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The race to cash in on the found footage movie craze has just hit a new peak of hysteria, as the Weinsteins are determined to film their Moon astronaut movie, Apollo 18, in time to release it in March. More »
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Warner Bros. just bought a brand new screenplay titled World War X, which is all about time-traveling terrorists from the future. But does this mean World War Z has some potential brand confusion — or is it just never happening? More »
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While it would be bad ass to see the green codes of the Matrix whipping at your skull, 3D conversion is an ugly thing to subject a great film to. Thankfully, Joel Silver, is extremely against it. [MTV] More »
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Less than a month after Mattel put the end to plans to make a live-action He-Man and The Masters of The Universe movie at Warner Bros., the project is alive again at Sony. That's the power of Grayskull for you. More »
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With Warner Bros. taking a greater interest in movies based on DC Comics' characters through the newly-created DC Entertainment division, confusion surrounds the status of the long-awaited Wonder Woman movie. What's going on with our favorite Amazon? More »
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With comic book adaptations and 3D movies all the rage right now, it's not surprising that someone wants to combine the two. More surprising? That it's producer Joel Silver, and that he wants to do it to Swamp Thing. More »
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After we saw the shiny new footage of fisticuffs and down-and-dirty ratiocination from Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes film, we thought we glimpsed some steampunk elements. So we asked Downey and producer Joel Silver about this... and they said no. More »
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Ignore the rumors going around this here internet: Transformers star Megan Fox is not going to be cinema's next Amazon Princess. The image above isn't from some teaser campaign for a previously incredibly well-hidden Wonder Woman movie, but just the latest in a long line of anonymous fan efforts hoping to convince other fans — and maybe a few movie executives as well — that Fox would be perfect in the role. But at least the five-day tease was more elaborate than most. We've got the full Fox, as well as the rest of the tease, under the jump. More »
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If the news of her new collaboration with fashion icon Diane Von Furstenberg is anything to go by, Wonder Woman is making quite the cultural comeback - and just in time for the third annual Wonder Woman day in Portland, OR and Flemington, NJ, as well. But what we're wondering is this: If she's big enough to get her own day, why can't Warners get it together enough to give us the movie that we're dying for? More »
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Some movie producers are as identifiable as directors — just think of Jerry Bruckheimer and his splodey-boom school of film-making — and their oeuvre forms a coherent statement. One producer who doesn't get the props he deserves is Joel Silver, who's produced everything from the cheese-plattery Xanadu to the paranoiac Matrix trilogy. Silver's movies all share a certain demented logic — and in fact they fit together so well, they could all take place in one unified Silververse. Here is the history of that shared universe of craziness. More »
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Set your "I'm ambivalent about that upcoming comic book movie" settings from Justice League of America to Wonder Woman. Producer Joel Silver told journalists that the JLA movie is officially dead, but that he's now interested in reviving the troubled Wonder Woman movie, whose original script was was written by Firefly creator Joss Whedon and then scrapped last year. Silver says he wants to make the flick into an origin story, which is a tall order. How do you get kickass out of Wonder Woman's first home, the ultra-campy Paradise Island, where scantily-clad Amazons live in harmony with nature? Silver thinks he has a way. More »
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