Tron: Legacy News

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Oscar-winning writer William Monaghan is moving forward with his second feature as a director with the thriller Mojave , although the cast is shuffling around as TRON: Legacy 's Garrett Hedlund is replacing the exceedingly busy Australian actor Jason Clarke, who just appeared in last week's blockbuster, Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby .

Garrett Hedlund is set to lead Violent Talent , a crime drama that will serve as the directorial debut of Matthew Michael Carnahan.

Much has been made of Jay-Z's involvement with Baz Lurhmann's epic adaptation of The Great Gatsby .

The movie, directed by Joseph Kosinski, is set in 2077 where human beings have been moved to other planets because Earth has been invaded by aliens and nuclear radiation is gravely threatening people's lives, according to the Chinese releaser EDKO Film Ltd.

Tom Cruise plays drone repairman Jack Harper in Oblivion , a stunning visual feast from the director of Tron: Legacy , Joseph Kosinski.

Turning a book into a movie is guaranteed to be a tough task. Legions of the novel's original fans are expecting something that holds tightly to the story and characters previously created and beloved on the page, while at the same time bringing something new and fresh to the material that makes the retelling worthwhile.

In the year 2077, the Earth has been left a desolate wasteland with areas of nuclear radiation fallout following the destruction of the moon.

Joseph Kosinski once envisioned "Oblivion" as a small sci-fi film based on his own barely released graphic novel.

He's the perfect boyfriend! Andrew Garfield shows support for girlfriend Emma Stone as he holds her close after charity run Spider-Man couple Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield tried to keep a low profile despite Emma playing a pivotal role in the day's proceedings, but there was no hiding their affection.

EARLY in the sleek sci-fi thriller "Oblivion," Tom Cruise, as a flyboy repairman living a removed, Jetsons-like existence above a deserted Earth, intones his home sickness.

A solitary drone repairman working on a war-ravaged planet Earth becomes humanity's last hope for survival in this ambitious sci-fi epic from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes producer Peter Chernin.

The Whitney Museum of American Art held its annual Whitney Art Party on Wednesday May 1st at Skylight at Moynihan Station.

"At Any Price" -- The flowing Iowa cornfields of Ramin Bahrani's sweeping Midwest drama of fathers and sons, farms and seed, have nothing on the amber waves of Zac Efron's hair.

Rating: PG-13 Length: 124 minutes Release Date: April 19, 2013 Directed by: Joseph Kosinski Genre: Action/Mystery/Adventure Stars: 3.5 out of 5 Hollywood and moviegoers can't seem to get enough of end-of-the-world movies.

As an unofficial kickoff to the summer movie season, Oblivion opened April 28 and plunged us into the kind of world that, for whatever reason, we always want to see while eating popcorn.

Rumors about the world ending have been floating around since the world began. For some reason, it is exciting for many to imagine what a post-apocalyptic world would be like.

There is very little originality in Hollywood, most likely due to the studios and their cynical attempt to make the maximum amount of money by regurgitating safe, tested product.

Fans of science fiction films will likely experience deja vu while watching the new Tom Cruise film "Oblivion." With nods to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and a handful of other films in the same genre, "Oblivion" is a movie that is nothing more than a parade of familiar moments.

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