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16 articles from 2009
Vigilante Entertainment Preps for Black Summer
2 November 2009 5:52 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
There’s a new comic book-to-film production house working on bringing some lesser known properties to the screen: Vigilante Entertainment, headed up by Hicham Benkirane, formerly in charge of the brilliantly titled Les Humanoides Associes.
While Vigilante has rights to many Les Humanoides Associes properties such as Miss: Better Living Through Crime, The Book of Jack and Fragile (a zombie love story), the first project they’re setting their sights on is an adaptation of Warren Ellis’ Black Summer. Ellis was also responsible for Red, which is going into production over at Summit Films with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman. According to Variety, the plot of Summer is pretty sweet:
“[Black Summer centers on] superhero team the Seven Guns, a group of scientist-adventurers who modified their own bodies for street-fighting in order to take back their West Coast city from a corrupt police force, criminal local government and rapacious private security forces.”
What’s less sweet? »
- John Cooper
Variety: Producers Acquire The Movie Rights To 'The Host'
22 September 2009 11:00 PM, PDT | twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news »
Variety is reporting that the rights to Stephenie Meyers The Host have been acquired. Producers Nick Wechsle and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz have the rights and Andrew Niccol will be writing the script and directing. Read below for detailsnbspProducers Nick Wechsler Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz have used their own money to acquire screen rights to The Host the first adult novel written by Stephenie Meyer author of the Twilight series.Andrew Niccol will write the script and direct.Meyers novel is a love story set in the near future on Earth which has been assimilated by an alien species of benevolent parasites that call themselves Souls. One such soul the Wanderer is fused with a dying human named Melanie Stryder in an attempt to locate the last pocket of surviving humans on Earth.Wechsler and the Schwartzes are separately teamed on The Road the John Hillcoatdirected adaptation of »
The Weekly Wrap-Up: March 22-28, 2009
28 March 2009 1:51 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Looking over the news from the week of March 22-28, 2009, quite frankly, not much of it sparked a lot of enthusiasm. But there were a few items that made me go hmmmm, especially compared to the rest. First up is a low, but in an effort to keep things moving in a productive direction, the rest of the list are (cross your fingers) highs.
A chill came to my heart when I saw the chat with screenwriters Stiles White and Juliet Snowden. These people were at least partially responsible for the train wreck known as Knowing (they share credit with Ryne Douglas Pearson and Stuart Hazeldine), and I cannot imagine entrusting such classics as Poltergeist and The Birds to them. On the other hand, if by chance they were involved with scripting the few enjoyable parts of Knowing (i.e., before all parties involved lost control of themselves), then maybe »
- The Woman In Black
Knowing
25 March 2009 1:53 PM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Release Date: March 20
Director: Alex Proyas
Writers: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Stuart Hazeldine
Cinematographer: Simon Duggan
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, D.G. Maloney
Studio/Run Time: Summit, 122 mins.
Another day, another apocalypse
Toward the end of Knowing, the hyper new sci-fi parable, wide-eyed star Nic Cage wails, “How am I supposed to stop the end of the world?” At this point, the movie has hurtled through so many breathless sequences of disaster violence that the plot has virtually shut down, but still, it’s a fair question. And in one of the only moments of real verve, the movie comes up with an unlikely answer: Sorry, Nic, but you don’t. »
Movie Review: “Knowing”
22 March 2009 9:58 PM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Seen on: March 22, 2009
The players: Director: Alex Proyas, Writers: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Stiles White, Juliet Snowden, Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn
Facts of interest: Proyas also helmed "I, Robot" and "Dark City."
The plot: Cage stars as a professor who thinks he's connected to a series of events leading to a global disaster that could be detrimental to the world.
