1. Back To The Future
2. Rocky IV
3. Rambo: First Blood Part Two
4. Silverado
5. Clue
6. The Return Of The Living Dead
7. A View To A Kill
8. Ladyhawke
9. Witness
10. Day Of The Dead
11. Out Of Africa
12. The Color Purple
13. The Breakfast Club
14. Fright Night
15. The Black Cauldron
16. White Nights
17. The Goognie's
18. Pee-wees Big Adventure
19. A Chorus Line
20. Weird Science
21. Legend
New Movie Dates!
Veronica Mars- A new case draws Veronica Mars back to her hometown of Neptune, CA, just in time for her ten-year high school reunion. A continuation of the TV series -- which ran from 2004-06 on UPN then one more season on its successor, The CW. Mar. 14, 2014.
Oculus- A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon. April 18, 2014.
Step Up All In - In the next exciting chapter of the international phenomenon Step Up, all-stars from previous installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers. July 25, 2014.
The Green Inferno - Follows a group of student activists who travel from New York City to the Amazon to save a tribe from extinction. In an unfortunate twist of fate, when the group arrives, they are taken hostage by the very cannibals they sought to protect. The story, based on an idea of Eli Roth's, is being kept under wraps, but he says it was inspired by filming in Chile. Sept. 5, 2014.
Blackbird - A woman travels to Los Angeles for the funeral of her grandfather, a Hollywood visual effects artist who moonlighted for U.S. special ops agencies. Her grandfather’s well-kept secrets become a threat to her, forcing the woman to discover the truth about a man who dedicated his life to making illusion reality. Nov. 14, 2014.
Amityville- Amityville showcases the events after the time of the original "The Amityville Horror" book and movie through found footage dating back to 1976. An ambitious female television news intern, on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world, leads a team of journalists, clergymen and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as The Amityville Horror... only to unwittingly open a door to the unreal that she may never be able to close. Sequel to the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror. Jan. 2, 2015.
Lazarus - As revealed through found footage, a group of medical researchers attempt to reawaken the dead, only to find that they've created another monster entirely. Jan. 30, 2015.
Insurgent - Continues the journey of Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) as war now looms. Sides will be chosen, secrets will emerge, and Tris will risk everything as she struggles to harness her incredible power. Sequel to the 2014 film Divergent. Mar. 20, 2015.
San Andreas - Set after a devastating earthquake hits California a a rugged rescue helicopter pilot makes a perilous trip across the state to rescue his estranged daughter. It will star Dwayne Johnson. June 5, 2015.
Pan- An orphan is taken to the magical world of Neverland where he becomes
the savior of the natives and leads a rebellion against evil pirates. This is the origin story film based on J.M. Barrie's classic Peter Pan tale. Blackbeard said to be the film's main antagonist while Hook would serve as Pan's close ally before turning bad. June 26, 2015.
Gods Of Egypt - Gerald Butler plays Set, a god of the desert, storms, and foreigners in
ancient Egyptian religion. He killed and mutilated his own brother
Osiris. Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), the son of Osiris, seeks revenge.
Brenton Thwaites will play Bek, a human thief who cares little for the
affairs of gods but when he discovers Zaya has been cursed by Set, he
falls on the side of Horus, hoping that Set’s death will break the
curse. Feb. 12, 2016.
Allegiant - Based on the finale of Veronica Roth's bestselling Divergent trilogy. Mar. 18, 2016.
X-Men: Apocalypse- No plot details have been announced. But it will follow the events after X-Men: Days Of Future Past. May 27, 2016.
Ice Age 5 - Another Ice Age adventure. No plot details have been announced. Started in 2002 with the original Ice Age, the franchise includes 2006's Ice Age: The Meltdown, 2009's Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and 2012's Ice Age: Continental Drift. Now this animated film was not one of the mystery dates that has been on my list for awhile. But it did bump one animated film further back it was Anubis. July 15, 2016.
Movies Being Planned
Tom Lee Jones is set to write and Direct a remake of The Cowboys. The Cowboys, in turn based on a novel by William Dale Jennings, stars John Wayne and Bruce Dern and follows a rancher who is forced to assemble a group of novice ranch hands for a 400 mile cattle drive. It was made in 1972.
