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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy are joining Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans and January Jones in Universal Pictures romantic comedy "The Boat That Rocked" reports Entertainment Weekly.

Hoffman is in negotiations to play the role of irreverent, iconic DJ The Count in the film, which recounts the true story of a British pirate radio station that operated from a boat in the North Sea when the BBC was only broadcasting two hours of pop music each week in the '60s.

Richard Curtis penned and will direct the project. Filming is slated to begin in London on March 3rd.

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Sony Pictures has acquired feature films rights to independent graphic novel "The Boys" reports Variety.

The Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson-created 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.

Neal H. Moritz will produce what he describes 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. The boys are there to make sure that people with superhuman powers don't get out of line."

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Potpuno mi je nezamislivo da Sony hoće ovo da ekranizuje, s ozirom da je Spajdermen njihov veliki uspeh u superherojskim filmovima a The Boys je antisuperherojski strip sa izvanredno mnogo nasilja i seksa i prikazivanjem superheroja kao u najboljem slučaju naivnih nespretnjakovića, u najgorem, korumpiranih nitkova...

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Videh juce to za Boyse.
Ako ne unajme Simona Pegga ništa nisu uradili.

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Greenaway scouting Australia for science-fiction feature
Sandy George in Perth
22 Feb 2008 06:09

 

Legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway will fly over Western Australia on Feb 23 scouting locations for a science-fiction feature film based on his most recent book The Historians Book 39: The Rise and Fall of Gestures Drama.

"The book is really a history of cinema rewritten as fiction," he told Screendaily.com. It is the first of 100 slim volumes that will together act as a compendium of history. Each will examine a range of topics from toys and clouds to conception and death.

Greenaway said an Australian producer was on board the film but would not reveal who. Part of his attraction to Australia is the generous new tax rebates for Australian films. There is still a lot of uncertainty about what qualifies as Australian: he said he would be extensively utilising the landscape and employing many Australians.

But it may be some time before cameras role as the prolific multimedia artist has five features in the pipeline. The next one will go into production mid-year in Sao Paulo. The dramatisation of the Old Testament will merge religion and porn and be finished in time for the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

Greenaway also has 20 museum projects to complete, some of which involve adding sound and light to some of the world's most famous paintings. He has just received permission to work his magic on The Last Supper and has his eye on The Last Judgement, housed at The Vatican.

"We are manoeuvring diplomacy to see if we can get our hands on that painting," he said.

Greenaway gave a keynote address Feb 22 to the Australian International Documentary Conference. He told his audience that cinema is dead, that audiences are turning away because it is "irrelevant, unnecessary and boring" and that producers are visually illiterate.

But he also said that the digital revolution would bring an end to text-based cinema and image makers would become the gate keepers of the future.

"We should not cry tears because what is going to happen next is going to be 10,000 times more exciting," he said. "This is going to be a golden age."

Greenaway's 15 features include The Draughtsman's Contract, A Zed And Two Noughts, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover.

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Universal's re-born identity
Studio's team gambles big on eclectic slate
By MICHAEL FLEMINGTalk to most Hollywood production chiefs these days and you tend to hear a litany of bearish concerns.
Some are cutting back on slates because of the glut of movies. Some are delaying start dates because of fears of a SAG strike. Others are shaving producer deals or star gross participations.

Against this climate, Universal is a bastion of optimism.

While the rest of the industry fears doom and gloom, U is expanding its slate, widening its reach into international markets, and even embarking on risky, untested event pictures. As GE mandates significant cuts at U's sister TV divisions, the film studio's chairman Marc Shmuger and co-chairman David Linde, with just over 19 months on the job, are embarking on an ambitious and diverse slate of projects.

In fact, even as the rest of Hollywood seems to wrestle with its corporatization, they publicly profess to be just fine with it.

"I kind of like being owned by GE," Linde says. "Maybe there are pressures on you as a manager that other studios don't experience, but it also gives you tremendous security for as long as they own the company. They stick to their word, and you don't have to worry about whether you're actually going to have the money for your budget."

Over the next year or so, the full extent of Shmuger and Linde's slate will be put to the test. The high-profile projects include the George Clooney-directed comedy "Leatherheads," Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" (his "Borat" followup), along with movie adaptations of the musical "Mamma Mia!" and the play "Frost/Nixon." And despite the misfire that was "Miami Vice," U has enlisted Michael Mann for "Public Enemies," a period actioner with Johnny Depp as John Dillinger.

The biggest risks are in their efforts at landing new franchises, something that, save for the "Bourne" series, has eluded U for quite some time. "Evan Almighty" was but the latest in a series of disappointments that also include the previous regime's "Van Helsing" and "King Kong."

On tap is a fourth "Bourne" movie, but their slate is full of efforts to either launch new franchises or resurrect old ones. The latter group include revivals of "The Mummy," "Hellboy" and "The Incredible Hulk," as well as another "The Fast and the Furious."

U also launched a lucrative venture last week with Hasbro to make films out of its toy and board game properties. And the studio has a deal with animation veteran Chris Meledandri.

GE "wanted us to operate on as broad a platform as possible, with the obvious advantage that it makes you less susceptible to your misses," Linde says. "They increased our financial support in the last year to expand production worldwide so we are more consistently releasing movies that we generate and own ourselves, and to enable us to do a deal with Chris Meledandri that put us back in the family business, which is vital for any studio.

"As a result," Linde adds, "it's a different company than when we got the job 19 months ago."

Their predecessor, Stacey Snider, although successful in her own right, left in what could be best described as frustration at trying to operate in GE's corporate environment. The head of NBC Universal at the time, Bob Wright, was never a huge fan of the film division, a sentiment perhaps reflected in the fact that U let a proposed purchase of DreamWorks slip away to Paramount. (Wright's successor, Jeff Zucker, is much more keen on the feature business.)

So when Universal Studios chairman Ron Meyer appointed Shmuger and Linde to their posts, what was most noticeable was that neither had much actual production experience.

Shmuger was the well-respected marketing chief of Universal, and Linde was partnered with James Schamus in Focus Features, with a specialty in international film sales and indie distribution. Many signs pointed to the team having to endure a long and intense learning curve in Hollywood's creative community.

But that was perhaps the least of their challenges.

As Linde points out, the company was falling behind in market share. In 2006, U didn't even have a release between August and Christmas Day.

Last year, boosted by the runaway success of "The Bourne Ultimatum" and the comedy "Knocked Up," the studio posted record profits, Linde and Shmuger say, even though it didn't make enough movies to place any better than fifth in total market share.

Their plans are to increase their output from 14-16 releases to 18-20 releases this year.

"If you are going to create consistent revenue out of the film business, you have to release movies consistently, and you have to own them everywhere in the world," he says. "You take more risk, but you create more opportunity."

