Hollywood Movie News

•  Ang Lee's adaptation of the award-winning novel, 'Life of Pi' by Yann Martel, has released a spectacular new trailer crammed full of wonder, action and CGI animals. The trailer looks bright and colorful and sea-faring. The movie follows the deeds of Pi (Suraj Sharma), a young boy traveling with his zookeeper family from India to America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. When a violent storm sinks their transport, Pi is left stranded on a lifeboat with only a 450 pound tiger for company. Beyond the tiger and boat, the original Yann Martel novel gets into some heavy issues of spirituality and personal identity. It's a tricky thing to adapt a masterful novel. So, let's hope the Oscar winner and critically acclaimed director Ang Lee exceeds our expectations.

•  It's been a while since we've seen any movies directed by the duo behind The Matrix, but sci-fi fans will be happy to hear that The Wachowski's next film will hit theaters this October. Cloud Atlas is an $80 million adaptation of David Mitchell's critically acclaimed novel. Earlier, it was said that Wachowski's were only producing, but now it seems that they have decided to get behind the camera along with the German director Tom Tykwer. The book consists of six different stories set in a different time and place, which ultimately connect. The massive cast includes a lot of A-list actors like Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent, and Hugh Grant. 

                                

• To further secure his career as an action star, Denzel Washington is closing a deal to star in The Equalizer, a loose adaptation of the 1980s TV series about a onetime military covert ops agent, Robert Mccall, who helps civilians in need as a private detective. 

• Iron Man director Jon Favreau has signed on for a role in Martin Scorsese's The Wolfe of Wall Street. The film is based on the memoir of the same name and will star Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, a broker who found great success in the stock market and began living a life of extreme luxury filled with drugs, women and excessive partying.This will be the fifth Scorsese/DiCaprio project. The movie also has stars Jonah Hill and 'The Artist' fame Jean Dujardin. 

•  Chris Hemsworth of Thor fame might lead humanity's charge against their robot overlords in Speilberg's adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's novel Robopocalypse. The movie is told from the perspective of different people as the world is being over-taken by sentient machines. Spielberg is getting his Abraham Lincoln biopic, titled Lincoln, ready for its November 16, 2012 release. After that, he will move on to direct Robopocalypse from a script by Drew Goddard.

• Writer-director Andrew Stanton has been behind some of the very best films of Pixar, and he directed the magnificient Finding Nemo and Wall-E. Stanton made his live-action debut with John Carter, and now it looks like he will be returning to Pixar for his next feature, Finding Nemo 2. 

• Marvel unveils that they are working on four movies in active development.  The first is Iron Man 3, hitting theaters on May 3rd, 2013.  They then went on to reveal titles for two previously known sequels, "Thor: The Dark World," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," and confirmed another movie, "Guardians of the Galaxy."