the most anticipated...

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Peter Segal ("Get Smart") is in negotiations to direct the comedy "Neighborhood Watch" for 20th Century Fox says Variety.

Jared Stern's script focuses on a newcomer to a community who joins the neighborhood watch and discovers supernatural elements are afoot. Previously David Dobkin was attached to direct and Will Ferrell to star but that pairing fell apart over the Summer.

Segal was developing the sequel to "Get Smart" until the film was delayed again by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Laurence Fishburne has been cast in the pivotal role of 'Noland' on the upcoming "Predators" reports STYD.

Story details are beking kept under wraps but the film is said to act as a direct sequel to the original Arnold Schwarzenegger hit and will ignore the events of the "Alien vs. Predator" films. Adrien Brody, Topher Grace and Danny Trejo star.

Nimrod Antal ("Armored") helms the film and Robert Rodriguez is producing. Fishburne began work on the film this week in Austin, Texas.

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"Lord of the Rings" and "The Lovely Bones" director Peter Jackson is secretly working on an adaptation of "Mortal Engines", the award-winning first book of Philip Reeve's four-volume sci-fi novel series reports The Dominion Post.

The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world where cities have become giant vehicles and must consume each other to survive. Weta Workshops believed to be working on designs for the giant mobile cities.

Asked for comment, a Jackson spokesman didn't deny the project but said "any comment should come from Peter". Jackson has apparently held the rights to the books for some time.

[Milosh]

http://www.repomenarecoming.com/

Evo ga trejler za REPO MEN. Za razliku od gothic-mjuzikla iz prošle godine u ovoj verziji nema pevanja, a po trejleru sve jako podseća na Equilibrium, ali sa manje pucanja i više klanja...

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The King's Speech
Opens: 2010
Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Michael Gambon
Director: Tom Hooper

Summary: The story of King George VI, the father of Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George reluctantly assumes the throne and with the help of an unorthodox speech therapist, he's able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

Analysis: The most obvious chance for Oscar glory next year for the Weinstein Company, this British/Australian co-production has a simply superb pedigree of talent involved combined with a story rarely heard about that should ensure something hopefully remarkable.

The teaming of Rush and Firth in any film is exciting enough, but with supporting talent in historical roles like Guy Pearce as the abdicating Edward VIII, Helena Bonham Carter as a young Elizabeth II, Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill, not to mention greats like Derek Jacobi and Michael Gambon - it's downright pants-wetting.

David Seidler ("Tucker: The Man and His Dream") penned the multi-nominated Blacklist screenplay, while director Tom Hooper is coming off multiple award wins for the TV movie "Longford", the mini-series "John Adams", and the Michael Sheen film "The Damned United". The only downside is the concept of a guy essentially learning to publicly speak is going to be a tough sell to the masses, no matter how many 'overcoming adversity' platitudes it is cased in.

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Legendary filmmaker-scriptwriter Paul Schrader, now in Mumbai for his crossover potboiler Xtreme City, has said that his film will have at least five songs and dance routines following the typical Bollywood formula.

"My film will not be a shanty film. Not like Slumdog Millionaire at all, thank you."

Schrader, known for his "dark" and "brooding" films like Taxi Driver and The Last Temptation of Christ, said Hyderabad in India, Dubai and New York are the other locations where the film will be shot.

"I have scoured Mumbai and have looked at locations. But unlike Slumdog, my focus will not be shanties. Slumdog was too British...and too one-sided. Danny Boyle's film, well...It seems that India is boiling with poverty all the time. That is the way the West wants to see it. But my film will be different."

"Between any two buildings, there is bound to be some space for somebody to live in, a shanty, may be. That is not my primary concern. Xtreme City will show Mumbai at its colourful best."

Sources close to Schrader said, "Indian superstar Priyanka Chopra fits the bill for the heroine's role while the Indian hero's cast is yet to be given a thought." said.

"All talk of Indian number 1 Shah Rukh Khan having confirmed as the Indian hero is mere imagination."

"For the American hero, the names of Brad Pitt and Leonardo Dicaprio are being actively pursued."

"Shooting for the film will begin early next year."

Schrader, speaking exclusively from his Mumbai hotel room recently, said, "There will be at least five songs and dances in the film, typically Indian stuff. This will attempt to be the first crossover potboiler."

"A Bollywood potboiler used to have a dozen songs earlier, a comedy had around eight...I think now it can be five and we are safe," he said.

The man behind American Gigolo, said, "I would love A.R. Rehman to score the music. He is the Everest of Indian music." Rehman won the Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire earlier this year.

"I intend to make a real pop cultural hybrid. There will be commerce at its best. The film will show a city where contradictions live side by side."

"In other films, my goal was art...this time, my goal is commerce and I am clear about that."

" The only film of mine with which I can compare the script of Xtreme City is Yakuzo directed by Sydney Pollack in 1976." Co-producer Mushtaq Sheikh and co-writer said, "Other films show India's pimples...we will show the dimples. Slumdog Millioanire cannot be the end point of all matters Mumbai. This "White man, please save me,' syndrome is disgusting. We are not going to allow milking this city dry because the West wants to live in that myth."
   

[Tex Murphy]

Me likes it!
Inače, malo mi je blesavo da pod Šrederovim filmovima navode Taksistu i Posljednje Hristovo iskušenje, koje je režirao Skorsezi, a preskaču npr. Cat People i Light Sleeper.

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Never Let Me Go
Opens: 2010
Cast: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins
Director: Mark Romanek

Summary: A woman reunites with her two friends to face the dark secrets buried in their communal past at a private school in the English countryside. With no knowledge of the outside world during those years at the school, they must prepare for the haunting reality that awaits them.

Analysis: Part English period drama, part sci-fi dystopian thriller - "The Remains of the Day" author Kazuo Ishiguro was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize for this work about the touching friendship and romance between a trio of clones made to provide donor organs for transplant. Though the concept is sci-fi, the tone and text avoids the genre and its cliches as much as possible - keeping the focus almost entirely on the relationship of the main trio and the historical setting in an alternate but essentially same version of the 1990's.

