Novelist James Patterson's signature character is getting a cinematic reboot based upon the novel I, Alex Cross and titled, appropriately enough, Alex Cross.  Previously played by Morgan Freeman in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, the detective will this time be portrayed by Tyler Perry, stepping out of his Madea outfit and into a thriller.  A batch of images from Alex Cross provide our first looks at Perry in character.

The first official clip from "The first film about our new millennium" has arrived online with a look at Cosmopolis clocking in at over one minute, complete with French subtitles.  Two weeks ago, a domestic and an international trailer gave our most extensive peek at the adaptation of acclaimed novelist Don DeLillo's 2003 book.  This clip, though, provides a sense of the heightened reality that director David Cronenberg is going for here.

Opening in theaters on May 4th is the new film from Academy Award-nominated director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, The Debt) called The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which was based on the novel These Foolish Things by author Deborah Moggach. The film stars several celebrated British actors including Oscar-winners Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal) and Maggie Smith (TV's Downtown Abbey), Oscar-nominee Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton), Bill Nighy (The Constant Gardener), Celia Imrie (Calendar Girls), Ronald Pickup (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), Penelope Wilton (Match Point), and Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire).

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the pleasure of sitting down with director John Madden to talk about his work on The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. The director discussed his new film, competing with The Avengers, adapting the screenplay from the novel, assembling the impressive cast of British actors, shooting in India, and adding a special scene for Judi Dench and Maggie Smith to have together. 

Henry Selick and Neil Gaiman are two great tastes that taste great together.  This much they proved with Coraline, Selick's 2009's adaptation of the children's book by Gaiman, the author who pioneered comic book respectability in the 1980s and now dabbles in screenwriting when he's not being a literary badass.  Selick will once again bring Gaiman's words to the screen, as Disney has hired the current master of cinematic stop-motion to direct an adaptation of Gaiman's novel The Graveyard Book.

Life of Pi, an adaptation of the hugely acclaimed bestseller by Yann Martel, has been in the works under several different directors since the novel was published over a decade, but the film is actually set to hit theaters at the end of this year.  As such, we now have our first look at a still from the film.  As you'd expect, it has the protagonist, Pi, a Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker, and a lifeboat.

Last month, our first look at footage from Cosmopolis was but a meager offering, a thirty four-second glimpse at director David Cronenberg's adaptation of the novel by literary asskicker Don DeLillo.  Today, though, there's an embarrassment of riches, as we have not one, but two exceedingly stylish theatrical trailers for Cosmopolis.

Good news, everyone.  Ender's Game has actually, really, for realsies begun principal photography.  The adaptation of Orson Scott Card's beloved science fiction novel, which has been attempted as a film by a number of different companies and creative teams, has commenced production under the direction of Gavin Hood.  According to an official press release, the production is underway in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Altered Carbon, a movie based on the science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan, has been a thing that could maybe happen since the novel was published in 2002, earning a Philip K. Dick Award and ending up a New York Times Notable Book.  Mega-producer Joel Silver owned the rights for some time, but now the newly-formed production company Mythology Entertainment has acquired the feature rights and is actively putting Altered Carbon into development.

In the eight years since Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's nimble, endlessly rewatchable Shaun of the Dead arrived Stateside, we've seen no shortage of clever takes on the zombie subgenre, as well as straight-up undead-fests like AMC's The Walking Dead.  The latest distinctive take on zombies is Warm Bodies, which focuses on a shuffler called R who develops a strange relationship with a live woman after eating her boyfriend's brains and absorbing his memories.  The film was set to hit theaters this August, but now, distributor Lionsgate has moved the release back about six months.

Most any avid user of one of America's favorite illicit substances knows that it is a good and charitable thing to be euphemistically smoked out, but the first image from Savages makes the term look altogether threatening.  The film is co-written and directed by Oliver Stone, a filmmaker comfortable with violence, but even if you didn't know that, you'd know something unsavory is going on between Blake Lively and Benicio Del Toro, with the latter blowing smoke into the former's face in an entirely uncharitable manner.