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'Dark Knight' Sets Weekend Record with $155.34M
The Dark Knight took in a record $155.34 million in its first weekend, topping the previous best of $151.1 million for Spider-Man 3 in May 2007 and pacing Hollywood to its biggest weekend ever, according to studio estimates Sunday. read more...
Last Updated: 07-21-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,124 Category: Top Comments (0) |
Screenwriter Zetumer to Adapt 'Dune' Redo
 Screenwriter Josh Zetumer (Villain) is in negotiations to pen the latest movie incarnation of Dune, Frank Herbert's sprawling sci-fi epic, for Paramount Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a futuristic struggle for control of a precious spice called Melange on the desert planet Arrakis. Peter Berg (The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights) is attached to direct. read more...
Last Updated: 06-07-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 2,122 Category: News Comments (0) |
Pandamonium! 'Kung Fu Panda' Video Interviews
To celebrate the release of "Kung Fu Panda", DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures provided us with 10 fun-filled cast and crew video interviews, including Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogen and Jackie Chan.
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Last Updated: 06-07-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,610 Category: Top Comments (0) |
Wilson Has 'Transformers 2' Role
Rainn Wilson (NBC's "The Office" and upcoming The Rocker) has been cast in DreamWorks' Transformers 2, the sequel to last year's megahit about a race of automotive automatons, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The sequel reteams director Michael Bay with returning stars Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro. read more...
Last Updated: 06-02-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 3,539 Category: News Comments (0) |
Howard Replacing Gainsbourg in 'Terminator' Sequel
Bryce Dallas Howard, who played Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3, is in negotiations to replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in action-adventure sequel Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gainsbourg was originally set to play Kate Connor, the wife of human resistance hero Connor. The actress had to bow out because of scheduling conflicts with another film, a French comedy. read more...
Last Updated: 06-02-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 2,000 Category: News Comments (0) |
Trio Get '2012' Disaster' Date
Danny Glover (Dreamgirls), Thandie Newton (Crash) and Oliver Platt (Martian Child) are in discussions to join Sony Pictures' 2012, which is being directed by Roland Emmerich (10,000 B.C., Day After Tomorrow, The"), according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project centers on the heroic struggle of the survivors of a global cataclysm. read more...
Last Updated: 06-02-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 2,409 Category: News Comments (0) |
Huge Fire Burns at Universal Studios Backlot
 A back lot at Universal Studios in Universal City, Calif. is the scene of a three-alarm fire. Los Angeles fire Capt. Frank Reynoso said the blaze was reported just before dawn on Sunday. Some media reports say the fire started at 4:44 a.m. local time. Two mock New York and New England streets used for movie making and tourist displays were "a total loss," he said. read more...
Last Updated: 06-01-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,273 Category: News Comments (0) |
'Charlie Bartlett' Comes to DVD on June 24th
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When Charlie Bartlett listens, everyone talks! MGM Home Entertainment presents one young man's smart, funny and touching battle with the hypocrisies of high school and the modern world when Charlie Bartlett debuts on DVD June 24. read more...
Last Updated: 05-21-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,699 Category: News Comments (0) |
Lucas: 'Indy V' Is Possible
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George Lucas told Fox News that it's more than a strong possibility there will be a fifth Indiana Jones movie. Speaking in Cannes, where Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull premiered over the weekend, Lucas told the news service that he and director Steven Spielberg have left the door open for another sequel. read more...
Last Updated: 05-21-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 2,342 Category: Rumors Comments (0) |
The Choice to Make a 'Bioshock' Movie
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If anyone could turn around the video game spin-off genre, it is Gore Verbinski and that's likely why Universal and Take-Two decided to bring him aboard for Bioshock.
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Last Updated: 05-16-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,966 Category: Top Comments (0) |
DreamWorks Finds 'Ghost in the Shell' Remake
DreamWorks Pictures has acquired rights to the Japanese manga Ghost in the Shell and plans to adapt the futuristic police thriller as a 3-D live-action feature film, Daily Variety reported. The story follows the exploits of a member of a covert ops unit of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission that specializes in fighting technology-related crime. read more...
Last Updated: 04-15-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 2,433 Category: News Comments (0) |
Del Toro Talks 'Hobbit' Helming Duties
Director Guillermo del Toro told fans that there has been "a lot of movement" in talks to bring him on board to direct the Peter Jackson-produced two-part The Hobbit movie, but that nothing is firm yet. read more...
Last Updated: 04-14-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 2,455 Category: Top Comments (0) |
DeVito Gets Role in Disney's 'Rome'
Danny DeVito will try and woo Kristen Bell in Disney's romantic comedy When in Rome, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Scary right?! DeVito joins a supporting cast that already includes Will Arnett, Josh Duhamel, Jon Heder, Anjelica Huston and Dax Shepard. The pic shoots this month in New York. Mark Steven Johnson is directing. read more...
