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Roland Emmerich Directing Asimov's Foundation Trilogy

We originally announced last summer that Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy was headed to the big screen. After bouncing around between multiple production companies, the master of disaster, Roland Emmerich, and Columbia Pictures won an auction Thursday for the screen and development rights to Foundation. Best known for his disaster blockbusters (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and the forthcoming 2012), Emmerich will be using Foundation as a directorial vehicle - this time on a galactic scale. Emmerich and Columbia won the rights over others like Alex Proyas and Warner Brothers.

⥤ Posted January 16 in Discussion, Movie News | 40 Comments

Terry Gilliam to Attack His Don Quixote Project Yet Again

By Brandon Lee Tenney

After nearly ten years, Terry Gilliam has re-attained the rights to his inauspicious script, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Looks like he's finally ready to take another run at what has been an ill-fated and untouchable windmill. The adaptation of Cervantes' novel has seen its fair share of attention in the past with the debacle that was the 2000 production. This first attempt disintegrated before his (and our) eyes in a series of unwelcome and uncontrollable calamities. The unfortunate production was captured in the documentary Lost in La Mancha, while only 6 minutes of the original remain (which you can watch here).

⥤ Posted January 16 in Movie News, Opinions | 7 Comments

Sundance 2009 Review: James Toback's Tyson

By Alex Billington

I'm not the biggest fan of documentaries so going into Tyson I was admittedly nervous that it'd be a very unforgettable film. While it wasn't exactly unforgettable, it wasn't that spectacular, and felt like of a documentary I'd catch on HBO rather than in theaters. That's not a compliment, but I still did appreciate director James Toback's very intimate look at the boxer Mike Tyson because of how personal it was. Toback and Tyson are friends and he was able to get him to open up to the camera in a way only a very close friend could. It was worth seeing if only to get an understanding of Mike Tyson that I didn't have before.

⥤ Posted January 16 in Opinions, Sundance 09 | 13 Comments

Sundance 2009 Day 1: Kicking It Off with Mary and Max

By Alex Billington

Seen above is a photo of our group eating lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, Davanza's, right off of Main Street in Park City. Clockwise from bottom left is Sean, Scott (from WeAreMovieGeeks.com), Neil (from FSR), Peter (from /Film), Tristan, and our own Bob Stencil. Sundance officially kicked off today with the opening night film Mary and Max and before we caught that screening in the evening, we made our annual trek to Davanza's. It was literally the first place I went three years ago the moment I arrived in Park City for my first Sundance and obviously I haven't ever forgotten about it since then. Great place.

⥤ Posted January 16 in Opinions, Sundance 09 | 4 Comments

Ilion Animation's Planet 51 Teaser Trailer Debut

By Alex Billington

Sony has debuted the teaser trailer for their upcoming animated movie Planet 51 developed by Ilion Animation. Unfortunately it's yet another unexciting animated movie that doesn't even look like it'll come close to anything that Pixar, or even DreamWorks, puts out these days. Even worse is that the story isn't their original idea. In 2007, I saw an indie animated film called Terra that had this exact plot - a human lands on an alien colony, befriends the peaceful inhabitants, then must protect them when his own kind comes attacking. It's a flip-flop on the typical alien story (think E.T.), but it doesn't work well here.

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⥤ Posted January 16 in To Watch, Trailers | 48 Comments

First Look Clip from James Toback's Tyson Documentary

By Alex Billington

First Look at James Toback's Tyson Documentary

The first movie I'm seeing tomorrow morning at Sundance is Tyson, a documentary about boxer Mike Tyson. It first premiered at Cannes last summer and even earned an A- rating from our correspondent Marco. I'm interested in checking it out but I wasn't fully sold until I saw this brief clip that MTV debuted today. It's getting quite a bit of buzz, but I'm still hesitant that it might be somewhat of a forgettable documentary. I'll find out in a matter of hours, but for those of you not in Park City, this is your first taste of Tyson in the documentary and a look at his softer side. I definitely suggest checking it out.

⥤ Posted January 16 in Indies, To Watch | 9 Comments

Diablo Cody Writing Taming of the Shrew Adaptation?

