Sunday, October 25, 2009

Pic And Choose

Fresh flicks bits...

*Moving from Sydney, the production for The Green Lantern has moved stateside to New Orleans via Twitter.

*The search is on for a new writer to pen "Beverly Hills Cop IV" starting over from scratch via Collider.

*The folks at Cinema Blend posted a story about the Scary Movie franchise being rebooted to which a Weinstein Company spokes-suit called the whole article "erroneous" when talking with Garth Franklin of Dark Horizons.

*The most recent script draft of Stephen Norrington's reboot of the The Crow has been, "very well-received" and casting is expected to get underway soon via Mania.

*Dave McKean has had meetings about a film adaptation of his popular serialized 90's comic Cages via Coming Soon.

*THR says that Rob Hardy will helm the Stomp the Yard sequel with Columbus Short in negotiations to reprise his role as master street dancer DJ...Production hopes to kick off early next month in Atlanta...

*Paula Wagner will produce a film adaptation of long-running musical "Miss Saigon" and is hoping that Lee Daniels will direct reports Variety.

*Universal Pictures is not dropping its Indian Summer pic due to economic and production reasons or are they?

*Ann Peacock ("The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe") is writing the $150 million motion-capture fantasy adventure "Airman " says Variety.


*During an interview with Baltimore's WJZ, Gerard Butler announced that he will co-star in an upcoming film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus via Cinematical.

John Logan is adapting the tragedy about a devoted and arrogant soldier whose political machinations and military might gain him heroic status, but ultimately lead to his assassination.

Ralph Fiennes will star in the title role and direct the pic

*Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, and Nicholas Tse will team up for the $30 million Chinese-language remake of the 1982 film “The Shaolin Temple” called "Shaolin" says Screen Daily.

Benny Chan will direct the action epic.

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