• 'Adjustment Bureau' Director George Nolfi To Helm 'Black Swan' Writer's Social Media Thriller 'XOXO'

    After making his feature directorial debut on last year's The Adjustment Bureau, George Nolfi is lining up his sophomore effort. Nolfi has just signed a deal to helm Lionsgate's elevated genre pic XOXO, described as "Fatal Attraction for the digital age." The project already has some intriguing pedigree behind it. The screenplay comes from Black Swan…

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  • Updated: Who Will Direct The 'Captain America' Sequel? George Nolfi And Anthony & Joseph Russo Shortlisted, F. Gary Gray Out Of The Running

    Update from editor Peter Sciretta: Deadline has learned that F. Gary Gray has withdrawn from consideration and is now in negotiations to instead direct the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton for New Line Cinema. Last week Disney announced a April 4th, 2014 release date for the a sequel.   There's something that really appeals to…

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  • Casting Bits: Michael Williams In 'The Suspect;' Rodrigo Santoro In 'The Last Stand;' David Duchovny In 'Phantom;' James D'Arcy In 'Cloud Atlas'

    The Wire's Michael K. Williams (who, like John Goodman, just guest-appeared on Community) was in the running for the title role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, and though he lost the part to Jamie Foxx, he may still end up in the film, in a part written just for him. Hopefully another new job won't…

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  • Casting Bits: Peter Stormare Joins Arnold Schwarzenegger In 'The Last Stand;' Anthony Hopkins In 'Solace;' More Confirmed For 'The Expendables 2'?

    It's an action/thriller casting break this evening, featuring the return of some classic actors to familiar old stomping grounds. So after the break you'll find: Peter Stormare is a bad guy in Arniold Schwarzenegger's The Last Stand, Anthony Hopkins will hunt a serial killer in Solace, and Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Travolta…

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  • 'The Adjustment Bureau' Movie Review: A Wild God Chase That Trips On The Details

    The Adjustment Bureau looks at first like a thriller/romance hybrid; consider an alternate reality version of The Tourist, perhaps. But this film is not preoccupied with beauty; rather it contemplates the conflict between free will and predestination. That simple, eternal question becomes a sort of science fiction -- something closer to theological fiction, really --…

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  • Will Louis Leterrier Direct Insane-Sounding Sci-Fi Thriller 'Gravity'?

    First up, this is not Gravity as in the Alfonso Cuarón 3D sci-fi space thriller that will have an insane opening shot. No, this is an altogether different film called Gravity. This one has been described as 'The Day After Tomorrow meets Taken,' and Clash of the Titans and The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier…

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  • Movie Trailer: The Adjustment Bureau

    We've been waiting to see footage of George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau, which stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in a loose adaptation of a Philip K Dick short story, Adjustment Team. Now there's a trailer, and it is hard to tell what the movie is, exactly. There are moments which will remind you of…

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  • First Look: The Adjustment Bureau

    Universal Pictures has released the first two photos from George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau.  The movie is a sci-fi romance based on the Philip K Dick short story The Adjustment Team. The movie follows an affair between a politician and a ballerina, which is "affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart." The film stars…

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  • Fourth Jason Bourne Film Finds Another Screenwriter

    A fourth film in the Jason Bourne series is still in active development, despite recent speculation otherwise. Last week Matt Damon told Entertainment Weekly that they don't yet "have a story and we don’t have a script." Universal has apparently moved on and hired another screenwriter Josh Zetumer to write what is being described as…

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  • Anthony Mackie Goes From The Hurt Locker To The Adjustment Bureau

    Anthony Mackie has been a reliably solid supporting actor in the last couple of years; he's wonderful in The Hurt Locker and was entertaining as Tupac Shakur in the often woeful Notorious. Now he'll have a chance to continue that run in The Adjustment Bureau, the adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short story starring…

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  • Emily Blunt To Star Opposite Matt Damon In The Adjustment Bureau

    The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Emily Blunt will star alongside Matt Damon in the upcoming silver-screen realisation of the Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story called The Adjustment Team, here upgraded to The Adjustment Bureau. It will be the first film directed by George Nolfi, who is rather more practiced as a screenwriter. He's…

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  • Jason Bourne 4 Now Aiming For Summer 2011

    Last we heard, Universal was trying to get a fourth film in the Jason Bourne series on track for a Summer 2010 release. Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass were signed on to return, all they needed was a screenplay and a shooting schedule that fit. But the tentatively discussed Summer 2009 shoot doesn't seem…

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  • George Nolfi To Write Fourth Jason Bourne Film

    So what's the latest on the fourth film in the Jason Bourne series? Last we heard, producer Frank Marshall was hoping to begin shooting next Summer for a 2010 release. Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon have already signed on, all they need now is a script. Today it was announced that Universal is serious about…

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