First Look: Natalie Portman As Jackie Kennedy
See the first photo of Natalie Portman in the film Jackie, which follows Kennedy's fight to define her husband’s legacy in the days after his assassination.
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'Divergent' Sequel 'Allegiant' Hires 'Maze Runner' Writer
The Divergent sequel Allegiant has hired writer Noah Oppenheimer. He recently wrote The Maze Runner, a dystopian YA adaptation for Fox.
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Dean Parisot Now In Line To Direct Summit's 'The Secret Life Of Houdini'
Dean Parisot has done a few big-screen directing gigs in the past two decades (Galaxy Quest being the fan favorite) but mostly worked in TV during that period. Now he's headed back to the big screen with the reins of Red 2 in hand. Summit may be happy with that sequel because the studio is reportedly giving Parisot…
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Biopic Casting: Natalie Portman As Jackie O, Brit Marling And Wes Bentley In Lincoln Drama, Miley Cyrus In 'Bonnie & Clyde'
Katie Holmes portrayed Jackie O in last year's The Kennedys, Minka Kelly is playing her in next year's The Butler, and now it could be Natalie Portman's turn to tackle the role. The Oscar-winning star is reportedly being courted for the simply titled Jackie, a Noah Oppenheim-scripted drama about the aftermath of JFK's assassination as…
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Noah Oppenheim Hired To Script New '1984'
Noah Oppenheim has moved from a career in television (he was senior producer on Hardball With Chris Matthews and Today, among others) into feature film writing. And somehow, Oppenheim has ended up scripting a couple notable remakes: he's on War Games, and the remake of Daniel Espinosa's Snabba Cash (Easy Money). And now he's been…
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'WarGames' Remake To Be Scripted By Noah Oppenheim
Briefly: That WarGames remake that has some fans up in arms now has a writer. Noah Oppenheim will script the film that Seth Gordon will direct for MGM. We still don't know anything about the specific plan for the remake. When the involvement of Seth Gordon was reported, he was said to have "a wide…
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Young-Adult Novel 'The Maze Runner' Adds A Screenwriter
The latest bestselling young-adult novel to get a feature film adaptation has found itself a hot new screenwriter. Noah Oppenheim will adapt The Maze Runner, a New York Times bestselling adventure book by James Dashner, that follows a group of kids who must navigate a deadly maze to make it out of an alternative dimension.…
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2010 The Black List: The Year's Best Unproduced Screenplays
The Black List has been released. The annual list is compiled with a poll of 300 (up from last year's 250) development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2010 and will not be released…
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Darren Aronofsky To Direct Rachel Weisz In Jackie Kennedy Biopic
Last month, it was revealed that Steven Spielberg was shepherding yet another film as producer, a film titled Jackie, a Noah Oppenheim script based on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. At the time it was reported that HBO was the most interested party, and that Jackie could be developed as a cable movie project…
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