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17 items from 2012
Casting: Pegg, Firth, Hudson, Cullen
20 May 2012 10:05 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Simon Pegg will lead Peter Chelsom's adaptation of François Lelord's novel "Hector and the Search for Happiness". The schedule aims for Pegg to shoot the film once he wraps Edgar Wright's "The World's End".
Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay penned the script which follows the story of an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis -- largely because his patients are just not getting any happier -- who decides to go on his own quest to find a smile. [Source: THR]
Colin Firth has signed on to star as actor, director, playwright and singer Noel Coward in a new comedy drama "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" at BiteSize Entertainment.
The story follows Noel's two weeks at The Desert Inn in Las Vegas in 1955, when he performed for huge crowds. [Source: The AP]
Jennifer Hudson, Amy Adams and Garrett Hedlund have joined the cast »
- Garth Franklin
Liev Schreiber and More Spending their Last Days on Mars
19 May 2012 12:53 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Some casting news has come in for Irish helmer Ruairi Robinson's now filming fear flick The Last Days on Mars, based on a script by Clive Dawson. Read on to find out who will be spending their final seconds on the angry red planet.
Liev Schreiber (Scream 2, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) alongside Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense, Rushmore), Romola Garai (One Day, Atonement), Elias Koteas (Shutter Island, Zodiac), Tom Cullen (Weekend), Goran Kostic (In the Land of Blood and Honey, Taken) and Johnny Harris (Snow White and the Huntsman) are all set to star.
The thriller is being produced by Qwerty Films' Michael Kuhn (The Duchess, Being John Malkovich) and Andrea Cornwall (The Scouting Book for Boys).
The flick, which was previously titled The Animators, follows the story of an astronaut crew on Mars on the verge of a major breakthrough having collected rock specimens that reveal microscopic evidence of life. »
- Uncle Creepy
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Focus Features Int.
17 May 2012 6:30 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Focus Features Int. have the honor of opening Cannes with Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson’s seventh film and it appears that the future is definitely rosy with the number of items they have in pre and post production – Cloud Atlas, and Hyde Park on Hudson are hotly anticipated titles for the 2012 calendar year, while John Crowley is on tap next to direct a thriller starring Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall.
The Last Days On Mars by Ruairi Robinson
Untitled Eric Bana / Rebecca Hall Thriller by John Crowley
Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson
Hyde Park On Hudson by Roger Michell
Mr Pip by Andrew Adamson »
- Eric Lavallee
Liev Schreiber, Sally Hawkins and Romola Garai cast in Ruairi Robinson's 'Last Days On Mars'
25 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | IFTN | See recent IFTN news »
Oscar-nominated Irish director Ruairi Robinson (Fifty Percent Grey) has gone into pre-production on his debut feature 'The Last Days of Mars', which is being co-produced by Ireland's Fantastic Films and boasts a strong cast including Liev Schreiber (Scream), Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky), and Romola Garai (Atonement). Adapted by screenwriter Clive Dawson (The Bunker) from a short story by Sydney J. Bound, the Irish Film Board-funded feature will begin shooting at Shepperton Studios in London next month before filming gets underway on location in Jordan. »
Liev Schreiber, Sally Hawkins and Romola Garai Will Spend ‘The Last Days on Mars’
16 April 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Ruairi Robinson got a few headlines when, about a year ago, he debuted Blinky™, a science fiction short that featured the acting talents of Max Records (Where the Wild Things Are); past that, his career has been a little slower than some may prefer.. However, The Daily Mail (via ThePlaylist) reports that he’s wrangled a trio of players for a sci-fi feature, The Last Days on Mars, which will begin shooting in July.
Liev Schreiber, Sally Hawkins, and Romola Garai (One Day, Atonement) will be leading the film, written by Clive Dawson and based on a short story by Sydney J. Bounds. It follows eight astronauts on a Mars space station who encounter danger when they discover an unknown, dangerous bacteria; BleedingCool, having read the script, described it as something of a horror film, what with “a lot of business with airlocks that could be outstandingly tense if deftly handled. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Daily Briefing. The Far East, Megacities and Music
13 April 2012 1:24 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The Terracotta Far East Film Festival is on in London through the weekend, presenting, as Electric Sheep notes in the introduction to its newish issue, "the UK premiere of Sion Sono's Himizu [review: John Bleasdale], using a comic to tackle the fallout from Fukushima." Es takes "a look at manga adaptations with Takashi Miike's stylized, violent high school movie Crows Zero [comic strip review: Joe Morgan] and Toshiya Fujita's 70s revenge tale Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld [review: Virginie Sélavy]."
