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DreamWorks has picked up the remake rights to the Japanese blockbuster "Yomigaeri" ("Resurrection") says The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on the novel by award-winning author Shinji Kajio, "Yomigaeri" centers on a government official sent to a small rural town to investigate the reappearance of a young child who, after missing for 60 years, returns to his mother not having aged at all.

William Nicholson will pen the English-language version. The studio hopes to be in production on the remake later this year.

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John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor are in negotiations to star in Roland Emmerich's $200 million apocalyptic epic "2012" for Sony Pictures reports the trades.

The disaster film centers on a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells the heroic struggle of the survivors.

Cusack is in talks to play divorced dad, writer and sometime limo driver Jackson Curtis, who goes on a heroic journey to save his family.

Ejiofor plays Adrian Helmsley, an idealistic science adviser to the president who also becomes a hero.

Emmerich is directing a script he penned with his "10,000 BC" co-writer Harald Kloser. Shooting begins in Los Angeles this July for release next July.

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Celluloid Dreams has optioned big screen adaptation rights to Philip K. Dick's 1969 sci-fi novel "UBIK" says the trades.

A metaphysical, comedic murder mystery set in an alternative futuristic universe where an explosion on the moon causes the characters to question reality.

The film is slated for an early 2009 production. Dick's works have become films like "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," "Minority Report" and "A Scanner Darkly."

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Danny Dyer ("Severance") and Mischa Barton ("The OC") are set to star in a deranged spin on the Lewis Carrol classic entitled "Malice in Wonderland". Shooting is to begin the UK next month with Simon Fellows directing from a script by Jayson Rothwell

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REVIEWSTokyo!

Posted: Thurs., May 15, 2008, 1:18am PT
Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho contribute to omnibus 'Tokyo!'

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A Comme des Cinemas production, in co-production with Kansai Television Corp., Bitters End, Sponge Entertainment, Arte France Cinema, Coin Film, WDR/Arte, in association with Backup Films, Wild Bunch, Champion Top Investment, Vap, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Wowow, Asahi Broadcasting Corp., Picnic. (International sales: Wild Bunch, Paris.) Produced by Masa Sawada, Michiko Yoshitake.
Interior Design
Executive producers, Yuji Sadai, Hiroyuki Negishi. Directed by Michel Gondry. Screenplay, Gabrielle Bell, Gondry, adapted from the comic "Cecil and Jordan in New York" by Bell, from an idea by Sadie Hales. Camera (color), Masami Inomoto; editor, Jeff Buchanan; music, Etienne Charry; production designer, Yuji Hayashida; sound, Takeshi Ogawa.
With: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito.
Merde
Executive producer, Kenzo Horikoshi. Directed, written by Leos Carax. Camera (color), Caroline Champetier; editor, Nelly Quettier; production designer, Toshihiro Isomi; costume designer, Celine Guignard; sound, Fusao Yuwaki.
With: Denis Lavant, Jean-Francois Balmer, Renji Ishibashi.
Shaking Tokyo
Executive producer, Yuji Sadai. Directed, written by Bong Joon-ho. Camera (color), Jun Fukumoto; music, Lee Byung Woo; production designer, Mitsuo Harada; sound, Hironiro Ito.
With: Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi, Naoto Takenaka.

(Japanese, French dialogue)

By JUSTIN CHANG
Two Frenchmen and a South Korean make a great deal of mischief in "Tokyo!," an uneven but enjoyable trio of films that take affectionate (and sometimes literal) aim at the Japanese capital. Fittingly enough, horror and sci-fi rep the primary building blocks of these Tokyo stories, though the ingredients aren't always doled out in the proportions one would expect from filmmakers Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho. Their names should secure the witty omnibus a place on the shelves of cinephiles and genre buffs after a solid fest life.
Like a nastier Eastern sibling to "Paris, je t'aime," "Tokyo!" reps a playfully ragged attempt to capture (and skewer) the multiple shifting identities of its eponymous city.

First and arguably best of the bunch is Gondry's deviously titled "Interior Design," which opens on a dark and stormy night as young, self-deluded aspiring filmmaker Akira (Ryo Kase) and his supportive but directionless g.f. Hiroko (Ayako Fujitani) arrive in Tokyo. Hiroko's attempts to find them an apartment (experiencing firsthand the surreal horrors of low-end Tokyo real estate) leads only to frustration, as does her search for a job.

Akira says early on that people define themselves by what they do, a maxim that takes on startling new meaning when Hiroko undergoes a bizarre but not entirely unwelcome transformation. Gondry handles the light intrusion of Cronenbergian body-horror with minimal f/x and old-fashioned visual sleight-of-hand, keeping his camera focused on Fujitani's engaging performance. The Gallic helmer may have a reputation for dazzling directorial whimsy, but his restraint pays off here in a work at once poignant and slyly Kafka-esque.

Less subtle in moniker and execution, monster-movie parody "Merde" may prove the most intriguing offering to viewers, as it's Carax's first film since 1999's "Pola X." Taking a page from "Godzilla" and its countless cine-spawn (and perhaps paying tribute to fellow helmer Bong's "The Host"), Carax unleashes a hideous, Gollum-like humanoid (a freakishly made-up Denis Lavant) from the sewers onto the cosmopolitan streets of Tokyo.

