‘G-Force,’ ‘Orphan,’ ‘The Ugly Truth’ Highlight This Week’s Box Office Poll
Wow is this a busy week. After the runaway success of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” last week — and other shoe-in blockbusters in the weeks before it — it’s nice to see a little bit of variety for Friday’s releases. “G-Force,” with showings in two and three dimensions both, is an easy weekend [...]
Bill Nighy Has Nothing To Do With ‘The Hobbit’… The NEW ‘Hobbit’ That Is
This has been a rumor-ific day for Middle Earth fans. The fanboy Internet was ablaze last night when word hit that a possible Bilbo casting announcement for director Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of “The Hobbit” would be coming next week at San Diego Comic-Con. Also attached to the rumor was word that James McAcoy, David [...]
Bill Nighy Embarks On A ‘Harry Potter’ Crash Course Before ‘Deathly Hallows’
The “Harry Potter” franchise hasn’t just launched the careers of young stars like Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. It’s also given a swath of venerable British elder statesmen a chance to flex their witch-and-wizard muscles. Over the years, “Potter” films have featured the heavyweight talents of Kenneth Branagh, Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Julie [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Depp’s ‘Rango’ Now Called ‘Cheap As Dirt’? Bill Nighy Playing The Villain!
Not much is known about Gore Verbinski’s latest collaboration with Johnny Depp, a CG animation/motion-capture hybrid movie about household pets on a dangerous cowboy adventure. Turns out that lack of knowledge extends to the title itself, which MTV News has learned might not even be called “Rango,” as had been previously reported.
“It was called ‘Rango,’” [...]
Bill Nighy Confirms His Role In ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’
In “Harry Potter” news that wont shock the fandom, Bill Nighy confirmed yesterday he will be playing new Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour in the upcoming two-volume adaptation of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”
Although Scrimgeour has a fairly big presence in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” Nighy told BBC that we wont be [...]
Bill Nighy Joins ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’
Earlier this year, Bill Nighy was lamenting the fact that he, of all the actors in Britain, had yet to be cast in a “Harry Potter” installment. He put on a good show of bitterness that his friend and “Potter” director David Yates hadn’t called him up to appear in “Half Blood Prince.” “I’ve worked [...]
