Fishburne is Alchemist

Posted 18 years ago

The Weinstein Co. has acquired the rights to the 1988 best-selling Paolo Coelho novel “The Alchemist” from Laurence Fishburne and have decided to retain the deep-voiced thesp to star and direct with an as-yet unknown but supposedly Oscar-winning screenwriter penning...

Real Caribbean pirate

Posted 18 years ago

Move over, Jack Sparrow, there’s a real pirate of the Caribbean getting the big budget big screen treatment and his name is Blackbeard. DreamWorks is working on a biopic of the notorious English pirate (whose real name was Edward Teach)...

Adams with Baumbach

Posted 18 years ago

Lovable redhead Amy Adams and ubiquitous character actor Mark Ruffalo are attached to star in writer/director Noah Baumbach’s upcoming dramedy GREENBURG. No details on the plot have been released other than it’ll be a relationship dramedy. The project is currently...

Sarandon is Greatest

Posted 18 years ago

Susan Sarandon and Peirce Brosnan are looking to star in writer/director Shana Feste’s directorial debut THE GREATEST. They’ll play a married couple who find it increasingly difficult to grieve the loss of their teenage son when a young girl comes...

Dawn of Dead 3D

Posted 18 years ago

We’ve seen slow zombies, fast zombies, learning zombies and pet zombies…how about 3D zombies? That’s right, New Amsterdam Entertainment, the production company that holds the rights to George A. Romero’s 1978 classic zombie film DAWN OF THE DEAD, have commissioned...

Wanted featurette

Posted 18 years ago

The comic based action thriller WANTED will probably be written off as mindless and somewhat pointless action bullshit but the featurette the folks at “Empire Online” recently posted shows us one very important thing – that it’s really, really cool...

New Joker poster

Posted 18 years ago

Obsessive Batman fansite “Batman-On-Film” recently landed a fantastic new Joker-centric poster for THE DARK KNIGHT, which you can see in small size to the right. There’s not much more to say, really, other than July 18th can’t get here soon...

Cruise for President

Posted 18 years ago

Earlier this month, we told you about a political thriller Tom Cruise was in discussion to star alongside Denzel Washington titled THE 28TH AMENDMENT from director Phillip Noyce and red hot scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. At the time,...

Lucas talks Indy 5

Posted 18 years ago

Roger Friedman of “Fox News” recently caught up with alterna-Beard George Lucas and he mentioned an interest in bringing Indy back for another adventure after INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL. In this one, however, young Shia...

Hancock in trouble?

Posted 18 years ago

The folks at “Cinema Blend” are telling us that the premiere for the Will Smith starring boozy, pissed-off superhero actioner HANCOCK has been canceled because they’ll be doing last minute re-shoots to fix what’s apparently (and what early test screening...

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