Hany Abu-Assad, whose 2006 film Paradise Now was nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar, and who just won the Jury Prize at Cannes this year for his new effort, Omar, will be the latest to attempt a remake of Park Chan-Wook's first "vengeance" film, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. The remake rights have been in the…
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What does a high-wattage star cast and a high-concept thriller premise do for you? Broken City, from Allen Hughes (one half of the Hughes Brothers) features Mark Wahlberg as a disgraced/retired cop hired by the NYC mayor (Russell Crowe) to find the man sleeping with the mayor's wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones). When Wahlberg is successful at…
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Since directing last year's Salt, Phillip Noyce has been considering a number of different projects for his next move. There was the submarine drama Hunter Killer, which eventually went to Antoine Fuqua; the conservationist biopic Our Wild Life; the remake of Jean-Claude Van Damme's Bloodsport; and the sci-fi romance Timeless, which just cast Liam Hemsworth…
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Catherine Zeta-Jones has had a slow couple of years, but the Chicago actress stepping it up again. She recently wrapped three films -- Lay the Favorite, Playing the Field, and Rock of Ages, all of which are due out next year -- and has now landed one more. Zeta-Jones recently finalized a deal to star…
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It's been some time since John Singleton made a movie that generated much excitement. (Though some Taylor Lautner fans might argue, thanks to this year's Abduction.) But he has been looking at interesting movies in the past couple months. First he was mentioned as a possible director for Straight Outta Compton, the biopic of once-controversial…
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Last year Mark Wahlberg started talking about a noirish screenplay called Broken City by Brian Tucker that he wanted to make under the direction of Allen Hughes. The script was a 2008 Black List entry, and has earned comparisons to Chinatown thanks to the way it depicts urban intrigue and corruption with a cop turned…
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Next year might be looking up for Mark Wahlberg. After a couple of years characterized by films like The Happening, Max Payne and The Lovely Bones, he made some audiences happy with The Other Guys, and will go into 2011 with David O. Russell's The Fighter under his belt. And while there's been fan outcry…
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While we may have dodged a bullet with Spielberg's Oldboy remake, it looks like another film in the Vengeance Trilogy has gotten a visit from the remake fairy. We've learned that Warner Brothers has purchased the rights to Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, the first film in the trilogy. They've already tasked writing duties to one…
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