My Top Movies For "1984"
1. The Terminator
2. Amadeus
3. The Natural
4. The Killing Fields
5. Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
6. Gremlins
7. Footloose
8. Beverly Hills Cop
9. The Karate Kid
10. Red Dawn
11. Ghostbusters
12. Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
13. A Nightmare On Elm Street
14. The Muppets Take Manhattan
15. The NeverEnding Story
16. A Soldiers Story
17. Places In The Heart
18. The River
19. Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter
20. Country
New Movie Dates!
Moms' Night - All Allyson and her friends want is a peaceful, grown-up evening of
dinner and conversation . . . a long-needed moms' night out. But in
order to enjoy high heels, adult conversation and food not served in a
paper bag, they need their husbands to watch the kids for three
hours—what could go wrong?
May 9, 2014.
Laggies - Unsure of how to respond to her boyfriend's marriage proposal, a
28-year-old woman, who has been living in perpetual adolescence,
pretends to go on a retreat, but actually ends up spending a week with
her new friends, all of whom are in high school.
May 9, 2014.
Let's Be Cops - Follows two best friends looking for a little more out of life. They
impersonate cops for kicks, but when they unknowingly mess with a real
mobster, the game gets real.
Aug. 13, 2014.
As Above, So Below - Two archaeologists search for a lost treasure in catacombs below Paris.
Aug. 15, 2014.
If I Stay - Story revolves around a musician and her boyfriend, a rising star in the
indie rock world. Already faced with a choice between her art and her
relationship, she is forced to make a harder choice between life and
death after being involved in a fatal car accident.
Aug. 22, 2014.
Dark Places - Follows a woman who survived the brutal massacre of her family when she
was seven-years old and testified against her own brother. Twenty-five
years later, a secret society obsessed with crime-solving called the
Kill Club brings her in for questioning to discover the truth of the
horrific crime. Based on Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel.
Sept. 5, 2014.
The Good Lie - A Sudanese refugee is taken in by a straight-talking American woman in their new home in the United States. Sep. 10, 2014.
The Drop - Tom Hardy stars as a man looking to reform his criminal ways who gets
mixed up in a bad heist and a killing resulting from a lost and
contested pit bull. Noomi Rapace will play Nadia, a woman with a scar
across her entire neck who crosses paths with the protag when he finds a
wounded puppy outside her home. The film relocates the Boston-set story to New York. Sep. 19, 2014.
A Walk Among The Tombstones - Formerly a detective with the NYPD, now a recovering alcoholic haunted
by regrets, Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson) has a lot to make up for. When a
series of kidnappings targeting the city’s worst drug criminals
escalates to grisly murder, the circuit’s ruthless leader convinces
Scudder to find the culprits and bring them to bloody justice. Working
as an unlicensed private detective, Matt sees what the police don’t see
and treads where they most fear to. Operating just outside the law to
track down the monsters responsible, Scudder stops just short of
becoming one himself. Based on one of 17 Matt Scudder novels written by acclaimed crime
novelist Lawrence Block. The Scudder series has been in print for over
40 years and has been translated into over 20 languages.
Sep. 19, 2014.
Ouija - Follows a group of friends attempting to make contact with a recently
deceased classmate through a Ouija board who awaken a dark and
terrifying presence. Based on Hasbro's supernatural game.
Oct. 24, 2014.
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 - Story centers on Lou (Rob Corddry) getting into trouble and his friends
firing up the hot tub time machine in an attempt to go back to the past —
only to land in the future. The original $36 million movie grossed around $50 million at the box office but proved to be a massive home entertainment hit.John Cusack, who also starred in the original, is not involved in the project. Dec. 25, 2014.
Poltergeist - Described as a revisionist take on the classic horror film in which a
family struggling to make ends meet relocates to an outdated suburban
home and is confronted by an angry spirit who kidnaps their youngest
daughter and challenges them to band together to rescue her from the
clutches of evil. Remake of the 1982 film.
Feb. 2, 2015.
Everest - A film about two deadly days on the world's tallest mountain, Mt. Everest.
Feb. 27, 2015.
