Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman are teaming up…again. The, what seems unlikely, pair have already teamed up for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Dark Knight Rises, and Lawless. The common denominator in all of those films? They were good. Lawless may not have got the notoriety that the other two films got, but still a good movie nonetheless.

According to Indiewire, the film they are looking to do now is Child 44. The fill will also star Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman. The movie is set to be produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Daniel Espinosa. So far, there’s nothing about those names that makes me think this movie will be bad.

The story follows an MGB agent, played by Hardy, in the 1950’s who is investigating a high profile child murderer who may be connected to the top of the party leadership. Rapace will play the wife of Hardy, while Kinnaman will be Hardy’s bad guy in the film. As for Oldman, he will be playing a cop. Go figure right? Except in this role, he’s one of the suspects in the case.

If you’re not excited for this cast and crew, well I’m not sure what to tell you. This looks to be a great movie though.

Ladies, I know this is a sad day for you, but Ryan Gosling has announced he plans to take a break from acting for a while.

“I’ve been doing it too much,” Gosling revealed in an interview. “I’ve lost perspective on what I’m doing. I think it’s good for me to take a break and reassess why I’m doing it and how I’m doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does,” he added.

I’m not sure how that’s true as even I have enjoyed his latest movies. While Gangster Squad didn’t do well in theaters, it wasn’t the bad of a movie. Hist latest project, The Place Beyond the Pines looks to be pretty good too.

I can’t imagine he’ll be gone too long. He’s a pretty heavily sought after actor and people love him. I’m sure the stresses of the business are tough (I wouldn’t know though), but my guess is he’ll be back. So don’t stress too much ladies.

We now know more details about Transformers 4 and they are headed to Detroit. The movie is set to film this spring and has intended to bring $81.9 million to the state of Michigan. That makes it the second-biggest project ever to hit Michigan. Oz the Great and Powerful currently sits at number one when it brought roughly $105 million to Michigan.

“It’s a huge film from one of the biggest studios in the world,” said Ken Droz, a local film consultant and screenwriter who has formerly worked for the Michigan Film Office.

As far as the plot details, it sounds like Transformers 4 will be very different than the first three films. Michael Bay, who’s back at the Director’s helm, recently told Forbes that they have redesigned everything and that we should look for something very different. One of those changes is, which we know, is the main characters. The film will now start Mark Wahlberg and Jack Reynor.

The story reportedly picks up after Transformers: Dark of the Moon and most of the Autobots and Decepticons have left Earth. Scientist and technology experts try to re-create technology based off the robots and things go south from there as you could imagine. We can assume that since the transformers are no longer on earth that we’ll see some battle scenes in space somewhere.

I’m personally excited for this and as a huge Transformers fan, I can’t wait to see how the franchise will be different. I love the idea of Transformers battling in space away from Earth and how Wahlberg and Reynor will fit in.

What do you guys think?

Avatar 2 and 3 are on their way – just as soon as director James Cameron is done writing the scripts.

After the massive success of Avatar, the highest grossing film of all-time, there was no doubt there were going to be sequels. We’ve already known for some time now that they were happening and that the second film would likely take place in the waters of Pandora. While the exact story hasn’t been let out of the box yet, we now know that Cameron is hard at work on the scripts.

In a recent interview with Life Goes Strong, Cameron had this to say about where he’s at with Avatar 2 and 3: “I was talking the other day with Peter Jackson and said, ‘You had it easy dude. You had the books when you did the second and third Lord of the Rings. I have to create my own books in my head and extract a script from it. I’m deep into it and I’m living in Pandora right now. There is that start up torque where you feel it’s coming to you. Then you build up momentum. That’s when it gets fun. The characters talk and it’s writing itself. I’m almost there right now. It’s building fast… As a writer, I need isolation. I’m calling you from New Zealand right now where I’m writing on a little farm. When you live in a special world like Pandora, you have to live in that world.”

Avatar was a film-going experience I will never forget. It was the first 3D film I had ever seen and it was incredible. But the story could have used some work as it seemed to be a rehash of Dances with Wolves with some scenes being nearly identical to that film. I’m all for taking another trip to Pandora and experiencing those visuals once again, but this time I’d like a story to back that up.

