Keira Knightley is in early negotiations to star opposite Chris Pine in Paramount’s franchise hopeful Jack Ryan, sources close to the film tell The Hollywood Reporter.

I’m not sure why since I don’t have a lot of information about his film, but I am excited and hopeful. Perhaps it is because I love all the other films in this franchise. Though I hate that they are scattered about with different actors and philosophies. Perhaps this will be a grand unification and the start of a sucessful.

Mel Stuart, the director of the beloved childhood classic Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, died in Los Angeles on Thursday of cancer. He was 83.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is one of my favoriate childhood films and it’s sad to hear of the director of such a classic movie passing on.

I love the behind-the-scenes of an interesting behind-the-scenes sort of film. Wreck-It Ralph is one of these cases.

For a terrific behind-the-scenes scoop, here’s Germain Lussier:

Wreck-It Ralph is the title of the movie and also the main character (Reilly) who for 30 years has been a bad guy inside of an 8-bit video game, Fix It Felix Jr. One day he decides he doesn’t want to be the bad guy anymore and escapes his game into other ones in the arcade, trying to prove he can be a hero. Along the way, he’ll encounter multiple different games, characters and more, which are detailed…

There is a kind of one-upmanship going on among the titans of the mega-uber-blockbusters, Jackson and James Cameron—who himself just announced that he plans to shoot “Avatar 2” and the film’s third installment using digital equipment that delivers 60 frames per second. While admiring the LOTR trilogy and “Avatar,” which remains the state of the art in 3D, I believe their expanding ambitions come with risks.

Right, I see it as a sort of abandoning of the story telling craft and instead, exactly as Ebert says, trying to one up each other on technological prowess. Good technology is…

If you’ll indulge me a moment, I need to get the last vestiges of The Dark Knight Trilogy out of my system by way of posting this trailer. It’s epic, and really well done, even if it is a bit long. Very nicely intercut with all sorts of clips from all three films. It makes me want to watch the trilogy again. And given that I just watched it all recently, that’s quite a feat.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

“Being 24, posing for newspaper photo shoots in a cartoon sweatshirt, and having your mother and Jimmy Wales speak for you, does not mean you are incapable for [sic] breaking the law.”

The reminder above comes from a supposedly leaked MPAA memo obtained by TorrentFreak. It outlines talking points when discussing the much publicized O’Dwyer case, involving the 24-year-old and the “link site” he used to run. TVShack.net didn’t directly host possibly infringing materials, but the site did link to such videos.

This is one of my pet peeves so I am likely to talk write about it from time to…

Kristen Stewart as the fairest of them all? No thanks. Another score from the great J.N.H. himself? Yes please. Hollywood’s latest adaption of Snow White wasn’t received well by fans or critics, who branded it neither magical nor memorable. I’m not going to argue with that assessment. What I am going to argue is that the score is worth your time, even if the movie is not. Surprised? Don’t be. Samson found honey in the carcass of a lion, and James Newton Howard wrote a stellar score for a less-than-stellar film. In fact, I wouldn’t hesitate to call it some of his finest work to…

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When the Total Recall “remake” was first announced in 2009, the producers were clear on one thing: in spite of the 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, this movie would offer a different (albeit still loose) interpretation of iconic sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick’s short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” Nevertheless, the collective moviegoing community exploded in a near-universal chorus of outrage, and in the coming months, as director Len Wiseman began sharing his vision for the project, more and more fans continued to rail against the idea on principle alone – calling it…

The 48-year-old actor [Russell Crowe] is playing the titular lead role in Darren Aronofsky’s interpretation of the biblical story of the great flood and they are currently shooting scenes in Reykjavik, Iceland.

To get to the set Russell has to pass volcanic ash and negotiate a steep climb.

In a series of posts on his twitter account, he wrote: ‘‘I’m living on a vast plain of volcanic ash in the lee of a volcanic glacier. The commute to work is a hike up a mountain… Wind tears the volcanic desert, ash and sand arcing in 40 foot waves across the plain, in the distance the somnambulant…