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A Fistful of News
30 October 2009 5:10 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
We missed some stories this past week. We’re sorry. But we did not forget them. We never forget. We’re like elephants and people who hold grudges. With that in mind, here are some stories that are a little late but they’re still great. You can enjoy them all after the jump.
The fantastic 1997 sci-fi film “Gattaca” may become a television series in the vein of “CSI”. I don’t know how that works since the police would probably be the genetically-engineered humans while the interesting, true-born humans would be the ones hunted down.
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Chris Appelhan has posted some of the artwork he did for “Fantastic Mr. Fox”. He’s also done work for “Coraline” and “Hotel for Dogs”. It’s all really impressive. Click here to see more of his art.
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British companies Big Talk and Optimum Releasing have signed a picture deal with their »
- Matt Goldberg
Exclusive: Test screening review of Fair Game
27 October 2009 1:16 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
Thanks to our longtime friend Adam54 of Coming Attractions' message forums, we've landed an exclusive in the form of an early review for Fair Game, the upcoming thriller-drama starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. The actors play Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame, the married couple who were at the centerstorm of a Washington, D.C. scandal over Plame's outing as an undercover CIA operative by Washington Post journalist Robert Novak. The scandal, known in the press as "Plamegate", destroyed her career and rocked the White House as accusations were leveled against the Bush administration and its allies. Ambassador Wilson made the charge that the Bush administration had knowingly leaked his wife's covert status as a direct response for his public statements that the administration played up or outright lied that Iraq had uranium in its possession to make nuclear bombs. While Bush used the uranium scare to build his case »
- Patrick Sauriol
NBC Teaming Up with Adam Carolla and Don Cheadle
22 October 2009 5:30 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
NBC is lining up three projects for development: a half-hour comedy starring Adam Carolla; a comedy from The Simpsons alum Bill Oakley; and a project from Don Cheadle and The Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder.
According to Variety, the Carolla project will feature the comic as a contractor and father whose life is turned upside down when his wife leaves him. Carolla is set to exec produce the multicamera sitcom along with Kevin Hench, as well as Jimmy Kimmel, Daniel Kellison, Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun.
As for the Cheadle/McGruder comedy, the project revolves around mismatched brothers who reunite to open a private security company.
For the Oakley project, the scribe will exec produce along with Dave Bartis and Doug Liman. The comedy centers on the youngest judge in a circuit courthouse.
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Review: Did You Ever See… Swingers?
8 October 2009 10:04 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Couples Retreat is released this week. Once again Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn re-team, this time in a comedy about four couples who attend a therapeutic couples retreat, little knowing they’ll be expected to put their relationships under the microscope.
Vaughan and Favreau have worked together in several films, most notably in Favreau’s self-penned Swingers in 1996. Directed by Doug Liman, it’s a hip, trendy comedy with cool, likeable characters and endlessly quotable lines. Or is it?
When i first saw Swingers over 10 years ago, i loved it. I loved the snappy dialogue and the laid back attitude of the characters, as they hit the best nightspots and hot parties. My experience re-watching it this week was entirely different.
Mike (Favreau) is a comedian slash actor, who has been in La for sixth months since his girlfriend left him. Mike is really the main character. Now, usually, the main character is likeable, »
- Barry Steele
Michael Mann to Direct Biopic of Photographer Robert Capa
5 October 2009 11:55 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Director Michael Mann ("Public Enemies") teamed up with Columbia Pictures to tell the story of war photographer Robert Capa. They will focus on Capa's two-year romance with Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War.
Columbia has acquired the film rights to "Waiting for Robert Capa" by novelist Susana Fortes. The studio has set Jez Butterworth to write the script. Mann will produce and direct. Butterworth worked with his brother, John Henry, for the script for .Fair Game. from director Doug Liman starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. The brothers also worked on a James Brown biopic script.
