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Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

6 November 2009 2:25 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Gabourey Sidibe in Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Photo: Lionsgate For almost 90-percent of it's runtime Precious is so bleak and downright desperate you wouldn't need to explain yourself if you told me you didn't want to see it. However, should you go against what your instincts are telling you, you will end up seeing an eternally hopeful film that is hands-down the best drama I have seen in 2009 so far. This isn't an easy film to watch, and at times it made my stomach turn, but to somehow come through everything we bear witness to and walk away with some sense of "things are going to be better," moved me beyond measure.

Starring as the title character is Gabourey Sidibe as she opens herself up to a well of emotion unlike any I have seen all year. Living in Harlem in 1987, Precious is 16-years-old and pregnant »

- Brad Brevet

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Tony Scott + Chippendales Means a Different Kind of Action

29 October 2009 7:55 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

That's right, Variety reports Tony Scott, the man responsible for such adrenaline fueled action flicks as Deja Vu and Enemy of the State, is gearing up to bring some sex to the silver screen in the form of a biopic about the rise and fall of Chippendales club creator Steve Banerjee. The Scott Free banner will produce the Lisa Schraeger written script (she also wrote another sex driven bipoic chronicling the Heidi Fleiss story Pay the Girl for Nicole Kidman) which is being adapted from some sort of manuscript written by Rodney Sheldon. No cast have been announced, but with all the shirtless guys in Hollywood it can't be that difficult. The story of Banerjee has plenty of interesting ups and downs. After working at a Mobil gas station and a failed backgammon club (seriously?), Banerjee bought a Los Angeles club named Destiny II and turned it into a nightclub »

- Ethan Anderton

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Patton Missed Out On Prom Night Because Boyfriend Was White

22 October 2009 6:36 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Actress Paula Patton refused to attend her high school prom with the man who was to become her husband - because he was white.

The Deja Vu star has been dating soul singer Robin Thicke since they were both teenagers and she has only recently told him why they missed out on prom night.

She explains, "I didn't want people to know (we were dating). I didn't want people to call me a sellout or an Oreo, because I'd gotten that my whole life and it wasn't the truth.

"I actually just admitted this to Robin not too long ago."

But Thicke tells Giant magazine he was far from surprised: "She had actually told a couple of people I was black.

"Then prom night comes, we'd been together a year and a half, and she just lies and says she didn't want to go instead of saying she didn't want to take me."

Patton finally gave up her fears about what friends would think about her interracial romance and went public with her boyfriend, who became her husband in 2005.

The couple is now expecting its first child. »

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Tony Scott Remaking The Hunger Vampire Film

22 September 2009 5:30 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »

In a THR article about how author Whitley Strieber has signed with the Gersh Agency, is news that Warner Bros is currently developing a remake of "The Hunger." Striber wrote "The Hunger" early in her career and back in 1983, director Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Deja Vu) turned the novel into a vampire horror film, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. Plot: An Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return, the men and women don't age, until Miriam had enough of them. That becomes the case with John and his life expectancy has been reduced to 24 hours. Desperately he seeks help from Dr. Sarah Roberts, who decides to get in contact with Miriam herself only to get caught up as well. Last we heard, Scott was considering doing a sequel rather than a remake. And back in July, it was reported that Fredrik Bond (Hack/Slash, »

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Michele Strikes Again By Winning The 4th ‘Big Brother’ 11 Pov

1 August 2009 7:11 PM, PDT | OnTheFlix | See recent OnTheFlix news »

In a Deja Vu like moment, Michele has won the "Big Brother" 11 Power Of Veto once again. She beat out Russell,Ronnie,Lydia,Kevin,and Jessie to win today's "Power of Veto" competition. We don't yet know what the game was since they don't show those on the live feeds. But when the feeds came back on, we saw Ronnie begging Michele to save him. He told her to try and talk to the others about it. He's been promising Michele the world to get her to save him. She told him that they'll talk . Then Russell talked to Michelle in private,and told her that he'll do whatever she wants to keep him in the game. »

- Andre@ontheflix

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'Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' To Be 'Globe-Trotting Movie' Likely To Film In Australia and New Zealand

22 July 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

The script for Disney’s adaptation of the classic Jules Verne character Captain Nemo is getting a revision, as Randall Wallace (“Braveheart”) steps in to rework the script previously penned by Bill Marsilii ("Deja Vu") and Justin Marks ("Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li"). As MTV recently learned, the film’s origin story focus will remain and producers have been traveling the globe to scout possible shoot locations.

