'Black 5': Michael Bay Will Direct New Action Film For Sony
Michael Bay has found his next directorial effort: he'll helm an action film called Black 5 for Sony Pictures. Ehren Kruger is writing the script.
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'Dumbo' Producers Justin Springer & Ehren Kruger Talk About The Challenges Of Adapting The Animated Classic For Modern Audiences [Interview]
In our Dumbo producers interview, Justin Springer and Ehren Kruger talk about expanding the classic animated movie into a live-action feature.
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'Dumbo' Cast Confirmed As Production Begins [D23 Expo 2017]
The full cast for the Dumbo remake was officially revealed at D23, alongside some concept art and a special message from Tim Burton.
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'Ghost In The Shell' Spoiler Review: A Cold, Distant, And Familiar Future
In our Ghost in the Shell spoiler review, we explain how this new movie is often pleasing to the eye, but it's mostly a cold and distancing experience.
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Danny DeVito And Tim Burton Might Join Forces Again For 'Dumbo'
Director Tim Burton may reunite with his Batman Returns and Big Fish star, Danny DeVito, for Dumbo. Learn about the potential Danny DeVito Dumbo role.
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Miramax Developing 'Brothers Grimm' TV Series Based On Terry Gilliam Film
The Brothers Grimm, hampered by the Weinsteins, budget squabbles and post-production delays, isn't the finest moment for any of the people involved, and especially not for director Terry Gilliam. But the film lives on as part of the Miramax library, and now the company is turning it into a Brothers Grimm TV series. Matt Damon probably…
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Tim Burton Directing Live-Action 'Dumbo' Remake
Dumbo is coming back to theaters in new form, and the film now has a director. Tim Burton was part of the beginning of Disney's current foray into live-action reinventions of its classic animated catalog, as he directed Alice in Wonderland, released early in 2010. Disney has followed that with Maleficent and the new Cinderella, with…
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MGM Options 'Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH' For New Adaptation
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is being adapted to film once again, and now it is MGM that plans its own Rats of NIMH series.
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'Dumbo' Live-Action Remake Coming From 'Transformers' Writer
Disney wants to do a new version of one of its classic animated films, and has hired Transformers scribe Ehren Kruger to script a Dumbo live-action remake.
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/Film Interview: 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction' Producer Talks Cybertron, Hot Rod, Dinobots, And The Ending
There's a very short list of Hollywood producers who are names unto themselves. On that list is Lorenzo di Bonaventura, of both the G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises. He's also the producer of Salt, Red, Side Effects, Jack Ryan, Beverly Hills Cop 4 and more. The guy is a proven hit-maker with a great handle on…
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'Transformers: Age Of Extinction' Writer Ehren Kruger: "Logical Sense Doesn't Have To Be The Be-All, End-All"
The Transformers films -- or at least the three sequels to Michael Bay's first film in the series -- disregard story concepts left and right. Characters are secondary to spectacle; geography and time are subservient to the impact of a beauty shot; standard narrative building blocks regularly fall by the wayside. So how does one…
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Death To 'Videodrome:' Commercial Helmer To Remake David Cronenberg Classic
I try to be open-minded about remakes, and maybe, somehow, I'll get around to being slightly more open-minded about this one. But for the time being, the idea of Ehren Kruger scripting a remake of David Cronenberg's Videodrome for commercial director Adam Berg pretty much sucks from every angle. That's the Ehren Kruger who wrote the…
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D.J. Caruso Will Direct 'Invertigo,' Which Has Nothing To Do With Alfred Hitchcock
Director D.J. Caruso may have begun to establish himself with the film The Salton Sea and some episodes of The Shield, but his real big break came thanks to the success of Disturbia in 2007. The film was a modern teen-targeting thriller that riffed on Alfred Hitchcock's classic movie Rear Window. It nearly established a…
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'Transformers' Scribe Ehren Kruger Rewriting Disney's Matterhorn Adventure Movie