Shaun The Sheep - A sheep named Shaun and his sheepdog friend Bitzer are forced to take
their entire flock on an adventure to the big city to rescue the Farmer. This will be a stop-motion animated feature film.
Mar. 20, 2015.
Pitch Perfect 2 - A sequel to 2012's Pitch Perfect. Since its theatrical release in October, Pitch Perfect has grossed more than $113 million worldwide. Elizabeth Banks will make her feature directorial debut with Pitch Perfect 2. May 15, 2015.
Trainwreck - Just another rated R comedy for the summer witch will be big of course. July 24, 2015.
Crimson Peak - The gothic horror story centers on a woman who discovers that her husband may not be whom he appears to be. Oct. 16, 2015.
The Nut Job 2 - Revolves around a mischievous squirrel. Sequel to the 2014 film.
Jan. 15, 2016.
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes 3 - Revolves around apes with human intelligence who are society's new rulers. July 29, 2016.
The Adventures Of Tintin 2 - The young Belgian reporter and world traveler is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy. Dec. 16, 2016.
Untitled Illumination Entertainment Animated Project - No plot details have been announced. Dec. 21, 2016.
Despicable Me 3 - A third-installment of the Despicable Me franchise. June 30, 2017.
Dr Suess' How The Grinch Stole Christmas - An animated remake of Dr. Seuss' Christmas classic.
Sources say the plan is to stay faithful to the book. Nov. 17, 2017.
Movies Being Planed!
A few years ago, it was announced that director David Fincher would be bringing Charles Burns' comic series
Black Hole to the big screen. the news that Fincher is back on the project and will be making the film
under Brad Pitt's Plan B production company. No official word on
casting, script or a release date, but here's the officialy description
for the comic:
The setting is Seattle during the '70's. A sexual disease,
the 'bug,' is spreading among teenagers. Those who get it develop
bizarre mutations - sometimes subtle. Story follows two teens, Keith
& Chris as they get the bug. Their dreams and hallucinations - made
of deeply disturbing symbolism merging sexuality and sickness - are a
key part of the tale!
Although it still looks like he's still planning on making Tarzan his next big screen project, four-time
Harry Potter director David Yates has today signed on to helm
Who Is Jake Ellis? The film will be based on the Image comic book of the same name. Written
by Nathan Edmonson and illustrated by Tonci Zonjic, the book is
officially described as follows:
Jon Moore is the most sought after spy-for-hire in Europe's
criminal world. This is because of Jake Ellis, a psychic man who is
invisible to everyone except Moore. When a deal goes bad, the only one
who can protect Moore from Europe's most dangerous criminals is Jake
Ellis. No one but Moore can see Jake Ellis. But Jake Ellis can see
everything.
Pierce Brosnan has taken the leading role in an upcoming revenge thriller from Voltage Pictures. I .T., scripted by Dan Kay, will feature Brosnan as a book
publisher whose livelihood and very life become threatened by an angry
I.T. consultant. That role has not yet been cast.
Pierce Brosnan will also be in The Coup the film is a thriller that centers on an American family that moves to
Southeast Asia and finds themselves entangled in a violent coup where
merciless rebels are attacking the city.
Angela Bassett, Pierce Brosnan, Milla Jovovich and Emma Thompson are set to star in Millennium Films' upcoming thriller
Survivor. The film, scripted by Phil Shelby, follows an American woman (Jovovich)
working in London for the U.S. State Department. When her offices are
bombed, she, the lone survivor, finds herself caught up in a
conspiratorial plot, leading to her becoming a fugitive from the law.
She only has until New Year's Eve to clear her name and stop another
targeted attack.
Walt Disney Pictures is developing the fairy tale comedy Happily Ever After for Reese Witherspoon to star in. "the idea is to catch up with a prince and princess about 10 years
after they have ridden off into the sunset for their 'happily ever
after.' The couple discovers that even in fairy-tale land, you have to
work to keep your relationship and your life together."
Danny Boyle has lined up a new project in the form of a narrative take on director Havana Marking's recent documentary Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers. Released last month in the UK, the documentary is officially described as follows:
The Pink Panthers are the world's most successful jewel thieves.
