David Frankel Might Direct Will Smith In 'Collateral Beauty'
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) was originally set to direct the film. The new Collateral Beauty director might be David Frankel.
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Hugh Jackman And Rooney Mara Set For 'Collateral Beauty' From Director Of 'Me And Earl And The Dying Girl'
Collateral Beauty will be the next film by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, the director of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara star.
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Miles Teller In Talks To Star In Marc Webb's 'The Only Living Boy In New York'
Miles Teller is doing a movie with Marc Webb. The Amazing Spider-Man director has balanced a commitment to Fox Searchlight and the desire to do other indies with his work for Sony. Now he's prepping a return to the indie scene with The Only Living Boy in New York, about a young man who gets…
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'Rock Of Ages' Scribe Teams With 'Frozen' Composers For Disney's 'Bob The Musical'
Disney's Bob the Musical has been in the works for a full decade at this point, but it's been slow going. One of the last updates we got on it was that 21 Jump Street's Phil Lord and Chris Miller were negotiating to direct, but even that ultimately amounted to nothing as they've since moved…
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Former 'Lost' Showrunner Carlton Cuse To Rewrite 'San Andreas: 3D'
Damon Lindelof's spent the years since Lost racking up high-profile movie credits like Cowboys & Aliens, Prometheus, and Star Trek 2, but the other Lost showrunner, Carlton Cuse, has kept a pretty low profile for the most part. That could be about to change, however, as he has a few different things brewing at the…
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'Rock Of Ages' Trailer: Like Watching A Megabudget Celebrity Rock Band Party
Let me say one thing first: this is the sort of role I think Tom Cruise does well. A variation on the arrogant, overbearing personality with a core of self-doubt has served him well in a few films here and there. So I hoped that playing big-time rock star Stacee Jaxx in Adam Shankman's '80s…
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'Rock Of Ages' Trailer: Hairpieces, Histrionics And Hysteria
For me, the best part of the trailer for Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages is the prominent display of the Motorhead logo in the first few seconds. After that it's all downhill. The film adapts the stage 'jukebox musical' with Diego Boneta and Julianne Hough playing wide-eyed kids caught up in the mid-'80s LA rock…
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New Line Developing Earthquake Movie 'San Andreas: 3D' From 'Rock Of Ages' Screenwriter Allan Loeb
Considering what a big part of life earthquakes are in sunny Southern California, what big moneymakers disaster films can be, and how obsessed Hollywood is with 3D spectacle at the moment, I'm a little surprised San Andreas: 3D isn't a thing that already exists. But no, New Line has just announced the new project, which…
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Robert Downey Jr To Possibly Star In Neil Strauss's 'Emergency!'
Columbia Pictures have announced that they have optioned the rights to Neil Strauss's non-fiction book Emergency!: This Book Will Save Your Life. Strauss is probably best known for his bestselling pickup book The Game: Penetrating The Secret Society of Pickup Artists, which has also been in development for the past couple years (with Ari Sandel…
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The Crazies Helmer Breck Eisner Directing Escape From New York Remake
A couple years back, New Line Cinema was trying to remake John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi actioner Escape from New York. They first hired Live Free or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman, who got replaced with Brett Ratner. I wasn't excited about either of the two filmmakers rebooting Snake Plissken, although Wiseman's production design background made…
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Wall Street 2 Delayed Until The Fall
Fox have decided to hold back release on Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel, subtitled Money Never Sleeps, until September 24th. This will put it up against Kevin McDonald's Eagle of the Ninth, Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians and Andy Fickman's You Again with Kristen Bell and Sigourney Weaver. I was surprised to enjoy the…
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Kevin James Joins Vince Vaughn In Ron Howard Film
Before Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Kevin James was just another comedian who had done well on TV before leaping into some mildly successful films. After Paul Blart, which had an exaggerated ratio between financial success and critical disdain, James suddenly became, to some people, the worst thing in movies. Can't say why, since I haven't…
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Escape From New York Remake: Now With Less Destruction?
A couple years back, New Line Cinema was trying to remake John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi actioner Escape from New York. They first hired Live Free or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman, who got replaced with Brett Ratner. I wasn't excited about either of the two filmmakers rebooting Snake Plissken, although Wiseman's production design background made…
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New Photos And Quotes For Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps; Thoughts On The Script
With the release of Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps set for April, its publicity game is just starting to ramp up. Fitting then that Vanity Fair, former mag-home of the late Dominick Dunne, has a new photo shoot for this sequel of modern greed and murder courtesy of flashy, money-strapped photog Annie…
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Ron Howard To Direct Vince Vaughn Dramedy
Ron Howard will direct Vince Vaughn in an untitled dramedy written by Allan Loeb (21, Things We Lost in the Fire), about a "man who learns that his best friend's wife is cheating and must then navigate treacherous waters to decide what do with that knowledge." Vaughn came up with the idea with Imagine topper…
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Casting Notes: Ryan Reynolds Cross-Dresses, Chris Messina In Shyamalan-Penned 'Devil'
Couple of quick casting notes for you today. First up, Working Title yesterday paid a lot of money for a pitch from Allan Loeb to write an as-yet untitled comedy for Ryan Reynolds. The film is a "dude-in-drag romantic comedy, with Reynolds playing a jilted lover who must disguise himself as a woman and befriend…
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Oliver Stone To Direct Wall Street 2, Michael Douglas And Shia LaBeouf In Talks To Star
Oliver Stone has officially signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to direct a sequel to the 1987 film Wall Street, according to Entertainment Weekly. Wall Street 2 is the tentative working title for the project, which had been under the working title of Money Never Sleeps. 21 and Things We Lost in the Fire…
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The Wall Street Sequel That Isn't
Ropes of Silicon has a 50 minute interview with W. screenwriter Stanley Weiser, but who cares about W. anymore? Weiser is the same guy who wrote Wall Street and penned a treatment for a Wall Street sequel before Oliver Stone and the film's producer parted ways. "To make a long story short, I wrote the…
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Fox Hires New Writer For Wall Street Sequel
With the stock market back in the news headlines due, it is no surprise that 20th Century Fox is moving forward with development on the previously announced sequel to Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street. 21 scribe Allan Loeb has been hired to pen the screenplay. I've heard nothing but bad things about Stephen Schiff's…
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