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Paul Greengrass is Done with Bourne, Now What?
3 December 2009 3:09 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Rumors had been swirling since late last week, and this week Variety has confirmed that director Paul Greengrass is leaving the Bourne franchise. In the confirmation, the studio (Universal) released the following statement from the director: "I will always be grateful to have been the caretaker to Jason Bourne over the course of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. I'm very proud of those films and feel they express everything I most passionately believe about the possibility of making quality movies in the mainstream. My decision to not return a third time as director is simply about feeling the call for a different challenge. There's been no disagreement with Universal Pictures. The opportunity to work with the Bourne family again is a difficult thing to pass up, but we have discussed this together and they have been incredibly understanding and supportive. I've been lucky enough to have made four films for Universal, and »
- Neil Miller
Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 10/06/2009
3 October 2009 11:06 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, October 6, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List. It's a Big week, with Trick 'R Treat finally hitting the home market, along with re-issues of The Gate, Audition, and a whole lot more!
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Audition (Bd)
New 1080P High-Definition Transfer From The Negative!
Deceptively innocent at first, Takashi Miikes Audition finds Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi, Suicide Club, The Grudge), a middle-aged widower of many years, urged by his teenage son and his film producer friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura, Ichi The Killer) to get out and start dating again. To help Aoyama meet women, Yoshikawa devises a plan to »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
Film Junk Podcast Episode #237: The Informant!
27 September 2009 8:55 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
0:00 - Intro 4:45 - Headlines: Roman Polanski Gets Arrested, David Cronenberg to Remake The Fly, Universal and Mattel to Make Barbie Movie, Diablo Cody to Write and Produce a Sweet Valley High Movie, Titanic to Get 3-D Re-release?, Johnny Depp Might Drop Out of Pirates 4?, Justin Lin to Direct Highlander Reboot, The New A-Team Van 30:45 - Review: The Informant! 45:15 - Other Stuff We Watched: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Heroes, The Good Wife, The Vampire Diaries, The Forgotten, Surrogates, Bored to Death 1:02:50 - Junk Mail: Unemployment, Avoiding Trailers, Roman Polanski, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, The Staircase, Expectations and Hype 1:25:20 - This Week's DVD Releases 1:27:25 - Outro » Download the MP3 (40 Mb) [1] » View the show notes [2] » Vote for us on Podcast Alley! [3] Subscribe to the podcast feed: [4] [5] [6] [7] Donate via Paypal: Recurring Donation $2/Month: [1] http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media. »
- Sean
Iron Man scribes to pen remake of Highlander
24 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Although known for its saying 'There can be only one', that clearly isn't true.
Highlander is being reimagined by Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the Twilight movie series, and Iron Man scribes Art Marcum and Matt Holloway are to pen the new big-screen version.
Summit bought the film rights in May last year and has also hired Justin Lin as director. Lin most recently directed the action film Fast & Furious.
Peter Davis, who produced the original franchise, will return in that role.
Announcing the team, Summit said the new film would "expand on the original Highlander's core mythology of immortals battling among us, hunting each other through the ages."
The studio hopes the film, to be released at the end of 2010 or start of 2011, will be the start of a new franchise.
The story centres on Connor MacLeod, an immortal Scottish swordsman who, after centuries of duelling to survive against others like him, »
- David Bentley
Highlander Reboot Gets Fast & Furious
24 September 2009 7:26 AM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
There’s been talk of a Highlander reboot for several years, and now it looks like one is actually happening as Summit Entertainment has signed Justin Lin (Fast & Furious) to helm a new film in the franchise that originally starred Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery. The trades say Summit plans to expand on the original "Highlander" premise of immortals hunting each other through the ages. The new film will center on the immortal Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod, who must confront a murderous barbarian who lusts for a fabled prize. The original 1986 film was directed by Russell Mulcahy and along with Lambert and Connery starred Clancy Brown and Roxanne Hart. It launched four sequels and three TV spin-offs. The last big screen outing for the series was 2000’s Highlander: Endgame. Neal H. Moritz, who worked with Lin on Fast & Furious, will produce. Longtime Highlander producer Peter Davis is also producing along with Moritz. »
- James Cook
Fast & Furious Director Remaking Highlander
23 September 2009 4:34 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
There can be only one? Justin Lin (Fast & Furious) has agreed to direct the Highlander remake for Summit Entertainment.