After wreaking some mild havoc (followed by some explosive references to Nanking that crystallize the pic's return-of-the-repressed subtext), the creature is captured and interrogated by the authorities, his guttural ravings decipherable only by an eccentric French attorney (Jean-Francois Balmer, having a ball). Merde, as this terrorist calls himself, baldly indicts the people of Japan as "disgusting" (a bit rich, given the source), though the ending suggests future cities are ripe for harassment.

Engaging any number of satirical targets, from the amusing politesse of Japanese news anchors to the culture's willingness to turn anything and everything into a mass-marketed phenomenon, "Merde" is the collection's roughest-looking and most thematically barbed effort -- which makes the beguiling simplicity of Bong's "Shaking Tokyo" all the more welcome.

Teruyuki Kagawa (also appearing in Un Certain Regard selection "Tokyo Sonata") plays a self-described hikikomori, or shut-in, who hasn't left his apartment in more than a decade. It takes a visit by a beautiful pizza delivery girl (Yu Aoi) and a random earthquake to lure the hermit out of his cave, whereupon he finds he's not the only agoraphobe in town.

Deploying smooth, supple camera movements that capture the flat's warmly lit and impeccably maintained interiors, as well as wider establishing shots of the city, Bong and d.p. Jun Fukumoto effortlessly pinpoint the sense of isolation that so often permeates even the world's most densely populated metropolitan centers. Mild sci-fi inflections aside, "Shaking Tokyo" finds one of South Korea's most creative talents working in a delicate minor key. Some viewers may want more Bong for their buck, but it's a lovely sorbet with which to end a piquant three-course meal.

Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), May 15, 2008. Running time: 112 MIN.

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Tokyo!
16 May 2008 15:17

 

Dirs: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho. France-Japan-Korea-Germany. 2008. 110mins.

One out of three ain't bad for this Tokyo-themed directorial three-hander. Whimsical Michel Gondry delivers a thirty-minute segment that resonates, while compatriot Leos Carax spoils an otherwise tasty genre exercise by pressing it into service as a message film. Korea's Bong Joon-ho, meanwhile, delivers an artsy rom-com that is too slight even for its half-hour running time.

Unlike Asian horror omnibus Three Extremes, the directors of Tokyo ! have little in common and the Tokyo cityscape isn't enough to make them bond. Another recent urban-themed portmanteau, Paris Je T'aime, managed the act better – perhaps because its 18 segments were more bite-sized. Tokyo ! is unlikely to repeat that film's relatively wide arthouse outreach, with only the four co-production territories looking like dead certs for theatrical distribution. But all three directors have cult fanbases – so long-tail ancillary prospects should be more upbeat.

An animated title sequence and the final credits are the film's only communal spaces. Gondry is the first up with Interior Design, a tale of a couple of amiable urban drifters, Akira (Kase) and Hiroko (Fujitani). Gondry perfectly captures the fantasy-realist spirit of his source material, the graphic short story 'Cecil and Jordan in New York ' by Gabrielle Bell, even though it has been moved to Tokyo. Though apparently inconsequential until it becomes a partly-animated surreal parable in the last five minutes, the segment has a warm indie fire to it that is stoked by the chemistry between the three leads (the other is Ayumi Ito, who plays the pair's former schoolfriend and reluctant Tokyo host).

No shrinking wallflower, Carax puts his cards on the table with the title of Merde, an odd, angry little curio about a Tokyo sewer-dweller that is at its best during rare moments of tenderness. Denis Lavant is suitably extreme as Merde, a green-suited, red-bearded, flower-eating freak who is vilified by Japanese nationalists and idolised by the country's non-conformists after a bombing spree. There's humour in a series of spoof TV news reports and both humour and pathos in Merde's courtroom and prison exchanges, but Carax's attempts to turn what is basically an enjoyable weirdfest into a parable of intolerance falls flat.

Which leaves Shaking Tokyo – a decidely minor outing for Korean genre auteur Bong Joon-ho. Teruyuki Kagawa plays an unnamed hikikomori, an urban recluse who shuts himself up in his obsessively tidy apartment, refusing even to make eye contact with the bike couriers whose deliveries he survives on. Then a pizza girl (Aoi) faints on his floor during an earthquake. Jun Fukumoto's poetic photography – which recalls Chris Doyle's long-lens work in another film about an urban recluse, Last Life In The Universe – is the best thing about this occasionally charming but dramatically flaccid love story.

Production companies
comme des cinemas
Bitters End
Kansai Telecasting
Sponge Net
Arte
Coin Film
WDR

Worldwide distribution
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Producers
Masa Sawada
Michiko Yoshitake

Screen play
Gabrielle Bell
Michel Gondry
Leos Carax
Bong Joon-ho

Cinematography
Masami Inomoto
Caroline Champetier
Jun Fukumoto

Production design
Yuji Hayashida
Toshihiro Isomi
Misuo Harada

Main cast
Ayako Fujitani
Ryo Kase
Denis Lavant
Jean-Francois Balmer
Teruyuki Kagawa
Yu Aoi

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Gothic cult figure "Emily the Strange" is about to get her own feature film says The Hollywood Reporter.

Dark Horse Entertainment president Mike Richardson will produce the project which will serve as the origin story of the gothic figure and her four mysterious cats.

