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Peter Weir Set to Direct Gothic Thriller The Keep
21 May 2012 2:00 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Peter Weir, the director of films such as Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Truman Show and Dead Poets Society is set to direct a contemporary gothic thriller called The Keep, which is based on the 2006 novel written by Jennifer Egan. The story is set in a mysterious medieval castle somewhere in Central Europe, and it follows "two estranged American cousins who reunite to set up an alternative resort, stirring childhood traumas and phobias in a haunted castle."
Weir is also writing the screenplay for the movie which has a budget of around $30 million dollars. Weir has made some great films in his career and I think this will be a cool project for him to work on.
Here's a description of the book:
Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand »
- Venkman
Peter Weir Up For Jennifer Egan's The Keep
21 May 2012 8:01 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Be it the high seas adventure Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, the high-concept comedy The Truman Show, or the rousing school-set drama Dead Poets Society, director Peter Weir is known for helming ambitious productions that pack an emotional wallop. But could he be biting off more than he can chew with his next project? Variety reports Weir is attached to direct an adaptation of Jennifer Egan's bestselling novel The Keep for Said Ben Said productions. The gothic thriller focuses on the complicated relationship between two estranged American cousins, who reluctantly decide to work together to renovate a European castle into an "alternative resort" venture. Leaving behind the life they know.and ignoring the shared past they'd rather forget.they delve into the depths of the keep, where they discover secret passages, strange inhabitants and a dark history that could destroy them both. It's a compelling concept, »
Peter Weir to Direct The Keep Adaptation
21 May 2012 7:15 AM, PDT | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Peter Weir (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Truman Show) will direct the contemporary gothic thriller The Keep, reports Variety. The film is based on Jennifer Egan's 2006 best-seller, which is described as follows:
Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.
Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of »
Peter Weir to Direct Gothic Thriller The Keep
21 May 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Peter Weir ( Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World , The Truman Show ) will direct the contemporary gothic thriller The Keep , reports Variety . The film is based on Jennifer Egan's 2006 best-seller, which is described as follows: Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep .the tower, the last stand .is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as »
Peter Weir to Direct The Keep
21 May 2012 12:52 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Director Peter Weir, whose last film, The Way Back, played cinemas in 2010, signed on to adapt Jennifer Egan’s haunted castle thriller The Keep for CBS Films. Variety confirmed that Weir, best known as the director of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, replaced Niels Arden Oplev, the director of the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Weir planned to shoot the supernatural thriller, about two cousins whose lives change while renovating a medieval castle in Easten Europe, some time next spring. »
The Keep Gets Director Peter Weir
21 May 2012 12:30 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The Way Back director Peter Weir is set to direct gothic thriller The Keep.
The film is an adaptation of a best-selling Jennifer Egan book and it is set in a mysterious medieval castle somewhere in Central Europe. It follows two estranged American cousins who reunite to set up an alternative resort, stirring childhood traumas and phobias in a haunted castle. Peter Weir is also writing the screenplay for the film.
Ben Saïd will produce through his Paris based production company Sbs Productions.
The director is best known for his work on Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World and The Truman Show.
Production is scheduled to begin next spring in Europe and Australia. »
- MovieWeb
Peter Weir Will Direct Gothic Thriller ‘The Keep’
20 May 2012 12:16 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Although his last effort, 2010′s The Way Back, was perhaps one of his lesser accomplishments, we’re always anticipating the next project from Peter Weir. Considering the scope of that film, which largely failed at the box office, we thought it may be some time before we see another feature from the man who gave us Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Truman Show and Dead Poets Society. Thankfully, such is not the case as Variety has news on his next project.
Weir has announced his upcoming film, an adaptation of Jennifer Egan‘s novel, which is described as a “contemporary gothic thriller.” Unrelated to Michael Mann‘s film of the same name, this film follows two cousin who set out to renovate a European medieval castle. Set along this eerie backdrop, supernatural happenings begin to unfold in the script Weir will adapt himself. It’ll »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Peter Weir Enters The Keep
19 May 2012 12:37 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
A couple of years ago(!) we reported that Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) was attached to direct The Keep, Ehren Kruger's (The Ring, Skeleton Key) adaptation of Jennifer Egan's novella. Time passed. Things change.
Variety is now reporting that Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ) is attached to direct the contemporary gothic thriller The Keep, adapting Jennifer Egan's 2006 bestseller in a film set in a mysterious medieval castle somewhere in Central Europe.