By Brandon Lee Tenney

Apparently Steven Spielberg himself will be ponying up half of the $26 million handed over to Paramount today from his ailing company, DreamWorks. And due to their floundering financial status, they've also lost their legal right to co-finance 17 of their previously developed projects. Long story, short: less money, less projects. So what are these 17 abandoned projects? While you can go read up on a few of them, including Spielberg's own Lincoln biopic, one of them that caught our eye is that of Diablo Cody's possible next project, a modern re-imagining of William Shakespeare's early comedy The Taming of the Shrew.

⥤ Posted January 16 in Indies, Movie News, Opinions | 4 Comments

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Going Back for Extensive Reshoots

By Alex Billington

With the Watchmen legal battle finally coming to its end, and Fox not getting more than just a large helping of undeserved money, I would expect the anti-20th Century Fox backlash to slowly dissipate. But with this news today, it might swing back into high gear. Last August we reported that X-Men Origins: Wolverine was experiencing some issues, primarily with power struggles between its director, Gavin Hood, and Fox's CEO Tom Rothman. And this was all before the trailer hit. However, an update has arrived from Collider tonight that says they're going back to Vancouver to do some extensive reshoots. Although I'm normally optimistic, I'm pretty sure this is a very bad sign, despite the other opinions I've heard from my peers.

⥤ Posted January 16 in Editorials, Hype, Movie News | 31 Comments

Casey Affleck Directing Joaquin Phoenix Documentary

By Alex Billington

Casey Affleck, Sean Combs, Joaquin Phoenix

So all that news about Joaquin Phoenix leaving acting to pursue his career in music actually meant something? Fellow actor Casey Affleck has announced today that he will be directing a documentary about Phoenix' musical career. He decided to leave acting recently to start a career as a rapper (of all things) and is currently working on album produced by Sean Combs. Affleck will start shooting his documentary at Phoenix' first public performance at a Las Vegas club later tonight (Friday, January 16th). This is also Casey Affleck's directorial debut as well, which makes this news even more interesting than it already is.

⥤ Posted January 15 in Movie News, Opinions | 39 Comments

Bob $tencil Does Sundance 2009 - Day 0 Video Recap!

By Alex Billington

As promised, Bob $tencil has arrived here in Park City for Sundance and has already hit the town. The festival hadn't even started and Bob was out on Main Street making new friends, hitting on pretty women, and even partying with celebrities. Well, maybe pseudo-celebrities, as you'll see in this very first video. Since there wasn't much going on and Park City was rather quiet, this isn't exactly the most exciting video to kick things off with. But it's all just the beginning, as we've got 10 more days to go, and there is plenty more to come, including exclusive talks with Uma Thurman, Amy Poehler, and the guys from Humpday.

⥤ Posted January 15 in Bob $tencil, Sundance 09 | 17 Comments

Warner Brothers and Fox Peacefully Settle Over Watchmen!

By Alex Billington

It all began on August 18th and finally came to a conclusion today, January 15th. Warner Brothers and Fox have settled over the Watchmen legal case that reached its pinnacle on Christmas Eve when Judge Gary A. Feess stated that Fox "owns a copyright interest consisting of, at the very least, the right to distribute." After meeting for weeks, the two movie studios have settled and Warner Brothers will still be releasing the film on March 6th as planned. Fox will receive a "sizable cash payment" as well as a percentage of the film's box office take. Fox will not be a co-distributor nor will it own a piece of the Watchmen property.

⥤ Posted January 15 in Hype, Movie News | 31 Comments

Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. is Directing The Thing Prequel?

By Alex Billington

Who the heck is this Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.? Not only is he attached to direct Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead, but now he's supposedly also attached to direct The Thing prequel that we've been hearing about recently. The horror gurus over at Bloody-Disgusting have learned that van Heijningen is attached to direct this prequel to John Carpenter's classic thriller from 1982 which is being developed at Universal. The odd thing is that we know absolutely nothing about this guy, although it seems like he may be the next big thing. Could he actually turn this prequel into something that lives up to Carpenter's film?

⥤ Posted January 15 in Movie News, Rumors | 24 Comments

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