Another Morning, another Report. Here’s a round up of varied film bits and pieces from the last day or two.
Martin Scorsese will apparently start shooting Silence on location in Taipei in late January [@colliderfrosty]
There’s a YouTube channel filled with Blu-ray motion menus. The latest is Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Here’s a montage video of ‘bloggeuses’ singing Disney tunes. Includes the stomping Libérée, Délivrée.
Amazon’s first wave of pilots for 2015 will have names like Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Demme and Mark Waters on them. [Amazon]
Studio Canal’s Hayao Miyazaki Collection will be released on December 8th. Includes all eleven features he directed.
The Amazon pre-order price for the box set is currently £180. [Amazon]
This new Fifty Shades of Grey poster is button pushing, lip biting stuff. [YahooMovies]
Alexander Payne “has hopes” to cast Alec Baldwin in his sci-fi economic parable, Downsizing [Indiewire]
Into the Woods has been passed uncut by the BBFC for a PG. The running time is 124 minutes and 35 seconds.
Caitlin Moran and John Niven are adapting Moran’s book How to Build a Girl into a feature film. [Variety]
There’s now a trailer for the third season of Lilyhammer. The fiull season will be available for streaming from the 21st.
Germany has a trailer for The Stanley Kubrick Masterpiece Collection.
The Maze Runner concept art spoils a surprise or two. [FilmSketchr]
Monty Python have a new official website. It’s not quite as silly as I would hope.
Claire Foy is to play the young version of The Queen in Netflix, Stephen Daldry and Peter Morgan’s new series, The Crown. [Deadline]
Telltale Games have announced many new details of their incoming Game of Thrones video game series. [Telltale Games]
Here’s the poster for Song One with Anne Hathaway and Johnny Flynn. [Inside Movies]
And there’s also a trailer for Song One. Anne Hathaway won’t get her head shaved by a jumbo jet until the sequel. [Yahoo]
David Koepp’s Mortdecai has a second, expectedly ‘zany’ trailer. Johnny Depp appears to have had fun, at least. [Yahoo]
Babadook director Jennifer Kent hopes to make a “not straight” biography of Edgar Allan Poe in which his work intrudes on his life. [Fangoria]
A lawsuit may scupper Antoine Fuqua and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Pablo Escobar movie, The Man Who Made It Snow. [Hollywood Reporter]
Several people failed to tell a ‘roving reporter’ what happens at the end of Interstellar. Just a few did fairly well. [Vulture]
This Beetlejuice fan site doesn’t quite get the balance of style and substance right but there’s a little good stuff.
That/those bullet hole(s) are interesting, but probably not a spoiler. [Michael Douglas' Facebook]
Kirk Jones is to direct My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. And we were hoping for Eli Roth. [Variety]
The first trailer for Hungry Hearts is lo-fi, unnerving and intriguing. [Hollywood Reporter]
YouTube now has a HFR mode but Warners have yet to take advantage of it for their Hobbit promos. Missed opportunity.
An Origami Baymax head. [Superpunch]
The Osbornes is coming back for a short series. While they still can. [The Talk]
If you’d like to buy Funny or Die, now’s the time to weigh your piggy bank. [Bloomberg]
Jennifer Lynch and Ti West are among the directors who will back up Eli Roth on South of Hell. [Deadline]
It’s not Gossip Cop’s usual beat but they’ve run a denial of the Aunt May movie rumour.
Warner Bros. have published a book of Harry Potter concept art and some samples are online. [Popsugar]
James Franco, Tim O’Keefe and their band Daddy recorded this song inspired by a poem inspired by This Charming Man by The Smiths. [Vice]
Bryan Cranston and David Shore have created a new con-man drama show, Sneaky Pete, in which a reformed crook tires to take down the mob. [Deadline]
Therailer for Jon Wright’s Brit sci-fi film, Robot Overlords. At least Ben Kingsley amuses himself. [Arrow In The Head]
“Luke Evans stood on the burning bridge, whence all but he had fled,” and all for a new Hobbit poster.
Ayelet Zurer is getting set to play Ben Hur’s mother in the new Timur Bekmambetov movie. [Hollywood Reporter]
Essie Davis will next year return to Australian TV for a third series of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. [Herald Sun, Melbourne]
The Art of the Title have a feature on Too Many Cooks. Of course. [Art of the Title]
Insidious 3 will now hit US cinemas on June 5th next year, and The Conjuring 2 will follow on June 10th 2016.
Here’s a fantastic look at the mathematics of CG animation from inside the hallowed halls of Pixar.
Will Vinton & Susan Shadburne’s The Adventures of Mark Twain, aka Comet Quest, might be appropriate viewing right now
There’s a new trailer for Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and a new poster to go with it. London setting equals Elizabeth Tower on poster.
Here’s the real new Foxcatcher poster, and another ‘suggested’ by Chris Miller of Lord and Miller. But which is which?
The BBC have said that an actual clip from the Christmas Doctor Who will air during Children in Need.
When I saw What We Do in the Shadows, this was the most crowd-pleasing scene. Maybe wait to see it in context?
After shooting a pilot, Channel 4 have ordered a full series of Julia Davis’ new GMTV-inspired sitcom, Morning Has Broken. Likely to be very uncomfortable viewing. In a good way.
There’s a lot going on in this trailer for Ann Hui’s The Golden Era.
Here’s the key art design for Netflix’s incoming Marco Polo.
Asked by Doctor Who Magazine if she’ll return to the show next year, Michelle Gomez said “Yes.”
X-Men Apocalypse is to leverage its star power and feature the romance of Mystique and Magneto “front and center.” [Hollywood Reporter]
Another video of Europeans singing along to songs from Frozen. Let’s see if there’s one of these published ever day.
