Oracle CEO Ellison's daughter pans for Oscar gold
Date : 23/02/2013 06:08

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seven years ago Megan Ellison took a leave from the University of Southern California to climb the mountains of Nepal. On Sunday, the 27-year-old daughter of billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison hopes to climb the Dolby Theater stage in Hollywood to accept the Best Picture Oscar for "Zero Dark Thirty." It could be a tough ascent for Ellison, who spent $43 million to produce the film, which is nominated for five Academy Awards. ...

New "Fantastic Four" movie gains "Kick-Ass" director Matthew Vaughn as producer
Date : 22/02/2013 20:11

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Matthew Vaughn, writer and director of "Kick-Ass" and "X-Men: First Class," will produce "The Fantastic Four," Fox's upcoming reboot of the comic book-based film franchise, a studio spokesperson told TheWrap. "Chronicle" filmmaker Josh Trank is directing the project, which Fox has slotted for a March 2015 release. The studio has released two "Fantastic Four" movies in the past decade, starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans as the superhero quartet. Those films grossed more than $600 million together though neither was a critical success. ...

"Dark Skies" review: When your haunted house is behind on the mortgage, it's doubly terrifying
Date : 22/02/2013 20:05

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - You know a horror film is effective when it remains creepy even after they explain the unexplained phenomena. On that front, and on many others, "Dark Skies" emerges as a smart little chiller, one that can be read as a metaphor for the American family in crisis during tough economic times or merely as a tense exploration of things that go bump in the night. We can only wonder what possessed the folks at Dimension Films to hide this movie from critics, thus creating the impression that it was a stinker. ...

Relativity Moves 'Turkeys' Up a Year; Amy Poehler Joins Voice Cast (Exclusive)
Date : 22/02/2013 20:04

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Relativity Media has moved up its animated film "Turkeys" by a year and will release it November 1, multiple individuals close to the project told TheWrap. In addition, Amy Poehler has joined the voice cast for the film, which Relativity and Reel FX are co-producing and co-financing, TheWrap has learned. The movie had been scheduled to debut November 14, 2014, but Relativity and Reel FX made the aggressive scheduling move based on early footage, according to two of those individuals. ...

It's Indie Vets Vs. Upstarts at a Varied Independent Spirit Awards
Date : 22/02/2013 20:04

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - After finding the Oscars encroaching on their territory for a number of years, have the Film Independent Spirit Awards finally gotten a little space from their bigger, flashier weekend neighbor? You'd think so, given that six of the Oscars' nine Best Picture nominees have grossed more than $100 million, and the roster of represented companies includes Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks, Disney and Sony. But one of those $100 million films, David O. ...