• Paul Walker To Star In Rebooted 'Hitman' Film Called 'Agent 47'

    Here's a bit of a shocker in the world of video game adaptations. Fox International is going to reboot the Square Enix video game series Hitman as a new movie called Agent 47. Paul Walker will star as the bald assassin of the title, a character last seen in the 2007 film Hitman directed by…

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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Playing An Angel In Action Thriller 'Black Sands'?

    In a few months, Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to shoot Black Sands, the next film on his comeback trail. It will follow The Last Stand, an action film set near the Mexican border, which was directed by Kim Ji-woon (I Saw the Devil; The Good, the Bad, the Weird). Black Sands should start shooting on…

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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Set To Star In 'Black Sands'

    The two guys who directed the real Navy SEALs movie Act of Valor, Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy, have been validated by Relativity's decision to buy and release that picture. The duo will next get to make Black Sands, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie sounds like a dark action thriller, and features a lone man…

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  • Bruce Willis Will Star In 'Ten'

    Briefly: The mid-budget film Ten got off the ground today, getting around $30m of funding from QED and Norton Herrick so that Patrick Allesandrin (District 13: Ultimatum) can direct Bruce Willis, working from a script by Skip Woods. One interesting point here is that Allesandrin was until just recently set to direct Kane & Lynch,…

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  • Hitman/A-Team Screenwriter To Write Die Hard 5

    Skip Woods is in talks with 20th Century Fox to write Die Hard 5. Woods is the screenwriter behind Swordfish and Hitman, and one of the writers on X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the upcoming A-Team movie. No information has been released on a possible storyline for the fifth installment, but Bruce Willis has said that…

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  • Joe Carnahan To Helm A-Team

    Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan is the latest filmmaker to board 20th Century Fox's big screen adaptation of The A-Team. John Singleton was the latest director attached to the project, but decided to exit the project after a bunch of rewrites. The film was originally set to hit theaters in June 2009, but is now…

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  • Wolverine: Gavin Hood Explains His Interest And Possible Sequel; New Screenwriter Hired

    20th Century Fox and Hugh Jackman have brought Swordfish and Hitman screenwriter Skip Woods to revise ("more than a polish") David Benioff's draft for the upcoming X-Men spin-off prequel, Wolverine. Director Gavid Wood, whose film Tsotsi won the Academy Award in 2006 for Best Foreign Language Film, has been out promoting his new film Rendition,…

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