Our thoughts: Science and religion collide again on the big screen in Alex Proyas’ latest sci-fi thriller “Knowing,” in which Nicholas Cage makes a shocking discovery and tries everything in his power to prevent the end of humanity. It’s definitely not a terrible flick, but I did come across several aspects I simply couldn’t appreciate. »
- Franck Tabouring
Box Office Wrap-Up - “I Love You, Man”… but we’re second to “Knowing”
22 March 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Nicolas Cage starrer "Knowing" brought in an estimated $24.8 million from 3,332 venues. This marks distributor Summit Entertainment's second number one film as a new player in the field of big boy players after the uber-successful “Twilight.” Action sci-fi thriller helmed by Alex Proyas (“I, Robot”) averaged $7,447 per theatre. Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White and Richard Kelly write the screenplay. The Paramount/DreamWorks’ John Hamburg (“Along Came Polly”) helmed and written “I Love You, Man” comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, debuted in second position with around $18 million from 2,711 theatres, averaging $6,641 per venue. Film has secured strong reviews from critics and fans alike. Universal’s “Duplicity” powered by Clive Owen and Julia Roberts finished off in third spot with $14.4 million grossed from 2,574 theatres. Written by Tony Gilroy of the brilliant “Michael Clayton” as well as the “Bourne” series of films, the crime thriller reunites Roberts and Owen after »
Box Office Wrap-Up - “I Love You, Man”… but we’re second to “Knowing”
22 March 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Nicolas Cage starrer "Knowing" brought in an estimated $24.8 million from 3,332 venues. This marks distributor Summit Entertainment's second number one film as a new player in the field of big boy players after the uber-successful “Twilight.” Action sci-fi thriller helmed by Alex Proyas (“I, Robot”) averaged $7,447 per theatre. Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White and Richard Kelly write the screenplay. The Paramount/DreamWorks’ John Hamburg (“Along Came Polly”) helmed and written “I Love You, Man” comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, debuted in second position with around $18 million from 2,711 theatres, averaging $6,641 per venue. Film has secured strong reviews from critics and fans alike »
Box Office Wrap-Up - “I Love You, Man”… but we’re second to “Knowing”
22 March 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Nicolas Cage starrer "Knowing" brought in an estimated $24.8 million from 3,332 venues. This marks distributor Summit Entertainment's second number one film as a new player in the field of big boy players after the uber-successful “Twilight.” Action sci-fi thriller helmed by Alex Proyas (“I, Robot”) averaged $7,447 per theatre. Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White and Richard Kelly write the screenplay. The Paramount/DreamWorks’ John Hamburg (“Along Came Polly”) helmed and written “I Love You, Man” comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, debuted in second position with around $18 million from 2,711 theatres, averaging $6,641 per venue. Film has secured strong reviews from critics and fans alike »
Knowing (Film Review)
20 March 2009 7:10 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Not since The Butterfly Effect has a movie punched across such a goofy storyline with such wholehearted conviction as Knowing. The fact that the film has you holding your breath as often as it inspires you to roll your eyes is a credit to director Alex Proyas.
Proyas has proven, with The Crow and Dark City, that he can spin spellbinding cinema when provided with strong material, and here demonstrates his ability to command some measure of attention working with a script that seriously needs its head examined. It opens in 1959, when a class full of elementary-school kids is asked to draw their visions of what life will be like 50 years hence, to be put into a time capsule which will be unearthed after that time has gone by. Instead of a rocketship or a robot, little Lucinda (Lara Robinson) covers her paper with a series of apparently random numerals; after the capsule interment ceremony, »
Knowing the Difference
18 March 2009 7:38 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Alex Proyas is a hard director to pin down. While he almost always deals with some sort of dark material, he takes genre conventions, mixes them up and often defies expectations. At least two of his films, The Crow and Dark City, are regarded as modern cult classics, with the latter blessed by a passionate Roger Ebert going to bat for it.
Although notoriously plagued by studio interference and power struggles on his most recent feature I, Robot, he has persevered and is ready to release a new vision onto screens—one that will surprise many viewers, both the eagerly anticipating and the cautiously approaching. That vision is contained in Knowing, the science-fiction thriller that Summit Entertainment releases this Friday.
