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Duane Adler Set To 'Jump Around'
11 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST
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Duane Adler ("Step Up," "Save the Last Dance") will direct and rework the screenplay for teen dance drama "Jump Around" at Wind Dancer Productions, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Film follows a group of teenagers who form a double-dutch jump-roping team at their high school and compete for a spot in an international competition. Double Dutch this year became an official varsity sport in New York City schools.
Matt Williams ("What Women Want") and Judd Payne ("Passengers") will produce. Adler's script "Venice Beach" is in development at Fox with Ne-Yo attached to star.
Firdosi Wharton wrote the originally screenplay.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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- Kellvin Chavez
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"Step Up" Scribe To "Jump Around"
10 December 2009 5:54 AM, PST
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Duane Adler ("Step Up," "Save the Last Dance") will direct and rework the screenplay for teen dance drama "Jump Around" at Wind Dancer Productions says The Hollywood Reporter.
Firdosi Wharton's script follows a group of teenagers who form a double-dutch jump-roping team at their high school and compete for a spot in an international competition.
Matt Williams ("What Women Want") and Judd Payne ("Passengers") will produce. Adler's script "Venice Beach" is in development at Fox with Ne-Yo attached to star.
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- Garth Franklin
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"Step Up" Scribe To "Jump Around"
10 December 2009 5:54 AM, PST
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Duane Adler ("Step Up," "Save the Last Dance") will direct and rework the screenplay for teen dance drama "Jump Around" at Wind Dancer Productions says The Hollywood Reporter.
Firdosi Wharton's script follows a group of teenagers who form a double-dutch jump-roping team at their high school and compete for a spot in an international competition.
Matt Williams ("What Women Want") and Judd Payne ("Passengers") will produce. Adler's script "Venice Beach" is in development at Fox with Ne-Yo attached to star.
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- Garth Franklin
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2010 Sundance Film Festival Spotlight: First Images from Mother & Child Starring Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Jimmy Smits, and Samuel L. Jackson
4 December 2009 6:10 PM, PST
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Yesterday, we reported the list of films playing in the Spotlight category at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. As we approach the beginning of the festival, first images and additional images are coming online for the films which playing in-and out-of-competition. Today, the first images for Rodrigo Garcia’s (Passengers) new film Mother & Child came online and we’ve put them after the jump.
Mother & Child stars Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Jimmy Smits, and Samuel L. Jackson, and tells the story of three women - a physical therapist, the daughter she gave up at birth three decades ago, and an African American woman seeking to adopt a child of her own - and how they intersect in surprising ways.
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will run from January 21-31st.
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- Matt Goldberg
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Ring of Roses screen rights plucked
26 October 2009 7:51 AM, PDT
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One of the major benefits that's come with the huge box office success of movies based on comic books and graphic novels is that it appears that more non-superhero titles are getting developed into film and TV projects. Just such an example was announced today with the news that Das Petrou and John Watkiss's book Ring of Roses has been optioned by Spice Factory and Persistent Entertainment and is being developed into a movie.
The graphic novel wa spublished four years ago this month by Image Comics and is set in a present day alternate London where the Catholic Church is the de factor power. When six high-level priests are murdered a lawyer named Samuel Waterhouse is called upon to investigate. He hires a criminal named William Barnett to help him look for clues in the seedier places where a barrister would not be welcome, and together the two
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- Patrick Sauriol
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[DVD News] - "Passengers" Released on DVD Blu-ray 27th July
25 July 2009 6:29 AM, PDT
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After a horrific plane crash, a young therapist, Claire Summers (Oscar Nominee Anne Hathaway), is assigned by her mentor (Andre Braugher) to counsel the flight's five remaining passengers. Claire's difficulties in taking on such an assignment are made all the more complex when she's confronted by Eric (Patrick Wilson), a passenger who refuses her help and instead uses the crash as an excuse to break the rules and openly court her. As Claire struggles to maintain a professional distance from Eric, her other patients struggle with recollections of the accident which are at odds with the airline's official explanation. After their memories of a possible mid-air explosion surface, the passengers begin mysteriously disappearing, and Claire suspects the airline is behind it. Determined to
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The 2007 Blacklist Update: Where are they Now?
24 July 2009
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- The Blacklist (a list of favorite unproduced screenplays making the rounds in Hollywood created by Franklin Leonard) acts as a good indicator of the best original ideas to come out of agents/rep offices and to come out of an industry which is too dependent on sequels, prequels and remakes. So far, we are past the midway point of 2009 and I was curious to update the 2007 list and see, mostly what went into production and which of the top tier scripts were greenlite. From 2007's batch, only five screenplays out of the top sixteen are concrete films that we can speak about. Here is a status update on the top vote getters.
1. Recount by Danny Strong (44 Mentions)Status: Was broadcast on HBO. Jay Roach received directing awards. Laura Dern won a Golden Globe. 2. Farragut North by Beau Willimon (43 Mentions)Status: Was made into a play an nominated for Best Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.
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Blu-Ray Review: Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson in Supernatural ‘Passengers’
14 May 2009 6:20 PM, PDT
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Chicago – There have been several interesting movies about plane crashes, none more so than Peter Weir’s amazing “Fearless” with its career-best performance by Jeff Bridges. There’s something nearly supernatural about surviving falling from the sky in a several-ton hunk of metal. It’s that otherworldly quality that Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson use for creepy thrills in the moderately effective “Passengers,” now on Blu-Ray and DVD.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
When a movie doesn’t even open in Chicago and heads straight to the Netflix queue, most viewers, including this critic, have a natural pessimistic apprehension. But I couldn’t believe that such a talented cast as Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher, Dianne Wiest, and David Morse could produce something truly horrible.
