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VANISHING ON 7TH TRAILER

Now that the summer season is finally drawing to a close, with just Piranha 3D and the UK release of Scott Pilgrim Vs The World to go, the attention is slowly shifting towards what’s coming next. And this means that a few lesser known projects are getting to step into the limelight.

One of those is Vanishing On 7th Street, a movie starring Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo. It’s been directed by Brad Anderson, who was previously responsible for Session 9 and Transsiberian (and was linked with Paranormal Activity 2 once upon a time, if memory serves), and while no release date is yet known, we do have a trailer.

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Source: collider

SAW DIRECTOR DARREN LYNN BOUSMAN TO DIRECT 11 11 11

Direct Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III, and IV) is set to helm the horror-thriller 11 11 11, which is about the “11:11 phenomenon”.  According to Heat Vision, “The 11:11 movement is centered on the emergence of that number in people’s lives that alerts them to angels or spirit guardians trying to communicate with them. Conspiracy theorists also point to the number 11’s involvement in historical events.”  The “11″ conspiracy theorists should get together with the “23″ conspiracy theorists and make the “34″ conspiracy theorists.  Or they could all just realize that numerology is hokum.

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Source: comingsoon

THE CAST OF NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS

Emma Thompson arrival at the character of Nanny McPhee is a bit nontraditional. Having adapted the screenplay for the original film herself from Christianna Brand’s 1960′s “Nurse Matilda” series, Thompson tackled the sequel as purely that, drafting an original idea rather than re-adapting one of Brand’s subsequent “Matilda” novels.

The result is Nanny McPhee Returns (released in England as Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang), a story that brings Thompson’s magical (if not entirely attractive) British nanny to 1940′s England where Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is trying to run a farm and raise five children (three of her own and two relatives) while her husband is away fighting the war.

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Source: sciencefictionworld

BLADE RUNNER WRITER DRAFTING RIDLEY SCOTT’S FOREVER WAR

Ridley Scott has been working on an adaptation of Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel The Forever War, a book he’s apparently been trying to adapt for over 20 years. Now Haldeman has revealed that David Peoples is the man Ridley Scott has chosen to write the screenplay. Peoples is best known for writing Blade Runner (with Hampton Francer), along with Lady Hawke, Twelve Monkeys, Solider, and the Clint Eastwood western Unforgiven.

Now we have a great director, adapting a fantastic novel, with a brilliant writer. What more could you ask for?

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What did you think of today’s movie news? Are you a fan of Nanny McPhee? What did you think of the Vanishing on 7th trailer?

THE TWILIGHT SAGA Producers to Make BABAR Movie

Source: collider.com

The Twilight Saga producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are planning to adapt the classic children’s book series Babar into a feature film. Deadline reports that Bowen and Godfrey’s production company, Temple Hill, has made a deal with rights holders Nelvana and The Clifford Ross Company to generate family films around the “King of the Elephants”. Temple Hill is currently in production on Babar: The Adventures of Badou and Godfrey and Bowen are currently in the process of shopping around a blueprint of the Babar movie that would be a live-action/CGI hybrid family comedy. Could someone give me an example of a live-action/CGI hybrid adaptation of a children’s book that was a good movie? I’m struggling to think of one and coming up with nothing.

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Quentin Tarantino may (or may not) direct The Shadow

Source: blastr

Remember that 1994 movie about The Shadow? We do, though we wish we didn’t. (Sorry, Alec Baldwin!) Luckily, a new big-screen adaptation is coming, one we’ve known about for a while. But the latest news on the project—one that might be nothing more than a rumor—could bring aboard a new director who’d wipe that earlier film from our minds.

According to pajiba, Quentin Tarantino is currently in discussions to direct:

… the person that is now attached to the project is none other than Quentin Tarantino, who is also attached as co-writer. … The Shadow has never been mentioned among the 27 dozen projects that Tarantino has always been obsessed with. Maybe he loved original radio show and the pulps (which do seem up Tarantino’s alley), and maybe he saw Siavash Farahani’s script and decided that, if anyone could erase the memory of Alec Baldwin’s atrocity, it’d be him.

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Stephen Sommers is making yet another G.I. Joe movie

Source: io9.com

Whether you wanted it or not, the Joes are back! Fingers crossed for more mind-wiping nanotech and Sienna Miller in pleather.

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Ridley Scott’s Forever War writer revealed (and it’s GOOD news)

Source: Blastr

Last year, Ridley Scott told us that he had a “good writer” hard at work on the script for his 3-D version of Joe Haldeman’s classic novel The Forever War. Then, a couple of months ago, Scott added that the screenwriter was “on a fourth draft of the adaptation.” But he never revealed the NAME of that writer. Now Haldeman—perhaps inadvertently—has.

