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D.J. Caruso & Chris Pine to Practice The Art of Making Money

After paying $2 million dollars for an untitled pitch, Paramount certainly knows the art of spending money, but now they'll be getting into The Art of Making Money as Variety reports the studio is fast-tracking the new fact-based drama for production early next year. D.J. Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye) will direct Chris Pine (Star Trek) in the leading role of "Art Williams, the alias for a Chicago man who rose from petty theft to become a master counterfeiter." The screenplay is based on the Jason Kersten book The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter which spawned from his own article in Rolling Stone.

⥤ Posted October 13 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 4 Comments

Paramount Pays Big Bucks for J.J Abrams' Produced Untitled Pitch

By Ethan Anderton

So essentially, I might as well just hand you a blank piece of paper and tell you that it will be filled with a spectacular movie, because there's not much else we can tell you. I could make stuff up, but I like to leave that to Fox News. Variety announced that Paramount Pictures paid over $2 million for an untitled feature pitch from writers Aline Brosh McKenna and Simon Kinberg to be produced by J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk under the Bad Robot production banner. No plot details have been revealed just yet, but if you're familiar with these writers' previous work, their collaboration is intriguing, to say the very least.

⥤ Posted October 12 in Movie News, Opinions | 19 Comments

Jerry Bruckheimer Taps New Duo in Attempt to Adapt Apaches

By Ethan Anderton

Apparently power producer Jerry Bruckheimer has been attempting to adapt Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel Apaches since 1997 when Disney beat out Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers in a huge bidding war for the property. While writers like Marshall Todd (Bad Boys II), David Klass (Walking Tall) and many more have given it a shot, it sounds like no one cracked it. Now Bruckheimer is letting another writing duo take a stab at it as Variety reports Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples will try to adapt the gritty crime story about a group of retired renegade cops who take it upon themselves to deliver justice in New York City.

⥤ Posted October 12 in Movie News, Opinions | 3 Comments

More Toy Story 3 Casting + Double Feature Extends its Run

By Ethan Anderton

As of late, Twitter is the place to be when it comes to cool announcements and fun tidbits in cinema. Today was no exception as Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich used his Twitter to make a video announcement about some news regarding the Toy Story series. First, because of the stellar performance of the 3-D re-release of the first two Toy Story films (watch the trailer), the limited two week engagement has been extended through the end of October. And second, comedians Kristen Schaal (of HBO's "Flight of the Conchords") and Blake Clark (Bedtime Stories, 50 First Dates) are joining the voice cast of Toy Story 3.

⥤ Posted October 12 in Casting, Hype, Movie News | 3 Comments

Sam Raimi's World of Warcraft Movie Finds a Screenwriter

By Ethan Anderton

In July the MMORPG nerd collective all shared a shocking experience. No, they didn't lose their virginity, and no the Warcraft servers weren't down, but it was announced that Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spider-Man) would be at the helm of the adaptation of the popular, life-consuming game World of Warcraft. However, nothing else substantial has come from Legendary Pictures, Warner Brothers, Atlas Entertainment or even Blizzard Entertainment to show how exactly they were progressing. MTV reports today that Raimi himself has confirmed that Saving Private Ryan screenwriter Robert Rodat is on board to write the screenplay.

⥤ Posted October 12 in Hype, Movie News, Opinions | 47 Comments

Gary Ross May Take on Matt Helm Before Directing Venom

By Ethan Anderton

Back in July there were some rumblings about Steven Spielberg directing a film called Matt Helm, the story of a pulp-fiction swinging spy but without all the Austin Powers parody humor. The writing/producing team of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman were pushing the Paul Attanasio adaptation of Donald Hamilton's 27-book-series, but when Spielberg took Dreamworks from Paramount, executives weren't too keen on giving him Matt Helm. Now it looks like the project has life again as The Playlist reports writer/director Gary Ross might end up directing Matt Helm even before he jumps into the Marvel universe with Venom.