With incredible unprecedented access, gang members Mike and Lela reveal
the gang’s networks, history and human story. Playing out like a noir
thriller and using cutting edge animation, the film keeps a
Hollywood-style heist at its centre. We also follow the global police
forces determined to stop them - with increasing success. But beneath
the glitz and excitement of the heists lie the dark truths of the
illicit diamond trade and the war-shattered ruins of the Balkan states.
Director
David E. Talbert is now planning to take on
The Necklace, a novel by Cheryl Jarvis, was published in 2009 and is officially described as follows:
One day in Ventura, California, Jonell McLain saw a beautiful
diamond necklace in a jewelry store window and wondered: Why are
personal luxuries so plentiful yet accessible to so few? What if we
shared what we desired? Several weeks, dozens of phone calls, and one
great leap of faith later, Jonell and twelve other women bought the
necklace together–to be passed along among them all.
The dazzling treasure weaves in and out of each woman’s life, reflecting
her past, defining her present, making promises for her future. Lending
sparkle in surprising and unexpected ways, the necklace comes to mean
something dramatically different to each of the thirteen women. With
vastly dissimilar histories and lives, they transcend their individual
personalities and politics to join together in an uncommon journey–and
what started as a quirky social experiment becomes something far richer
and deeper.
Sam Worthington is set to star opposite the previously-announced Anthony Hopkins in Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Played with Fire) is directing
from a script by William Brookfield, in turn based on Peter R. de Vries’
book of the same name. The true crime thriller, which, as the title
implies, details the 1983 kidnapping of the beer magnate, Alfred Henry
"Freddy" Heineken and his driver.
the writing pair of Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, who wrote four of the seven
Saw movies, have been brought in to write the big screen adaptation of the comic book The Stuff of Legend. Originally written by Mike Raicht and Brian Smith and illustrated by
Charles Paul Wilson III, the Th3rd World Studios series is officially
described as follows:
The year is 1944. An allied force advances along a war-torn beach
in a strange land, outnumbered and far from home. Together, they fight
the greatest evil they have ever known. Never ending waves of exotic
enemies come crashing down on them, but they will not rest. Thousands of
miles away, the world is on the brink of destruction. But here in a
child's bedroom in Brooklyn, our heroes, a small group of toys loyal to
their human master, fight an unseen war to save him from every child's
worst nightmare.
Led by the toy soldier known as the Colonel and the boy's faithful
teddy-bear named Max, the toys enter the realm known as The Dark. There
they will face off against the Boogeyman and his army-- a legion of the
boy's forgotten, bitter toys. Fighting to survive insurmountable odds,
the toys will discover this is a battle not only for the soul of a
child, but for their own as well.
Director Pete Candeland will helm the film, which is planned to blend both live action and CGI.
Chloe Moretz is eyeing a leading role in director Sacha Gervasi's upcoming adaptation of Sam Munson's The November Criminals, Published in 2011, the novel is officially described as follows:
For a high school senior Addison Schacht has a lot of
preoccupations, like selling drugs to his classmates, getting into
college, and his complicated relationship with his best friend (NOT his
girlfriend) Digger. And he's just added another to the list: the murder
of his classmate Kevin Broadus, and his own obsessive plan to
investigate the death. When presented with an essay question on his
application to the University of Chicago -- What are your best and worst
qualities? -- Addison finds himself provoked into giving his final,
unapologetic say about all of the above and more, and the thrilling
result is an unforgettable trip through the Washington, D.C. teenage
underworld.
Moretz would play the Digger role. The character's real name is Phoebe.
Will Smith has boarded Fox's project with science fiction overtones. The outlet brings word that Smith plans to headline Selling Time for the studio. Selling Time, originally scripted by Dan McDermott, follows a man
who trades seven years of his life expectancy for the chance to relive a
single day, the worst day of his life, over again.
Planned some years ago to re-team I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence (who now has his hands full with The Hunger Games franchise) and his leading man Will Smith, the fantasy adventure The City That Sailed is now back on track at 20th Century Fox. Deadline reports that Smith will still headline with Real Steel and Night at the Museum helmer Shawn Levy now coming on board to direct.