Over on his blog, Haldeman wrote yesterday that:

Scott has a script; last I heard, it was the fourth rewrite. I’ve talked to the writer — he has good credits, like Unforgiven.

And who’s credited with writing Unforgiven? David Webb Peoples, who also wrote the screenplay for Twelve Monkeys, Ladyhawke … and Blade Runner.

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Okay, I have to let my inner child have it’s say first. BABAR! BABARBABARBABARBABAR! *Coughs* Back now. In all honesty – I can’t think of a live action kid’s movie adapted from a book that I could really say was good.

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Peter Jackson in cast talks for The Hobbit

The Hobbit still has not been given the official green light, but Sir Peter Jackson is in Los Angeles this week quietly meeting with actors.

Sources say Jackson’s pact with Warner Bros to direct the two-part Hobbit adaptation is close to done, but the sticking point continues to be the dire financial situation at MGM, which holds half the rights to the property.

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Director of the upcoming Tron Legacy, Joseph Koskinski, is set to direct a new sci-fi/action film called Archangels, with Ridley and Tony Scott producing.

Joseph Kosinski’s directorial debut Tron Legacy is still five months away from being released in theaters and yet from what people have seen of it he’s now very much in-demand. On top of a Black Hole remake and an adaptation of a graphic novel he wrote called Oblivion, Kosinski now has a new sci-fi/action film on his slate entitled Archangels.

Heat Vision reports that Archangels is being developed by New Regency for Kosinski to direct and produce from a spec by newcomer Andrew Will. A bonus is the fact that brothers Ridley and Tony Scott are producing Archangels through their Scott Free production company. With the those two involved, I’m even more interested in the project.

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‘Tron: Legacy’ exclusive: Disney looks to Pixar for help; hires screenwriters Michael Arndt and Brad Bird to beef up script

Olivia-Wilde-Garrett-Hedlund-TRON-LEGACYImage Credit: DisneyJoe Kosinski’s Tron: Legacy is getting a little help from above. EW.com has learned that the CG-extravaganza due out at the end of the year received some key input from some very brilliant filmmakers, mainly the elite brain trust at Pixar in Northern California.

In late March, the Tron filmmakers chose to show a very early working cut of the film starring Garrett Hedlund and Jeff Bridges to Pixar’s John Lasseter, Ed Catmull, The Incredibles director Brad Bird, Toy Story 3 screenwriter Michael Arndt, and others.

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Steampunk Is In The Air

I want to give you a heads up about a really cool looking film that was released in France earlier this year, Luc Besson’s Les Aventures Extraordinaires D’Adèle Blanc-Sec.

First, a bit about the story:

The year is 1912. Adèle Blanc-Sec, an intrepid young reporter, will go to any lengths to achieve her aims, including sailing to Egypt to tackle mummies of all shapes and sizes.

Meanwhile, in Paris, it’s panic stations! A 136 million-year old pterodactyl egg on a shelf in the natural history museum has mysteriously hatched, and the bird subjects the city to a reign of terror from the skies. But nothing fazes Adèle Blanc-Sec, whose adventures reveal many more extraordinary surprises…

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Just make Peter Jackson direct The Hobbit already. No more negotiations JUST DO IT!!!!!

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Ridley Scott’s Western + More New Info on His Alien Prequel!

We already know quite a bit about the prequel, from an update in April, but Scott confirmed a few details. He explained: “I sat thinking about the franchise, which now has died… And I always thought, ‘no one has ever asked… who the hell is the Space Jockey?’ So it’s written and I’m prepping it now.” So it’s about the big alien who was found dead in the chair in the spaceship in the first Alien. Ridley added that it takes place “way before” Alien because he’s going to try and “squeeze in” two prequels, as we already know. But why?

“Because if you explain who he was and where he comes from, then that will deal with the savagery of this version [the 1979 Alien], which is pretty savage. Then you may want to find out where they came from, so you may want to go to him, and go to there place where his people come from.”

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No ‘Tranformers 3′ shooting near White House

Director Michael Bay has been denied permission to film action sequences for the third instalment of his successful sci-fi ‘Transformers’ near the White House.

Imdb.com reports that the filmmaker wanted to stage a car-chase sequence in and around the National Mall, an open-area national park in downtown Washington, but his request has been turned down by city officials and security experts.

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The Aliens Prequel sounds pretty cool. Would you see the prequel? Or does it feel like they’re trying to resurrect an old movie?

I am not surprised that Transformers can’t blow shit up near the White House. Are you?

Source: hollywoodnews

CASTING FOR STEPHENIE MEYERS THE HOST

Auditions are being held for a feature-film adaptation of “The Host,” a novel by “Twilight” scribe Stephenie Meyer.

