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Lionsgate Picks Up Original Superhero Project from Stan Lee
12 December 2011 8:00 AM, PST | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Just the other day, we brought you the news when Dan Gilroy, screenwriter of the Shawn Levy directed film Real Steel was hired to pen the script for the big-screen adaptation of comic book legend Stan Lee‘s Asian superhero The Annihilator. You didn’t think that addition to everything else on Lee’s resume was going to slow down the spry 88 year-old legend, did you?
Now, Variety reports that Lionsgate has nabbed the rights to an original superhero property created by Stan Lee, that will be written and directed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the writers/creators of Smallville. The project which is being kept under wraps is said to be a multigenerational superhero movie that spans several decades. Stan Lee and Gil Champion will produce through Pow! Entertainment, which has a deal at Disney.
Lee is said to have approached Gough and Millar with the superhero concept »
- Jason Moore
Real Steel Writer to Pen Adaptation of Stan Lee’s The Annihilator
9 December 2011 8:00 AM, PST | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Dan Gilroy, screenwriter of the Shawn Levy directed film Real Steel, has been hired to pen the script for the big-screen adaptation of comic book legend Stan Lee‘s Asian superhero The Annihilator. The story follows a young man who is given a second chance as an international superhero and returns home to mete out justice.
The project is being developed by Magic Storm Entertainment, a joint venture of Lee’s Pow! Entertainment and Fidelis Entertainment, and Ricco Capital Holdings Limited.
Gilroy said,
“Stan’s created a ground-breaking superhero for our globalized world. The story spans cultures and continents in thrilling, character-driven style. Stan is straight-up at the top of his game and it’s a joy to have a hand in bringing this to the screen”
Lee said,
“Words can’t express how excited I am about this project. “It’s based on the most incredibly original and unique »
- Jason Moore
Dan Gilroy Writing Stan Lee's Chinese Superhero Film 'The Annihilator'
8 December 2011 9:22 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Plenty of work from the mind of Stan Lee is already on the big screen in the form of comic book films like X-Men: First Class, Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man, Thor, The Incredible Hulk and forthcoming blockbusters like The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man. However, one of the comic book creators project from overseas will be the next project to get the feature film treatment as Deadline reports Dan Gilroy, who worked on the script for Real Steel and wrote The Bourne Legacy for his brother, director Tony Gilroy, will write the The Annihilator about a Chinese superhero for Magic Storm Entertainment. Like many other comic properties from Lee, the film follows a young Chinese man given a second chance as an international superhero who returns home to mete out justice. Lee has called The Annihilator (which is a temporary title) "the most incredibly original and unique »
- Ethan Anderton
Lionsgate Picks up new Stan Lee Movie Project
8 December 2011 8:48 AM, PST | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Stan Lee is on a role! Lionsgate has acquired a new and original superhero property from Stan Lee and his Pow! Entertainment. Smallville's Alfred Gough and Miles Millar will write, direct and produce the movie through their Millar/Gough Ink production company. Just yesterday Lee locked down Dan Gilroy (Real Steel) to adapt an original treatment of his called The Annihilator.
Of course no details have been revealed for the project yet, but it's being described as a "multigenerational superhero movie that spans several decades." Now that sounds like it could be interesting, I would really love to learn more about it! This could be a cool movie.
According to Variety, "The comicbook vet approached Gough and Millar with the superhero concept after becoming a fan of Smallville and collaborating with the two scribes on Spider-Man 2." The two writers are currently in the middle of producing the new Sylvester Stallone »
- Venkman
Dan Gilroy to Write Chinese Superhero Movie The Annihilator; Chris Borrelli Sells Sad Jack
7 December 2011 9:19 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Dan Gilroy (Real Steel) has reached a deal with Magic Storm Entertainment to write The Annihilator (working title), a movie based on the Chinese comic superhero created by Stan Lee. According to Deadline, the story follows "a young man who becomes a superhero who returns to his homeland to mete out justice." The logline is pretty nonspecific, but Lee promises this is "the most incredibly original and unique superhero I’ve created in a long time." The Annihilator is the first feature film set up at Lee's Pow! Entertainment. Gilroy's most recent job was working with his older brother Tony Gilroy on the script for The Bourne Legacy that Tony is also directing. The franchise reboot hits theaters on August 3, 2012. Hit the jump for on Code Entertainment's new project, Sad Jack. Variety reports that Code has bought Chris Borrelli's action spec script Sad Jack, outbidding White Knuckle, Mandalay Vision, »
- Brendan Bettinger
'Real Steel' Writer Dan Gilroy To Pen Asian-Themed Superhero 'The Annihilator' For Stan Lee
7 December 2011 2:55 PM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Earlier this year Magic Storm Entertainment was announced and a finance company partially launched by legendary Marvel idea man Stan Lee, for the sole purpose of creating new superhero properties for Asian audiences. Well, Variety is reporting that Magic Storm has just announced its first project, called "The Annihilator," and they've hired screenwriter Dan Gilroy, who is at least somewhat to blame for "Real Steel," to write the screenplay. Dan is part of the impossibly creative Gilroy clan that includes older brother Tony Gilroy (writer/director director of the upcoming "Bourne Legacy") and twin brother John Gilroy (one of Hollywood's hottest editors -"Warrior," "Salt"). Before unloading "Real Steel" on us, he had a brush with superhero stardom, having written the "Superman Lives" screenplay that Tim Burton was going to direct with Nic Cage as the Man of Steel. This new project is, according to »
Stan Lee's The Annihilator headed to the Big Screen
7 December 2011 2:00 PM, PST | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Stan Lee's Chinese heritage superhero The Annihilator is moving into production and Magic Storm Entertainment has hired Real Steel and Bourne Legacy screenwriter Dan Gilroy to write the script for their first feature film.
