Saturday, December 7, 2013

Cody's Movie Spot #34

My Top Films For "1986"
1. Platoon
2. Top Gun
3. The Mission
4. Hoosiers
5. Aliens
6. At Close Range
7. Crocodile Dundee
8. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
9. Flight Of The Navigater
10. The Hitcher
11. Savador
12. Ferris Buellr's Day Off
13. The Karate Kid, Part II
14. Short Circuit
15. Labyrinth 
16. Little Shop Of Horrors
17. An American Tail
18. The Great Mouse Detective
19. Lucas 
20. River's Edge 

New Movie Dates

      Son Of God -  Diogo Morgado portrays the role of Jesus as the film spans from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection. The 2013 History Channel miniseries The Bible is being recut into a single three-hour edition for big screen release. The theatrical release includes footage not seen in the miniseries and has a 5.1 surround sound mix. Feb. 28, 2014. 

       The Grand Budapest Hotel - Recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. Mar. 7, 2014.    

      Addicted - The story centers on Zoe, a woman in a perfectly quaint marriage. The couple are busy raising three children while devoted to their careers. However, it’s not enough to fulfill all of her desires as she soon finds herself satisfying her addiction to sex with other men, which puts her on a dangerous path that she may not survive. Mar. 14, 2014.

      Bad Words - The bitter child of the organizer of the national spelling bee gets his revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win the bee as an adult. Along the way, he befriends a female reporter and a young Indian contestant who he exposes to the wilder side of life. The film is in a similar vein as Bad Santa given its strong language and risque sequences. Mar. 21, 2014.

      The Fault In Our Stars - A teenage girl stricken with cancer falls for a boy in her support group and the two form a bond as they deal with their illnesses.
      A 16-year-old girl with terminal cancer strikes up a relationship with a teenage boy at her kids-with-cancer support group. Despite facing their own mortality, they bolster each other’s spirits with humor as they bravely face an uncertain future. June 6, 2014.
 
      Into The Storm - Presented through videocameras and cellphones, the story follows inhabitants of a small town in Oklahoma and a stormchaser and his crew when a tornado super cell touches down. Aug. 8, 2014. 

      The Giver - In a perfect world where there is no conflict, racism or sickness, every member of society has a specific role, and 16-year-old Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. As Jonas uncovers the truth behind his world's past, he discovers that many years earlier his forefathers gave up humanity in order to have a stable society. Aug. 15, 2014.

      Gone Girl - A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary and all roads point to her husband as the killer. Oct. 3, 2014

      Mcfarland - In McFarland, California, a high school coach tries to inspire students by forming a cross-country team. Based on a true story. Nov. 21, 2014. 

      Horrible Bosses 2 - Sequel to the hit 2011 film, which grossed over $209 million worldwide.
Chris Pine plays half of a father-son duo who steal the main characters' idea for a new invention. Nov. 26, 2014. 




Movies Being Planned

     Director David Bruckner to work on Intrusion- In the film, a young woman’s life begins to unravel shortly after moving to San Francisco, when she realizes she’s being pursued by a disturbed stalker. As the assaults and creepy incidents escalate she realizes that she has become the target of something far more sinister and horrifying.

 

     Director Lanne Welham to do Will And Zoe based on the book called Nobody But Us. The book, published earlier this year, is officially described with two brief inner monologues from its two protagonists:

Will

Maybe I'm too late. Maybe Zoe's dad stole all her fifteen years and taught her to be scared. I'll undo it. Help her learn to be strong again, and brave. Not that I'm any kind of example, but we can learn together. When the whole world is after you, sometimes it seems like you can't run fast enough.

Zoe

Maybe it'll take Will years to come to terms with being abandoned. Maybe it'll take forever. I'll stay with him no matter how long it takes to prove that people don't always leave, don't always give up on you. 







     Jane Levy will star in Good Kids, The film's official logline indicates that the action follows "four overachieving high school students in Cape Cod who reinvent themselves during the summer after graduation."  

  

  
90 Church based on the book is going to become a film.officially described as follows:

From 1950 through the late 1960s, America feared two great enemies: Communism and illegal drugs. While the espionage stories have been well publicized, the war against drugs was far more violent and has remained mostly secret.

At its peak, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) enlisted only 350 agents worldwide. In New York City, the center of organized crime and rum import, there were only 35 street agents in the bureau's office at 90 Church Street. While the FBI refused even to acknowledge organized crime, these agents stood alone against a well-organized Mafia and vicious drug cartels. To survive against impossible odds, the agents used incredibly brutal and cunning tactics to make cases and bring the war to a stalemate. Their violent exploits on the streets of New York City became legendary to other law enforcement agencies and the underworld.

