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With the fairly recent, and quite significant, flops of the Yogi Bear, Garfield, and Speed Racer cartoon-to-movie adaptations, guess it was only a matter of time before Hollywood turned its filthy meathooks to the lower tier of classic Saturday morning ...
Read more: Eddie Murphy to Voice Hong Kong Phooey in Movie Adaptation
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The official site for David Fincher's adaptation of the best-selling novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has gone live. Notice we said adaptation and not remake. While it still has not been made absolutely clear, when considering what screenwriter ...
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The fun-loving monsters are back! Pixar is already in production on Monsters University, a prequel to Monsters Inc, directed by Dan Scanlon (Tracy). The animated odd couple, Mike Wazowski and James P. 'Sulley' Sullivan, are back at the University of Fear. The film tells us how...
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Cowboys & werewolves? Not any time soon, as Disney has shown by nixing preproduction on producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s adaptation of The Lone Ranger. Just two months before shooting was to take place in New Mexico under the direction of Gore Verbinski...
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This fall may actually bring the long-delayed release of The Rum Diary, an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s first, but long lost novel. Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean 4) once again pays ...
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The recent Hollywood "trend" of converting board game properties into movies seems to be waning a bit, even though it really never got completely off the ground. Of course Battleship is set to arrive in theaters next summer, and if the trailer for that film is ...
Read more: McG's OUIJA Adaptation Dropped; FRANKENSTEIN Developments - UPDATED
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With or without Bill Murray's involvement, Ghostbusters 3 finally seems to be moving forward. At least that's what Dan Aykroyd says. We know it's getting kind of tiresome hearing about the on-again off-again nature of this production, but this latest bit ...
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Add another remake to the list! Rumor has it that Paramount is developing a remake of the 1974 drama The Gambler. Deadline is reporting that the product is possibly to be directed by Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island) and a screenplay written by William Monahan (The Departed)...
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Fright Night. The Gambler. Footloose. What connects these films? They are all among Hollywood’s plight to remake anything and everything. So it’s no surprise that Columbia Pictures has a remake of Flatliners in the works, alongside Further Films who produced the ...
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The Coen-quirk continues as the dynamic duo reveal the subject and title of their next film. Joel and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man) are creating a movie centered around 1960’s folk music scene in New York’s Greenwich Village entitled Inside Llewyn Davis ...
Read more: Subject, Title Revealed for Next Coen Brothers Project
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While announcements and buzz about the upcoming Expendables sequel have the cast turning over more frequently than a Pillsbury pastry, one recent tidbit of casting news caught our eye. Millennium Films had briefly updated the ...
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After stumbling out the gate with crippling bouts of ego posturing, casting dilemmas, and production delays, director Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby has finally gotten under way. Principal photography ...
Read more: GREAT GATSBY Production Gets Under Way in Australia
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After much speculation, rumors, and hopeful optimism over the last few months, we have (almost) official word that J.J. Abrams is indeed boarding the Enterprise once again to bring us a sequel to his smash 2009 hit, Star Trek...
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It’s official: Hollywood is either out of ideas or simply won’t take a chance on any new ones. Remakes, re-imaginings and way-too-late sequels seem to be all the rage for the studios to bring money to them...
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We learned earlier this summer that the production on the Bonnie and Clyde legend called The Story of Bonnie and Clyde, was to get underway this fall with Limitless director Neil Burger taking the helm and Hilary Duff in the role ...
Read more: Lindsay Pulsipher to Tote Bonnie Parker's Machine Gun
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Who knows if that boycott called for by the hardcore Star Wars fans did any good for those who had hoped to punish Lucas for his filthy molestation of a cinematic classic. If it did, it was minimal, because today Twentieth Century Fox said that the recently released ...
Read more: STAR WARS Boycott Has Little Effect on SAGA Blu-ray Sales
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Word came down today from Working Films that production has begun on Joe Wright's adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy classic, Anna Karenina. The film marks Wright's fourth film with Working title and his third collaboration with Keira Knightley who will star opposite ...