"The Beach" author and "28 Days Later" scribe Alex Garland adapted the work in a script that made the 2008 British equivalent of the Blacklist, while "One Hour Photo" director Mark Romanek came onboard right after being let go from the troubled "The Wolfman" remake. Added to that is a stellar cast, most notably the older version of the trio themselves and the various teachers at the school.

If Romanek manages to pull it off with aplomb, what you have here could be something along "Children of Men" lines in terms of major critical acclaim and cinematic impact. A special screening of the film took place in October, but that was apparently a rough cut with further changes likely to be made before a worldwide release sometime in 2010. Fox Searchlight has the rights to distribute this States-side so if the reviews are strong we might see a potential awards push.

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If the producers behind a new planned biopic of Ian Fleming have their way, James McAvoy will be playing the man who created James Bond. His name? Fleming. Ian Fleming.

Palmstar Entertainment and Animus Films have been busy developing the project, according to Pajiba's sources, based on Andrew Lycett's book Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond.

McAvoy is attached, and it's certainly a solid role to tackle - Fleming lived largely in the shadow of his politician father and more notable siblings, living the life of a wayward playboy before World War Two changed his life and gave him the inspiration for Britain's best secret Agent - and the film itself could likely slot into his schedule between the likes of I'm With Cancer and the still nebulous sequel to Wanted.

First, however, it'll need a director...


James White

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Back in the day Walter Hill was one of the heaviest hitters in Hollywood.  Starting as an AD on Bullitt and the original Thomas Crown Affair, Hill would go on to produce films like Alien,  while writing and directing the likes of Streets of Fire, 48 Hours, Red Heat and The Warriors.  A string of duds dropped Hill right out of the A-list, his most recent gig as writer or director coming with 2002's Undisputed, which he also produced.

In the middle of his A-list run, though, Hill directed a flop by the title of Johnny Handsome, a film headlined by Mickey Rourke which also feature Forest Whitaker in the cast.  And with everything old in Hollywood becoming new again, the Hill / Rourke / Whitaker trio are getting back together and bringing a few interesting names with them.

That Rourke is set to headline Hill's upcoming St Vincent is not new, word of that began to circulate in early 2009.  He'll be playing an aging hitman having a crisis of conscience after taking the confession of his intended target, a premise that is certainly an interesting one.  Making it even more interesting are the recent cast additions of Forest Whitaker, Ray Winstone and Gong Li. 


Hitman Vincent Novena (Mickey Rourke) goes deep undercover portraying a priest to get close enough to kill his gangland traitor target. He soon discovers that playing the part of a good man is more dangerous than being a mob killer ever was.  No good deed goes unpunished. The more Vincent opens up, the more vulnerable he becomes ...

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MEXICO CITY -- Families of inmates are protesting against Mel Gibson's upcoming project "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" outside the prison in the Mexican state of Veracruz where shooting is set to begin in March.

Gibson will topline the action drama, based on a screenplay he penned.

In comments made in early December, Veracruz Governor Fidel Herrera indicated that inmates would be transferred to an undisclosed location for the duration of the shoot. In Mexico, inmates' families are their only source of food and clean clothing, and a move would require many families to relocate to the new location as well.

Around 300 protestors, mostly women, began camping outside of the prison Sunday after what appeared to be police or military officials were seen filming or taking photographs around the building.

Fearing that security forces were preparing to move the prisoners ahead of the holiday weekend, demonstrators held up signs reading, "Mel Gibson, it's your fault they are moving our family members" and "Don't take them away, they aren't animals."

The film, which is set in San Diego and Veracruz, tells the story of a career criminal who is thrown into prison for trafficking drugs, where he meets a 9-year-old boy who helps him adjust to life there.

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Platiće im pa će se smire...

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Focus Features has confirmed Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan will reunite with Atonement director Joe Wright in the lead role in Hanna.


Shooting is scheduled to take place around Europe later this year on the story of a 14-year-old raised by her ex-military father in the Swedish wilderness who battles US intelligence agencies across Europe to be reunited with her father.

David Farr and Seth Lochhead wrote the screenplay and Leslie Holleran, Scott Nemes and Marty Adelstein are producing.

Further casting will be announced in due course. Focus Features holds worldwide rights.

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The Door
Die Tuer (Germany)
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A Senator Film Verleih release of a Wueste Film production, in association with Wueste Film Ost, Senator Film Produktion. (International sales: Telepool, Munich.) Produced by Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Schubert. Co-producer, Christoph Mueller. Directed by Anno Saul. Screenplay, Jan Berger, based on the 2001 novel "Die Damalstuer" by Akif Pirincci.

With: Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, Valeria Eisenbart, Thomas Thieme, Heike Makatsch, Tim Seyfi, Stephan Kampwirth, Suzan Anbeh, Nele Trebs, Thomas Arnold, Karsten Dahlem, Rene Lay, Christof Duero, Sabine Berg, Patrick Heinrich.
  A nifty little fantasy-thriller that could be even better in the English-lingo remake it cries out for, "The Door" builds some credible drama from its central idea of a deadbeat given a second chance at life following a tragic accident. Moodily directed by Anno Saul ("Kebab Connection"), this genre item is let down by an overly blank performance from Danish thesp Mads Mikkelsen ("Casino Royale"), here dubbed into German, and a finale that doesn't quite deliver dramatically. But the strong supporting cast and clever plot twists make this worth a look for genre aficionados and fantasy fests. "Door" opened mildly in Deutschland in late November.
David Andernach (Mikkelsen) is a successful painter with a nice house in the 'burbs, an attractive wife, Maja (Jessica Schwarz), and a cute young daughter, Leonie (Valeria Eisenbart). But one bright summer's day, when he should have been hunting butterflies with Leonie, David is busy servicing his horny mistress, Gia (Heike Makatsch, in a cameo), around the corner -- and comes back to find that Leonie has drowned after tripping into the family pool.

Five years later, in winter, Max is a scruffy wreck and Maja has divorced him. But after trying to kill himself in the self-same pool, he's led by a butterfly to a hidden tunnel that opens onto ... the very day Leonie died.

