Meryl Streep being who she is, it's never particularly surprising when she signs on to work with an iconic actor. But her talent is such that we're intrigued anyway, and this week she's signed on for two interesting new projects. One featuring one of her first-ever co-stars, and another starring a fellow Oscar nominee I…
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There will be a new version of Bloodsport, the '80s martial arts thriller in which Jean-Claude Van Damme fought Bolo Yeung and his pecs. (Above, JCVD shows off the reaction most of us would have when faced with the magnificence of said pectorals.) We've known about the remake for a long time, but now the…
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Lois Lowry's dystopian YA novel The Giver came out in 1993 -- well before The Hunger Games was even a twinkle in Suzanne Collins' eye -- but it's surely no coincidence that its movie adaptation is only really picking up steam now that The Hunger Games' box office success has spawned a million other dystopian…
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Dystopian YA adaptations seem to be all the rage these days, and finally one of the classics of the subgenre is inching closer to the big screen. Phillip Noyce (Salt) has entered early talks to direct The Giver, based on Lois Lowry's Newbery-winning 1993 novel. Jeff Bridges, who's been one of the driving forces behind the…
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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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Yep, the headline says what you think it says. The 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme film Bloodsport is going to be remade, and Philip Noyce, who last directed the rather silly film Salt, is going to be behind the camera. Screen Daily says the film will follow "an American who goes to Brazil to recover from…
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The Angelina Jolie thriller Salt may have come and gone in the minds of some viewers. -- neither of Jolie's big films this year seemed to get much traction -- but with a nearly $300 million worldwide take, the film is hardly a flop. Once marketing and everything else is factored in, the $110m film…
Read MoreIs CIA agent and future President Jack Ryan up for competing with the likes of cooler action heroes like Jason Bourne? Moviehole says that Philip Noyce, the director of '90s Jack Ryan vehicles Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, has personally confirmed that he is not attached to a fifth film in the series…
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