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'Superman Returns' Producer Picks Up 'Night and Fog' Adaptation
23 December 2009 12:01 PM, PST
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Producers Gil Adler and Shane McCarthy have optioned Matthew Bradford and Alex Leung’s “Night and Fog.”
Originally published by Studio 407 in 2008 as a miniseries by Bradford and Leung along with artists Thomas Aira and Roberto Castro, “Night and Fog” follows a security guard’s attempt to escape a military base that is beset by a seemingly supernatural mist that transforms its victims into unkillable monstrosities.
“When I read this I knew I had to take it off the market,” said Adler in a recent press release. “It’s a great high-concept that blends the gothic horror of the Hammer films with the sci-fi horror of ‘Aliens’ and ‘The Thing.’”
Adler has previously produced several comic related films including “Superman Returns” and “Constantine.” He is also one of the producers of the upcoming “Dead of Night” — an adaptation of the popular Italian comic “Dylan Dog” — starring Brandon Routh.
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Five
23 December 2009 10:10 AM, PST
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Hippie Hippie Shake
Opens: 2010
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Max Minghella, Emma Booth, Lee Ingleby
Director: Beeban Kidron
Summary: Follows the love story of Oz editor Richard Neville and Louise Ferrier. Neville and his cohorts launch the London edition of Oz amidst the 1960s counterculture and are subsequently put on trial for distributing a sexually explicit issue.
Analysis: One of the most troubled productions in Working Title's history, 'Hippie' began development back in 1998 but failed to get beyond script stage both in 1999 and in 2002 when "Elizabeth" helmer Shekhar Kapur was attached to direct. Filming finally got underway late 2007 with director Beeban Kidron in charge and shooting seemed to proceed without issue aside from feminist author Germaine Greer being vehemently unhappy about being depicted on film.
Actually the film scored quite a bit of free press for a skinny dipping scene where full-frontal shots of actress Sienna Miller shooting the sequence
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Studio 407 Announce Night and Fog Adaptation
23 December 2009
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Studio 407 announced today that their sci-fi horror property Night and Fog has been optioned for film by renown producer Gil Adler and Shane McCarthy via the following press release.
No stranger to comic book material, Adler has produced such comic book films as Constantine , Superman Returns , as well most recently Dead of Night which was based on the popular Italian comic book Dylan Dog (read interview here ).
"This material is definitely in my strike zone in more ways than one," says Adler. "Having produced the Tales from the Crypt series and some Dark Castle horror films, I can say horror.s a genre I know intrinsically. But what really appealed to me wasn.t so much the genre trappings, but rather the characters that really drive this story. It.s
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Night and Fog Rolling in Toward the Big Screen
23 December 2009 12:57 AM, PST
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Frankenstein Mist. You don't see that very often on the evening weather report. Usually it's snow or sunshine. Me? I wanna live in the world where a good old fashioned Frankenstein Mist can turn the world on its ear. Studio 407's comic Night and Fog is just such a world, and it has just been optioned for the big screen!
From the Press Release
Studio 407 announced today that their sci-fi horror property Night and Fog has been optioned for film by renowned producers Gil Adler and Shane McCarthy. No stranger to comic book material, Adler has produced such comic book films as Constantine, Superman Returns, as well as most recently Dead of Night, which was based on the popular Italian comic book Dylan Dog.
Said Adler: “This material is definitely in my strike zone in more ways than one. And having produced the Tales from the Crypt series
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The X Factor: more than 19m watch Joe McElderry win
14 December 2009 7:27 AM, PST
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ITV1 talent show The X Factor attracts biggest ever audience as Joe McElderry beats Olly Murs
Mark Lawson: Joe wins, but Cowell's the master
In pictures: The X Factor final
Read Anna Pickard's X Factor liveblog
More than 19 million people watched Joe McElderry win The X Factor, the ITV1 talent show's biggest ever audience, last night, Sunday 13 December.
The X Factor, in which McElderry triumphed over runner-up Olly Murs, averaged 15.5 million viewers between 7.30pm and 9.30pm, a 53% share of the audience, according to unofficial overnight figures.
Last night's final peaked at 19.1 million viewers in the five minutes from 9.15pm, when McElderry was announced as the winner, according to ITV. Its 15-minute peak was 17.1 million, 57% of the audience, between 8.30pm and 8.45pm.