The cornerstone of their strategy lies in foreign expansion. Because of the breakup of overseas distribution operation United Intl. Pictures, they've also been given the mandate of building up the studio's international operations, with an eye toward generating new sources of revenue in overseas markets.

Spearheaded by international prexy David Kosse and foreign production chief Christian Grass, the operation has signed filmmakers from Brazil, Mexico, Russia and Asia to make two films each year designed to play in their home countries. Counting the international production, U's slate and those of genre label Rogue and specialty label Focus, by 2010, the studio could be unleashing as many as 35 pictures worldwide.

"We saw the opportunity for growth internationally; that's where we needed to take control of our destiny," Meyer explains. "Owning rights to our movies, distributing them ourselves -- that's where we can make the biggest impact."

Perhaps most indicative of the new bent toward international possibilities is the $175 million the studio is spending on "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor." The last "Mummy" film, released in 2001, grossed $427 million worldwide, but it seemed to run out of creative juice. (The new production lacks director Stephen Sommers and one of its stars, Rachel Weisz.)

The studio is using the project to exploit international markets. Because of heavy Chinese participation, it's considered a Chinese co-production. That gives the studio access to more valuable screens and a greater return than a U.S. production would normally get.

And U hopes for a big payoff in the form of cross-promotion. The movie will be released on Aug. 1, in advance of the Summer Olympics in Beijing -- which are, not coincidentally, being broadcast on NBC.

"Alongside 'Jurassic Park,' ('Mummy') was the most profitable franchise we had in the vaults of Universal, but we needed to reinvigorate it," Shmuger says. "We did that with the Chinese setting, the Terra Cotta warriors, Jet Li and this great Chinese cast."

Shmuger and Linde have had a rougher time in navigating the complex world of Hollywood talent relationships. They have relied to an extent on their production chief, Donna Langley, who admits that she has gotten so busy that it can take her six weeks to read a script that is not top priority.

"Marc is a big-brained marketing guy, David has a nose for the marketable idea, and they are both business-savvy, which puts more of a business spin on our conversations about which films to green light," Langley says. "For guys who didn't grow up in production, they have good creative instincts. ... They are figuring things out, in being more mindful of actors, big directors and producers, and it's a different paradigm for people who were used to Stacey's bedside manner."

Imagine's Brian Grazer says that the team impressed him in its enthusiasm in resurrecting "American Gangster," a project that fell apart before it was produced last year, as well as the execs' aggressive pursuit of the rights to "Frost/Nixon."

"They've been extremely supportive of filmmakers and artists, and they don't prognosticate or try to bring science to an art form," Grazer says. "When every studio wanted 'Frost/Nixon,' they flew to London to see the play, and they went to New York and were the most aggressive in getting it."

More recently, Shmuger and Linde landed Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon for a fourth "Bourne" movie, even though the director and star seemed ready to wrap it up after three pics. And they landed Sam Raimi to return to horror with "Drag Me to Hell," starring Ellen Page.

Their crash course in talent relations came last year in their efforts to get "State of Play" into production. Weeks before it was to begin shooting, Brad Pitt left the project. The studio threatened to sue, putting them at odds with the actor and his reps at CAA, who maintain that he never signed off on the script. But the parties cooled down after U landed Russell Crowe for Pitt's role, and there are now settlement talks that could even put Pitt in a future U movie.

Eric Fellner, who is making the movie via his and partner Tim Bevan's Working Title label, says, "It was very tense, and the film would have collapsed if they weren't 100% determined to get it made, and do whatever it took to make it stay together."

Adds Bevan, "They were brilliant under fire."

U also was caught off-guard after they aggressively courted Guillermo Del Toro, the filmmaker behind "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy." The studio gave him a first-look deal, picked up a sequel to "Hellboy" with a budget of more than $80 million, and even bought the rights to his dream project, the H.P. Lovecraft epic, "At the Mountains of Madness."

But U brass was stunned to suddenly see Del Toro emerge as the likely director of the next two "Hobbit" movies for New Line and MGM. That would lock him down for four straight years in New Zealand.

Langley acknowledges, "We're in discussions with how to rectify that with Guillermo."

A walk around the U lot gives a telling sign of where things stand. Steven Spielberg is embarking on an expensive renovation of his oasis, the offices of Amblin/DreamWorks, just as U looks to land a deal with DreamWorks when the Paramount pact expires. Nearby, however, the once-bustling offices of Ivan Reitman are empty save for those of "Evan Almighty" director Tom Shadyac, who will soon depart as well.

Shmuger, in fact, is candid in admitting that "Almighty," put into production before they took their posts, was a misfire.

"We were coming out with something that at its essence had a different DNA than the first film, and that was a huge miscalculation on our part," Shmuger says. "I think it works as a movie, but it needed to have been made at a more affordable price. Being tagged 'the most expensive comedy ever' was an albatross around our necks."

Yet even as rumors swirl that GE wants to unload Universal to devoid itself of the risk of the studio business, Shmuger and Linde say they've yet to experience any fallout.

"These are fair people who are smart in business, and we're blessed that Ron Meyer shoulders a lot of that burden, and effectively blocks and tackles for the entire team by taking many of those meetings himself," Shmuger says.

"That makes it easier. But what we're enduring is smart, rigorous business processes. It can be wearing, but only because it's so exhaustive. But you can't argue. It's their money, their company, and we should be beholden to proving we're running a business in the smartest way possible."

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Statham revs up 'Transporter 3'
Knepper joins cast of Megaton-directed sequel
By DAVID HAYHURST
Statham

Jason Statham will reprise his role as mercenary driver/delivery man Frank in "Transporter 3," the next installment in EuropaCorp's shoot-'em-up franchise.
He will reteam with co-star Francois Berleand, while Robert Knepper ("Prison Break") has joined the cast.

However, Louis Leterrier, who helmed the first two pics, has been replaced by Olivier Megaton ("Exit," "The Red Siren"), who was second-unit director on EuropaCorp's "Hitman."

Pic, which will be produced by EuropaCorp principal Luc Besson and Steve Chasman, will shoot for 16 weeks in Russia and France.

The first two films in the series, which kicked off in 2002, were written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.

With worldwide box office returns of more than $130 million for the franchise, "Transporter 3" continues EuropaCorp's move into films with broader international potential.

Two sequels to "Arthur and the Invisibles," which took in more than $225 million in international box office and DVD sales, are in the pipeline. The first, "Arthur and the Vengeance of Malthazard" is skedded for a September 2009 release in Gaul.

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Nicolas Winding Refn starts Bronson shoot with Vertigo
Wendy Mitchell in London
29 Feb 2008 06:00

 

Danish-born director Nicolas Winding Refn has started a six-week UK shoot for Bronson, his feature about notorious prisoner Charles Bronson.