The flick is set up at Said Ben Said's Paris-based production-sales outfit Sbs Productions and begins shooting next spring.
Described by one observer as The Ring meets Inception dig on the plot crunch below and look for more soon!
Synopsis
"Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, »
- Uncle Creepy
Movie Review - How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2012)
14 May 2012 2:35 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
How I Spent My Summer Vacation (a.k.a Get the Gringo), 2012.
Directed by Adrian Grunberg.
Starring Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Dolores Heredia, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris and Bob Gunton.
Synopsis:
A career criminal is sent to a tough Mexican prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation is a return to form for many things. It’s a return to form for the action genre, unapologetic onscreen violence, dark black humour, simple and straightforward storytelling, and most encouragingly of all, for Mel Gibson. The film is one of the most refreshing I’ve seen this year, and it’s all about something which is increasingly missing in films as the years go on - star power. Personally, I’m bored of comic book or ‘young adult’ novels taking the box office by storm, each of »
- flickeringmyth
Win Passes To The Advance Screening Of Battleship In St. Louis
7 May 2012 8:58 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
On May 18, 2012, the battle for Earth begins at sea.
Peter Berg (Hancock, The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights) directs and produces Battleship, an epic-scale action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Wamg is giving away passes to the advance screening of Battleship, May 15th, at The Galaxy – Mega Screen – at 7pm.
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area The Day Of The Screening.
2. Fill Out Your Name And E-mail Address Below. Real First Name Required.
3. Answer The Following Question: Name the last Battleship to see military use.
Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary. Passes Will Not Be Substituted Or Exchanged. Duplicate Tickets Will Not Be Accepted.
Battleship is rated PG13 for intense sequences of violence, action and destruction, and for language.
Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Alex Hopper, »
- Movie Geeks
Russell Crowe to star in Darren Aronofsky's biblical epic 'Noah'
22 April 2012 8:38 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
He already played one famed seafarer in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and now Russell Crowe is set to play the best known sailor of them all. The Oscar-winning actor has signed on for the title role in Noah, director Darren Aronofsky’s film of the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark, Paramount and New Regency announced today.
The announcement also included a telling detail, noting that Aronofsky’s film — penned by the Black Swan director and Ari Handel (The Fountain), with a polish by John Logan (Gladiator) — will be a “close adaptation” of the well-known »
- Adam B. Vary
Sir Anthony Hopkins As Alfred Hitchcock In First Photo From Hitchcock
18 April 2012 3:54 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Fox Searchlight Pictures has released this first look of Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in the upcoming drama Hitchcock (via People.com). Last week principal photography for Hitchcock started on April 13th in Los Angeles. I have to admit, with all the prosthetics on, the resemblance is remarkable.
The film will star Academy Award® winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will direct from a screenplay by John McLaughlin, revisions by Ryan Murphy, Stephen Rebello and Sacha Gervasi, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello.
Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes »
- Michelle McCue
First Photo of Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in “Hitchcock”
18 April 2012 2:51 PM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Anthony Hopkins is nearly unrecognizable as Alfred Hitchcock in the first official photo release from Hitchcock (Previously known as Alfred Hitchock and the Making of Psycho).
Principle photography started last week and the story is based off of a book that details the struggles Alfred Hitchcock faced creating Psycho. The official synopsis describes the film as a love story that takes place during the making of the movie: “Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock’s seminal movie Psycho.”
Helen Mirren is playing Hitchcock’s wife and the rest of the cast includes: Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation) as Janet Leigh, James D’Arcy (Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World) as Anthony Perkins, Jessica Biel (The Illusionist ) as Vera Miles, »
- Jonathan James
Ralph Macchio Crane Kicks His Way into Hitchcock
17 April 2012 1:04 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
We all love The Karate Kid. No, not the ridiculously long remake that featured Kung-Fu instead of Karate despite its name, we're talking the original, man! Why are we talking about that? Because some interesting Hitchcock casting news has just broken.
According to Deadline, Daniel-san himself, Ralph Macchio, has signed on to Hitchcock. Macchio will play Psycho screenwriter Joe Stefano. Anthony Hopkins plays Hitchcock, Helen Mirren plays Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson plays Janet Leigh, and Jessica Biehl plays Vera Miles.