David Cronenberg's 1975 feature film Shivers is being groomed for a remake. Producers Jeff Sackman and Michael Baker are spearheading the effort and made the announcement today. In the film, which is expected to begin shooting February 2014, "a genetically-engineered strain of parasites that turn people into violent, compulsive sex-addicts is released into a self-contained luxury apartment complex. Go at your own risk!
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Morgan Freemen will star in Momentum follows a thief (Kurylenko), who is trying to avoid both the law and a deadly gang of assassins led by Cassel's character.
Bad Vibes is set in the psychedelic rock scene of the late ‘60’s, where Sunrise Majesty is at the top of the charts with their message of ‘free love’ for all. But after an encounter with a strange groupie, bandleader and mastermind Max Cassidy is left with a gift that can’t be cured with a shot of penicillin. Max has been touched with the curse of the werewolf, transforming him into a dark and brooding nihilist whose new sound is almost as disturbing as his new plan: to hold a huge love-in at the band’s ranch where he and the group will infect all their fans, unless Cynthia, Max’s girlfriend and the last untouched member of the band, can stop them. The film will star Elijah Wood.
Ben Mckenzie to star in The Swimmer. The film centers on an American extreme swimmer ( (McKenzie) who embarks on a mission to conquer one of the wildest rivers in Norway - his personal Mt. Everest. But his journey proves that his true conquest is far more daunting than his swim; as he is faced to confront his inner demons and reconcile his past.
Ellen Page is set to take the lead role in 20th Century Fox's adaptation of Greg Rucka's Queen & Country. Follow British intelligence operative Tara Chace and her fellow "Minders" across countries and continents as she thwarts terrorist plots and protects the interests of her queen and her country.
Ellen Page will also star in, Into the Forest recounts the story of two sisters (Page and Wood) struggling to survive after the collapse of society in the not too distant future.
Mark Millar and Curtis Tiegs' planned children's book Kindergarten Heroes is, according to Deadline, on its way to the big screen through 20th Century Fox. There's no word yet on whether the film will go the live-action or animation route, but studio's hope is to use Kindergarten Heroes to launch a franchise.
Fox 2000 has plans to adapt the first book of D.J. MacHale's Sylo trilogy for the big screen. Sylo, the first book in a planned trilogy, was released earlier this year and is officially described as follows:
A thrilling trilogy begins on a peaceful island community that is rocked by a series of mysterious deaths, and quickly becomes a massive conflict that will determine the future of mankind. A group of young people uncover clues they hope will lead to the truth behind the madness for nothing is what it first appears to be. The quest to defend their home is made all the more difficult because they can’t be sure of who to trust… and who to fear. Everyone is a suspect. Nowhere is safe.
The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith director Doug Liman is in talks to take on Narco-Sub, the project was formerly set to be directed by the late Tony Scott. Set up at 20th Century Fox, the action thriller is scripted by David Guggeneheim. Plot details of the project have not been released, but narco-subs in real life are so named because they're submersible vehicles built to transport narcotics (particularly from Colombia to Mexico) and their compact size is designed to elude radar.
Bras Pitt is being courted to star with Tom Cruise in Go Like Hell, 20th Century Fox's car-racing project. The film is an adaptation of A. J. Baime's book "Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans," which is described as follows:
By the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken the reins of his grandfather’s company with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do something to shake things up. Baby boomers were taking to the road in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari, whose cars epitomized style, lorded it over the European racing scene. He crafted beautiful sports cars, "science fiction on wheels," but was also called "the Assassin" because so many drivers perished while racing them.
"Go Like Hell" tells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned engineer, Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They would design, build, and race a car that could beat Ferrari at his own game at the most prestigious and brutal race in the world, something no American car had ever done.
"Go Like Hell" transports readers to a risk-filled, glorious time in this brilliant portrait of a rivalry between two industrialists, the cars they built, and the "pilots" who would drive them to victory, or doom.
Director Carlos Saldanha is set to do Rust. Also made by Fox Studios
The Archaia graphic novel is described as follows:
"Rust" is a high-octane adventure set in the prairie lands of an unknown time. Life on the Taylor family farm was difficult enough before Jet Jones crashes into the barn, chased by a giant decommissioned war robot! Oldest son Roman Taylor struggles to keep his family's small farm afloat as the area heals from a devastating world war. While the rest of his family may not trust the mysterious boy with the jetpack, Roman believes the secrets of Jet's past may be the key to their survival.