Vertigo Films is producing in association with 4DH Films, EM Media, Str8jacket Creations and Aramid Entertainment.

Vertigo's Rupert Preston and 4DH Film's Danny Hansford will produce. Executive producers are Nick Love, Allan Niblo, and James Richardson for Vertigo, Paul Martin for Str8jacket, and Suzanne Alizart for EM Media.

Tom Hardy stars in the title role. Bronson is shooting for six weeks in Nottinghamshire with DoP Larry Smith (Eyes Wide Shut, Fear X).

Refn previously directed films including the Pusher trilogy and Fear X starring John Turturro.

Vertigo will handle UK distribution (in early 2009) and its new partner sales company Protagonist Pictures will handle interenational sales.

The film looks at the life of Michael Peterson, who later became dangerous prisoner Charles Bronson, who has spent 34 years in prison, including 30 in solitary confinement. Brock Norman Brock wrote the script.

Vertigo's Preston said: "The combination of Nicolas Winding Refn directing, Tom Hardy starring and this extraordinary story is a very powerful, potent and commercial force."

Regional screen agency EM Media is backing with $496,470 (£250,000) in production funding through the European Regional Development Fund.

Refn is also gearing up to shoot Viking epic Valhalla Rising, starring Mads Mikkelsen, this summer in Glasgow and the Isle of Skye.

Vertigo is also currently producing Tom Shankland's horror project The Day.

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Jason Isaacs joins Damon, Kinnear in Greengrass' Iraq thriller
Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles
01 Mar 2008 01:18

 

Jason Isaacs has joined the cast of Paul Greengrass' untitled Green Zone thriller for Working Title Films and Universal Pictures.

Based on the non-fiction book Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the film is set in and around the Green Zone, the base of operations for US troops in Iraq. Brian Helgeland has adapted the book for the screen; the cast also includes Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan and Khalid Abdalla.

Isaacs will play military officer Lt Briggs in the film which is currently shooting in Morocco. It will move to the UK later this year.

Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Greengrass and Lloyd Levin, who all produced Greengrass' 2006 hit United 93, are producing.

Isaacs, who previously worked with Greengrass on BBC TV film The Fix in 1997, recently completed Good opposite Viggo Mortensen for director Vicente Amorim. He will start shooting the third season of Showtime series Brotherhood this summer.

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Details emerge on Whedon's Dollhouse
By Tim Surette - TV.com
March 4, 2008 at 02:11:00 PM | more stories by this author

Joss Whedon's Dollhouse adds a pair of producers, releases info on production notice.

When word got out that Joss Whedon was working on a new show called Dollhouse, details on the show were slim. Even without much information, devoted fans of the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and Angel vowed to watch Dollhouse, simply because Whedon's name was attached to it.

Finally, some more information on the project has surfaced, courtesy of a production notice posted by the blog Spoiler TV. The notice tells a bit of what was already known: Eliza Dushku (who worked with Whedon previously on Buffy) will star as a woman involved in a secret project that uses people for various tasks and erases their memories afterward.

But from there, the notice gets a little more specific. The participants, referred to as "Actives" or "Dolls," can have memories and personalities uploaded into their minds in order to complete the various assignments--which span "jobs, crimes, fantasies, and the occasional good deeds." When their work is done, their minds are erased and they go back to living, unaware, at their lab which is known as "The Dollhouse."

In the show, the operation is "highly illegal" and under threat from a few sources. A federal agent is looking to shut the whole thing down, as is a one-time renegade Active. Dushku's character, an Active in the program, becoming self-aware and understanding who she is is the centerpiece of the show.

The show also added two producers last week, Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, who were recently unemployed for all of about 24 hours. The pair were just let go of their jobs as producers on Women's Murder Club, but quickly snatched up by Whedon to work on Dollhouse. Their names may also sound familiar for a few other reasons: they served as producers on Angel and The Shield.

"Dollhouse is going to be an awesome show," Craft told The Kansas City Star, "but it's a hard show to sum up in one sentence."

"It will be intelligent and intricate and have amazing characters," Fain said. "It's a show about what it means to be human."

Dollhouse is expected to begin shooting in Los Angeles in April.

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Polanski se vraća korenima
Proslavljeni reditelj priprema novi film ,,Duh" koji će realizovati po istoimenom romanu Roberta Harisa


Proslavljeni reditelj Roman Polanski režiraće politički triler ,,Duh", zasnovan na nedavno objavljenom istoimenom romanu Roberta Harisa o piscu koga unajmljuju da dovrši memoare bivšeg britanskog premijera.

Za potrebe filma, Haris i Polanski zajedno su adaptirali roman a, prema rečima reditelja, odavno je tražio dobar materijal za politički triler koji bi režirao i tako se vratio svojim korenima i omiljenim temama, prenosi magazin ,,Varajeti". Polanski je izjavio da je roman ,,Duh" savršeni triler za ekranizaciju i da je Haris konstruisao priču sa takvom napetošću da ju je teško odbaciti. Donedavno, Polanski je pripremao filmski ep ,,Pompeja", ali je projekat, zbog finansijskih problema, obustavljen u septembru. Snimanje njegovog novog filma trebalo bi da počne na jesen naredne godine.

Roman Polanski je rođen u Parizu 1933. godine, a četiri godine po njegovom rođenju porodica se vratila u Poljsku. U njegovoj osmoj godini, roditelji su mu odvedeni u koncentracione logore, otac u Mauthauzen, gde je uspeo da preživi, a majka u Aušvic iz kojeg se nije vratila. Pobegavši iz krakovskog geta, Roman je izbegao sudbinu roditelja, a ratne godine je proveo u izbeglištvu po Evropi.

Polanski je studirao na filmskoj školi u Lođu gde je 1959. godine diplomirao filmsku režiju. Tokom studija snimio je više kratkih filmova koji nisu bili zapaženi, a prvi igrani film ,,Nož u vodi" realizovao je 1962. godine. Ova napeta drama o potisnutom seksualnom nasilju i sukobu muža, žene i mladog stranca ocenjena je kao ,,odličan debitantski film". Međutim, film je izazvao niz polemika zbog kojih je sledeći film, hvaljenu dramu ,,Odvratnost", Polanski realizovao u Engleskoj nastavljajući da istražuje pomerenu seksualnost. Usledio je film ,,Ćorsokak" za koji je osvojio ,,Zlatnog medveda" na berlinskom festivalu 1966. godine. Ovaj film, mešavinu pinterovskog crnog humora i film-noara četrdesetih godina, mnogi kritičari smatraju njegovim najboljim delom, a on lično svojim omiljenim filmom.