Hiroyuki Okiura's A Letter to Momo, seven years in the making, opens in Japan next week after a run through the festival circuit and, in the Japan Times, Mark Schilling gives it four out of five stars: "Hayao Miyazaki is the obvious point of comparison, but unlike many of Miyazaki's more fanciful landscapes, Okiura's port is vividly, recognizably real — so much so that you can almost smell the salt in the water and feel the warmth of the stones. »
Liev Schreiber, Sally Hawkins & Romola Garai To Star In Ruari Robinson's Sci-Fi 'The Last Days On Mars'
13 April 2012 6:41 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Is there a curse of sci-fi movies set on Mars? We don't believe that, but there's plenty of evidence to support that theory, with virtually every film set on our nearest planetary neighbor -- from "Mission To Mars" to "Red Planet" from "Ghosts Of Mars" and "Mars Needs Moms" to "John Carter" -- all disappointing critically, commercially or both. But director Ruairi Robinson ain't afraid of no curse.
The Irish filmmaker made his name with the Oscar-nominated animated short "Fifty Percent Grey," and has since made a couple of acclaimed live-action tinged shorts -"Silent City" with Cillian Murphy and "Blinky" with Max Records (watch both below). But despite the director being briefly attached to the live-action remake of "Akira" in the middle of the last decade, he's been yet to move into the feature film world, but he's about to finally get rolling on his debut.
Robinson's been attached »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Unused Storyboards for Live-Action Akira Adaptation Revealed
23 March 2012 7:30 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
When Warner Bros. finally gave the green light to Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way-developed Akira adaptation last October, it was thought that the years the movie had spent in development were finally about to pay off and we would be seeing Katsuhiro Otomo's acclaimed manga ("comic book" in Japanese) series in live action on the big screen in the very near future. The project got so far as casting, with Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy) landing the lead role of Shotaro Kaneda and offers going out to Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga), Ken Watanabe and Helena Bonham Carter for key roles, before Warners shut it down over budget, script and casting concerns in early January.
The project may be dead or, like the child with god-like powers for which the movie is named, it may only be in stasis, but we can at least get a glimpse of what »
- BrentJS Sprecher
Akira Storyboards Reveal Iconic Scenes Blended with Jaume Collet-Serra’s Vision
23 March 2012 6:35 AM, PDT | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »
The thought of Warner Bros green lighting a live-action version of Katushiro Otomo’s 1988 classic Akira scared fans at first. There were a few changes that didn’t sit well with fans, and even though director Jaume Collet Serra was ready to produce the film with Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart taking the lead roles, and Helena Bonham Carter and Ken Watanabe in talks to join them, Warner Bros quickly pulled the plug due to issues with the script.
So while plans for a live-action Akira collects dust, IO9 has come across some storyboard images that shows the link between the original Akira and Collet-Serra’s Akira. These images are the earliest incarnations of what would have been the movie and could have changed since then.
These storyboards are from when Sylvain Despretz & Ruairi Robinson were attached to the project.
So Akira fans, is this how you pictured a live-action Akira? »
- Mike Lee
Akira Storyboards Leaked Online
22 March 2012 3:12 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
Warner Bros has been working on a live-action "Akira" film for several years, with lots of actors and directors being attached at different times. But the movie never got off the ground due to budget concerns, and has now been shelved. Thanks to io9, we now have some of the storyboards that were put together by Sylvain Despretz (Gladiator) during pre-production. At the time, Ruairi Robinson was set to direct the film, with "Book of Eli" writer Gary Whitta signed on as screenwriter and Leonard DiCaprio as producer. Check out the storyboards below. "Akira" is not dead, it's just on hold. The goal is still to eventually make the film, but at this point, the only actor attached is Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy). Storyboards: (click to enlarge) »
Abandoned Concept Art from Live-Action Akira
22 March 2012 2:23 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
While a live-action adaptation of the manga/anime Akira has been in the works for a few years, the film actually looked like it would finally come to fruition until Warner Bros. put a halt on production to further develop the script and lower the budget. Producers Jennifer Kiloran Davisson and Andrew Lazar, and director Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown) are currently working to make those changes, but it's been a few months and we haven't heard much movement on the project. Garrett Hedlund was set as the lead and Kristen Stewart, Helena Bonham Carter, and Ken Watanabe were in various stages of negotiations before the studio had second thoughts. However, today some nifty concept artwork made its way online from a previous incarnation of the live-action adaptation. The storyboards are from when Ruairi Robinson was attached to the project and they give us an idea of what his version of Akira would have looked like. »
- Adam Chitwood
Abandoned ‘Akira’ Storyboards Tease An American Cyberpunk Flick
22 March 2012 10:32 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Before the Hughes Brothers came (and left) as directors on Warner Bros.’ currently-stalled Akira adaptation – which Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown) remains attached to helm – the project was slated to be overseen by Oscar-nominated Irish animation/sci-fi short filmmaker Ruairi Robinson.