Script by Jan Berger ("Kebab Connection," "FC Venus"), from a 2001 novel by Akif Pirincci -- dubbed Germany's Stephen King -- delivers some nice ironies early on, as David sees his original self heading off to see Gia and realizes he has a chance to rescue Leonie if he runs fast. This he does, but not without attracting the attention of his earlier self, and soon enough David's life is starting to unravel all over again, albeit in a different way.

As the time-bending (and brain-bending) twists pile up, the pic isn't quite slick enough to sustain the suspension of disbelief needed to make it work as a pure genre item. Helmer Saul and the cast are better at capturing the small behavioral niceties, particularly Maja's and Leonie's suspicions that everything isn't quite right.

Both Schwarz ("The Red Cockatoo") and Eisenbart (10 at the time) are very good in these roles, though they get little help from Mikkelsen's cold, unengaging perf. Thomas Thieme, as a jovial neighbor, adds some dramatic heft as the plot pulls its final switcheroo, but the subsequent finale lacks a satisfyingly physical punch.

Technical package is fine, with flavorsome summer/winter widescreen lensing by Bella Halben in Potsdam and Hamburg, and some atmospheric scoring by Fabian Roemer.

Camera (color, widescreen), Bella Halben; editor, Andreas Radtke; music, Fabian Roemer; music supervisor, Pia Hoffmann; production designer, Boerries Hahn-Hoffmann; costume designer, Katrin Aschendorf; sound (Dolby Digital), Joerg Krieger, Richard Borowski; sound designer, Kai Storck; assistant director, Thomas Brueck; casting, Deborah Congia. (In Pusan Film Festival -- Midnight Passion.) Reviewed at Kino in der KulturBrauerei 4, Berlin, Dec. 9, 2009. Running time: 102 MIN.

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Tomorrow, When the War Began
Opens: 2010
Cast: Rachel Hurd-Wood, Phoebe Tonkin, Lincoln Lewis, Caitlin Stasey, Matthew Dale
Director: Stuart Beattie

Summary: When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight unlikely Australian high school teenagers band together to fight.

Analysis: On the surface sounding like "Red Dawn" set in a small Australian town, John Marsden's seven book 'coming-of-age in a war zone' series was sold on the pitch of it being one of the most popular Australian series ever published. As someone who has lived in Sydney almost all my life, I'd never heard even a mention of it until the film announcement - and I read a lot. However the series didn't start until the late 90's, after my time at school, so its fanbase is very much the teenagers and early twenty-somethings of today.

Screen Australia and Paramount Vantage are teaming for this purely Aussie production that hopes to be the first in a trilogy and is helped immensely by a big fat tax break for keeping its shoot local. Stuart Beattie, best known for his scripts for the likes of "Australia," "Collateral" and "G.I. Joe", is adapting and directing the film which hopes to be the first fully Australian commercial action movie since the "Mad Max" films. Certainly its budget, around $54 million U.S. dollars, is quite considerable for a 'purely local' film.

The cast is made up of a few soap stars (Lewis, Stasey) and some young unknowns aside from British actress Rachel Hurd-Wood who worked Down Under before on 2003's "Peter Pan". Tone wise don't expect the seriousness of "Red Dawn", Beattie saying if 'Dawn' is "Striptease", then 'Tomorrow' is more like "The Full Monty" - similar premise, completely different approaches. Shot around the Hunter Region in New South Wales over October and November last year, the film is already in post.

Several questions come up here. First is tone, the books are apparently quite realistic and dark which makes the film's rating likely to be higher but could alienate the core audience of young teenagers. Second is the enemy troops whose country of origin goes unnamed in the books, an idea that simply doesn't work on film - how will that be handled? Finally there's appeal - can a story like this cross over with international audiences. We'll know more around the end of the year.

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Možda od ovog Joe Wrighta i bude čovek?

Saoirse Ronan ("The Lovely Bones") is in negotiations to reteam with her "Atonement" director Joe Wright in "Hanna" for Focus Features says Heat Vision Blog.

The story follows a 14-year-old Eastern European girl (Ronan) who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence.

When the girl is dragged back to her father's world and discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp, she must fight her way to a free life.

Seth Lochhead and David Farr penned the script with Leslie Holleran. Marty Adelstein and Scott Nemes are producing.

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After.Life
Opens: 2010
Cast: Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Alfred Molina, Justin Long, Josh Charles
Director: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo

Summary: A young woman is caught between life and death and a funeral director, who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, might just be intent on burying her alive.

Analysis: Though it hasn't scored an American distributor yet, this very strange take on both life and death did manage to get quite a bit of buzz surrounding it when it was on offer at the AFM back in November (and not just for a mostly naked Ricci). Wojtowicz-Vosloo's first feature, the psychological thriller features some top notch talent with Neeson's unsettling performance as the funeral director said to be the highlight.

Ricci's character and the writing were criticised, mainly for being not that clear, but the visuals and smarts of the film were praised even with its obvious budgetary limitations. Expect a quick theatrical release before a healthy life on DVD later in the year.

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Buried
Opens: 2010
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Ivan Mino, Anne Lockhart, Jose Maria Yazpik
Director: Rodrigo Cortes

Summary: Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

Analysis: The Spanish indie thriller from director Rodrigo Cortes ("15 Days," "The Contestant") scores a midnight world premiere at Sundance in January where reviews will have a big impact on its release plans. Script reviews paint this as a very dark feature, a film that piles one tragedy on top of another with a believable sense of realism and a fair albeit shocking end - one daring enough that it might be toned down to be more wide appealing.

Though there have been plenty of films and series featuring scenes of someone buried alive from the original "The Vanishing" to Tarantino's "Kill Bill Volume Two" and "CSI" episode, few spend over an hour trapped in a confined space with most of the dialogue taking place over the phone. Joel Schumacher's "Phone Booth" did it several years ago and the result was a very strong and enjoyable thriller, can we hope for the same here?