Posle ,,Bala vampira" iz 1967. godine u kojem prikazuje atmosferu haosa srednje Evrope, Polanski odlazi u SAD gde režira čuveni film ,,Rozmarina beba". Iako je njime osvojio i publiku i kritiku, Polanski se vratio u Englesku gde je snimio hiperrealističku verziju ,,Magbeta" i film ,,Če?" koji je doživeo fijasko. Po povratku u Ameriku 1974. godine snimio je ,,Kinesku četvrt", izuzetno uspešan esej na temu film-noara, a pošto je optužen za silovanje trinaestogodišnje devojčice u Los Anđelesu, Polanski je bio primoran da napusti Ameriku. Po povratku u Englesku snima filmove ,,Tesa", ,,Pirati" i ,,Ludilo", a tokom devedesetih realizuje filmove: ,,Gorki mesec", ,,Devojka i smrt" i ,,Deveta kapija". Za dramu ,,Pijanista" iz 2002. godine o proslavljenom pijanisti Vladislavu Špilmanu koji je preživeo holokaust, Polanski je osvojio kansku ,,Zlatnu palmu" i ,,Oskara" za najbolju režiju 2003. godine.

Rad, umeće i estetika Romana Polanskog izučava se danas na mnogim filmskim školama i akademijama. Kritika uvek ističe njegovo istraživanje i analiziranje seksualnosti, ludila i zla, a većina njegovih filmova obiluje događajima koje je lično proživeo – od bekstva iz logora do ubistva njegove trudne supruge, američke glumice Šaron Tejt.



Biografski film

Biografski film o životu i delu Romana Polanskog, od detinjstva u Poljskoj do optužbe za seksualno zlostavljanje tinejdžerke u SAD, biće realizovan tokom naredne godine. Snimanje filma ,,Polanski" počeće u januaru u Belgiji, piše ,,Holivud reporter", navodeći da film po sopstvenom scenariju režira Demijen Čapa. Još uvek nije saopšteno ko će tumačiti lik proslavljenog reditelja a, prema rečima Čape, film ,,Polanski" biće dirljiva priča, pažljivo zasnovana na sudskim dokumentima i javno dostupnim materijalima.


Ivan Aranđelović

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Polanski se vraća korenima
Ivan Aranđelović

wow!
,,Bal vampira" - prikazuje atmosferu haosa srednje Evrope???!

wow!
film ,,Če?"? – ili je polanski snimio biografiju čegevare, a da mene nije obavestio, ili je text prevođen sa italijanskog, na kome se WHAT kaže CHE?

wow!
većina njegovih filmova obiluje događajima koje je lično proživeo – od bekstva iz logora do ubistva njegove trudne supruge, američke glumice Šaron Tejt.
=baš me zanima u kom to filmu polanskog imamo ubistvo trudnice!

itd.

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Jason Reitman ("Juno") is attached to direct and Jim Carrey will star in Fox Atomic's comedy "Pierre Pierre" reports the trades.

Written by Edwin Cannistraci and Frederick Seton, the politically incorrect story, dealing with racism, sexism and Europeans, centers on a self-indulgent French nihilist (Carrey) who is entrusted to transport a stolen Mona Lisa and in the process falls back in love with his homeland.

"Pierre" will not be the Oscar-nominated Reitman's next project however so no dates are yet set.

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Fine Cut seals The Chaser remake deal with Warner Bros
Jean Noh in London
06 Mar 2008 11:38

 

Korea's Fine Cut has announced the $1m sale of remake rights for Na Hong-jin's thriller The Chaser to Warner Brothers.

The no. 1 film, released Feb 14, has grossed over $20m (KW19bn) with 2.8 million admissions, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s database as of March 6.

In the film, a man declares to the police that he is responsible for a series of brutal murders, but they can't arrest him without any evidence. He taunts them by saying the last girl to go missing may still be alive, and an ex-cop, less concerned with evidence than finding the missing girl, goes on the warpath.

The critically-lauded film is a Bidangil production presented by Big House/Vantage Holdings, which has recently been coming on fast and strong in the investment/production sector. Showbox Mediaplex is distributing the film locally.

"Shortly after receiving feverish interest from numerous US companies after the private screening at Berlin in February, we prepared a one-time screening in LA which most of the Hollywood studio executives attended," said Suh Young-joo, head of Fine Cut.

"Among all the offers from the majors, we finalised a favorable deal with Warner Brothers at $1m for the remake rights with additional compensations. Currently a top-class Hollywood writer is showing very strong interest in the remake after attending the LA screening," she added.

The Korean producers will receive a co-producer credit in the Warner Brothers' remake.

The Chaser did a slew of pre-sales to France, Benelux, Greece and Hong Kong at the European Film Market last month.

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Scribe William Monahan ("Kingdom of Heaven," "The Departed") is in discussions to adapt and produce an American remake of the Korean thriller "The Chaser".

Leonardo DiCaprio is circling the lead role of an ex-cop who goes on the warpath trying to find a missing girl.

The girl, who may or may not be alive, is being used by a serial killer to taunt the police. The story is loosely based on the exploits of a real-life serial killer.

Warner Bros. Pictures just picked up the remake rights to the project and is developing with Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee and Doug Davison.

"Chaser," from director Na Hong-jin, has been a hit in Korea, grossing more than $20 million in just three weeks.

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Sony Pictures has picked up the high-concept spec script "Animals" by former NYC assistant district attorney Mike Sobel reports the trades.

The horror thriller chronicles what happens when all the world's animals turn on humans and take back the planet.

Neal Moritz is producing via his Original Films banner.

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While Jim Carrey is busy promoting his latest movie, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, he's also working hard on his next project, A Christmas Carol, the performance capture/Disney digital 3-D animated film from writer/director Robert Zemeckis (Beowulf, The Polar Express). At the press conference for the new Fox animated film, Carrey talked about that upcoming film and more.

When asked what it was like the play Ebenezer Scrooge, he gave a lengthy answer as to why he likes all the characters he is doing as well as the shooting process for A Christmas Carol.