Created in the early 1990s by Rob Reger, the character originally appeared on stickers and clothing before moving to comic books in 2005 to expand the brand.

Richardson and Reger are looking for a filmmaker who "gets the character", and its not yet been determined whether the movie will be live-action, animation, or a combination of the two.

There'll also be thirteen new characters with names like Earwig, Umlaut, McFreeley and Officer Summers.

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Logan Lerman (TV's "Jack and Bobby," "3:10 to Yuma") will play a young George Hamilton in the Richard Loncraine-directed "My One and Only" says The Hollywood Reporter.

The film is based on the story of the actor's early years, during which he accompanied his glamorous mother Anne Hamilton Spalding (played by Renee Zellweger) on an extended road trip across the country to track down a father for her boys.

Chris Noth, Steven Weber and Nick Stahl play the various suitors suitors, Mark Rendall is George's brother. Shooting begins June 9th in the Baltimore area.

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James Spader, Jon Cryer, William H. Macy and Leslie Mann have joined Robert Rodriguez's family comedy adventure "Shorts" for Warner Bros. Pictures says the trades.

The story is set in a suburb where all the houses look the same and everyone works for Black Box Unlimited Worldwide Industries Incorporated, manufacturer of a communication do-it-all gadget. Chaos follows when an 11-year-old boy is hit in the head with a rainbow-colored rock that grants wishes to anyone who holds it.

Jimmy Bennett ("Star Trek"), Kat Dennings ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin"),Trevor Gagnon ("The New Adventures of Old Christine"), Leo Howard ("G.I. Joe"), Devon Gearhart ("Changeling"), Rebel Rodriguez ("Planet Terror"), and Jake Short and Jolie Vanier also star.

Cryer and Mann play the boy's parents while Dennings is the boy's older sister. Spader is Mr. Black while Macy is the father of a germophobic genius.

Rodriguez helms from his own screenplay and will serve as editor, VFX supervisor and director of photography. Production is about to begin in Austin, Texas.

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Bryce Dallas Howard is in negotiations to replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins" says Reuters.

Gainsbourg was originally set to play Kate Connor, the wife of human resistance hero John Connor (Christian Bale). The actress had to bow out because of scheduling conflicts with another film, a French comedy.

Production on "Terminator," directed by McG, is already underway in New Mexico.

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Filming is underway on Ninja Assassin, being directed by James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) from a screenplay by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski. Joel Silver, Grant Hill, Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski are producing, with Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and William Fay serving as executive producers.

Ninja Assassin stars Korean pop star Rain (Speed Racer) as the central character, Raizo; Naomie Harris (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End) as Europol researcher Mika Coretti; Ben Miles (V For Vendetta) as Europol Agent Ryan Maslow; legendary martial arts performer Sho Kosugi (Revenge of the Ninja) as the ruthless leader of the Ozunu Clan; and Rick Yune (Die Another Day) as Raizo's rival, Takeshi.

Principal photography is taking place at Babelsberg Studios and on location in various parts of Berlin.

Ninja Assassin follows Raizo (Rain), one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them... and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.

In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi (Rick Yune), to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive...and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.

The behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Karl Walter Lindenlaub, production designer Graham "Grace" Walker, costume designer Carlo Poggioli and editor Giancarlo Ganziano. The Wachowski brothers' longtime stunt coordinators Chad Stahelski and David Leitch are also on board as second unit co-directors.

Ninja Assassin is a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation in association with Legendary Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment.

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An interesting new "Dark Shadows" rumor cropped up at the "Get Smart" press junket over the weekend.

Almost a year ago came reports that Warner Bros. Pictures, Johnny Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and GK Films were teaming to develop a feature based on the '60s gothic supernatural soap.

The reports excited fans, especially the talk of Depp's potential involvement as Barnabus Collins, but since then there's been practically no talk about it.

Now, in an interview with IESB.Net, "Get Smart" director Peter Segal let slip a quote about two further names who might be involved in the project - director Tim Burton and scribe John August.

August is penning the film adaptation of the comic book series "Shazam!" but King says that August is "jumping back and forth between Tim Burton's 'Dark Shadows' and his 'Shazam' script trying to work on both films at the same time".

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Mel Brooks isn't going anywhere.

The renowned funnyman said Friday that he's not shuttering his 30-year-old production shingle Brooksfilms, contrary to one New York gossip page report, and that he's developing a horror film with longtime writing collaborators Rudy De Luca and Steve Haberman.

"I'm not quitting," Brooks told The Hollywood Reporter. "Brooksfilms is still here and will be going on for a while. I'm not at all slowing down, and nobody has told me to stop."

The latest project, "Pizzaman," is a serious horror film that marks Brooksfilms' return to the genre. The company produced the successful "The Fly" and its not-so-successful "The Fly II."

Brooks said the project is in the script and rewrite stage and that he's hasn't shopped it to the studios yet.

De Luca's collaboration with Brooks goes back to 1976's "Silent Movie" and continued with "High Anxiety," "Life Stinks" and "Dracula: Dead and Loving It." Haberman worked with Brooks on the "Dracula" spoof as well as "Life Stinks."