The story follows a New York City street magician whose daughter,
because of family circumstances, lives in England. In exploring a
lighthouse one day, the girl discovers a room with magic candles and
wishes to be reunited with her father, causing the island of Manhattan
to break away and drift across the Pond.
Emma Watson is eyeing a leading role in a
20th Century Fox adaptation of Adena Halpern's novel "29
," The plan is for Watson to headline the film version, which will be titled
While We're Young, with Stephen Chobsky directing. The pair recently worked together on another book-to-screen project,
The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Published in 2010, the original novel is officially described as follows:
What if you closed your eyes, blew out the candles and your wish came true?
Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart 75-year old who relates more to her
25-year old granddaughter Lucy than to her 55-year old daughter Barbara.
Ellie’s done everything she can to stay young, and the last thing she
wants is to celebrate another birthday. So when she finds herself
confronted with a cake full of candles, Ellie wishes more than anything
that she could be twenty-nine again, just for one day. But who expects a
wish like that to come true?
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Following word this morning that he's interested in helming a horror film, director
Michael Bay has, made plans to tackle
Sabotage, a historical action thriller about the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during World War II. Set up at
Paramount Pictures, the film will be based on Neal Bascomb's
upcoming nonfiction book, "Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of
Young Commandos, and the Mission to to Kill Hitler's Super Bomb."
It tells the story of the British Special Operations Executive that
trained groups of Norwegian commandos to infiltrate and destroy Norway's
Vemork Hydroelectric Plant during the time that the nation was occupied
by Axis powers.
The story has previously been adapted for the screen twice. The first version, a 1948 Norwegian production,
The Fight Over the Heavy Water is a quasi-documentary, that features several of the actual members of Operations Grouse and Freshman. The second,
The Heroes of Telemark, was released in 1965. Directed by Anthony Mann, it stars Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson and Michael Redgrave.
Paramount has won out in a heated bidding war for director Chris Gorak's (
The Darkest Hour) new spec script titled
"Attach." Chronicle producer Adam Schroeder will produce the film which, despite being kept under wraps, is described as in
"a similar vein as Chronicle in that it is a big visual concept with a young cast at the center of it." It's also reported that the pitch included a visual test for the film, which sparked the bidding war.
“Kim Farrant's
'Strangerland' has an incredible cast including
Nicole
Kidman, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving, a strong creative vision and
massive A-list festival potential," said Screen Australia's Chief
Executive Ruth Harley.
Strangerland is a mystery drama about a couple whose lives
unravel after their two teenage children go missing in the harsh
Australian desert. The film is written by Fiona Seres and Michael
Kinirons and is produced by Naomi Wenck and Macdara Kelleher, with
executive producers Christopher Woodrow, Molly Conners, Maria Cestone,
Sarah E. Johnson, Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten.
Nicole Kidman will star in and produce an adaptation of author A. S. A. Harrison's
The Silent Wife.
Mazur/Kaplan partners Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan have teamed with
Kidman and Per Saari's Blossom Films to option the psychological
thriller. The book, which was released on June 25, is described as
follows:
Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at
stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful
waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim,
rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She
lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle
scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose.
Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the
throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that
can't be made, and promises that won't be kept. Expertly plotted and
reminiscent of Gone Girl and These Things Hidden, The Silent Wife
ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.
Still without a title,
Cameron Crowe's untitled next project has today added Jay Baruchel to its ensemble cast. will join Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin and Danny McBride in the Hawaii-set romantic adventure.
The film is said to feature Cooper as a Hawaii-based defense contractor
who has to work with an Air Force pilot (stone) to stop the launch of a
weapons satellite. In the process, the pair begin to fall for one
another as they're forced to contend with supernatural island magic and a
talking computer.