Iron Man co-writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway signed to write a “re-imagination” of the action-fantasy story in May 2008, which is promised to be a “new take” on the immortal warriors battling each other through time. The idea is to expand the premise for hopefully a new franchise for the material and the studio still riding high on Twilight success.
The original Highlander in 1986 starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown before becoming a science fiction classic on DVD. It centers on Connor MacLeod, a Scottish swordsman fighting other supernatural beings. The cult favorite spawned four movie sequels and three TV programs.
Since Lin was just recently added, no casting decisions have been made. Who do you want to wear the kilt and chop off heads?
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- Jeff Leins
Summit Hires Team To Reboot ‘Highlander’
23 September 2009 2:30 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
We here at The Flickcast are all but shocked when we hear about this thing or that getting rebooted or remade. Sadly, we were a little bit surprised when news came that 1986’s Highlander is getting a fancy Hollywood facelift, and even has a director and producer attached.
Distributor Summit Entertainment is going forward with the reboot of the film, hiring the team of Justin Lin to direct and Neal H. Moritz to produce. The team was also behind Fast and Furious, which was one of the bigger film of the year, and the highest grossing title of the year for Universal Pictures.
Summit has had great success so far with the adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series (with New Moon hitting theaters this November). According to Variety this may be the birth of another franchise for the company:
Summit plans to expand on the original “Highlander” premise of »
- Joe Gillis
Connor MacLeod Returns! Summit Announces "Highlander" Reboot!
23 September 2009 11:42 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Summit Entertainment, the home that "Twilight" built, has hired "Fast & Furious'" Justin Lin to direct "Highlander" the reboot! The studio wants a franchise!
Lin's producing partner for "Fast and Furious," Neal H. Moritz, will oversee production. "Iron Man" scriptwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway are writing the script.
I enjoyed the original 1986 film directed by Russell Mulcahy. But it's unclear whether the original cast -- Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and Roxanne Hart -- will make an appearance for the reboot.
According to Variety, Summit plans to expand "on the original "Highlander" premise of immortals hunting each other through the ages. The new pic will center on the immortal Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod, who must confront a murderous barbarian who lusts for a fabled prize."
Moritz is also producing the upcoming "Flash Gordon" and "The Green Hornet."
As far as the "Highlander" remake is concerned, no word yet on »
- Manny
‘Fast and Furious’ and ‘Iron Man’ teams unite for ‘Highlander’ remake
23 September 2009 6:59 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Everything old is new again according to Hollywood.
Director Justin Lin and producer Neal H. Moritz (Fast and Furious) will team up for a remake of the head-lopping favorite Highlander.
Created for Summit Entertainment, the updated Highlander will “spur a new franchise for the studio”.
Highlander was released in 1986 and was directed by Russell Mulcahy. Starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, the story revolves around a centuries old duel between immortal swordsman. Connor MacLeod (Lambert), “an immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his kind, a murderously brutal barbarian, who lusts for the fabled Prize.”
It’s success spawned five feature films, a television series and countless editions of bad fan fiction.
Iron Man team Art Marcum and Matt Holloway will write the script with Highlander veteran Peter Davis producing.
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- Erik Buckman
Highlander Remake in the Works
23 September 2009 6:14 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Russel Mulcahy's 1986 film Highlander told an epic tale of immortals fighting one another through the ages to win the prize of ultimate knowledge that came from being the "only one," so it's fitting that the franchise that everyone thought was dead turns out not to be.
The original film earned actor Christopher Lambert a cult following for his portrayal of Connor "The Highlander" MacLeod, and spawned four theatrical sequels, a TV series, multiple comic books, and, most recently, an animated feature.