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Carlos the Jackal
Opens: Spring 2010
Cast: Edgar Ramirez, Alexander Beyer, Anna Thalbach, Susanne Wuest, Julia Hummer
Director: Olivier Assayas

Summary: The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police in 1994. For twenty years he was known to the world by a different name, the assassin Carlos the Jackal.

Analysis: It's funny to think that despite being one of the most famous assassins to have ever lived, there hasn't really been an accurate biopic about Carlos even as his moniker has been used numerous times in film and fiction with little care for the real life facts. The closest I can recall, aside from Barbet Schroder's 2007 documentary "Terror's Advocate" about Carlos' lawyer, was 1997's little seen but enjoyable "The Assignment" which still ended up being only very loosely based on true events. Certainly that film was a lot better than the odious Bruce Willis-led "The Jackal" which opened the same year.

Now, along comes director Olivier Assayas ("Summer Hours," "Alice et Martin") delivering his first biopic which traces the life of Carlos from his first operation in London in 1974 to his capture and arrest by the Sudanese and French authorities in Khartoum in 1994. Edgar Ramirez ("Che," "The Bourne Ultimatum") stars as Carlos in the project which will include events such as the 1975 OPEC hostage-taking in Vienna. The possibilities here are rich considering Carlos had dealings with all sorts of different regimes throughout the Cold War including the PLO, the Soviets, the East German Stasi, the Japanese Red Army, Iraq under Saddam, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.

In interviews, Assayas said he had an incredible level of freedom for the project and could essentially do what he wanted with a rather sizeable budget. Blending Super 16 and 35mm film photography, the film's language is around half-English, the rest in mostly Spanish or French. Shot during the first half of 2009 in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary and Morocco, the project will be released in two different versions. A 120-minute theatrical cut will be screened internationally in the Spring after a three-part 270-minute mini-series version airs on French cable television next month. IFC Films will release the shorter cut States-side in theatres and on VOD, the longer cut will probably have to be imported on DVD later in the year.

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The Hungry Rabbit Jumps
Opens: 2010
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Guy Pearce, January Jones, Harold Perrineau
Director: Roger Donaldson

Summary: When his wife is the victim of a brutal crime, a man subsequently becomes entangled with an underground vigilante organization in an effort to get revenge. He soon finds himself in too far over his head.

Analysis: Coming off "The Bank Job", one of my favourite films of 2008 and amongst its more critically acclaimed entries, Australian director Roger Donaldson helms this $30 million thriller which sounds like it'll hopefully explore the downside of a genre that has seen a resurgence in popularity lately - the vigilante movie. From "Taken" to the upcoming "Edge of Darkness", revenge thrillers have become kind of tedious lately and often avoid the truly dark costs that come with seeking one's own form of justice.

Reviews of Robert Tannen's script however paint this as something more along conspiracy thriller lines - with a secret society having dealt with his wife's attacker, they now require a favour from Cage's character which puts him in the position of either acquiescing, fleeing or attempting to expose them. It sounds like direct-to-video nonsense, but the story is apparently a fun little surface-level diversion with strong pacing that was good enough to make last year's Blacklist. Currently filming in the US, expect a potential Fall release.

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BTW, svi smo videli da je Raimi odustao od pravljenja četvrtog Spajdermena i da će sledeći Spajdi biti ribut?

January 11, 2010 - Damn, Sam Raimi, you've made us proud. As much as we're sorry to see you go, we respect the fact that you've stuck to your guns and told Sony to stick their webs where the sun don't shine.

That's right, folks. Sam Raimi has left the Spider-Man franchise, which essentially means that Spider-Man 4 is no more and the wallcrawler is now getting a from-scratch reboot from the studio instead. Tobey Maguire is also done with the red and blue suit, and in fact Sony is saying (via Twitter) that the reboot will go back to high school with the character and be released in 2012.

Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke had the story first, saying that "Mike Fleming and I have just confirmed that Sony Pictures decided today to reboot the Spider-Man franchise after franchise director Sam Raimi pulled out of Spider-Man 4 because he felt he couldn't make its summer release date and keep the film's creative integrity. This means that Raimi and the cast including star Tobey Maguire are out. There will be no Spider-Man 4. Instead, Mike Fleming is told, the studio will focus on a reboot script by Jamie Vanderbilt with a new director and a new cast. All this took place ... at [a] meeting on the lot today."

DH goes on to say that Raimi insisted he couldn't make Sony's date or "go forward creatively. And, so, once he said 'That's it,' Sony Pictures co-chairman [Amy] Pascal and Columbia Pictures' Matt Tolmach decided they didn't want to replace him and instead chose to reboot the franchise." Points to Sony for making the smart choice here.

We've got a call in to Sony right now and we'll update here as soon as we hear back from them! But, dang, this is a big one.


UPDATED: Here is Sony's official statement on the reboot: "Peter Parker is going back to high school when the next Spider-Man hits theaters in the summer of 2012. Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced today they are moving forward with a film based on a script by James Vanderbilt that focuses on a teenager dealing with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises. The new chapter in the Spider-Man franchise produced by Columbia, Marvel Studios and Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin, will have a new cast and filmmaking team. Spider-Man 4 was to have been released in 2011, but had not yet gone into production.

"A decade ago we set out on this journey with Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire and together we made three Spider-Man films that set a new bar for the genre. When we began, no one ever imagined that we would make history at the box-office and now we have a rare opportunity to make history once again with this franchise. Peter Parker as an ordinary young adult grappling with extraordinary powers has always been the foundation that has made this character so timeless and compelling for generations of fans. We're very excited about the creative possibilities that come from returning to Peter's roots and we look forward to working once again with Marvel Studios, Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin on this new beginning," said Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

"Working on the Spider-Man movies was the experience of a lifetime for me. While we were looking forward to doing a fourth one together, the studio and Marvel have a unique opportunity to take the franchise in a new direction, and I know they will do a terrific job," said Sam Raimi.

