Blog Posts by Danny Bowes

Rutger Hauer and Manuela Martelli (Photo: Kristin Murphy/Getty Images)Rutger Hauer was cutting a dapper -- if odd -- figure at the Sundance Film Festival with “Il Futuro” co-star Manuela Martelli. Just a few days before his 69^th birthday, Hauer's dandyish hairstyle, his checkered jacket, and printed scarf with a razor blade pattern cut a sharp contrast with the lovely 29-year-old Martelli's comparatively demure and nondescript ensemble.

The pair were photographed at the Sundance premiere of “Il Futuro (The Future),” described as “wildly impressionistic” and featuring “bizarre cinematography,” in light of which Hauer's flamboyantly strange dress seems to be quite fitting

The Dutch star has entered his third decade of being able to do and wear whatever on earth he likes following his iconic performance in 1982’s groundbreaking “Blade Runner.” Since that and his equally memorable turn in “The Hitcher,” he has spent his time alternating between lead roles in arthouse films and cult fare (from the original movie version of “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” to 2011’s

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Brian De Palma and Al Pacino are reuniting, for a different sort of film than "Scarface" or "Carlito's Way" for the director-star team: "Happy Valley," the story of disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno.

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Disney has unveiled a massive, wildly ambitious new video game project, one of great potential interest to movie fans. In June, they plan to release "Disney Infinity," an interlocking group of multiplayer games -- across all available platforms -- in which, once all the games are released, literally every Disney and Pixar character that has ever appeared on film will be playable.

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Disney is looking to have a very busy 2014-15. Within a year and a half, there will be a new Muppet movie, a “Captain America” sequel, the long-awaited Marvel comics adaptation “Guardians of the Galaxy,” a follow-up to “Sleeping Beauty,” and a new “Pirates of the Caribbean” film. That doesn't even include “1952,” a Damon Lindelof-scripted, Brad Bird-directed flick starring George Clooney.

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The strange saga of software tycoon John McAfee, chronicled in a piece in Wired magazine, is coming to the big screen. Warner Bros secured the film rights and are said to be close to finalizing a deal to hire “Crazy, Stupid, Love” writer-directors Glenn Ficara and John Requa to adapt the Wired article, “John McAfee's Last Stand.”

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Universal Pictures has announced a release date for “Jurassic Park 4.” The latest installment will see the latest encounter between man and dinosaur, in 3D, on June 13^th, 2014. No director is yet attached, but now that a script has been submitted by writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, the search will begin.

Photo: Jamie McCarthy/WireImageThe Sundance Film Festival could be expanding to New York City. Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, which has been having “Sundance Institute at BAM” screenings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music since 2006, is in negotiations to develop facilities in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood to possibly compete with Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal's Tribeca Film Festival, the New York Post reports.

Photo: WireImage“SNL” emeritus and “30 Rock” showrunner/star Tina Fey is very close to joining the cast of Disney new “Muppets” movie, which aside from the Muppets themselves also includes Ricky Gervais and “Modern Family”'s Ty Burrell. The script is being kept under tight security but sources say the character Fey will be playing is a Russian prison guard.

The new “Muppets” movie is said to feature the titular beloved brood on an adventure in Europe. Mark Bobin, the director of the highly successful 2011 “The Muppets” is returning, as is his co-writer Nicholas Stoller. Production begins in London this month.

Tina Fey can also be seen co-hosting the Golden Globes this Sunday with frequent collaborator Amy Poehler. The “30 Rock” series finale is due to air January 31^st.