Brooks formed Culver Studios-based Brooksfilms in 1980 when he became interested in producing the drama "The Elephant Man" and believed audiences would think the film was a comedy if it was labeled "A Mel Brooks Film."

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Bruce Willis game for 'Kane & Lynch'
Simon Crane to direct videogame adaptation
By MICHAEL FLEMING


Smithfield, Proud Mary in six-film dealBruce Willis is negotiating to star in "Kane and Lynch," Lionsgate's bigscreen transfer of the Eidos Entertainment vidgame "Kane and Lynch: Dead Men."
Simon Crane will make his feature directing debut after serving as second unit director and stunt coordinator on such films as "Hancock," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," "Troy" and "X-Men: The Last Stand."

Willis will play Adam "Kane" Marcus, a mercenary who makes an unlikely alliance with schizophrenic killer James Lynch. The pair are forced on a mission to retrieve a stolen microchip. The vidgame has sold 2 million copies worldwide since its launch in November.

Kyle Ward wrote the script. Filmmakers are now looking to set an actor to play Lynch, and shooting will begin before year's end.

Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter will produce with Jason Blumenthal and Todd Black and the Willis Brothers Co.

Askarieh and Alter were producers on the Eidos transfer "Hitman," which grossed $100 million for 20th Century Fox. The producers are also developing "Jonny Quest" at Warner Bros., "Hack/Slash" at Rogue and "Spy-Hunter" for Universal.

Crane is working with Willis as the stunt coordinator on the Jonathan Mostow-directed "The Surrogates" for Touchstone Pictures.

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Guy Ritchie has come aboard to direct Warner Bros.' "Sherlock Holmes" for Lionel Wigram and Dan Lin.
Ritchie's also working on a rewrite/polish of Tony Peckham's script, based on Wigram's upcoming comicbook "Sherlock Holmes." Studio's eying a 2010 release.

The logline remains under wraps, but execs at Warners are aiming to reinvent Holmes and sidekick Dr. John H. Watson. Wigram's noted that the new Holmes would be more adventuresome and take advantage of his skills as a boxer and swordsman (Daily Variety, March 16, 2007).More than one option(Co) Daily Variety
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Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about Holmes, written in the late 19th century, emphasized the detective's intellectual brilliance and power of deductive reasoning. The pipe-smoking character has been portrayed in more than 200 film and TV shows.

Lin and Wigram are both former Warner creative execs who have first-look deals at the studio. Wigram worked on the "Harry Potter" pics while at Warner while Lin worked on "The Aviator" and "The Departed."

Ritchie is directing "RocknRolla," for which he also wrote the screenplay, for Joel Silver's Dark Castle Entertainment. Pic will be distribbed by Warner Bros.

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We have wormsign.

Josh Zetumer is in negotiations to pen the latest incarnation of "Dune," Frank Herbert's sprawling sci-fi epic, for Paramount Pictures.

The award-winning 1965 novel -- the first in a series of six books about a futuristic struggle for control of a precious spice called Melange on the desert planet Arrakis -- was first adapted by David Lynch into a financially and critically disastrous 1984 film (though Herbert apparently liked it). It also was turned into a more successful Sci Fi Channel miniseries in 2000.

Kevin Misher is producing the new version through his Paramount-based Misher Films. Herbert's son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson, who have co-written several additional "Dune" novels, will co-produce. Peter Berg is attached to direct.

New Amsterdam Entertainment's Richard Rubenstein and is also producing with Sarah Aubrey of Berg's Film 44 shingle. John Harrison and Mike Messina will executive produce.

The "Dune" property, one of the best-selling science fiction series of all time, has spawned an enormous and devoted fan base and could provide a lucrative new franchise for Paramount. The studio is running hot off its blockbuster launch of "Iron Man" and its resurrection of the "Indiana Jones" juggernaut.

No one involved would comment on Zetumer's take on the "Dune" saga. The writer, repped by UTA and Management 360, also has "Villain" at 2929 Prods. and "The Infiltrator" set up at Warner Bros. He most recently did production work on the next Bond film, "Quantum of Solace."

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DiCaprio to play with Par's 'Atari'
Hecker, Sherman pitch biopic about Bushnell
By TATIANA SIEGEL
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Chinese box office boomsParamount Pictures has snapped up a pitch titled "Atari," with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star.
Written by Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman, project is a biopic about entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Atari and one of the founding fathers of the vidgame industry.

DiCaprio will produce via his Appian Way shingle.

Although Bushnell's life rights had long been pursued by various suitors, Hecker and Craig Sherman convinced the gaming pioneer that they could do his unique story justice. Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari Inc. in 1972 and were instrumental in bringing arcade games, home vidgame consoles and home computers to the masses. Among the company's contributions was PONG and the Atari 2600.

Hecker most recently wrote and directed "Bart Got a Room," which was a hit at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.

Hecker and Sherman are repped by Original Artists.

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Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho ("The Alchemist") is letting Net users submit their interpretations of his own work, "The Witch of Portobello", through MySpace says Variety.

The book is divided into 15 narrators who interact with and interpret the lead character Athena, and Coelho has invited filmmakers from across the world to submit their interpretations of each of these narratives to his MySpace account.

Musicians are also invited to submit a general theme for the movie or themes for specific narrators. An editor will then weave submissions into a 52-minute TV movie dubbed "The Experimental Witch".

