A month ago, Arthur & Lancelot was thought to be dead, but then we learned quite suddenly that not only had Warner Bros. not given up on the medieval action-adventure, but was in talks with one of two leading men.  About two weeks ago, word emerged that Colin Farrell was in talks with the studio to star in the film as one of the two title characters, but it looks like those discussions have proven fruitless, as Farrell will not be appearing in the film.

One of the most controversial shows on television returns this Sunday, April 1^st as The Killing begins airing its second season on AMC. The series, which is based on the Danish show Forbrydelsen, follows Detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and her possibly shady partner Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) as they try to solve the mystery of who killed local Seattle teenager Rosie Larsen. The show also revolves around prime suspect and Mayoral candidate Darren Richmond (Billy Campbell), as well as Rosie’s parents (Brent Sexton and Michelle Forbes) who are dealing with the aftermath of their daughter’s death.

The Killing was a bona fide hit last season for AMC, which is also home to such popular series as Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. But The Killing made national news last year when fans of the series were in an uproar after the show’s finale aired. The episode had been advertised as giving final answers to the show’s main mystery, however all it did was offer new questions and no clues to who actually killed Rosie Larsen. Fans of the series took to Twitter in an angry fever relieving their pain by bashing the show’s failure to follow through with answers as promised. While many fans swore to never watch the series again, I have a feeling they will all be returning Sunday night for the second season in hopes that some answers may finally come to light. But don’t expect closure to the show’s main mystery Sunday night as producers have said publicly that Rosie’s killer won’t be revealed until the end of this season.

Earlier this week, along with several other members of the press, I had a chance to sit down with Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman, and Billy Campbell to discuss season two of The Killing. The actors talked about the series; it’s controversial season one finale, their surprise at the fan’s outcry, Linden’s engagement, Holder’s true intensions, Richmond’s ultimate fate, how the show’s success has affected the actor’s careers, and just who did kill Rosie Larsen?

After spending some time foraging in the wilds of financial insolvency, MGM is powering ahead with several remakes based upon familiar properties.  Foremost among the upcoming remakes is RoboCop, a new take on director Paul Verhoeven's brilliant 1987 satire masquerading as a cartoonishly brutal action movie.  Joel Kinnaman is set to play the title character, a Detroit cop named Alex Murphy who is turned into a technological commodity after being brutally murdered.

MGM is moving ahead with the long in-development remake of RoboCop, director Paul Verhoeven's audaciously funny, gleefully violent, unstoppably smart 1987 satire.  After emerging from insolvency, MGM hired Jose Padilha to direct a new take on the tale of rampant consumerism and dehumanization, leading to the obvious question of just who would play the new Alex Murphy, an honest cop whose brutal murder leads him to become a robotic husk of a man.  The answer, it seems, might just be Joel Kinnaman, who broke out big with his role on The Killing.

Director David Cronenberg and Sony Pictures Classics are bringing to the screen A Dangerous Method, a film that centers on the lives of Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). Unbeknownst to many, there was quite the catalyst in two of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century coming together in the form of a troubled and beautiful patient named Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley).

The vibrant cities of Zurich and Vienna serve as the settings for this dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery on the eve of WWI. Drawn from the true-life events of these people, this film delves deep into the turbulent relationships between them. It is 1904 and the driven Jung is just twenty-nine years old, at the very beginning of his career, and about to take on the challenge of what is thought to be an impossible case.

At the time, Jung was living with his pregnant wife, Emma (Sarah Gadon), at Burgholzli Hospital. Inspired by his mentor, Freud, he tries his experimental treatment known as psychoanalysis, or ‘The Talking Cure,’ on the unbalanced eighteen year-old Sabina. A well-educated Russian, she speaks fluent German and has been diagnosed with hysteria and has a history of being both disruptive as well as violent. Suffering a childhood filled with humiliation and beatings from her father, a disturbing sexual element is uncovered through her treatment with Jung. This element upholds Freud’s theories that connect sexuality and emotional disorders. In an effort to help his patient, Jung writes to the renowned Freud asking for advice. A deep friendship is immediately forged that would forever change the landscape of psychoanalysis as well as the face of modern thought as we know it today.

With their intimate dynamics thoroughly explored through a look into their love, sensuality, passion, ambition, deceit, emotional breakdowns and explosive disagreements, this film provides an intricate look into the lives of these three important figures in history. How they came together and then split apart is dissected by Academy Award winning writer, Christopher Hampton, who wrote the screenplay, which was based on the stage play he also penned called “The Talking Cure.” The play was performed at The National Theatre in London and starred Ralph Fiennes as Jung. Hampton based both his play and the film’s screenplay on the book “A Most Dangerous Method”.

Shot over the course of eight weeks, filming occurred on location in Cologne, Bodensee, on Lake Constance (located on the Rhine situated in Germany, Switzerland and Austria near the foot of the Alps) and Vienna. While in Vienna, they were able to film at the house Freud lived in from 1891 to 1938.

Recently, IAR was able to attend press conferences with both Michael Fassbender as well as David Cronenberg at The Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. Here is what Fassbender had to say about portraying Carl Jung.

RoboCop, director Paul Verhoeven's 1987 action/science-fiction/satire is brilliant, an audacious and intelligent skewering of dehumanizing American consumer culture that is probably even more relevant now, 24 years later, than it was at the time of its release.  As part of its post-bankruptcy strategy, MGM is moving ahead with a RoboCop remake that has been developing, in several different iterations, for years now.  While nobody can match Verhoeven's lunacy, the studio made an inspired choice with Jose Padilha, the Brazilian director who would make his American debut with the tale of Alex Murphy.  While it's still very early, the director has shared some crucial insight on his approach to RoboCop, and it sounds different enough to stand up as its own cinematic entity.

Jose Padilha, the director responsible for the hugely popular Elite Squad films in his native Brazil, signed on to MGM's RoboCop remake back in March.  Since then, he and screenwriter Josh Zetumer have been collaborating away on a new screenplay that abandons any and all development done under previous would-be remake helmer Darren Aronofsky.  The big question is whether or not the duo will be able to create a worthy successor to Paul Verhoeven's wickedly satirical and staggeringly intelligent 1987 original, but of course the more frequently asked question is , "Who will play RoboCop?"  Padilha himself set off an internet hyperbole-storm on Friday when he mentioned being a fan of Michael Fassbender, but he's now distancing himself from the casting question, while focusing on the more pertinent stuff.

My devotion to Paul Verhoeven's 1987 action-satire RoboCop is well documented.  The dehumanizing, consumption-obsessed future America at which the film so deftly pokes fun bears no small similarity to the culture we currently inhabit.  A reboot of the franchise is thoroughly unnecessary, particularly considering the crappiness of subsequent sequels, neither of which pack even a fraction of the original's perverse wit.  MGM's financial woes created the impression that a RoboCop remake would never happen, but it looks like the newly-solvent studio plans on making Detroit's robotic enforcer a tentpole franchise.  Deadline broke the news that MGM is in talks with Brazilian director Jose Padilha to helm the remake.

When Darren Aronofsky finally left the remake of Robocop, rumors seemed to point to the directors “snobbery” when it came to 3D. MGM really was pushing for the film to take the 3D route, while Aronofsky decided to leave the project and take on Black Swan.

Yet MTV reports that his departure from the remake had nothing to do with 3D, but had everything to do with the unstable economic situation of the studio.