Using an ever-expanding network of enslaved criminal informants held together by secret immunity deals, the sinister reputation of 90 Church grew along with the rising body count. In 1968, alarmed politicians, who did not understand - nor could be told - about 90 Church operations, launched an ill-fated and arrogant investigation. Accusations were made against the agents based on taking undercover operations out of context and believing testimony from criminal informants. Now fighting a war on two fronts, 90 Church was dissolved and its agents discredited.

The book is a memoir based upon real cases and actual people. It is a story of a young agent's downward slide into hell as he falls victim to addiction, deception, violence, and shifting loyalties. It is a desperate struggle in front-line combat to find justice and redemption. Ultimately, it is also the age-old tale of deals with the devil and what happens when something that is right is sacrificed to fight what is wrong.




    Kirsten Dunst set to star in Midnight- Special, The sci-fi project, said to be set in present day, follows a father and son who are forced into going on the run when the eight-year-old boy develops some kind of extraordinary power.



      Jason Momoa's to direct Road To Paloma, In Road to Paloma, Momoa ("Game of Thrones," Conan the Barbarian) stars as Robert Wolf, a Native American, who is being hotly pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands after a brutal injustice occurs when his mother is raped and killed on their reservation. Wolf crosses paths with Cash (Mollohan), a down and out musician, and an unlikely bond is formed as they motorcycle across the vast highways of the American West in search of redemption.  


     Fox Studios to bring Red Sparrow to the big screen. the book is officially described as follows:

In present-day Russia, ruled by blue-eyed, unblinking President Vladimir Putin, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle. Ordered against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles the Agency’s most important Russian mole.

As the action careens between Russia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and the United States, Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and—inevitably—forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but those of others as well. As secret allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and Nate’s game reaches a deadly crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington, DC.


  
Fox Searchlight plans Sorta Like A Rockstar from book, officially described as follows:

Amber Appleton lives in a bus. Ever since her mom’s boyfriend kicked them out, Amber, her mom, and her totally loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy (aka Thrice B) have been camped out in the back of Hello Yellow (the school bus her mom drives). But Amber, the self-proclaimed princess of hope and girl of unyielding optimism, refuses to sweat the bad stuff. Instead, she focuses on bettering the lives of her alcoholic mother and her quirky circle of friends: a glass-ceiling-breaking single mother raising a son diagnosed with autism; Father Chee and The Korean Divas for Christ (soul-singing ESL students); a nihilist octogenarian; a video-game-playing gang of outcasts; and a haiku-writing war vet. But then a fatal tragedy threatens Amber’s optimism—and her way of life. Can Amber continue to be the princess of hope?



     Lionsgate to do Life After Life based on the novel. "What would you do differently if you could live your life over again?" the story asks. When Ursula Todd discovers she has the extraordinary ability to start her life from scratch, she finds that even the smallest of choices can have the biggest of impacts. Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Atkinson explores the challenges and triumphs of one woman’s many lives as she learns to love, to lose, and ultimately to live a life free from regret.  





 


      Vin Disel  to star in Soldiers Of The Sun, Set in a post-apocalyptic future, Soldiers of the Sun follows a group of soldiers who do battle with Orcs (said to be an alien race) as they search for a legendary city of gold in Mexico.


      Addison Timlin and Jeremy Irvine will both star in Fallen from the novel. the first book in an ongoing series by Lauren Kate, was published in 2009 and is officially described as follows:

There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.

Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.

Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce–and goes out of his way to make that very clear–she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret . . . even if it kills her.



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   Universal set to adopt. comic series Day Man, This is the synopsis for the series:

"For thousands of years, the world has been controlled by the "50 Families" a secret network of vampire covens engaged in timeless contests of power. But when the sun rises, the vampires are forced to employ the services of a human who acts as their daytime fixer ... Trained for centuries to be the mortal soldiers employers, the Day Men go forth at sunrise, alone into the world, to do the bidding of their sleeping benefactors."




   Jonathan Herman has been hired for Universal and ImageMovers' adaptation of the Andrew Pyper novel The Demonologist, says a story today at The Hollywood Reporter. The book, published earlier this year, is officially described as follows:

Professor David Ullman is among the world’s leading authorities on demonic literature, with special expertise in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Not that David is a believer—he sees what he teaches as a branch of the imagination and nothing more. So when the mysterious Thin Woman arrives at his office and invites him to travel to Venice and witness a “phenomenon,” he turns her down. She leaves plane tickets and an address on his desk, advising David that her employer is not often disappointed.

That evening, David’s wife announces she is leaving him. With his life suddenly in shambles, he impulsively whisks his beloved twelve-year-old daughter, Tess, off to Venice after all. The girl has recently been stricken by the same melancholy moods David knows so well, and he hopes to cheer her up and distract them both from the troubles at home.But what happens in Venice will change everything.

