'A Knight's Tale' Director To Bring 'Button Man' Movie Adaptation To Netflix
Brian Helgeland, the director of films like A Knight's Tale, Payback, and 42, will direct a Button Man movie adaptation of the assassin comic for Netflix.
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'Game Of Thrones' Season 8 May Not Arrive Until 2019, But What About Those Prequels
According to HBO's head of programming, the Game of Thrones final season may not air until 2019. He also offers updates on the prequels.
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'Torso' Movie Lines Up Director Paul Greengrass
After a long development, it looks like the Torso movie may finally get made by Bourne series director Paul Greengrass.
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Clint Eastwood Will Make A Film About Kidnapped Aid Worker Jessica Buchanan
After the success of Sully, director Clint Eastwood is already eying his next potential film for Warners. Learn more about the new Clint Eastwood project.
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Interview: How 'Legend' Director Brian Helgeland Made Two Tom Hardys Believable
Brian Helgeland credits Hardy and his DP, Dick Pope, for making the two performances disappear into the story. Here's our Brian Helgeland interview.
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'Legend' Trailer: Tom Hardy Rules London's Underworld
A new Legend trailer out of the UK continues to build the mystique of Tom Hardy's performance as London's famed gangster twins.
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'Legend' UK Trailer: Tom Hardy Plays A Smooth Gangster, And A Psychopath
See new footage of Tom Hardy's performance as twins in the Legend UK trailer.
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'Legend' Trailer: Tom Hardy Plays The Twins Who Terrorized London
The Legend trailer rides high on the attraction of Tom Hardy's dual-character performance as London's gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray.
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'Legend' Trailer: Tom Hardy And Tom Hardy Lead '60s Gangster Tale
Watch the first Legend trailer. Tom Hardy plays a dual role as twin gangsters Ron and Reggie Kray. From the writer of L.A. Confidential, Brian Helgeland.
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First Look: Tom Hardy Plays Gangster Twins In 'Legend'
Get your first look at Tom Hardy in Legend. Directed by Brian Helgeland (42), the drama stars Hardy as notorious gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
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Tom Hardy In Talks To Play Famed London Gangster Twins
Brian Helgeland adapted a story of famed American gang dealings in L.A. Confidential, and now he's going to chronicle an unusual and notorious pair of London mobsters. He's set to write and direct Legend (title subject to change), in which Tom Hardy may end up playing identical twin brothers Ronald and Reginald Kray, who dominated the London…
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Will Smith To Star In And Produce Modernized 'The Wild Bunch' Remake
Is Will Smith looking to make up for balking at starring in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained by starring in a remake of one of the biggest landmarks in the Western canon? Smith has signed to produce and star in the remake of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, which Warner Bros. has been trying to kickstart for…
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'42' Trailer And Featurette: America's Racial History Is No Game
The story of Jackie Robinson is one of the most important stories in sports history, but it is also one of the most important social stories of the 20th century. As the first black ballplayer in Major League Baseball, Robinson became one of the focal points at an early stage in the ever-evolving shift in…
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'42' Trailer: The Life And Times Of Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson
If ever the story of an athlete deserved to be told in a major motion picture, it's the story of Jackie Robinson. The man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball not only broke cultural and social ground; he was one of the best people to ever play the game of baseball. In…
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Relative Newcomer Chadwick Boseman To Play Jackie Robinson In '42;' Harrison Ford Confirmed
Briefly: We've just heard that Harrison Ford is the latest actor that the producers of Jackie Robinson film 42 have eyed to play Branch Rickey, the LA Dodgers exec who helped break the color barrier in baseball by signing Jackie Robinson. While we don't know if Ford will end up playing the role (somehow I…
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Harrison Ford Up For Jackie Robinson Film '42'
Robert Redford? Nope. Jack Nicholson? Nope. Now Harrison Ford is Legendary Pictures' target to play the leading role of Branch Rickey, the Los Angeles Dodgers executive credited with signing Jackie Robinson and breaking baseball's color barrier, in the film 42, written and directed by Brian Helgeland. Ford has yet to sign but, according to reports,…
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Jack Nicholson Offered Jackie Robinson Biopic '42'
The dramatic, inspirational story of Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball's first black player, seems so ripe for a Hollywood adaptation that it's a little surprising we haven't seen the story hit the big screen in some time. Filmmakers have certainly tried -- Spike Lee had a biopic in the works at one point, and Robert…
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Robert Zemeckis In Talks To Direct Brian Helgeland-Scripted 'Here There Be Monsters'
Since the sinking of the Robert Zemeckis mocap remake of Yellow Submarine, the director has been attached to quite a few projects, many of which are live-action. His likely next film is Flight, starring Denzel Washington as a drug-addled pilot who safely performs a seemingly heroic emergency landing, despite being under the influence during the…
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Legendary Pictures Teams With Jackie Robinson Estate For Biopic
Most geeks know the number 42 as Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And if that's the case, Jackie Robinson is the Ultimate Question. Robinson was the first African American Major League Baseball player and is the only player to…
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Paul Greengrass To Direct 'Travis McGee'?
Paul Greengrass has a pretty interesting career -- he tends to flip between overtly social/political films and more pulpy material, but even his action films have a level of political awareness. Lately he's had some trouble getting a movie made at all, with Universal passing on his MLK film Memphis, and the King estate reportedly…
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Robert Redford Playing Famed Dodgers Exec Branch Rickey In Brian Helgeland's Jackie Robinson Film
Robert Redford is already in the baseball hall of fame for playing the lead in The Natural, which is a benchmark in baseball on film. That was a piece of fiction, but now Mr. Redford is poised to play one of the most important real figures in the history of the game: Branch Rickey, who…
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David Fincher In The Running To Direct Sony's 'Cleopatra,' Likely To Direct 'The Girl Who Played With Fire'
The last time we checked in on the Sony take on Cleopatra, which Scott Rudin is producing as a possible Angelina Jolie star vehicle based on Stacy Schiff's biography Cleopatra: A Life, James Cameron wasn't going to make the film because of his commitment to Avatar 2, and Paul Greengrass was looking like a possible…
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Could James Cameron Direct 'Cleopatra' Before 'Avatar 2?'
James Cameron is such a big director that if there's a chance in the slightest he might do a new movie, we're obligated to report on it. So, as unlikely as it may seem, rumors are circulating that the brass at Sony are "exploring the possibility" that the King of the World could direct a…
Read MoreNew Stories From Brian Helgeland, Larry Moskowitz And Alicia Gifford On Popcorn Fiction
In late 2009, screenwriter Derek Haas (Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma, The A-Team) created a website called Popcorn Fiction, which he described as "a place where new popular short fiction could flourish, and Hollywood could have a new resource for cultivating great ideas." Haas commissioned some very talented screenwriters to pen stories for the site, including…
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