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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Six
27 December 2009 10:09 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: July 2nd 2010
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.
Analysis: Its been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan who started it as a household name with labels of a moodern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".
Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit cartoon series »
- Garth Franklin
Brett Ratner To Increase TV Output
20 December 2009 9:18 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Variety reports that Brett Ratner signed a two year contract with 20th Century Fox TV in an effort to increase his presence on the small screen. Ratner has found previous success on television with Prison Break, whose pilot he directed. Upcoming projects under Ratner’s production shingle Rat TV include Chaos, a satirical drama with a CIA setting, The Devil and Daniel Webster, based on the short story of the same name by Stephen Vincent Benét, and The Dead Beat, a police drama.
Ratner had these choice words to say about his affinity for TV, “Storytelling is what my craft is; I don’t care about the medium. Most TV shows now are better than a lot of features. It’s a great medium to explore and experiment. I can try things that I wouldn’t try on a feature.”
Whatever your feelings on Ratner as a director, know that »
- Brendan Bettinger
The Hangover 2: In Thailand?
18 December 2009 11:13 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Ever since it was announced that there will be a sequel to director Todd Phillips’ surprise hit, The Hangover, people have been asking one very obvious question:
“What the hell would it be about?”
Obviously the first Hangover dealt with the mystery and consequences of one truly awesome bachelor party in Vegas. Kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing, right?
Well, luckily, getting blackout wasted has become a sporting hobby for some in our society, so it’s conceivable that our (heroes?) from The Hangover might one day match the epic obliteration they experienced in the first film – but where to set such a stage?
How about Thailand? Because according to a ’source close to the film,’ that’s exactly where the sequel is headed.
Known for its beauty, adventure, bustling urban centers, gorgeous jungle countrysides and jaw-dropping ancient architecture – along with ladyboys, “ping-pong shows,” underground fighting rings, shots of cobra blood, »
- Kofi Outlaw
Interview: Producer Alfred Spellman on His New, Hit Sports Documentary The U
15 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
In this day and age, it's difficult for men to agree on much of anything, but we all feel that the Miami Hurricanes are the greatest college football team of all time. Yeah? A new feature-length doc entitled The U about the University of Miami's equal parts legendary and notorious football program more than upholds this notion. As the latest entry in Espn's 30 for 30 showcase, The U joins other sports documentaries made by reputable and well known filmmakers the likes of Peter Berg, Barry Levinson and forthcoming ones by Morgan Freeman and Jeff Tremaine of Jackass. After the jump is a choice clip from The U and an interview with its producer, Alfred Spellman, who has made a name for himself alongside pal and U director, Billy Corben, with their Miami-based production company rakontur. Spellman discusses his doc, and the team itself within a historical and cultural context. He also »
- Hunter Stephenson
Hugh Jackman's 'Real Steel' Gets 2011 Release Schedule
9 December 2009 11:44 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
There are still almost two more years before we are able to watch Hugh Jackman in robot boxing movie, "Real Steel". Coming Soon recently reported that Touchstone Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures have decided to choose November 18, 2011 as the day when this action drama opens wide in U.S. theaters.
In the upcoming film, the "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" actor is set to take the lead role as an ex-fighter who becomes a promoter when human boxing is outlawed for being too violent. Jackman's character then finds a discarded robot that always seems to win. During his struggle to become a successful promoter, he discovers that he has a 13-year-old son, and they bond as the robot brawls its way toward the top.
"Real Steel" was originally scripted by Dan Gilroy, and has been rewritten by Les Bohem before John Gatins and Shawn Levy did another rewrite. Levy is set to replace »
- AceShowbiz.com
No 'Hancock 2'...At Least For a Good Long While
8 December 2009 8:14 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
What, no aliens to fight? Peter Berg, who is making intelligent life from other galaxies a key component of his movie version of the board game Battleship, has cooled on the idea of Hancock 2. Certainly, a Will Smith movie that makes half a billion dollars is worth looking at for a sequel (if you're the studio), so it was no major surprise that Sony was keen on a follow-up. And it was steamrolling ahead until...