Submissions must be delivered by July 25 and an independent jury will determine winners with results revealed on August 24th.

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Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrinck and William Sadler will star in the Dark Castle horror flick "The Hills Run Red" says The Hollywood Reporter.

The story centers on a film fanatic whose obsession with finding a complete print of an infamous slasher movie leads him and two friends into the backwoods where the film was shot.

They realize too late that filming never ended -- and now they must survive a nightmarish onslaught or become part of the movie forever.

The film is directed by Dave Parker and is written by David J. Schow ("The Crow") and John Dumbrow. Shooting is underway in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Hugh Grant and Ziyi Zhang are teaming for the Universal Pictures and Working Title comedy "Lost for Words" reports Variety.

Grant is in talks to play a British film star approached to topline a movie by a female Chinese filmmaker.

Initially he's seduced by the charms of the helmer's flirtatious translator, but soon sees the object of his true affection is the director (Zhang).

Unfortunately, his translator is the only person who can communicate his feelings, and she has her own motives.

Jamie Curtis and Dan Mazer ("Borat") penned the script, Richard Curtis will produce and Susanne Bier will direct. Shooting begins in September.

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Andrew Stanton ("WALL·E," "Finding Nemo," "A Bug's Life") has revealed to The Pixar Blog that his next project looks to be the "John Carter of Mars" adaptation.

Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs novel series, the film follows an American civil war hero who gets transported to Mars and ends up fighting another civil war - this time between alien species of different colours.

Stanton confirms that he's currently writing the script for the project, but it hasn't been greenlit yet and wasn't on the studio's previously announced schedule which ran to the end of 2012.

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Anthony Peckham ("Human Factor," "Book of Eli") will adapt Olen Steinhauer's novel "The Tourist" into a potential star vehicle for George Clooney says Variety.

"The Tourist" is a contemporary international thriller about a spy who risks everything to reveal a conspiracy after he's accused of a murder he didn't commit.

Smokehouse's Grant Heslov, Nina Wolarsky and Clooney will produce and Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute.

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Jack Black has left Warner Bros. supernatural comedy "Man-Witch", no official reason has been given says the trades.

"Man-Witch" centered on a man who discovers he's a witch and then heads off to teach at a female witch school. Todd Phillips ("Old School," "Road Trip") is set to produce and possibly direct.

The actor's departure has not affected the status of the movie which remains in active development and shooting is slated to begin in January.

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Universal Pictures and Red Hour Films have picked up Reed Agnew and Eli Jorne's comedy spec script "Raindrops All Around Me" says the trades.

The story centers on a socially inept high school teacher who learns to "dumb it down" in order to fit in with the people around him.

Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld and Jeremy Kramer will produce Stiller is not formally attached to star at present, though that might change in the future.

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Billy Ray ("Shattered Glass," "Breach") has been brought in to re-write Hans Bauer and Craig Mitchell's action thriller "Motorcade" at DreamWorks Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.

The story deals with terrorists assaulting the president's procession as it snakes through Los Angeles. Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are producing.

Ray has previously re-written such films as "Volcano," "Flightplan" and "State of Play".

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A sequel to the 2004 French parkour action film "District B13" is set to begin production in July reports Slashfilm.

No plot details for "District B14" are out but an open casting call has been issued for parkour experts. The story has been penned by Luc Besson and the film will be directed by Patrick Alessandrin.

The first film is best known for it's intense chase sequences which use parkour (very similar to, but not the same as 'free running'). The French-founded discipline was memorably used in the opening chase sequence of 2006's James Bond franchise re-starter "Casino Royale" and has been seen in such films as "Breaking and Entering," "Live Free or Die Hard," "The Incredible Hulk" and the "Rush Hour" series.

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Louis Leterrier ("The Incredible Hulk," "The Transporter") is negotiations to direct the ecological-themed action thriller "Strays" for Summit Entertainment says The Hollywood Reporter.

Penned by Michael Ross ("Turistas"), the story is about a group of young consultants on a business trip together to Russia.

The group mysteriously awaken in an abandoned and potentially radioactive city where they must fight to survive the deadly obstacles in between them and safety.

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Robert Downey Jr. is in negotiations to star in DreamWorks and Universal's pulpy sci-fi/western "Cowboys & Aliens" says The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on a graphic novel written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, the story centers on an Old West battle between the Apache and Western settlers, including a former Union Army gunslinger named Zeke Jackson (Downey), that is interrupted by a spaceship crashing into the prairie near Silver City, Arizona.

The story draws a parallel between the American imperialist drive to conquer the "savage" Indians with its advanced technology and the aliens' assault on Earthlings, who must join together to survive the invaders' attack. Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus penned the script.

Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Steven Spielberg, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are producing. A Summer 2010 release is planned.

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Len Wiseman ("Underworld," "Live Free or Die Hard") is set to direct the hit Xbox 360 video game adaptation "Gears of War" for New Line says the trades.

Chris Morgan ("Wanted," "Fast and Furious") has been hired to write the screenplay based on a story treatment he will develop with Wiseman. It's not sure how much of Stuart Beattie's original draft will survive.

Set on the planet Sera, the game thrusts players into a battle for survival between humans and a race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet known as the Locust Horde. Players assume identities of soldiers on Delta Squad as they fight to save Sera's inhabitants.

