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No movie has attracted quite as much speculation in recent years as the Bourne sequel/reboot/thingamajig. Rumour and counter-rumour have swirled around the project like mist around Prometheus . When Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass demurred and Jeremy Renner and Tony Gilroy stepped up, the question was: who is Renner playing and how would The Bourne Legacy fit into the existing universe? "My character is called Aaron Cross ," Renner told us, "but he ends up having a bunch of different names. For fans of the franchise, [The Bourne Legacy] has that same ticking clock, but it's a new programme and new characters." So is Treadstone still involved? "Yeah, it's that same deal, it's just a new set of agents with a different leash. It's the same tempo and pace but more expansive and bigger. The differences are pretty vast but you'll know it's a Bourne movie." Please Leave A Comment- Source- Empire

Apparently not bowed by the train wreck that was Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark , Sylvester Stallone is teaming up with world champion boxing brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko to make a musical version of his Oscar-winning boxing film Rocky. Stallone and the Klitschkos, who will produce Rocky: The Musical together with Kevin King Templeton of Stallone’s Rouge Marble shingle, announced the project in Hamburg on Monday. Stallone said in giving the pugilist classic the Andrew Lloyd Webber treatment he would be focusing on Rocky’s romantic side. "At the end of the day, Rocky is a love story and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian,” said Stallone. “To see this story coming to life on a musical stage makes me proud. And it would make Rocky proud." Broadway veteran Thomas Meehan (The Producers) will write the script to Rocky: the Musical. Ragtime’s Tony-award winning lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty will re-team for the music,

Norwegian author Jo Nesbo and Brit production company Working Title Films have confirmed that Martin Scorsese will direct the feature film adaptation of Nesbo’s global bestseller The Snowman . Scorsese had been circling the project for some time now but Nesbo had to give final approval for the director. He has done so, confirming to a Swedish newspaper that Scorsese will direct the first English-language adaptation of his work. Nesbo added that he would not insist Snowman be shot on location in Olso, where the book is set. With Snowman, Scorsese will shift away from the family-friendly approach of Hugo to the crime thriller genre of his Oscar-winning The Departed. The novel features Norwegian detective Harry Hole, described as an anti-authoritarian, anti-sobriety cop, who investigates particularly gruesome killings. In Snowman, the seventh book in the Harry Hole franchise, a son finds his mother’s pink scarf wrapped around the neck of a ominous looking snowman. Hole realizes she

When opportunity knocks you should always open the door, who knows what could happen. That is the premise we followed when we decided to venture into a new frontier for SandwichJohnFilms . The decision was made a week before to ask for an opportunity to interview my favorite band, THE SOUNDS . This decision had only upside. It was going to be a first for all of us involved. There is no other band you want to interview for your first time. The Sounds are humble and devoted band that love their fans. We got the word the day before the San Francisco show at The Warfield , you get 15 minutes with the band. That's when our lives changed for the better. A chance to interview one of the best Swedish bands touring the world right now. The Sounds are an indie rock, new wave, dance punk band that formed back in 1998. All the members are from the same town in Sweden. The Sounds take a fresh approach to dance music with punk lyrics to get you movin'. All their albums boast many

Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington has plucked the sword from the stone and will play the future King Arthur in Warner Bros.’ Arthur & Lancelot. David Dobkin is directing the movie, which seeks to spin the King Arthur myth into a bit of a lighthearted action movie the way the studio did with Sherlock Holmes. In the classic myth, Lancelot was one of Arthur’s knights and ends up in an adulterous relationship with Arthur’s wife, Guinevere. The movie sees Arthur as an illegitimate son being raised by a humble and poor knight in a village who will grow into an inspiring leader while Lancelot is a rebellious noble who distrusts the established government. (Guinevere, at this stage of the game, is simple a cameo but will figure more prominently in potential sequels.) The movie is eying a March 2012 start. Harington’s role of Arthur has parallels to his character in Thrones, where he plays an illegitimate son with hidden potential to the lord of the northern kingdom. Haringto

