Drama

Will Smith and Jay-Z team on Annie big screen adaptation and other film projects

According to Variety, a big screen Annie re-imagination with Willow Smith as the titular orphan will be developed by a new joint venture between her dad Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment and hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, in association with Sony Pictures. Annie will be produced by Jay-Z and Overbrook, which includes principals Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, ….

Season two preview of Elmore Leonard’s Justified

FX announced that season two of its critically acclaimed drama series Justified will return on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 10 PM. Developed by Graham Yost and starring Timothy Olyphant, Justified is based on the works of crime novelist Elmore Leonard, including Leonard’s short story Fire in the Hole. Fresh off the epic gun battle that concluded season one, season two of Justified finds ….

The Weinstein Company releases new poster for The King’s Speech

The Weinstein Company has revealed a new poster for The King’s Speech, which is currently in limited release. After the death of his father King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly ….

New images from Sofia Coppola’s new film Somewhere

Somewhere won the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at the 2010 Venice International Film Festival. From Academy Award-winning writer/director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette), Somewhere is a witty, moving, and empathetic look into the orbit of actor Johnny Marco (played by Stephen Dorff). You have probably seen him in ….

Win one of two copies of the cult classic sci-fi series Space: 1999 Season One 7-disc Blu-ray set

This December, A&E Home Entertainment delivers a cult classic series from Thunderbirds and UFO creator Gerry Anderson on stunning Blu-ray for the first time, with the Space: 1999: The Complete Season One Blu-ray Edition. And we have two complete 7-disc editions to give away to readers. PLEASE NOTE: To be considered to win this and ….

Scarlett Johansson looking to join Matt Damon in Cameron Crowe’s ‘Zoo’

Scarlett Johansson is in final talks to star opposite Matt Damon in the Cameron Crowe true-life drama We Bought a Zoo, THR reports. We Bought a Zoo is based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, who used his life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo on the English countryside, filled with 200 exotic animals, both ….

Ice Cube and Three Kings director developing Dirty Harry-style cop franchise

According to Deadline, Ice Cube and his Three Kings director David O Russell are in negotiations with New Line to re-team and create a potential franchise, featuring the ‘Cube’ as a plainclothes detective who has no problem pulling the trigger if necessary. The project is described as an R-rated raw drama, and a throwback to ….

Maya Entertainment nabs rights to Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut

Maya Entertainment has nabbed U.S. distribution rights to Sympathy for Delicious, the feature directorial debut of Mark Ruffalo, to be released theatrically in the Spring of 2011. Written by Christopher Thornton, who also stars in and produced the project, Sympathy for Delicious follows the true story of a newly paralyzed DJ who gets more than ….

Win one of two 3-DVD Prize Packs from the makers of Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer plus revealing new images from the movie

Opening in theaters this Friday, November 5th, is Magnolia Pictures’ Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, directed by Alex Gibney. To support the release, Client 9’s producers are giving two of our readers the chance to win the following DVDs from Magnolia Pictures: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (also from ….

Another Harvest Moon getting theatrical release

Panorama Entertainment has nabbed U.S. theatrical distribution rights to Another Harvest Moon, starring Ernest Borgnine, Piper Laurie, Anne Meara, Doris Roberts, Richard Schiff and Cybill Shepherd. Panorama is planning a February 2011 release in the southwest and southeast. The film was directed by Greg W. Swartz with screenplay by Jeremy T. Black. Another Harvest Moon ….

Win one of two 14-disc DVD sets of the critically acclaimed legal drama Rumpole of the Bailey

All rise! The critically acclaimed legal drama Rumpole of the Bailey holds court on DVD in a newly-repackaged Megaset, recently released by A&E. To celebrate the new release, FilmFetish is giving away two complete 14-disc DVD sets of the critically acclaimed legal drama. PLEASE NOTE: To be considered to win this and all other contests, ….