The award-winning game sold more than three million units worldwide in its first ten weeks and is Microsoft's second-biggest seller after the "Halo" franchise. A sequel game hits stores this Thanksgiving.

This movement on the project also indicates that the new form of New Line, as a sub-division of parent company Time Warner, will be handling big-budget action fare rather than low-budget speciality titles as previously thought.

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For the upcoming DVD release of the classic ensemble WW2 movie "Inglorious Bastards", Quentin Tarantino did an interview with the film's director Enzo Castellari which has been included in the set.

Now, AICN has seen that interview and garnered some new facts from it about Tarantino's long in-development remake of the property which he claimed he finished the script for last month.

First up the film will be split into two ala "Kill Bill" and is said to be keeping much of the original's setup. That film had a group of hardened criminals escape custody when Nazis attack the military convoy transporting them. The cons decide to make their way to Switzerland, fighting off both the Allies and Nazis to get there.

Most important though is that all the rumored names mentioned so far for the film can be chucked out as he's "decided to write the characters with no specific actor in mind". QT is also considering "an epic slow motion scene".

[crippled_avenger]

Pierce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage have joined Roman Polanski's new political thriller "The Ghost" reports MTV News.

Based on the Robert Harris novel, the story centers on a ghostwriter who is hired to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang.

He soon uncovers privileged details about a scandal which threatens to engulf Lang and puts himself in personal jeopardy. Brosnan would play Lang, and Cage the ghostwriter.

Shooting is set to begin in Europe in the Fall.

[crippled_avenger]

Real-life husband and wife team Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan are getting involved in the "Red Sonja" remake reports USA Today.

Millennium Films previously announced plans to revive the classic Robert E. Howard-created sword and sorcery epic with David N. White attached to pen the script.

Rodriguez now confirms he'll produce the new film which is scheduled for a 2010 release. Douglas Aarniokoski will helm the feature which is scheduled to commence shooting in October.

Rodriguez and McGowan were remain attached to a remake of "Barbarella" but that project remains in limbo due to the strikes.

[crippled_avenger]

Looks like those keen on extra "24" next season will be sadly disappointed.

Premiere interviewed actor Robert Carlyle who stars in the two hour prequel to air this Fall and he revealed that it won't be a separate movie after all - rather it will count as the first two episodes of the new season.

"This two hours is two hours in real time and there'll then be 22 episodes. I don't know how they connect it to the first of those 22 episodes but it's literally the third hour" he says.

Carlyle says he plays Carl Benton, Jack Bauer's former best friend whom he hasn't seen for a decade. "Jack's on his travels and he comes to see Carl and hang out with him and potentially change his life. Maybe."

Shooting of his scenes took place in South Africa's Stellenbosch region which doubled for jungle in the fictional country of Sangala.

[crippled_avenger]

Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari ("300") will produce "War of the Gods" for Relativity Media says The Hollywood Reporter.

The script deals with the battles waged by Greek mythological hero Theseus, the legendary king of Athens. It's unsure if it will involve his most famous claim to fame was defeating the Minotaur and escaping Daedalus' labyrinth with the help of some string.

Charley and Vlas Parlapanides ("Live Bet") penned the script and acclaimed music-video and commercial director Tarsem Singh ("The Cell," "The Fall") will helm. Production could start as soon as early 2009.

[crippled_avenger]

At this past Tuesday's Saturn Awards, producer Frank Marshall tells IESB that he hopes to be shooting a fourth 'Bourne' movie next Summer for release in 2010.

There's no plans to follow any of the storyline from the fourth book in the series - Eric Van Lustbader's "The Bourne Legacy". They do have plans to set a lot of the action in South America this time though.

Marshall also thinks a fifth "Indiana Jones" film is looking unlikely.

[crippled_avenger]

Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, who have wandered different paths since they scripted the final seasons of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" together, have a green light from MGM to make their mysterious comedy horror thriller romance "Cabin in the Woods."

Nobody's saying what it's about.

Studio chairman Mary Parent calls it "one of the most clever and original scripts I've ever read."

"It's an intense visceral thrill ride and I'll leave it at that," she tells The Hollywood Reporter. "It was everything you would have hoped with the two of them."

Goddard, who scripted the blockbuster action-thriller "Cloverfield," will make his feature directorial debut on "Cabin" from a screenplay by Whedon and Goddard. Whedon will also produce the project.

Whedon's big-screen writing career stretches from "Toy Story" to "Speed" to "Serenity." He also created the TV shows "Buffy," "Angel" and "Firefly," as well as the upcoming Fox sci-fi series "Dollhouse."

After getting his start on "Buffy," Goddard went on to script "Angel," "Alias" and "Lost."

The duo have also written together on Dark Horse's top-selling "Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Eight" comic book series.

[DušMan]

woohoo!
Konačno. O ovome se šuškalo već sto godina po raznim intervjuima.

[crippled_avenger]

Yahoo! Buzz

'Red Dawn' redo lands director, scribe
MGM will remake the 1984 action drama
By Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit

July 9, 2008, 12:00 AM ET

"Red Dawn"

"Red Dawn" will be redone.

Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth has been hired to recraft the ultimate homeland invasion story about a new generation of besieged high schoolers.

