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Hugh Jackman Starring in Antoine Fuqua’s Prisoners?
18 December 2009 2:15 PM, PST
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Antoine Fuqua's upcoming kidnap and revenge drama Prisoners, from the hotly tipped screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, appears to have found its location... but has it also found its star?
Last night, the local Board of Aldermen carried a motion to allow Warner Bros. to cast the town of Derby in Connecticut as itself in the film and any potential sequels - not that this screenplay suggested franchise material in any way, but I suppose it's good to cover all bases. Fuqua and crew will be using the local police insignia, the town seal and 750 of the locals as extras.
Mark Wahlberg has been attached to the film since before there was even a director, and I dare say he played some part in the hiring of his Shooter collaborator Fuqua. Previous stories suggested that Christian Bale and Russell Crowe were both considering the co-starring role, but the new rumour
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- Brendon Connelly
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One
15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.
Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.
Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.
13
Opens: 2010
Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent
Director: Géla Babluani
Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One
15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.
Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.
Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.
13
Opens: 2010
Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent
Director: Géla Babluani
Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The
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- Garth Franklin
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Richard Gere’s “Brooklyn’s Finest” Trailer
6 December 2009 5:53 AM, PST
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Overture Films has debuted a trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s crime drama “Brooklyn’s Finest.”
Brooklyn’s Finest | Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke
The movie which stars Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Jesse Williams, Ellen Barkin, Wesley Snipes, Lili Taylor, Brian F. O’Byrne, Shannon Kane, Will Patton and Vincent D’Onofrio revolves around three unconnected New York cops who find themselves drawn to the same dangerous location.
Plot Summary: Burned out veteran Eddie Dugan (Richard Gere) is just one week away from his pension and a fishing cabin in Connecticut. Narcotics officer Sal Procida (Ethan Hawke) has discovered there’s no line he won’t cross to provide a better life for his long-suffering wife and seven children. And Clarence “Tango” Butler (Don Cheadle) has been undercover so long his loyalties have started to shift from his fellow police officers to his prison buddy Caz (Wesley Snipes), one
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Brooklyn's Finest gets a trailer
4 December 2009 3:44 AM, PST
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The trailer for Antoine Fuqua's new film has hit the web.
Brooklyn's Finest appears to cover similar ground to Fuqua's Training Day, which is no bad thing.
The film follows three New York cops whose loyalties and morals are tested over the space of seven days.
It looks like it could be a return to form for Fuqua after so-so movies Tears of the Sun, King Arthur and Shooter.
Cheesy voiceover-man aside, the trailer shows a lot of promise, and looks like Ethan Hawke could deliver another decent performance for Fuqua.
It might...
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Brooklyn's Finest trailer
3 December 2009 1:30 PM, PST
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For screenwriter Michael C. Martin's first produced script Brooklyn's Finest, he got quite the casting jackpot. The intertwining tale of Brooklyn cops lured in Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes (!!), not to mention more familiar faces like Will Patton, Ellen Barkin, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio and that guy who's on "FlashForward."
The movie comes from Antoine Fuqua, who seems to be evading Director Jail since Training Day (despite King Arthur and Shooter).
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- Dave Davis
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'Precious' Director Circles 'Selma' & Antoine Fuqua's Life of Crime
18 November 2009 12:15 PM, PST
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The men behind Precious and Shooter are going back in time, according to Variety:
Having had wild success with Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Lee Daniels is itching to go historical for his next feature. He's in "advanced negotiations" to helm Selma, a big-buzz Civil Rights-era drama penned by Paul Webb (Lincoln). The film, which would team him with Slumdog Millionaire producer Christian Colson, focuses on the marches between Selma and Montgomery in 1965, which were the peak of the Civil Rights movement. This means that while prospects of a Martin Luther King Jr. film might be hazy, he will get some time here, one would assume -- he was one of the leaders drawn to the area where marches quickly turned to "Bloody Sunday" with force from local and state police.
And in a wholly different historic affair, it seems Antoine Fuqua and Spike Lee are getting
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- Monika Bartyzel
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Fuqua & Spike Lee Adapting 'Miss: Better Living Through Crime'
18 November 2009 12:02 PM, PST
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Filmmakers Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Shooter) and Spike Lee (Inside Man) are teaming up for an adaptation of the French graphic novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime. Fuqua will direct the crime thriller with John Ridley, who also recently wrote George Lucas' Red Tails, writing the script and Spike Lee executive producing. The project is one of the first at the newly formed Vigilante Entertainment. The comic is published through Les Humanoides Associes in France and first hit Us shelves back in 2002. Vigilante is currently shopping the project around with studios before moving forward. Read on for more info on this.
