The great folks over at Dead|Line have this fantastic Best Movie News Roundup. Take a look at the headlines below and then head on over to their website for the rest of the story
Vince Vaughn And Owen Wilson Reunite For ‘The Internship’ For Shawn Levy At Fox |
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| BREAKING… The Twentieth Century Fox comedy will have a June 2012 start. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson last teamed in the huge hit The Wedding Crashers and now reunite for director Shawn Levy. Fox made the announcement today because filming begins June 25th. In the story, Vaughn and Wilson portray two old… Read more » | |
Warner Bros Preempts Novel ‘The Ghostman’ |
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| EXCLUSIVE: In a high six against potential 7-figure deal, Warner Bros has acquired screen rights to The Ghostman, the upcoming Knopf novel by 23-year old author Roger Hobbs. The deal is high because it comes with a blind script commitment for Hobbs, whose book has recently sold foreign rights in the $3 million range. Kevin McCormick’s Langley… Read more » | |
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Ridley Scott Drafts Brad Pitt And Javier Bardem For ‘The Counselor,’ With Fox Circling |
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| EXCLUSIVE: Back in February, Deadline revealed that Ridley Scott was aiming high for a nemesis to play alongside Michael Fassbender in The Counselor, with Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem on the wish list. I’m told now that Scott is on the verge of getting both actors into the movie…. Read more » | |
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‘Sin City’ Sequel Is A Go For Robert Rodriguez And Frank Miller |
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| This will be welcome news for fans of the stylized and gritty adaptation of Frank Miller’s Sin City that prompted Robert Rodriguez to exit the Directors Guild because the DGA wouldn’t let Miller co-direct the film with Rodriguez. Dimension Films, which released the first, announced that deals have been made… Read more » | |
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Paramount Buys Comic Pitch ‘Status Update’ |
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| EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is acquiring Status Update, a pitch by Sascha Rothchild and Randi Barnes. Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire will produce. Ashley Brucks will oversee for the studio. Pitch is a high school comedy that utilizes social media, particularly Facebook. That’s where they got the title. It’s… Read more » | |
Warner Bros Cools On ‘Judah Maccabee’ Script; Will Mel Gibson Go Indie Route? |
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| UPDATE: Reports of a nasty memo from Joe Eszterhas to Mel Gibson have surfaced, one filled with a summary of salacious and anti-Semitic statements that Eszterhas alleges Gibson uttered while they worked on the Maccabee script together. Deadline is not going to repeat the verbiage, because Eszterhas’ account doesn’t pass our sniff test. Here’s one reason why: If Eszterhas really heard all the hateful things he says Gibson told him, then why… Read more » | |
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Mad Man Matt Weiner In Perilous Indie Film Territory – Interview |
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| When we began our interview, I asked Matt Weiner, “So all those Emmys aren’t good enough? You’re going for the Oscar now?” He laughed and said, “I don’t expect to enter at that level but I’m getting to make something really important to me. So I’m really excited.” As previously reported, the multiple Emmy winner (7 for Mad Men and 2 for The Sopranos) who created AMC’s much-lauded Mad Men is using his down time from the show to jump into the… Read more » | |
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Tom Hanks Now Getting Serious For ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ |
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| EXCLUSIVE: Deadline told you back in February that Tom Hanks was in the mix to play Walt Disney in the John Lee Hancock directed and Kelly Marcel-scripted saga of how Walt Disney waged a 14-year courtship to persuade Australian author P.L. Travers to sell him rights to make a film out of Mary Poppins. Now, things are heating up with Hanks to potentially star with Emma Thompson (Meryl Streep was also being courted) for Disney, which… Read more » | |
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Jennifer Aniston Circling ‘We’re The Millers’ |
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| Am now being told by sources close to Jason Sudeikis that he’s more than circling the male lead as I reported below. EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Aniston is circling We’re The Millers, the New Line comedy about a pot dealer who pulls together a fake wife and two kids to pose as an RV road-tripping family so that he can smuggle 1000 pounds of pot cross country. Dodgeball‘s Rawson Thurber is directing. … Read more » | |
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Sony Pictures Giving ‘Sabrina The Teenage Witch’ A Superhero Makeover |
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| EXCLUSIVE: Sabrina The Teenage Witch is getting a makeover at Sony Pictures. The precocious teen witch who originated in 60s Archie Comics, is being recast as a superhero. The live action film will be an origin story in the vein of Spider-Man, about a young girl coming to terms with her remarkable powers. Read more » | |