From a Previous Press Release
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced that principal photography for the drama Hitchcock began on April 13th in Los Angeles. The film will star Academy Award® winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will »
- Uncle Creepy
Hitchcock To Begin Principal Photography; Stars Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, James D’Arcy, Jessica Biel & Toni Collette
12 April 2012 5:42 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced today that principal photography for the drama Hitchcock will start on April 13th in Los Angeles. The film will star Academy Award® winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will direct from a screenplay by John McLaughlin, revisions by Ryan Murphy, Stephen Rebello and Sacha Gervasi, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello. Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck of Montecito Pictures (Up In The Air) will produce along with Tom Thayer and Alan Barnette. Ali Bell and Richard Middleton will be executive producers. The film will be co-financed by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Cold Spring Pictures. Hitchcock will be released worldwide by Fox Searchlight Pictures. »
- Michelle McCue
Hitchcock Starts Shooting April 13th
12 April 2012 12:26 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced today that principal photography for the drama Hitchcock will start on April 13th in Los Angeles. The film will star Academy Award winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! the Story of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will direct from a screenplay by John J. McLaughlin, revisions by Ryan Murphy, Stephen Rebello and Sacha Gervasi, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello. Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck of Montecito Pictures (Up in the Air) will produce along with Tom Thayer and Alan Barnette. Ali Bell and Richard Middleton will be executive producers. The film will be co-financed by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Cold Spring Pictures. Hitchcock will be released worldwide by Fox Searchlight Pictures. »
- MovieWeb
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho Starts Shooting; Gets New Title
12 April 2012 11:57 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Good news for fans anticipating Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho and for journalists tired of writing out that insanely long title ... the flick is officially starting production under the sleeker moniker, Hitchcock. Read on for the details.
From the Press Release
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced today that principal photography for the drama Hitchcock will start on April 13th in Los Angeles. The film will star Academy Award® winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will direct from a screenplay by John McLaughlin, revisions by Ryan Murphy, Stephen Rebello and Sacha Gervasi, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello. Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck of Montecito Pictures »
- Uncle Creepy
Film About Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho Starts Production with New Title
12 April 2012 11:52 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of ‘Psycho’, the story of how Hollywood’s legendary master of suspense made one of the seminal horror films of all time, has begun production, according to a new announcement from Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures.
The film — starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Helen Mirren — also has a new, one word title. It will simply be called Hitchcock. If you hadn’t noticed already, Hollywood has a current preference for one-word titles. This one happens to work for us.
The film will be directed by first-time helmer, Sacha Gervasi. Production will begin in Los Angeles on Friday.
Gervasi co-wrote Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film The Terminal and also won the Best Documentary award at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards for Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
Below is the full announcement:
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced today that principal photography for the drama Hitchcock »
- Robert Falconer
‘Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho’ Gets Shortened Title as Production Gears Up
12 April 2012 11:23 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
I’ve always thought that, purely as a title, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho simply lacks brevity. You know what you’re getting with the film — the story of how Alfred Hitchcock made Psycho and, more than likely, how it affected his own life — but that doesn’t mean Scorsese should have made His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and the Hard Times in Tibet, either.
So it’s a smart move on Fox Searchlight’s part to have shortened the name down to Hitchcock, one that gets something across and, at the same time, doesn’t take up so much marquee space. More interesting, though, is the apparent shift in narrative content. The film’s source material, a book of the same name by Stephen Rebello, is often cited as one of the definitive accounts of Psycho‘s production — but, with a change in title, we now »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Universal Pictures’ Battleship Arrives In Select International IMAX Theatres In April
3 April 2012 5:17 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
IMAX Corporation and Universal Pictures today announced that Battleship will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX® format and released in more than 100 select IMAX® theatres internationally, in countries including China and Russia, beginning on April 12. The epic-scale action-adventure is directed and produced by Peter Berg and stars Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Asano Tadanobu and Liam Neeson.
“We’re excited to partner with Universal Pictures to bring this Hasbro property to life in select international IMAX theatres,” said Greg Foster, Chairman and President of IMAX Filmed Entertainment. “Battleship‘s powerful action and incredible visuals are a great fit for theIMAX format and will offer those IMAX fans an edge-of-your seat, mind-blowing experience they simply won’t want to miss.”
“With Battleship, IMAX audiences across the globe will feel like they are on these enormous ships with our international crew as they battle alien invaders,” said Universal Pictures »
- Michelle McCue
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