Berg tells HitFix that Hancock 2 is on ice for now, and maybe for quite a while. Of his dealings with Smith and producers Michael Mann and Akiva Goldsman, Berg says, “To get us all in the same room where we can talk and then agree on anything? You'll never meet a group of people who will have a harder time agreeing on anything. It's like the Israeli peace process times a thousand in »
- Colin Boyd
News Shorts: December 7th 2009
7 December 2009 9:29 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Posters for Buried, Iron Man 2, Kick Ass, Chloe, Solomon Kane, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Death at a Funeral, Rec 2.
A review/break down of the script for the Red Dawn remake.
The final runtime of "Avatar" clocks in at 161 minutes. While a secret Hollywood Foreign Press Association screening took place the other day, the UK premiere and several international press screenings in a few days time mean that critical reviews will hit the Net in force on Friday and over the weekend.
"Peter Jackson says the talk of "The Hobbit" delays are just that - talk. Both scripts are to be delivered just after Christmas, and then "we’ll be shooting as soon as we possibly can, but you need a certain amount of time to finish the pre-production". He also expects the December 2011 release plan remains unchanged..." (full details)
"Robert Duvall says that director Terry Gilliam »
- Garth Franklin
News Shorts: December 7th 2009
7 December 2009 9:29 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Posters for Buried, Iron Man 2, Kick Ass, Chloe, Solomon Kane, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Death at a Funeral, Rec 2.
A review/break down of the script for the Red Dawn remake.
The final runtime of "Avatar" clocks in at 161 minutes. While a secret Hollywood Foreign Press Association screening took place the other day, the UK premiere and several international press screenings in a few days time mean that critical reviews will hit the Net in force on Friday and over the weekend.
"Peter Jackson says the talk of "The Hobbit" delays are just that - talk. Both scripts are to be delivered just after Christmas, and then "we’ll be shooting as soon as we possibly can, but you need a certain amount of time to finish the pre-production". He also expects the December 2011 release plan remains unchanged..." (full details)
"Robert Duvall says that director Terry Gilliam »
- Garth Franklin
Page 2
7 December 2009 4:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 43 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. Has Darth Vader joined the Salvation Army? Several volunteers from the 501st dressed as Star Wars characters and took their turn ringing bells at both Jefferson City Wal-mart. [star wars blog] Peter Berg says that Hancock 2 won't happen, for now. [cinemablend] Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association has awarded Jason Reitman's Up in the Air with Best Film of 2009. [thewrap] Mark Strong gets his own Sherlock Holmes character poster. [impa] ScriptShadow reminds us that the 2009 edition of the annual screenwriting listing, The Black List, will be be released on December 11th. Collider has the first official photos from Sex in the City »
- Peter Sciretta
Review of the decade: Peter Bradshaw's noughties round-up
7 December 2009 3:01 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood struggled to respond to the war on terror, documentaries went through a golden age, and Michael Haneke was the noughties' moral conscience
If it is possible to whimper at the volume of a bang, then that is how this decade is ending on the big screen: with two high-profile, high-budget movies about the end of the world: Roland Emmerich's cheerfully silly 2012, and John Hillcoat's cheerlessly serious The Road, which arrive with a good deal of commentary to the effect that these movies typify the zeitgeist of the decade.
The noughties – that jokey word coined in the carefree 90s – are seen as damaged, injured, traumatised. The decade looks cracked from top to bottom by a sensational act of terrorism; by a reaction that achieved neither political palliative nor military success; by the confrontation between first-world prosperity and developing-world poverty; by the coming environmental catastrophe that threatens to engulf both; and finally, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Hancock sequel held up, says director Peter Berg
3 December 2009 1:22 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Back in August, two writers were hired by Columbia to pen a sequel to the Will Smith superhero hit Hancock.
Director Peter Berg said the follow-up would expand on the original's mythology by introducing other immortal beings.
But he also indicated that despite the studio's desire to fast-track the project, all the key players were busy and there was no 'burning imperative' to rush right back into it.