Manis Film announced today that production has started on
Big Sky, the English-language debut of Mexican helmer Jorge Michel Grau. “'Big Sky' is a suspenseful and thrilling story that will have audiences
on the edge of their seats as our troubled characters tumble further
into peril,”
Big Sky tells the tale of Hazel (Thorne), a teenage girl who
suffers a mortal fear of open spaces. She never leaves her bedroom,
which has put a strain on the relationship with her strung-out mom, Dee
(Sedgwick), and is starting to take its toll on both of them. In a last
ditch attempt to cure her daughter, Dee enrolls Hazel in a high-end
treatment facility in the desert, hoping they will finally find the help
they require so that Hazel can begin to move forward from the horrors
of her past that triggered her illness. But help is the last thing that
they get. When two brothers, Jesse (Grillo) and Pru (Aaron Tveit),
interfere with Hazel and Dee's plans in the worst possible way, Hazel
must confront her paralyzing fears before they consume her and is forced
to fight for her survival in the harshest conditions, all while
avoiding the cunning schemes hatched by Jesse.
The Joel Silver-produced home invasion thriller appropriately named Home Invasion. The Movie will star Belle Thorn and Nataile Martinez. In the film, two deranged serial killers break into a family's home.
They have to stick together to make it out alive and unbeknownst to them
there are hidden cameras throughout their home documenting their every
move.
Russell Crowe will star in
The Pursuit of Happyness and
Seven Pounds director Gabriele Muccino's
Fathers and Daughters.
The Voltage Films project "is a love story between a father and
daughter who live in Manhattan 25 years apart. The story moves back and
forth between the 1980s where a famous novelist and widower struggles
with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year old daughter; then
it shows that daughter as a 30-year old woman in contemporary Gotham who
battles her own demons that stem from that turbulent childhood."
Hollywood have secured the film rights to Sheri Fink's recent book,
Five Days at Memorial. The in-depth investigation into hospital practices affected by
hurricane Katrina was published last month and is officially described
as follows:
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician
and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical
Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled
mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos.
After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the
heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients
last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced
criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients
with drugs to hasten their deaths.
"Five Days at Memorial," the culmination of six years of reporting,
unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader
into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the
most terrifying form of health care rationing.
In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink
exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how
ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disasters—
and how we can do better.
Kate Beckinsale in
the upcoming
The Face of Angel. A fictionalized adaptation of Barbie Latza Nadeau's
Angel Face. Published in 2010, the true crime tome is officially described as follows:
Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it’s still hard to
reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually
rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British
roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that
convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault
Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face,
Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau – who
cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the
prosecution and the defense – describes how the Knox family’s
heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts,
inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate
picture of Italy’s justice system. An eye-opener for any parent
considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what
really went on in this incomprehensible crime.
D.J. Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye, I Am Number Four) will direct
The Disappointments Room, a thriller starring Kate Beckinsale. Relativity Media is in final negotiations to pick up domestic distribution rights.
Hoping to repair their failing marriage, Dana (Beckinsale) and Dave
move, with their son Jeremy, into a dilapidated country manor near an
aging Eastern seaboard town. In the course of renovating their new home,
Dana discovers a small locked door in the corner of the attic that
hadn't appeared in the house's blueprints. The ghost of a young girl
appears and beckons her to open the door. But the spirits of those who
protect the room’s terrifying secret return to make sure that the room
remains closed forever.
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Kate Mara is set to star in BN Films' upcoming true crime thriller,
Captive, is based on the true story of Brian Nichols who, in 2005, took several
lives in his escape from Atlanta's Fulton County courthouse, launching a
full-scale police manhunt. Oyelowo will play Nichols with Mara starring as Ashley Smith, a single
mother who Nichols took hostage and who was able to reason with Nichols,
ultimately to the point that she was able to call the police. Later,
Smith wrote about her ordeal in the book "An Unlikely Angel," which is
providing the basis for Brian Bird and Reinhard Denke's adapted
screenplay.
The planned big screen adaptation of Adam Gidwitz's A Tale Dark & Grimm has found a director in Henry Selick. Planned as a live action feature film, A Tale Dark & Grimm
will be based on Gidwitz’s original frightening and witty stories.
Inspired by some of Grimm's more gruesome tales, the story, adapted by
Selick, Jon Gunn and John W. Mann, follows the adventures of two
unsuspecting children who hold the key to breaking out of the dark ages.