Robert Zemeckis eyes Chaos Walking Officially described as follows:
Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown. But Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets. Or are there? Just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd unexpectedly stumbles upon a spot of complete silence. Which is impossible. Prentisstown has been lying to him. And now he's going to have to run...
Doug Davison and Alli Shearmur are producing Chaos Walking and the hope is to eventually develop the other two books, "The Ask and the Answer” and “Monsters of Men,” as well.
Following his triumphant return to live-action directing with last year's Flight, Robert Zemeckis has been lining up new projects left and right. The latest, Variety reports, is New Line's upcoming adaptation of Kate DiCamillo's 2006 novel The Remarkable Journey of Edward Tulane, described on the author's official site as follows:
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost.
Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hobos camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle: even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.
There's no specific word as of yet whether the adaptation will itself be live-action or done with motion capture like Zemeckis' Beowulf, The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol.
Debra Neil- Fisher to make Director Debut in London Calling. London Calling follows the misadventures of a tightly-wound fellow forced to go on a road trip across Europe with an eccentric woman so that he might propose to his girlfriend in London. Millennium Films' upcoming comedy.
Relativity has announced that it has
acquired the worldwide rights to finance, produce and distribute
"Anomaly," based on the interactive comic book created and written by
Skip Brittenham and Brian Haberlin ("Witchblade"). An epic adventure set
in Earth's distant future, Anomaly centers on Jon, a disgraced
Conglomerate Enforcer, who is given a last precious chance for
redemption by leading a rag tag group of explorers on a first contact
mission to a newly discovered planet. The mission turns out to be a
deadly trap. Marooned and with all their technology destroyed, the crew
must rely solely on their wits to navigate the treacherous planet and
earn the trust of the hostile, incredibly diverse, warring alien races
if they want to have any chance to survive and get back to Earth.
That long-gestating Goosebumps feature film, based on the R.L. Stine property, may have found a leading man in Jack Black. The Wrap says the actor is circling the project, which is set to be directed by Rob Letterman. The "Goosebumps" series have sold more than 300 million copies
worldwide, second only to the "Harry Potter" series in total sales.
The project officially announced last year, TheWrap is reporting that Universal Pictures' Clifford the Big Red Dog may have a director in David Bowers. Based on Norman Bridwell's children's book character, Clifford the Big Red Dog is planned to hit the big screen as a live action/CGI hybrid akin to the studio's Hop. Bridwell created the character of Clifford, a dog who started a runt but grew to gigantic proportions, in 1963 and the dog and his owner, Emily Elizabeth, have appeared in dozens of children's books over the years as well as in a television series with the late John Ritter providing the voice of Clifford.
Universal Pictures' take on Electronic Arts' Dante's Inferno video game has found a helmer in Fede Alvarez. Deadline reports that the Evil Dead director will tackle the adaptation of the game, itself loosely inspired by the first third of Dante Alighieri's 14th century epic poem, "The Divine Comedy."
Released in 2010, Dante's Inferno reimagines Alighieri as a Templar Knight traversing the nine circles of Hell to rescue the soul of his beloved Beatrice. Although the plot of the game represents a significant departure from the original text, the specific layout of Hell is directly inspired by Alighieri's words.
Hailee Steinfeld is set to join Vince Vaughn in Universal Pictures' adaptation of the Image Comics graphic novel Term Life, The Wrap reports. Published in 2011, the original action thriller was the creation of A.J. Lieberman and Nick Thornborrow and features the following official synopsis:
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performing the last act of a desperate man, Nick takes out a million dollar insurance policy on himself, payable to his estranged daughter. The problem? The policy doesn't take effect for 21 days. Nick knows they'll be lucky to be alive for twenty-one hours.
Carey Mulligan set to star in Far From The Madding Crowed. Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge), a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba’s choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.
Good Universe Films, the credits of which include the upcoming Last Vegas and Oldboy, has plans to develop an original science fiction thriller titled Extinction. Although no plot details are currently available for Extinction, the trade notes that the script has been compared to both The Sixth Sense and Cloverfield.
First announced for development last fall under the title Cherries, Good Universe's original comedy. The comedy follows a trio of fathers who learn that their respective daughters have made a collective pact to lose their virginity on prom night. Together, the hapless dads set out to prevent that from happening.
