Briefly: Two and a half years ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger was looking at the action thriller Captive, back when he was mulling a whole bunch of post-Governor gigs. He never made the movie, but it's still kicking around, and now his one-time fellow expendable Bruce Willis is in talks to star in the film. The movie…
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Oliver Stone is going back to his favorite subject matter: influential American personalities, particularly those of the past middle century. He's already chronicled JFK and Nixon (and George W. Bush) and now Stone is in early talks to make a film about Martin Luther King, Jr. This is one of a few different MLK films…
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Joel Schumacher has confirmed in an interview that Halle Berry is in talks to take the lead in the tentatively titled The Hive, about "a female emergency line operator who, in trying to help a young girl, comes up against a killer from her own past." While nothing is official at this point, the director said,…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback is really back on track. Seriously. His first stab at a post-politics return to acting was hamstrung by an embarassing and irresponsible paternity situation. But a few months have passed, public ire has shifted to other targets, and Arnie is making appearances on casting sheets once again. He's got The Last Stand…
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When Universal recently dropped Paul Greengrass's Martin Luther King Jr. film Memphis due to a rumored lack of cooperation from King's estate, it became obvious getting a film done about the civil rights leader was going to take a huge effort. Hopefully the combined resources of two studios might do the trick. The Hollywood Reporter…
Read MoreAlmost a year ago we heard that Curtis Hanson (The River Wild, L.A. Confidential) would make a film about the late surfer Jay Moriarty, who rode massive Northern California wave breaks called 'mavericks,' but died at 22 in a diving accident. When we first reported on the film Sean Penn was rumored; the role he…
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