Zac Efron is finally going to get his shot at comic book heroism, thanks to Jesse Wigutow. Universal Pictures has just tapped the Tron 3 scribe to pen Fire, which Efron has been attached to produce and star in since 2010. It's an adaptation of the 1993 miniseries of the same title by Brian Michael Bendis, and…
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Relativity Media's reboot of The Crow has been a long time coming. Back in 2009 Stephen Norrington (Blade) was writing and set to direct. Nick Cave eventually rewrote the script, and Mark Wahlberg might have starred. But Norrington moved on, and thus began a cycle of new directors and actors being linked to the project. Juan…
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If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times. "If the idea is good enough, we'll do it." It's the tried and true response from Hollywood filmmakers when asked about a potential sequel to a popular film and the implications are two fold. First, it implies the first film was made without an…
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Disney's high hopes for Tron: Legacy weren't quite realized when the film opened in 2010. The sci-fi sequel earned just $172 million domestically, which doesn't sound so impressive when you realize it had a production budget of $170 million. Still, it ultimately managed to draw $400 million worldwide -- enough to get the studio moving,…
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Ever since filmmaker Gary Ross left the Hunger Games franchise this past spring, the question's been what he might do next. That film's $684 million global take left Ross with no shortage of possibilities, and over the past few months he's flirted with a number of them. Now, at long last, he's committed to his…
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The holidays call for an extra touch of glam, and this includes how we style our hair.
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With the pieces for one fairy tale origin story falling into place, Disney's taking a step toward getting another underway. Last spring, Disney chief Bob Iger revealed that his studio was looking into a film adaptation of Peter and the Starcatchers, a 2004 Peter Pan prequel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Now they've taken…
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The other way to write the headline for this story would be "Game of Thrones Director to Remake Sam Peckinpah Film." But even the most ardent Peckinpah fan -- and I'm pretty damn ardent -- isn't going to yell very loud to claim Peckinpah's adaptation of the novel by Robert Ludlum as one of the…
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Now that Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company have resolved their legal dispute over the remake of Alex Proyas' The Crow, it looks like the companies aren't wasting any time getting the ball rolling. Hot on the heels of yesterday's resolution announcement comes news that F. Javier Gutiérrez has been tapped to helm the project,…
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