
Here’s the first online clip of writer/director Matt Reeves‘ Let Me In, the American adaptation of Tomas Alfredson‘s critically acclaimed 2008 Swedish vampire film, Let The Right One In. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 September 2010 by Jordan Raup in News

We were all pretty happy when Guillermo del Toro came to his wits and let Peter Jackson direct The Hobbit films. Then we were even happier when he announced he will direct his passion project, and adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft‘s At The Mountains of Madness. Now, Collider is reporting on two potential leads. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 September 2010 by Jordan Raup in News

Just last night we reported Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón’s planned sci-fi film, Gravity, may be in jeopardy due to WB not getting Angelina Jolie as lead. Now, ScriptShadow has the first review of an earlier draft of the script and they have uncovered many story details. You can head over to their site for the full scoop, but check out my short summary below.
The main character, Ryan is up in space. The Russians blew up one of the many satellites there. It causes a chain reaction of flying debris, exploding the shuttle they are on. Now, for the rest of the film she is in her life-suit and must jump from location to location to get air, in order to reach the mother boat haven of the International Space Station. Read the full story
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A true story of riches to rags, the book Skeletons On The Zahara will be adapted into a screenplay by Public Enemies scribe Ronan Bennet [Deadline]. The book, written by Dean King tells the true story of a merchant vessel captained by James Riley that was shipwrecked in Africa. The crew then trials through the Sahara, before they are captured and made slaves. Riley eventually wrote a memoir of the event, republished with a new title: Sufferings in Africa. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 September 2010 by Kristy Puchko in News

Undead Boy Meets Undead Girl in 'Breathers'
New details about Diablo Cody’s adaptation of S.G. Browne’s Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament surfaced today. The project, announced last February, has been laboring in development. Now, the script is being shopped to directors, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson are “loosely attached” to the project. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 September 2010 by Dan Mecca in News

Paula Patton has been given a mission, should she choose to accept it. And, apparently, she has, landing the female lead in Mission: Impossible IV, which is now a pseudo-reboot kind of starring Tom Cruise, but also Jeremy Renner. We already have details on the Brad Bird film, which seem to be up to date with all of the recent narrative changes. [Deadline]
Patton, who’s been on the fringes of stardom for the last 5 years (from Hitch to Deja Vu to an impressive turn in Precious), is in good company here. Cruise and J.J. Abrams are working with Paramount on a $140 million budget.
What’s funny about all of this is that although Paramount was apparently looking to stray from depending on Cruise’s star power after the semi-disaster that was Knight and Day, Renner and Patton add about zilch in terms of box office dollars, begging the question: what?
Was Justin Bieber not available?
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Posted on 01 September 2010 by Dan Mecca in News

Alfonso Cuaron‘s sci-fi project Gravity may have lost just that, despite having a movie star (Robert Downey Jr.) and an award-winning director in tow. Angelina “Salt” Jolie was approached to Cuaron a while back to star as the heroine in this film, which concerns a team of cosmonauts (the team leader being RDJ) who are nearly all wiped out by debris from a busted satellite.
Jolie’s character is left in a dire attempt to get back home to her son. Apparently, it’s a one-woman show or the most part, at least as the script (written by Cuaron and his son Jonas) reads now. There may need to be changes if Warner Bros. can’t find a bankable actress to take the reins.
The studio has allegedly met with all of the candidates, from Sandra Bullock to Natalie Portman to Sienna Miller to Blake Lively (who was once rumored to have taken over for Jolie), so they’re trying [Deadline].
Lets hope a solution is found, because Gravity sounds kind of incredible, especially with in its current $80 million 3D-shot state.
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Posted on 01 September 2010 by Nick Newman in News

Oh, Dwayne Johnson, you hurt me. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 September 2010 by Kristy Puchko in News

Mark Millar is a man of hope, a true optimist. Not only does Millar see the glass as half-full, he can’t conceive of the glass being empty. Ever. Read the full story
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Posted on 31 August 2010 by Nick Newman in News

It seems like the impossible has happened: Steven Spielberg has started directing a movie and there hasn’t been much attention paid to such an occurrence. With one of the best living directors beginning production on a new film, there’s always reason to be excited, but there didn’t seem to be coverage of this. But, now with these set photos, it looks like coverage of the production of his new film, War Horse, will gear up. Read the full story
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