Dan Bradley, a second unit director and/or stunt coordinator on "The Bourne Ultimatum," "Spider-Man 3" and the forthcoming "Quantum of Solace," will move into the director's chair for the update. Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce.

MGM toppers Harry Sloan and Mary Parent announced the remake -- along with a big-budget rebuild of "RoboCop," which director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss -- in May at the Festival de Cannes. As the studio regroups, its executives have realized that the strong MGM library has numerous classic and cult properties it can exploit for a new audience.

"The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in," says Ellsworth, who was 11 when the original was released. "As 'Red Dawn' scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again?"

Ellsworth will be working from a story written by Jeremy Passmore. Vincent Newman ("A Man Apart") is also acting in a producer capacity.

The original "Dawn" was the Cold War brainchild of writer-director John Milius, who devised a World War III invasion of America by the Soviets and Cubans. The film followed the scrappy insurgency of a group of Midwestern teenagers who take on their high school mascot name -- "Wolverines!" -- as a rallying cry of resistance.

The 1984 action drama was the first film released in theaters with the newly devised PG-13 rating because of its intense subject matter and violent content.

Ellsworth, who is repped by ICM and the Shuman Co., most recently handed in an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's comics series "Y: The Last Man" to New Line. He also wrote "Red Eye," co-wrote "Disturbia" and rewrote the screenplay for the "Last House on the Left" remake, produced by the original film's writer-director, Wes Craven. Rogue Pictures will release it early next year.

Bradley also is repped by ICM.
'Red Dawn' redo lands director, scribe
MGM will remake the 1984 action drama
By Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit

July 9, 2008, 12:00 AM ET

"Red Dawn" will be redone.

Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth has been hired to recraft the ultimate homeland invasion story about a new generation of besieged high schoolers.

Dan Bradley, a second unit director and/or stunt coordinator on "The Bourne Ultimatum," "Spider-Man 3" and the forthcoming "Quantum of Solace," will move into the director's chair for the update. Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce.

MGM toppers Harry Sloan and Mary Parent announced the remake -- along with a big-budget rebuild of "RoboCop," which director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss -- in May at the Festival de Cannes. As the studio regroups, its executives have realized that the strong MGM library has numerous classic and cult properties it can exploit for a new audience.

"The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in," says Ellsworth, who was 11 when the original was released. "As 'Red Dawn' scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again?"

Ellsworth will be working from a story written by Jeremy Passmore. Vincent Newman ("A Man Apart") is also acting in a producer capacity.

The original "Dawn" was the Cold War brainchild of writer-director John Milius, who devised a World War III invasion of America by the Soviets and Cubans. The film followed the scrappy insurgency of a group of Midwestern teenagers who take on their high school mascot name -- "Wolverines!" -- as a rallying cry of resistance.

The 1984 action drama was the first film released in theaters with the newly devised PG-13 rating because of its intense subject matter and violent content.

Ellsworth, who is repped by ICM and the Shuman Co., most recently handed in an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's comics series "Y: The Last Man" to New Line. He also wrote "Red Eye," co-wrote "Disturbia" and rewrote the screenplay for the "Last House on the Left" remake, produced by the original film's writer-director, Wes Craven. Rogue Pictures will release it early next year.

Bradley also is repped by ICM.

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Guy Ritchie's SHERLOCK HOLMES Is ...
I am – Hercules!!

Robert Downey Jr. is aboard to play the titular coke-craving big brain of Baker Street in Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" over at Warner Bros.

Ritchie has been polishing the project's script by Tony Peckham ("Don't Say A Word").

Ritchie's directorial credits include "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," "Swept Away," "Revolver" and the Halloween 2008 release "RocknRolla."

The Warner project is not to be confused with Judd Apatow's untitled Sherlock Holmes comedy with Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen over at Sony, which is being written by the guy who scripted "Tropic Thunder" (which coincidentally also stars Downey).

Will another American play John Watson? Or does Jason Statham top the short list for the detective's physician sidekick?

Read all of Variety's story on the matter here.
http://www.variety.com/VR1117988699.html

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a evo i trejlera za Marki Pejna:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JboQmDIdKWs&e
da ne pise sta je ne bih znao. dobro, slutio bih. naracija
nego,
Ludacris    ...    Jim Bravura

[DušMan]

Upravo sam naleteo na dvd rip filma koji se zove Starship Troopers 3: Marauder sa Casperom Van Dienom (i ako je verovati plakatu, CECOM - srpskom majkom!) u glavnoj ulozi. Director : Edward Neumeier
Plot Outline : Johnny Rico is called back into action to defeat the bugs.



Naravno da ne može ni prismrdeti kecu, ali od onog očaja od dvojke mora biti bolji, ha?

[Tex Murphy]

Kec je takođe smrdio. Ali bar je bilo golih grudi. Nadam se da slično važi za dvojku i trojku.

[DušMan]

Ma daj... Kec je meni bio super film.
Khm... jedina svetla tačka dvojke su grudi, actually. Doduše, samo jedne.

[Ghoul]

Kec je takođe smrdio. Ali bar je bilo golih grudi.