As Hollywood tries to keep up with the runaway train that is the “Twilight” saga, Chockstone Pictures and Nick Wechsler Productions have snapped up the right to “Host” and have hired Andrew Niccol to direct. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of “The Truman Show” also helmed “Gattaca” and “Lord of War.” He’s aiming to have “Host” in theaters in 2011.

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Source: io9

RIDLEY SCOTT PLANS TWO ALIEN PREQUELS

Ridley Scott won’t have enough room in just oneAlien prequel to would solve the mystery behind the infamous Space Jockey and chill us all over again. He’s decided there should be two prequels, both of them in 3-D.

While director Scott has been doing his interview rounds for Robin Hood, tons of Alien prequel items have been spilling out of him.

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Source: collider

JON FAVREAU INTERVIEW ON SET OF IRON MAN 2

Interview:

Jon Favreau: [In regards to the set]  Have you seen it?  Or just through the screen?

Question:  Just through the screen.  We’ve heard about the floor though.

Favreau: We’ll let you see the floor.  You can’t really walk on it.  Well, you can, but it’s not set up.  But [Tony Starks] environment in this one, remember how we had… you saw Iron Man right?

Yeah [Laughing].

Favreau: We were playing at the very end… we were shooting at the very end, it was in the middle or the beginning of the movie where he was doing some work with interactive holograms.  Holographs?  What do ya call it?  Holographs I guess.  But that was just something we did as an afterthought that we animated into it, it was pretty cool.  And as a matter of fact, we were contacted by, where’s Jeremy [looking for one of the guys on set]… Jeremy?  What happened with the holographs, that we were doing the holograph manipulations and we got contacted by a military contractor?

Jeremy:  Oh yeah, a company out of Austin, that has the DARPA contract called us, and they were like, ‘We would like to license the images from the movie for our presentation, because we’ve been working on this technology for seven years…’ [Laughing], ‘We can’t make it look that cool, but we want to show the Government what we want to do…’.  So we licensed them the images and they use them in their presentation now.

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How many Alien fans are excited about the upcoming Alien Prequels?

What did you think of the Favreau interview?

Source: scifiwire

EXPECT A BOURNE-STYLE FANTASTIC VOYAGE

Producer Jon Landau told us that director Paul Greengrass will bring some of his Bourne moves to the upcoming remake of Fantastic Voyage, written by Avatar‘s James Cameron, should he sign on.

We had a very good conversation with Paul yesterday,” Landau said in a group interview on Earth Day Thursday in Los Angeles, where he was promoting the DVD and Blu-ray release of Avatar. “We’re still progressing along that.”

The 1966 original Fantastic Voyage depicted the journey of a miniaturized medical team that is inserted into the bloodstream of an ailing patient in a teeny white submarine.

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Source: slashfilm

RIDLEY SCOTT’S ALIEN PREQUEL DETAILS

Last year it was announced that 20th Century Fox had hired Ridley Scott to direct a prequel to the classic sci-fi film Alien. At the time I believed that would never happen. Why would Scott return to film a prequel of one of the most popular sci-fi film franchises of all time? Why compete with yourself? Producing the film seems like a much safer bet. Who knows why, but Ridley Scott signed on to direct a prequel to Alien. We haven’t heard much about the project until now.

MTV spoke to the filmmaker about his new film Robin Hood and was able to uncover some details about this upcoming project. Scott says that the story has been decided, they are in their fourth draft, and that designers are already “working graphically on designs for the various requirements of the film.”

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Source: collider

THE LAST AIRBENDER HAS TWO MONTHS TO AFFIX 3D TO ITS TITLE

It turns out that The Green Hornet isn’t the only tentpole in town getting the 3D conversion treatment; a “senior official” at Paramount talked to Harry from AICN about adding a third dimension to this summer’s The Last Airbender, the adaptation of a Nickelodeon cartoon of a similar name.  And while Hornet has nine months (with a new January 2011 release date) to get its act together,Airbender has just over two months to bend its projection toward the audience if it intends to keep its July 2nd release date (Deadline confirms it does).

In terms of filming in 2D, then converting to 3D, there are two major reference points of recent note: Alice in Wonderland and Clash of the Titans.

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Source: scifisquad

MARVEL MOVIE UNIVERSE EXPANDING WITH SMALLER FILMS

Sure, everyone and their mother is going to go see Iron Man 2 and Thor and Captain America and The Avengers. It’s not even a matter of personal taste or whether or not they like that particular superhero. These movies have budgets that eclipse the GDP of some Eastern European nations. They’re so big that people are going to see them no matter what. What about some of the lesser-known properties in the Marvel Universe, though? Characters and concepts that are too unknown and too risky to be worth $150 million in production costs?

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