Back in June, Kenneth Branagh passed on the opportunity to direct the impending sequel to Thor, and people have since bandied about ideas as to who was the best replacement for the Shakespearean actor/director for Thor 2, but who could [...]
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Talk about a guy who’s not afraid of a change in genre. In an interesting feature film choice, director Cary Fukunaga will be following up his last directorial outing of Jane Eyre with Universal’s sci-fi film, Spaceless. Fukunaga debuted onto [...]
Read moreBack in May of this year, we told you that Albert Hughes (Book of Eli) was no longer to direct Warner Bros’ live-action adaptation of the anime cult classic, Akira, originally a graphic novel by Katsuhiro Otomo. Hughes reported left [...]
Read moreAs SciFi Mafia reported last month, Tim Burton is no longer attached to direct Disney’s fairy tale feature Maleficent, centering on the evil queen of Sleeping Beauty. Walt Disney Pictures courted Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Fountain) for a while, [...]
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The Visual Effects Supervisor for X-Men: First Class, John Dykstra, is going behind the camera for his directorial debut with the feature film Super Zero, an adaptation of an award-winning graphic novel written by Jeff Lemire called Tales From the [...]
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Just last week, we brought you a mysterious viral teaser video from Wired magazine's iPad edition, that was directed by Neill Blomkamp. The vast majority of the internet was wondering if the video had anything to do with the next [...]
Read moreBack in June, we told you that the next project for District 9 director, Neill Blomkamp would be an original Sci-Fi film entitled, Elysium. Blomkamp has said that Elysium is absolutely another science fiction film, quite different from District 9, [...]
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Director Sam Raimi is attached to a few projects right now, including the Worlds of Warcraft adaptation entitled, Warcraft. Now, Walt Disney Pictures is ramping up production on Oz: The Great and Powerful, which will definitely be Raimi's next project. [...]
Read moreWe reported back in March that 20th Century Fox had picked up the rights to The Shadow and the rumor that director David Slade (30 Days of Night, Eclipse) was possibly taking over directorial duties from Sam Raimi (Drag Me [...]
Read moreBack in May, Pixar Animation director Brad Bird was hired to direct his first live-action film, Mission: Impossible IV for Paramount Pictures. Now, word is that Paramount is looking to rework M:I4 after Tom Cruise's last film, Knight & Day [...]
Read moreWe brought you a couple of reports about who would be helming The Hobbit earlier this month. First, Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) had to leave the directors chair for the prequel to The Lord of the Rings, and then [...]
Read moreWe brought you a report a few days ago that director Neill Blomkamp (District 9) could be heading to Middle Earth to replace Guillermo del Toro as director of The Hobbit. That story was fairly plausible considering the relationship between [...]
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