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Screen Gems 2010 Preview: Synopses and Images from Dear John, Death At A Funeral, Takers, Priest, The Roomate and More
22 December 2009 12:07 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Screen Gems has released synopses and some first look images from their 2010 films and it’s all after the jump. Some of the new/first look images are from The Roomate (starring Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly), Death at a Funeral (starring Peter Dinklage, Danny Glover, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, Zoë Saldaña), and Takers (starring Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, and Hayden Christensen).
Also, while they didn’t release any images, they did provide the first synopsis for Burlesque which stars Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Cam Gigandet, Julianne Hough, Peter Gallagher, Alan Cumming, Kristen Bell and Stanley Tucci.
Check out everything after the jump. It’s posted by release date.
Dear John
February 5, 2010 Drama Directed by Lasse Hallström Screenplay by Jamie Linden Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks Produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Ryan Kavanaugh Executive Producers Jeremiah Samuels, Toby Emmerich, »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
A Glimpse at Screen Gems 2010 Line-up
22 December 2009 7:33 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Screen Gems is quickly becoming a studio/distributor with a solid line-up of genre films on their slate. Here’s a few screen-caps and synopses of their heavy-hitters, two of which star Paul Bettany!
Legion - January 22
“In the supernatural action thriller Legion, an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race.
When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany).”
Dear John – February 5
“Directed by Lasse Hallström and based on the novel by best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, Dear John tells the story of John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the idealistic college student he falls in love with during her spring vacation. Over the next seven tumultuous years, »
- John Cooper
Chris Brown Does Lots of Own Stunts for 'Takers'
8 December 2009 12:28 AM, PST | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »
Starring as a member of skilled bank robbers in action film "Takers", Chris Brown apparently does some of the stunt works himself. His co-star in the upcoming movie, Matt Dillon, unraveled the fact when talking to MTV News in a recent interview. "He's, like, jumping over cars," the older actor gushed. "He did a lot of stunts."
Recalling the filming of some scenes he shared with Brown, Dillon who plays a detective in the movie detailed, "The stuff I did with Chris Brown is chasing him though the streets for eight days straight. It was, like, nonstop." The Academy Award-nominated actor went on to praise the singer, saying "This guy is such a good athlete."
Dillon is not the only "Takers" star who has good words for the 20-year-old. Co-star Michael Ealy, who takes on the role of Brown's older brother, also spoke up about the "I Can Transform Ya" singer. »
- celebrity-mania.com
'Takers' Star Matt Dillon Discusses His Scenes With Chris Brown
7 December 2009 1:44 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'This guy is such a good athlete — he did a lot of stunts,' Dillon says of Brown.
By Eric Ditzian
Chris Brown
Photo: Jason Laveris/ FilmMagic
In the fall of 2008, Chris Brown was ducking for cover on the set of the action movie "Bone Deep" as bullets popped overhead and MTV News watched from the sidelines. However, a few months later, Brown found himself in a much more serious situation after assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna on the eve of the Grammy Awards.
After pleading guilty, performing community-service work and discussing the incident many times in public, Brown's musical career has continued (his Graffiti LP is out on Tuesday), and so has his movie career. After a title change, "Bone Deep" is now "Takers," and in a recent conversation with MTV News, co-star Matt Dillon described the scenes he shared with Brown.
Dillon plays a detective investigating a group of »
Takers Gets A Part 2 Greenlight Before 1st Film Is Released!
3 December 2009 11:07 PM, PST | The Humor Mill | See recent The Humor Mill news »
We just discovered from our sources that the Screen Gems film titled Takers to be released next year was given a green-light to begin pre-production on a second film; all of this even before the original has even been released.
In case you are wondering what the film is, Takers has a very powerful cast including actors Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana, Chris Brown, T.I., Hayden Christensen,Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Michael Ealy and Steve Harris just to name a few. The film is basically about a group of bank robbers who find their $20 million plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective.
So far, we have discovered that the film has the Screen Gems excited about the film and because of the excitement they have moved forward with the process for beginning the sequel.
Questions or comments? Please email us at thehumormill.info@gmail.com »
- noreply@blogger.com (The Humor Mill Magazine)
Views: A Cease And Desist Letter To George Lucas
29 November 2009 9:53 AM, PST | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
"Bobofag" Matt Sigil "files" a Cease and Desist suit to George Lucas, for " infring[ing] upon the rights of millions of moviegoers to preserve their childhood memories" of Star Wars and Indiana Jones unscathed by lackluster and down-right offensive sequels
A partial list of Lucas' offenses include:
In Star Bores, the romantic dialogue between your two protagonists, played by Natalie Portman (hereafter referred to as "Weepy") and Hayden Christensen (hereafter referred to as "Darth Fey-der") was so purple and hackneyed that it would not pass muster either in a) a nineteenth century operetta or b) a Lifetime Channel television movie.In Star Bores, you expected the viewer to actually care about bickering between the Galactic Senate, the Jedi Council, the Corporate Alliance, and the Trade Federation -- a dense political bureaucracy as entertaining to watch as roll call at a Congressional committee on tax code amendments.In Grandpa Jones, our hero, »
Are Our Days With Downey Jr. Numbered?