Blake Lively and Ellen Burstyn are set to star in Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Lakeshore Entertainment's romantic drama The Age of Adaline. To be distributed by Lionsgate. The Age of Adaline follows the miraculous life of the 29-year old
title character, who stops aging after recovering from a near-fatal
accident. Over the 20th century she embarks on an epic but isolated
worldwide journey, keeping her secret, until she meets a man who forever
alters her life."
Lionsgate has plans to develop a microbudget feature based on the Kealan Patrick Burke short story
Peekers. Published as an ebook in 2011, is officially described as follows:
Larry just wants to enjoy the first day of his retirement. But
there are a couple of obstacles in his way. First, there are the kids
next door who insist on racing their dirt bikes through his yard. And
then there's his eccentric neighbor Zach, who comes looking for Larry's
help, to verify that Zach isn't losing his mind.
Because there is something in his house that couldn't possibly be real... Something terrifying...
Pantelion Films, the joint venture between
Lionsgate and Mexican media
corporation Televisa, has cast Oscar-winning actress
Marisa Tomei to
star in
La Vida Robot opposite George Lopez. Marisa and George combine to give LA VIDA ROBOT the star power and
cross-cultural appeal that has become a Pantelion trademark, and
together they tell an incredible true story."
The film is based on a true David & Goliath story about four
undocumented Mexican – American teenagers from Phoenix who form a
robotics team. With 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, they build an
underwater robot that wins the national robotics competition taking
down reigning champion MIT. Tomei will portray a dedicated and
passionate teacher whose belief in the rag tag team helps lead them to
success.
Landscape Entertainment announced today that
Lionsgate has acquired the
North American rights to director Phil Alden Robinson’s feature
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, starring Robin Williams and Mila Kunis.
Written by Daniel Taplitz, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
is the story of Henry Altmann (Williams), who is having a horrible day,
made much worse by his visit with Dr. Sharon Gill (Kunis), who abruptly
informs him that he only has 90 minutes to live. After storming out of
the hospital in disbelief, Henry panics and races through Brooklyn in
an attempt to right all of the wrongs in his life, while Sharon
desperately scrambles to find him and get him into surgery.
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The team behind the Golden Globe-nominated film
Calendar Girls - will reunite for new action comedy
Daylight Robbery. It tells the tale of a group of feisty retirees struck by the pension
crisis, who hatch a plan to steal millions after the bank refuses to
help their friend, leaving her on the brink of losing her home.
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2 Guns helmer Baltasar Kormakur has lined up a new project in Universal Pictures' On the Job. Variety
reports that the film will be a loose remake of Erik Matti’s recently
released true crime drama of the same name. That film is officially
described as follows:
The cycle of life and death and scheming at its highest level are
on full display in "On the Job," a gritty crime thriller that delves
deep into the inner-workings of the ingenious hitmen, honest cops,
ambitious federal agents, and shady government officials. The film is
based on the true scandal that rocked the Philippines where prison
inmates were contracted by high-level politicians to temporarily leave
jail and conduct a series of assassinations before returning to
incarceration.
After a prominent drug dealer is murdered by two criminals – Tatang
(Joel Torre) and Daniel (Gerald Anderson) – Sergeant Acosta (Joey
Marquez) takes the lead on the investigation, but their trail goes cold
almost immediately. It might have to do with the fact that Tatang and
Daniel get shuttled right back into prison after their killing spree and
it’s the last place the cops are looking; the perfect cover-up.
Federal agent Francis (Piolo Pascual) is called in to oversee the case
by Manrique (Michael De Mesa), his controlling father-in-law and
Congressman, on the orders of General Pacheco (Leo Martinez), but who is
really pulling the strings? Not trusting his superiors to find the
right leads, Acosta continues to stay involved and starts to show
Francis just how immoral his orders are. Now caught in a web of deceit
and corruption, Acosta and Francis are on a collision course with the
government officials who will do anything to silence them – and no one
is safe.
Released last year in South Africa, writer-director Donovan Marsh's crime thriller
iNumber Number is slated for a remake.
