• James McTeigue Directing 'Bloodsport' Reboot

    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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  • Phillip Noyce In Talks To Direct YA Classic 'The Giver', Starring Jeff Bridges

    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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  • Phillip Noyce To Direct 'The Arrangement' By 'Broken City' Writer Brian Tucker

    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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  • Philip Noyce To Remake 'Bloodsport'

    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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  • 'Salt' May Get A Sequel, But Phillip Noyce Will Not Direct It

    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…

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  • Ryan Gosling To Star In New Jack Ryan Film?

    Is 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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