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Author Michael Crichton passes away

Variety reported that Michael Crichton died yesterday at age 66. According to the author’s website, he died “after a courageous and private battle against cancer”. The website also states that Crichton died unexpectedly in Los Angeles. A memorial posting added: “While the world knew him as a great storyteller that challenged our preconceived notions about ….

French crime thriller 13 Tzameti getting U.S. remake treatment

13 Tzameti was amazing, and I’m not at all surprised that a remake is in the works. It was so absorbing and amazingly real, my eyes remained wide the entire film, as if I was watching some sort of sick underground documentary. We’ll see what happens in the translation of the French crime thriller. According ….

Dubai Studio City to showcase facilities at American Film Market

Dubai Studio City, the Middle East’s first dedicated film production cluster, will highlight Dubai as a compelling destination for international filmmakers during American Film Market (AFM), which is currently being held in Santa Monica, California. Dubai Studio City executive director Jamal Al Sharif, will lead a panel discussion on Location Expo: National Perspectives, highlighting production ….

UCLA to host film distribution, prediction and financing workshop

The UCLA Entertainment & Media Management Institute (EMMI) at UCLA Anderson School of Management today announced that it will host the annual Bruce Mallen Business and Economics Scholars Workshop November 7-8, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. The Workshop will bring together top academic scholars and industry professionals to discuss research focused on measuring, predicting and/or ….

Writer gets Trapped in crime thriller

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Matthew Aldrich is in talks to pen the thriller The Trap, which Ericson Core (Invincible) might direct for Alcon. The movie is a remake of a 2007 Serbian film titled Klopka, about a regular guy who agrees to commit a contract killing in order to fund his son’s life-saving surgery. ….

Legendary Wo Ping’s newest project underway

Variety reports that last Sunday, Yuen Wo-ping, legendary fight choreographer of The Matrix and Kill Bill films, held a press conference and announced his new project, titled True Legend. The film tells the tale of fictional Chinese folk hero Beggar So, who is famously portrayed in Wo Ping’s own Drunken Master movie. Yuen’s father, Simon ….

Drunken Master director to take on Mulan

Variety reports that Hong Kong director Jingle Ma, best known for the Jackie Chan classic martial arts films Drunken Master II and Rumble in the Bronx, as well as Jet Li’s The Legend, confirmed that he will be directing a live-action version of Mulan, the historical project about legendary warrior princess Hua Mulan. The story ….

Straczynski writing Forbidden Planet and Pulitzer-winner writing Spider-Man 4

Hollywood is getting serious about grooming its adaptations and remakes right from the start, by hiring the best writers in the industry. According to The Hollywood Reporter, J. Michael Straczynski, who penned the Clint Eastwood film Changeling, has been tapped to write the long-in-development remake of cult sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet for Warner Bros. Warners ….

Sam Mendes to direct Preacher adaptation

According to Variety, Sam Mendes will helm the film adaptation of the supernatural graphic novel series Preacher for Columbia. Originally created by Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, the story focuses on the preacher from a Texas town struggling to get by, who is driven only by a strong moral sense. When his city is ….

Gary Oldman to join sci-fi thriller Book of Eli

Gary Oldman is in talks to star with Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli, the action thriller from Warner Bros. and Alcon. Albert and Allen Hughes are directing. This according to a story by The Hollywood Reporter. The script has been developed by Gary Whitta and Anthony Peckham, and centers on a lone hero ….

Universal to adapt Army of Two game

Electronic Arts recently announced that the company has closed a deal with Universal to bring top-selling videogame Army of Two, to the big screen. Scott Stuber, through his Stuber Productions shingle, will produce the film along with EA, and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, who recently co-wrote the blockbuster The Bourne Ultimatum, has signed on to ….

Oliver Stone movie about drug kingpin gets financial injection

Earthworks Entertainment recently announced that it has placed equity in the upcoming film Escobar, a movie that Oliver Stone is executive producing. Simultaneously with the announcement, the Company also announced that James Reach has joined the production and distribution firm, and will head up the newly formed Earthworks Films subsidiary. Reach previously founded Beyond Reach ….

Chinese American Film Festival kicks off

The Chinese American Film Festival, now in its third year, commenced with a press conference at the Mission 261 Restaurant in Monterey Park last Thursday. The restaurant in the past has entertained the various dignitaries with dinner and a fashion show. This year the Couture Designer Yves Castaldi has been chosen to have his runway ….

Scribe ready for live action Ninja Scroll movie

One of my all time favorite Japanese anime films is getting the big-screen, blockbuster treatment from Warners’. I love anime, but especially love the more adult-oriented stories, with purposeful violence. The kid’s stuff well…that’s for kids. According to the report by The Hollywood Reporter, Alex Tse, who wrote the Watchmen adaptation, as well as the ….