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to both produce and headline a Warner Bros. biopic focusing on the life of President Woodrow Wilson. Serving as source material is Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg's recent biography, Wilson, officially described as follows:
One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson--the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President.
In addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents in the Wilson Archives, Berg was the first biographer to gain access to two recently-discovered caches of papers belonging to those close to Wilson. From this material, Berg was able to add countless details--even several unknown events--that fill in missing pieces of Wilson s character and cast new light on his entire life.
From the scholar-President who ushered the country through its first great world war to the man of intense passion and turbulence , from the idealist determined to make the world safe for democracy to the stroke-crippled leader whose incapacity and the subterfuges around it were among the century s greatest secrets, the result is an intimate portrait written with a particularly contemporary point of view a book at once magisterial and deeply emotional about the whole of Wilson s life, accomplishments, and failings. This is not just Wilson the icon but Wilson the man.
Leonardo DiCaprio is looking to produce and potentially star in an adaptation of crime fiction author Joe Nesbo's upcoming novel, Blood on Snow.
Blood on Snow marks the first book written by Nesbo under his new nom de plume, Tom Johansen. It follows a hitman who is tasked with offing his boss' wife only to find that he's fallen in love with her. Two literary sequels are already planned and, in the third, Johansen himself becomes a character.
The Vow helmer Michael Sucsy is set to direct 40 Days of Dating for Warner Bros., Deadline reports. The film is based on a blog experiment on the part of New York City-based designers Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman. On the project's official site, the pair describe their approach as follows:
What do you do when you’re tired of the prospect of dating? Two good friends with opposite relationship problems found themselves single at the same time. As an experiment, they dated for 40 days.
Love is a central theme in humanity across time and cultures. It’s one of the main topics in music, film, novels, poetry, and art. But what exactly is it, and why do we all approach it so differently? How does it affect us so deeply that sane people have gone mad over it?
The dating life in New York City can grow tiresome and wearing. Tim is afraid of commitment, often dating many girls at once, and he’s losing sight of what a healthy relationship means. Jessica is a hopeless romantic, jumping into relationships too quickly, always looking to find “the one.”
It’s been said that it takes 40 days to change a bad habit. In an attempt to explore and hopefully overcome their fears and inadequacies, Tim and Jessica will go through the motions of a relationship for the next 40 days: the commitment, time, companionship, joys and frustrations. Can they help each other, or will they fall into their same habits? Will they damage their friendship? What if they fall in love?
Screenwriter Etan Cohen is planning to take the director's chair on the upcoming Warner Bros. comedy Get Hard, Variety reports. Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart are already set to star. It follows a rich bank manager (Ferrell) who is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to time in a maximum security prison. To prepare himself for his incarceration, Ferrell's character hires the man who washes his car (Hart) to toughen him up in his final 30 days of freedom.
The Step Brothers pair of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are reuniting for the Halloween-themed Devil's Night. The film is said to follow two men, Leonard and Gabe, who used to be best friends until a fateful October 30th destroyed their relationship. Fifteen years later, both men are forced to come together, again on "Devil's Night," to save their town from supernatural forces.
Ben Affleck has plans to direct a Whitey Bulger biopic with Matt Damon targeting the Bulger role. Bulger, now 84 years old, is a former organized crime figure from Boston, Massachusetts. He was said to be a "Robin Hood"-style social bandit who targeted drug kingpins and illegal gambling operations. Beginning in 1975, Bulger served as an informant for the FBI, which ignored his organization in exchange for information on the Italian American Patriarca crime family.
In 1994, there was a pending indictment under the RICO act, causing Bulger to remain at large for 16 years. Bulger was arrested on June 22, 2011 on 19 counts of murder in Santa Monica, California. He has not sought bail and remains in custody at the Plymouth County House of Correction in Plymouth, Massachusetts. WB will behind the project.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Pearl Street Films are teaming up on a thriller to be scripted by Will Staples and developed as a directing and starring vehicle for Ben Affleck.
"The film is set in Africa, where a bunch of mercenaries are hired to kill a warlord who has been victimizing his own people. The film is both an action movie and an examination of the moral ambiguities of how philanthropy and foreign assistance veers into modern day neocolonialism. It also tracks how involvement in the affairs of foreign countries is always a good deal more complicated than anticipated in the planning stages."
