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20 articles from 2009
Five Minutes from the Opening Scene of Deadline
20 November 2009 4:28 PM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
Unfortunately no limited release is forthcoming for Deadline, a horror film from First Look Studios, but a DVD/Blu-Ray release is set for December 1, 2009. Brittany Murphy from 8 Mile and Thora Birch are the main stars with Tammy Blanchard supporting. Mysterious and haunting a full five minute clip is now available for fans to enjoy until the film is available for purchase. Have a look at the first five minutes, in the dark, and decide for yourself whether Deadline is as scary as being possessed by William Castle's spirit (Rosemary's Baby).
A synopsis for Deadline:
"Alice, 32, a writer recovering from a psychological breakdown retreats to a remote Victorian house to convalesce and focus on completing her screenplay in time for a fast approaching deadline. Shortly after her arrival, mysterious noises and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a twisting and terrifying pursuit to fin »
- Michael Ross Allen
Movie Review - 'The Messenger'
19 November 2009 11:02 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, and Samantha Morton
Directed by Oren Moverman
Rated R
The best parts of the Mel Gibson Vietnam film We Were Soldiers did not take place on the battlefield. Instead, they were the quiet moments when the bad news was delivered to loved ones that a soldier was killed in action. And it's an interesting perspective to see if you've never really thought about it, particularly in that environment, where it is balanced with the a different kind of savagery altogether.
Or so I thought at the time. And now I've seen The Messenger.
Centered on the unenviable task at hand and the relationships these soldiers forge with each other and - in a turn of events that is strictly against protocol - the next of kin (stripped of its emotional impact by the military abbreviation Nok), The Messenger is a poignant film without »
- Colin Boyd
Veteran’s Day: Movies Veterans Love
11 November 2009 3:45 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
A day that every American should remember arrives today, the 11th day of the 11th month of every year. It echoes in perpetuity, providing all of us in the Us with a continued wall of integrity, protection and honor via the many calls to duty that have been answered for hundreds of years.
Today is Veterans Day.
Have you taken the time out of your day to thank any of the many that have served? We here at Screen Rant wish to thank each and every man and woman that has given their time and often times their lives to ensure a more perfect union. Last year we had one of the most active threads in Screen Rant history, sharing the many great War/Military movies that dance in our memories this time of year. This year, we thought that instead of getting a similarly compiled, all-too-familiar list, we’d »
- Mike Wilkerson
New Trailer With Mel Gibson On The ‘Edge of Darkness’
15 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Its been some time since I was interested in a movie featuring Mel Gibson. In the past, his work in movies like Mad Max, We Were Soldiers, Payback, Braveheart and the Lethal Weapon franchise showed that he knows how to play someone on the edge who does what’s necessary to get the job done. Plus, those characters weren’t afraid to kick some ass. Now, as seen in this new trailer for Edge of Darkness, it seems Gibson is returning to the kind of role that made me a fan of his in the first place.
In this new film, written by William Monahan and directed by Martin Campbell, Gibson plays a Boston detective whose daughter is killed when a hit targeted at him goes wrong. Of course, he’s not going to let that one go so he starts his own investigation to determine what happened. Once he »
- Chris Ullrich
Mel Gibson Takes Us to the 'Edge of Darkness' in New Trailer
14 October 2009 7:16 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Counting out Signs and We Were Soldiers, it's been nearly a decade since Mel Gibson's knocked some skulls (if you're willing to factor in 2000's The Patriot; if not, then exactly a decade since 1999's Payback), and in the trailer for Edge of Darkness -- embedded post-jump -- it looks like old habits die hard.
Gibson plays a Boston detective whose daughter is killed in a hit meant for him. Naturally, he starts knocking on doors and following trails to determine if his daughter had actually been the target all along, and why. Writer William Monahan is no stranger to either Beantown (The Departed) or elaborate conspiracies (Body of Lies), and director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) already made a BBC miniseries out of the material back in 1985. (No wonder it was reminding me of State of Play, title similarities aside.)