Variety tells us, "The story begins in Paris in 1935, where Capa, a refugee from Fascist Hungary, met Taro, a refugee from Nazi Germany, met with the intention to become photographers. The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War one year later began Capa.s emergence as the most renowned war photographer ever, and established »
- Manny
Directions to Zombieland
2 October 2009 2:28 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
If someone were to tell you about a new zombie comedy by a first-time feature director, shot on HD, most likely your thoughts wouldn’t turn to a large-scale adventure starring Woody Harrelson. Yet that’s exactly what Zombieland (now playing from Columbia Pictures) is: a loud, fun major-studio horror/comedy. As you can imagine, it was quite an undertaking for Ruben Fleischer to make this his big-screen debut—and one everyone around him was wary of.
“With a young director, the natural instinct is to question what they’re doing, especially when they’re dealing with people who are so experienced,” says Fleischer, whose background is largely in television. “There’s a degree of taking on the role of director, and you’ve got to step into those boots. I’m not the most confident or outgoing person in the day-to-day, but when you’re in charge of a »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Samuel Zimmerman)
Guy Ritchie signs to direct ‘Lobo’ for Warner Bros.
3 September 2009 10:47 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
After reinventing Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr., director Guy Ritchie will next take a stab at his first comic book adaptation. According to the Hollywood Reporter [1]and Variety, [2] Ritchie has signed on to direct Lobo based on the DC Comics' anti-hero intergalactic bounty hunter character. Ritchie takes over for Doug Liman who had been previously attached to the project that producer Joel Silver has been developing for close to a decade. Hitfix.com [3] quotes Ritchie saying, I'm not negative towards the idea of doing Lobo as a movie, per se. I mean, since the early days of Ain't It Cool, Warner Bros. has been talking about doing this. ' Unfortunately fans of the comic may be disappointed in discovering that Warner Bros. insists on a PG-13 action movie considering the comic itself is geared to a mature audience. Lobo is a character who chops away at his blue cigars, »
- Ricky
Guy Ritchie to Direct Lobo
3 September 2009 6:37 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
One of the stranger comic book to movie adaptations that has been rumoured for a while now is a live action version of Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen's Lobo. The badass alien bounty hunter was originally created as a parody of ultra-violent comic book characters in the '80s and gained popularity throughout the '90s. Earlier this year it was believed that Joel Silver and Warner Brothers were finally moving forward with the property, and now we actually have confirmation that a director has been named. According to THR's Heat Vision blog [1], Guy Ritchie will be taking the reins on this project, replacing Doug Liman who had been attached previously. The script was penned by The Simpsons writer Don Payne (My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer). Something tells me this isn't the right creative team to handle Lobo. I know Guy Ritchie can direct »
- Sean
Guy Ritchie signs on to get loco with ‘Lobo’
3 September 2009 5:46 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
***Update*** Never mind! This is going to suck balls. Read on. In the film, he is a seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavily muscled anti-hero who drives a pimped out motorcycle, and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives who are bent on wreaking havoc. Lobo teams with a small town teenaged girl to stop the creatures. WB is aiming for a PG-13 rating. Variety. Ritchie’s visual panache aside. PG-13? Really?
As we wait in anticipation for his interpretation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional character Sherlock Holmes, in his next film aptly titled Sherlock Holmes, news has surfaced that producer Joel Silver has signed on Guy Ritchie to direct a big screen adaptation of DC Comics anti-hero Lobo. Both worked together previously on Holmes. Doug Liman was originally intended to direct the film. Don Payne wrote the script [Rise of the Silver Surfer and the upcoming Maximum Ride about six kids created with avian DNA escaping wolf creatures called Erasers who can fly, I kid you not].
An alien, Lobo works as an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter. »
- Andrew Mack
Guy Ritchie Going Lobo
2 September 2009 8:45 PM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
After helping reinvent Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr., director Guy Ritchie will next take a stab at his first true superhero film. Per The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, Ritchie has signed on to direct Lobo based on the DC Comics' anti-hero intergalactic bounty hunter character. The big blue cigar chomper loosely resembles a cross between Hellboy and Gene Simmons but was originally created as a parody of overly aggressive superheroes like Wolverine and The Punisher. Based on what I've read about him on DC Comics' Wikia page, his on-screen exploits should be full of blood, guts, four-letter words, and am ample dose of uncovered T&A. Ritchie takes over for Doug Liman who had been previously attached to the project producer Joel Silver has been developing for close to a decade. Even with Ritchie on board and a script from Don Payne in place, Warner Brothers has yet to »
Miley Cyrus Heads Home, Tyson Returns & More In Our DVD Report For Tuesday, August 18
18 August 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
It's a rare occurrence when Miley Cyrus and Mike Tyson share a spotlight, but that's the way it shakes out as both celebs see their biggest release in years hit store shelves.
