Warswith the upcomingThe Rise of Skywalker. What could Disney’s film release schedule look like once the dust has settled around these franchises and the historic Fox deal?...

Disney’s Live-Action ‘Aladdin’ Remake Frees Its First Poster Your wish has been granted. Disney has released the first official poster for the live-actionAladdinremake directed byGuy Ritchieand set to starMena Massoud,Naomi Scott, andWill Smith. The minimalistAladdinremake poster teases the fan-favorite character of the Genie played by Smith, and confirms the film’s release date of May 2019. Disney has let the Genie out of the bottle — but there isn’t much else to see....

Filmmaker Mode Is The Easiest And Fastest Way To Watch Movies As Their Creators Intended Is there another high-tech device other than televisions that habitually have terrible performance when you just plug them in? The reasons for TV’s default settings travesty are manifold, but the simple answer for why “dynamic” or “vivid” are often the default are so that those panels look to outshine their competitors when viewed at a big box store under garish lighting or plopped into a sunlit living room....

First Look: Kate Winslet And Josh Brolin In Jason Reitman’s ‘Labor Day’ With the actual Labor Day just a few weeks away, the first still from the movieLabor Dayhas started making the rounds. (In fact, it kinda made the rounds a week or so ago, when TIFF ran it by accident. But now it’s official.) Directed byJason Reitmanand based on the novel byJoyce Maynard, the drama starsKate WinsletandGattlin Griffith(Changeling) as a mother and son who take in an escaped convict (Josh Brolin) over a weekend....

First Look: Will Smith And Margot Robbie In ‘Focus’ Will Smith’s only role this year was a glorified cameo inWinter’s Tale, but he’ll be back next year with a much bigger part inFocus. Directed byGlenn FicarraandJohn Requa(Crazy, Stupid, Love.), the “comedy-caper-love story” pairs him withMargot Robbieas two con artists with a complicated history. When they reunite a few years later, sparks fly once again. Interestingly,Focuswas originally set to star Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, and then Ben Affleck and Kristen Stewart....

General Motors Could Turn ‘Cannonball Run’ Into A Feature-Length Commercial; Guy Ritchie Still Possible Director It’s time for another round of Hypothetical Movie Contract Info. Early this year we heard that Warner Bros. islooking at making a new filmcalledCannonball Run. That is, of course, the name of an early ’80s racing comedy that spawned a sequel and one or two tenuously-connected DTV films. I probably wouldn’t call this a remake, as a newCannonball Runis likely to bear as much resemblance to the 1981 film as Steven Soderberg’sOcean’s Elevendid to the Rat Pack movie with which it shares a name....

Get A New Look At Ironheart, Marvel’s Female Iron Man Back in July, Marvel Comics announced that Tony Stark would be stepping down from the mantle ofIron Manand passing it offto a 15-year-old black girl named Riri Williams. Since the Iron Man title didn’t really apply anymore, she was revealedto take on the nameofIronheart. Tony Stark already encountered Riri Williams inInvincible Iron Man #12after the MIT prodigy reversed engineered an old Iron Man suit and used it to stop a prison break, but an upcoming issue of the comic gives us a little more insight into her backstory, including a glimpse at one of her suits....

Haunted Mansion Movie Update: Doug Jones Hat Box Ghost And New Writers At Comic Con 2010,Guillermo del Torosurprisedthe crowd at Disney’s Hall H panel by publicly announcing that he would be producing (and probably directing) a new big screen adaptation of the classic Disneyland attractionThe Haunted Mansion. Its been almost four years since that announcement, and development is still on going. Del Toro offered a new update on the project during his Reddit AMA....

Interview: Into The Wild Star Emile Hirsch At the Toronto Film Festival, we had the opportunity to interview Emile Hirsch about his new filmInto The Wild. Sean Penn’s new film adaptation is is one of the best movies of 2007 so far. If the movie is in your city this week, go see it (it expands nationwide in the coming weeks). Question:What do you think Christopher McCandless would think of this film?...

It Might Get Loud Filmmaker Developing Jimi Hendrix Biopic Whenever I hear of someone wanting to make aJimi Hendrixbiopic, I think of comments fromDuneabout men drinking drinking the Water of Life. “They tried and failed?” “They tried and died.” No one has kicked it trying to put Hendrix on film, but no attempt has even come close to getting it right, either. Now, according toVariety,Thomas Tullof Legendary Pictures, the man who came up with and produced the guitar god documentaryIt Might Get Loud, is trying his own Hendrix film....

James Gunn Says A Peacemaker Character Will Return For A ‘Big’ DC Movie In The Future If you haven’t watched “Peacemaker” on HBO Max yet but are interested in the grand scheme of the DC Extended Universe, you may want to remedy that situation because according to James Gunn, a character from the show is going to show up in the DCEU in a very big way. Gunn recently guested on an episode of theTV’s Top 5podcast where he put to bed the rumors that “Peacemaker” exists in a separate universe, and instead exists well within the confines of the DCEU....

Jordan Peele In Talks To Direct ‘Akira’ For Warner Bros. Jordan Peeleis the director of the moment, with his feature debutGet Outmaking waves critically and at the box office. And reportedly Warner Bros. has taken notice, courting theKey and Peeleco-creator to direct the embattled live-action adaptation ofAkira. The Tracking Boardreports thatWarner Bros. is “moving aggressively to lock in” Peele forAkiraafter the success ofGet Out, and that the talks have been “encouraging....