I was right. There are parts of “Passengers” that truly work. It’s not horrible and vastly superior to the loathsome “Bride Wars”. But it’s also
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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DVD’s I Bought This Week: May 12th
12 May 2009 10:25 AM, PDT
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Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD.
The Dana Carvey Show
Pitch: He's funnier than you remember! We swear!
Why Rent? Were you even aware that SNL's Dana Carvey had his own sketch comedy show? I was apparently intoxicated or incarcerated during it's short ABC run in 1996, but with a cast that includes Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Robert Smigel (all of whom also served as writers alongside Charlie Kaufman(!)) I knew I had to eventually see it. All eight episodes, including the final one that never aired, are included.
Blu-ray? No
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Complete Sixth Season
Pitch: Teller speaks this season... bullshit! Or not! (Yay Henry Silva!)
Why Rent? These guys are not only fantastic magicians, they're also incredibly smart and critical of many widely-held beliefs. They may not always be right, but they are always entertaining. Season
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- Rob Hunter
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Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 5/12
12 May 2009 9:02 AM, PDT
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Taken
Another action fest from District 13's Pierre Morel, this time Liam Neeson gets to rescue his daughter from slave traders. These glowing words from Eric D. Snider say it all: "it is welcome as a delightfully dizzying balm to soothe the pain inflicted by recent action films that have failed to deliver. It subscribes to the less-talk-more-rock school of thought, intentionally free of nuance but overbrimming with relentless, efficient, energetic mayhem. It plays out like a season of 24, crammed into 90 minutes." Buy it. Also on Blu-ray.
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Passengers
Anne Hathaway has been making waves with her critical successes (Rachel Getting Married), and migraine-inducing romcoms (Bride Wars). But in the midst of all this, Passengers came and went without much more than a glance. A "conspiratorial supernatural thriller," Hathaway plays a grief counselor facing foul play when crash survivors begin to disappear. Skip it.
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- Monika Bartyzel
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DVD Tuesday: 'Taken', 'Grudge 3', 'Underworld 3' and more
12 May 2009 7:15 AM, PDT
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A direct-to-dvd sequel to a marginal horror flick, a surprisingly bad-ass Liam Neeson, a direct-to-dvd sequel to a cult movie about a time-traveling rabbit and a little-known thriller with Anne Hathaway tops off DVD Tuesday for today May, 12th.
Taken, S. Darko, Passengers, The Grudge 3, and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, oh my.
Warm up your Netflix queues.
S. Darko, the sequel to the 2001 genre-bending thriller Donnie Darko, was supposed to be released on wide release to your neighborhood cineplex. It didn’t happen because, as it turns out, according to big-wig Studio execs, nobody wants to pay upwards of $10 to see it. (But we’d do it for Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li. Go figure.) But, ironically, Darko fans may pay $15 for the DVD.
The film stars Daveigh Chase, reprising her role as Donnie’s (originally played by Jake Gyllenhaal who does not appear in the sequel) younger sister,
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DVD releases for Tuesday May 12, 2009
12 May 2009 6:50 AM, PDT
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Probably the most exciting release of the week is David Gregory's Plague Town (review here) which comes to us from Dark Sky Films. Despite a modest production budget it's been highly recommended to me from a few people who were lucky enough to see it at fests last year. If you're a horror nut I have a feeling this is the one for you.
Next on the checklist of genre titles this week we've got Underwold: Rise of the Lycans which takes us back to the beginning of Len Wiseman's Vampires vs. Werewolves saga with Doomsday's Rhona Mitra taking over the lead from Kate Beckinsale. I've read some decent things about Lycans but I imagine tat, beyond the amazing production design, there's a lot of exposition and posturing in this one. I'll probably rent it.
Next on the watch-list is the sequel that no one asked for but everyone will probably watch,
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Passengers Art and Specs
24 April 2009 1:34 AM, PDT
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Rodrigo García's supernatural thriller Passengers starring Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher, Clea DuVall, and Dianne Wiest is set to hit DVD and Blu-ray on May 12, 2009; and we've got the lowdown on what to expect!
Official Synopsis
"After a plane crash a young therapist, Claire (Hathaway), is assigned by her mentor (Andre Braugher) to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident -- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened -- Claire is intrigued by Eric (Wilson), the most secretive of the passengers. Just as Claire's professional relationship with Eric -- despite her better judgment -- blossoms into a romance, the survivors begin to disappear mysteriously, one by one. Claire suspects that Eric may hold all the answers and becomes determined to uncover the truth, no matter the consequences."
Special Features for the DVD and Blu-ray
Commentary with director
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- Uncle Creepy
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Will 'Bride Wars' be Anne Hathaway's 'Norbit'?
5 January 2009 11:28 PM, PST
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I never saw Norbit and for that I am eternally grateful as I remember I was in Los Angeles for the 300, Zodiac and Wild Hogs press junkets and it was all anyone was talking about. How Eddie Murphy was going to lose his Oscar for Dreamgirls as a result of how bad the film was and blah, blah, blah... I was wide-eyed just taking it all in. I mean, how could a supposedly great performance in one movie be tainted by a bad movie?
Murphy was nominated for his performance as James 'Thunder' Early in Dreamgirls, but didn't ultimately win, and many attributed it to Norbit as Alan Arkin took home the award in 2007 for Little Miss Sunshine. However, considering the film itself wasn't nominated for Best Picture is it any real surprise Murphy didn't end up winning? On top of that, are the Oscars really that petty?
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- Brad Brevet
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