“We’re just back from Australia on Friday,” producer Sean Bailey told MTV News. “We were looking around Australia and New Zealand. It’ll be a big, big globe-trotting movie. We feel like if you’re going to go 20,000 leagues under the sea, [the audience] needs to feel like you’ve done it with [Nemo].”

Director McG (“Terminator Salvation”) has said in the past that he’d like to see Will Smith take on the role of Nemo. As the script is still in flux, »

- Eric Ditzian

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Washington Stops the Unstoppable

14 July 2009 1:59 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Denzel Washington (The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3) strolls his way off of Unstoppable, the film being spewed out of Twentieth Century Fox. Originally negotiating re-teaming yet again with Tony Scott, he jumps ship after the estimated release date and production budget took too long to gather together. 

Currently onboard with the upcoming production is Chris Pine who was set to co-star alongside the actor and Tony Scott possibly sitting along in the director’s chair again. This would have been another pairing between him and Scott, working with him already in The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Deja Vu. Despite all of this, money issues overall prevented continuing this pairing.

Denzel’s latest role will be the title character in The Book of Eli, opening on January 15th, 2010. »

- Melissa Molina

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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

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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Remake Gets A Rewrite

8 July 2009 9:15 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

The script for the upcoming McG directed 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake was originally written by Bill Marsilii (Deja Vu) and Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li). But today we learn from The Hollywood Reporter that Oscar-nominated screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart, Pearl Harbor), has been brought on to rewrite Disney’s update of the classic Jules Verne tale.

 

THR reports that Wallace’s rewrite aims to focus (the newly titled) Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea on:

“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.”

A lesser-known sequel to Nemo was later written by Jules Verne called The Mysterious Island, which revealed Captain Nemo as an Indian Prince who took part in a rebellion and lost his wife and children. »

- Ross Miller

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‘Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’ To Get A Touch Of ‘Braveheart’

8 July 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Disney’s “Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” has been in silent running mode for awhile now. We first heard that “Terminator Salvation” director McG would be taking the helm of a fast-tracked origin story of Jules Verne’s famed submarine captain back in January. In an interview with MTV a few months later, the director revealed his plans to carry the 139 year old story “into today’s culture.”

Today, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the script penned by Bill Marsilii (”Deja Vu”) and Justin Marks (”Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li”) is getting a rewrite from Randall Wallace. Wallace scripted Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart,” Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor” and — oddly — the popular PC role-playing game “Titan Quest.”

I’ll admit that I haven’t been terribly excited about this project. McG is hit-or-miss with me and the Justin Marks half of the original script’s writing »

- Adam Rosenberg

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‘Braveheart’ Writer Tapped for Captain Nemo

8 July 2009 6:43 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Randall Wallace (Braveheart) has been brought aboard the vessel that will carry director McG and the folks at Disney 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wallace has been brought on to rewrite Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the upcoming adaptation of the classic Jules Verne story. He will be working off of a script from Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li) and Bill Marsilii (Deja Vu). No word yet on why the change was made, but we can only assume that the Justin Marks draft was riddled with awful dialog -- something we all learned the hard way with his work on Street Fighter. The project, which isn't set to hit theaters until 2011, will follow the origin story of Captain Nemo and his submarine warship, the Nautilus. In the original book, Nemo is a mysterious scientific genius with a thirst for knowledge and a desire for revenge against the forces »

- Neil Miller

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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

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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

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‘The Stoning of Soraya M.’ Brings Attention to a Terrible Practice

2 July 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

We like to showcase and bring you news of different kinds of entertainment here at The Flickast. From movies to tv, comics, games and all things geek, we try our best to find the most interesting, entertaining and informative stuff we can. Its not always very serious, but we always try to make it fun. But sometimes, a film comes along that’s very serious and deals with a subject that’s not fun at all but still warrants attention. That film is The Stoning of Soraya M.

