Jane Eyre casting: Michael Fassbender as Rochester?

Oh, this is fabulous news! I've been keeping an eye on this project for some time now. In my previous post about Brontë's sisters' literary adaptation, when Ellen Page was reportedly still attached, they were still searching for the actor to play Rochester. Then miss Page left, but The Playlist reported that a rising auteur …

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Conspicuous Trailer of the Week: Remember Me

Interesting title. I don't think Robert Pattinson will ever that problem for quite some time now. With a slew of teeny-boppers — and their moms — swarm the theater to see New Moon, I couldn't help being intrigued by the trailer of R-Patz new flix. Check it out below: Pattinson plays a rebellious young man …

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DVD Pick: Maiden Heist

My friends and I saw this movie on Halloween night. Since nobody's keen on watching a horror flick, we stumbled upon this one as we're browsing the Redbox site. The biggest draws were the main actors: Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman and William H. Macy. You'd think that with names like those it'd be a dark …

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Is Kevin McKidd Gerard Butler No.2?

Well, the fellow Scot himself said so. According to the NY Post, Kevin McKidd, who's currently sporting an American accent as Dr. Hunt in Grey's Anatomy, has two of his most beloved projects being made into a feature film. One of them is a big screen incarnation of the video game franchise Call Of Duty …

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Gone with the Wind tribute – my five favorite scenes

IMDb is featuring Gone with the Wind's 70th-anniversary edition today, complete with the lush Rhett/Scarlett bright red background. I already owned the 4-disc collector's edition, but seeing the comprehensive anniversary set on the Warner Video site is enough to make me want to get another one! Thanks to my late mother, I was exposed to …

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Confession of a tuckered out blogger

Since FlixChatter debuted in June, I've written 139 posts, 5 days a week, one post a day — or sometimes two on a good day. It's November the 17th, and this is actually the seventeenth post of the month. Tonight though, I'm faced with what they call a writer's block, or a blogger's block in …

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FlixChatter’s Weekend Roundup

I guess I was one of only three people who skipped the 2012 disaster flix that grossed $225 million worldwide over the weekend (including $65 million in US & Canada). According to Reuters, Columbia, a unit of Sony Corp, said 2012 recorded the highest worldwide opening ever for an original film not based on an …

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