The film is based on an original idea from Stan Lee's Pow! Entertainment, and "the story chronicles a young man who is given a second chance as an international superhero and returns home to mete out justice." The image above basically looks like a Chinese Wolverine type character.
Stan Lee is enthusiastic as ever about the project and says,
Words can't express how excited I am about this project. It's based on the most incredibly original and unique superhero I've created in a long time. Best of all, we're excited to be working with a writer as talented as Dan Gilroy to helm the script. I expect the startling saga of our hero, The Annihilator, »
- Venkman
Stan Lee’s “The Annihilator” Headed to the Big Screen
7 December 2011 11:25 AM, PST | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »
The grandfather of the superhero genre still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
It was announced that writer Dan Gilroy (Real Steel) would write The Annihilator for Magic Storm Entertainment. The film is based off an idea generated by Stan Lee’s Pow! Entertainment. Here’s the full press release from Magic Storm:
Hollywood, CA - December 5, 2011 – Screenwriter Dan Gilroy has signed on to pen The Annihilator (working title) for Magic Storm Entertainment. Eric Mika, the company’s CEO, announced today that Gilroy, represented by CAA, would introduce a new Stan Lee superhero of Chinese heritage to global audiences with the company’s first film project. Based on an original Stan Lee’s Pow! Entertainment treatment acquired by Magic Storm Entertainment, the story chronicles a young man who is given a second chance as an international superhero and returns home to mete out justice.
“Words can’t express how »
- Marc
Dan Gilroy To Adapt Stan Lee’s The Annihilator
7 December 2011 10:35 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Real Steel and The Bourne Legacy screenwriter Dan Gilroy has been confirmed to pen a big-screen adaptation of Stan Lee’s new creation The Annihilator. The film will mark the debut production for Magic Storm Entertainment and follows the exploits of a young man given a second chance at life as a ‘international superhero’, who returns home to settle some scores.
Stan Lee commented:-
Words can’t express how excited I am about this project. It’s based on the most incredibly original and unique superhero I’ve created in a long time. Best of all, we’re excited to be working with a writer as talented as Dan Gilroy to helm the script. I expect the startling saga of our hero, The Annihilator, to become one of the most talked-about and popular franchises for a new generation worldwide!
Gilroy also stated:-
Stan’s created a ground-breaking superhero for our globalized world. »
- Craig Hunter
Dan Gilroy to Write The Annihilator for Stan Lee
7 December 2011 8:55 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Screenwriter Dan Gilroy has signed on to pen The Annihilator (working title) for Magic Storm Entertainment. Eric Mika, the company's CEO, announced today that Gilroy, represented by CAA, would introduce a new Stan Lee superhero of Chinese heritage to global audiences with the company's first film project. Based on an original Stan Lee's Pow! Entertainment treatment acquired by Magic Storm Entertainment, the story chronicles a young man who is given a second chance as an international superhero and returns home to mete out justice.
"Words can't express how excited I am about this project. It's based on the most incredibly original and unique superhero I've created in a long time," said Stan Lee. "Best of all, we're excited to be working with a writer as talented as Dan Gilroy to helm the script. I expect the startling saga of our hero, The Annihilator, to become one of the most »
- MovieWeb
Script News: Reprisalizer, Annihilator, Manny
7 December 2011 8:39 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
The Reprisalizer
"Garth Marenghi" creator Matthew Holness will star in, write and direct "The Reprisalizer", a feature based on his short film "A Gun For George".