Knowing revolves around MIT professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), whose son Caleb’s elementary school is celebrating its 50th anniversary. When the school first opened, its students placed drawings of »
"Knowing" review - Nicolas Cage strives to protect the world in 'Knowing,' but fails to save the movie
17 March 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
"Knowing" reviewby Steve Ramos, Writer To the credit of filmmaker Alex Proyas and his five writers on the fantasy thriller "Knowing" it's difficult to successfully wrap a story about the cataclysmic end of the world. No matter what happens, someone will be disappointed.Based on a story by prolific author Ryne Douglas Pearson and adapted by Pearson, Proyas and three other screenwriters, "Knowing" has its share of clever mystery and creepy moments of suspense. But its unsatisfying ending, an attempt to neatly tie all loose ends via an inspirational bow, takes away much of its spooky fun. A Boston-area elementary school class draws pictures imagining their world 50 years into the future. Their work is placed in a time capsule in celebration of the 1959 dedication of their new school building. But one child, a solemn outcast named Lucinda (Lara Robinson in the first of her two roles in the film) scribbles »
"Knowing" review - Nicolas Cage strives to protect the world in 'Knowing,' but fails to save the movie
17 March 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
To the credit of filmmaker Alex Proyas and his five writers on the fantasy thriller "Knowing" it's difficult to successfully wrap a story about the cataclysmic end of the world. No matter what happens, someone will be disappointed. Based on a story by prolific author Ryne Douglas Pearson and adapted by Pearson, Proyas and three other screenwriters, "Knowing" has its share of clever mystery and creepy moments of suspense. But its unsatisfying ending, an attempt to neatly tie all loose ends via an inspirational bow, takes away much of its spooky fun. A Boston-area elementary school class draws pictures imagining their world 50 years into the future. Their work is placed in a time capsule in celebration of the 1959 dedication of their new school building. But one child, a solemn outcast named Lucinda (Lara Robinson in the first of her two roles in the film) scribbles rows of non-sequential numbers completely covering her paper. »
"Knowing" review - Nicolas Cage strives to protect the world in 'Knowing,' but fails to save the movie
17 March 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
To the credit of filmmaker Alex Proyas and his five writers on the fantasy thriller "Knowing" it's difficult to successfully wrap a story about the cataclysmic end of the world. No matter what happens, someone will be disappointed. Based on a story by prolific author Ryne Douglas Pearson and adapted by Pearson, Proyas and three other screenwriters, "Knowing" has its share of clever mystery and creepy moments of suspense. But its unsatisfying ending, an attempt to neatly tie all loose ends via an inspirational bow, takes away much of its spooky fun. A Boston-area elementary school class draws pictures imagining their world 50 years into the future. Their work is placed in a time capsule in celebration of the 1959 dedication of their new school building. But one child, a solemn outcast named Lucinda (Lara Robinson in the first of her two roles in the film) scribbles rows of non-sequential numbers completely covering her paper. »
Slideshow: 22-Image Gallery From ‘Knowing’ With Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne
9 March 2009 9:52 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – This 22-image slideshow contains the available press images for Summit Entertainment’s “Knowing,” starring Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, and Lara Robinson. The film, written by Alex Proyas, Stuart Hazeldine (“Riverworld”), Ryne Douglas Pearson (Mercury Rising), Juliet Snowden & Stiles White (The Need, Boogeyman) and Richard Kelly (Southland Tales, Donnie Darko), and directed by Proyas, opens on Friday, March 20th, 2009.
Synopsis: “Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future and sets out to prevent them from coming true.
Rose Byrne (Troy, “Damages”), Chandler Canterbury (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Repossession Mambo) and Lara Robinson (“Saved”) also star in director Alex Proyas’ (I, Robot) riveting feature about a father’s desperate battle to save his child—and the world.
In 1958, as part of the »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
See new images from "Knowing" starring Nicolas Cage.
30 January 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Movie Jungle invites you to see new images from "Knowing" starring Nicolas Cage distributed by Summit Entertainment. Alex Proyas, acclaimed director of "Dark City," "The Crow" and "I, Robot," directs this sci-fi action thriller based on the screenplay by Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Ryne Pearson, Alex Proyas, Stuart Hazeldine and Richard Kelly. Also in the cast are Rose Byrne, Adrienne Pickering, Chandler Canterbury and Ben Mendelsohn. In theatres March 20th. See all the images! In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one of the students, a mysterious girl who seems to hear whispered voices, fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fast forward 50 years to the present: A new generation of students examines the contents of the time capsule and the girl’s »
2009 Summit Pictures Preview: ‘New Moon,’ ‘Push,’ ‘Knowing,’ ‘The Brothers Bloom,’ ‘Sorority Row,’ ‘Astro Boy,’ More
5 January 2009 6:54 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Summit Pictures sent over release dates, cast & crew, and synopsis information for their entire 2009 slate and even included a few available images for their upcoming slate.
The 2009 Summit films with available production stills include “Push,” “Knowing,” “Next Day Air,” “The Brothers Bloom,” “Sorority Row,” and “Astro Boy”. 2009 pictures without images released yet but with film information below include “The Hurt Locker,” “Bandslam,” and “New Moon,” the highly anticipated sequel to “Twilight”.
“Push”
Release date: February 6, 2009
Cast: Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, and Djimon Hounsou
Directed by: Paul McGuigan
Written by: David Bourla
Synopsis: A riveting action-thriller, Push burrows deep into the deadly world of psychic espionage where artificially enhanced paranormal operatives have the ability to move objects with their minds, see the future, create new realities and kill without ever touching their victims. Against this setting, a young man (Chris Evans) and a teenage girl (Dakota Fanning) take »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
2009 | 2008
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