This was the highest average and peak audience of any of the show's six series so far. Last year's final, which was won by Alexandra Burke, had a
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Constantine Director to Consult on Jonah Hex Reshoots
13 December 2009 12:32 AM, PST
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A casting notice for Jonah Hex has revealed that the movie will have two weeks of reshoots starting on January 18. The notice is searching for actors to play Native American "Cassie," wife of Josh Brolin's Hex; a nine-year-old "Travis" that "must be a match" to Brolin and Cassie; and "Jeb Turnbull," the 30-year-old son of John Malkovich's Quentin Turnbull. From this, we can infer that the reshoots will involve some flashback scenes where Hex's family is likely put in danger. Actors are also needed to play "President Andrew Johnson," a "Johnson aide," and a "dead guy."
Bloody-Disgusting reports that Warner Bros. has brought in Constantine's Francis Lawrence to consult on the reshoots. Director Jimmy Hayward is also returning for the reshoots, though clearly Warner Bros thinks he could use some help.
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Fashion fix: Black Adidas Samba trainers from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
11 December 2009 1:37 AM, PST
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Shia Labeouf’s certainly come a long way since he was the gawky teenage sidekick in blockbusters such as I, Robot and Constantine, let alone kiddie Disney effort Holes (yes, that is him with the mop of curly hair!). Growing up onscreen, he’s been quietly been building both his star status and style credentials with more mature roles in the likes of Eagle Eye and Disturbia and this year he reprised his most famous role, that of Sam Witwicky in summer blockbuster, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (out now on DVD, here in the UK and here in the Us). And as Sam, Shia not only hangs out with the heroic Autobots, gets it on with girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox) and generally saves the world from destruction, he does so in some cool clothes and we particularly love his black Adidas Samba trainers.
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Jonah Hex Gets Reshoots with Francis Lawrence
10 December 2009 5:02 PM, PST
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Reshoots are rarely a good thing., that's common knowledge. What's even rarer is a studio calling in a big name to help a small time director out with his reshoots. Martin Scorsese wasn't called in to help Spike Jonze with his Where the Wild Things Are reshoots. Brian Singer wasn't called in to help Gavin Hood with his Wolverine reshoots (we can dream). But that's exactly what's happening on the set of Jimmy Hayward's Jonah Hex.
According to Bloody Disgusting, reshoots are currently taking place for the DC flick, and Francis Lawrence (director of Constantine and the under-appreciated I Am Legend) has been called in to consult. It's not clear what Lawrence's duties will be during the reshoot. One can only assume that the studio wasn't happy with the initial cut of the film and felt Hayward needed a helping hand from a big shot.
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Jonah Hex Reshoots Get a Consultant
10 December 2009 5:05 AM, PST
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Jonah Hex is going back in for reshoots. This is according to Bloody Disgusting, but the most interesting bit of the article isn’t the fact that the reshoots are occurring. What is most interesting about this news is that Constantine and I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence is being brought in as a consultant to Jonah Hex director Jimmy Hayward.
Now, there could be any number of reasons why Warner Brothers would be ordering a few weeks worth of reshoots, and there are just as many reasons why Lawrence would be brought in as a consultant. Hayward, who is directing his first, live-action feature, might not have much experience getting a cast and crew who believed they were finished back into the game, and Lawrence may be helping with morale.
Lawrence has had his own experiences with reshoots. Both Constantine and I Am Legend went back for reshoots, the former,
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Jonah Hex Reshoots Happening, New Director Involved
10 December 2009 5:04 AM, PST
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Earlier this week, we began to hear rumblings about potential reshoots on Jonah Hex, the Warner Bros. produced comic book adaptation about a supernatural gunslinger (played by Josh Brolin). But there wasn't anything substantial to go on, and the process of reshoots is nothing new. A lot of movies have reshoots. And chances are, something just needed to be touched up.
That was the case until the folks at Bloody Disgusting filed a new report yesterday, saying that director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) has been brought in as a consultant to help director Jimmy Hayward finish up the film. Their inside source is telling them that WB is prepping for "a few new weeks" of shooting, but did not provide details as to which actors are being called back to the set, etc.
