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Apr 29 2008 3:31 AM
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This is neat - Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann, the original kid stars of Disney's 1970s "Witch Mountain" movies, are coming back for "Race to Witch Mountain," says The Hollywood Reporter.
In a nod to the original movies, Eisenmann plays a sheriff and Richards plays a waitress at a roadhouse called Ray's in a town called Stony Creek. They help a cabbie (Dwayne Johnson) and his two paranormal-powered passengers (AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig).
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Apr 25 2008 2:26 AM
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adnana
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Christian Slater, Wes Bentley and Emmanuelle Vaugier have signed on to star in an adaptation of Stephen King's short story Dolan's Cadillac, Film Bridge International said Thursday. Erik Canuel is attached to direct.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dolan's Cadillac is a thriller about a man (Bentley), who plots to avenge the murder of his wife (Vaugier) by notorious and untouchable Las Vegas mob boss Jimmy Dolan (Slater).
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Mar 20 2008 4:59 AM
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adnana
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Neil Marshall has signed with Universal to direct "Drive," an adaptation of the James Sallis novel. Hugh Jackman is attached to play a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway car driver in heists.
Hossein Amini wrote the script, and Marc Platt is producing with Jackman and his Seed Prods. partner John Palermo.
"Drive" marks Marshall's first big studio job for a non-genre picture, and Universal hopes to make it this summer. Scheduling will determine whether Jackman gets behind the wheel for the L.A. set action thriller.
In the book, the stuntman's already-exciting existence gets jolted when he discovers that a contract has been put out on his life.
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Mar 17 2008 7:47 AM
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adnana
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Catharine Hardwicke's Twilight , starring Kristen Stewart, continues to draw Hollywood's freshest faces, the latest being actress Christian Serratos. Her involvement, rumored for the last month, was confirmed today by Variety. She reportedly plays the role of Angela Webber. Serratos' credits include "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" and "Hannah Montana."
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Mar 08 2008 12:13 PM
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adnana
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I’ve never read Bone, but it consistently ranks among comic readers as one of the best traded series out there, and since it’s debut in the graphic novel form in 2005 (the series ran monthly between 1994 and 2004) it has sold over 1 million copies and is claimed to be the longest running self-published Independent comic series in history.
Written by Jeff Smith, the ten time Eisner Award winning comic was pretty much inevitable as potential film fodder. During the late 90’s, Nickelodeon Films attempted to transform the series but Smith nipped it in the bud when a children’s adaptation featuring songs by artists such as Britney Spears and N Sync was revealed as their true intent.
Now Warner Brothers, the studio who seem the most aggressive in picking up graphic novels these days have picked up the rights.
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Mar 02 2008 9:50 AM
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adnana
Now that Zak Snyder has wrapped up filming for Watchmen, expect more of the smaller, unconfirmed roles to begin getting verification, beginning with this one. Niall Matter (The Best Years, Eureka, Stargate Atlantis) has told Watchmen Comic Movie that he plays the role of Mothman in the upcoming comic adaptation.
In the comics, Mothman is one of the original "Minutemen," a group of heroes who fought crime in the 1930s and '40s. The Minutement served as the inspiration for the later team of the Watchmen. Mothman, aka Byron Lewis, isn't seen much in the graphic novel, and is best known for being the former superhero whose career took a toll on his mind, drove him to become an alcoholic and led him into a sanitarium.
Watchmen, based on the award winning graphic novel by Alan Moore, is set in an alternate 1985 America where costumed heroes are a part of the world's history, and the "Doomsday Clock", which measures the tension between the USA and the U.S.S.R. is constantly at five minutes to midnight. Rorschach, a vigilante who refused to retire when his teammates did, is drawn out by the murder of one of his colleagues, and pulled into a world-wide conspiracy with terrifying implications for the future of mankind.
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Feb 21 2008 5:34 AM
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adnana
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Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to indie comic book "The Boys" and will develop a feature adaptation along with producer Neal H. Moritz and his Sony-based Original Film, says Variety.
Created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, the contemporary-set comic book series follows a CIA squad, known informally as "the boys," whose job is to keep watch on the proliferation of superheroes and, if necessary, intimidate or eliminate them.
Moritz characterized the series as an original take on the superhero genre. "Rather than begin with a romantic idea of superheroes out to save the world, 'The Boys' imagines a world in which superheroes really exist, with all of the flaws that real people have," he said. "The boys are there to make sure that people with superhuman powers don't get out of line."
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Feb 21 2008 5:30 AM
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adnana
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“David Fincher tackling STDs, not like herpes, worse,” is the imagined, beaded brow pitch to the studio. It worked. The director of the Oscar-shunned modern masterpiece Zodiac, as well as Fight Club, is attached to direct a film based on the comics-turned-acclaimed graphic novel, Black Hole, by Charles Burns. Brad Pitt’s Plan B is producing the project, but like DiCaprio’s Akira, no official word if Pitt is involved to star. Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman were set to adapt the screenplay in 2006, but no word if Fincher is doing his own thing here.
Set in the ’70s, Black Hole is a 12-issue comic that followed teenagers who spread “the Bug,” a fictional, incurable STD that causes the sexually-active to develop horrific physical deformities, as well as those who didn’t catch it but reacted to the plague.
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Feb 18 2008 4:12 PM
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adnana
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Jonathan Pryce has recently signed on to portray the President of the United States in Stephen Sommer's G.I. Joe. According to Latino Review, the President has a small but integral part in the Paramount Pictures action-adventure adaptation.
Pryce will join a cast that features Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Ray Park, Rachel Nichols, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Said Taghmaoui, Marlon Wayans, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Arnold Vosloo and Christopher Eccleston.
Paramount Pictures has scheduled to release G.I. Joe in theaters on August 7th, 2009.
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Nov 10 2007 11:30 AM
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adnana
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Frank Darabont has made a career out of turning treasured books into even more treasured movies, but to bring “Fahrenheit 451” to the big-screen he’s gonna need the help of some old friends...
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Kevin Spacey will return as Lex Luthor in Superman: Man of Steel and appear in Telstar , Nick Moran's film version of Moran and James Hicks' 2005 darkly comic West End play about flamboyant '60s record mogul Joe Meek....
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AICN reports a new huge Indiana Jones 4 rumor, which if true, might be a great way to wrap up the series. See, the idea is to go back to the beginning. We know that Marion Ravenwood is in it. We also know that she had a kid with Indy (Shia?). And now we learn that John Hurt could be playing Abner .....
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From day one we knew that Michael Bay’s big screen live action Transformers would likely spawn sequels. We quickly learned that most of the lead stars had signed options to lock them into a....
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Four directors are reportedly under consideration to direct Bond 22, with one Golden Globe and DGA nominee in particular said to be the leading contender to helm the sequel to Casino Royale.
Both Collider.com and LatinoReview.com are claiming that Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball), Tony Scott (Top Gun, Deja Vu) and Alex Proyas (The Crow, I, Robot) are on the shortlist to direct Bond 22....
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Lionsgate will premiere the first five minutes of Hostel: Part II attached to William Friedkin’s Bug, according to AITH. One of my good friends who has seen the movie (Bug) says it’s much more of a psychological thriller than the horror film it’s being.....
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