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Fabulous Channing Tatum Fan Spotlight
28 November 2009 5:00 PM, PST
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In an effort to help CTU readers learn more about each other, I profile members of the Channing Tatum Unwrapped Fan Club on the site and give them the "Fabulous Channing Tatum Fan Spotlight" award.
I am excited to announce that this month's Channing Tatum Unwrapped spotlight is dedicated to Fabulous Channing Tatum Fan Crystal H. from Idaho. Here's what you should know about Crystal...
Name: Crystal H.
City: Fruitland
State: Idaho / USA
Age: 23
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Favorite Channing Tatum Photo and Why?:
I would have to say this picture of Chan is one of the best I have ever come across. He looks like someone you could totally hangout with on the weekends....So genuine and sweet. I love his half smile. Like he has a secret. You can tell he modeled. That boy knows how to smize [aka smile with his eyes]!
Favorite Channing Tatum Scene and Why?:
Well, I have more then one.
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Hugh Jackman Confirmed to Star in Shawn Levy's Real Steel
24 November 2009 12:03 AM, PST
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The freshly funded (with $825 million) DreamWorks has greenlit its first project - Real Steel, which will be directed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) and star Hugh Jackman. You've probably heard about this project before, as we've written about it twice before. Real Steel is a futuristic Rocky-esque story about a father and son who take their human-like 2000-pound robot to the Bot Boxing Championship. It's originally based on a short story by Richard Matheson that was adapted by Dan Gilroy (Freejack, The Fall) in 2005 (that draft was sold to DreamWorks for $850,000) then revised by John Gatins (Hardball, Coach Carter).
Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider will both be producing at DreamWorks, the first movie they've greenlit since splitting with Universal. The budget will reportedly be about $80 million, which is less than most of Spielberg's big projects these days. Peter from SlashFilm is actually concerned, saying: "But
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Is Hugh Jackman Real Steel?
1 October 2009 2:04 PM, PDT
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Variety is reporting that Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in Real Steel, a film about a ex-fighter father and his 13-year-old estranged son who reunite to compete in a futuristic robot fighting league. The Dreamworks film is being directed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum, Cheaper By The Dozen), who is taking over directing duties from Peter Berg (Dune, Hancock 2).
Jackman is reportedly in talks to the play the role of the father, who becomes a promoter for the robot fighting league after his career as a human boxer is deemed obsolete.
With the news that Hugh Jackman is eyeing a role in Real Steel, we also get a little more about what the film will actually be about. According to Variety, the father character starts out at a disadvantage in the robot league, only having access to sub-standard parts - that is until he discovers
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Hugh Jackman in Talks for Futuristic Robot Boxing Movie
1 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT
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Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) is in talks to star in the "Real Steel" film, which is based on a short story by Richard Matheson. The story was previously made into a "Twilight Zone" episode called "Steel," starring Lee Marvin. The new movie is a tale of a fighter who has to reinvent himself when human boxing becomes obsolete, replaced by 2000 pound human-like robots. Jackman will play the ex-fighter, who becomes a Robot Boxing promoter, but whose chances of success are hampered by his access to sub-standard robot parts. That is until he discovers a discarded robot that always seems to win. The ex-fighter has also discovered he's the father of a 13-year old son, and they bond as the robot brawls its way toward the top. "Real Steel" is set to be directed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) and is produced by Steven Spielberg. John Gatins (Hard Ball, Coach Carter
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Hugh Jackman May Grab Richard Matheson's 'Real Steel'
1 October 2009 1:20 AM, PDT
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Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in Real Steel, which is based on a short story by Richard Matheson, reports Variety. The story was previously made into a 1963 episode of the original Twilight Zone series called "Steel", which starred Lee Marvin.
The new movie is a tale of a fighter who has to reinvent himself when human boxing becomes obsolete, replaced by 2000 pound human-like robots. Jackman will play the ex-fighter, who becomes a Robot Boxing promoter, but whose chances of success are hampered by his access to sub-standard robot parts. That is until he discovers a discarded robot that always seems to win.
The ex-fighter has also discovered he's the father of a 13-year old son, and they bond as the robot brawls its way toward the top.
