Yes, you heard right. Mary Poppins is getting an update--it will be called Saving Mr. Banks, will be produced by Disney and is adapted from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel. John Lee Hancock will direct. Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson (Meryl Streep was first in line to get the role) have already been attached, as previously reported by Deadline, and Colin Farrell has officially joined the party. The Irish actor will play the father of the novelist, an alcoholic

Actor Benicio Del Toro has been attached to appear in [...]

In U.N. Me, a new film currently playing in theatres, director Ami Horowitz (pictured) asks: is the United Nations living up to its founding ideals? The answer, rightly so, is “no.” Ever since it replaced the League of Nations in 1945 the United Nations, founded to stop wars and establish a dialogue between countries, has grown too big, too expensive, too wasteful a place where a lack of accountability and transparency has created a

Rock of Ages, this week’s hair metal spandex singalong, asks a basic question: what’s the point of a musical? More specifically, it asks a pair of underlying questions about musicals: is enjoyment a worthy artistic goal? Is sentimental simplification acceptable in the name of fantasy and fun? On one level Rock of Ages does to the metal years of the late eighties no more or less than what Singin' in the Rain did to the twenties or Grease to the

Jeepers. Terrence Malick was recently caught on camera, by accident, [...]

Jean Dujardin, who last February won the Oscar for Best Actor for his turn in The Artist, is in talks with Martin Scorsese to star in his next film, The Wolf of Wall Street. The French actor, 39, who was unknown here a year ago, will join Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill in this film about the rise and fall of a Wall Street financier-- shooting is scheduled to begin this summer in New York. According to a Variety article Dujardin will play a

Siblings Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) are on [...]