Chuck star Yvonne Strahovski is in final negotiations to join I, Frankenstein , the action monster movie starring Aaron Eckhart. Miranda Otto , best known for playing Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings movies, also is on board. Stuart Beattie is directing the Lakeshore/Lionsgate movie, which follows Frankenstein’s monster ( Eckhart ) vacillating between humanity and monsterdom while being pursued by demons wanting to gain the secret of his reanimated corpse. Strahovski will play the female lead, a scientist working on reanimating the dead and tricked into working for demons seeking to create an army of the undead. Otto is playing the queen of the gargoyles who wants to help Frankenstein. Bill Nighy is already in negotiations to play the leader of the demons while Socratis Otto (no relation to Miranda) is his right hand man. The movie, based on a comic by Kevin Grevioux, is due to shoot this winter in Australia. Hopscotch Features is partnering with Lakeshore to produce the mov

THE DESCENDANTS Movie Review By: Rama So does RAMA think George Clooney pulled of an Oscar worthy performance in the film? Make sure to Follow him on Facebook and Twitter . Alexander Payne is back and thank God he’s back! It’s been a while since Sideways, which I admired, now Payne has given his next masterpiece and just like his previous works, this too has Oscars written all over it. Everything about THE DESCENDANTS is close to perfect from the writing, directing to the performances. The film is a gentle but firm and genuine ring of emotions, so well-crafted that you get even more and more interested in the characters as the story progresses. George Clooney has given some outstanding performances in the past but his performance in THE DESCENDANTS proves that he truly is one of the finest actors of all time. And for the record, I think Shailene Woodley deserves a best supporting nod… Matt King ( George Clooney ), a husband and father of two girls, must re-examine his pas

Dwayne Johnson has become attached to star in Monster Hunter’s Survival Guide , a live action adventure film based on the comic book miniseries by John Paul Russ that was published by Zenescope Entertainment. The film will be produced by Simon Kinberg through his Genre Films shingle. The book series is a comprehensive guide to hunt monsters, the undead and unnatural beasts, and survive the confrontations. Johnson has had quite a rebound year. He joined the cast of Fast Five and helped the film to more than $626 million in worldwide box office, and he revived his Rock persona in the wrestling ring, hosting WrestleMania XXVII. Now, he’s back in the ring and is the main event for Sunday’s Survivor Series at Madison Square Garden, which sold out in 90 minutes. He’ll be the headliner of WrestleMania XXVIII, which has already broken ticket sales records. Johnson is in production on G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation , playing the character Roadblock, and then follows with the Ric Roman Waugh-di

You've seen the new Empire covers with Batman and Bane, but here's a sneak peek at some of the news on The Dark Knight Rises inside the magazine. Specifically, Nolan himself gives away a few tidbits on the film's plot and setting, and Tom Hardy talks about Bane. Let's hear from director Christopher Nolan first, and see what he'll divulge about the film. "It's really all about finishing Batman and Bruce Wayne's story. We left him in a very precarious place. Perhaps surprisingly for some people, our story picks up quite a bit later, eight years after The Dark Knight. So he's an older Bruce Wayne; he's not in a great state. "With Bane, we're looking to give Batman a challenge he hasn't had before. With our choice of villain and with our choice of story we're testing Batman both physically as well as mentally." Speaking of physical challenges, what can Tom Hardy tell us about Bane ? "He's brutal. Brutal. He

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 Movie Review By: Rama So is Rama a Twi-hard or not. Go ahead and read his review and make sure to Follow him on Facebook and Twitter . It really is challenging to write up a review for any Twilight movie, especially this fourth installment when you’re neither a fan of the books nor the previous movies. Because when you’re a fan, you can easily geek out and be stoked about it no matter what, because you’ve drunk the Twilight kool-aid. But when you’re not a fan, you’re faced with the fact that you’re going to write about pretty much the same damn thing again because you’ve noticed a pattern. One thing I’d say is that the build up, before this movie arrives, around how it would depict the sex scene and the birthing process does come in handy in attracting those of us who think that it’s a dreadful experience dragging our feet to the screening for another round of Edward-Bella-Jacob.. In The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, Bel