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20 August 2008 9:38 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Which one has the stones for Salt? Update: Only minutes after posting what I thought was a rumor I find out via Variety this is actually a done deal and Wimmer will indeed be rewriting the script to satisfy the gender change, but apparently the project won't require that much of an overhaul to suit her. For a long time Tom Cruise has been attached to star in Edwin A. Salt as the title character, a CIA officer who's accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy. He must elude capture long enough to clear his name. On July 1, 2008 Variety announced Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Catch a Fire) would direct the vehicle and while Cruise's name was still attached it wasn't confirmed or "official" that he would star. Well, it seems there is good reason to believe Cruise may not be starring as Entertainment Weekly has scored news

Brad Brevet

11 August 2008 10:36 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Yep, you read that right. Angelina Jolie is replacing Tom Cruise in Phillip Noyce's CIA thriller Edwin A. Salt and the title will change and the screenplay will be rewritten for a female character. It was only July that we wrote about this film, announcing that Patriot Games and Catch a Fire helmer Phillip Noyce would be directing. The screenplay was written by Kurt Wimmer, of Equilibrium and Street Kings, and is being rewritten for Jolie instead. The story focuses on a CIA officer who must prove that they're not a Russian sleeper spy out to assassinate the President. The deal only fell into place two weeks ago but is making news this week - and I must say, that kind of headline will definitely shake things up. Although the news has been reported by various outlets, no details on why Cruise left and why Jolie stepped in have been revealed.

Alex Billington

29 July 2008 3:48 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Paramount Blu-ray Extravaganza! Thanks to Comic Con my Blu-ray watching abilities were basically destroyed. I came home to several new Blu-ray discs that arrived in the time I was away and out of all of them eight of them hit the shelves today. Six of them I am going to detail here as they are catalog titles. The others I will get to in a second. The first one was Top Gun of which I reviewed on HD DVD (review here) and was not very kind to considering the HD DVD edition contained none of the features from the 2-Disc Special Edition DVD. Well, I am happy to say the Blu-ray comes with all the goodies (documentaries, music videos, commentaries, etc.) that I loved from the DVD. On top of that... included is a DTS soundtrack, a Huge step up from the HD DVD Dolby DigitalPlus.

Brad Brevet

6 July 2008 2:02 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Welcome folks to another Weekend Movie Wrap Up - the column where you discover the smaller and more interesting news of the past week.

This week:

David Fincher lines up another project, Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen become Prisoner’s, Paul Anderson threatens us with another Resident Evil, Tom Cruise takes everything with a pinch of Salt and Christian a makes Amends.

1. David Fincher is developing a computer-animated film called The Goon - based on Eric Powell’s comic book.

According to Comingsoon:

“The comic follows the adventures of a muscle-bound brawler who claims to be the primary enforcer for a feared mobster. The stories have a paranormal and comedic edge to them and concern ghosts, zombies, mad scientists and “skunk apes.”

Don’t get too excited though - Fincher is only producing. Good job too - the man only has about 13, 000 directing projects attached to his name.

Source: Comingsoon.

Niall Browne

28 May 2008 7:41 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Harrison Ford has revealed that he would like to return to the Jack Ryan franchise. Ford starred as Tom Clancy's CIA analyst character in Patriot Games and Clear And Present Danger before seeing Ben Affleck take over the role in 2002's The Sum Of All Fears. The Indiana Jones star admitted that he wasn't interested in starring in the last Ryan movie but admired Affleck's portrayal of the character. He told The Sun: "The Ryan films, the Tom Clancy films were I thought worth re-exploring again but I wasn’t a huge fan of the book on which the last one was based. "I thought (more)

By Simon Reynolds

27 May 2008 9:06 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Harrison Ford is considering reprising another of his big-screen action heroes - his role as special agent Jack Ryan.

Ford followed in the footsteps of Alec Baldwin in 1990 film Hunt For The Red October, by playing the CIA analyst in 1992's Patriot Games.

The 65-year-old returned to the role two years later for Clear and Present Danger, but Ryan - novelist Tom Clancy's most famous creation - has since been played by Ben Affleck, who stepped up for 2002's The Sum of All Fears.

Ryan Gosling is the latest actor to have been linked to the role.

But Ford insists he would definitely consider making a third Jack Ryan movie - because he would love to play a mature version of the legendary character.

He says, "The Ryan films, the Tom Clancy films were, I thought, worth re-exploring again, but I wasn't a huge fan of the book on which the last one was based. I think they made a cracking good shot at it and I think Ben Affleck is a very, very talented.

"That's a character that I think you could revisit acknowledging the passage of time and his increasing age. It wasn't age dependent; that character and his experiences were chockablock full of recipes for good engaging movies, so that's a character I wouldn't mind revisiting."

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30 March 2008 6:31 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Patriot Games author Tom Clancy's Maryland home has been badly damaged by a fire.

Damages worth $10,000 (GBP5,000) were caused when the inferno ripped through the second floor deck of Clancy's house on Chesapeake Bay, near Washington D.C on Saturday.

Clancy escaped unhurt and firefighters were able to put out the blaze.

The novelist is famous for writing The Hunt For Red October, starring Sir Sean Connery, also Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger - which starred Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan.

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