Magnet nabs rights to award-winning crime thriller Down Terrace

Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has nabbed distribution rights to Down Terrace, a genre bending portrait of a crime family slotted to play in Slamdance this month after being warmly received at Raindance, where it won the award for Best UK Feature, and Austin’s Fantastic Fest, where it ….

Robert Zemeckis may have found his Beatles for Yellow Submarine remake

Actors Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are in talks to portray members of The Beatles in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming remake of Yellow Submarine, according to THR’s HeatVisionBlog. Disney is the studio behind the project. The original 1968 animated film was based on the Beatles music and featured a storyline wherein ….

Raimi, Maguire and Dunst all off Spider-Man 4, which is now set to be a prequel

Right on the heels of news that John Malkovich was still attached to Spider-Man 4 as a villain (SEE HERE), Sony’s Columbia Pictures has reportedly scrapped the project all together and is rebooting the franchise, according to THR. The studio is apparently parting ways with director Sam Raimi and franchise stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten ….

John Malkovich still attached to Spider-Man 4 as lead villain

According to SlashFilm, John Malkovich recently confirmed recent rumors that he has been cast in Sam Raimi’s troubled Spider-Man 4…well, sort of. Many suggestions were that as Malkovich would play lead villain The Vulture (a.k.a. Adrian Toomes), if Raimi – who hated the most recent version of the script – gets his way. However, Sony ….