"Ebenezer is such a great thing for me because, again, I get to play all kinds of different roles in the film. First of all, the process is so fascinating. You are literally in an empty warehouse with cameras around you. You have maybe a frame of a fireplace, or something like that, and then you rehearse. Then they go 'Can we take this away?' and you are sitting on a chair. You have to create the entire world in your head. Not only that, but you are working with other actors and you are in this ridiculous cap suit with balls all over it, and a hat with pinchers that come down with cameras in your face right here. The real work of it is transcending the lack of stimuli, and this stimulus that is right in your face. You have to transcend all of it and create the reality of the piece. Also, it's kind of a classical version of 'A Christmas Carol,' it is very much, so I'm playing Ebenezer Scrooge at four different ages. There are a lot of vocal things, a lot of physical things, I have to do. Not to mention doing the accents properly, the English, Irish accents. I'm also playing past, present, and future ghosts. There is a lot of really wonderful work in it, and challenge. I want it to fly in the UK. I want it to be good and I want them to go, 'Yeah, that's for real.' We were very true to the book. It's beautiful. It's an incredible film. If you are lucky at some point in your life to have that kind of 'Christmas Carol' moment, I certainly have. Things were going south and I had the opportunity to see how horrible things could have gotten without them actually going there. I can't get into specifics but I had my Ghost of Christmas Future at a certain point in my life. I went 'Oh wow. Okay, I have to really start caring about the right things here.' It's just a fantastic story. It's beautiful literature."

The film won't be out until Nov. 6, 2009, but the prolific comedy actor is already set to star in another pic after this project. "After 'A Christmas Carol,' I'm doing a film called 'I Love You Phillip Morris,' about a gentleman who fell in love with his cell mate and escaped from prison four times to try and find ways to get his lover out prison."

As far as the Tim Burton-directed Ripley's Believe It or Not!, he's not sure what's happening with that movie. "I don't know. I think its still in the works. It's maybe a little ways off. They are still talking about it," Carrey said.

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Vincent Gallo takes lead role in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro
Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles
08 Mar 2008 00:46

 

Francis Ford Coppola has cast Vincent Gallo as the title character in Tetro, which is set to begin principal photography in Buenos Aires on Mar 31.

Newly anointed Oscar winner Javier Bardem, Maribel Verdu and newcomer Alden Ehrenreich also star in the story of a young Argentinean man searching for his older brother.

The budget is capped at $15m and Tetro is expected to open in 2009.

"Despite the controversy always surrounding him, Vincent Gallo has a real presence on screen and 'an aliveness'," Coppolas said.

"He's intense, intelligent, and very funny... I know choosing Vincent Gallo to star in my film will raise a few eyebrows, but I'm betting that seeing him in the role will open some eyes."

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10 March 2008
Exclusive: Edgar Wright Talks Ant Man
And he's working with Simon Pegg again

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Despite grabbing gold at the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards, Hot Fuzz helmer Edgar Wright clearly isn't ready to rest on his laurels just yet. He's ready to roll on a number of projects starting off with an adaptation of minuscule superhero Ant Man.

He's been attached to the big-screen version of Marvel's tiny comic book superhero - a character who can communicate with insects - for a while and the time, it seems, has come for the little man to make his move towards the big screen.

"It's written and we're doing a second draft of it," said Wright. "It's going to be less overtly comedic than anything else I've ever done. It's more of a full-on action adventure sci-fi film but with a comedic element – in the same spirit of a lot of escapist fare like that. It's certainly not a superhero spoof or pastiche and it certainly isn't a sort of Honey I Shrunk The Kids endeavour at all."

He's not got anybody in mind to play comicdom's tiniest hero just yet, so the big question at the moment is what incarnation will the hero take - the goody-two-shoes scientist Hank Pym originated by comic legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby or Ant Man mark-II, the more roguish Scott Lang?

"Ah well, it could be Scott Lang, it could be Hank Pym, it could be both – okay it is both, now there's an exclusive for you."

While Wright puts the finishing touches to his script with co-writer Joe Cornish, he's got some other projects on the boil, including another collaboration with Simon Pegg. Could this be the final part of his so-called Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy?
"That's one of the things that we're going to do with Working Title who we've just signed a two-picture deal with," he said. "It will have comedy and a cross-genre in a similar way.

So how will it compare to Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead?

"Well, it'll be a trilogy in tone but I can't say any more than that. If you announce what the subject matter is, it can still be 18 months off and by that point everybody would be sick of it."

Clearly playing his cards close to his chest, we guess we'll have to wait and see how it'll all pan out. What do you reckon to the Brist director's latest revelations? Does he have the Wright stuff? Have your say below...


Glen Ferris

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Sandler reteams with Apatow
Untitled comedy pic will costar Rogen, Mann
By MICHAEL FLEMING
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Rogen


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Judd Apatow has tapped Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann to star in the next comedy he'll direct.
Untitled pic will be a co-production of Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment, with production to start in late summer or early fall.

Apatow, the sole writer on the project, is keeping the plot under wraps. While the studios will split the costs, U will distribute worldwide. Dealmaking is under way with his cast, and producing credits are still being worked out.

Apatow continues to work with familiar faces: He and Sandler collaborated to write, with Robert Smigel, "Don't Mess With the Zohan," the Sandler starrer that Columbia will release June 6. Rogen and Mann starred in Apatow's first two feature directing efforts, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up."

Mann (who is married to Apatow) stars with Owen Wilson in "Drillbit Taylor," which Rogen co-wrote and Apatow produced. Paramount releases the comedy March 21.

Apatow also produced "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," the comedy that stars Jason Segel, who, like Rogen, began in the ensemble of the Apatow-exec produced TV series "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared." Universal releases that comedy April 18.

Sandler is shooting the Adam Shankman-directed comedy "Bedtime Stories" for Disney, while Mann stars opposite Zac Efron in the Burr Steers-directed "17 Again" for New Line. Rogen, who lends his voice to "Horton Hears a Who," which Fox releases Friday, is shooting "Zack and Miri Make a Porno."

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Brendan Gleeson has been signed on for the final lead role in the Paul Greengrass-directed untitled "Green Zone" thriller for Universal Pictures and Working Title says Variety.

Inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," the drama focuses on the dichotomy between the Green Zone, where troops are housed, and the streets of Baghdad after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

The film posits that bureaucrats are making policy decisions about the country's rebuilding even though they're in a sheltered enclave without a clear view of all that is happening.

Gleeson, who will play an American soldier, joins Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan and Jason Isaacs. Brian Helgeland adapted the script and filming is underway in Spain.

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On the eve of the debut of the first trailer for Marvel and Universal's big-budget "The Incredible Hulk", word has leaked out at Deadline Hollywood Daily that a behind-the-scenes feud is underway.

Seems that the film's writer and lead star Edward Norton is in disagreement with Marvel Studios over editing and final cut of the film. Norton, director Louis Leterrier, Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel and Marvel Studios president of production Kevin Feige have apparently been in tense talks this week to try and resolve the problem.

When Norton boarded the project, one of the conditions was that he was "promised tremendous involvement and access" which included him rewriting Zak Penn's script. Now, with a month to go before the final cut of the film is 'locked', there's "a lot of posturing going on between Edward's camp and Marvel over how you edit the final version."