Miss: Better Living Through Crime is about Nola and Slim (seen above), two unlikely partners in crime in the early 1920s in New York. Nola is a poor white girl who has learned to survive by hook or by crook since being expelled from the orphanage. Slim is
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Spike Lee And Antoine Fuqua To Adapt 'Miss: Better Living Through Crime'
18 November 2009 7:01 AM, PST
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Critically acclaimed filmmakers Spike Lee and Antoine Fuqua will adapt Philippe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigouroux’ graphic novel "Miss: Better Living Through Crime" for Vigilante Entertainment.
Originally published by French comic publisher Humanoids, “Miss” is a crime thriller set in the 1920s that follows an unusual partnership between two killers for hire: a poor white girl named Nola who becomes a tough femme fatale and Slim, an African-American pimp from Harlem. “Miss” was also published in the U.S. in 2002.
According to Variety, Fuqua will direct “Miss” while Lee is onboard as an executive producer along with Pierre Spengler, Fabrice Giger and Vigilante Entertainment founder Hicham Benkirane. The project is currently being shopped around to film studios.
Lee is widely known for films like “Do the Right Thing”, “Malcolm X” and “Get on the Bus,” while Fuqua’s best-known film is “Training Day” — which earned Denzel Washington the
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- Blair Marnell
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Better Living Through Crime For Fuqua
17 November 2009 10:56 PM, PST
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Antoine Fuqua, the director of Training Day and Shooter, has signed on for another crime thriller, called Miss: Better Living Through Crime.The film, based on a French graphic novel, will be produced by Spike Lee.Written by Philippe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigoroux, Miss: Better Living Through Crime tells the tale of Nola and Slim, a white hooker and black pimp who team up together and embark on a life of crime and murder in New York at the turn of the 20th Century.Sounds very intriguing, and the period setting means this could be right up Fuqua’s street. We'd love to see Lee's take on this material, of course, but it will also be mighty interesting to see how this collaboration between the two pans out. Is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship?John Ridley, who wrote the script for the upcoming George Lucas-produced WWII flick,
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2012
13 November 2009 4:08 AM, PST
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2012
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson
Running Time: 2 hrs 38 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Plot: The world is about to end. Turns out the Mayans were right. A select few people are in on the ground work of saving the human race, while others, like Jackson Curtis (Cusack), are trying to desperately save their families from the mass destruction of the entire planet.
Who’S It For? This film doesn’t even allow you to turn off your brain. Just like 10,000 BC and The Day After Tomorrow there are enough head-scratching moments, if you want to laugh at the film. But If all you live for is special effects, I can’t stop you from seeing this.
Expectations: Who doesn’t love John Cusack? Not me. I don’t not love Cusack. Plus, I’m a
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- Jeff Bayer
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Mark Wahlberg And Wife Expecting A Baby Girl
29 October 2009 11:06 PM, PDT
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Mark Wahlberg and his wife are expecting a baby girl. The "Shooter" actor has revealed the sex of his fourth child with Rhea Durham, which is due next year.
The 38-year-old star said: "I'm having another girl. So I'll have two girls and two boys."
Mark and Rhea - who already have three children together, Ella, six, Michael, three and 13-month-old Brendan Joseph - are eagerly awaiting the latest addition to their family, but Mark is hoping it will be their last.
He explained: "I'm the youngest of nine, and my dad has a few others. No, four is enough. We were all raised with a lot of love. But we didn't get the kind of attention I think that we all needed."
"My parents had to provide to put food on the table. My mission in life is to raise my kids right. With all the success I've had in the world,
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Mark Wahlberg's fourth child a girl
29 October 2009 11:01 PM, PDT
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Mark Wahlberg and his wife are expecting a baby girl. The 'Shooter' actor has revealed the sex of his fourth child with Rhea Durham, which is due next year. The 38-year-old star said: "I'm having another girl. So I'll have two girls and two boys." Mark and Rhea - who already have three children together, Ella, six, Michael, three and 13-month-old Brendan Joseph - are eagerly awaiting the latest addition to their family, but Mark is hoping it will be their last. He explained: "I'm the youngest of nine, and my dad has a few others. No, four is enough. We were all raised with a lot of love. But we didn't get the kind of attention I
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Mark Wahlberg's daughter joy
29 October 2009 11:01 PM, PDT
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Mark Wahlberg and his wife are expecting a baby girl. The 'Shooter' actor has revealed the sex of his fourth child with Rhea Durham, which is due next year. The 38-year-old star said: "I'm having another girl. So I'll have two girls and two boys." Mark and Rhea - who already have three children together, Ella, six, Michael, three and 13-month-old Brendan Joseph - are eagerly awaiting the latest addition to their family, but Mark is hoping it will be their last. He explained: "I'm the youngest of nine, and my dad has a few others. No, four is enough. We were all raised with a lot of love. But we didn't get the kind of attention I think that
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Antoine Fuqua Set To Take ‘Prisoners’
30 September 2009 10:27 AM, PDT
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Risky Biz Blog is reporting that Training Day director, Antoine Fuqua, is in negotiations to helm Prisoners, (no longer “The Prisoners”) a film taken from a “hot spec script” written by Aaron Guzikowski. The script was said to have created a stir when it first appeared earlier this year, with high-profile actors Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg once attached to star, X-Men helmer Bryan Singer eyeing the director’s chair and a number of different studios looking to pick up the project.