First, in a tiny attic room at the address provided by the Thin Woman, David sees a man restrained in a chair, muttering, clearly insane… but could he truly be possessed? Then the man speaks clearly, in the voice of David’s dead father, repeating the last words he ever spoke to his son. Words that have left scars—and a mystery—behind.

When David rushes back to the hotel, he discovers Tess perched on the roof’s edge, high above the waters of the Grand Canal. Before she falls, she manages to utter a final plea: Find me.What follows is an unimaginable journey for David Ullman from skeptic to true believer. In a terrifying quest guided by symbols and riddles from the pages of Paradise Lost, David must track the demon that has captured his daughter and discover its name. If he fails, he will lose Tess forever.






   


    Alexandre Moore to direct Cannibal thriller, Details are few as to the specific plot of Cannibal, but the trade notes that is a crime thriller and has to do with illegal organ trading.
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    Sony Studios will be doing a movie of the video game it centers on Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker bent on revenge and inflicting his own brand of justice after a violent family tragedy. Using all of his skills, Pearce hacks into Chicago's Central Operating System (ctOS), which controls the city's infrastructure, including security cameras, traffic lights, and public transportation, as well as databases containing key information on the city's residents. In the game, Pearce turns the entire city of Chicago into his ultimate weapon.

Update: the movie has be delayed until Spring 2014 so not to faraway.

 
   Guy Ritchie eyes directing Empire Rising is officially described as follows:

It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great skyscraper's rise from her houseboat on the East River, Briody's life suddenly turns exhilarating -- and dangerous - -for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker's liaison with Tammany Hall and the underworld.




   Idris Elba to lead in Beasts Of No Nation from book. The same director will also do Noble Assassin,
aims to tell the true story of the recently-deceased Robert de la Rochefoucauld, who served as an expertly-trained member of the French Resistance during World War II.
 
 In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new Commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started—a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family still intact.





  
     Casey Affleck to star in To Be Two Set in a future where teleportation technology allows people to travel back and forth between Earth and Mars, the storyline deals with the ramifications of an accident in which an individual is both teleported and remains behind, creating a perfect duplicate.






    CBS Films takes superhero tale Split an original superhero tale. Split follows a young orphan who is contacted by an identical twin she never new she had. When the two meet, they discover that they share superhuman abilities and wind up on the run from powerful pursuers.

   CBS Films also will do The Husband's Secret, Published by Amy Einhorn Books on July 30, 2013, the book has earned rave reviews and has already become a #1 New York Times Bestseller.

"The Husband's Secret" follows three different women whose lives are plunged into crises after one of the women opens a Pandora's Box that ties all three women together in ways no one could have suspected.

 


    

An animated movie is planned for Scooby-Doo for theaters

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     Jessica Alba takes Barley Lethal it follows a 16-year-old international assassin (Steinfeld) yearning for "normal" adolescence who fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high school. When her former-employer (Jackson) comes calling, it becomes more extracurriculars than any teenager can handle. 



 David Green to direct Dwayne Johnson in Lore, The book is described as follows:  

"In times past, the world was full of mythical creatures long since held at bay by the secret society of Shepherds. But when the Shepherds' line of succession is broken, a reluctant hero finds her life threatened from every quarter. And the creatures are coming back: will the Earth be ready for their return?"

  Dwayne Jonson also could star in The Fall Guy Plans for a big screen version of the 1980's television series The Fall Guy are back on track today as The Hollywood Reporter brings word that star Dwayne Johnson and director McG are teaming to tackle the property.

The original series, which ran for five seasons beginning in 1981, starred Lee Majors as Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who also worked as a bounty hunter. Created by Glen A. Larson, the show also starred Douglas Barr and Heather Thomas.
 

  Joe Edgerton eyes lead in Shantaram, Originally planned for Mira Nair to direct before being delayed by the Writers Guild strike in 2008, Shantaram is based on the novel by Gregory David Roberts and follows an Australian heroin addict who escapes from a maximum-security prison and reinvents himself as a doctor treating the destitute in the slums of Bombay. His drive to procure medicine leads him into counterfeiting, gun-running and smuggling. WB's will be making it. 

   A new adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, is in the works at Warner Bros.

Published in 1896, The Island of Dr/ Moreau follows shipwreck survivor Edward Prendick, who winds up on the mysterious Noble's Isle. There, the titular Moreau, a former London physiologist, has taken to experimenting on animals and, through vivisection, has created human-like beasts. 
 





 Warner Bros. and Chernin Entertainment are buckling up for a motor rally adventure caper. Variety reports that a film based around Britain's Gumball 3000 is in the works.