A week after we got an incredibly awesome red-band trailer for Kick-Ass 2, today we got some cool international character posters (via Cine 1). While these posters (gotta love those character names!) make me even more excited for the sequel to perhaps my all-time favorite comic-book film, I have to wonder why there is no poster for Jim Carrey’s Colonel Stars and Stripes. Maybe they have something more in store for him.

Kick-Ass 2 hits theaters on Aug. 16.

Well while a lot of guys may want to see Emma Watson in 50 Shades of Grey, it’s not going to happen. Watson went to Twitter immediately as the rumors were spilled and refuted the reports.

“Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Gray as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life,” Tweeted Watson in reference to the role. It seems pretty obvious she doesn’t want any part of it. And you can understand why.

It’s been reported that a group called Anonymous, who is known for online hacking, is to blame for the rumors. And like most site’s like that, it’s not really trustworthy.

The book’s author, E.L. James, event went to Twitter saying, “There have been no casting decisions made about Fifty Shades.”

I’m not even sure how they can turn this into a film, with the subject material being so graphic. But like all rumors, we’ll just have to wait and see. As of now, there really hasn’t been much movement with this.

The director of the next installment in the Jurassic Park series has been found.

Colin Trevorrow, who made his directorial debut with last year’s amazing indie Safety Not Guaranteed, will make the big step up to blockbuster by taking on Jurassic Park 4.

Trevorrow got the job because Universal Studios and Steven Spielberg “felt he was a good match for the material, having grown up a huge fan of the trilogy and part of a new generation of steeped in all things dinosaur,” according to Deadline.

I loved, LOVED Safety Not Guaranteed. It was easily one of my favorites films of 2012. I’m excited to see if Trevorrow can make the leap from indie to blockbuster in just one film. I think he can easily get the actors to convey emotion but whether he can establish terror and suspense is another matter. If he can pull it off, he’ll be on his way to a very successful career in Hollywood.

Jurassic Park 4 opens in theaters on June 13, 2014.

Fans of the short-lived TV series Veronica Mars are finally getting what they want and they’re the ones that made it happen.

Yesterday, creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell began a Kickstarter campaign for a budget to make a Veronica Mars film with a goal set at $2 million within 30 days. The fans made it happen within 10 hours. In over one full day, 43, 799 fans have raised over $2, 659, 085 for the film’s budget – and those numbers just continue to grow. Here’s a video explaining the whole thing:

A Veronica Mars film has been talked about since the show went off the air in 2007 after three seasons, but Warner Bros. was worried that the show’s fan base wasn’t big enough to support a film. Turns out, that isn’t the case.

I’ve seen the show and I love it. It’s easily one of my all-time favorite shows with one of my all-time favorite characters, the witty, sassy high school private investigator Veronica Mars, played by Bell. And after seeing the show, I think the style and the writing would work well in a film format, and Thomas’ idea of setting the film around Mars’ high school reunion, is a great way to bring all the characters together once again.

Count me super excited for this! It’s now my most anticipated film of 2014!

Baz Luhrmann’s 3D interpretation of The Great Gatsby will open this year’s Cannes Film Festival in May. This is the second film by Luhrmann to be selected as the curtain-raiser at Cannes as Moulin Rouge! did so 12 years ago.

The Great Gatsby – which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire – will premiere to the US on May 10, five days before the festival begins. It will join Up as the only 3D films to open at Cannes.

Midnight in Paris and Moonrise Kingdom have opened the last two festivals. Both went on to receive Oscar nominations.

Ok, well it’s not official, but in an interview with Bleeding Cool, it doesn’t sound like he will be involved with a sequel.

In the interview, Raimi was quoted saying, “I haven’t planned on directing the sequel. I did leave some loose ends for another director if they want to make the picture. I tried to make it a complete ending, so that the audience would be fulfilled, but I also let Evanora and Theodora get away.” He also went on to add, “I was attracted to this story but I don’t think the second one would have the thing I would need to get me interested.”

While Raimi may not be interested, it’ll be hard to think Disney won’t do a sequel with Oz bringing in $80 million at the box office this weekend. Over the course of it’s lifetime on the big screen, you can assume it’s going to do really well. It also appears Disney has a sequel script that is being worked on right now and has for some time, according to Variety. I imagine Disney will throw a good amount of cash at him though so only time will tell.

If you’re Disney execs though and Raimi doesn’t come back, who would you like to see take the directing role?