Anthony Hopkins News

The slash and mark of Zorro's notorious "Z" burns brighter and cuts deeper in high definition.

Marvel's movie about the winged-helmet clad hero Thor is shaping up to be quite an intriguing flick.

It has been almost exactly a year and a half since Marvel first announced that they would developing an Avengers movie, as well as solo movies for all the members.

It's been a bit of a trek for the Norse god, but according to Production Weekly it looks like Thor will finally begin shooting mid-January in Los Angeles and then move to Santa Fe from March through late-April. That's a four-month shoot , but keep in mind that Thor will have an intensive post-production as they complete all the special effects.

WELSH choirs may sing of a welcome in the hillside, but visitors encounter an old-fashioned nation where people are "rude", according to major new research.

It is going to become painfully obvious that I have spent waaay too much time in a darkened theater as I share with you some horrible screen pairings it has been my misfortune to suffer through, first as an avid filmgoer since birth and second, as a film critic for 15 years.

MAYOR TIM: Lost in translation. OPINION: Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt was speaking fluent French in the European alps a couple of weeks agowrites Cherie Sivignon in this week's L'expat. No, he didn't pop over to France as an add-on to his Mongolian journey of student recruitment.

Amanda Mae Meyncke , Nov 06, 2009 "Live in fragments no longer," proclaims the heroine Margaret Schlegel in the E. M. Forster novel Howards End .

Our review of Howards End , published March 7th, 2005, is also available. The perfect antidote to The Fast and the Furious .

Can we go ahead and name "Thor" the classiest superhero movie ever made? What, you need more? Bam! How about Sir Anthony Hopkins as Odin? That's not mythology, Jack.

Movie news - The fabulous Katie Holmes has replaced Liv Tyler in "The Romantics" and "Hannibal" star Anthony Hopkins has reportedly been cast to play the role of Odin in the Marvel movie "Thor". Anthony, 71, will be playing the role of Thor and Loki's father Odin.

When you look at his filmography, Anthony Hopkins usually plays gentle and distinguished elderly gentleman.

HE'S played one of the world's greatest painters, cinema's goriest serial killers and history's trickiest presidents.

This week's Ketchup includes news of sequels for Paranormal Activity and the Mad Max and Men in Black franchises, as well as casting news for Sir Anthony Hopkins, Matt Damon, Keira Knightley, Tom Cruise, and Adam Sandler.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Anthony Hopkins has joined the cast of Thor and will play Odin.

It was announced Friday that esteemed Academy Award winning actor Anthony Hopkins is to play Norse god Odin in Marvel's 2011 fantasy superhero movie 'Thor ' based on their long running comic book.

Caption: Anthony Hopkins shopping for art supplies at Blick Santa Monica, California .... HOPKINS TO PLAY THOR'S DAD SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS is to be a comic book superhero after landing the role of THOR's father in Marvel Studio's new blockbuster.

We all know the pointy toothed, black-caped, supple-white-neck-lusting Dracula made famous by Bram Stoker's 1897 novel .

HE WAS the Anglo-Saxon hero so tough he pulled a monster's arm off. But now Beowulf is being closely examined by a Welsh academic investigating notions of masculinity in the modern world.

I've always been slightly unnerved by ventriloquists ever since, as a youngster, I saw the terrific Anthony Hopkins voice-throwing horror movie Magic .