The opening text crawl for Edge of Tomorrow, the new film with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, was "Live/Die/Repeat." That's the film in a nutshell -- Cruise plays an Army PR guy who is thrown into combat and immediately killed. But that's not his end; for reasons unknown to him, Cruise lives his last day…
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Doug Liman's upcoming sci-fi action film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt has been given a new title. Originally called All You Need Is Kill, which also is the name of the original graphic novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, the film has now been renamed Edge of Tomorrow. It's definitely a less confusing, more catchy title for…
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Warner Bros. has begun to shake up their 2014 schedule. The most interesting move is Noam Murro's 300: Rise of the Empire, originally scheduled for release this August, has been pushed back to March 7, 2014. The film already set for that date, Doug Liman's sci-fi film with Tom Cruise, All You Need Is Kill, has…
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Tom Cruise has worked in just about every genre you could think of over the course of his three-decade career, but lately he seems to be on something of a sci-fi kick. He recently attached himself to Our Name is Adam, and has Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion and Doug Liman's All You Need is Kill both…
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Looks like Warner Bros. is really going to keep the title All You Need is Kill for the Doug Liman-directed sci-fi thriller starring Tom Cruise as a soldier who is killed during his first few minutes of battle, but finds himself reliving his last day over and over again. The common description for the film…
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A script that finds serious studio favor can push a project from long-simmering development into full boil, and that seems to have happened with Sony and The Equalizer. Based on the TV series in which Edward Woodward played a former covert ops expert who donates his services to people in trouble, the film will star…
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Emily Blunt is getting her sci-fi on once again. The star of The Adjustment Bureau and the upcoming Looper is in talks to co-star with Tom Cruise in All You Need Is Kill, a sci-fi action film with a Groundhog Day twist. Doug Liman directs. Read more after the jump. Variety broke the news of…
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Rapper T.I. has done a few movies (Takers, American Gangster, ATL) but has had his cinematic aspirations derailed by little things like county jail and federal prison stints. But he's back at work, and in an interview conducted at SXSW, T.I. said that he's got a couple of film projects on the horizon. Specifically, the…
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Looks like Tom Cruise is really going to star in Doug Liman's All You Need Is Kill, the film that has been given the shorthand description 'Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day' thanks to a plot that follows a soldier in a future war who is killed, but relives his final day like a gamer replaying…
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Doug Liman is working to pull together a film based on the script All You Need is Kill, which tells the story of a young soldier in a future war who steps out into battle and is promptly killed, only to wake up hours earlier, alive once more. He relives that loop many times, dying…
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Is this the Akira situation all over again? You might remember that a few months ago, when Warner Bros. was really trying to get the live-action version of Akira going under the direction of Albert Hughes, there were a great many stories about how the studio wanted to cast the film. The primary thrust seemed…
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The Black List has been released. The annual list is compiled with a poll of 300 (up from last year's 250) development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2010 and will not be released…
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Industry tracking boards are reporting a couple interesting items today: Ben Affleck has apparently been offered the lead role in Antoine Fuqua’s (Bait, King Arthur, Shooter, Training Day) upcoming adaptation of the Vince Flynn novel Consent to Kill which Lorenzo di Bonaventura (GI Joe, Transformers) is producing for CBS Films. Ryan Gosling has apparently been…
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In June, Doug Liman's name was attached to the Warner Bros. sci-fi project All You Need Is Kill. At the time I thought the pairing of Liman and a 'Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day' story was odd, given that Liman is known to be rather on the indecisive side when it comes to directing style.…
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Doug Liman may be moving from the adventurous romantic past to the technologically-obsessed future. While he's been prepping The Three Musketeers for Warner Bros., it now looks as if he'll skip that movie and take the directorial gig on the 'Groundhog Day with aliens' movie All You Need Is Kill. It doesn't come as much…
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Dante Harper's film CV is a varied one: editing a documentary about Static-X; directing and acting in the surrealist black comedy The Delicate Art of the Rifle; a small mountain of production manager credits, very often on DVD supplements; a little role in The Onion Movie; scripting an adaptation of Charles Burns' Black Hole. Add to…
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