Summit Entertainment has announced that it will resurrect the Highlander franchise, with the producer-director team behind Fast & Furious, Neil H. Moritz and Justin Lin. Summit has also announced that it has hired Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, the writing team behind Iron Man, to pen the script. Other than a brief synopsis describing "an immortal Scottish swordsman" and his battle against a "brutal barbarian, who lusts for the fabled Prize, »
- BrentJS Sprecher
Cast This: Highlander
23 September 2009 4:46 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
This week it was announced that Fast And Furious director Justin Lin is remaking rebooting re-imagining Highlander, much to almost everyone's dismay. Even with the Iron Man screenwriting duo on his back (Art Marcum and Matt Holoway), the project doesn't seem like that great of an idea. But what can save it? Why, a great cast of course. And no one is more important to the film the the Highlander himself, Connor MacLeod, who in the 1986 original film (and in a few of the shitty sequels) was »
- Paul Tassi
'Fast and Furious' Director and Producer for 'Highlander' Remake
23 September 2009 2:08 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
"Highlander", a reboot to to Russell Mulcahy's 1986 film, will see a collaboration of the "Fast and Furious" director-producer duo once again. On Tuesday, September 22, Summit Entertainment announced that it has signed in helmer Justin Lin and producer Neal Moritz to work on the remake project.
"We are privileged to have this amazing opportunity to reinvent one of the great franchises," the studio's co-chairman Patrick Wachsberger said when revealing the joining of the two filmmakers to the project. "Neal and Justin have proven more than once that they can deliver an entertaining and exciting blockbuster."
"Highlander" will offer a new take on the story of immortals who battle for supremacy while living seemingly normal lives in the contemporary world. It will expand on the original Highlander's core mythology of the immortals. "Iron Man" scribes, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, have been tapped to pen the script.
The original movie »
- AceShowbiz.com
Justin Lin is the man to remake Highlander
23 September 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Despite several sequels and TV-spin-offs, the world is clearly not sick of the clan MacLeod as the Highlander remake is now officially on track. Yes, it's not surprising that, after nabbing the rights to the characters from Davis-Panzer Productions, Summit Entertainment is pushing ahead with the reboot, hoping to launch a brand new franchise. Fast And Furious director Justin Lin and producer Neal H Moritz have signed on to develop the film, and Iron Man writers Ar Macum and Matt Holloway will pen the script. Apparently, Summit wants...
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- James White
Summit Entertainment Announce Highlander
22 September 2009 11:49 PM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
It’s been more than one year since I first reported Summit Entertainment’s intention to remake/reimagine/reinvigorate the Highlander franchise, now, they’ve finally confirmed what regular readers already knew.
Yes, Summit Entertainment are finally rebooting Highlander!
According to Summit, “Fast and Furious” and “Tokyo Drift” director Justin Lin is attached to helm the picture, in which a race of immortals walk the Earth throughout the centuries and fight to the death. The protagonist (Connor Macleod) was played by Christopher Lambert in the original 1986 version with Sean Connery playing mentor and fellow immortal, Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez. Clancy Brown also starred as the fantastically wicked (and incredibly cheesy) barbarian – The Kurgan.
Neal H. Moritz is set to produce the picture, which will likely hit theatres at the back end of 2010/Spring 2011. According to the press release:
Summit’s film will expand on the original Highlander’s core mythology of immortals battling amongst us, »
- Craig Sharp
'Highlander' Remake: There Can Be Only One...Or Not
22 September 2009 11:39 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
I'm fairly convinced we don't need another Highlander movie. The first one, released in the mid-1980s, was pretty decent and had an interesting story. The sequels, however, couldn't have been much worse. Honestly, I thought they made Highlander II: The Quickening to grease the rails for bankruptcy declarations.
But Summit Entertainment is bringing back Connor McCloud - or at least the mythology of the immortals - for a remake of Highlander to be helmed by Fast & Furious director Justin Lin. Iron Man co-writers Matt Holloway and Art Marcum are taking aim at the script and that could be a good sign. Then again, they also co-wrote Punisher: War Zone. That movie's as bad as the Highlander sequels.
