Anthony Hopkins Returns to His Bread & Butter in 'Solace'

Anthony Hopkins has starred in a ton of great movies over the years, but his role as Hannibal Lecter will easily go down as his most well known.  According to Variety, Hopkins is currently in talks for another serial killer style film, only this time he'll be among the good guys hunting the killer down in the crime thriller Solace.

In Solace, which was recently re-written by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) Hopkins would play John Clancy a psychic and doctor who teams with the FBI to find a serial killer.

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Fearless Forecast: 'The Rite' Leads a Weak Box Office Weekend

The Mechanic and The Rite are the two wide-release newcomers this week and out of the two, The Rite should easily be able to top the charts.  That's not to say that they will have a successful weekend.  In fact, I think The Rite will do south of $15 million.

Unfortunately, The Rite has failed to generate much buzz online which is rare for the Horror genre.  Their are some die hard horror fans out there and they've failed to discuss the film.  In fact, the film's Facebook page only has 14,000 supporters.

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Anthony Hopkins as Hitch?

I know Anthony Hopkins is a legend and all—and a much-revered one at that—but he's one of those guys who I just don't see what all the fuss is about. Honestly, I can't think of anything I've actually thought he was really good in since The Silence of the Lambs (though I did like him as Nixon). Maybe it's just me, but he seems to play every role over the past 15 years or so exactly the same. But when he's good—and when he does something a little different from his usual—he can be really good. I'm hoping that'll be the case if he ends up playing the most famous and most influential director of all time.

According to THR, Hopkins is in talks to portray Alfred Hitchcock in a film based on the 1998 book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. If you're not familiar with the story, it's an interesting one: at the top of his career, Hitch decided to slum it and make a horror film. No studios would touch it, fearing that it'd ruin his reputation, so he financed it himself, shot it in black and white, and the rest, well, is film history. It's easy to overlook Psycho these days because it's so over-reference and over-celebrated—and we won't discuss what Gus Van Sant did in the late 90s—but it really was a landmark achievement. It's a film that's still influencing many a director today.

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New Trailer For 'The Rite:' Demons, Darkness, and Everything We've Already Seen Before

A trailer for the new Anthony Hopkins-led exorcism film The Rite has surfaced, and it does little to distinguish itself from...well...every other non Anthony Hopkins-led film about exorcism.  Apparently "inspired by true events," like every movie about demons that's ever come out was, The Rite focuses on an American seminary student, Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue), who travels to Vatican City for...exorcism school (if that's a real thing, I'm amazed.)  Once there, he meets Father Lucas (Hopkins) who shows him an ultra-dark version of Vatican traditions.

Oh, Dr. Lecter, just stop trying to scare us.

Honestly, the trailer does little to convince me that this is any more worth seeing than any of the other demon-destroying films that have passed through theaters in the past few years (The Last Exorcism, The Order, etc.), but I would so love to be wrong.

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Rachel Weisz + 'Pyschosexual 360' = Eminem back to Acting?

Its been a while since we've seen Eminem acting on the big screen.  He's got his Oscar nod for 'Best Music' in the movie 8 Mile, and his acting wasn't all that bad either.  I'm sure that he's had many offers to return to films but has declined all opportunities.  However, according to Production Weekly's twitter account, "Eminem & Frances McDormand are in talks to join Rachel Weisz & Anthony Hopkins in the Fernando Meirelles sex-themed drama “360”".

"360" is based on a play by the Austrian playwright Arthur Shnitzler, who wrote some very provocative plays for his time.  Pyschosexual 360 is based on one of his plays.  I'm guessing its Berliner Reign which according to IMDB.com is about:

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