However, soon after the producers of Prisoners sold the film to Alcon, reconfigured the project to have a lower budget (around the $30-40 million mark) and went forward without a cast for the time being, so that they could get things in motion faster. And it appears that the approach is working; the film is on the fast-track, and may go into pre-production shortly, with a “likely” January
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Warner Bros. Apprehends Prisoners
29 September 2009 10:55 PM, PDT
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Warner Bros. has set Prisoners, a film that Antoine Fuqua is in talks to direct, on a fast track. The film is now in preproduction and scheduled for release on October 22, 2010. Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson of Alcon Entertainment will produce the film, which is only sparsely detailed.
What we do know is that Fuqua is a talented director — the man behind Training Day. He’s also had some duds, namely Tears of the Sun and Shooter. Writer Aaron Guzikowski is new on the scene, and the project generated buzz earlier this year as Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale were attached to star in the film — the latter with previously slotted director Bryan Singer.
Film School Rejects described the plot of the film back in April as “the story of a desperate man trying to find his kidnapped daughter, fighting resistance from law enforcement, seeking a very real revenge against his daughter’s captors.
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Antoine Fuqua Directing Aaron Guzikowski's Prisoners Spec
29 September 2009 4:37 PM, PDT
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A big change of pace for this project. Aaron Guzikowski's Prisoners started gaining buzz back in March when Mark Wahlberg was first attached. The script has been compared to Silence of the Lambs and Se7en and was one of the hottest scripts in town over the summer. The Risky Biz Blog reports today that Prisoners eventually sold to Alcon Entertainment instead of being setup at a studio. The producers reconfigured the project without a cast or director and a lower budget (around $30 to $40 million) so it could move forward quickly. Now they've brought on Training Day, King Arthur, and Shooter director Antoine Fuqua.
Fuqua, who last directed Brooklyn's Finest, is currently in negotiations to direct Prisoners. The project is being fast-tracked, with pre-production set to begin shortly for a January or February shoot. Alcon is planning to release the film through Warner Brothers next October. It sounds like
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Mark Wahlberg Hospitalized
17 August 2009 4:50 AM, PDT
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"Shooter" actor Mark Wahlberg was hospitalized Friday after suffering smoke inhalation on the set of his new movie "The Fighter". The actor was working on scenes for the film, in which he plays boxer Mickey Ward, on Thursday night and ended up breathing in too many fumes from a special effects machine. He woke up on Friday struggling to breathe and was taken to a hospital in Massachusetts. "When he woke up Friday morning he was gasping for breath so he was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital where he was put on a breathing device that helped clear his lungs", says a source.
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Asteroids Headed to the Big Screen
2 July 2009 2:44 AM, PDT
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A big screen adaptation of the classic 80s arcade game Asteroids is in the works. According to the trades, Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the Atari video game with Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers) on board to produce.
In Asteroids, initially released as an arcade game in 1979, a player controlled a triangular space ship in an asteroid field. The object was to shoot and destroy the hulking masses of rock and the occasional flying saucer while avoiding smashing into both.
As opposed to today's games, there is no story line or fancy world-building mythology, so the studio would be creating a plot from scratch. Universal, however, is used to that development process, as it's in the middle of doing just that for several of the Hasbro board game properties it is translating to the big screen, such as Battleship and Candyland.
Newcomer Matthew Lopez,
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Grisham’s The Testament Getting Movie Treatment
22 June 2009 9:36 PM, PDT
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John Grisham has made a deal to bring his 1999 bestselling novel The Testament to the big screen, report the trades. Producers Mark Johnson (Shooter) and Hunt Lowry (Shorts, Donnie Darko) have teamed with 821 Entertainment Group to option the book.
In the novel, a billionaire defies his greedy relatives and leaves his $11 billion fortune to a mysterious illegitimate daughter doing charity work in the Brazilian wetlands. A down-and-out lawyer helps her battle her relatives over the fortune.
Producer Johnson has been trying to bring the book to the screen since it was first published. Grisham hasn’t been interested, but things changed when Johnson joined forces with Grisham's old friend Lowry, who previously produced the author’s A Time to Kill in 1996.
The deal will also give Grisham the right to provide creative input, something he hasn’t always had in the past and one of the factors that has pushed
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