Just Because I am not gonna be posting a lot for the rest of the year...doesn't mean that I stopped keeping an eye on the industry.....
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer series cast member
Nick Brendon told
EOnline that the planned film reboot without any of the show's stars is not a good idea - "
I hope their vampires don't glitter. You know, listen...I think it's a mistake, I think that it's trying to kind of-they have to reach a whole completely new fanbase. And we already have that fanbase"..
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Oscar Isaac has joined the cast of the independent ensemble drama "
Ten Year." about a high school reunion says
THR Also
just signing on
Rosario Dawson and
Lynn Collins Screenwriter
Jamie Linden will make his directing debut from a screenplay he wrote.
Channing Tatum,
Jenna Dewan,
Kate Mara,
Brian Geraghty,
Justin Long,
Anna Faris,
Chris Pratt,
Chris Pine,
Anthony Mackie,
Scott Porter also star The pic begins production this month in New Mexico.
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DVD Active reports that award season and critical fave
The Social Network is coming to DVD and Blu-ray on January 11th 2011--a mere 15 weeks after its theatrical run begun on October 1st
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The Wrap reports that
Alec Baldwin has been offered the part of Dennis Dupree, an ex-rocker who hangs onto his glory days by operating the Bourbon Room, a club on the Sunset Strip--in the upcoming movie adaptation of hit Broadway musical
Rock Of Ages. Meanwhile
EW broke the news that
Gwyneth Paltrow has also bee asked to join the pic Word coming straight from the actress herself who is reading the script this week. No indication on what role she would play was given
-12-year-old
JEOPARDY! winner
Thomas Horn has scored the lead role in
Stephen Daldry's adventure "
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" reports
Deadline.
Tom Hanks and
Sandra Bullock also star.
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Ving Rhames tells
Movieweb that "
I may be doing something very small in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocal but I will just say that the budget changed dramatically and I'll leave it at that." Would he do a cameo? "
Hmm... Cha-ching could create that but it's up to them".
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The Playlist reports that reps for
George Clooney have shot down reports the actor is rumoured to be starring in one of the three biopics in the works about auto industry guru
John DeLorean .Clooney will however take over the male lead role from
Robert Downey Jr. in
Alfonso Cuarón's long troublrd sci-fi drama "
Gravity" says
The Hollywood Reporter.
Sandra Bullock wlil play the main character, a female astronaut who becomes trapped in space after debris wipes out her space station. Production kicks off in the Spring and Clooney will film his role once he wraps up work directing the political pic
The Ides of March
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Sacha Baron Cohen is circling a remake of the Spanish language comedy “
Torrente" says
The Los Angeles Times.
Alec Berg,
Jeff Schaffer and
David Mandel are penning the script.
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David Liss' historical thriller novel "
A Conspiracy of Paper:" has been optioned for the big screen according to
Variety. Set in 18th century London, the story follows Benjamin Weaver, a retired Jewish boxer investigating the mysterious death of his estranged father. His investigations uncovers the beginnings of a strange new economic order based on stock speculation.
Danny Strong ("
Recount") will adapt the script while
Ridley Scott and
Tony Scott will produce.
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James Mangold (
3:10 to Yuma "
Knight and Day") is attached to direct the contemporary Western revenge thriller "
The Gunslinger"says
Heat Vision.
John Hlavin's spec script centers on an ex-Texas Ranger who sets out to punish the men who killed his brother.
Andrew Lazar and
Cathy Konrad are producing. Production is aiming to kick off in the Spring.
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Dreamworks Animation has won the film rights to
Maintenance comic book series from
Jim Massey and
Robbi Rodriguez says
THR The book concerns janitors Doug and Manny who work for TerroMax, Inc., the world's biggest and best evil science think tank. When they're not dealing with toxic spill monsters and menial time machine repairs, they have to contend with their boss, a multitude of mad scientists, jetpack-equipped cavemen , alien repomen, and the cute girl who works at reception The project was originally set up at
Warner Bros for
McG to direct, but now there's no writer, helmer or producers attached.