19 November 2009 9:38 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Imagine, if you would, that Channing Tatum were chosen to play Tony Stark. What about Hayden Christensen as Sherlock Holmes? Paul Walker as Kirk Lazarus? The world of film would get a lot dimmer without Robert Downey Jr., the comeback man of the decade. He can do drama, he can do comedy and, unlike many of his A-list brethren, he knows how to be discerning when choosing a script. So when he tells Entertainment Weekly that he might not be acting for much longer, it's not only shocking, but a bit upsetting. In an interview with the aforementioned magazine (which features him in full Sherlock gear on the cover), Downey Jr. said that his current streak has been the best of his career and doesn't want to overstay his welcome, and that he and his wife want to, "begin to be in [their] lives as much as [they] are in [ »
Bilson Plans Family Life Far From Hollywood
17 November 2009 5:46 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Rachel Bilson has threatened to quit Hollywood and live out her days in the middle of nowhere when she becomes a mum.
The former The O.C. star currently spends time in Los Angeles and boyfriend Hayden Christensen's remote Canada farm, and she insists she'll give up life in Tinseltown altogether if she discovers she's pregnant.
Bilson says, "When I'm older I really want a family - probably off somewhere really remote. I want to raise my kids where they don't know what a camera following them is like.
"I have a seven-year-old sister so aware of paparazzi it's unbelievable. It's too weird for me."
Bilson has another very good reason to leave Hollywood behind - her home was ransacked by thieves earlier this year. It's believed the actress was a target of the so-called Burglar Bunch, who also raided the homes of Paris Hilton, Audrina Patridge and Lindsay Lohan. »
Paranormal Activity’s International Sales Company, Im Global, Rolls Out Theatrical Arm
5 November 2009 1:27 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The unprecedented success of Paranormal Activity has been beneficial for many people, but one could argue that Im Global is reaping the most rewards. Hot off the success of Oren Peli’s haunting flick, Im Global Home Entertainment has been forged to focus on lower budgeted theatrical fare.
Screen Daily reports that they’re kicking things off with Brad Anderson’s genre flick The Vanishing On 7th Street starring Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, and John Leguizamo. Story details are under wraps, but we know its premise concerns the ensuing horrors following a mysterious blackout.
Im Global will be fielding offers from buyers at Afm this week on Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity follow-up, Area 51, which is expected to close a North American deal imminently. Paranormal Activity has grossed more than $85M in North America.
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Hayden Christensen Takes Pay-or-Play Deal to Court
28 October 2009 11:08 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By the Hollywood Reporter
Hayden Christensen and his brother Tove have filed a lawsuit against a producer who claimed to have secured $250 million for the production and distribution of independent films.
According to the complaint, filed last week in California Superior Court, Christensen met with Philippe Martinez in May 2005 at the Festival de Cannes and entered into an agreement with the producer to give him first-look rights to film projects from Christensen's Forrest Park Pictures.
Read more in the Hollywood Reporter. »
- Lisa Horowitz
Don't F*ck With Hayden Christensen's First-Look Deal
27 October 2009 7:30 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Hayden Christensen and his brother Tove have filed suit against the infamous Philippe Martinez, claiming that the disgraced Hollywood financier owes them and their production company Forest Park Pictures $2.6 million apiece for the unproduced actioner Crash Bandits. The brothers reportedly went into business with Martinez at Cannes '05; their first-look deal soured soon after, and the actor's pay-to-play contract for Bandits was never honored. Martinez, who said earlier this year that he has neither filed for bankruptcy nor is in debt to any actors, is all but certainly readying his "Hayden who?" defense as we speak. Cheap shots exhausted, then he'll file bankruptcy. [THR Esq.] »
Denver Film Festival announces full lineup
26 October 2009 11:34 AM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
The only big film festival in my own backyard is back and it runs from November 12th through the 22nd. While it caters more to heavy run fest material and arthouse film, they do have some of the more interesting films playing this year:
Ryan Ward's excellent Son of the Sunshine which is one of my favorite films of the year. (review)
The weird, lengthy comedy The Revenant (review)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
and much more. Program after the break!
In Competition
Two first-generation Chinese kids in suburban Boston find themselves on their own after their desperate mother is unwittingly involved in a pyramid scheme and arrested. Older brother Raymond takes a page from her marketing seminars to start creating a life for himself and his sister - casting a strange, pint-sized reflection on the American Dream.
The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Let's Exploit Dead People
25 October 2009 6:24 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Welcome to an oversized edition of "The Good, The Bad and the Wtf," to make up for last week's absence. This time, we take a look at X-Men updates, a Turtles buyout, David Spade's shamelessness, a Michael Jackson controversy and how Denzel Washington is allegedly the worst person on Earth.
The Good
• Talking to Empire mag, X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner updates fans on the status of future X-Men projects. Good news for those of you who were pissed off by Wolverine's treatment of Deadpool, because this is what Donner said about the proposed Deadpool movie:
I want to ignore the version of Deadpool that we saw in Wolverine and just start over again. Reboot it. Because this guy talks, obviously, and to muzzle him would be insane.