Norton has famously had some similar behind-the-scenes issues before with his films, notably "American History X" and "The Italian Job". There's fear that without his support the film could tank this Summer, and combined with Ang Lee's lacklustre 2003 take on "Hulk", it would pretty signal the end of any chance for the character having a film franchise.

The good news is that whatever the situation, the problems are expected to be resolved one way or another very quickly so this won't be drawn out at least.

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Mila Kunis ("That 70's Show") will star opposite Mark Wahlberg in 20th Century Fox's "Max Payne" reports Variety.

An adaptation of the Rockstar videogame, Wahlberg plays Payne, a cop haunted by the tragic loss of his family who finds himself in the thick of a conspiracy when he investigates a series of murders.

Kunis will play an assassin who teams up with Payne to avenge her sister's death. The John Moore-directed action project with Beau Thorne scripting is scheduled for release later this year.

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Material Entertainment, the U.K.-based production joint venture between New Line Cinema and Entertainment Film Distributors, is in advanced talks with Justin Chadwick to direct "The Property," a contemporary London thriller.
Chadwick made his feature helming debut with "The Other Boleyn Girl" for Sony and Focus, in release in the U.S. and Spain.

"The Property," which Justin Trefgarneis rewriting from Clive Dawson's original script, is the story of a young professional couple who acquire their dream home by underhanded means, only for the previous owner to return, looking for revenge.

Material topper Robert Jones will produce with Claire Moorsom of Seymour Films. Margaret Matheson is exec producer.

"We've been searching for a London-based thriller for some time," Jones said. " 'The Property' has intriguing, morally ambiguous characters and is a gripping story about the lengths supposedly decent people will go to get what they want, and how their decency disintegrates when the consequences are far worse than they could ever imagine."

Material had a U.K. hit last fall with its debut production, "Run, Fat Boy, Run," which will be released by Picturehouse in the U.S. later this month.

This is the second project to be announced by Material in the past week, since the news broke that New Line will be absorbed into Warners. It has yet to be revealed how that decision will affect Material.

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Warner Bros. Pictures and Disney/Pixar are teaming for "1906," the live-action feature directorial debut of Brad Bird ("Ratatouille," "The Incredibles") reports the trades.

The story centers on a college student who begins to investigate the murder of his father, uncovering a web of deceit that has left the city vulnerable to the sort of fire that breaks out when the Great Earthquake of 1906 hits San Francisco.

Bird is rewriting the original John Logan script. Bird has worked in live action before, helming an episode of "Amazing Stories" in 1987.

Disney/Pixar will co-finance the movie.

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Dark Horse signs three-year deal with Universal Pictures
Mike Goodridge in Los Angeles
15 Mar 2008 01:07

 

Dark Horse Entertainment has signed a three-year production and distribution deal with Universal Pictures that, for the first time, establishes a studio base for all Dark Horse creative properties going forward.

Dark Horse, which is the entertainment arm of Dark Horse Comics, has been working with Universal on Hellboy II: The Golden Army directed by Guillermo Del Toro which is based on Mike Mignola's Dark Horse character. It is a Universal summer tentpole, scheduled for a July 11, 2008, release in North America.

Under the terms of the deal, Universal will have creative access to Dark Horse characters and properties as well as any material which Dark Horse may acquire on its own and want to develop as a film. Dark Horse will also have the opportunity to distribute movies through Universal.

"Dark Horse is one of the most creative and innovative brands in the entertainment industry, as well as an incredibly supportive home for some of the most exciting storytellers working today," said Universal Pictures chairman Marc Shmuger and co-chairman David Linde in a joint statement.  "Their unique connection to youth culture is proven, and we are thrilled to be part of their expanding film production work."

"We've worked with many studios and have had several great experiences, but we are particularly happy to be joining forces with Universal Pictures in this deal," added Mike Richardson who is president of Dark Horse.

"We feel a real connection with their vision and the energy and creativity they bring to developing our properties. We are also excited by the option that we'll have to independently produce our own material and distribute it through Universal; their flexibility in this collaboration is what we were looking for, and we're glad we found it."

Dark Horse Entertainment is represented by Endeavor and The Gotham Group. Among the films which have emerged from Dark Horse properties are The Mask, 30 Days Of Night, Mystery Men, Timecop and Barb Wire.

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Willow and Jaden Smith will star in Warner Bros. Pictures' adaptation of Kazu Kibuishi's fantasy graphic novel "Amulet" for Overbrook Entertainment reports Variety.

The graphic novel centers on a brother and sister who move into their late great-grandfather's home after their father dies. They must use his amulet to rescue their widowed mother from a beast who lures her into an underground world.

Five books are planned in the series, the second of which comes out later this year.

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PETER BERG rezira novu adaptaciju DINE FRENKA HERBERTA!
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36028

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Samo da ne ture Will Smith-a i bice ok...

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Cera ponders "Life" as slacker superhero
Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:05am EDT

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  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Michael Cera, who played the title character's would-be boyfriend in "Juno," is in final negotiations to star in the adventure romance "Scott Pilgrim's Little Life."
  
  "Life" tells the story of a young slacker (Cera) who meets the woman of his dreams but finds that he can only win her heart by battling and defeating her seven evil ex-boyfriends.
  
  The project is based on the Oni Press graphic novel "Scott Pilgrim Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life," written by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Michael Bacall wrote the screenplay.
  
  Edgar Wright ("Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz") is directing the feature for Universal Pictures.
  
  Cera and Wright had mutual admiration for each other's work, which manifested itself when Wright stepped in to act alongside Cera and Jonah Hill in a viral promo for "Superbad." Wright acted as a snarky interviewer of an exasperated Cera and Hill.
  
  Cera is filming the Judd Apatow-produced "Year One" with Jack Black. He next shoots the romantic comedy-drama "Youth in Revolt," with Miguel Arteta directing.
  
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  Ja sam, naravno, razocaran castingom. Klinca sam gledao u Superbadu i iako glumi geeka, ne uspeva da bude to. Jedino ga izvlaci sto je mrsav, ali glavu dajem da je ovo neki buduci sharmer tipa Bred Pit, te da ce kroz 10-20 godina glumiti u svim onim ogavnim blokbasterima kojih se danas sa setom gnushamo. Dakle - pozercina pedercina.
  Upravo su mi se ocekivanja od filma smanjila za 50%.
  
  Tuzna vest, dakle.

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Did Edgar Wright find his SCOTT PILGRIM?

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Edgar Wright has long been attached to bring comic book SCOTT PILGRIM'S PRECIOUS LITTLE LIFE to the big screen.








Now it looks like he's found his Scott Pilgrim.

It's funny... when I interviewed the three leads of SUPERBAD they had all three just been to my favorite comic book store, Austin Books and Comics, and had a ton of comics around the hotel room. In those stacks were many volumes of Scott Pilgrim.