So what does it all mean? The scary part of this story is that another director has been brought in to consult
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Francis Lawrence Brought In to Consult on Jonah Hex Reshoots
10 December 2009 2:44 AM, PST
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Even more reshoot news? It's not uncommon for most major movies to do reshoots, it's just something that movie studios can afford to do when they're working on big movies. But it's always distressing to hear about reshoots on a project we're excited about, especially when it comes with some interesting additional details. For example, Bloody-Disgusting is reporting tonight that Jonah Hex is doing some reshoots over the next few weeks. However, Warner Bros has decided to bring on I Am Legend and Constantine director Francis Lawrence to "consult" on the reshoots (as in, to make sure they turn out much better than previously).
Jonah Hex, based on the DC Comics character, is (or rather was) being directed by Jimmy Hayward, who's only other directing credit is on the animated movie Horton Hears a Who. This is his first live-action feature film and I'm sure that means he's not as
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Rachel Weisz Excited to Star Opposite Robert Pattinson
10 December 2009 12:10 AM, PST
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Rachel Weisz admitted that she's looking forward to team up with "Twilight Saga" star Robert Pattinson, for upcoming movie "Unbound Captives". In recent interview with MTV News, Weisz said, 'I'm very excited."
Although she knows little about the vampire saga, Weisz who recently met Pattinson gushed, "Meeting him was vampiric. He sucked my blood." The Angela Dodson/Isabel Dodson in "Constantine" then questioned whether she is right referring the actor as Edward Cullen. "Wait, is he the vampire?" she asked. "He is the vampire, right?"
Weisz, moreover, revealed on what she thought about her co-star, saying "He wasn't star-struck. He's got a whole rebel vibe, right? Yeah, that was his vibe." The 38 year-old actress continued, "He's kind of iconoclastic. He's flaunting authority. Yeah, pretty cool."
Beside starring opposite Pattinson, Weisz will also play along with actor Hugh Jackman. On her co-stars in "Unbound Captives", she enthused, "[Pattinson and Jackman] are both great actors.
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Jonah Hex Reshooting Next Year (With New Director?)
9 December 2009 11:22 AM, PST
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Reshoots seem to becoming more and more common these days, seemingly as much a part of the movie-making process as the editing room. For example, the retelling of The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro, has had more of a rough revision process than any other movie in recent memory. Of course, it’s always been normal for films to get a couple of extra days at the end of the original shooting period to tweak some odds and ends that weren’t done right in the time originally allocated. But it becomes more of an issue when it’s not just days but weeks of reshooting that get scheduled.
That’s the case with the upcoming Josh Brolin, Megan Fox and John Malkovich-starring comic book Western , Jonah Hex. Brolin plays the titular scarred antihero who is a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter, and whose adventures always ended in blood.
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Francis Lawrence to Adapt Graphic Novel In The Small?
26 November 2009 5:48 AM, PST
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I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence has been attached to a ton of upcoming projects lately, including the Sgt. Rock movie [1], I Am Legend prequel [2], The World Without Us [3], The City That Sailed [4], and a futuristic Samson and Delilah movie [5] (among others). Somehow with all those movies in development, he's still currently lacking a project that's actually ready to shoot right now. With that in mind, he is apparently on the verge of signing on to direct a movie based on the Michael Hague graphic novel In The Small.
According to Pajiba [6], the project would reteam Lawrence with Constantine and I Am Legend producer Akiva Goldsman, whose Weed Road Pictures picked up the rights a couple of years ago. The premise sounds kind of cool: a mysterious "blue flash" leaves all of the human race shrunk down to just six inches tall. A brother and sister lead two factions as they struggle to survive,
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'I Am Legend' Director To Shrink Humanity
25 November 2009 7:17 AM, PST
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Word has surfaced concerning yet another project that director Francis Lawrence is developing."In the Small," which is based on a Michael Hague graphic novel, concerns a strange explosion that leaves all humans six inches tall, yet nothing else is affected. Those who survive the transition are forced to create a new social order and adjust in a world where man is no longer at the top of the food chain. As they attempt to find out what happened, humanity is faced with a new and existential threat.Regarding Lawrence's projects in development: No No and Double No on the "I am Legend" prequel. If ever there was a movie that screamed "this is a self-contained tale, leave it alone, a prequel is pointless because the meat of the story was already told and anything told before the time frame of the story is merely set up and besides we
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Francis Lawrence May Direct 'In the Small' Before 'Sgt. Rock'
23 November 2009 2:22 PM, PST
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From one comic book to another. Pajiba is reporting that I Am Legend and Constantine director Francis Lawrence may end up directing an adaptation of a graphic novel called In the Small before he ends up directing the Sgt. Rock adaptation we wrote about a few weeks ago. They explain that Lawrence is attached to a lot of projects, but he doesn't have a "go project" yet, but if everything works out, he could be on In the Small, which is being produced by Akiva Goldsman. Apparently first-time writer Laura Harrington wrote a draft based on Michael Hague's graphic novel for Warner Bros. Sgt. Rock is in for rewrites, but this is ready.