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The Globe and Mail says that production for
Zack Snyder's
Superman: Man of Steel seems to be headed to Vancouver in the summer of 2011. "[Zack Snyder's]
next feature's coming here," said
Peter Leitch, chair of the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of British Columbia and president of North Shore Studios and Mammoth Studios. Leitch did not name MOS as the film in question, though obviously that's what Snyder is doing next -- and a source for the paper confirms the story. While reports say that actor
Dominic Pace. wants to
play evil genius Lex Luthor and is campaigning for a chance at the role And writer
David Goyer says that writer
Geoff Johns work on Supes was a big influence on him, specifically the
Secret Origins storyline says
CBM The six issue mini series is told from the perspective of Clark Kent and no single issue takes place on his homeworld of Krypton. and starts with Clark's "
earliest memory," and is, "
his story of self-discovery and the world's story of meeting Superman" I gotta say the book is fantastic!!
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Dennis Quaid has joined the cast of the thriller "
Beneath the Darkness" to
Variety.The story centers on a teenager (
Tony Oller) who tries to unlock the secrets inside the house of a shady mortician (
Dennis Quaid) who is a respected community figure.
Aimee Teegarden,
Devon Werkheiser,
Brett Cullen and
Stephen Lunsford also star.
Martin Guigui directs from a script by
Bruce Wilkinson with filming already underway
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Tom Rubython's biographical novel
Shunt: The Story of James Hunt is in the book to flick pipeline reports
Deadline.The biopic is being tipped for rising young actor
Alex Pettyfer (above) to play the renowned race car driver. A writer is being sought
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Teri Polo and
Dermot Mulroney have joined the cast of the kidnapping thriller "
Beyond" says
Heat Vision. The story centers on a veteran detective and a questionable television psychic teaming up in the hunt to find the detective missing grandchild, no matter the cost. Polo will play the mother of the child,
Jon Voight and
Julian Morris also stat for helmer
Josef Rusnak
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Eric Bana Olivia Wilde and
Charlie Hunnam (above) are all in talks to join the crime thriller "
Kin" reports
Variety.The story follows a desperate brother (Bana) and sister (Wilde) who are fugitives evading the law and find themselves wrecking the holiday homecoming of a troubled ex-boxer (Hunnam)
Stefan Ruzowitzky directs from an original script by
Zach Dean
-Bana is also wanted to play former U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln for
Timur Bekmambetov for the lead role in
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter reports
The Wrap.
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Ty Olsson is set to play the role of Bella Swan
Kristen Stewart)'s step-dad Phil Dwyer in the currently shooting
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 and
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 reports
BreakingDawnMovie.org.
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Bret Easton Ellis will write a Spain-set thriller screenplay called "
Bait" says
Variety. The story follows a disturbed woman who holds a group of American students hostage in shark-infested waters.
Jonas Pate will call action
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Thor" star
Chris Hemsworth (pictured on the set) told
E-online that he's discussed a rough outline of
The Avengers story with director
Joss Whedon but he hasn't seen a hard copy of the script yet. Meantime a white supremacist group is ticked by the notion that black English actor
Idris Elba will be playing the Norse mythological god Heimdall in the picthat they're urging a boycott of the upcoming comic book movie.
The Guardian reports that the U.S.-based Council of Conservative Citizens has established a web site to allow other like-minded people to join the boycott because of the change in the character's race...Ummmm I have no words so I will instead move on....
-Talking with
Movieweb.at the recent
trailer launch for
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, director
Rob Marshall offers up additional story details "
The whole opening and the first third of the film takes place in London. So we start on dry land and there is an impostor that Jack is looking for. He then escapes from the palace, gets captured by King George and there is a huge carriage chase" He adds "
We set sail and that is sort of the second act. It’s a new ship, Blackbeard’s ship, the ‘Queen Anne’s Revenge.’ Then Barbossa has a new ship called the ‘Providence.’ The third act is this incredible jungle adventure through caves where they are looking for the Fountain of Youth.” Pirates 4 comes to theaters May 20, 2011
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Phillip Noyce has opted out of doing any sort of sequel to the
Angelina Jolie spy thriller "
Salt". He told
Moviehole "
Those three [alternate]
Blu-ray cuts [of the film]
represent just about everything I have to offer on Evelyn Salt. If there ever is a sequel, better its directed by someone with a completely fresh take on what I believe could be a totally entertaining and complex series of stories" says Noyce.
