'Star Wars' Obi-Wan Kenobi TV Series Writer Talks Expanding A Feature Film Into Six Episodes
The Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series coming to Disney+ was once slated to be a movie, but writer Hossein Amini is rather pleased with expanding the story.
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'McMafia' Creators Hossein Amini And James Watkins On How Their Show Is 'Game Of Thrones' With Mobs [Interview]
In our McMafia interview, creators Hossein Amini and James Watkins talk about their new AMC crime show, which they compare to Game of Thrones.
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'The Two Faces Of January' Trailer: Oscar Isaac Learns To Be A Real Criminal
A new The Two Faces of January trailer heralds the film's fall US release, and shows how Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac get into trouble.
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'The Two Faces Of January' Trailer: Viggo Mortensen Coerces Oscar Isaac
If Inside Llewyn Davis whet your appetite to see a lot more from actor Oscar Isaac, the new Patricia Highsmith adaptation The Two Faces of January is hitting at just the right time. The film stars Isaac, Viggo Mortensen, and Kirsten Dunst in a story about a vacationing couple, not exactly squeaky lean folk, who…
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Oscar Isaac Cast Alongside Viggo Mortensen In Thriller From 'Drive' Screenwriter
The work of Patricia Highsmith has been good to kickstart a solid movie or two. Maybe you've heard of some of them: The Talented Mr. Ripley; The American Friend; Cry of the Owl; and a little one called Strangers on a Train. And even though some of her work has also lead to less impressive…
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Sony Buys 'Shadow Runner,' Sets Chris Hemsworth To Play Elite Military Operative
After his star-making turn in Thor, Chris Hemsworth is likely to find himself in the same sort of position his Star Trek co-star Chris Pine did a couple years back. Like Chris Pine, Hemsworth has a couple films in the can that might be released in the future (and his are higher profile: Red Dawn…
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Screenwriting Bits: 'Snow White And The Huntsman', 'The Smurfs 2,' 'Bastards'
Snow White gets a rewrite, The Smurfs get a sequel and Bastards sells for big bucks. How's that for alliteration? There's a bunch of screenwriting news out there right now and, after the jump, we'll give some context to the following: Screenwriter Hossein Amini has just been hired to do a rewrite of Universal's Snow…
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Now David Koepp Is Rewriting 'Moscow,' The New Jack Ryan Film
The backstory of the new telling of Jack Ryan's origin story is becoming quite an origin story of its own. Paramount has been trying to kickstart the rebirth of the Jack Ryan franchise for two years -- it stalled out in 2002 with the Ben Affleck-led The Sum of All Fears. Now the latest screenwriter…
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Hugh Jackman Offered 'Snow White And The Huntsman' Role
Sometimes stars align. Talks recently broke down to get Viggo Mortensen into the key Huntsman role in Snow White and the Hunstman, and now with The Wolverine on hold for several reasons, Hugh Jackman has been offered the part. If he accepts, that could push the film into an entirely different realm of mainstream appeal.…
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Jack Ryan Reboot Crawling Through Development; Chris Pine Likely To Be Seen First In 'Star Trek 2'
After the success of Star Trek, Paramount decided to enter the Chris Pine business in a serious way. The company set the actor to star in Star Trek 2 and tapped him for the reboot of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character, who had previously been played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck. But…
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Lost Director Jack Bender In Line To Direct New Jack Ryan Movie, 'Moscow'
For the past couple months, a shortlist has been going around of possible directors for Moscow, Paramount's new film / reboot of the film series featuring Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character. (Chris Pine stars as Ryan this time out.) The names were generally all big: Sam Raimi, Gore Verbinski, Timur Bekmambetov and Kevin MacDonald, for…
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More Jack Ryan News: Untitled Reboot Script Due Soon
Just the other day there was a mention that George Clooney might be interested in taking up the mantle of Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy novels and films like The Hunt For Red October and Patriot Games. Now there's confirmation, via Anne Thompson, that Clooney's name is indeed in the mix. But more…
Read MoreNeil Marshall To Direct Hugh Jackman In Drive
His recent, loud homage to Mad Max and killer viruses, Doomsday, was mostly ignored and deflated quickly at the box office, but genre director Neil Marshall is still going strong. He's now attached to his second project of the month, an L.A.-set action mystery vehicle for Hugh Jackman at Universal entitled Drive that looks to…
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