Briefly: Wow, that was fast. Mere weeks after first hearing about Jon Favreau's live-action 3D remake of The Jungle Book, Disney has given the film a release date. It'll open October 9, 2015, making it the first film to claim a date in that month. But that's not all. Disney also announced the follow up…
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One of the unwritten rules of filmmaking is shooting on water is a death sentence. The stories of troubled water-based productions are legendary: Steven Spielberg's Jaws, Kevin Reynolds's Waterworld, James Cameron's Titanic. It seems, though, in recent years production crews have more or less figured out how to do it. For example, Ron Howard tweeted some…
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Ron Howard's latest film, Rush, isn't even yet in theaters across most of the world, but the filmmaker is already making his next movie. That movie is Heart of the Sea, a period adventure film based on a novel by Nathaniel Philbrick. It tells the true story that inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick and stars Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin…
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