Cue collective sighs of relief.
• Here's the first official photo of the new A-Team. I'm not holding my breath for this one, »
- Arya Ponto
Christensen Sues Producer For $3 Million
23 October 2009 6:26 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actor Hayden Christensen and his producer brother have filed a $3 million (GBP2 million) lawsuit against a filmmaker they allege conned them into signing a bogus movie deal.
The Star Wars actor claims he struck a deal with producer Philippe Martinez in 2005 to star in a film called Crash Bandits.
The star's brother Tove also allegedly signed on to co-produce the project.
The pair are now suing Martinez, who they say claimed he had a $500 million (GBP333 million) to fund the film, and agreed to pay for the right to have first shot at producing the brothers' future projects, according to TMZ.com.
But the film never got made and now the brothers are demanding $3 million (GBP2 million) from Martinez. »
Hayden & Bro: We Both Got Stiffed by Same Guy
23 October 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
Hayden Christensen claims the film deal he signed back in 2005 was too good to be true -- and now the former Skywalker and his brother are suing the guy who roped them into it ... for nearly $3 million.The same month Star Wars Episode III was released in 2005, Hayden struck an agreement with a producer named Philippe Martinez to appear in a movie called "Crash Bandits" while his brother, Tove, signed on as co-producer. They also »
'Star Wars' Possibly Prepping for New Trilogy in 3-D
21 October 2009 10:10 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
There could be a new "Star Wars" trilogy heading to the big screen in stereoscopic 3-D if Market Saw is to be trusted. Claiming to have heard the story from "a trusted source", the site reported that George Lucas will pass on the directing torch for these new projects although he will still serve as the films' producer.
On who might possibly take over Lucas' directing job, Market Saw pointed out that two heavyweight directors, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola, are mentioned to be in consideration. While there is no further detail shared on the possible projects, it is noted that the development of this new trilogy is heavily dependent on the success of James Cameron's "Avatar", which will open wide in theaters across the U.S. on December 18.
The last "Star Wars" saga movie to open in theaters was "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith »
- AceShowbiz.com
'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Episode 2.04: 'Senate Spy'
17 October 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Episode Title: "Senate Spy"
Written by: Melinda Hsu
Tagline: "A true heart should never be doubted."
Story: Now that the whole Cad Bane affair is sorted out, it's time to get back to some Jedi-on-Sith action, right? Wrong! Taking a page from roughly half of "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones," "Senate Spy" is all about Ani and Padme in love. How touching. The Jedi Council believes there's a Trade Federation turncoat in the Senate, one Senator Clovis, who has a romantic history with Padme. And so the Jedi Order -- with some help from their favorite rising star, Anakin Skywalker -- attempt to convince the Naboo representative to spy on her colleague and former lover, creating tension in the still-relatively-new Anakin/Padme marriage.
You Can Go About Your Business: "Senate Spy" may very well be the worst episode to air in the series so far. It is a throwaway narrative, »
- Adam Rosenberg
[Movie Review] New York, I Love You
16 October 2009 4:08 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
If you've seen Paris, je t'aime, you would know the basic concept of New York, I Love You. Some of the world's celebrated filmmakers create short tales of romance based in a metropolitan city, compiled in an anthology film. The stories stand on their own, but connected together by the common theme of love and the mood of its location.
What's different—and consequently better—about New York, I Love You is that the individual stories are interconnected, to illustrate a web of people that links New Yorkers in unexpected ways. It could be that two strangers hail the same cab, or go to the same Chinese laundromat, or know the same pharmacist. Furthering these links is Emilie Ohana, playing a video artist who circles the city with a video camera and continually runs into the other characters.
Unlike the segmented and showcasey Paris, je t'aime, this film is much more fluid. »
- Arya Ponto
Rachel Bilson Slips Us the Tongue
16 October 2009 7:55 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
What could possibly have caused the former O.C. starlet to flash us her tongue on the way to a photo shoot at L.A.'s Miauhaus Studios? Is she just as P.O.'d over the balloon boy hoax as we are? Or is it a reaction to the casting of her Bf Hayden Christensen in Jumper 2? (Stay put this time.) Either way, the gesture's got us feeling like silly little kids. Real nice beanie, Rach. Nyah, nyah! ________ Rachel may be feeling goofy, but see who's all glamour in our Big Pic gallery. »
Movie Review: “New York, I Love You”
16 October 2009 12:55 AM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Seen on: October 12, 2009
The players: Directors: Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Martson, Mira Nair & more, Writers: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Alexandra Cassavetes & more, Cast: Justin Bartha, Maggie Q, Orlando Bloom, James Caan, Hayden Christensen, Blake Lively, Julie Christie...
Facts of interest: None.
The plot: Following the concept of "Paris, je t'aime," this film boasts several short films about love set in the beautiful city of New York.
Our thoughts: I absolutely love “New York, I Love You,” and I don’t just say that because I love New York as a city. Much like its beautiful predecessor “Paris, je t’aime,” this wonderful cinematic anthology of short films set in the Big Apple proves that especially genius screenwriting and strong acting can create a truly memorable big-screen experience. »
- Franck Tabouring
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