In the Small is about a strange explosion that leaves all humans six inches tall, yet nothing else is affected. Those who survive the transition are forced to create a new social order and adjust in
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Carl Rinsch to Direct Keanu in the Samurai Film '47 Ronin'
18 November 2009 3:33 PM, PST
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Carl Rinsch is a name perhaps best known to those in the advertisement world, but the commercial director has been poised to break into the feature film world for some time now. His name had been attached to direct Fox's reboot/prequel to Ridley Scott's Alien, until it became apparent that Scott wanted to direct as well as produce. All is not lost, however, as now Rinsch has been tapped to turn Keanu Reeves into a Samurai in 47 Ronin.
The project is being set up at Universal with a script from Chris Morgan, who has been earning the studio hand over fist lately with his scripts for the last two Fast & Furious movies as well as Wanted. Currently the immortal Keanu Reeves is the only actor attached to the project, meaning he's most likely to command the presumably effects-heavy film, something Reeves hasn't really done since 2005's Constantine. It's
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Sgt. Rock Coming To The Big Screen
10 November 2009 11:15 PM, PST
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According to a report by Heat Vision, Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman are producing a big-screen adaptation of “Sgt. Rock”, the WW2 comic book from DC Comics. Francis Lawrence (”I Am Legend”, “Constantine”) is directing the project, based on a script by Chad St. John (”The Days Before”).
Andrew Rona of Silver Pictures is also onboard as a producer, and Kerry Foster is the project’s executive producer. Joel Silver has been trying to get the project off the ground for the past 20 years.
Debuting in 1959, DC’s Sgt. Frank Rock was the leader of his WW2 infantry unit called Easy Company. He first appeared in “Our Army at War,” [...]
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Francis Lawrence Goes to War with ‘Sgt. Rock’
10 November 2009 3:30 PM, PST
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Director Francis Lawrence, who’s previous credits include I Am Legend, Constantine and TV’s Kings has picked up another directing gig. He will take on the big screen adaptation of DC’s comic character Sgt. Rock for producers Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman. The film, who’s previous director Guy Ritchie left to take on DC’s Lobo adaptation, will be scripted by relative newcomer Chad St. John.
Another change announced for this project is the shift from a WWII setting, where in the comics Sgt. Rock leads his “Easy Company” team of soldiers against the Nazis, to the future where, reportedly, the producers feel the film will be more universally accepted due to the comic’s current “pro-America” stance. Plus, the producers are worried about the relative box office success of a big budget WWII action film, Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds notwithstanding.
I guess both of those things make sense.
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Is Sgt. Rock Finally Happening?
10 November 2009 12:40 AM, PST
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Benjamin Franklin once said, “The only things certain in life are death and taxes.” Well, if the former Us President had lived to see the present day, he doubtless would have added one more thing to the list: “…and Joel Silver trying to make Sgt. Rock.”Silver has been trying to get an adaptation of the DC Comics’ World War II-based, cigar-chewing, bullet-spewing tough guy hero off the ground for as long as Empire can remember. So long, in fact, that Arnold Schwarzenegger was tipped to play Rock for a long time, and virtually every action writer worth a damn in Hollywood has taken a crack at the script, from Brian Helgeland to Steven E. DeSouza to John Milius. And all to no avail.Most recently, Guy Ritchie, of all people, took a stab at it, attaching himself to direct, before moving onto another comic book for Silver, Lobo.But
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