The story follows a troubled Kent-based crime novelist who becomes the titular ultra-violent vigilante. Shooting will take place sometime next year. [Source: Chortle]
The Annihilator
"Real Steel" and "The Bourne Legacy" screenwriter Dan Gilroy has been hired to adapt Magic Storm Entertainment's comic "The Annihilator".
The story follows a young Chinese man given a second chance as an international superhero who returns home to mete out justice. [Source: Variety]
The Manny
Justin Malen has been hired to rewrite R-rated comedy "The Manny" for Gary Sanchez and Red Wagon at Sony.
The story follows an unemployed (and soon-to-be homeless) recent college grad who, after exhausting all the normal ways of getting a job in the financial world, tries nannying a Wall Street magnate's kid to get one. [Source: Deadline] »
- Garth Franklin
Stan Lee’s ‘The Annihilator’ Snags ‘Real Steel’ Screenwriter
7 December 2011 8:37 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Magic Storm Entertainment has acquired the rights to a new superhero movie titled The Annihilator, based around an idea conceived by none-other than Stan “The Man” Lee. The titular character is one of the (almost) 90-year-old comic book legend’s most recent “unorthodox” creations, alongside the sci-fi manga/anime Heroman and the still-in-development Governator comic book/cartoon series.
The company’s CEO has announced that screenwriter Dan Gilroy is officially onboard for the project and will work from Lee’s original Pow! Entertainment treatment, while penning the Annihilator’s big-screen debut.
The Annihilator‘s namesake is a man of Chinese heritage who “is given a second chance as an international superhero and returns home to mete out justice.” Presumably, that means the character will be an ordinary person who gains extraordinary abilities (like many other Lee-created superheroes) and not someone who is resurrected from the dead with unnatural powers (a »
- Sandy Schaefer
Stan Lee's new Chinese superhero The Annihilator heads to big screen
7 December 2011 8:25 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Former Marvel Comics president and chairman Stan Lee is still in the business of inventing superheroes - and now his latest creation is heading to the big screen.
Lee, 88, co-created such classic characters as Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, X-Men and the Fantastic Four.
This summer he helped launch film finance company Magic Storm Entertainment - a partnership of Lee's Pow! Entertainment, Hong Kong-based Ricco Capital Holdings and Fidelis Entertainment - to bring his latest characters to life, especially for Asian audiences.
Variety's Showblitz reports that Magic Storm has hired Dan Gilroy, one of the writers on Hugh Jackman's robot boxing movie Real Steel, to adapt The Annihilator into a movie.
The character is described as "a young Chinese man given a second chance as an international superhero who returns home to mete out justice."
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- David Bentley
Real Steel Writer Tackling Stan Lee’s The Annihilator
6 December 2011 6:09 PM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Stan Lee’s Pow! Entertainment wants to do some annihilatin’ … with The Annihilator! Who is The Annihilator? He’s a new superhero created by Stan “The Man” Lee, with an eye towards turning it into a movie. To help with that, Lee and his Hong Kong-based partners have hired “Real Steel” writer Dan Gilroy to adapt the character. So who is this guy that’ll save us? The hero of The Annihilator is a “young Chinese man given a second chance as an international superhero who returns home to mete out justice.” Well, that’s novel. I don’t think we’ve ever seen a Chinese superhero on the big screen before. You know, at least not one that wasn’t made in China or Hong Kong. Some Googling led me to these pieces of concept art for an “Annihilator” character, which I take it is Lee’s character, since »
- Nix
Real Steel Writer Hired To Adapt Stan Lee's Annihilator For The Screen
6 December 2011 4:47 PM, PST | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
According to Showblitz an adaptation of Stan Lee's Annihilator is in the works with Real Steel and Bourne Legacy scribe Dan Gilroy on writing duties. The project is based on a concept developed by Lee at his Pow! Entertainment which was then acquired by Magic Storm who envision The Annihilator as a studio-level picture capable of appealing to Asian and global audiences. The story will focus on a young man who is given a second chance as an international superhero and returns home to mete out justice. Here are quotes from Gilroy.. "Stan's created a ground-breaking superhero for our globalized world. The story spans cultures and continents in thrilling, character-driven style. Stan is straight-up at the top of his game and it's a joy to have a hand in bringing this to the screen." ..and Magic Storm CEO Mika via Filmbiz.Asia "We could not be more pleased than »
IMAX Packs a Punch With DreamWorks Pictures’ Real Steel; Posts Record October Opening at Box Office With $4.4 Million Globally
11 October 2011 9:42 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Los Angeles, Oct. 10, 2011 – IMAX Corporation today announced that Real Steel, an action drama from DreamWorks Pictures, distributed by Touchstone Pictures, earned approximately $4.4 million at the box office in IMAX® theatres worldwide during its three-day opening weekend. Domestically, the film grossed approximately $27.3 million, with IMAX screens generating approximately $3.2 million on 270 screens. Internationally, the film grossed approximately $22.1 million, with 62 IMAX screens generating $1.2 million. There are 42 IMAX screens still to open in various territories, including China.
