Billionaire's Vinegar, the story of the most expensive wine of all time, is becoming a movie and Matthew McConaughy will star. Read more here.
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James Mangold (Wolverine, Walk the Line) is eyeing a Joe Namath biopic at Fox 2000. Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (3:10 to Yuma) wrote the script.
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Universal's been taking their good sweet time on the sequel to 2008's Wanted, but fans needn't fret just yet. The studio (re)hired Derek Haas and Michael Brandt to write the script last year, and the former now says they're readying the second draft. As for big changes from the last film, Haas reveals the unsurprising…
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With so much sequel news breaking every day, this little post we call Sequel Bits is becoming a semi-regular feature. That truth probably makes most of us feel like /Film commenter brock_rox who wrote the following after the last installment. "It's sad that we live in a world where a column especially devoted to sequel…
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Ken Jeong has built up a respectable career as a supporting actor, most notably on NBC's Community and the Hangover films, but for his next movie role he'll be moving a little closer to the spotlight. Jeong is set to star in and produce The Chung Factor, which landed on the 2005 Black List back…
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The idea of a sequel to the 2008 film Wanted, based on Mark Millar's comic series, has been floating around since before the first film even opened. Back in '08 Wanted screenwriters Derek Haas and Michael Brandt (who shared screen credit with Chris Morgan) were supposedly hired to script the sequel, but the fact of…
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Briefly: Taken director Pierre Morel is following Luc Besson in to the action thriller producing game, and he's got his first effort set up, with everyone's new favorite actor on board. Overdrive is about a couple of handsome car thieves, and will star Alex Pettyfer and Matthew Goode. Antonio Negret, who directed Transit for producer…
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Briefly: Hany Abu-Assad, whose very good film Paradise Now was released in 2005, finally has a new feature gearing up to shoot. The Courier is an action film scripted by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt, about "a courier who has taken on improbable missions and never missed a drop." Deadline says that Jeffrey Dean Morgan…
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Sarah Polley is putting together a film she'll direct as a follow-up to the sad and terrific Away From Her, and she's just landed Sarah Silverman to appear alongside Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams. Take This Waltz is about "a young woman (Williams) whose struggles with infidelity leads her to the realization that she may…
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When I scan through my newsreader each morning, I really don't expect to see a feature-length article about a comic series like Alien Legion in a major US paper. The comic was one of the early efforts from Epic Comics, the direct-sales Marvel imprint that skirted the comics code beginning in the early '80s. The…
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Update: Tom Cruise was being courted for at least six different big Hollywood projects. Out of all the possible projects, the star has chosen the least interesting one. Cruise is in talks to join Cameron Diaz in the 20th Century Fox action-comedy Wichita. Cruise will play an undercover agent who pops in and out of…
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Can someone perform a drive-by on this project while blasting Harold Faltermeyer instrumentals? We've already seen a 180-spin with Beverly Hills Cop IV, with poolguy Brett Ratner originally playing to the kiddies, then predictably back-pedaling and labeling the film "hard R, brah" followed by a tepid review of the script and its more serious "standard…
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LatinoReview has gotten a look at Michael Brandt and Derek Haas' screenplay for Brett Ratner's "Beverly Hills Cop 2009". Yes, even the title has a Ratner-level of annoyance. So what's it about? Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) is killed from a fall out of the 20th story of the Los Angeles Police Headquarters, but Axel (Eddie…
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/Film reader Editor E has passed along word that screenwriters Derek Haas and Michael Brandt have already been hired by Universal to pen a sequel to Wanted. Derek Haas revealed that "We're just finishing up a book adaptation for Universal of the James Siegel novel Deceit. We've been hired to write the sequel to Wanted…
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