Real Steel is to be helmed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) and is produced by Steven Spielberg. John Gatins
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Hugh Jackman ready to box in 'Real Steel'
30 September 2009 9:12 PM, PDT
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Hugh Jackman, star of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "Australia," is in talks to play the lead character in Shawn Levy's upcoming futuristic robot boxing movie "Real Steel," which DreamWorks is developing.
Set in the future, the film focuses on a world in which human boxing is forbidden. Instead, big humanoid robots step in to take over the sport. Variety says Jackman will play a man who finds a talented robot boxer.
John Gatins, the man behind "Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story" and "Coach Carter," is rewriting the most recent draft. Dan Gilroy and Les Bohem worked on previous drafts. Levy is working on the script as well.
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Shawn Levy Replaces Peter Berg on Robot Boxing Movie Real Steel
16 September 2009 2:01 PM, PDT
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I personally can't wait for the day when robots completely replace human athletes in the world of professional sports, but in the meantime I guess I'll just have to settle for seeing this scenario unfold in science-fiction films. Dreamworks currently has one such movie in development under the name Real Steel. Set in a not-to-distant future where human boxing has been outlawed, the story revolves around a father and son team who who take a robot to the Bot Boxing Championship -- a competition where 2000-pound human-controlled robots duke it out in the ring. The director? Night at the Museum helmer Shawn Levy.
Apparently Peter Berg was attached to direct this movie for a while, but has since dropped out of the project. Levy seems like a strange replacement since he is known mainly for comedies, and as far as I know, this movie is being played somewhat straight. However,
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Shawn Levy Has Real Steel
16 September 2009 12:27 AM, PDT
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Night At The Museum director Shawn Levy has been enlisted by DreamWorks to bring futuristic boxing movie Real Steel to the screen. Set in a sanitised future where human boxing has been outlawed and remotely-operated robots slug it out in the ring, it follows a father and son's attempts to win the 'Bot Boxing Championship.Levy was tapped up by Steven Spielberg for the pugilist project when Peter Berg ended talks. Levy describes Real Steel as "a movie filled with mechanical warriors, [but] at its core it's an incredibly human story." So not Transformers 2, basically.Tone-wise, the choice of Levy (and the whole 'Bot Boxing' thing) suggests a light-hearted rather than Raging Bull-meets-Philip K. Dick vibe. He's been quietly building a rep as a specialist in family-friendly comedies, with the Night At The Museum franchise and Cheaper By The Dozen under his belt, and The Pink Panther presumably buried in his back garden.
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Night at the Museum director now has Real Steel
16 September 2009 12:01 AM, PDT
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Real Steel, a futuristic movie about robots boxing each other when the sport has been outlawed for humans, has lost a director but gained another director. The man who has left the project is Peter Berg, director of Hancock and The Kingdom. He just signed on the dotted line to deliver Universal its Battleship movie for July 1, 2011. Put another way, Berg chose to go make a movie based on a well-known board game instead of a copycat of Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots. Only in Hollywood could a man who makes millions of dollars be forced to make this kind of choice, right?
The new director attached to DreamWorks' Real Steel is Shawn Levy, the guy that brought us the two Night at the Museum films. The difference between the kind of film that Berg makes versus the kind of picture that Levy does is pretty evident if you've seen some of their work.
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One Tree Hill Star Faces Prison Time
23 August 2009 9:00 AM, PDT
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Actor Antwon Tanner has pleaded guilty to selling more selling 16 Social Security numbers and three bogus Social Security cards for $10,000. Tanner told a federal judge in Brooklyn on Friday that he was a middleman, selling numbers someone else provided. He and his lawyer didn't comment on how he got involved in the scheme. Tanner is expected to get as much as a year in prison at his sentencing, set for November 20th. The actor made his feature film debut in "Sunset Park," back in 1996. Since then, he has had major roles in the Samuel L. Jackson basketball drama "Coach Carter," and the popular "One Tree Hill" show.
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Tanner Pleads Guilty In Social Security Scam
23 August 2009 7:27 AM, PDT
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One Tree Hill star Antwon Tanner has pleaded guilty to selling Social Security numbers.