Last Updated: 04-14-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,930 Category: News Comments (0) |
LaBeouf Enters Universal's 'Dark Fields'
Shia LaBeouf, whose recent credits include Transformers and Disturbia, will play a lucky loser in The Dark Fields, a thriller in the vein of "Fight Club" and The Game. Neil Burger (The Illusionist) is directing the Universal Pictures project, working from an adaptation of the book by Alan Glynn. read more...
Last Updated: 04-14-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 5,893 Category: News Comments (0) |
Cast Lined Up for 'Everybody's Fine'
Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell are lined up to star in Everybody's Fine, a remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Italian drama "Stanno Tutti Bene". Kirk Jones, who last directed the Emma Thompson family film Nanny McPhee, will direct Fine beginning later this month in Connecticut. read more...
Last Updated: 04-14-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,610 Category: News Comments (0) |
Stiller Plans 'Return of King Doug'
Ben Stiller is attached to produce and possibly star in The Return of King Doug, an adaptation of a graphic novel about a man who must return to the fantasy world he abandoned 30 years earlier. The project is set up at DreamWorks, which has partnered with King Doug publisher Oni Press on the titles Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things and "The Damned." read more...
Last Updated: 04-14-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,521 Category: News Comments (0) |
Portman Visiting 'Wuthering Heights' Remake
Natalie Portman, who currently stars in My Blueberry Nights, is set to star in a new feature adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Portman will play heroine Catherine Earnshaw, who falls for Heathcliff in a passionate love that is ultimately thwarted. read more...
Last Updated: 04-14-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,517 Category: News Comments (0) |
'Supernatural' Star Ackles to Lead Lionsgate's 'Valentine'
 Jensen Ackles (The CW's "Supernatural") is in final talks to play a lead in Lionsgate's My Bloody Valentine 3-D, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Eye director Patrick Lussier will helm the remake of the 1981 slasher film, in which Ackles plays Tom, a handsome, principled man who returns to his home in Harmony, Mo., 10 years after 22 people were murdered on Valentine's night. read more...
Last Updated: 04-07-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,648 Category: News Comments (0) |
Collette Joins the Faculty in Mendes Film
Toni Collette, who starred in Little Miss Sunshine and In Her Shoes, will join John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph in an upcoming relationship comedy from "American Beauty" director Sam Mendes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Krasinski (Leatherheads) and Rudolph ("Saturday Night Live") star as a couple who canvas the country to find the best place to raise their unborn child. read more...
Last Updated: 04-07-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,453 Category: News Comments (0) |
'Short Circuit' is Alive Again at Dimension
 Dimension Films has acquired remake rights to the 1986 sci-fi comedy film Short Circuit, about Number 5, a military robot that develops a conscience and personality after being hit by lightning, Daily Variety reported. S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, who created the characters and wrote both Short Circuit films, have been hired to write the remake. David Foster and Ryan E. Heppe will produce with John Hyde. read more...
Last Updated: 04-06-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 2,249 Category: News Comments (0) |
Washington Enters 'Matarese Circle'
Denzel Washington has signed on to star in action thrller The Matarese Circle, which is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum ("Bourne" books). The story revolves around two secret agents -- an American and a Russian -- who must work together to fight a mysterious group of killers known as the Matarese. read more...
Last Updated: 04-06-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 3,993 Category: News Comments (0) |
SAG to Begin Formal Talks on April 15
The heads of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) announced on Tuesday evening that they reached an agreement regarding the contracts with the Hollywood's movie and television companies. SAG will begin formal talks with the leaders of the movie and television companies at 10 a.m. on April 15 at the AMPTP headquarters in Encino, CA. read more...
Last Updated: 04-06-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,508 Category: Top Comments (0) |
Time Warner to Downsize New Line Cinema
 Time Warner Inc. announced today the consolidation of its filmed entertainment businesses, Warner Bros. Entertainment and New Line Cinema. As part of the consolidation, New Line will be operated as a unit of Warner Bros. New Line will maintain separate development, production, marketing, distribution and business affairs operations, but will closely integrate and coordinate those functions with Warner Bros. read more...
Last Updated: 02-29-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 2,065 Category: News Comments (0) |
Statham Returns for 'Transporter 3'
Jason Statham, who stars in the upcoming crime thriller The Bank Job (we are giving away passes!) will once again return as Frank Martin for a third time in Transporter 3. Statham will reprise his role as the mercenary driver/delivery man. He will reteam with co-star Francois Berleand and new addition Robert Knepper ("Prison Break"). read more...
Last Updated: 02-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 3,011 Category: News Comments (0) |
Scorsese Admits Three to 'Shutter Island'
Emily Mortimer (Lars and the Real Girl) and Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) will play mental patients in Shutter Island, which is being directed by famous director Martin Scorsese. Max von Sydow (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) has also joined the cast of the Paramount Vantage project, according to The Hollywood Reporter. read more...
Last Updated: 02-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 2,211 Category: News Comments (0) |
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Screenwriter Zetumer to Adapt 'Dune' Redo
