Newly Titled 'Project Almanac' Moves To January 2015
Project Almanac, the new title of Almanac/Welcome to Yesterday, will be released January 2015 after a tinkering by producer Michael Bay.
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'Welcome To Yesterday' Trailer: 'Chronicle' Meets 'Primer' From Producer Michael Bay
A group of high school kids discover the ability to travel in time. That's the simple logline of Welcome to Yesterday, formerly called Almanac, which just released its first trailer. Starring a slew of young newcomers, the found footage sci-fi film was written by Jason Pagan and Andrew Stark and is directed by Dean Israelite.…
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Paramount And Michael Bay To Produce 'Raindrop' From The Writers Of 'Almanac'
Filmmakers regularly say it's impossible to get a medium sized movie made in Hollywood. They believe studios would much rather make a $250 million movie than five $50 million movies and that might be the case. Paramount, however, is having a blast making much cheaper movies. In addition to the Paranormal Activity franchise, they're currently…
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Paramount Sets Release Dates For Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska' And Platinum Dunes' 'Almanac'
Briefly: One highly anticipated awards contender and another highly anticipated genre film have just been given release dates by Paramount Pictures. The awards contender is Alexander Payne's follow-up to The Descendants, Nebraska. Starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte as a father and son on a road trip, it'll be released November 22. The Michael Bay produced,…
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The 2012 Black List: The Year's Hottest Unproduced Screenplays
Just as we're enjoying the last of 2012's cinematic offerings, the latest edition of the Black List has hit the web. The annual survey highlights the hottest unproduced screenplays of the year, as based on the votes of hundreds of executives. The term "unproduced" is used rather vaguely here. Some of these scripts (like Ivan…
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Details Emerge On Michael Bay-Produced 'Almanac,' Has Strong 'Back To The Future Part II' Influence
A teenager discovers the ability to time travel and uses a book of sports results to his benefit. This, is not, the logline for the second act of Back to the Future Part II. It's the reported plot of Almanac, a mystery project from Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes which was announced last month. At the time,…
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Michael Bay To Produce Time Travel Found Footage Film 'Almanac' For Paramount
As if Michael Bay didn't have enough to do, prepping one film and finishing another, he and his Platinum Dunes partners just sold a top secret found footage film to Paramount. It's called Almanac and was written on spec by Andrew Stark and Jason Pagan, with Dean Israelite attached to direct. They're all newcomers (though…
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