Per the Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. Pictures and Silver Pictures, which have been developing a big-screen Wonder Woman with Buffyverse creator Joss Whedon, are in the process of buying a spec script from a pair of newbies — but as a preemptive measure, to keep the rival take (set during World War II, whereas Whedon's is present-day) off the market.... Universal emerged victorious in a bidding war for a revisionist take on Robin Hood, with Russell Crowe playing the Sheriff of Nottingham as the investigator in a string of murders in which Robin is suspected.... Per Variety, Jennifer Garner will star in a remake of Christmas in Connecticut.... Unfaithful's Richard Gere and Diane Lane will reteam for Nights in Rodanthe, an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel about a traveling doctor who has a life-changing romance.
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion I know how much you love holiday movies joke joke so Im wondering which one you object to least And dont say Bad Santa thats not a Christmas movie CopperFlickChick You may laugh but I actually like Its a Wonderful Life 1946 the original Miracle on 34th Street 1947 and Christmas in Connecticut 1945 And I like them all for the same reason Theyre not cute and saccharine if youve never seen any or all of them youd probably be surprised by their sharpness Its a Wonderful Life especially goes to some very dark places And Christmas in Connecticut is a blast Barbara Stanwyck plays a magazine columnist who made her reputation writing about how to maintain a perfect household shes basically the Martha Stewart of her day and shes always writing about the wonderful meals she makes for her husband and their small child on the familys Connecticut farm But shes making it all up S
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Question: Is it true that Arnold Schwarzenegger directed a Christmas movie? My friend bet me it's so, but I think it's an urban myth. Answer: Like you, I don't immediately connect Christmas movies and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and when I do give the matter some thought, I come up Jingle All the Way (1996), a dyspeptic tale of a beleaguered dad (Schwarzenegger) desperate to score a Turbo Man action figure, the year's hottest toy, for his son. But the fact is, your friend is right: The Governator did direct a 1992 made-for-TV remake of the classic Christmas in Connecticut (1945). The original film starred Barbara Stanwyck as a Marth
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