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Start-up financier-producer LLeju Productions has picked up the rights to Jess Walter’ cult novel The Zero, LLeju principal Bill Perkins told the LA Times in Cannes. The project had previously been under development at Warner Brothers, but LLeju is planning on moving ahead in a new direction with a fresh script by Brandon Boyce and Derrick Borte set to direct. The Zero tells the story [...]
Paramount Studio’s remake of the 1984 monster dance flick Footloose is back on track again after Chace Crawford’s defection, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. The leading candidate to fill Kevin Baker’s shoes? Heroes star Thomas Dekker, 22, who recently enhanced his remake cred with a recycled version of A Nightmare on Elm Street that scored well at the box office. Dekker also played John [...]
Budget concerns may put the long-delayed film adaptation of Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi on hold, according to the Los Angeles Times. The project has been under development for seven years, with Academy Award winner Ang Lee’s name mentioned most recently as a possible director. Lee is said to have been exploring the idea of shooting the film in 3-D. The studio behind the [...]
Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau confirmed Friday that Tony Stark would be taking a breather until after the release of The Avengers in the summer of 2012. Favreau made the announcement during a morning appearance on “The Kevin and Bean Show” on radio station KROQ in Los Angeles. Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, had previously told the website WorstPreviews.com that Marvel was planning [...]
Check out six movie clips of MARMADUKE which stars Owen Wilson, Emma Stone, Stacy Ferguson, Ron Perlman, Jeremy Piven, Judy Greer, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Steve Coogan, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, George Lopez, Damon Wayans and directed by Tom Dey. Marmaduke Synopsis: For Phil and Debbie Winslow, moving their family from Kansas to the O.C. is a big deal. For their enormous Great Dane “Marmaduke,” however, [...]
As director Marc Webb prepares to begin production on the fourth installment in the “Spider Man” franchise, the list of actors in the running to play the lead role has been narrowed to five. According to THR Blog, Webb has narrowed his list in the last week or two to Jamie Bell, Alden Ehrenreich, Frank Dillane, Andrew Garfield, and Josh Hutcherson. Bell is one of [...]
Check out the trailer for starring Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Bai Ling, Scout Taylor-Compton, Taryn Manning and directed by Taylor Hackford. Love Ranch Synopsis: Grace and Charlie Bontempo are a husband/wife team who own and run one of Nevada’s first legalized brothel ranches. Their lives are irrevocably altered when Armando Bruza, a world famous heavy weight boxer from South America, is brought to the Ranch [...]
Jason Sudeikis is wrapping up negotiations with New Line Cinema to join the cast of “Horrible Bosses“. The comedy film is set to be released next July by New Line and Warner Bros. Sudeikis will be joining an all star cast for the comedy film that features Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Charlie Day, and Jason Bateman. Sudeikis, along with Day and Bateman, will [...]
1492 Pictures and South Korean media group CJ Entertainment are teaming up to produce a feature film adaptation of “The Graveyard Book” according to The Hollywood Reporter Blog. The novel is a young-adult centered book written by Neil Gaiman that won the Newberry Medal. The two companies joined forces in 2009 with the goal of creating films that would attract audiences across the globe. Neil [...]
Famous writing duo Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux have been tasked with reworking two projects in the coming months. According to the Hollywood Reporter Blog, the sisters have been hired by Paramount Pictures to rework the screenplay for the comedy “The Day I Turned Uncool” as well as the Fox animated series “Bob’s Burgers”. Paramount is in charge of the “Uncool” project which is an [...]