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to do just
that. The original film's official synopsis reads as follows:
When Chili Ngcobo, an honest but ambitious undercover cop, is
cheated out of a major reward by his corrupt superiors, he infiltrates a
cash-in-transit heist gang, and instead of busting them, he decides to
participate in a one off score. He must face off against his partner who
refuses to let him do it and one of the gang members who recognizes him
as a cop.
Universal Pictures has plans to bring the 1968 ABC series It Takes a Thief to the big screen. Robert Wagner, Malachi Throne and Fred Astaire starred in the original
show, which ran for 66 episodes and followed cat burglar Alexander Mundy
(Wagner) as he agrees to work for the United States Secret Intelligence
Agency in exchange for his release from prison.
It's quite likely that the studio has hopes of turning the 60's spy
series into a franchise, similar to what Paramount Pictures did with Mission: Impossible and what Warner Bros. is aiming for with their upcoming The Man From U.N.C.L.E..
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Alice Eve has boarded 1:30 Train. Is said to follow a man and a woman (Evans and Eve) who meet on a train
and begin to develop a relationship in the short time before Eve's
character has to catch another train.
Ethan Hawke star will headline an untitled thriller from writer-director Andrew Niccol. The film, which is looking to start production in February of 2014, will
feature Hawke as a drone pilot operating from Las Vegas who begins to
question the value in fighting such a disconnected war.
Katherine Heigl is set to star in
Jenny's Wedding. Set to start shooting on October 28,
Jenny's Wedding revolves
around Jenny (Heigl) who causes a massive sea-change in the lives of her
closely knit, highly conventional family when she finally decides to
marry. A pretty and engaging woman, everyone is baffled by Jenny's lack
of a love-life, and her parents particularly have
been anxious for her to settle down, but when the announcement comes
that she is finally going to wed, her choice of partner tears the family
apart. In order to reconnect, everyone including Jenny, must reinvent
themselves.
Sam L. Jackson to star in
Big Game it tells the story of Oskari (Onni Tommila), a shy, nervous
13-year old boy. Like his forefathers, his time has come to take a test
of manhood by spending one day and one night alone in the wilderness of
a vast local forest. Armed only with a bow and arrow, his task is to
return with a prize to prove himself. But this is no ordinary night; Air Force One is shot down by terrorists
and Oskari discovers the President of the United States (Samuel L.
Jackson) in an escape pod. Now the fate of the most powerful man in the
world lies in his hands. With the terrorists closing in, Oskari and the
President must team up to survive the most extraordinary 24 hours of
their lives.
Samuel L. Jackson and
Michael Caine will star in
Harry and the Butler. It
will start shooting on location in Louisiana in spring 2014.
Harry and the Butler is the story of Harry (Jackson), a one-time
jazz virtuoso living in New Orleans who has given up on his dreams and
now spends his days as the mechanic for a derelict rollercoaster and his
nights in his makeshift home – a converted train caboose. When his
former mentor bequeaths him a large sum of money, Harry – in a drunken
celebration –decides to hire himself an aging, down-on-his-luck English
butler (Caine) – an act of impetuous generosity that changes their lives
forever.
Director André Øvredal has lined up a new genre project with
The Autopsy of Jane Doe is said to follow a family of morticians who receive the body of a beautiful young woman whose death and identity are a mystery.
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The dystopic sci-fi drama What Happened to Monday? is now moving forward with Noomi Rapace in the lead. the film follows identical septuplet sisters who struggle to stay hidden
in an overpopulated world where a “one child” policy dictates that
siblings are against the law.
First announced three years ago, writer-director Steven Conrad's still-untitled biopic of
John Belushi has found its leading man.
The Hollywood Reporter brings word that
Emile Hirsch, best known for projects like
Into the Wild,
Milk and
Speed Racer, will play the legendary comedian.
Warner Bros. acquired the rights from Belushi's estate with Belushi's
widow, Judith, who published the book "Belushi" in 2005 with Tanner
Colby. She will serve as an executive producer on the project, as Judith
Belushi Pisano (she's since remarried) with the book informing the
screenplay. It is officially described as follows:
On the day he turned thirty, John starred in America's number-one
movie ("Animal House"), starred in the number-one late-night show
("Saturday Night Live") and had recorded the number-one album
("Briefcase Full of Blues"). All from a guy who was never supposed to
make it out from behind the cash register of his family's Chicago diner.
