Killing Bono, Not Quite A U2 Biopic, To Begin Filming We’ve written briefly beforeaboutKilling Bono, a film based on the book byNeil McCormick. The author was a schoolmate of Bono’s, and had his own band struggling in the shadow of U2 in megaband’s early days. Directed byNick Hamm, the film starsBen Barnesas McCormick andKrysten Ritterin a tale that probably isn’t nearly as close to a U2 biopic as many are going to assume....

Like All Of Us, Oscar Isaac Had An “Excruciating” Time With ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Actors go through all manner of discomfort and grueling hours to deliver audiences the best possible movies they can, which makes it all the more tragic when the final product is a disappointment. Such was the case withX-Men: Apocalypse, which may have been just as bad for the actors to film as it was for the audience to watch it....

LOL: Seth Rogen And Charlize Theron Reenact 20 Romantic Comedies In 12 Minutes Over atThe Late Late Show, hostJames Cordenlikes to have fun with the guests. And when you have two willing participants asLong ShotstarsSeth RogenandCharlize Theron, then you get a new edition of Role Call where the two stars reenact 20 different beloved romantic comedies, ranging from the classicWhen Harry Met Sallyto the more recentLove, Simon. And they even manage to sneakKnocked Upin there for a good laugh....

Magnolia Acquires Freakonomics Movie Magnolia Pictures has acquired the domestic distribution rights to the big screen adaptation ofSteven LevittandStephen Dubner’s bestselling bookFreakonomics. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years: Academy Award® winnerAlex Gibney(Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money), Academy Award® nomineesRachel GradyandHeidi Ewing(Jesus Camp), Academy Award® nomineeMorgan Spurlock(Super Size Me),Eugene Jarecki(Why We Fight) andSeth Gordon(The King of Kong)....

Mike Myers Is Going With A Little ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ For His First Live-Action Film In Eight Years It’s almost impossible to think of Queen’s signature tune “Bohemian Rhapsody” from their albumA Night at the Operawithout thinking of the sequence inWayne’s WorldwhereSaturday Night LiveveteransMike Myersand Dana Carvey lip sync and head bang to their heart’s content. Therefore, it only makes sense that Mike Myers is currently in talks to take a role in the biopic about Freddie Mercury, the frontman of the aforementioned rock band....

Movie Trailer #2: Takers Before this trailer, the most memorable thing aboutTakerswas thephotoshop abortion that passed for the film’s first one-sheet. After this new trailer, that poster remains the most memorable thing aboutTakers, which still looks like an abandoned MTV Movie Awards tribute toHeat. What is there to say here?T.I.andChris Brownlook like they’re play-acting a mid-album skit about bank robbery, andHayden ChristensenandIdris Elbaappear to be going along with the joke. Matt Dillon’s Al Pacino impression seems to be dulled by valium, Paul Walker looks like a bank-robbing puppy, and Zoe Saldana is seriously over-committed, if the clips of her are any real indication....

Nickelodeon’s ’90s Nicktoons Getting A Live-Action Animation Hybrid Movie Hot on the heels of news this past week thatNickelodeonis consideringreviving some of its fan-favorite cartoonsfrom the ’90s, animated characters from that decade at the kid-geared cable network may also get new life on the big screen. Paramount Pictures is said to be in the early stages of development of a live-action/animationNicktoonsmovie that will bring together the likes ofRugrats, Angry Beavers, Hey Arnold!...

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener And Christopher Walken Cast In ‘A Late Quartet’ We first heard about the indie dramaA Late Quartetlast year, when Ethan Hawke was cast in the lead. Things have changed a bit, but possibly for the better: the cast now includesPhilip Seymour Hoffman,Catherine KeenerandChristopher Walken. Yaron Zilbermanis directingA Late Quartetsoon, and Ethan Hawke, onceannounced for a lead role, has had to drop out. But he’s been replaced byPhilip Seymour Hoffman, which to me is a win....

Ranking Every Jon Favreau Movie From Worst To Best Jon Favreau has been a multi-talented Swiss Army Knife for his whole career, even if most know him only as a comedic actor. He started in the improvisation and comedy clubs of Chicago before finding his big break in Los Angeles. His first screenplay was for the movie “Swingers,” which came out in 1996 and was a big success; Favreau also starred in the film, and it’s on that set that he met his long-time friend Vince Vaughn, with whom he went on to collaborate frequently....

Retro Movie Trailer: The Unreleased 1994 Fantastic Four Movie On Saturday, we launched a new feature on /Film calledRetro Movie Trailer Flashback. We intended this feature to be a once a week thing, unless we came across something really special or in the case that it was a slow news day. And it turns out both this video and tonight qualify.Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surferruled the box office this weekend, and to honor the series we present to you the movie trailer for the 1994 version ofThe Fantastic Fourmovie....

Robert De Niro May Play Bernie Madoff For HBO Film HBO seems to be in love with real-life stories this year. Among other projects, the channel hasToo Big To Fail, a film about the 2008 financial crisis, hitting soon, and is now shootingGame Change, which features Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in a story about the 2008 presidential election. And HBO has optioned the bookThe Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, which now hasRobert De Niroas a likely lead for the film....

Ron’s Gone Wrong Trailer: Just A Boy And His Malfunctioning Robot We’ve all wanted a robot buddy at some point in our lives, right? Like, before Alexa got intensely creepy and the robot uprising became an inevitable part of our future. Well, an upcoming animated movie from 20th Century Studios dares to ask — what if your robot buddy was a complete disaster? Set in a fictional near-future, “Ron’s Gone Wrong” follows an awkward middle schooler struggling to make friends....

Slingers Sizzle Reel: A Massively Stylish ’60s Heist Movie, In Space, On TV I’m sure someone else has thought of setting a 1960’s style heist story in the ’60s of the future — the 2260s, say — but I’m not sure anyone has done it with this much raw style. What we’ve got here is the sizzle reel for a proposed TV show calledSlingers, the pilot for which hopes to shoot next year....