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Jonas Cuaron turned quite a few heads with his script work on Gravity (co-written with and directed by his father, Alfonso Cuaron) and, today, Variety
reports that he's lined up another major project at Warner Bros.
Pictures. Instead of going into outer space, however, Cuaron will head
under the sea, drafting the studio's Atlantis project, The Lost City.Although plot details are not yet available, it is suggested that The Lost City will take place largely within the legendary sunken continent. No director is currently attached, but the trade notes that Warner Bros. has previously eyed both the elder Cuaron and Peter Jackson.
With Insidious Chapter 2 currently number one at the box office (having already grossed more than $42 million), Jason Blum's Blumhouse Pictures is getting ready to launch a new potential franchise. Deadline reports that the production company has just signed Aaron Eckhart to headline Incarnate with Brad Peyton
The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that they have acquired North American rights to The Sacrament, a chilling death-cult thriller.
The Sacrament stars Bowen and Swanberg as reporters for VICE Media who journey to a remote Central American compound along with a photographer (Kentucker Audley) hoping to reunite with his sister (Seimetz), who has dropped off the map after struggling with drug addiction. They find an isolated community of true believers devoted to a shadowy but charismatic figure called "Father." Skeptical at first, the journalists begin to come around to the group’s utopian claims, until things rapidly take a very dark turn.
Bryan Cranston is making plans to headline an upcoming biopic of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Trumbo published his first novel, "Eclipse," in 1935 with his first screenplay, director Louis King's Road Gang, hitting the big screen the following year. With more than a dozen subsequent credits to his name, Trumbo was the highest paid screenwriter of his day when he was brought before Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to testify, Trumbo was blacklisted, but continued to write under fake names, winning Academy Awards for both Irving Rapper's The Brave One and William Wyler's Roman Holiday.
Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett is gearing up to direct her first feature film. The star will helm an adaptation of Herman Koch's 2009 novel, The Dinner. Published in the United States earlier this year, the book is officially described as follows:
It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse -- the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.
Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
With the The Vampire Academy project set for a world-wide release next Valentine's Day, producer Michael Preger and his team at Preger Entertainment intend to keep the cinematic vampire blood flowing for the foreseeable future with the New York Times best-selling series, "The Last Vampire."
Christopher Pike's Young Adult book series originally appeared in print in 1994. It was re-released in 2009 by Simon & Schuster with their Omnibus Imprint Series Edition re-titled, "Thirst" - debuting on the New York Times (Young Adult) "Children's Bestseller's list" for an extraordinary 27 weeks.
"In 'The Last Vampire' series we are introduced to an entirely original world, in a universe vastly different from other vampire stories. This legend is born from the more classic genre of Bram Stroker's 'Dracula,' steeped in history, mythic lore and even religious beginnings. Our main character is not only one of the first vampires, she is also believed to be the last surviving - but all that is just page one of this 'roller-coaster,' action-adventure fantasy ride," comments Preger.
Christopher Pike's epic legend of "Sita" introduces a character prone not only to great spiritual beliefs and human-like compassion, but also brutal and horrific acts of retribution - in a world rife with ancient secrets, supernatural miracles and unimaginable peril. From the dark depths of her ancient origins to her present day chameleon-like existence, Sita's world is very different than what most humans perceive. She is at once captivating and beguiling, due in part to her personification as a beautiful, intelligent, innocent appearing, contemporary girl - who is in reality a 5000-year-old predator.
Natalie Dormer set to star in The Girl Who Invented Kissing, it explores what happens when two brothers encounter a mysterious drifter in their bar on a rainy night.
In development for some time, the true Bobby Fischer tale Pawn Sacrifice has scored two more cast members. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Peter Sarsgaard and Liev Schreiber have joined the cast of the Ed Zwick film opposite Tobey Maguire. Maguire (who is also producing) will be starring as Fischer, the world renowned chess prodigy. The film tells Fischer's life story leading up to his historic world championship match against Boris Spassky.
Weinstein's TWC-Dimension announced today that they are teaming up with Endgame on the action whodunit comedy Murder Mystery. In the film, a married couple takes the honeymoon they never had in hopes of saving their struggling marriage, but soon find themselves in the middle of their very own murder mystery when one of their fellow cruise passengers is found dead. They must travel across Europe to discover the true murderer’s identity while trying to reignite the spark to their relationship. It will star Charlize Theron.