   

koristim ovu priliku da se javno odreknem svake veze, poznanstva, prijateljstva ili srodnosti sa individuom koja se ovde potpisuje kao harvester. ne priznajem njegove dugove niti sinove, i pod punom moralnom i materijalnom odgovornočću potpisujem da rečeni harvester nema ni trunke ukusa glede filmova.
eto.

   

[Father Jape]

Mnjee... ja sam se lozio na keca kad je izasao, ali sad sam ga gledao opet pre koju nedelju odmah nakon citanja romana. Razocarah se u detinjstvo.

[Tex Murphy]

Kec je takođe smrdio. Ali bar je bilo golih grudi.

   

koristim ovu priliku da se javno odreknem svake veze, poznanstva, prijateljstva ili srodnosti sa individuom koja se ovde potpisuje kao harvester. ne priznajem njegove dugove niti sinove, i pod punom moralnom i materijalnom odgovornočću potpisujem da rečeni harvester nema ni trunke ukusa glede filmova.
eto.

   

Wth? Sad su ti Starship Poopers nekakvo remek-djelo? Rek'o bi čoek - u najmanju ruku HOSTEL.

[Meho Krljic]

Jebote... Surova, ali surova politička satira (i to ne dnevnopolitička, nego bezvremena) umotana u izvanredno snimljen naoko mindless aksioni film. Plus cast pokupljen iz Beverly Hillsa. Ako to nije autentično remek-delo savremenog Holivuda onda ne znam kako bi ono moglo da izgleda.

[DušMan]

A LETTER FROM JOSS WHEDON

Dear Friends,

At last the time has come to reveal to you our Master Plan. BEWARE! Those with weak hearts should log off lest they be terrified by the twisted genius of our schemes! Also pregnant women and the elderly should consider reading only certain sentences. Do not mix with other blogs. Do not operate heavy machinery while reading this blog. You must be this tall to read. 'Kay?

It is time for us to change the face of Show Business as we know it. You know the old adage, "It's Show Business – not Show Friends"? Well now it's Show Friends. We did that. To Show Business. To show Show Business we mean business. (Also, there are now other businesses like it.)

ONE WEEK ONLY! AN INTERNET MINISERIES EVENT!

"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" will be streamed, LIVE (that part's not true), FREE (sadly, that part is) right on Drhorrible.com, in mid-July. Specifically:

ACT ONE (Wheee!) will go up Tuesday July 15th.

ACT TWO (OMG!) will go up Thursday July 17th.

ACT THREE (Denouement!) will go up Saturday July 19th.

All acts will stay up until midnight Sunday July 20th. Then they will vanish into the night, like a phantom (but not THE Phantom – that's still playing. Like, everywhere.)

And now to answers a few Frequently (soon to be) Asked Questions:

1) Why, Joss? Why? Why now, why free, why us?

Once upon a time, all the writers in the forest got very mad with the Forest Kings and declared a work-stoppage. The forest creatures were all sad; the mushrooms did not dance, the elderberries gave no juice for the festival wines, and the Teamsters were kinda pissed. (They were very polite about it, though.) During this work-stoppage, many writers tried to form partnerships for outside funding to create new work that circumvented the Forest King system.

Frustrated with the lack of movement on that front, I finally decided to do something very ambitious, very exciting, very mid-life-crisisy. Aided only by everyone I had worked with, was related to or had ever met, I single-handedly created this unique little epic. A supervillain musical, of which, as we all know, there are far too few.

The idea was to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment specifically for the internet. To show how much could be done with very little. To show the world there is another way. To give the public (and in particular you guys) something for all your support and patience. And to make a lot of silly jokes. Actually, that sentence probably should have come first.

2) What happens when it goes away? Does it go to a happy farm for always like Fluffy did when mommy was crying and the neighbor kept washing his fender?

No, Dr horrible will live on. We intend to make it available for download soon after it's published. This would be for a nominal fee, which we're hoping people will embrace instead of getting all piratey. We have big dreams, people, and one of them is paying our crew.

And somewhat later, we will put the complete short epic out on DVD – with the finest and bravest extras in all the land. We'll go into greater detail about that at Comiccon, but we're changing the face of Show Friendliness a second time with that crazy DVD.

3) Joss, you are so kind, and generous, and your forehead is like, huge, like SCARY, like I think I can see Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint hanging off it... what can WE do to help this musical extravanganza?

What you always do, peeps! What you're already doing. Spread the word. Rock some banners, widgets, diggs... let people know who wouldn't ordinarily know. It wouldn't hurt if this really was an event. Good for the business, good for the community – communitIES: Hollywood, internet, artists around the world, comic-book fans, musical fans (and even the rather vocal community of people who hate both but will still dig on this). Proving we can turn Dr Horrible into a viable economic proposition as well as an awesome goof will only inspire more people to lay themselves out in the same way. It's time for the dissemination of the artistic process. Create more for less. You are the ones that can make that happen.

Wow. I had no idea how important you guys were. I'm a little afraid of you.

4) Joss, do you ever answer a question simply or coherently?

Shledzguohn?

There'll be more questions, and more long, long answers, but for now I'm just excited that we're actually making this happen. We (and a lot of other people -- gushing to commence soon) worked very hard on the show and we hope/think you guys will be pleased.

Until July 15th , I remain, yours truly, -j, of the firm j, j, m & z.

http://drhorrible.com/index.html