I wasn't sure then why a film with such »
- William Goss
John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh and Scott Glenn Join Diane Lane in the Saddle for Secretariat
21 September 2009 10:55 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh and Scott Glenn have joined Diane Lane in the Disney production of “Secretariat”, the movie based on the horse with the most prized semen in history. Details after the jump.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, John Malkovich has joined “Secretariat”, the horse-centric biopic that Randall Wallace (”The Man in the Iron Mask”, “We Were Soldiers”) is directing for Disney. Malkovich will play Lucien Laurin, the real-life jockey who became the trainer of the legendary Triple Crown-winning horse known as Secretariat.
As announced back in June, Diane Lane will star in “Secretariat” as Penny Chenery, the housewife who inherited Secretariat and went on to earn the title “the first lady of racing.” Dylan Walsh (Dr. McNamara on “Nip/Tuck”) will play Lane’s husband in the film while the great Scott Glen will play a southern aristocrat who loses the horse in a coin toss. I bet »
- Nicole Pedersen
New writer for Disney's remake of 20,000 Leagues
8 July 2009 4:14 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Disney has hired Randall Wallace to rework the screenplay for its upcoming remake of the 1954 classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, based on the Jules Verne novel.
The project, this time entitled Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, will be directed by McG (Terminator Salvation).
The Hollywood Reporter said Wallace would rework the existing script by Bill Marsilii and Justin Marks, which tells the origin of Captain Nemo and his warship the Nautilus.
Wallace wrote, produced and directed The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) and We Were Soldiers and was the writer on Braveheart and Pearl Harbour.
He is squeezing in the Nemo script overhaul before he directs racehorse drama Secretariat, starring Diane Lane, in late September.
In the 1954 Leagues movie, Disney's first live-action feature, a crew investigate reports of a strange sea monster and encounter Captain Nemo and his Nautilus. The movie is best remembered for the giant squid attack. »
- David Bentley
Re-Write Central: Spider-Man 4 and 20,000 Leagues
8 July 2009 4:08 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
First writers aren't cutting it for these films.
It appears that all sorts of scribes are getting some extra work in with scripts for upcoming movies. The first of them being Spider-Man 4, a film that had been up in the air for awhile now, who’s script is the first to get the rewrite treatment. The original writer of the script (James Vanderbilt) and the person who re-wrote the script (David Lindsay-Abaire) must not have been cutting it, leading to the third-time’s-a-charm writer Gary Ross (Seabisciut) to swoop in and hopefully save the day. Since initial filming is slated to start up at the beginning of 2010, that leaves a fair amount of time to finish polishing up the script to the 4th installment of the Marvel comic book adapted film.
Another film to get polished up so to speak is Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. “Nemo” aims »
- Melissa Molina
Daily news dose: Randall Wallace to rewrite 'Captain Nemo;' Patrick Dempsey joins 'Valentine's Day'
8 July 2009 12:27 PM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Here is your dose of film news for July 8, 2009:
• Randall Wallace, director of "We Were Soldiers" and screenwriter of "Pearl Harbor" and "Braveheart," is set to rewrite McG's upcoming "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo." Featuring characters from the Jules Verne novel, the film focuses on Nemo's efforts to build the Nautilus, his advanced submarine. Bill Marsilii and Justin Marks wrote the first screenplay. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Patrick Dempsey and Eric Dane from "Grey's Anatomy" are boarding Garry Marshall's upcoming comedy "Valentine's Day," which follows 10 Los Angeles people whose lives intersect on Valentine's Day. Topher Grace, Emma Roberts, Hector Elizondo, Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper and Ashton Kutcher co-star. Dempsey plays a married obstetrician while Dane will play a quarterback. (Variety, THR)
• Brett Cullen, whose credits include "The Burning Plain," "Ghost Rider" and "National Security," has joined the »
- Franck Tabouring
Braveheart Scribe Hired To Rewrite Captain Nemo
7 July 2009 11:18 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Braveheart scribe Randall Wallace has been hired to rewrite Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo, which is being developed for McG. Not a good sign for the project, which has already had a couple notable writers. Geek screenwriter Justin Marks (Masters of the Universe, Super Max) was hired in February to rewrite Bill Marsilli's (Deja Vu) original draft. Wallace is squeezing the Nemo "writing gig" in before he goes off to direct the racehorse drama Secretariat in September. Wallace, who was nominated for an Oscar for writing Braveheart, has since been credited with Pearl Harbor, We Were Soldiers, and The Rookie. The film will tell the origin story of Nemo and his warship, the Nautilus. The unofficial logline reads: "A fugitive whaler teams up with a naturalist, a mysterious woman and a captain of a futuristic submarine, to search for a lost underwater civilization that »