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Warner Bros.suits have come across 17 minutes of lost footage from
Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi classic
2001: A Space Odyssey in a Kansas salt-mine vault. The footage is said to be "
perfectly preserved" according to
World Press But it's not part of the helmer's final edit and so the studio has "
no plans to expand or revise Mr. Kubrick’s vision". It's possible the footage will end up as an extra on a future DVD and/or Blu-ray release..says
Hollywood Elsewhere
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Christina Hendricks ,
Olivia Munn ("
Iron Man 2") and
Seth Meyers have joined the cast of a film adaptation of author
Alison Pearson'
s I Don't Know How She Does It:" says
The Los Angeles Times. The first-person comedy follow a high-powered financial worker (
Sarah Jessica Parker) who is also the mother of two young children and trying to balance the various competing elements of her life. Hendricks would play a friend of Parker's character, Munn a work colleague.
Pierce Brosnan and
Kelsey Grammer also star.
Douglas McGrath directs the
film when shooting kicks off in January. I will certainly miss seeing Olivia as co-host of
Attack of the Show
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McG (
This Means War,
Terminator Salvation) and
Breck Eisner both want to call the shots on the film adaptation of the classic board game
Ouija says
Heat Vision.
Edward Kitsis and
Adam Horowitz are penning the script for this "
four-quadrant supernatural adventure" Helmers s
Sylvain White (
The Losers),
Pierre Morel (
Taken),
Scott Stewart (
Legion) and
John Moore (
Max Payne have all circled ths pic at one point since its development began The studio is targeting a November 2012 release.
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Dan Brown the bestselling author and creator of the Robert Langdon novels, is performing a rewrite on the screenplay adaptation his own novel,
The Lost Symbol according to
The Hollywood Reporter, Brown will take over scripting duties from
Steven Knight, who did the first draft No word on a release date yet, but the trade speculates that the suits could be eying a summer 2013 bow. Series director
Ron Howard,, has not committed to return yet Star
Tom Hanks has not signed up to reprise his role as Langdon either
-Norwegian filmmaker
Harald Zwart ("
The Karate Kid remake) is poised to
direct Bakugan a film version of the popular strategic game and anime series
Bakugan Battle Brawlers says The Wrap The game has players use marble-like balls that transform into powerful monsters when rolled on game cards.
-Terry Gilliam will mentor effects animator
Tim Ollive's directing debut
1884 says
Variety The pitch is described as “
a film made in 1848 with steam power, narrating a tale of laughable imperialist derring-do and espionage set in a futuristic 1884, when Europe is at war, steam-powered cars fly in the sky..." Gilliam and Ollive have had a long standing industry friendship.
-The wife of
HR Giger,
Carmen Scheifele,
says the Swiss surrealist painter who designed the creature for the original 1979
Alien is back at work designing for g for
Ridley Scott's
Untitled Alien Prequel #1..
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Asked about the disputed rights to the
Terminator franchise and whether she'd be up for producing another one,
Gale Anne Hurd says "
It’s very sad. You feel like you gave birth to something and it’s been adopted and those adoptions haven’t worked out. Of course I’d be interested in doing another one. I’d love it" Sad Indeed...
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Christian Bale will star in Chinese director
Yimou Zhang latest film
Nanjing Heroes, according to
The Hollywood Reporter. Based on the historical Nanking Massacre of 1937 “I met Christian in America and was impressed with his serious book research for the role,” said Zhang. Bale would play a priest character named John who helped many Chinese people flee from death. Filming will start on January 10.
In 1987 Bale got his big break at the age of 13 in Steven Spielberg’s under appreciated gem Japan-occupation set
Empire of the Sun
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Electronic Arts is developing "
Madden Curse," a sports comedy feature that explores a
Jinx that seems to befall
National Football League players who appear on the cover of EA's popular
Madden NFL video game series-named for sports legend
John Madden with career shortening injuries shortly after reports
The Wrap. The story will follow a former Madden video game champion who is forced out of retirement just as he finds himself on the corner of the game's cover -- and subject to the curse. Done right this could be a great sports comedy.
That's it for now... But you can expect more Stew Before 2010 closes out! Also I have Big Blog News coming very soon
