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Rene Russo Also Joins the Epic Cast of Kenneth Branagh's Thor
17 December 2009 2:50 PM, PST
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I'd be lying if I said that my interest in Marvel Entertainment's Thor has completely turned around all the way from little-to-none up to great anticipation. While I attribute most of my excitement to seeing how a director like Kenneth Branagh handles a big superhero movie, it's also because of the ever increasingly impressive casting announcements, including Anthony Hopkins being cast as Thor's father Odin. Now it looks like Odin has his wife as Variety reports Rene Russo has signed on to play Frigga, the queen of Asgard who is also not only the mother of the hammer-wielding Thor, but his mischievous nemesis Loki.
Rene Russo was a top actress starring a lot of movies in the 90s, but she hasn't been in anything good this decade. She last starred in Yours, Mine and Ours and Two for the Money, both from 2005. I'm not sure if it's good to
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- Ethan Anderton
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Hugh Jackman Likes Real Steel
23 November 2009 10:43 PM, PST
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Exciting greenlight news overnight - particularly if you're Empire's Helen O'Hara - as phoenix-from-the-flames studio Dreamworks has announced that it'll be Australian all-singing/dancing/acting/snikting sensation Hugh Jackman who'll star in Real SteelThis is one of those projects which Steven Spielberg, wearing his producer's hat (virtually indistinguishable to the untrained eye from his director's hat), has been quietly developing for some time. Variety informs us that the plot follows a boxer who has little option but to turn promoter after the sport shifts to putting robots rather than humans in the ring. At around the same time as Jackson's character discovers he has an eleven year old son, he stumbles upon a run-down robot which proves remarkably adept at his favourite sport.Quite a lot of the production cogs for Real Steel seem to be firmly in place. The screenplay, adapted from a Richard Matheson short story (he who gave us the brilliant original,
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Pine & Caruso In Talks To Make ‘Money’
14 October 2009 12:49 PM, PDT
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Variety is reporting that Chris Pine a.k.a the new Captain Kirk, and director D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye) are in talks for the fact-based financial drama, The Art of Making Money. Paramount has put plans in place to fast-track the production for an early 2010 start having one of the leading men-of-the-moment and a successful action/thriller director attached will certainly boost the movie.
Paramount acquired The Art of Making Money based on a Rolling Stone article from 2005 by Jason Kersten, who himself turned it into a book called The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter, published last summer. The script is written by Frank Baldwin, and the film will be produced by Brian Robbins, Sharla Sumpter and Brad Weston. If the two officially sign onto the project, Caruso will, of course, direct and Pine will play, “Art Williams, the alias for a Chicago man
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- Ross Miller
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Real Steel For Jackman
30 September 2009 11:39 PM, PDT
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Richard Matheson's pension fund must be looking quite healthy these days, what with the recent I Am Legend, Richard Kelly's upcoming The Box, and versions of The Incredible Shrinking Man and Countdown in the works. Adding to the writers coffers now is Dreamworks' Real Steel, to be directed by Shawn Levy, and with Hugh Jackman in talks to star.Real Steel is based on a Matheson story from 1956, and as previously reported, is set in a health and safety conscious future where robot boxing has replaced the real, flesh and blood alternative. Huge Ackman, if he signs up, will play the down-on-his-luck fight promoter who stumbles upon a discarded robot that seemingly never loses. Expect a family-friendly adventure, rather than a sort of Terminator: Undisputed. Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis are among the producers, and Levy is on board following Peter Berg's exit from the project. The
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Caruso's Dead Space
27 July 2009 8:45 AM, PDT
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EA has tapped D.J. Caruso to helm the adaptation of their survival horror game, Dead Space, for the big screen. Caruso is best known for Disturbia and Eagle Eye, but lest we forget, he was also behind Taking Lives and Two For The Money.
Now that EA has a director, they’ll shop around for a writer and then start pitching the project to studios. Dead Space was a fantastic game, and if done right, could make for an excellent horror film, though I have to admit I’d be more
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- Paul Tassi
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