Here’s a longer trailer for the new series of Atlantis. It’s “darker, more dangerous” now, apparently.
The deleted scenes on the Guardians of the Galaxy DVD and Blu-ray add up to less than four minutes worth.
Here’s the teaser trailer for Insurgent. I rather like that Shailene Woodley is a big movie star.
There’s some talk of Justin Lin coming back to the Fast and Furious series with intent to wrap things up. [Deadline]
Aubrey Plaza stopped by Jimmy Kimmel to talk about her Grumpy Cat TV movie and its oddball promotional photoshoot.
Amazon are making a movie about a sniper in a face off with another sniper and it’s apparently somehow like Locke. Probably because he talks to people on the phone, but it may well turn out that he’s an expert on concrete. [Deadline]
James Schamus’ directorial debut will be an adaptation of Philip Roth’s Indignation. Do note that capital I. [Variety]
According to the BBFC, who have given John Wick a 15 certificate, the film will open in the UK on April 17th, 2015.
Here’s the full, uncropped image of Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo in Jay Roach’s new film, Dalt… er… Trumbo.
Another Fifty Shades of Grey poster, just in case you’re collecting them.
The BBC and Tony Jordan are planning a series that mashes up Dickens characters, plots and locations into one story. They’re calling it Dickensian. [Independent]
The notorious and rather loopy German gore movie Violent Shit has been remade in Italy. [Fangoria]
Here’s Billy Boyd’s song from the end of the new Hobbit movie.
Debbie Reynolds appears to have confirmed rumours that Billie Lourd will be in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And at the risk of light spoilerage, we believe that her scenes are not flashbacks. We may be wrong, but we’ve been told they’re not by people who seem to know a lot about this film. [Star Wars 7 News]
This is what Black Canary is going to look like on Arrow. [Entertainment Weekly]
Paul Scheer’s The Sylvester Stallone Podcast isn’t what you might be expecting. I guess it depends on what you’d expect of Paul Scheer.
Concept artist Mauro Borelli has been discussing his work. [Filmsketchr]
Samsung has just announced a 360° 3D camera, calling it Project Beyond. [The Verge]
Agent Carter will be dropping by Agents of SHIELD again next week. Here’s an image.
The poster for Dan Fogelman’s Danny Collins, his “letter from Lennon” movie.
M. Night Shyamalan’s Low Budget Horror Film Formally Known As Sundowning will now be called The Visit. it’s set for release on September 11th next year. [Deadline]
The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty‘s Mark Boal has been recruited to script a movie based on the Uncharted games. [Hollywood Reporter]
Here’s a clip of Bryan Cranston reading Adam Mansbach’s You Have to Fucking Eat. It’s NSFW.
Lego Jurassic World was teased in the latest Batman game. [The Brick Fan]
A whole new kind of data broadcasting just took place in Venice. It’s like the birth of TV all over again. [BBC]
Tom McCarthy’s The Cobbler is a magic realist fable with Adam Sandler and I think it looks better than that sounds.
Julia Garner is joining The Americans. [Hollywood Reporter]
JK Simmons and maybe Anna Kendrick will join Ben Affleck in Gavin O’Connor’s assassin yarn, The Accountant. [Hollywood Reporter]
This is what happens when somebody with no idea at all tries to direct a commercial.
Lily Williams is a visual development artist at Sony Pictures Animation and the subject of this interesting profile.
4k streaming from Amazon Prime is just weeks away and there won’t be a surcharge. [Wall Street Journal]
A virtual version of Kate Hudson will appear in the Farmville game next week, all in order to plug her new line of wine. Fair enough.
Lee Daniels is now getting ready to direct the “based on truth” possession drama Demon House. [Deadline]
There’s an official new Star Trek watch. What time is it? Oh yeah. It’s nearly Christmas. [Star Trek.com]
Universal’s brain trust of “Monster Men” includes Noah Hawley and Aaron Guzikowski. [Hollywood Reporter]
Trailers for John Woo’s The Crossing keep on coming. It’s certainly looking epic.
When Moses speaks directly to God in Ridley Scott’s Exodus, the supreme being will appear as an eleven year old boy. [Hollywood Reporter]
Michael Starrbury’s new sci-fi spec, ARIES, has been compared to both Men in Black and the Indiana Jones series. [Hollywood Reporter]
Zach Clark’s White Reindeer is supposedly a Christmas “counterclassic,” according to this new UK trailer.
Not sure why Jai Courtney keeps getting big roles. He may star alongside Will Smith in DC Comics movie Suicide Squad. Craziness. [Variety]
There’s hardly any animation in this anime trailer. It’s more like La Jetee than anything else, “eye shot” and all.
Sony’s new cloud TV series, Playstation Vue, seems rather underwhelming. Here’s the press release. [BizJournals]
Why are so many distributors “window boxing” their trailers on YouTube these days? Looks awful.
The BBC have reported on the 100th birthday of Elstree Studios.
Benedict Cumberbatch will get “The Variety Award” at the BIFAs because of he has “helped to focus the international spotlight on the UK.”
Nick Broomfield and Dan Stevens are getting set to shoot The Catastrophist in Tanzania. [ScreenDaily]
It looks like Hasbro may soon purchase Dreamworks Animation. [LA Times]
The Black Mirror Christmas special with Jon Hamm, Oona Chaplin and Ralph Spall will air on DirecTV in the US. [Entertainment Weekly]
And in related news, Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe is back in January, and 2014 Wipe has been press released – and, for some reason, called a “knees up.” Hmmm.
Michael Shannon does his best Michael Shannon in a new Deerhoof video. [via Indiewire]
And that almost brings us up to date. Keep an eye on our Twitter feed for all of these bits of bric-a-brac as they happen.