After the jump: Sharknado 3 gets hit with a strike-nado, might get delayed T.S. Nowlin will be back to script the last Maze Runner Joe Carnahan offers a glimpse of the A-Team sequel we never got The Poltergeist remake is going to be here two months early Sigourney Weaver is excited about Neill Blomkamp’s Alien sequel…
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Just as we're enjoying the last of 2012's cinematic offerings, the latest edition of the Black List has hit the web. The annual survey highlights the hottest unproduced screenplays of the year, as based on the votes of hundreds of executives. The term "unproduced" is used rather vaguely here. Some of these scripts (like Ivan…
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Briefly: While Tom Cruise will next be seen in Jack Reacher (a new trailer for which hit today) he's following that film with two big sci-fi movies: Oblivion, from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski, and the "Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day" action film All You Need is Kill, from Doug Liman. Now Cruise is looking…
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In March, we were one of the first to post an animated action short film called Ruin. The short was directed by 2003 Student Academy Award-winner Wes Ball and set "way in the future" in a green post-apocalyptic universe. The film went viral in the days afterward, and signature shots from the short even appear in…
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Briefly: Rupert Wyatt didn't exactly come out of nowhere to direct Rise of the Planet of the Apes, as he already had his name on The Escapist and Subterrain. But the unlikely success of his Apes prequel definitely put him on the map for a lot of audiences. Wyatt is tapped to make another Apes…
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For the rest of 2011, let's just assume that if any one producer starting moving forward with a new film based on a story or character that has even a vague recognizance rating, others will soon flock to the same subject. See: Snow White, Peter Pan, even Gertrude Bell. Recently we saw that Val Kilmer…
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Lately, the man dead set on selling space to millionaire tourists, Virgin Atlantic billionaire Richard Branson, has been getting into the movie business and he currently has his sites set on Columbus, a script by T.S. Nowlin. The 300-esque retelling of the Christopher Columbus story has McG attached to produce and direct and Branson is…
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