If anyone has had a cooler career path than Andy Serkis, I'd be interested to hear it. A classically trained actor, Serkis happened upon a technological revolution when he took on the role of Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. His performance capture work in those films helped define a whole new way…
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Noah Oppenheim has moved from a career in television (he was senior producer on Hardball With Chris Matthews and Today, among others) into feature film writing. And somehow, Oppenheim has ended up scripting a couple notable remakes: he's on War Games, and the remake of Daniel Espinosa's Snabba Cash (Easy Money). And now he's been…
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I'm crediting -- or blaming -- The Hunger Games for this one. Gary Ross' film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins best-seller has undeniable reflections of George Orwell's nightmarish vision of totalitarian information control and thought suppression, and now, just hours before that film is released to the public, we have news of a new film…
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Here are two projects that might happen, but at this point the safest approach seems to be an emphasis on 'might.' One is a Jimi Hendrix biopic that has been gestating for some time with André Benjamin (aka André 3000 of OutKast) playing the iconic rocker. The other is a new version of George Orwell's…
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