Hugh Jackman eyeing adaptation of Richard Matheson’s sci-fi tale Real Steel
Variety reports that Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in the Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) film adaptation of I Am Legend writer Richard Matheson’s short story Real Steel, for DreamWorks. Real Steel is described as a Rocky-type story of a fighter who has to reinvent himself when human boxing becomes obsolete, replaced ….
Smallville creators set to adapt sci-fi novel for the the big screen
DreamWorks has set Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, whose writing credits include Spider-Man 2 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, to adapt the James Frey and Jobie Hughes novel I Am Number Four to the big screen, according to Variety. Transformers director Michael Bay will produce and possibly direct the eventual ….
Robert Redford to direct historical crime drama The Conspirator
Robert Redford is developing and will direct a film titled The Conspirator, a historical crime drama about Mary Suratt, according to THR. Suratt was one of the conspirators convicted of plotting President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. James Solomon (The Bronx is Burning) wrote the script. According to official history, widow and boarding house owner Mary Suratt ….
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 ….
Star Trek scribes’ Cowboys and Aliens script finished – still unknown if Robert Downey Jr. will star
Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (the team who wrote the latest Star Trek film) have completed a new script for the long-in-development Cowboys and Aliens adaptation, and recently discussed the project with reporters, including Sci-Fi Wire. “We literally handed it in yesterday,” Kurtzman told reporters on August 6, adding that they’re hoping for feedback ….
Spielberg to direct feature version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play next
Steven Spielberg has committed to his next film – an adaptation of the Mary Chase Pulitzer Prize-winning play Harvey, which will be a co-production between Fox and DreamWorks, according to Variety. First-time screenwriter and bestselling novelist Jonathan Tropper penned the script. Harvey is the story of an amiable eccentric and his friendship with a six ….
Steven Spielberg eyeing hard-boiled Matt Helm spy movie?
The speculation in Variety is that Steven Spielberg could be seriously considering taking the director’s chair for a Matt Helm movie that DreamWorks developed several years before leaving it behind at Paramount as part of the split between the two companies.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s new Twilight Zone film gets new writer
Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way have taken a step closer to creating a film based on the cult classic TV show The Twilight Zone, by contracting TV series Life show creator Rand Ravich to write a screenplay for the project. Aside from creating Life, Ravich directed The Astronaut’s Wife and produced ….
Old Boy legal issue won’t affect Hollywood remake, says Japanese publisher
A legal dispute between the publisher of the Japanese manga comic book Old Boy and the South Korean filmmakers who produced a film version of the story should not interfere with plans for a new Hollywood version, says Japanese publisher Futabasha. On June 15, 2009, Futabasha filed a legal action against Show East, the South ….
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – The IMAX Experience posts biggest opening in IMAX history
IMAX announced that the Paramount Pictures release Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The IMAX Experience, directed by Michael Bay and featuring scenes filmed with IMAX cameras, posted exceptionally strong opening results, with an estimated $14.4 million coming from 169 IMAX theatres domestically, for a per screen average of over $85,000 during the five-day opening from ….
Shia LaBeouf talks next Indiana Jones and Wall Street sequel
BBC News reporter Lizo Mzimba interviewed Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Shia LaBeouf about the new sequel, and the star revealed some info on a new Indiana Jones movie that’s in the works,
Martin Luther King Jr. biopic headed to big screen
DreamWorks is developing a biopic on civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. for the big screen, according to Variety. Steven Spielberg, Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones will produce. The DreamWorks project marks the first film to be authorized by the King estate and gives producers the right to utilize King’s intellectual property – ….
Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera book review
Who would swing off a six-story building for a homemade Spider-Man movie? Why would newlyweds with a baby spend $20,000 on a Star Wars film from which they can never profit? How did three nobodies blow Steven Spielberg’s mind with an Indiana Jones flick they made as teens in the Eighties? – Excerpt from Homemade ….
World Without Us being adapted to big budget tentpole
Man’s disappearance from the planet Earth is set to become big box office. Fox has nabbed film rights to an environmental non-fiction book titled The World Without Us, and intend to turn it into a tentpole feature for Mark Protosevich (The Cell, Poseidon) to write and Francis Lawrence (Constantine, I Am Legend) to direct, according ….
South Park the Complete Twelfth Season Blu-ray review
As with all seasons of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone make fun of everything they can get their hands on in Season Twelve. The show is just as hilarious as ever, and like The Simpsons, doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.