With Universal passing on Ron Howard’s adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ this past summer, due to its large budget, producer Brian Grazer has cut the production costs by $45-50 million, Collider is reporting. Howard, Grazer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman worked to lower the budget all summer for the project, which would feature a film trilogy and a TV series. While promoting the upcoming ‘Tower Heist,’ Grazer said “We found a way to cut out $45 million out of the budget (for ‘The Dark Tower’) without changing the scope and actually giving it a good ending.” He added that with the original $140 million budget, the “ending wasn’t quite…

The producers of the critically-acclaimed but short-lived sitcom ‘Arrested Development’ are in talks with Netflix and Showtime to air several new original episodes of the series, EW is reporting. The show’s creator, Mitchell Hurwitz, has said that he wants to shoot nine to 10 episodes that would air next fall. The new episodes will update fans on what’s happening with the Bluth family since the series ended in 2006 on FOX. Hurwitz also hopes the new ‘Arrested Development’ episodes, which will be produced by 20th Century Fox TV, will lead up to the anticipated movie based on the show. “I have been working on the screenplay for a long time…

Daniel Craig talks with Jimmy Kimmel about the film “Cowboys & Aliens” by director Jon Favreau (Iron Man 2) and starring Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Noah Ringer (The Last Airbender), Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace) and Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy). Click Here for more photos, news and movie trailers from Cowboys & Aliens. Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes…

Title: Cowboys & Aliens Directed By: Jon Favreau Starring: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Paul Dano, Adam Beach, Sam Rockwell, Noah Ringer, Keith Carradine, Walton Goggins If you’re going to make a movie called Cowboys & Aliens, there better be some cowboys and aliens. In combining the two genres, the filmmakers had two options, miraculously create some sort of scenario that feels raw and believable or just go all out, embracing absurdities of both. Forget the fact that the former would have been a near impossible achievement; who wants to watch some schmaltzy drama about cowboys fighting aliens? The filmmakers not only go for the latter option, but they…

Here’s three brand new character posters for the film “Cowboys & Aliens” by director Jon Favreau (Iron Man 2) and starring Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Noah Ringer (The Last Airbender), Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace) and Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy). Click Here for more photos, news and movie trailers from Cowboys & Aliens. Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes…

Ron Howard won’t be directing the film adaptation of The Lost Symbol, the third book in Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon series, Deadline is reporting. Howard only wants to produce the final film in the trilogy, instead of directing it, even though he helmed its two predecessors, 2006′s ‘The Da Vinci Code’ and 2009′s ‘Angels and Demons.’ Howard reportedly told Amy Pascal and Michael Lynton from Sony Pictures, which released the first two films in the series, that he doesn’t want to continually tell the same stories with the same character over and over. But the studio is saying Tom Hanks, who portrayed Langdon in both previous adaptations, will reprise his…

Harrison Ford talks with HitFix about his role in the film “Cowboys & Aliens” by director Jon Favreau (Iron Man 2) and starring Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Noah Ringer (The Last Airbender), Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace) and Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy). Click Here for more photos, news and movie trailers from Cowboys & Aliens. Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and…

Title: Cowboys & Aliens Studio: Universal Pictures Directed By: Jon Favreau Written By: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby; story by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Steve Oederkerk based on Platinum Studios’ “Cowboys and Aliens” by Scott Mitchell Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Paul Dano, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach Screened at: NYC Opens: July 29, 2011 Here’s an idea you might get after watching “Cowboys & Aliens,” which should instead have the title “Cowboys, Indians & Aliens.” We in America can fix the deficit, create full employment, and draw ourselves, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and Cuba into a friendly alliance. This is how: you reestablish…

E! Online got their hands on this new movie clip from the upcoming film “Cowboys & Aliens” by director Jon Favreau (Iron Man 2) and starring Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Noah Ringer (The Last Airbender), Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace) and Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy). Click Here for more photos, news and movie trailers from Cowboys & Aliens. Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t…

Yahoo! Movies got their hands on this really cool interactive poster for the upcoming film “Cowboys & Aliens” by director Jon Favreau (Iron Man 2) and starring Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Noah Ringer (The Last Airbender), Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace) and Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy). Click Here for more photos, news and movie trailers from Cowboys & Aliens. Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution…