Hasbro and Mattel, widely considered to be the two juggernauts of the American toy industry all throughout the ’80s and ’90s, will underpin the new limited series that’s just set up shop at Amazon Studios.
Hailing from Pixels star Josh Gad, Josh Schwartz and director Seth Gordon, it’s aptly called Toy Wars, and is to be based on the non-fiction novel penned by G. Wayne Miller, Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies that Make Them.
As the title suggests, Amazon’s new property will chronicle the real-life tussle between the two industry giants, after Miller – a journalist and writer – was given unprecedented access into My Little Pony conglomerate Hasbro, before shedding light on the company’s mantra as it sought to fend off heated competition from Mattel. Deadline reveals that Alan Hassenfeld, a free spirit who would go on to become the chief executive officer at Hasbro,...
Hailing from Pixels star Josh Gad, Josh Schwartz and director Seth Gordon, it’s aptly called Toy Wars, and is to be based on the non-fiction novel penned by G. Wayne Miller, Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies that Make Them.
As the title suggests, Amazon’s new property will chronicle the real-life tussle between the two industry giants, after Miller – a journalist and writer – was given unprecedented access into My Little Pony conglomerate Hasbro, before shedding light on the company’s mantra as it sought to fend off heated competition from Mattel. Deadline reveals that Alan Hassenfeld, a free spirit who would go on to become the chief executive officer at Hasbro,...
- 9/21/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Director Paul Schrader and Nicolas Cage have spent a week shooting espionage thriller The Dying of the Light on the Gold Coast.
Cage plays Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent facing early retirement due to the onset of an aggressive Alzheimer.s-related disease. He embarks on a manhunt while struggling to control his behaviour as the symptoms mount.
Anton Yelchin (Star Trek: Into Darkness) plays Lake's CIA protégé with Irène Jacob (Three Colours: Red, The French Kissers, The Secret Garden) as his ex-lover.
The principal location was the Royal Pines Resort, which substituted for a resort in Kenya. Earlier the cast and crew spent several weeks filming in Bucharest, Romania.
It.s the first film from Over Under Media, a Us production company formed by Todd Williams, Scott Clayton and Gary Hirsch.
The producers initially intended to film the resort scenes in Thailand but decided to look for another location...
Cage plays Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent facing early retirement due to the onset of an aggressive Alzheimer.s-related disease. He embarks on a manhunt while struggling to control his behaviour as the symptoms mount.
Anton Yelchin (Star Trek: Into Darkness) plays Lake's CIA protégé with Irène Jacob (Three Colours: Red, The French Kissers, The Secret Garden) as his ex-lover.
The principal location was the Royal Pines Resort, which substituted for a resort in Kenya. Earlier the cast and crew spent several weeks filming in Bucharest, Romania.
It.s the first film from Over Under Media, a Us production company formed by Todd Williams, Scott Clayton and Gary Hirsch.
The producers initially intended to film the resort scenes in Thailand but decided to look for another location...
- 3/6/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Snow White And The Huntsman helmer Rupert Sanders has come attached to direct The Kill List, an adaptation of the new Frederick Forsyth thriller that was acquired by producers Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz and Nick Wechsler. Give those producers credit for wasting no time, as they just bought the book last month. After they acquired the Cormac McCarthy spec script The Counselor, they had that film in production in record time at Fox with Ridley Scott directing and a cast headed by Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz. Sanders, who made his feature directing debut on Huntsman, has always been a big fan of Forsyth’s espionage thrillers, and Kill List reminded him of this Hemingway line: “There is no hunting like the hunting of men, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
- 6/20/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: In a six-figure deal, producers Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz and Nick Wechsler have preemptively acquired rights to The Kill List, the new novel by Day Of The Jackal author Frederick Forsyth. The contemporary espionage tale is described as an intricate chess game between a brilliant Marine, an Israeli agent, a teenage hacker and a mysterious psychopathic cleric. The novel will be published in September by Penguin. Forsyth also wrote The Fourth Protocol and The Odessa File. Schwartz, Schwartz and Wechsler will produce and Roger Schwartz is co-producer. They bought this preemptively as they did The Counselor, which went from a Cormac McCarthy spec to a green lit movie at lightning speed. Matching the gritty intensity that McCarthy has poured into books like No Country For Old Men, the script quickly drew director Ridley Scott and a cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
- 5/15/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Millions of Twilight fans around the world are eagerly anticipating the March 29th opening of The Host (Open Road Films) starring Saoirse Ronan, the next best-selling epic sci-fi love story by Stephenie Meyer, creator of the Twilight Saga. On March 26th, three days before the opening, KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records will release an exciting collection of music titled The Host. Choose To Listen. The album is executive produced by KIDinaKORNER Records founder-producer-songwriter Alex Da Kid and Stephenie Meyer.
The Host. Choose To Listen is headlined by previously unreleased tracks from artists on KIDinaKORNER Records, most notably the new track “Radioactive (The Dirty Tees Remix)” by platinum selling break-out rock band Imagine Dragons- check it out Here. Also in the spotlight are: “Slowly Freaking Out” by Skylar Grey (co-writer of “Love the Way You Lie,” the worldwide #1 hit by Eminem featuring Rihanna); and “Making Time” by Jamie N Commons.
The new...
The Host. Choose To Listen is headlined by previously unreleased tracks from artists on KIDinaKORNER Records, most notably the new track “Radioactive (The Dirty Tees Remix)” by platinum selling break-out rock band Imagine Dragons- check it out Here. Also in the spotlight are: “Slowly Freaking Out” by Skylar Grey (co-writer of “Love the Way You Lie,” the worldwide #1 hit by Eminem featuring Rihanna); and “Making Time” by Jamie N Commons.
The new...
- 3/18/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Michael Fassbender cast in The Counselor. Michael Fassbender’s casting in Ridley Scott‘s The Counselor (2013) answers the question of who will play the lead role in the Cormac McCarthy scripted film. Michael Fassbender will be playing a lawyer in the drama, thriller movie. “The protagonist is a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked down. It is a bad decision and he tries his best to survive it and get out of a desperate situation.” The Counselor is said to be “reminiscent of the rough-and-tumble world depicted in the Oscar-winning adaptation of McCarthy’s novel No Country For Old Men.”
On the quality of The Counselor screenplay from producer Steve Schwartz:
Since McCarthy himself wrote the script, we get his own muscular prose directly, with its sexual obsessions. It’s a masculine world into which, unusually, two women intrude to play leading roles.
On the quality of The Counselor screenplay from producer Steve Schwartz:
Since McCarthy himself wrote the script, we get his own muscular prose directly, with its sexual obsessions. It’s a masculine world into which, unusually, two women intrude to play leading roles.
- 2/22/2012
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
If you haven’t read any of Cormac McCarthy’s works, chances are you saw one of his works being adapted into a movie. The Road, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and No Country for Old Men are novels that have been turned into movies. Now one of McCarthy’s newest pieces will be turned into a movie yet again, only thing is, the acclaimed novelist wrote a screenplay.
According to Deadline, Cormac McCarthy’s first screenplay, titled The Counselor, has been purchased by the producers of The Road and is said to be in the same vein as No Country for Old Men. According to the report, the movie features “a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked down. It is a bad decision and he tries his best to survive it and get out of a desperate situation.
According to Deadline, Cormac McCarthy’s first screenplay, titled The Counselor, has been purchased by the producers of The Road and is said to be in the same vein as No Country for Old Men. According to the report, the movie features “a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked down. It is a bad decision and he tries his best to survive it and get out of a desperate situation.
- 1/18/2012
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
Exclusive: Andrew Niccol has been set as the director of The Host, directing his scripted adaptation of the bestselling novel by Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer. The project, which is being shopped here at Cannes by Inferno Entertainment and producers Nick Wechsler and Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz, will star Saoirse Ronan. After resisting overtures to sell the book, Meyer finally entrusted it with the producers, who gave her strong creative input. She chose Niccol originally because she was a fan of his film Gattaca and script for The Truman Show. While Niccol adapted the book into the current script, he exited to make the film Now, which he has completed with Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Cillian Murphy starring. The producers went down the road with several directors, but talks with Niccol to return started heating up in recent weeks. Ronan ramped up interest in the film when she was set to star.