2013 marks the 15th anniversary of the famous automotive event, described as follows on the official Gumball 3000 site:

Gumball 3000 was created in 1999 by ex-racing driver, designer and British entrepreneur Maximillion Cooper; and was born from Cooper’s vision to combine cars, music, fashion and entertainment to create a pop culture lifestyle brand of the future. Cooper derived the word ‘Gumball’ from New York artist Andy Warhol after he used it to describe how the public chew up and spit out popular culture like chewing gum; and ‘3000’ as a nod to Cooper’s fascination with the future, particularly at a time when the world was about to enter the 21st Century. Cooper decided to launch his lifestyle brand concept by inviting 50 of his influential and celebrity friends to join him on a road-trip around Europe to experience an adrenaline fuelled-adventure, driving incredible cars and hosting glamourous parties each evening.





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     Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, Kill List, A Field in England ) has signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel "High-Rise," reports ScreenDaily. The book is described as follows:

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.





   Derek Cianfrance will direct DreamWorks Pictures adaptation The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman's debut novel is described as follows:

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.






  Open Road Films has acquired the U.S. rights to the epic supernatural thriller Testament Financed by Voltage Pictures, Open Road Films will release the film nationwide in First Quarter 2015.

Testament focuses on a prestigious boarding school's science teacher and his students in a remote part of Texas where life is pretty ordinary for this small, tight-knit community. But when the Ten Plagues of the Old Testament descend not only on the town, but the entire world, the teacher and his students are forced to fight for their lives. As blood fills the school's swimming pool -- as fast as it fills rivers, lakes and oceans worldwide -- our characters try to comprehend the scope of this cataclysmic event not knowing that nine more unfathomable disasters are about to besiege them -- frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness. And finally the death of the first born. As the world desperately races to uncover the cause of these phenomena, students and teachers alike must band together to survive these random acts of nature. Or are they? Could it be acts of divine intervention? Fear, panic and imminent doom may not build character, but it does reveal character when teenage heroes are born as the world is coming to an end. 


    Simon Rumley, the director behind 2010's revenge thriller Red, White & Blue and The ABCs of Death's "P is for Pressure" segment, is set to helm FilmDistrict's supernatural horror tale The Last Word says a story at The Hollywood Reporter. The project is slated to commence production this summer with plans for FilmDistrict to release the film domestically in 2014.
 
Written by Ben Ketai and based on actual events, the horror film will focus on the strange and tragic aftermath endured by the participants in the trial of a young man in Texas who was wrongly convicted and executed for the rape and murder of a nun. 



   Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes is set to re-team with screenwriters Jason Pagan and Andrew Stark. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the pair are set for a "found footage" sci-fi thriller titled Raindrop.

Details on Raindrop are few, but the style is said to be similar in tone to the upcoming Alman  ac  also scripted by Pagan and Stark. That film, said to involve a time travel element, is scheduled to hit theaters on February 10, 2014. 





   "Sherlock" and Star Trek Into Darkness star Benedict Cumberbatch is negotiating to headline an upcoming adaptation of David Grann's The Lost City Of Z that We Own the Night helmer James Gray will both write and direct, Deadline reports.

The nonfiction book, a New York Times best seller, was published in 2009 and is officially described as follows: 

In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world’s largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humankind. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions helped inspire Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions around the globe, Fawcett embarked with his twenty-one-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilization—which he dubbed “Z”—existed. Then he and his expedition vanished.



   Jason Reitman is planning to make his next project an adaptation of Chad Kultgen's novel Men, Women & Children. Deadline reports that Rosemarie DeWitt, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Garner and Adam Sandler are all being eyed for roles.

The book, published in 2011, is officially described as follows

Chad Kultgen, cult hero and author of the buzz-generating illicit classics The Average American Male and The Lie, cuts to the quick of the American psyche like no other author writing today. In Men, Women & Children he explores the sexual pressures at work on a handful of troubled, conflicted junior-high students and their equally dysfunctional parents. From porn-surfing fathers to World of Warcraft-obsessed sons, from competitive cheerleaders to their dissatisfied, misguided mothers, Kultgen clicks open the emotionally treacherous culture in which we live—in his most ambitious and surprising book yet.

  
  Ian Mckellen to play a retired Sherlock Holmes, A Slight Trick of the Mind. Based on a novel of the same name by Mitch Cullin, the screenplay is being adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher. The story is described as follows: 

In 1947, Sherlock Holmes, long retired, lives in a sleepy Sussex village with his housekeeper and her amateur-sleuthing son. But far from living out a peaceful retirement, he is haunted by an unsolved case from fifty years ago. He remembers only fragments: a confrontation with an angry husband, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife.

With his legendary mental powers on the wane, and without his old sidekick Watson, Holmes is faced with the toughest case of his life - a case that might finally reveal to him the mysteries of the human heart.



  
    Director Anton Corbijn has snagged two leading men for his upcoming Life. The Wrap reports that both Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson are set to star. Scripted by Luke Davies, Life is based on the true friendship formed between actor James Dean (DeHaan) and photojournalist Dennis Stock (Pattinson).



  
 

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