"We have had a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration and friendship with Sam and Tobey and they have given us their best for the better part of the last decade.This is a bittersweet moment for us because while it is hard to imagine Spider-Man in anyone else's hands, I know that this was a day that was inevitable," said Matt Tolmach, president of Columbia Pictures, who has served as the studio's chief production executive since the beginning of the franchise. "Now everything begins anew, and that's got us all tremendously excited about what comes next. Under the continuing supervision of Avi and Laura, we have a clear vision for the future of Spider-Man and can't wait to share this exciting new direction with audiences in 2012."

"Spider-Man will always be an important franchise for Sony Pictures and a fresh start like this is a responsibility that we all take very seriously," said Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures. "We have always believed that story comes first and story guides the direction of these films. As we move onto the next chapter, we will stay true to that principle and will do so with the highest respect for the source material and the fans and moviegoers who deserve nothing but the best when it comes to bringing these stories and characters to life on the big screen."

The studio will have more news about Spider-Man in 2012 in the coming weeks as it prepares for production of the film.

[Meho Krljic]

A evo i privjua za Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass Preview

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Stephen Norrington ("Blade," "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen") will write and direct supernatural action thriller "The Lost Patrol" for Legendary Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.

Set against the backdrop of World War II, story details are being kept scarce. Andrew Hilton and Matt Cirulnick penned the original script.

Norrington says the project is a mix of "hardware, heroes, grime, insane monsters." Rick Porras and Steven Boyd are producing.

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"The Lives of Others" helmer Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has returned to direct the spy thriller "The Tourist" for Sony Pictures says Variety.

Johhny Depp will play an American tourist drawn into a web of intrigue by a female Interpol agent (Angelina Jolie) who is attempting to locate a criminal who was once her lover.

Julian Fellowes wrote the original script while Christopher McQuarrie and Jeffrey Nachmanoff did rewrites. The film is a remake of the 2005 French thriller "Anthony Zimmer "

Donnersmarck exited the project last Fall over creative differences. Shooting will now kick off in the Spring.

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Michelle Monaghan is set and Vera Farmiga is in negotiations to join time-travel thriller "Source Code" for Summit Entertainment reports Heat Vision.

The story centers on a soldier (Jake Gyllenhaal) who, as part of an experimental government program to investigate a terrorist incident, finds himself in the body of an unknown commuter living and reliving a harrowing train bombing until he can find out who is responsible for it.

Monaghan is a woman on the train with whom the man is involved romantically. Farmiga will play a hands-on communications officer controlling Gyllenhaal as he travels through time and space.

"Moon" director Duncan Jones helms the project which begins filming in March. Mark Gordon, Philippe Rousselet and Jordan Wynn are producing.

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Antoine Fuqua ("King Arthur," "Training Day") is set to direct the spy thriller "Consent to Kill" for CBS Films reports Variety.

An adaptation of the Vince Flynn novel, the story centers on counterterrorism agent Mitch Rapp who battles a vengeful Saudi billionaire, an ex-East German Stasi spy and a husband-and-wife team of assassins -- all while dealing with a knee injury.

Jonathan Lemkin adapted the script while Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Nick Wechsler are producing.

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Robert Zemeckis has announced his voice & motion capture cast line-up for his remake of cartoon Beatles musical "Yellow Submarine" reports Empire Magazine.

Dean Lennox Kelly, who has appeared on a lot of British television lately from "Shameless" to guesting as Shakespeare on "Doctor Who" and a werewolf on "Being Human", will play John Lennon.

Comedian Peter Serafinowicz, who voiced Darth Maul in 'The Phantom Menace', has previously showed off a brilliant Paul McCartney impression and will do just that as McCartney in the film.

Film and TV veteran Cary Elwes will be George Harrison, while "Date Movie" and "Harper's Island" Brit actor Adam Campbell is Ringo Starr.

The quartet won't sing though, rather tribute band Fab 4 will be playing the actual Beatles tracks.

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Stephen Norrington ("Blade," "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen") will write and direct supernatural action thriller "The Lost Patrol" for Legendary Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.

Set against the backdrop of World War II, story details are being kept scarce. Andrew Hilton and Matt Cirulnick penned the original script.

Norrington says the project is a mix of "hardware, heroes, grime, insane monsters." Rick Porras and Steven Boyd are producing.

 

Tek sad ovo vidjeh. OK, ovo je definitivno postao najočekivaniji film još od Avatara.

GIVE 'EM HELL, STEVE!

 

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Pazi, Steve se vraća i što je još važnje, on ima dobar relationship sa Legendaryjem, prvobitno je on trebalo da režira CLASH OF THE TITANS.

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"The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan has finally spoken about his upcoming mind-bending thriller "Inception", granting his first interview on the film to The Los Angeles Times.

The film is the biggest challenge Nolan's ever faced, saying "We're trying to tell a story on a massive scale, a true blockbuster scale - the biggest I've ever been involved with. We tried to make a very large-scale film with 'The Dark Knight' and with this one we wanted to push that even further."

Story wise expect a hell of a lot of scope - "I grew up watching James Bond films and loving those and watching spy movies with their globetrotting sensibility.... We get to do that here, not just geographically but also in time and dimensions of reality as well. We get to make a movie that's expansive, I suppose you'd say, in four dimensions."

Emma Thomas, Nolan's wife and the film's producer, says the film is something they've been talking about on and off for seven or eight years, and the size of the project was just incidental. "Coming off of the 'The Dark Knight,' the only thing we really knew is that we wanted to do something more personal. It seemed like the right time to do this. The fact that it's really just an enormous movie -- that wasn't ever really a factor in the decision. This story lends itself to a movie of this size" says Thomas.

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Pazi, Steve se vraća i što je još važnje, on ima dobar relationship sa Legendaryjem, prvobitno je on trebalo da režira CLASH OF THE TITANS.

Drago mi je što je odustao od filma za koji nije bio zagrijan. Naravno, rimjek Clash of the Titans je top priority, pogotovu nakon najboljeg trailera ikada.

Nakon ove vijesti, ja od Norringtona očekujem čuda, jer ga smatram najvećim rediteljem koji se pojavio u 90-tim.

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Drago mi je što je odustao od filma za koji nije bio zagrijan. Naravno, rimjek Clash of the Titans je top priority, pogotovu nakon najboljeg trailera ikada.