- 5/12/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The array of novel adaptations from writer Stephanie Meyer continue to grow as her latest book The Host gets the feature film treatment. Andrew Niccol will write and direct the adaptation, adding onto his credits which include Lord of War and Gattaca. The project was picked up by Nick Wechsler, Paula Mae and Steve Schwartz out of their own money Variety reports.
Meyer’s novel is a love story set in the near future on Earth, which has been assimilated by an alien species that call themselves “Souls.” They are benevolent parasites that subsume the conscious of humans and take possession of their bodies. One such soul, The Wanderer (so named because she has wandered among so many different worlds) is fused with a dying human named Melanie Stryder, in an attempt to locate the last pocket of surviving humans on Earth. The Wanderer cannot subsume the forceful Melanie, and...
Meyer’s novel is a love story set in the near future on Earth, which has been assimilated by an alien species that call themselves “Souls.” They are benevolent parasites that subsume the conscious of humans and take possession of their bodies. One such soul, The Wanderer (so named because she has wandered among so many different worlds) is fused with a dying human named Melanie Stryder, in an attempt to locate the last pocket of surviving humans on Earth. The Wanderer cannot subsume the forceful Melanie, and...
- 9/24/2009
- by Melissa Molina
- Atomic Popcorn
Not content with dominating the teenage market, Stephenie Meyer, author of The Twilight Saga, has sold movie rights to her first adult novel, The Host.
The rights were bought by producers Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, and Paula Mae Schwartz. Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) is set to write the script, as well as take on directorial duties.
Published in May 2008, The Host is the first book in a proposed trilogy, and features what is possibly the first love triangle involving only two bodies. It's part sci-fi, part romance, and follows the life of Melanie Stryder — a human girl who becomes a host for a parasitic soul called Wanderer. The Host was one of the biggest selling books of 2008, which bodes well for a successful movie adaptation. Some parts could be tricky to explain, but we're sure Meyer fans won't care about that. If they can overlook werewolves that suddenly turn into shapeshifters,...
The rights were bought by producers Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, and Paula Mae Schwartz. Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) is set to write the script, as well as take on directorial duties.
Published in May 2008, The Host is the first book in a proposed trilogy, and features what is possibly the first love triangle involving only two bodies. It's part sci-fi, part romance, and follows the life of Melanie Stryder — a human girl who becomes a host for a parasitic soul called Wanderer. The Host was one of the biggest selling books of 2008, which bodes well for a successful movie adaptation. Some parts could be tricky to explain, but we're sure Meyer fans won't care about that. If they can overlook werewolves that suddenly turn into shapeshifters,...
- 9/23/2009
- by Jenny Davies
- Reelzchannel.com
Stephenie Meyer's first non-Twilight novel The Host will be turned into a movie, according to Variety. Producers Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz have snapped up the screen rights to the book, which takes place in the near future and sees an alien called the Wanderer fuse with a dying woman to locate Earth's remaining humans. Andrew Niccol will write and direct (more)...
- 9/23/2009
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
IGN is a really good place to get your movie news, I must say. They have their own stories and they're really good about wading through the mountains of industry headlines to find interesting ones, and that's the case here with a story they plucked from Variety. (I do wish they'd link to the story on Variety, because that site's internal search is a complete goddamn waste of time).
Because great things are expected out of Mamma Mia! (we may not see those results initially, but this thing will be in theaters around the world clear through Labor Day), Universal is skimming the cream of Broadway again, reaching a deal to bring Wicked to theaters.
Talk about a movie that'll make a lot of money...
The musical has been an enormous hit, it's based on a very popular book, and with musicals suddenly getting as much play as comic book...
Because great things are expected out of Mamma Mia! (we may not see those results initially, but this thing will be in theaters around the world clear through Labor Day), Universal is skimming the cream of Broadway again, reaching a deal to bring Wicked to theaters.
Talk about a movie that'll make a lot of money...
The musical has been an enormous hit, it's based on a very popular book, and with musicals suddenly getting as much play as comic book...
- 7/15/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
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