Daniel Myrick, who directed The Blair Witch Project alongside Eduardo Sanchez, is getting back behind the camera for a new horror thriller, Under the Bed. No relation to the Steven C. Miller-directed film which came out this year, this Under the Bed hails from Radar Pictures and follows a woman plagued by a stalker who, unbeknownst to her, has taken up residence underneath her bed and is using his position to control aspects of her life.
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Sierra Pictures announced today that they are set to finance and produce Ciudad, a big screen adaptation of the upcoming Oni Press graphic novel. The story follows a weary mercenary, who is hired by a Brazilian drug lord to extract his daughter from one of the world’s most dangerous and corrupt cities: Paraguay’s Ciudad del Este.
Jason Segel is set to headline a still-untitled comedy inspired by a true case of mass syrup theft. n August 2012, news broke in the Montreal Gazette that 10,000 barrels of the sweet, sticky liquid were stolen from Quebec's International Strategic Reserve. Although the case is still under investigation, many arrests have already taken place and revealed that the thieves had been smuggling the syrup across the US border to sell.
Jennifer Lawrence: First published in 1952, East of Eden is Steinbeck's retelling of the Cain and Abel story, set in California's Salinas Valley. Lawrence would play the book's chief antagonist.
Burial Rites, meanwhile, was published this summer and is officially described as follows:
In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to wait out the time leading to her execution on the farm of District Officer Jón Jónsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderess in their midst, the family avoids speaking with Agnes.
Only Tóti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agnes’s spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her, as he attempts to salvage her soul.
As the summer months fall away to winter and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes’s ill-fated tale of longing and betrayal begins to emerge. And as the days to her execution draw closer, the question burns: did she or didn’t she?
The project is still looking for a home, but the plan is for Lawrence to play the Magnúsdóttir role.
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First reported last year, Lionsgate has plans to adapt Jeanette Walls' bestselling memoir The Glass Castle for the big screen with Jennifer Lawrence attached to star. Today, Variety reports that Short Term 12 helmer Destin Cretton is in talks to direct. The 2005 source material is officially described as follows:
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn’t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an “excitement addict.” Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever.
Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town—and the family—Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents’ betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home.
What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
Tim Madigan's 2006 memoir I'm Proud of You into a feature film, The Wrap reports. The book details Madigan's friendship with the late Fred Rogers, famous the world over for creating and hosting the PBS television series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." It is officially described as follows:
It began as another newspaper assignment, a celebrity profile of the children’s television icon. But in Fred Rogers, Texas journalist Tim Madigan found more than a fascinating subject. From their first meeting in 1995, at Rogers’ invitation, the two became unlikely friends, a deep and abiding relationship that lasted until Rogers’ death in 2003.
In that time, Madigan found Rogers to be much more than the calm and compassionate personality of television. He was a person of unique human greatness who embodied love, compassion and wisdom his every waking moment. He was the transcendent being who guided Madigan through periods of life-threatening depression and the tragic death of a sibling and helped him heal his difficult relationship with his father.
Brad Furman to direct Bigger, a biopic of Ben and Joe Weider, the sibling pair who created the Mr. Olympia competition and changed the face of professional bodybuilding. The film will be based in part on "Brothers of Iron," the siblings' 2006 memoir, officially described as follows:
In the depths of the Great Depression a scrawny, dirt-poor Jewish kid with a seventh-grade education picked up a barbell and got hooked on weight training. Building his muscles gave him confidence and hope for a better life. He pledged to make the great, transforming power of strength training available to everyone and to give bodybuilding all the glory it deserved. The kid, Joe Weider, enlisted his younger brother Ben in his quest, and together the Weider brothers accomplished things much bigger than Joe's boyhood dreams. The little muscle magazine Joe started, working at his family's dining room table, grew into a publishing empire. From a backyard barbell business, Joe and Ben built equipment and food supplement companies each as big as Weider Publishing. And they transformed bodybuilding into a hugely successful sport, organized under one of the largest and best-run athletic federations in the world.
Director Steven C. Miller is set to helm Evolution Entertainment's Submerged. It follows a group of college kids who become the target of deadly kidnappers and who are forced to fight for their lives when their limousine becomes trapped in a canal.
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