- Peter Sciretta
McG’s 20,000 Leagues Getting Another Rewrite
7 July 2009 10:25 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo, Disney’s big-budget flick that McG (Terminator Salvation) is helming, is getting another rewrite. Justin Marks signed on in February to rework a script originally written by Bill Marsilli and now Randall Wallace has been brought in to make more revisions. Nemo, which Disney put on the fast-track in January, tells the origin of Captain Nemo and his submarine warship, the Nautilus. Nemo is a mysterious but noble antagonist in the book, a scientific genius with a thirst for knowledge and a desire for revenge against the forces of imperialism. In Verne's lesser-known sequel, The Mysterious Island, Nemo is revealed as Indian Prince Dakkar, a rajah's son who took part in a failed rebellion and lost his wife and children. It is unclear how close to that back story Disney will stick, but Nemo's tone will be decidedly action-adventure. Marks’ credits include Street Fighter: »
- James Cook
Randall Wallace Takes a Swing at McG’s Captain Nemo
7 July 2009 10:18 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
I’ll make no bones about it: I don’t see how screenwriter Justin Marks is getting all this work in Hollywood, especially since the only movie of his that has been produced and actually seen (though that’s debatable) has been the unGodly awful “Street Fighter” movie. Maybe someone actually saw “Street Fighter” and decided this guy can’t write dialogue or form a coherent narrative structure to save his life, because Disney has brought Randall Wallace onboard to do a pass on McG’s upcoming remake of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”. THR says the remake, which may eventually go with the simpler title of “Captain Nemo”, will be more action-adventure heavy, and trace the origins of Captain Nemo and his submarine warship, the Nautilus. No word yet on what direction Disney will go, though anyone hoping for an Indian Captain Nemo should probably stop holding their breath now. »
- Nix
Randall Wallace To Rewrite Captain Nemo
7 July 2009 9:55 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Here’s a good sign that Disney’s McG-directed reboot of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is heading in the right direction: a new writer has already been brought on board.Randall Wallace, the writer of Braveheart (good), We Were Soldiers (bad) and Pearl Harbor (oh God), has replaced the original scribes, Bill Marsilii and Justin Marks, on the big-budget action-adventure Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.Nemo, of course, is the shadowy anti-hero who captains the massive submarine, the Nautilus, and drives two of Verne’s books, 20,000 Leagues… and its sequel, The Mysterious Island, in which he is revealed to be an Indian prince. It’s not yet known if Wallace and Disney will retain Nemo’s Indian heritage for the new movie, but we’re not overly optimistic.Whatever his take on the material, Wallace had better get a move on. He starts filming on his next directorial project, »
McG's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Remake Gets a Rewrite
7 July 2009 9:20 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
I wonder if the poor box office performance of Terminator Salvation has anything to do with this? Disney has brought in (via THR) Oscar nominated writer Randall Wallace (Braveheart, Pearl Harbor, We Were Soldiers) to rewrite the original draft of the Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea script penned by Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li) and Bill Marsilii (Deja Vu). Now the big question is if McG will move into directing this rather than Terminator 5, which might never get made. The last we heard, 20,000 Leagues was already in pre-production, but now they've got to wait for the rewrite. This updated version of Jules Verne's classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea will tell the origin of Captain Nemo and his submarine warship, the Nautilus. Nemo is a mysterious but noble antagonist in the book, a scientific genius with a thirst for knowledge and a desire for »
- Alex Billington
Disney and Diane Lane Jump on 'Secretariat'
11 June 2009 5:12 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Diane Lane's grabbing the reins in Disney's new film Secretariat. Lane will be starring as Penny Chenery, a housewife who takes over her father's thoroughbreeding farm after he falls ill. She learns the ropes fast, and her horse Secretariat goes on to win the 1973 Triple Crown. Secretariat will focus on her relationship with the prize-winning horse, which is a nice change from movies focusing on relationships between, say, Lane and Richard Gere as in 2008's weepy Nights in Rodanthe.
