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IMAX and Universal Pictures today announced that Battleship will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX format and released in more than 100 select IMAX theatres internationally, in countries including China and Russia, starting April 12th. The epic-scale action-adventure is directed and produced by Peter Berg and stars Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, …
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Battleship coming to IMAX and the newest trailer is here
More shots from Battleship adaptation
These images from the set of Battleship have been online for a while, but they haven’t shown up in many places yet, so I wanted to share them. Hancock and The Rundown director Peter Berg produces and directs Battleship, an action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as earth fights …
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Batman 3 confirmed for 2012, adding to biggest summer for sci-fi/comic films ever
Warner Bros. has set July 20, 2012, as the release date for the third Christopher Nolan Batman film, according to HeatVisionBlog. This even though there’s no title or start date for the project. According to the report, the studio is not even in pre-production yet, and Nolan still completing post work on Inception, but apparently …
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Will Smith bringing classic board game Risk to the big screen
It looks like Hollywood’s going diving into the classic board game seas for inspiration again, as Sony Pictures has apparently nabbed bigscreen rights to the board game Risk from Hasbro according to Variety. Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment will produce the film alongside the studio. Risk pits players against one another in a …
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District 9 and Descent directors both up for Dune reboot?
Recently Josh Zetumer (Untitled Jason Bourne 4 Project) submitted a 175 page draft script for the new Dune film that director Peter Berg (Hancock) was at the time attached to helm. At the time, Berg said that he and Zetume would attempt to “beat the script into something manageable without offending the purists”, according to …
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Fox prepping a Spore movie for EA, plus Mass Effect, Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno films are in the works
Fox is teaming up with Electronic Arts to turn the Spore game, which has developed into a worldwide ecosystem – into an animated monster film, with Chris Wedge (Ice Age) attached to direct, according to Variety. Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, who wrote Disney’s upcoming The Princess and the Frog, will write the screenplay for …
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New behind-the-scenes images emerge from comic adaptation The Losers
ComingSoon nabbed the above photo of Idris Elba and Jeffrey Dean Morgan shooting an action scene in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico for Stomp the Yard director Sylvain White’s comic book adaptation The Losers, which will be in theaters on April 9, 2010. Hancock director Peter Berg wrote the script for The Losers, based on Andy …
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Hasbro lining up top talent for film adaptations including Brian Grazer producing Stretch Armstrong, Gore Verbinski directing Clue, Michal Bay helming Ouija and Ridley Scott directing Monopoly
Universal and Hasbro jointly announced that the first feature film to be released under Universal and Hasbro’s six-year partnership, Stretch Armstrong, has been dated for theatrical release on April 15, 2011. They also announced Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, American Gangster) will team with Hasbro to bring the iconic action figure …
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Bryan Singer eyes comic adaptation Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland
New Regency has nabbed film rights to the Radical Publishing sci-fi comic Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland, which will be developed as a potential directing vehicle for Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns, Valkyrie), according to Variety. The movie will be distributed by Fox, which worked with Singer on X-Men 2. Michael Finch – who …
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Hancock director to take on live-action Hercules epic
According to a story on Variety, Hancock director Peter Berg is looking to produce and direct Hercules: The Thracian Wars for Universal Pictures. Ryan Condal will write a script based on a five-issue comicbook series by Steve Moore that debuted in May from Radical Publishing. “What resonated for them was that this was character driven, …
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Tom Cruise back in the espionage game
According to Variety, Phillip Noyce is currently in negotiations to direct the spy film Edwin A. Salt, which was written by Kurt Wimmer (Street Kings, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Recruit) as a possible star vehicle for Tom Cruise. Columbia Pictures has been handling development on the project with an eye towards Cruise. Noyce has …
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Win a FREE Hancock comic in the Cover to Cover sweepstakes
Sony Picture asked a select group of top comic artists from around the world to imagine Hancock as a comic book superhero. Now, they are giving fans a chance to win copies of the comics, in the Hancock Cover to Cover Sweepstakes. CLICK HERE to enter the contest and select the covers you would like …
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Hancock movie official website
www.hancock-movie.com Film Fetish Trivia: Peter Berg (The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights), the director of Hancock, is also attached to helm Bran Mak Morn, based on the series of adeventure stories by Conan, King Kull, and Solomon Kane creator Robert E. Howard. The Universal production is due in theaters in 2010. Bran Mak Morn, who was …
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Universal and Planetwide Media Launch Smokin’ Aces Digital Comic Book
Universal Pictures launched the Smokin’ Aces Digital Comic Book yesterday. The comic includes six stories written by Smokin’ Aces’ writer/director Joe Carnahan, with illustrations by IDW Publishing. The 30-page Digital Flip Book was created by Planetwide’s Comic Book Creator and has the realistic feel of a comic in digital format. Its pages peel over to illustrate storylines featuring characters from the …
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