I was under the impression they were Jonah Hill's as it was his suite we did the interview in, but I'm wondering now if Michael Cera knew he was up for the role and was reading up... or maybe he had read them and had recommended them to Hill... or maybe it was just a complete coincidence.

Whatever the case, Cera is now in final negotiations to star in the film, about a young man who finds his dream girl, but has to fight and defeat her 7 ex-boyfriends before he can win her heart.

Cera and Wright... two great tastes that'll taste great together, I think. I'm glad to see Cera get a leading role. It's well deserved. What do you folks think?

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Elizabeth Banks is going from the world of adult films to the White House.

The actress, who recently wrapped shooting Kevin Smith's "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," is in final negotiations to portray Laura Bush in "W," Oliver Stone's biopic on the life and presidency of George W. Bush.

Josh Brolin already is on board to play Bush in the biopic, which begins shooting in late April in Shreveport, La.

Stone wrote the screenplay with his "Wall Street" co-writer Stanley Weiser.

Moritz Borman, who worked with Stone on "World Trade Center" and "Alexander," is producing, as is Jon Kilik.


Beverly Hills-based QED International is financing and handling sales.

Banks, repped by UTA and Untitled, next appears opposite Eddie Murphy in the comedy "Meet Dave" and then opposite Aaron Eckhart in "Meet Bill."

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Milla Jovovich ("Resident Evil") and Kiele Sanchez (TV's "Lost") have signed on to star in David Twohy's "A Perfect Getaway" for Relativity Media says Reuters.

Jovovich and Sanchez join Timothy Olyphant and Steve Zahn in the thriller, which revolves around a newlywed couple on their honeymoon in Hawaii. The pair run into two hikers who turn out to be vicious killers.

Jovovich will play Zahn's new wife, while Sanchez will play Olyphant's companion.

Twohy wrote and is directing the feature, which MGM is distributing. Production begins March 31st in Puerto Rico and Hawaii.

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Whilst he's been in a bit of a slump since "Snatch", there's a lot of anticipation for Guy Ritchie's return to the British gangster film scene with the upcoming "RocknRolla".

Thandie Newton, the film's leading actress who is in the US right now promoting "Run Fatboy Run", tells MTV News that if successful then expect there to be two further follow-ups.

"'RocknRolla' is one of three films and Guy's keen to get going on that straight away. [The second and third films in the series] are going to be excellent. I can't wait" she enthuses.

The schedule also sounds pretty fast - "We shot incredibly quickly [on the first], there were three weeks pre-production. He just gets on with it. He absolutely does not see challenges as intimidating."

Newton, who plays crooked accountant Stella, adds that we shouldn't expect all the characters to return for the sequel - "Well I managed to get away, but a quite a lot of them died. [The sequel] will follow whoever's left."

Gerard Butler, Jeremy Piven, and Ludacris also star in the flick which opens in October.

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Vinnie Jones, Michael Matthias, Michael Madsen, DMX and Armand Assante are set to star in the horror actioner "The Bleeding" for Indifferent Entertainment says Variety.

The story centers on an ex-Army Ranger searching for the killer of his parents who discovers a family of vampires in a former chemical weapons factory-turned-nightclub.

William McNamara, Pittsburgh Slim, Rachelle Leah and Kat Von D. also star. Charles Picerni will direct from Lance Lane's script, and shooting begins next month in North Carolina.

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Moxie Pictures and Killer Pictures are developing a feature film based on "The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba and Herbert Matthews of the New York Times" says Variety.

Written by NYT correspondent Anthony DePalma, the book examines how Matthews' mythmaking profiles of Castro set the stage for his rise to power.

Matthews, one of the top foreign correspondents of his era, was smuggled into the jungles of the Sierra Maestra Mountains to get the first detailed interview with Castro.

That and other glowing articles impacted American perception before the fall of the Batista regime and Castro's takeover of the Cuban government. A screenwriter will be set shortly.

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Dougherty

Michael Dougherty has teamed with Walt Disney Pictures and Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers on "Calling All Robots," an animated sci-fi adventure the scribe plans to direct using the same type of performance capture technology recently deployed to produce "Beowulf."
Dougherty will pen the project with Breehn Burns and Simeon Wilkins, who will serve as artists and visual designers on the project. The trio conceived the idea together.

Details of the project are being kept under wraps, but it uses performance capture to "tell a story that's a throwback to old Godzilla movies," Dougherty said. "I grew up watching Godzilla movies. This film is very much rooted in those movies."

ImageMovers' Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey will produce.

The producers are readying "A Christmas Carol," their follow up to "Beowulf" and "The Polar Express," which will use the performance capture process and Disney will distrib in 2009.

Idea for "Calling All Robots" was hatched in part because of the capabilities of the technology, which combines the filming of actors and combines their moves using computers to create digital characters and sets.

"It's a film we just could not make in live action or traditional animation," said Dougherty, who began his career as an animator.

Dougherty recently helmed "Trick 'r Treat," a Halloween-themed horror pic that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures were going to release last October but bumped to this year in order to move pic away from an onslaught of slashers at the multiplex.

He had worked with Burns and Wilkins on "Trick 'r Treat," with the two serving as storyboard and concept artists on the project.

No release date has yet been set for "Trick 'r Treat," Dougherty's first foray in the director's chair.

He previously penned "X2: X-Men United" for 20th Century Fox and "Superman Returns," both of which Bryan Singer helmed.

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ames Cromwell and Ellen Burstyn are set to play former President George and First Lady Barbara Bush, parents of current U.S. President George W. Bush, in Oliver Stone's "W" reports Variety.

The drama deals with the formative years of their son which Josh Brolin is playing. Elizabeth Banks will play first lady Laura Bush.

Stone will direct from a script by his "Wall Street" co-writer Stanley Weiser. Shooting takes place in Shreveport, Louisiana at the end of April.

The film is expected to be ready for distribution possibly by the November presidential elections and certainly before Bush leaves the White House in January.

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Scribe Jeb Stuart ("The Fugitive") will direct and Nate Parker ("The Great Debaters") will star in "Blood Done Sign My Name" says Reuters.

Based on a true story, it follows a black Vietnam veteran allegedly murdered by a white businessma in North Carolina. Parker will play a young teacher who became a key role in the civil unrest that followed.

Stuart adapted the screenplay from Duke University professor Tim Tyson's book. The independently financed production will be filmed in North Carolina in May and June.

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Tobey Maguire and Neal Moritz will produce "Afterburn," an adaptation of the Red 5 Comics series for Relativity Media reports the trades.

The sci-fi adventure is set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth, whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout.

The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who for the right price extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates along the way.