It is the job of studio bosses to sound excited about their projects, but...really? Summit's Patrick Wachsberger says of Highlander, "We are privileged to have this amazing opportunity to reinvent one of the great franchises. »
- Colin Boyd
Highlander Gets Fast And Furious
22 September 2009 11:05 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Summit Entertainment are preparing a new kind of magic. Just two years after the franchise-killing fourth sequel, Highlander's head is to be magically re-attached (just like Sean Connery's in Highlander 2). The reboot announced by producer Peter S Davis in Empire issue 241 is properly underway. And the director? Justin Lin, whose CV to date includes Fast and Furious, and its predecessor Tokyo Drift, as well as indie dramas Better Luck Tomorrow and Finishing the Game.The original Highlander franchise began with Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery chopping heads in Russell Mulachy's original film in 1986, and ended ignominiously on the Sci-Fi channel in 2007, with Adrian Paul dodging mutant cannibals in an inexpensive Romanian forest (Brett Leonard's Highlander: The Source). In between were three other sequels, two TV series, a Saturday morning cartoon and an anime. Clearly, like Mulcahy before him, Lin has the flashy visuals down pat, and he »
Justin Lin Will Direct Highlander
22 September 2009 10:53 PM, PDT | www.canmag.com | See recent CanMag news »
Summit Entertainment is turning up the heat on their Highlander reboot. The studio has hired Justin Lin to direct and Neal H. Moritz to produce the next installment.
Justin Lin to Direct Highlander
Summit likes the combination, as it was Lin and Moritz who delivered Universal Pictures' most successful title of the year, Fast and Furious.
Summit Entertainment doesn't have a cast in mind just yet, but they do already have Iron Man scribes Art Marcum and Matt Holloway working on the script.
The original installment was released back in 1986 and starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown and Roxanne Hart. The franchise got through four sequels and three TV spinoffs before eventually disappearing. Summit is hoping to take the original story, but expand on it greatly. The new film will center on the immortal Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod, who must confront a murderous barbarian who lusts for a fabled prize. »
Fast & Furious Director Challenges Highlander
22 September 2009 10:23 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
Justin Lin, director behind Fast & Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Annapolis will be teaming with producer Neal H. Moritz to reboot the fantasy adventure film series Highlander for Summit Entertainment.
People forget after 20 years’ worth of lesser sequels and spinoffs that the original Highlander was a pretty high profile film starring Christopher Lambert (at the man’s peak) alongside Sean Connery. Original producer Peter Davis is returning to hand the torch over to the new filmmakers.
Highlander, like the original film, will focus on a race of immortals that wage war upon each other through time. It’s a concept that’s broad enough to be attacked from a fresh angle by a talented writer, and luckily we’ve got two pretty decent ones on our hands: Iron Man and Punisher: War Zone writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.
Like the original film, the reboot (remake? »
- John Cooper
'Highlander' remake set with director Justin Lin
22 September 2009 8:20 PM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Justin Lin has boarded Summit's upcoming remake of "Highlander," which Neal H. Moritz will produce. Lin most recently directed the successful "Fast & Furious" reboot, which bagged $155 million domestically.
The new "Highlander" will be an updated version of Russell Mulcahy's 1986 action flick, which starred Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart and Christopher Lambert. Summit plans to launch a new franchise. »
- Franck Tabouring
Highlander Fantasy Casting: There Can Be Only One Until It's Rebooted
22 September 2009 8:10 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Maybe there really should have been only one, but the Highlander franchise seems to be Immortal. Cut off its head and someone else absorbs its power, and the whole thing keeps right on going. At least this time, they're dropping the sequels and starting over. Summit is planning a Highlander reboot (more details here), directed by Fast & Furious helmer Justin Lin. They're restarting the Highlander mythos from scratch and they're going to need an all new cast. Now it's Summit, so odds are they'll spare us all to death by handing the Twilight cast swords and letting them look longingly at each other while they hold them. But I'm a Highlander fan, and I think we've suffered enough. Summit, before you cast Dakota Fanning as The Kurgan, take a look at the cast I have in mind. Connor MacLeod is a Celtic warrior born in the Scottish Highlands in 1536, and »
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