Though 2010's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was a billion dollar global blockbuster, critics hated it. It sits at a rotten 33% on Rotten Tomatoes. Might the producers think "if the movie was adored, maybe we could have made more"? That possibility was certainly part of Tuesday's news that Pirates of the Caribbean…
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The news you've been waiting for is here: Pirates of the Caribbean 5 has taken another step forward! (Contain your excitement, please.) Jeff Nathanson, who wrote Catch Me if You Can, has been hired to write Pirates 5. Two members of the old crew are back, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and star/producer Johnny Depp. There's no plot…
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Almost one year ago to the day, Brett Ratner took over from Steven Spielberg to helm a property Spielberg championed way back in 2008: The 39 Clues. Ratner had been actively developing the film for the past year, but apparently he's now out and the incredibly busy Shawn Levy is on board to direct. Based…
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Because I know many of you just get all giddy when prospective new Brett Ratner films come up, here's his latest potential project: The 39 Clues, which is not an Alfred Hitchcock remake, but an adaptation of a young-adult book series. It sounds a bit like a kids' version of National Treasure, and all the…
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Is Men in Black III a total oddity in the studio world or merely the next step in the lineage of films like the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels and Iron Man, which famously went into production without solid scripts in place? Men in Black III started production last November, but shooting started with only…
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The production schedule for Men in Black III has been a strange thing. A lot of footage was shot for the film last year, then a built-in production break kicked in at Christmas. Originally Sony was going to get the movie back into gear last month, but creative problems pushed the new resume date back…
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The production schedule for Barry Sonenfeld's Men in Black III has been a strange one. After an initial delay, filming started last year. But a break was planned into the schedule -- for reasons innocuous or not, depending upon whom you believe -- with the first half of the shoot kicking off last November and…
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New info on Men in Black 3: the film will start shooting this week in New York, but there's a wrinkle. The production has hired frequent Steven Spielberg and Brett Ratner collaborator Jeff Nathanson to rewrite/polish one section of the script. (He recently did work on Tower Heist, wrote Rush Hour 2 & 3 and…
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This is basically an incremental update on Tower Heist, which we've known for a while would likely be the new film from director Brett Ratner. The script and cast were reconfigured a while ago from the original conception (at one point described as a "black Ocean's Eleven") and Ben Stiller has been attached to star.…
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IGN has learned that Catch Me if You Can and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull screenwriter Jeff Nathanson might be writing a Houdini movie for Summit Entertainment. In March it was announced that that Summit had acquired the rights to William Kalush and Larry Sloman's biography The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's…
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The Daily Swarm is reporting a story from Hits Daily Double that hack director Brett Ratner is in talks to direct a movie based on the Milli Vanilli story for Universal. Rush Hour screenwriter Jeff Nathanson has written the screenplay about "one producer and two lip-syncing male models who sold millions of records and won…
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BOM is reporting that Paramount Pictures has decided to release the upcoming fourth installment of the Indiana Jones Trilogy on Memorial Day Weekend 2008. So mark Thursday, May 22, 2008 on your calendars, because that's the day Indy will be back on the big screen. The last two Indiana Jones films were also released on…
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