No writer for the adaptation is on board. Maguire next appears in a cameo in Tropic Thunder and is developing a live-action adaptation of the anime classic Robotech, which he is producing.

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Radha Mitchell ("Silent Hill," "Feast of Love") will star opposite Bruce Willis in Touchstone Pictures sci-fi action-thriller "The Surrogates" says ComingSoon.net.

Based on a graphic novel, the story is set in a near future where humans live in isolation and interact vicariously through surrogate robots who are better-looking versions of themselves.

Willis plays a cop who, through his surrogate, investigates the murders of others' surrogates. The cop is forced to venture from his own home for the first time in years and unravels a conspiracy.

Shooting, under the direction of Jonathan Mostow ("U-571," "Terminator 3") will begin in the Boston area on April 28th for a planned release on November 20th 2009.

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Šiptari prave invaziju na američku televiziju:
Tahmoh Penikett, Fran Kranz, Dichen Lachman and Enver Gjokaj have joined Joss Whedon's new TV series "Dollhouse" says The Hollywood Reporter.

The four join Eliza Dushku on the 20th Century Fox TV-produced drama, which received a seven-episode order shortly before the strike.

The seven-episode Fox TV-produced drama revolves around a group of young men and women, aka "Dolls," who are imprinted with different personalities for different assignments.

They have no memories of their previous lives, until Echo (Dushku) begins to try to find out who she was.

Penikett will play Paul Smith, an FBI field agent obsessed with the urban myth of Dollhouse and a twisted romantic foil for Echo.

Kranz will play Topher Brink, a twentysomething genius programr responsible for imprinting the dolls.

Lachman will play Sierra, a doll like Echo and her friend, who has every personality in the world but her own.

Gjokaj will play Victor, also a doll and a friend of Echo's, who is childlike when he's inactive, and everything from Errol Flynn to young DeNiro when he's active

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Lionsgate has acquired the film rights to "The Last Equation," the debut novel by screenwriter Stuart Gibbs reports the trades.

The story follows the mystery surrounding Pandora, Albert Einstein's last equation. It had the potential to solve the world's energy problems, but it so drastically simplified the process of harnessing atomic energy that it essentially made it possible for anyone to create atomic weaponry.

Because of the risks, Einstein either hid or destroyed the equation before his death. "Equation" takes place in the present day as the government is forced to enlist the help of a fugitive criminal and mathematical genius to find the equation before it falls into the wrong hands.

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DreamWorks picks up 'Underage'
By Borys Kit

March 26, 2008
DreamWorks-based Montecito is checking IDs for "Underage," a broad comedy spec script by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber.

The story centers on a 17-year-old girl who seduces a twentysomething guy and proceeds to blackmail him into being her boyfriend in order to exact revenge on her ex.

In another example of the spec market heating up, the script went out Tuesday morning and attracted strong interest from several buyers. Montecito pre-emptively took it off the table by nightfall, dipping into its discretionary fund to pay $500,000 against $900,000.

Montecito's Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck are producing. Montecito execs Jeff Clifford and Ali Bell are overseeing.

The deal shows that activity on the DreamWorks lot is picking up. The studio picked up the action thriller "C.O.D." over the weekend.

Neustadter and Weber wrote "Pink Panther 2," which is slated for a winter 2009 release, and are in preproduction on "500 Days of Summer," their anti-romantic comedy being directed by Marc Webb at Fox Searchlight. The duo is repped by CAA, Kaplan/Perrone and attorney Sean Marks.

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Ali G and Borat have had their own movies, now comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has been hard at work shooting the film version of his third most famous character creation - Bruno.

The project is now entitled "Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt".

As expected it follows the flamboyant Austrian TV reporter and his interviewing of a range of people from conservative power brokers to celebrities of fashion and entertainment to trick them into making politically incorrect statements, or try to provoke reactions of prejudice if they display signs of homophobia.

Filming has caused all sorts of confusion and trouble. The Bad and The Ugly reports that security was put on red alert when Bruno started "stripping down to tight shorts and dancing in the lobby of Wichita Airport." A nearby church also reported that a strange European camera crew showed up to their Easter play with the on air personality in chains.

Most exciting though comes word from The Howard Stern Show via Slashfilm that Ben Affleck was telling comedian Sarah Silverman about the weirdest sit-down interview he has ever had that was done by a "very famous openly gay fashion journalist" and during which he was asked such questions as "How Do You Like Niggers?"

Apparently after a stunned silence, Silverman asked Affleck "Was this guy's name Bruno?" Then and only then did Affleck actually realize that the whole thing was a gag. The hope is that the interview will be featured in the final cut which will hit cinemas in October.

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variety:

Paramount Pictures has preemptively bought "Lost City of Z," a David Grann manuscript about the search for a lost city in the Amazon, with Brad Pitt to produce the feature adaptation through his Plan B shingle as a potential starring vehicle.

Grann's forthcoming nonfiction book concerns British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, who was attempting to find the so-called City of Z when he and his party disappeared in 1925. Over the next 70 years, scores of explorers tried and failed to retrace Fawcett's path, including a 1996 expedition of Brazilian adventurers. Pitt would play Fawcett.

Doubleday is scheduled to publish "Lost City of Z," an expansion of Grann's September 2005 article in the New Yorker, in February.

When Pitt expressed interest in toplining as well as producing "Lost City of Z," Paramount moved quickly to buy it. Par previously optioned Grann's New Yorker article "City of Water."

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Paramount Pictures has preemptively bought "Lost City of Z," a David Grann manuscript about the search for a lost city in the Amazon,

mada je jasno da ovo ulazi u produkciju da bi se šlepalo na idijanu džonsa, ipak par komentara treba dati:

-a pre svega taj da su indijana i slični mu likovi (uključujući martija misteriju) zapravo bazirani na persiju fosetu;

-za foseta sam prvi put i čuo u genijalnoj (do pred kraj) epizodi martija misterije br. 27 ('kristalna kugla'), u kojoj se aludira na foseta; smesta sam se zainteresovao za lika;

-nekoliko godina kasnije otkrio sam fosetovu knjigu TRAGOM ATLANTIDE, koja je za mene tada bila i do danas ostala JEDNA OD NAJGENIJALNIJIH KNJIGA IKADA OBJAVLJENIH NA SRPSKOM. (piso sam o njoj na topiku my lifechanging books, pa da se ne ponavljam: knjiga vredi svoje težine u zlatu i dijamantima)

zbog svega ovoga, želim da verujem i nadam se ovom filmu, iako mi holivud ama baš nimalo ne uliva poverenja da ovo neće biti tragično dumbed-down banalizovana verzija fosetovog života i rada...

[crippled_avenger]

http://dobanevinosti.blogspot.com/2008/04/working-edgar.html