In a rather slow week filled mostly with television box sets, Miley's "Hannah Montana: The Movie" is one of two new wide release films dropping on Blu-ray and DVD (the other being the horror remake of "The Last House On The Left," but what's left said about that?). In the pic, Miley's father drags her back home to give the teen superstar some much-needed Southern-style perspective. While it didn't quite match the hype of her 3-D excursion, the first full-fledged "Hannah Montana" theatrical outing managed to please fans of the Disney series, which I guess is all that counts. The film gets a Deluxe Edition with modest extras including behind-the-scenes footage, cast bloopers, a music video and audio »
- Brian Jacks
The Blu-Ray Review: Go (1999)
16 August 2009 1:19 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Colin Jacobson reviews the 1999 Pulp Fiction wanabee.
If you look up "1990s" in the dictionary, Go might be the movie pictured there. With its story of a particular party culture, it just screams "Nineties" to me - or at least "second half of the Nineties". Whether or not it still holds up a decade later remains to be seen.
To stave off eviction, Ronna (Sarah Polley) works shift after shift as a grocery clerk. To make money, she picks up more time from Simon (Desmond Askew); he wants the time off to make his first-ever visit to Vegas. Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr) needs drugs for an all-night rave, and they usually get their supplies from Simon.
With him in Vegas, they ask Ronna if she has any sources. She says she does and decides to score some extra cash that way. She goes to drug dealer Todd »
- Paul
/Filmcast Ep. 62 - G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra (Guest: Matt Singer from IFC News)
12 August 2009 4:00 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley compare the Watchmen: Director's Cut with the theatrical version, get excited about the distribution prospects for Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass, and remember the passing of a great talent. Special guest Matt Singer joins us from IFC News. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us next Monday at 9 Pm Est / 6 Pm Pst at Slashfilm's live page as we review District 9. Download or Play Now in your Browser: [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/slashfilmcast/Slashfilmcastep62n.mp3] Shownotes Introduction (00:42) Matt Singer from IFC What Have We Watched Matt Singer (3:30): Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The International David Chen (13:25): Watchmen: Director's Cut, The Game, Doug Liman commentaries, Knocked Up commentary Devindra (33:26): Ponyo on the Cliff Adam (35:56): Flirting with Disaster News Discussion (39: »
- David Chen
Buzz Break: Dude Looks Like a Lady
7 August 2009 1:45 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
· The whole wide web wants to know: Is Lady Gaga Hollywood's most famous hermaphrodite since, well, you know? We remain unconvinced -- she's probably just wearing her Gonzo g-string.
· Robert Luketic's Barbarella remake has a writer: Joe Gazzam, who penned the pilot Deputized for SyFy and a Scared Straight film called Riot for Nicolas Cage.
· When we talked to Evan Rachel Wood about her True Blood vampire queen, she was all atwitter to find out who'd be playing her lesbian lover. Evan, meet Lindsey Haun!
· After years of being rescued in the editing room, Doug Liman has now rescued someone himself.
