Adventure

Originally Published: May 3, 2005 Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production label is in negotiations with producer Peter Guber and Mandalay Pictures to develop a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1963 horror film The Birds, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As in the original, the new version would be based on a short story by Daphne ….

Originally Published: May 3, 2005 Oscar winner Denzel Washington (Training Day and The Manchurian Candidate) has signed on to star in the time-travel thriller Deja Vu for director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Variety reported. The trio previously teamed up for the submarine thriller Crimson Tide. The script, by Terry Rossio (writer of Pirates ….

Originally Published: March 28, 2005 How cool is David Cronenberg? The Fly, Crash, Rabid, The Dead Zone, Spider…The list goes on. He is a genius in my humble opinion. He seems to choose the subjects no one else looks at, but are so obvious. His style haunts me long after I leave a movie theater. ….

Originally Published: March 24, 2005 According to Variety, Warner Independent Pictures and Mission Entertainment have closed a deal with Canal Plus for the rights to remake the 1996 Andre Techine-directed French thriller Les Voleurs, also called Thieves. Andre Techine’s ambitious crime drama starts with a prologue in which a little boy is awakened in the ….

Originally Published: March 9, 2005 Keanu Reeves is in talks to star in Columbia Pictures’ long-in-development Sinbad movie, titled The 8th Voyage of Sinbad. Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious) is in negotiations to direct the film. The film has been in the works for several years, with John Singleton most recently attached to ….

Originally Published: March 13, 2005 World and North American Premieres make up Spotlight New Yorkers to catch their first glimpse of Special Screenings Tribeca Film Festival founders Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff today joined Peter Scarlet, Executive Director, in announcing the Spotlight and Special Screenings film selections for the 2005 Tribeca Film ….

Originally Published: February 15, 2005 Columbia Pictures’ hit romantic comedy Hitch generated $7,515,442 on Monday, becoming the biggest midweek Valentine’s Day ever at the nation’s movie theaters, it was announced today by Jeff Blake, Vice Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The Will Smith romantic comedy directed by Andy Tenant has earned $50,657,656 since opening on ….

Originally Published: March 19, 2005 Lee Tamahori, director of the eye-opening film Once Were Warriors, will be working on the Science Fiction action triller Next, starring Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore. The film is based on a Philip K. Dick short story titled The Golden Man, about a man who can see into his own ….

Originally Published: March 7, 2005 The Wachowski Brothers and Joel Silver, the creators and producer of the smash hit Matrix trilogy, have launched production on the action thriller V For Vendetta, starring Natalie Portman (Star Wars: Episodes I-III, Closer, Garden State), James Purefoy (Vanity Fair, Resident Evil) and Stephen Rea (Interview With the Vampire, The ….

Originally Published: March 19, 2005 Skill-Based Player vs. Player Tournament to Culminate in $1,000,000 Grand Prize Planetwide Games announced that RYL: Path of the Emperor will be the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game to offer a $1,000,000 Grand Prize to the winner of a Player vs. Player Skill-Based Tournament. Players who purchase the ….

Originally Published: March 16, 2005 We have an update to news we announced earlier this week, regarding some technology news from George Lucas and James Cameron, at the ShoWest conference taking place on Las Vegas. Theatrical exhibitors will experience premiere viewing of 3D Clips from 20th Century Fox’s Star Wars: Episode IV and Disney’s Aliens ….

Originally Published: March 21, 2005 High Tension is a French laguange horror film that Lions Gate (Saw), becoming ever the horror specialty house, puchased the U.S. distribution rights to last year. The film was originally produced by Europa, the company run by La Femme Nikita and The Professional director Luc Besson. The plot revolves around ….

Originally Published: March 10, 2005 There is even more movement towards a united gaming and film front, as gamers are becoming the toast of hollywood. An example of this is American McGee working on a script for his original take on the game concept Oz, which Jerry Bruckheimer has optioned for a trilogy of films. ….

Originally Published: March 6, 2005 Founder and Creator of Beverly Hills Film Studios, Producer/Director BJ Davis, is departing Beverly Hills Film Studios to take the helm of a newly created company, Pear Mound Pictures, that will produce bigger budgeted films and television product for the market. Davis is currently preparing a feature film for Hoboken ….

Originally Published: March 14, 2005 The web site BlueTights.net will be the official Blog for Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns with production diaries from Sydney, Australia. I just took a peek, and while the design leaves much to be desired, it’s filled with Quicktime videos, words from the crew, fan created posters and more. The current ….