A handful of abandoned storyboards for Robinson’s take on the Americanized Akira have popped up online, offering a peek at the original planned visual design of the film – based on conceptual panels illustrated by Sylvain Despretz (Black Hawk Down, The Fountain, Tron: Legacy).
Have a look at Despretz’ Akira storyboard work in the gallery below (click each panel for a larger version):
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- Sandy Schaefer
Two Akira Storyboards Offer a Look at This Stalled Production
22 March 2012 10:04 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Back in January we reported that Warner Bros. shut down production on Akira, which had Garrett Hedlund attached to portray Kaneda. There has been no movement on the project since then, but two unused storyboard images drawn by concept artist Sylvain Despretz have surfaced, from when Ruairi Robinson was attached to direct a few years back, offering a look at what might have been. Check it out!
Jaume Collet-Serra was the last director attached to Akira. It was said back in January that Warner Bros. is planning on reworking the script, to bring the $90 million budget down to a more reasonable level.
Akira comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Ken Watanabe. The film is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. »
- MovieWeb
Unused Storyboards for Warner Bros.’ Currently Stuck-in-Hell Akira Adaptation
22 March 2012 8:01 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Last we heard on the WB “Akira” live-action movie front, the studio had halted production on the film for budget and other assorted nonsense reasons, none of which involves a sudden dislike of whitewashing an Asian property while, mindbogglingly, still keeping their traditional Asian names. (Try to wrap your head around that one, kids.) Who knows if the film will ever get back on track, but until it does, check out a couple of unused storyboards by artist Sylvain Despretz, who produced these suckers for “Akira’s” then-director Ruairi Robinson. (The film has since gone through a couple of directors since ol Robinson.) They don’t show much, but they do show that, even from the very beginning, WB always intended on white-washing the movie. Hey, if nothing else, at least they’re consistent. “Unknown” director Jaume Collet-Serra is still attached to direct. Well, maybe. Who knows in a few months. »
- Nix
Unused Storyboards For WB's Live Action Akira Movie
22 March 2012 7:44 AM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
Concept artist Sylvain Despretz created the following storyboards for Warner Bros. live action Akira movie, back when it was in the hands of the first director to be attached, Ruairi Robinson. They don't represent a complete vision of how the movie would have turned out of course, but fans of the Manga and Anime will recognize the scenes from early on in the story. Plus, we get an idea of what the Americanized version would have looked like, a blond Kaneda etc.. Click on the images for a larger view The current incarnation of Akira is currently on the shelf at WB, with many hoping it will just give up and die. It should certainly be a while before we hear anything from it anyway. »
Short Film of the Day: Fifty Percent Grey
12 January 2012 8:00 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Why Watch? Guest Week is not over yet here on Short Film of the Day. Cole is still wrestling with the German authorities who insist that he must hit the minimum quota of poop-related Google searches in order to gain access to the internet. But he’s a family man, not a sick and deranged person. Today’s featured short was made by a somewhat deranged person, however. Fans of this column will know the name Ruairi Robinson as the director of the brilliant short Blinky™, which made our list of the best short films of 2011. He’s also in line to make his feature film debut soon. This time we travel back a bit further to one of his first works, 50 Percent Grey, a story about a soldier who wakes up in the afterlife to an unexpected series of events. It’s funny, in its own deep, dark way. What »
- Neil Miller
Future Looks Bleak As Warner Bros. Closes Shop On 'Akira' Remake
5 January 2012 1:40 PM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Scream "Kanedaaaa!!!" all you want, anime hounds, but it looks like Warner Bros. is about to pump the breaks on one of the most troubled productions in recent memory.
Since first being mooted in 2007 as a directing vehicle for then-29-year-old Ruairi Robinson, the baton has since been passed to Albert Hughes, and finally to "Orphan" director Jaume Collet-Serra. According to The Hollywood Reporter, however, Warners is closing production offices in Vancouver and sending everyone home packing as key creatives try to figure out a way to cut the budget down so as not to leave the project an orphan.
The money was already sliced in half from Hughes' $200-million iteration, but now the company wants to decrease their risk further by chopping more fingers off the project, Yakuza-style, from $90-million to the $60-70 range. This is partly to do with a distinct hesitance on the part of any major »
- Max Evry
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