http://www.empiremovies.com Building an Empire. One Fan at a Time. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In The Blind Side, Quinton Aaron stars as Michael Oher, a young man born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee to a crack addict mother and a father who disappeared soon after his birth. He grew up moving from school to school, at times homeless and extremely uneducated. At the age ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/20/the-blind-side-review/ Fox has released a new trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief starring Logan Lerman in the title role. The trailer gives us our first good look at the story as well as most of the characters -- most notably Uma Thurman's Medusa who makes an appearance ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/19/new-percy-jackson-trailer/ Anne Hathaway is the latest name to be associated with casting for Spider-Man 4. What makes this news particularly interesting is that it is being reported by Nikki Finke -- who has a knack for being right when it comes to Marvel. The role in question is that of Felicia Hardy/Black ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/19/is-anne-hathaway-black-cat/ Lorenzo di Bonaventura has acquired rights to produce The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel based on the series of fantasy novels by Michael Scott. (Who knew that in addition to managing the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin that Michael Scott was also a bestselling author?!) The story follows 15-year-old twins ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/19/di-bonaventura-acquires-secrets-of-the-immortal-nicholas-flamel/ According to Mania.com, Sam Worthington will star The Last Days of American Crime based on the forthcoming comic from Radical Publishing. The news was revealed by comic creator Rick Remender. The story is described as a heist thriller told against a sci fi backdrop. In a near-future America, news has broken ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/19/sam-worthington-in-last-days-of-american-crime/ Eddie Murphy will produce The Misadventures of Fluffy. While he is only attached as a producer at this point, it isn't being ruled out that he will star. The comedy is being described as a road trip movie through New York featuring talking animals. At least he's branching out and trying ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/19/eddie-murphy-producing-the-misadventures-of-fluffy/ Even though it's at least a year away from being filmed and there's no director and no script, it's time for the Star Trek 2 rumours to start hitting the 'net. The first comes from ComingSoon.net, which claims that an actor is already being targetted to play Khan, should ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/18/star-trek-2-rumours-begin/ FilmsActu.com has premiered a new French poster for The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving and Emily Blunt. You can check out the poster below and click HERE to see a couple of other posters that were released last week. It should also be noted that SlashFilm.com ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/18/the-wolfman-gets-a-french-poster-and-new-editors/ In what was pretty much an inevitable move, it looks like the word "Dicks" has officially been dropped from the title of Kevin Smith's next movie. For the last few months, we have referred to the movie as A Couple of Dicks but after reading a review on AintItCool.com ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/18/kevin-smith-drops-the-dicks/ Here's the trailer for The Last Song based best-selling novelist Nicholas Sparks' forthcoming novel. The movie is set in a small Southern beach town where an estranged father (Greg Kinnear) gets a chance to spend the summer with his reluctant teenaged daughter (Miley Cyrus), who'd rather be home in New ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/17/the-last-song-trailer/ Director Kenneth Branagh is putting the final touches on the cast for Thor, which will begin production in January in Los Angeles and shoot in Santa Fe, New Mexico beginning in March until late April. With a cast that already includes Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Anthony Hopkins as his ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/17/thor-adds-the-warriors-three/ You may or may not know this but the special effect company ILM, owned by George Lucas, has a penchant for sticking R2D2 discreetly into some of the films on which they work. With Star Trek coming out on DVD and Blu-ray today, Gizmodo.com has found R2's appearance in ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/17/r2d2s-star-trek-cameo/ Over the weekend we showed you the movie poster for Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. Tonight, Fox Searchlight has premiered the trailer for the movie at Apple. In the movie, Bridges plays Bad Blake, a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/16/crazy-heart-movie-trailer/ Facebook has the 3rd new poster for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland featuring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. (As opposed to the previous poster where he could just barely be seen sitting in the background.) You might also notice that this is the 2nd poster (of 7 released so ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/16/new-alice-in-wonderland-poster-2/ I'm sure between now and the day it is released, the internet will be flooded with reasons not to see Mission: Impossible 4. That's just he way it is with Tom Cruise nowadays. For my part, I will give the one and only reason you will require to ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/16/reason-number-1-not-to-see-mission-impossible-4/ JoBlo has debuted the teaser poster for Salt. The movie stars Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer who, after being accused of being a Russian sleeper spy, sets out to prove her innocence while trying to elude capture by her superiors. Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor also star. Check out ... http://www.empiremovies.com/2009/11/16/salt-movie-poster/