Randall Wallace, who wrote the screenplays for Atlas Shrugged, We Were Soldiers, Pearl Harbor, and Braveheart, is directing; he also directed We Were Soldiers and The Man in the Iron Mask. Mike Rich is behind the script; he also penned similarly inspirational flicks The Nativity Story, The Rookie, and Finding Forrester.
Secretariat sounds a little bit Seabiscuit-y and a little bit you-go-girl, with a distinct possibility for sappiness. Is Disney »
- Jenni Miller
Diane Lane books lead role in 'Secretariat'
11 June 2009 12:56 PM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Diane Lane will take over the lead in Randall Wallace's upcoming Disney horse flick "Secretariat," according to Variety.
The Oscar-nominated actress will slip into the role of Penny Chenery, an American racehorse owner whose thoroughbred Secretariat won the 1973 Tripe Crown.
Chenery first stepped into the world of horses and racing when she took over her father’s horse farm in Virginia. Following her horse’s extraordinary win, she later became known as the “first lady of racing.”
Mike Rich ("The Nativity Story") wrote the script. Wallace's directing credits include “The Man in the Iron Mask” and Mel Gibson’s war drama “We Were Soldiers.”
As for Lane, she recently starred in the mediocre "Nights in Rodanthe." No offense against her (she's beautiful), but I've kind of had it with horse flicks for a while. How about you? »
- Franck Tabouring
Diane Lane Starring In The Disney Film "Secretariat"
11 June 2009 5:28 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Diane Lane will be starring in an upcoming Disney film alongside a horse. "Secretariat" will tell the story of the titular character, a 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse, and his owner.
The 44-year-old "Unfaithful" actress will play Penny Chenery, known as the "First Lady of Racing" who owns Secretariat. Penny is a mother and housewife who knew little about horse racing when she inherited her father's farm in Virginia.
Secretariat already showed racing prowess even before becoming the 1973 Triple Crown champion, but Penny still considered selling him and everything else after she was hit with a large inheritance tax, Variety reports.
Randall Wallace ("We Were Soldiers") will be directing from the script by Mike Rich.
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Diane Lane Stars In Secretariat
10 June 2009 11:33 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
There is a gentleman who calls the Empire office every few months to campaign for more Diane Lane coverage in our magazine. Well, it's his lucky day, because she's lined up a new film called Secretariat, about a racehorse of the same name and his groundbreaking owner.Based on the true story of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat and his owner Penny Chenery (Lane), the film highlights her journey from housewife and mother who didn't know much about racing when she took over her father's Meadow Farm horsebreeding business, to first lady of racing. That happened in 1973, when Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes to become the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. Randall Wallace (We Were Soldiers, The Man In The Iron Mask) is directing, from a script by Mike Rich (Finding Forrester, The Rookie). The whole thing's a Disney film, so we don't feel we're »
Diane Lane to Star in Secretariat Movie
10 June 2009 10:36 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
I guess all you can hope for is that you're not outshined by the horse: Diane Lane will star in one of those Based on Real Events movies when writer-director Randall Wallace (We Were Soldiers, the Braveheart screenplay) brings the story of Secretariat to theaters.
Secretariat won the Triple Crown of horse racing in 1973, and Lane will play his owner, Penny Chenery. No word yet on whether Hilary Swank will star as the Secretariat. The standard for this kind of movie is Gary Ross' pristine Seabiscuit, but this one has a slightly different perspective. »
- Colin Boyd
Hugh Jackman and Robert Pattinson in Unbound Captives
13 May 2009 5:00 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) and Robert Pattinson (Twilight) will star in the period drama "Unbound Captives," with actress Madeleine Stowe (We Were Soldiers) making her directorial debut from a script she wrote. Though Stowe is a newcomer behind the camera, getting the job and landing that cast is a payoff for her risky decision to turn down millions of dollars for the script in 1993. Under pseudonym O.C. Humphrey, Stowe teamed with her husband, actor Brian Benben, to write "Unbound Captives" as a star vehicle for herself. She would have played a woman (now to be played by Weisz) whose husband is killed and her two children kidnapped by a Comanche war party in 1859. She is rescued by a frontiersman, to be played by Jackman. Pattinson will play the son. Fox offered Stowe $3 million, and later $5 million, for her script, with Ridley Scott poised to direct and Russell Crowe to star. »
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