Read more: Production Underway on Joe Wright's ANNA KARENINA
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Official hope has arrived! It was announced on Sunday at The New Yorker Festival that an Arrested Development movie will happen after a new lead-in season on television. Fans of the cult classic show have been waiting patiently for word of a movie since its ...
Read more: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT New Season and Movie on the Way
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Finding itself a victim of its own success in the online streaming business, Netflix will continue to do battle with stingy content providers by funding original productions. In fact, Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer of Netflix sat down with Mike Lang at MIPCOM in Cannes this week to announce ...
Read more: Netflix Adds LILYHAMMER to Original Broadcast Slate
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In a move that seems to have gone over well with investors today, Netflix said it will not separate its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services as it had previously announced back in September. "It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we ...
Read more: Netflix Reverses Course; Will Not Separate DVD and Online Delivery of Movies
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Seems a poor box office showing isn't the only thing the distributors of the crime drama Drive are left to face after the film failed to catch traction with the general public following a scorching run on the international film circuit. Now it must go up against the court system since one viewer didn't think the film was...
Read more: Movie Distributor Sued Because DRIVE Isn't Like FAST AND FURIOUS
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There's a bit of good news coming out of Hollywood for anyone who prefers curling up on the couch to take in a new flick over schlepping to the nearest cineplex. Seems that universal is plowing forward with a controversial plan to ...
Read more: TOWER HEIST May Change How We Watch Movies - UPDATE
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True Blood's Anna Paquin will join Twilight's Cam Giganet in Shana Sosin's indie production called Free Ride. Written and directed by Sosin, the drama is based on a true story in which an abused uneducated single mother (Paquin) struggles ...
Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: "Free Ride", "Avatar 2" and "Rentaghost"
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Speaking at MIPCOM recently in Cannes, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos suggested his company looks at what people are pirating in different parts of the world to help figure out what titles to license for for that region. An ...
Read more: List of Top 10 Most Pirated and Top 10 Most Rented Movies
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Less than stellar DVD sales have continued to drag the home video market down in 2011, but a strong showing from X-Men: First Class, Thor, and The Star Wars Saga on the blu-ray format, have prompted a 156% surge in ...
Read more: STAR WARS SAGA, X-MEN, and THOR Spur Blu-ray Rebound
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Mimicking the home video embargo strategy utilized for years by Disney whereby popular films are pulled from the market and placed in the Disney Vault, Reuters is reporting that Warner Bros. has announced it will remove all its Harry Potter DVDs and Blu-ray discs from ...
Read more: Warner to Vault HARRY POTTER Movies at End of Year
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The attempted revival of 80s TV continues with the recent report that Stephen J. Cannell's series Wiseguy is coming back as a contemporary take on the disgraced former cop who cuts a deal to work undercover for time off his sentence. The series, ...
Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: '80s TV; DAMAGES; Sudeikis in DOG FIGHT
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Ben Affleck (The Town) and Matt Damon (Contagion) are rumored to reunite for their first collaboration since their first feature film, Good Will Hunting. The duo are seeking to do a biopic on New England ganster Whitey Bulger, Boston’s most notorious ganster. The project is part of a new deal to revamp the team’s...
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Thanks to an increased appetite for HD - as well as a larger availability of cheaper Hi-def televisions - Americans spent about 5% more on home video during the third quarter over the same period last year. This represents the first increase since early 2008.Though the increase could be a ...
Read more: Rosy Days for Blu-ray. Hi-def Disc Sales Boost U.S. Home Video Spending
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Bond is back for the 23rd installment of the franchise. Sony/Columbia has Skyfall scheduled to be released in November 2012 coinciding with the series’ 50th anniversary. Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (Away We Go) will be directing his first James Bond film, which starts...
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- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
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