Last year Disney began active development of a film tenuously connected to the Disneyland Matterhorn ride. Jason Dean Hall was hired to write a film that was called The Hill last summer, and then Brian Beletic became attached to direct the project. Now Ehren Kruger (The Ring, Scream 3, Transformers: Dark of the Moon) has…
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'Transformers 4 And 5' May Shoot Back-To-Back, Jason Statham Could Star
Our box office dollars asked for it and now Paramount is hoping to deliver a double dose. Earlier today, news broke that Hasbro is keen on getting director Michael Bay back behind the camera to shoot a fourth Transformers film. Variety is now reporting the plan is much bigger than that. They're actually considering filming…
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Watch THR's Hour Long Roundtable Interview With The Screenwriters Of Summer 2011
This past awards season, The Hollywood Reporter posted full hour long roundtable interviews with the directors, screenwriters, animators and actors of the award season contenders. It seems like that was so successful that they have done the same thing for their Summer 2011 movie preview. After the jump you can watch a 58-minute roundtable interview…
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Spoilers Abound In New 'Scream 4' Photos, Wes Craven Addresses Script Issues
Scream 4 is done. It's out there. And as we ride a wave of publicity, press screenings and more leading up towards the April 15 release, fans will have to dodge an obstacle course of spoilers revealing who dies, when they die, how they die and, of course, who or what is Ghostface this time…
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What's Going On With Scream 4? Rumors Rampant Of Screenwriter Change-Up And Massive Script Overhaul
UPDATE: There might be more truth and ugliness to this than I first thought was the case. New info at the end of the article. We've been running a lot of Scream 4 info, and in a piece I ran yesterday one commenter asked why we've been covering it so much. The simple answer is…
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Kurtzman And Orci Definitely Not Returning For Transformers 3; Script Duties Are All Ehren Kruger's
Producer Don Murphy maintains a pretty lively website and forum that was crashed for a bit this morning when Roberto Orci confirmed in a forum post that he and Alex Kurtzman would not return at all for Transformers 3, leaving script duties entirely in the hands of Ehren Kruger. (Well, not entirely, as Michael Bay…
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Michael Bay Has Story And Is Starting Work On Transformers 3 For 2011 Release
Today is day one of Michael Bay's hard graft on Transformers 3. He has, apparently overnight, flown to Rhode Island to talk to Hasbro about incorporating new characters into the film and is now working with Ehren Kruger on the screenplay. The final day of his travails will be on July 1st, 2011 which is…
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Michael Bay And Steven Spielberg Meet To Discuss Transformers 3
Michael Bay has given an update on his developing upcoming projects on his official website. Bay says that he will be meeting later this week with producer Steven Spielberg, and screenwriter Ehren Kruger to discuss ideas for Transformers 3. By the end of the week he will probably have a better idea if a third…
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Halloween 3D Has A Writer/Director. Writer Of Children Of The Corn Remake Announced.
With the Weinstein Company skating on financial ice, even with Inglourious Basterds breaking $100m domestic, the Brothers Weinstein are once again placing their bets on horror. As they should: their success has long been tied to the genre in addition to Oscar pics. Now that Rob Zombie is finished retooling the Halloween franchise---his sequel dropped by…
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Universal To Remake Videodrome
"Why?" is my first , second and third thought to come into my head after learning that Universal Pictures is going to remake David Cronenberg's 1983 sci-fi horror film Videodrome. What's the point? The original film is a cult hit, considered one of the weirdest films of all time, and let's not forget, the tenth…
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Transformers 2 Screenwriters Confirmed
Good News: They are making Transformers 2. Bad News:Â Ehren Kruger and the writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are in talks to write the screenplay. Kruger's scriptology consists of mostly bad horror films: Scream 3, The Ring, The Skeleton Key, The Brothers Grimm, Blood and Chocolate and Reindeer Games. Kurtzman and Orci…
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