Harrison Ford Signs Up For Ender’s Game

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Action, Adaptation, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Casting, Celeb News, Upcoming Releases,

Harrison Ford has signed up to star in Ender's Game.

The Indiana Jones actor will take on the role of Colonel Hyram Graff in the sci-fi movie, which will be directed by Gavin Hood. Ford will appear alongside Sir Ben Kingsley, Hailee Syeinfeld, Abigail Breslin and Asa Butterfield.

Hood has adapted Orson Scott Card's classic sci-fi novel and Butterfield will take on the lead role of Ender Wiggin, a prodigy who becomes part of mankind's war against an alien race known as the Formics. Rising quickly through the ranks at the Battle School, Ender is revealed as a master tactician. Hailee will play fellow school warrior Petra Arkanian, Breslin will take on the role of Ender's older sister Valentine and Kingsley is aboard to play Mazer Rackham, a legendary war hero many had thought was dead.

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci - who recently wrote the Star Trek sequel - have signed on as producers and shooting is set to start in February.

Ben Kingsley in Talks for Ender’s Game

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Sir Ben Kingsley is in talks to join Ender's Game. The British actor would appear alongside his Hugo co-star Asa Butterfield should he sign up to the project, an adaptation of the sci-fi novel by Orson Scott Card.

The book tells the tale of an earth under attack from an insect-like alien species, where bullied youngster Ender Wiggin (Asa) proves to have hidden talents which could help save the human race. Ben would play a former war hero who is presumed to be long-dead in the movie, which is being produced by Star Trek scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Gavin Hood is directing the project, which is set to go into production in February 2012, although no release date is yet planned.

Oscar-winner Ben - who can currently be seen in Martin Scorsese's family film Hugo - has a number of roles set to hit cinemas in 2012, including a part in Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator.

In Theaters This Weekend: April 29, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: 20th Century Fox, FOCUS, IFC Films, Lionsgate, New Line, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Animation, Documentary, Drama, Foreign, Period, Romance, Science Fiction, Sequels, Comedy, Sports, Lists, New Releases,

Here are some possible suggestions for your upcoming weekend:

• Battle for Terra (PG): starring Justin Long, Brian Cox, Evan Rachel Wood (directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas)
• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (PG-13): starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas (directed by Mark Waters)
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine (PG-13): starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston (directed by Gavin Hood)

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‘Wolverine’ To Hit Theaters In 2009

Posted by David Onda Categories: 20th Century Fox, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Sequels, Thrillers, Casting, Filmmaking, Rumors, Upcoming Releases, Short FilmCrunch,

Fanboys everywhere are squealing with glee as Twentieth Century Fox announces that they have set a date for the eagerly awaited and horribly titled X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The film will hit theaters on May 1, 2009 and, of course, star Hugh Jackman as Marvel’s short-tempered, adamantium-clawed mutant. In addition to release date excitement, Variety reports that Liev Schreiber is in talks to play a younger version of William Stryker, Wolverine’s nemesis who was played by Brian Cox in X2.

What excites me? Rumors that the film (to be directed by Tsotsi’s Gavin Hood), which will be partially filmed in New Orleans, will include the previously left out X-man, Gambit. If I had a dollar for every playing card I lost/ruined by imitating the cartoon version of the Cajun mutant, I’d be freakin’ rich.

A few other new mutants (as well as returning ones) are expected to make appearances. Fox is also trying to get the origin story of X-Men villain Magneto off the ground and into theaters.

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In Theaters this Weekend (10/19)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks, FOCUS, Miramax, New Line, Sony, Drama, Horror, Independent, Political, Science Fiction, Comedy, Thrillers, Lists, New Releases,

Here are some possible suggestions for your upcoming weekend:

• 30 Days of Night (R):  starring Josh Hartnett, Melissa George (directed by David Slade)
• The Comebacks (PG-13):  starring David Koechner, Carl Weathers (directed by Tom Brady)
• Gone Baby Gone (R):  starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman (directed by Ben Affleck)
• Lars and the Real Girl (PG-13):  starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer (directed by Craig Gillespie).  Read the FilmCrunch review here.
• Rendition (R):  starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep (directed by Gavin Hood)
• Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (PG):  starring Rissa Walters, Brian Comrie (directed by Lisa Comrie)

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