“Real Steel performed quite well in IMAX, particularly for an October release,” said Greg Foster, IMAX Chairman and President of Filmed Entertainment. “With nearly half of our international markets yet to open, combined with the healthy word of mouth and our experience with Shawn Levy’s films, we expect Real Steel will have a successful run over the next several weeks across our network.”
Real Steel: The IMAX Experience has been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image »
- Michelle McCue
Real Steel Rocks and Socks the Weekend Box Office
11 October 2011 5:00 AM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
The Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) directed film, Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, and Kevin Durand has scored a new October IMAX record of $4.4 million worldwide during its three-day opening weekend. It also won the overall weekend box office with just over $27 million in the U.S. and another $22 million internationally.
Official Press Release:
IMAX Packs a Punch With DreamWorks Pictures’ Real Steel; Posts Record October Opening at Box Office With $4.4 Million Globally
Los Angeles, Oct 10, 2011 — IMAX Corporation (NYSE:imax) (Tsx:imx) today announced that Real Steel, an action drama from DreamWorks Pictures, distributed by Touchstone Pictures, earned approximately $4.4 million at the box office in IMAX(R) theatres worldwide during its three-day opening weekend. Domestically, the film grossed approximately $27.3 million, with IMAX screens generating approximately $3.2 million on 270 screens. Internationally, the film grossed approximately $22.1 million, with 62 IMAX screens generating $1.2 million. There are 42 IMAX screens still to open in various territories, »
- Jason Moore
Film Review: ‘Real Steel’ Overcomes Harebrained Premise With Heart, Quenching Hollywood Wizardry
8 October 2011 2:41 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Try selling a friend on paying to see a movie with you about machine-operated boxing where humans control robots for money.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Just call your friend on his Motorola DynaTAC retro brickphone and say: “Hey, Billy! Remember all those swell nights we had as kids when I smoked you every time in Rock’em Sock’em Robots with our two dueling robot boxers mechanically manipulated by us? There’s a new movie out that pays homage to all those times you wasted trying to decapitate my robot’s head.”
Read Adam Fendelman’s full review of “Real Steel”.
From that vapid premise alone, you’d likely have better luck snagging a date to a film about vaginal dentata.
But fret not, friend: there’s hope yet for Disney’s sci-fi sports movie “Real Steel,” which is a sovereign testament to the power of the absurd. What if instead you »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Real Steel (2011)
8 October 2011 12:43 PM, PDT | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news »
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Written by: Dan Gilroy, Jeremy Leven, Richard Matheson
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand
Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is drunk, broke, and - to top that off - a complete jerk.
Kenton is a run-down ex-boxer now trying (and failing) to make some money in futuristic robotic boxing tournaments. He gambles to make some money at a local rodeo by using his battered robot Ambush to fight a bull (PETA frowns at this). The battle does not go very well, turning Ambush into dismembered junk and causing Kenton to lose a very expensive bet.
It's a funny thing to note that everyone in the opening scene of Real Steel are jerks. Kenton's a big jerk - that's without a doubt. The rodeo audience are also all jerks and the rodeo ringleader is big masterful jerk named Ricky (Kevin Durand). Even the »
- Tristan Sinns
Real Steel tops Friday box office with $8.7 million. Aims over $26 million
7 October 2011 11:07 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Hugh Jackman starrer Real Steel tops Friday box office over Ides of March. Shawn Levy-directed science fiction action drama Real Steel is set to knock out the field at this weekend's box office, after pulling in an estimated $8.7 million Friday and aiming for what could be anywhere from $25-27 million come Sunday weekend estimated figures. Pic will most likely end in the low $25 million range at best. Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Kevin Durand, Anthony Mackie and Dakota Goyo starrer debuted in 3,440 theaters and is produced by Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Mary McLaglen and Josh McLaglen. John Gatins wrote the script based on the short story by Dan Gilroy and Jeremy Leven. »
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