Nakon ove vijesti, ja od Norringtona očekujem čuda, jer ga smatram najvećim rediteljem koji se pojavio u 90-tim.

Pazi, Norrington je ogromna faca. U izvesnom smislu on je i jedan od najznačajnijih, s tim što su Wachowski pokupili kajmak.

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116 907 gledalaca u Srbiji. Koliko god neverovatno zvučalo, imao je skok od 7%.

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Bill Murray will replace British thespian Toby Kebbell as a murderous mobster in "Passion Play" reports Production Weekly.

The dramatic thriller is set in 1950s Los Angeles and follows a down on his luck trumpet player who finds redemption from an angel stuck under the thumb of ruthless gangster Happy Shannon (Murray).

Mickey Rourke is the player, Megan Fox the freak. Kelly Lynch also stars. Mitch Glazer penned and is directing the production which is currently filming in New Mexico.

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"Twilight" hunk Kellan Lutz and "Stargate Atlantis" co-star Jason Momoa are both being considered to play Conan the Barbarian in the upcoming remake at Nu Image/Millenium reports Deadline Hollywood.

The pair, along with a third and more-established but unnamed actor, are all being considered before they decide on the role.

Marcus Nispel helms the project which kicks off filming March 15th in Bulgaria.

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"Superbad" and "Funny People" actor Jonah Hill tells Coming Soon that they hope to shoot the film adaptation of classic 80's TV series "21 Jump Street" this year.

Though the film will keep the same basic premise as the series, rookie cops who go undercover as students in a high school, the tone will not be the parody many are expecting.

"It's a comedy with really cool action. We're not doing something serious like 'Miami Vice.' But it's not a parody. It's a funny movie with a lot of great action and a real story. I've been saying that it's like a John Hughes movie with 'Bad Boys' style action" says Hill.

At present the script is being tweaked to fit in with the vision of recently hired directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller ("Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"). No further cast is currently lined up.

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Way back in February, MTV News interviewed Danny Boyle about the projects he was considering post-Slumdog Millionaire, and one of the scripts he was mulling over was a movie called, The Texas Killing Fields.

Texas Killing Fields' was a fantastic script, really special script, but it was just so dark it would never get made. You'd have to have half a dozen super megastars for a studio to even consider making it," Boyle said of the project. "It's by an ex-cop from Galveston and visually would have been extraordinary, but I don't think that's going to happen.
Well, it looks like they may have found their super mega-stars. Unfortunately, according to our inside source, The Hollywood Cog, Danny Boyle is no longer attached to the project.

instead, the project — which is being produced by Michael Mann, who was once himself attached to direct — has fallen into the lap of Ami Mann, Michael's daughter. whose only notable experience was as the second unit director on Heat and a long in-development and probably dead, Racing the Monsoon (which at one time had Michael Douglas attached).

Ami Mann's inexperience is noteworthy here, I would think, because of the two stars now attached to the project, two of the biggest actors in Hollywood this year: The Hangover's Bradley Cooper and Avatar's Sam Worthington. It's not quite half-a-dozen megastars, but it's a pretty solid star, and certainly enough to make me interested in the project.

Little is known about the script, except that it's about two cops who realize that the latest murder in their jurisdiction connects their case to the notorious killing fields murders. The killing field murders concern four bodies that were found in the same place in Texas — along Interstate 45 near Calder Road in League City. Two of the bodies are still unidentified, and all four murders remain unsolved. I suspect the script is a fictional account inspired by those murders, and it certainly does sound dark. But with Cooper and Worthington attached, it should have no problem moving ahead.

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Sam Raimi's producing partner Robert Tapert says that despite the rumors, the former "Spider-Man" film series director has yet to make a decision about his next project.

"I don't want to speak on Sam's behalf, because the 'Spider-Man' thing happened so recently. I think he's getting his feet under him and trying to decide. He might want to do a teeny, tiny small film, but I don't know what he wants to do. I know he had a great time doing 'Drag Me to Hell'" Tapert told iF Magazine.

What about the "Warcraft" movie he's linked to over at Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures? Tapert says "It's in development. We're in the outline/story/script phase". It was confirmed late last year that Robert Rodat ("Saving Private Ryan") is penning the screenplay.

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Hey folks, Harry here... and sometimes I feel it is the very reason AICN exists to take a story that has been online via Variety and then translate it into frank film geek speak for the rest of us.

Martin Scorsese... possibly our most brilliant living director... Has chosen as his next project, a 533 page Children's Picture Book called THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET to make as his very next film, shooting this June.

Well, this book is about an orphan child,whose father was working to fix a Mechanical Man (ROBOT) when he died. The boy, HUGO, is hanging out in a 1930's Parisian train station where he is attempting to complete his father's work.

The other night on CONAN O'BRIEN's TONIGHT SHOW - I watch Scorsese talk about his daughter and there was something about the way he spoke, that made me actually wonder if we were going to see the maestro turn his craft to a children's tale.

With this project, I expect that we will receive our very first live action equivalent to a Miyazaki animated film. I am so excited for this movie. How thrilling. This will be magic.

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PIRATI S KARIBA 4!!!

Snimiće se nastavak trilogije, Džoni Dep i Džefri Raš su tu, a najljepša vijest je - Kira i Orlando se neće pojavljivati u filmu!!!

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-pirates-4.html

Mali peh je promjena režisera, umjesto Verbinskog sad je tu Rob Maršal koji baš i ne uliva povjerenje, ali nadajmo se da će sve biti dobro.

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umjesto Verbinskog sad je tu Rob Maršal koji baš i ne uliva povjerenje, ali nadajmo se da će sve biti dobro.

mora da su džim vajnorski, dejvid dekoto i fred olen rej bili prezauzeti, a šotra ne zna engleski.

ali, harv se i dalje nada da će sve biti dobro.
oće.
biće super.

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Pa dođavola, valjda je isti producentski tim, valjda su sposobni da vide ako lik umjesto avanture počne da pravi neku limunadu-mjuzikl i da otpuste budalu.
Sem toga, ni Verbinski nije baš imao neki PRETJERANO sjajan pedigre prije prvih Pirata - jedna fina komedijica, jedan uspješan ali manjkav horor i jedna užasno grozna dramurda.

