Source: newsinfilm
IVAN REITMAN WILL DIRECT ‘GHOSTBUSTERS 3’
Ivan Reitman, producer and director of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2, verbally confirmed he’s directing the third installment of the series.
In a red carpet interview with MTV, when asked “You would direct?” Reitman simply answered, “Yes.” Hell yes. He has been attached to Ghostbusters 3 since at least October, but only as a producer. This confirms he’ll be back behind the camera when the old crew reunites in front of it.
Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Ernie Hudson and Sigourney Weaver are all returning — Rick Moranis is unfortunately still in retirement — and the team is expected to hand the reigns to a fresh group of Ghostbusters upon the re-opening of the ghost removal service. There’s even talk of bringing baby Oscar from part 2 back to strap on a pack as a teen.
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Source: empireonline
FURTHER DETAILS ON ‘THE THING’ PREQUEL
The casting call for director Matthijs Van Heijningen’s soon-to-get-going The Thing prequel is so detailed that it even tells you who gets replaced by the alien shapeshifter. We won’t share that with you (although the link is here if you want it) but we will tell you that the testosterone-heavy dynamic of the original will be thoroughly shaken up this time around: one of the three leads is *gasp* a woman!
What the call sheet also reveals is that, contrary to rumour, Eric Heisserer’s script doesn’t feature a role for the brother of RJ MacReady (played by Kurt Russell in John Carpenter’s film). That idea from Ronald D. Moore’s original draft has been jettisoned in favour of an all-new cast of characters at the ill-fated Norwegian base.
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Source: cinematical
WHERE WILL PETER JACKSON’S ‘TEMERAIRE’ TAKE FLIGHT?
Peter Jackson has been busy over the past year, readying Tintin, directing The Lovely Bones, producing District 9, and adapting The Hobbit, but the filmmaker is already looking ahead to his next projects.
While promoting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 The Lovely Bones, Jackson sat down with AICN’s Quint and was asked about his proposed adaptation of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series — historical fantasy novels about the Napoleonic Wars where fire-breathing dragons are used as a living air force.
Jackson still wants to translate Temeraire into live-action, but a movie may not be the best option. “I can’t see any degree of common sense in trying to mount them one at a time as feature films,” Jackson told Quint.
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Source: slashfilm
DANIEL CRAIG IN TALKS TO STAR IN JON FAVREAU’S ‘COWBOYS & ALIENS’
A couple days ago it was revealed that Robert Downey Jr. dropped out of the big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens, being directed by Iron Man director Jon Favreau. Collider has learned that Bond star Daniel Craig is in talks to joint the project, which has been in development for the last ten years (even though the comic book was only released a couple years go, it was pitched for years before it was ever actually written). No deal is yet in place, so nothing is final, but we’ve heard that Favreau wants to shoot the film this Summer (July has been mentioned in past reports), possibly in 3D. If Bond 23 goes into production, that production start probably won’t be possible.
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Source: guardian
JAMES CAMERON REJECTS CLAIMS ‘AVATAR’ EIPC BORROWS FROM RUSSIANS’ SCI-FI NOVELS
It has grossed more than $1.3bn (£800m) worldwide, wowed the critics, and spawned a new generation of fans, the so-called Avatards, who have taken to painting their faces blue.
But the film director James Cameron was facing claims today that his 3D blockbuster Avatar owes an unacknowledged debt to the popular Soviet fantasy writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
Cinema audiences in Russia have been quick to point out that Avatar has elements in common with The World of Noon, or Noon Universe, a cycle of 10 bestselling science fiction novels written by the Strugatskys in the mid-1960s.
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Source: starpulse
‘THE LOVELY BONES’ IS VISUALLY BEAUTIFUL, BUT COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER
Peter Jackson’s ‘ The Lovely Bones’ is one of the prettiest films I’ve ever seen. Aside from lovely aesthetics though, the movie is a disjointed mess, which leaves you wandering in the hereafter with unanswered questions.
Set in the early 1970s, Jackson makes it appear visually as if it brushed up against the era, absorbing its bright colors and remnants of energy from the 1960s. The shots have such beautiful intense color throughout the film, especially during the lighthearted periods.
It’s established early on in the narrative that Suzie Salmon(Saoirse Ronan), the main character, is in fact dead; she was murdered by her neighbor when she was just 14 years old. She backtracks and recounts to the audience what her life was like leading up to her death.
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