The actor, who plays Skills on the teen U.S. TV drama, told a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York on Friday he had sold more than a dozen of the identification numbers for $10,000 (£6,700).
Tanner maintained he was a "middleman" in the scheme, selling official details provided by an unnamed source.
Prosecutors revealed the star is also under investigation in California, although the reason for that probe was not given.
In April, authorities charged the 34 year old after he sold 16 Social Security numbers and three fake Social Security cards to undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in a sting operation.
The Coach Carter star faces up to a year in prison. He is due to be sentenced on 20 November.
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In The Press: Channing Tatum's First Major Cover...August 2009 Issue of GQ Magazine!!!
25 July 2009 5:27 PM, PDT
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You all may or may not recall some photos I posted in the gallery that showed Channing Tatum jogging through West Hollywood last May.
That little jaunt through the streets of Los Angeles was one piece of Chan's grueling workout schedule and strict diet to get in shape for his very first major magazine cover.
In what I call the "Return of the Six Pack" photo shoot, famed photographer Mario Testino allowed Chan to show off many of his assets and all of his hard work with the Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, California as a backdrop, to the delight of fans far and wide. Chan was captured cavorting around the halls of the hotel, and in the breathtaking Suite 700 -- a Hollywood playground featuring two bedrooms and a wrap-around terrace with one of "the best views in the world," according to a long list of travel magazines.
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Q&A—Channing Tatum: Underground Fighter, Puppy Nurse
24 April 2009 11:23 AM, PDT
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Channing Tatum, photographed by Norman Jean Roy for the April 2009 issue of Vanity Fair. Fighting, Channing Tatum’s latest movie, was going to be about basketball. But since Tatum had already done a basketball movie, Coach Carter, and had played every sport in high school except basketball, he was about to turn it down.
Director Dito Montiel, who had worked with Tatum on his autobiographical love-hate letter to Queens, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, urged him to reconsider. Montiel saw the film as an opportunity to recreate the grittiness of classic 70s New York movies, most notably Midnight Cowboy, upon which he based the two leads: Shawn (Tatum) a studly, earnest country bumpkin, and Harvey (Terrence Howard), an oily, golden-hearted hustler. Since Montiel and Tatum were trying to wedge a character-driven indie movie into a blockbuster, what actually happened in the movie—be it basketball or anything else—didn’t really matter,
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As Seen On TV: Watch Channing Tatum's 'Coach Carter' on FX
18 February 2009 11:00 PM, PST
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In case you haven't seen Channing Tatum's first movie or would like to see it again, I wanted to let you all know that 'Coach Carter' will be played on the FX channel on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm Central.
'Coach Carter' is based on a true story of Coach Ken Carter, a controversial high school basketball coach played by Samuel L. Jackson. In 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He immediately imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as
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Ashton Kutcher in Football Comedy
18 February 2009 7:30 AM, PST
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Ashton Kutcher (What Happens in Vegas) is in final negotiations to star in the football comedy "Traded," which had been developed at DreamWorks but became the property of Paramount following DreamWorks' exit in the fall. Story centers on a superstar NFL quarterback and a 12-year-old middle school geek who magically trade bodies, then quickly learn valuable lessons about humility and courage. David Stem and David Weiss, who wrote the upcoming 20th Century Fox family pic "They Came From Upstairs," penned the most recent draft. Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin, the former partners behind such sports films as "Coach Carter" and "Varsity Blues," are producing alongside Jason Hoffs.
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Ashton Kutcher happy to get 'Traded'
18 February 2009 12:05 AM, PST
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After becoming a top Twitterer and ranting about the loud construction next to his home on YouTube, Ashton Kutcher is getting back to work. The "What Happens in Vegas" star is in negotiations to star in the football comedy "Traded." A spin on "Freaky Friday," Variety reports the the Paramount Picture would find Kutcher playing an NFL quarterback who magically trades bodies with a 12-year-old middle school geek. Not surprisingly, he quickly learns some valuable lessons about humility and courage.Brian Robbins and Mike Tolin, who have made a career championing sports films such as "Hardball," "Coach Carter" and "Varsity Blues"
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