I nemoj da mi vrijeđaš Vinorskog i Freda Olena Reja trpajući ih u isti koš sa onim gej-analfabetom!

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Isla Fisher ("Wedding Crashers," "Confessions of a Shopaholic") and Tom Wilkinson ("Michael Clayton," "Duplicity") have joined the horror comedy "Burke and Hare" says Heat Vision Blog.

The film is based on the true story a pair of the U.K.'s earliest serial killers, William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Hare (Andy Serkis), gravediggers who lucratively sold the corpses of their victims to a medical college for dissection.

Fisher will play Pegg's girlfriend, an actress looking for a patron who might or might not be an accomplice to the murders. Wilkinson will play Dr. Robert Knox, an anatomy lecturer looking for fresh corpses.

John Landis directs from a script by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft. Filming kicks off January 31st in Edinburgh and London.

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Splice
24 January, 2010 | By David D'Arcy


Dir. Vincenzo Natali, France/Canada, 2009, 100 minutes


With Splice, Vincenzo Natali has updated the Frankenstein story and placed it at science's cutting edge, in the field of gene-splicing.  The perils of genetic manipulation are addressed, horror-style, and a hybrid species character redefines conception and copulation. Natali's experiment works.

Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley in the cast should help Splice go beyond the existing techno-horror audience – the prospect of each in intimate contact with a hybrid species could bring in armies of the curious. English-speaking territories should be strongest for the film, yet stylish effects and deft cinematography will give it international appeal. Home video should also be strong.

Clive (Brody) and Elsa (Polley) are hip scientists probing the frontiers of gene-splicing, battling corporate investors as they take wild risks. The whiz kids' breakthrough is a human/animal hybrid that grows alarmingly fast into a female humanoid, the sexy and willful Dren (Delphine Chaneac). Created with Elsa's DNA (an unethical trick by Elsa), Dren also develops a lust for Clive.

With echoes of Canadian compatriot David Cronenberg and exec producer Guillermo Del Toro (and a touch of Eve from the Species series), Natali directs this story of an out-of-control experiment with a sense of the vast new powers in the hands of scientists who toy with genetic pairings. The spliced monsters seem to emerge from the test tube, rather than from the CGI studio, enhancing the eeriness.

Brody and Polley take dramatic risks as lovers who lose the balance between affection and ambition. Delphine Chaneac plays their bald marble-white concoction with a vulnerability and a volatile libido.

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Aussie hunk Sam Worthington ("Avatar," "Clash of the Titans") is the apparent frontrunner to star in Alex Proyas' epic "Dracula Year Zero" for Universal Pictures reports Latino Review.

Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless penned this strange fusion of historical fact and literary fiction that centres around the life of the young Transylvanian Prince Vlad, better known as Vlad the Impaler whom inspired Bram Stoker's vampire tale.

This spin on the story has the young prince leading the charge to fend off the Ottoman Empire's attempts to use Romania as a foothold to conquer the rest of Europe.

In a moment of desperation, he ascends a mountain where a dark magical power resides in the hope of finding something to keep the Turkish hordes at bay. That power helps him defeat the Turks, but comes at the price of him changing into a creature of the night.

Michael De Luca is producing.

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Buried
(Spain)
By ROB NELSON

A Lionsgate release of a Versus Entertainment presentation, in association with the Safran Co. and Dark Trick Films. Produced by Adrian Guerra, Peter Safran. Executive producers, Alejandro Miranda, Rodrigo Cortes. Directed, edited by Rodrigo Cortes. Screenplay, Chris Sparling.

Paul Conroy - Ryan Reynolds
Voices:
Dan Brenner - Robert Paterson
Jabir - Jose Luis Garcia-Perez
Alan Davenport - Stephen Tobolowsky
Linda Conroy - Samantha Mathis
Donna Mitchell/ Maryanne Conroy - Warner Loughlin
Pamela Lutti - Ivana Mino
Special Agent Harris - Erik Palladino

Likely to be the highest-grossing "underground" film ever made, "Buried" takes place entirely in a coffin but shrewdly finds the space to wriggle its way from horror to melodrama and even action. Lionsgate's claustrophobic Sundance pickup about a U.S. truck driver in Iraq kidnapped and held for ransom in a pine box opens itself up creatively via a cell phone that its only onscreen character (Ryan Reynolds) uses to reach the outside world. Produced in Spain, the English-lingo pic translates easily to any number of territories, where its wartime tale of an arguably innocent American could even spark debate.

In purely cinematic terms, "Buried," set in late 2006, is an ingenious exercise in sustained tension that would make Alfred Hitchcock turn over in his grave. Shooting in widescreen, believe it or not, director Rodrigo Cortes starts in total darkness, using the sounds of breathing, a cough or two, some thumps and the scratching against wood to establish that his film is beginning where "The Vanishing" left off.

The flame of a Zippo eventually illuminates the sweaty face of Reynolds's 30-year-old family man Paul Conroy, whose frantic kicks can't compete with those of Uma Thurman's martially artful escape artist in "Kill Bill Vol. 2." All our hero has at the outset is that lighter, a pen, a pocket knife and, crucially, a fully charged phone.

Through Conroy's darkly funny long-distance calls to 911 and elsewhere, we learn that the civilian driver's convoy was ambushed by Iraqi insurgents en route to delivering kitchen supplies to a community center. Evidently unconvinced of his humanitarianism, an Iraqi man (voiced by Jose Luis Garcia-Perez) calls Conroy to demand the wire transfer of $5 million within two hours.

The suggestion that an ordinary American would have to pay for his country's involvement in an ugly war is as brilliant (and scary) as anything in Chris Sparling's suitably tight screenplay.

Reaching the State Dept. along with the Hostage Working Group's Dan Brenner (voice of Robert Paterson), Conroy is told that the U.S. doesn't negotiate with terrorists -- which can't stop him from momentarily obliging his captor by uploading a cell-shot video of his desperate plea for funds. Later, talking to a cold-hearted representative of his employer (voice of Stephen Tobolowsky), the working stiff discovers that in this economy, one doesn't have to be above ground in order to get downsized.

