Indiewire Browse the indiewire network

The Playlist

The obsessives' guide to contemporary cinema via film discussion, news, reviews, features, nostalgia, movie music, soundtracks, DVDs and more.

Interviews

Actors

Directors

Archives

The Playlist

Man-Of-The-Moment Alex Pettyfer Offered Lead In 'Mortal Instruments' Adaptation

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
  • |
  • January 21, 2011 3:07 AM
  • |
  • 3 Comments
With the "Twilight" series finally set to come to an end next year (it's only two years since the first film debuted, but it still feels interminable), the search is on for the next hot teen franchise, with seemingly every series of young adult novels being optioned and fast-tracked to the screen. The man who seems to be dominating the subgenre at present is 20-year-old British actor Alex Pettyfer, who's gone from starring in the abominable teen-Bond flick "Stormbreaker" to being one of the hottest young actors in Hollywood.
Read More »
More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Scott Stewart, Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, Alex Pettyfer, Lily Collins

Trailer For 'I Am Number Four' Marks Exact Midpoint Between 'Twilight' And Brett Ratner's 'X-Men'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
  • |
  • December 8, 2010 2:14 AM
  • |
  • 4 Comments
We were a little confused a few months back when it appeared that Dreamworks were releasing a sequel to the Doug Liman/Hayden Christensen sci-fi flop "Jumper." As it turned out, it was actually the trailer for a film called "I Am Number Four," an adaptation of the young adult novel by Oprah nemesis James Frey and co-writer Jobie Hughes, about an exiled alien, the titular number four, on the run from the rival extraterrestrial race that wiped out his people.
Read More »
More: Films, Actors, Super Hero Films, Alex Pettyfer, I Am Number Four

Alex Pettyfer Joins 'Now,' Added To List For 'Giant Killer' & Set To Star In Biopic Of James Hunt

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
  • |
  • November 1, 2010 4:05 AM
  • |
  • 3 Comments
Matt Bomer Also Joins 'Now'; Max Irons Also In The Mix For 'Giant Killer'When the New York Times reported over the weekend, in the midst of their article about DreamWorks, that Alex Pettyfer, the lead in the upcoming teens-and-aliens flick "I Am Number Four," was being groomed as the next Shia LaBeouf, we believed it. Now Monday morning, the actor has joined one high profile project, is being considered for another and is attached to a developing biopic. Not bad for an actor that until now was best known for playing the lead in "Alex Rider: Stormbreaker."
Read More »
More: Films, Actors, Andrew Niccol, Bryan Singer, Now, Jack The Giant Slayer, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Max Irons

Follow Us

Email Updates

What's Poppin'

Latest Tweets

Follow us

Recent Comments

Blog Roll

Around The Network

the network

indiewire

categories