Day: August 11, 2009

Major film studios bidding for the right to Kick-Ass

Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass is close to securing a distributor, according to THR’s Risky Business blog. Three studios, including Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal, are currently eyeing the brutal comic-book adaptation. According to the report, the winner will have to pony up a high seven-figure sum, plus back-end residuals. Heavy interest was apparently sparked after the film’s ….

Kubrick’s family seeks to have his Holocaust film The Aryan Papers finally made

Director Stanley Kubrick‘s family recently expressed a desire to see one of the director’s final in-development projects, The Aryan Papers, finally realized, according to the London paper The Times. The movie was to be based on a novel by Louis Begley (writer of About Schmidt) titled Wartime Lies, about a fleeing Polish Jew named Tania ….

Hugh Jackman heading to Japan for next Wolverine, which will be based on Frank Miller origin tale

Hugh Jackman revealed to MTV at the Teen Choice Awards over the weekend that development on the follow-up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was critically blasted but financially successful, is now well underway. The actor/producer also confirmed previously rumored intentions to have the next film set largely in Japan, and that the story-line will be ….

District 9 midnight screenings expanded nationwide

Sci-Fi Wire reports that the Peter Jackson-produced, Neill Blomkamp-directed sci-fi action thriller District 9 will open at midnight this Thursday in advance of its Friday premiere date of August 14th. District 9 follows the story of extraterrestrial refugees in a sort of reservation in modern-day South Africa. It’s been 28 years since the aliens made ….