Now Berg has admitted there will be a long wait for the sequel to come together.
Speaking to Latino Review, he said: "It's being written now and it's an issue of everybody involved in Hancock. There are so many cooks in that particular kitchen that it's so busy and Will [Smith] has kind of taken time off to be with his kids.
"There are so many people involved in that, from Will to his partner James Lassiter to Akiva [Goldsman] to Michael Mann, myself »
- David Bentley
Peter Berg talks Battleship, sequel to Rundown and Hancock
3 December 2009 9:06 AM, PST | GordonandtheWhale | See recent GordonandtheWhale news »
(This post has been updated.)
Peter Berg is one of those guys that I feel is extremely talented, but has started to slip as of recent. Many people are still having a tough time forgiving him for the poor second half of Hancock. The film was a box-office success, but didn’t do well critically (the movie currently sits at 40 on the tomatometer.) Despite all that, Hancock 2 is still in development, along with a possible follow up to Rundown. With a busy plate, Berg has still managed to add one more film, a board game adaptation. The project in which I am speaking is the toy-to-film-adaptation, Battleship.
Read more on Peter Berg talks Battleship, sequel to Rundown and Hancock… »
- Adam Reed
'Hancock 2' Stalled By Scheduling Issues, Says Director
3 December 2009 5:46 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Director Peter Berg is still hoping to fly alongside "Hancock 2," but that plane isn't ready for takeoff just yet.
During a visit to the set of Berg's currently filming "Battleship," Latino Review learned that the director's intentions to dive into a "Hancock" sequel have been stifled by a variety of factors, not the least of which are the busy schedules of himself, Will Smith and their collaborators.
"It's being written now and it's an issue of everybody involved in 'Hancock,'" Berg said of the movie's development. "There are so many cooks in that particular kitchen that it's so busy and Will [Smith] has kind of taken time off to be with his kids."
"There are so many people involved in that, from Will to his partner James Lassiter to Akiva [Goldsman] to Michael Mann, myself and to get us all in the same room just like this where we »
- Josh Wigler
Peter Berg Hints 'Hancock' Sequel Fraught with Politics
2 December 2009 9:05 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Director Peter Berg was pretty vocal back in September about being ready to get started on a sequel to Hancock. But, as so often happens in Hollywood, projects get shuffled about and given different priority. And Berg's priority now seems to have shifted from the Hancock sequel — along with the Dune remake — over to Hasbro's Battleship (about which we reported yesterday).
Berg told HitFix that while the Hancock sequel is on his to-do list, it actually won't even be his next project after Battleship. He will instead take on the "Lone Survivor" drama that tells the story of 17 seals that were killed in one gunfight in Afghanistan. "One survived," Berg told HitFix. "It's a great story."
As to the Hancock sequel, Berg revealed a small measure of the politics that seems to have surrounded the project. "There are so many cooks in that particular kitchen that are so busy and »
Peter Berg Talks About Battleship and Its Plot Strategy
2 December 2009 8:54 PM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »
So there was a report that we posted about a little bit ago that revolved around the possibility that The Hasbro film Battleship being directed by Peter Berg would have alien baddies. Latino Review had some more details offered up by Berg himself to set the record straight about his film and the alien presence.
Battleship will revolve around a small fleet of American and Japanese ships that have become separated from the rest of the Navy. When an alien army arrives on Earth to build a bridge, its up to this small fleet of naval soldiers to defeat them and their plans. The aliens are known as “The Regents”. They do not pose an immediate threat to human kind. They are just looking to help themselves and save their species. Our Navy officers provoke them, and thus, chaos ensues. The Aliens will be a mix of CGI and human actors. »
- Kevin Coll
Berg: Aliens of ‘Battleship’ Inspired by ‘District 9′
2 December 2009 7:17 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
As some struggle to recreate the invasion in a bottle from District 9, others seem to be drawing the right conclusion from the success of the film - a lesson that the gritty reality of something as beyond the imagination as an alien invasion is now acceptable and entertaining to audiences. The real cultural resonance of the film is that its style of science fiction is a-okay around these parts ("these parts" being the box office), and that fact doesn't seem lost on Peter Berg as he plans to take the helm of Battleship. With the internet moving things along faster than ever, apparently studios are now doing press junkets for films that haven't even started filming yet. Hopefully, by this time next year, I'll be interviewing iconic directors while they're still in elementary school. When that day arrives, we'll have Universal to thank for starting the trend by inviting several members of the press onto a »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
Quickhits: 'Deathly Hallows', 'Battleship', 'Sex and the City 2' and More!