⥤ Posted October 12 in Movie News, Opinions | 6 Comments

Emmerich's Independence Day Sequel Probably Isn't Happening

By Alex Billington

Our friends at Latino Review are reporting that the sequel to Independence Day that Roland Emmerich has been developing has been stalled do to troubles working out "deals" with all the big players involved (producers, stars, and so on). Wait, wait, wait. There's a sequel to Independence Day in the works? "Oh yeah! There's a story. There's a very really good great story, a very cool one," Emmerich said. This is the very first time I've ever heard of this at all. And it probably won't be happening anyway because everyone wants a bigger cut? Good riddance! This is an odd little news story with a happy ending (at least for the time being).

⥤ Posted October 12 in Movie News, Opinions, Rumors | 27 Comments

Must Watch: Full Theatrical Trailer for Pixar's Toy Story 3!

By Alex Billington

Disney has finally debuted the full-length theatrical trailer for Toy Story 3 this morning on Yahoo. The first short teaser arrived back in May and Pixar fans (myself included) have been waiting patiently since then for a real glimpse at what we'll be seeing next summer. This trailer finally shows us what the story will be about in Toy Story 3 and it definitely looks as fun as the past two. I love the way this trailer plays, with the home video footage and nostalgic first half leading right into the exciting second half. Plus, a Spanish Buzz Lightyear? Brilliant! Those Pixar guys are as great at cutting a trailer as they are at making movies.

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⥤ Posted October 12 in Hype, To Watch, Trailers | 67 Comments

Fox Takes on an Epic 300-Like Retelling of the Life of Moses

By Ethan Anderton

It looks like Hollywood is all out of books to adapt, because now they're looking to adapt stories from the book. That's right, the world's best-selling book of all time, the Holy Bible, is headed to the big screen in a big way. Or at least a part of it will end up there as Variety reports that former News Corp. president Peter Chernin will take on his "first significant film project acquisition" for Fox as he aims to deliver a "retelling of the story of Moses, from his near death as an infant to his adoption into the Egyptian royal family, his defiance of the Pharaoh and deliverance of the Hebrews from enslavement." Well aren't we modest?

⥤ Posted October 12 in Movie News, Opinions | 45 Comments

David Tennant Joins Simon Pegg in John Landis' Burke and Hare

By Ethan Anderton

Back in August, the news broke that Simon Pegg would be taking on a lead role in John Landis' forthcoming feature project Burke and Hare, the true story of Irish immigrants William Burke and William Hare, who murdered and sold the corpses of their 17 victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. Though there was some uncertainty as to whether Pegg was locked into the picture, it has since been confirmed that Pegg will indeed taking on the role of Burke, and now Bloody Disgusting reports that David Tennant (of BBC's "Doctor Who") will be filling in as Hare. Sounds like the perfect return to the big screen for Landis.

⥤ Posted October 12 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 7 Comments

Angelina Jolie to Replace Charlize Theron in The Tourist

By Ethan Anderton

Spyglass Entertainment's thriller The Tourist is having a lot of trouble losing key talent, and if they're not careful, they're going to end up with the fat kid on their dodgeball team. Back in August, we reported that Sam Worthington would be replacing Tom Cruise, but now THR's Risky Biz Blog reports that not only has Charlize Theron dropped from the production to be potentially replaced by Angelina Jolie, but now they're also looking for a new director as Bharat Nalluri (who directed the original) is off the project. Sounds like The Tourist and Green Hornet are going to duke it out for most plagued production of 2009.

⥤ Posted October 12 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 2 Comments

Mandalay to Grow 'Horns' from Stephen King's Son Joe Hill

By Ethan Anderton

Okay, so we thought that when Hollywood went to the Bible for film ideas that they were all out of other books, but Mandalay Pictures proves us wrong as Variety reports that the production company just picked up the rights to Horns, a novel set to be published in February 2010 from Joe Hill, son of writer Stephen King. Horns is "a love story driven by horror and vengeance that revolves around a 26-year-old man who wakes up one morning from a blackout hangover and finds horns sprouting out of his head. As the horns grow bigger by the day, the reason why seems to lie in the unsolved murder of his girlfriend." Provocative.

⥤ Posted October 12 in Movie News, Opinions | 6 Comments

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