· Kara DioGuardi went on Ryan Seacrest's radio show to talk about how close she is to Paula Abdul -- so close, in fact, that they haven't spoken a word to each other since Abdul quit. In Kara's defense, it's probably because she hasn't gotten her triumphant cackle »
Bourne Identity Director Saves Boat Crew
7 August 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
Director Doug Liman (Go, The Bourne Identity, Mr and Mrs Smith) and producer Avram Ludwig were on their sailboat on the river in New York around 1 am Wednesday when they saw a black cargo ship and a speedboat on a collision course. They said they watched in horror as the large craft crashed into the smaller boat and kept going. Both Liman and Ludwig said they didn't expect to find any survivors, but found four people screaming for help when they motored to the scene. Liman and Ludwig said they rescued three passengers from the water, while the owner of the vessel refused to leave his speedboat. All four were brought to shore and taken to St. Vincent's hospital with minor injuries. Police said the cargo ship probably did not notice the smaller boat. "I make action movies for a living," said Liman. "If I had Jason Bourne survive that, »
Doug Liman: The New Hero Of The Hudson
7 August 2009 9:20 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Wow. It's been just 8 months since the greatest hero who ever lived, Sully Sullenberger, successfully emergency landed an airplane in the Hudson River, allowing all his passengers to survive the accident. Now a new hero of the Hudson has emerged-- and it's Doug Liman? The Bourne Identity director was on a sailboat on the river just outside of New York City when he and his producer Avram Ludwig noticed a cargo ship barrel into a small boat and keep on moving. According to THR, Liman and Ludwig rescued three of the passengers from the water, while the fourth-- the owner-- clung to the wreckage until emergency crews arrived. Hilariously, Ludwig told THR that making action movies like Bourne may have prepared them for the incident. "Simulating life-threatening situations prepares you for real life. We can keep a level head under a lot of pressure." I don't care what it is »
Moviemaker Liman Saves Speedboat Crew
6 August 2009 6:36 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Moviemaker Doug Liman has been hailed a hero after coming to the rescue of three stranded boaters in the Hudson River in New York.
The Bourne Identity director was sailing on his yacht on Wednesday morning when he saw a cargo ship crush a speedboat, plunging the small crew into the water.
He raced to the scene and rescued three people.
Modest Liman says, "It was a close call."
The speedboat crew were left with minor injuries.
Coast Guard officials are investigating the incident. »
Go Blu-ray Review
5 August 2009 7:01 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Today, it seems so 1990's for films to be heavily inspired by (i.e. copy) Pulp Fiction as it has pretty much been done to death. But Go (1999) was made when Quentin's influential flick still cast an assuming shadow over popular cinema. Director Doug Liman (Mr and Mrs Smith, Jumper) followed his sleeper hit debut, Swingers (1996), with a multi-pronged narrative telling three stories that in super vogue Tarantino style overlap at critical junctures, have no shortage of self-aware hip dialog and rely heavily on a groovy selection of tunes. Go may never amount to more than the sum of its parts, but those parts are often witty, darkly comedic and entertaining. Where to begin... let's start with Ronna (Sara Polley) who is on the verge of being evicted on Christmas unless she comes up with several hundred dollars. Luckily, or totally contrived as the case may be, soap opera stars »
John August on How I Became a Famous Novelist
3 August 2009 8:48 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
John August is a screenwriter I've been following for the last decade. He broke onto the scene with a spec script titled Go, which was directed for the screen by Doug Liman (a film I highly recommend). Since then August has written a bunch of adaptations and remakes, mostly in association with director Tim Burton (Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride). He made a fantastic directorial debut with an original independent sci-fi mystery drama The Nines, which was a hit at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, but flew virtually under the radar of most (I also recommend this film, although I'll admit that it has gotten a polarizing response). I've been waiting and hoping for August to journey behind the camera once again, but his much in demand screenwriting duties have kept him away. He's producing Prince of Persia, wrote Preacher, and is also attached to Burton's Frankenweenie »
- Peter Sciretta
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Eye to Be 'Mr and Mrs Smith' Again
16 July 2009 11:04 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Rumor has it, a sequel for "Mr and Mrs Smith" is in the works as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are said hoping to reprise their titular roles. National Enquirer reported the pair is keen on playing on the sequel in order to save their troubled relationship. "They're hoping lightning will strike twice and they can re-spark the magnetism that captivated them five years ago," said a close family friend.
Jolie and Pitt reportedly have been trying to work out their plan by asking the screenwriter of "Mr and Mrs Smith", Simon Kinberg, to write a script for the sequel. "The romantic action film was penned by screenwriter Simon Kinberg. He's become close friend of the couple, and Brad's asked him to write the 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' sequel," the source gushed.
The insider additionally informed that there is a plan for the storyline which may include Jolie and Pitt's children. »
- AceShowbiz.com
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