Friday, November 12, 2010

Flick Filler

Interesting Industry Stuff Of Late...

-The Official movie site for the Thor film  has gone live The superhero pic bows May 6th of 2011

-Producers Ralph Singleton and Joan Singleton.have purchased the film rights to Kathy Charles' novel "John Belushi Is Dead" reports Variety.The story follows a pair of loners, Hilda and Benji, who comb the Los Angeles streets checking out the city's most notorious crime scenes involving celebrity death, murder or suicide including  John Belushi, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and Sharon Tate .When Hilda befriends reclusive Echo Park tenant Hank, his downstairs neighbor hints that Hank has some terrible secrets to hide. The Singleton's will adapt the script and produce the film but no director or studio is yet attached.

-Actor Jj Feild  will play the character of Union Jack in Captain America: The First Avenger even as, director Joe Johnston has officially denied talk of the inclusion of his fellow The Invaders squad member Namor The Sub-Mariner'. Johnston tells Total Film magazine (via CBM) that "Talk about Sub-Mariner is just talk. The story is solidly about Steve Rogers."...new photos from the set doing a stunt are here.

-Ruben Fleischer  ("Zombieland"), Scott Cooper ("Crazy Heart") and José Padilha ("Elite Squad") are on the list to possibly helm Tales from the Gangster Squad reports The Los Angeles Times.

-Heat Vision says Taken director Pierre Morel  is extremely close to being locked in as director on "Ouija", the film adaptation of the board game where groups of people try to contact spirits now that Dune is stalled.

-Are You Ready For Rubik's Cube The Movie?...Deets via What's Playing

-A family film version of the BBC Earth's " Walking with Dinosaurs 3-D" is on the way reports Variety.

-"The Blind Side" and "The Rookie" director John Lee Hancock is set to helm the biopic "Electric Boy Genius" foays Variety.

-The film rights to bestselling author Brad Thor's nine novels featuring the character Scot Harvath have been sold reports Variety.

-Jon Favreau (Iron Man) is in talks to direct Magic Kingdom says Heat Vision. Magic Kingdom has been in development since 2008, and the premise finds the theme parks beloved attractions coming to life, ala Night at the Museum. Ron Moore wrote a draft of the screenplay

-Bruce Willis and Rebecca Hall are circling the lead roles in "Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog" says Deadline.

-Phillip Noyce (”Salt,” “The Quiet American”) is in negotiations to direct the time-travel romance drama "Timeless" reports Deadline. Bill Kelly's spec script is about a widower who discovers his late wife has left him a fortune. Haunted by an unresolved issue, he man invests the money to build a time travel device to see her one last time.


-Elizabeth Banks (pictured) is negotiations for the female lead role in Alex Kurtzman's family drama "Welcome to People" opposite Chris Pine says Risky Biz Blog.

-Jim Carrey talked with MTV News, about the long developing The Three Stooges movie saying "I think it's dead...it's dead at least with me. For me, I don't really want to do anything halfway, and I don't feel like a fat suit does it."Carrey added that he started experimenting a bit with gaining weight for the role but realised at his age it would be difficult to return back to his thin figure afterwards. He added "put that with Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro slapping me in the head all day long, and someone will lose an eye. It won't be good.... It'll be awful.".

-Due to his prior commitments filming the upcoming sequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2 actor Hugh Jackman will not host next year's Oscar's says Deadline

-Director Michael J Bassett says the upcoming  Silent Hill: Revelation 3D will bring back as many of the first film's core creative team as possible to capture the look and feel of the world..

-The comic book film adaptation of "The Green Hornet" scored a 93% rating of either 'excellent' or 'very good' at a recent test screening…

-The Devil Wears Prada" and  Marley & Me director David Frankel will helm a biopic about Simon Cowell's protege Paul Potts called "One Chance" says Deadline

-Sons of Anarchy cohorts Charlie Hunnam (pictured) and Ron Perlman are joining Lizzy Caplan and Chris O'Dowd for the comedy "Frankie Goes Boom" says Production Weekly Shooting kicks off this weekend in Los Angeles.

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