Capably acting his way out of a tight situation, Reynolds channels a measure of Bruce Willis' "Die Hard" hero John McClane, as the isolated Conroy, longing for his family and struggling to keep his cool, is forced to develop trusting relationships with those he can't see. As if being buried alive isn't compromising enough, the character's vulnerability is enhanced further by the fact that, even under better circumstances, he suffers from clinical anxiety. Running dangerously low on air, Conroy is at least able to reach into his pocket and pop a few Xanax.

Employing their own limited tools effectively, the "Buried" crew, from sound designer James Munoz to d.p. Eduard Grau, adds immeasurably to the pic's nightmarish proportions. Cortes (who also edited) manages myriad technical challenges with wit and aplomb, zooming back when necessary and even staging a close-quarters action scene that's too much fun to give away.

Speaking of "Buried" spoilers: The biggest trick for Lionsgate will be to keep the lid on.

Camera (color, widescreen), Eduard Grau; music, Victor Reyes; art directors, Maria de la Camara, Gabriel Pare; costume designer, Elisa de Andres; sound (Dolby Digital), Urko Garai; sound designer, James Munoz; re-recording mixer, Marc Orts; visual effects supervisor, Alex Villagrasa; line producer, Oriol Maymo; assistant director, Manel Martinez; casting, Luci Lenox. Reviewed at Sundance Film Festival (Park City at Midnight), Jan. 24, 2010. Running time: 93 MIN.

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"I Love You Phillip Morris" and "Bad Santa" helmers John Requa and Glenn Ficarra are set to direct an untitled Steve Carell comedy reports Variety.

The story revolves around a father who struggles to balance his failing marriage and balance his relationship with his children.

Dan Fogleman wrote the script while Denise Di Novi will produce. Requa and Ficarra are still attached to direct "Pharm Girl".

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From Paris With Love
(France)
By ANDREW BARKER

A Lionsgate (in U.S.) release of a EuropaCorp, M6 Films, Grive Prods. and Apipoulai Prods. co-production, with the participation of Canal Plus, TPS Star and M6. Produced by India Osborne. Executive producer, Virginie Besson-Silla. Co-executive producers, Anson Downes, Linda Rae Favila. Directed by Pierre Morel. Screenplay, Adi Hasak, based on a story by Luc Besson.

Charlie Wax - John Travolta
James Reese - Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Caroline - Kasia Smutniak
Ambassador Bennington - Richard Durden
Wong - Bing Yin
Nichole - Amber Rose Revah
Foreign Minister - Eric Godon
Rashid - Chems Eddine Dahmani

Presumably pitched as a fusion of "Training Day" and "Crank 2" -- but ultimately nowhere near as fun as that premise probably sounds -- "From Paris With Love" practically strains itself to avoid doing anything the slightest bit innovative or clever. Provided the notion of a jive-talking John Travolta decked out like Rob Halford doesn't prove too large a deterrent, a number of undiscriminating action fans will likely fill the seats for this effort from "Taken" director Pierre Morel, again called upon to salvage one of the slower weekends on the release calendar.

"From Paris With Love" reps another example of the ways in which action films increasingly mimic videogames. In particular, a long shootout that takes place through the innards of a Chinese restaurant is strikingly similar to a setpiece in "Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned" -- although unlike the film, the game shows a degree of wit and an appreciable sense of space.

Pic features a somnolent Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Reese, an assistant at the American embassy in Paris who lives a dull double-life as a low-ranking errand boy for the CIA. Soon enough, he's called upon for his first real-life espionage mission -- and paired with trigger-happy Charlie Wax (Travolta), introduced trying to sneak a suitcase full of energy drinks through customs, and five minutes later seen running in super-slow motion while yelling and firing two Uzis at the same time. (Whether he also endorses Axe Body Spray and Mountain Dew is left unsaid.)

The script makes little attempt to explain the conspiracy the pair are tasked with unraveling -- midway through, the pic's villains turn from Chinese coke dealers to Pakistani suicide bombers without explanation -- instead hustling them from bordello to banlieue to the top of the Eiffel Tower. There are certainly moments of intentional humor here -- Reese carries around a large vase filled with cocaine for a quarter of the movie -- but they clash awkwardly with the pic's penchant for deadening violence; toward the end, one especially brutal moment hardly even registers as a jolt, much less a joke.

To his credit, Travolta hams it up with the kind of laissez-faire irony that might have made the film a tongue-in-cheek pleasure, had his attitude extended to the filmmakers.

Production values are schizophrenic, alternating between stylish compositions and grainy, washed-out B-reel, while the uber-bombastic score generates a fair amount of unintended humor on its own.

Camera (color), Michel Abramowicz; editor, Frederic Thoraval; music, David Buckley; production designer, Jacques Bufnoir; set decorator, Veronique Melery; costume designers, Olivier Beriot, Corinne Bruand; sound (Dolby), Lucien Balibar, Frederic Dubois, Francois-Joseph Hors; stunt supervisor, Philippe Guegan; special effects supervisor, Philippe Hubin; visual effects supervisor, Roxane Fechner; visual effects, Eclair VFX; assistant director, Stephane Moreno Carpio; casting, Swan Pham. Reviewed at Raleigh Studios, Los Angeles, Jan. 27, 2010. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 92 MIN.

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Guy Pearce and Mary-Louise Parker will star in the psychological thriller "The Well" for Cooper's Town Productions reports Variety.

The story revolves around a well-to-do Manhattan couple whose obsessive pursuit of salvation ultimately leads to destruction.

Tim Guinee penned the script and makes his feature directorial debut on the project. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Ziff will produce.

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Paramount Pictures and Plan B have picked up film rights to Michael Lewis' non-fiction tome "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" says Variety.

The story chronicles the recent free fall of the American economy (in particular the crippled housing market), seen through the eyes of a large group of characters.

Brad Pitt is producing. No cast has been added, and no production date has been set.