FilmDistrict, the company spun off from Graham King's GK FIlms, has been very busy at Cannes. The company has picked up distribution rights to the 3D version of Arabian Nights that we reported on a while back, starring Liam Hemsworth, as well as the Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel romcom Playing the Field. And now…
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Got a couple of casting possibilities for you guys to mull over, starting with Dwayne Johnson playing the character of Sinbad in Arabian Nights, the $70 million 3D 'spin' on the classic collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales and stories referred to outside of the US as One Thousand and One Nights.…
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I was left flabbergasted by the news that Chuck Russell would be directing a new 3D version of the Arabian Nights...or, at least, he's directing a film called Arabian Nights. It seems to bear a passing resemblance at best to the original collection of folk tales. The film is about "a young commander who, after…
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Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson will feature in The Ledge, a "suspense thriller" (as opposed to non-suspenseful thrillers) that will mark the feature debut of writer/director Matthew Chapman. Terrence Howard and Charlie Hunnam co-star in the film about "a man (Hunnam) standing on a high-rise ledge who insists he must jump by noon as the…
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There have been many filmed versions of the collection of folk stories and other tales called the One Thousand and One Nights, better known in the US as the Arabian Nights. Now we can add one more to the pile. Who's directing? That would be Chuck Russell, a man whose films span a broad range…
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