How did this Albanian immigrant's son capture a nation's imagination and
come to embody all the glory and tragedy of the American dream? It was
one high-price, high-speed, short-lived wild ride.
David Heyman, one of the key producers behind the
Harry Potter franchise and
Gravity, has set his sights on the popular video game
Temple Run. Heyman is looking to work with
Warner Bros. to
bring the world of the action adventure game to the big screen.
"From the makers of the award-winning best-seller 'Harbor Master' comes the most exhilarating running game on the App Store," reads the game's official description.
"Test
your reflexes as you race down ancient temple walls and along sheer
cliffs. Swipe to turn, jump and slide to avoid obstacles, collect coins
and buy power ups, and see how far you can run!"
Naturally, the storyline of the game (which has the treasure-seeking
protagonist on the run from demonic monkeys) will be expanded for the
feature version and Warner Bros. is said to currently be on the search
for a screenwriter.
Snow White and the Huntsman helmer
Rupert Sanders has found his next project. Sanders will helm Warner Bros.' upcoming
Napoleon, a biopic of the 18th and 19 century military figure, Napoleon Bonaparte. "The Killing" scribe Jeremy Doner is providing the screenplay for the project, which is likened in tone to Brian De Palma's
Scarface.
Gianni Nunari is attached to produce
Napoleon. He has previously brought historical battles to the big screen with projects like
300 and
Alexander.
Doug Liman has, according the
The Hollywood Reporter, come aboard the
Warner Bros. drama
El Presidente as director. The film, first announced in 2010, has
Tom Cruise attached to star, but the actor remains reluctant to move forward unless the project can also sign his former
A Few Good Men co-star Jack Nicholson.
Cruise would play a Secret Service bodyguard assigned with protecting an
elderly ex-president (Nicholson) after attempts are made on his life.
Although the book doesn't even have a publishing deal in place yet,
the have the screen rights to
City on Fire, Garth Rick Hallberg's upcoming novel set in 1977 New York, have been picked up by producer Scott Rudin. Details on
City on Fire are currently few, but it is said to
offer an ensemble look at life in the Big Apple in the summer of 1977,
leading up to the infamous blackout that took place on July 13 and 14.
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DreamWorks has secured the screen right to the upcoming nonfiction book
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek. Set for publication next April, the tome is the result of an
eighth-grade journal kept by the now-15-year-old Amy B. Harris, who
decided to live her school year based on the advice given in the 1951
self-help book
"Betty Cornell’s Glamour Guide For Teens."
Harris presents her thesis for the project in the book intro:
And so, I embark my grand experiment. Every month of this school
year I will follow Betty Cornell’s advice on the topics in her book:
dieting, hair, makeup, posture, and attitude, among others – no matter
how embarrassing or difficult.
I definitely have my work cut out for me. That is if I’m not already
beyond help. I am 5’2” with light brown skin that breaks out in acne on a
regular basis. I am gawky, slouchy, and just a little bit lumpy. I have
non-existent hips and a chest almost as flat as the cover of Betty
Cornell’s book. I wear glasses and braces. I do all my clothes shopping
at Walmart and second-hand stores. I spend more time on algebra than I
do on my hair.
Maybe things will change. Can popularity advice from more than half a
century ago still be relevant? I’ll find out. Crazier things have
happened, right? Men have walked on the moon and society has found a way
to grow square watermelons.
Betty Cornell has become my new soul mate, and I am married to her every word. For better or worse."
Scott Waugh, the stuntman-turned-helmer who made his directorial debut with Act of Valor (alongside co-director Mike McCoy), has lined up a new project with DreamWorks. Waugh has signed on to direct an untitled project written by Con Air scribe Scott Rosenberg.
Details on the film's plot are few, but the trade notes that the story
will follow a man forced into an unlikely teaming with his brother in
order to pull off an intricate heist.