2 December 2009 5:24 PM, PST | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
Welcome to Quick Hits – your chance to catch up on some of this week's hottest stories in less than 60 seconds. Ready? Go! Say Goodbye to Potter – The first official image from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I has arrived online, and it shows our three main heroes, Harry, Hermione and Ron, looking all determined and disheveled as they leave the comforts of Hogwarts and head out into the real world in order to bring a stop to Lord Voldemort once and for all. The first part of the two-part final installment hits theaters on November 19, 2010. Sink This 'Battleship' – Peter Berg is now dishing some scoop on the board game adaptation of Battleship ahead of the film's production. According to sites like Chud and Latino Review, the film will...
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Peter Berg Fires ‘Battleship’ Details at the Web
2 December 2009 4:53 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
A few weeks ago Latino Review posted details about the movie Battleship, an upcoming Universal title based on the pegged board game under the direction of Peter Berg. The website heard (correctly) the Naval fleet would be battling aliens on the high seas.
Chud confirmed the rumor shortly thereafter, explaining the big reveal was a spoiler of sorts. Rather than pout that their secret was online, Universal rewarded those reporters that sent the Internet into a (laughing) frenzy.
I’ll try not to let my jealousy of their awesome trip show itself, but they were flown in a private jet to tour a Naval destroyer, check out concept art, and interview Berg. Unbelievable. That’ll show me for calling the alien idea ridiculous (it still is) and making fun of the adaptation.
In the interview, Berg clarified a few details and expanded on what we know so far about the 2011 movie. »
- Jeff Leins
Buzz Break: Auto Erotic
2 December 2009 11:50 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
· Mila Kunis demonstrates to BlackBook the proper way to exit a car (click for full-size), and also dishes on her sex scene with Natalie Portman in the upcoming Black Swan: "It's two girls making out, and guys have a thing for that. And Nat is like every guy's dream. She's a nerd's idea of heaven."
· British prime minister Gordon Brown was asked to say a word about Reese Witherspoon at the House of Commons today -- and ended up composing a tribute to Renee Zellweger instead.
· In an effort to head off the sinking of his Battleship, director Peter Berg flew some writers down to San Diego to tour a destroyer, then spilled on the addition of aliens to his board game adaptation.
· PopEater says things have gotten so bad between ex-lovers Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff that only one will be coming back to Dancing with the Stars next season. »
Smith Puts Hancock Sequel On Hold
2 December 2009 11:21 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The upcoming sequel to superhero comedy Hancock has been put on hold to allow Will Smith to spend more time with his family, according to director Peter Berg.
The moviemaker recently confirmed Smith and his co-star Charlize Theron will both reprise their roles in a follow-up to the hit 2008 movie.
But Berg admits they have put plans for the second film back because the superstar actor is taking a break from movies to enjoy life with his wife, Jada, and help his son, Jayden, tackle a starring role in the new Karate Kid picture.
Berg is adamant Hancock 2 will get made, but it may take longer than first expected.
He tells The Latino Review, "It's being written now and it's an issue of everybody involved in Hancock. There are so many cooks in that particular kitchen that it's so busy and Will has kind of taken time off to be with his kids and his kids are now making all kinds of films. There are so many people involved in that, from Will to his (business) partner James Lassiter to Michael Mann, myself and to get us all in the same room just like this where we can all talk and then agree on anything, you've never met a group of people that have a harder time agreeing on anything.
"It's like the Israeli peace process times a thousand how tough it is to resolve. I think it'll happen though. We just have to kind of get in the same room for some consistency." »
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