The film, which features Academy Award nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) and Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ, Deja Vu), was the recent winner of the La Film Festival’s Audience Award. It’s based on the true story of an Iranian village’s persecution of an innocent woman named Soraya who’s only crime is being in a bad marriage. »

- Chris Ullrich

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Film Junk Podcast Episode #223: Year One

22 June 2009 10:52 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

0:00 - Intro 1:45 - Headlines: Indiana Jones 5, Red Dawn Remake Gets Bourne Alumni, John Carter of Mars Casting, Megan Fox Apologizes to Flower Kid, Sean Penn Drops Out of Three Stooges, First Images from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland 15:30 - Feature: Bilingual DVD Artwork 30:15 - Review: Year One 40:40 - Trailer Trash: 2012, Cold Souls, Zombieland 52:15 - Other Stuff We Watched: Kevin Costner and Modern West, The Way of the Gun, Behind Enemy Lines, Rescue Dawn, Major League, Napoleon Dynamite, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Road to Perdition, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fast Company, Crimson Tide, Chopping Mall, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Hitch-Hike, Room 666, Deja Vu, Masters of the Universe, A Fistful of Dollars, The Truman Show, Weeds, Away We Go 1:51:33 - Junk Mail: Director's Cuts, Best Parts in the Trailer, End of Movie Rental Era 2:16: »

- Sean

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The Taking of Pelham 123 Movie Trailer

18 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »

Watch this brand new HD movie trailer for the upcoming film “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3″ by director Tony Scott (The Warriors, Deja Vu, True Romance, Top Gun) and starring John Travolta (From Paris with Love), Denzel Washington (The Book of Eli), James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Jason Butler Harner (Possible Side Effects, Fringe), Brian Haley (Gran Torino) and John Turturro (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen). Movie Synopsis: Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day’s work for dispatcher Walter Garbe into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the [...] »

- Brian Corder

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'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3'

17 June 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

"Surprising" is the first word I thought of after seeing the remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. The trailer told me it was yet another Speed wannabe, a stereotypical 'Bad Man does Bad Thing' and involves 'Average Joe Good Guy' who finds his inner hero while saving lives.

Expecting nothing more than two hours of boredom, I was pleasantly surprised.

The reason for this rests solely on the shoulders of scribe Brian Helgeland who is able, not necessarily to spin a good yarn — not much you can do with a train jacker asking for ransom except have the train jacker ask for ransom — but Helgeland to build good characters.

While Helgeland has shown his indubitably excellent talent in such films as L.A. Confidential and Mystic River, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, while itself an average film, is perhaps the best example of his character-building abilities to date, if only because »

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Director Tony Scott Interview The Taking of Pelham 123

15 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »

The Inside Reel recently interviewed director Tony Scott on the upcoming film “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3″ by director Tony Scott (The Warriors, Deja Vu, True Romance, Top Gun) and starring John Travolta (From Paris with Love), Denzel Washington (The Book of Eli), James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Jason Butler Harner (Possible Side Effects, Fringe), Brian Haley (Gran Torino) and John Turturro (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen). Movie Synopsis: Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day’s work for dispatcher Walter Garbe into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for [...] »

- Brian Corder

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Washington Faced Subway Fear On Pelham Set

14 June 2009 4:15 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Denzel Washington nearly passed up an offer to reteam with director Tony Scott for a fourth time - after discovering he'd have to face his fear of public transport for new film The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3.

The 54-year-old actor grew up in rural New York, hours away from the city, and is still haunted by the lewd acts and violent crimes he witnessed on his daily commutes.

And when he signed on to the movie to play a train engineer, Washington immediately saw flash backs of the rat-infested subway system - leaving him questioning whether he could go through with filming.

He says, "I grew up in Mount Vernon, a two hour ride on the train everyday. I fell asleep and ended up in Brooklyn (New York) some nights. I almost got robbed. I've seen babies being made on the train. I've seen it all, and I said to myself, 'If I ever get two dollars to rub together, I will never take the train.'"

Washington and Scott have previously worked together on films including Crimson Tide, Man on Fire and Deja Vu. »

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Video: Behind the Scenes of Taking of Pelham 123

12 June 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »

To help spread the word for "The Taking of Pelham 123" remake, starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta, we now have a featurette that shows lots of behind the scenes footage from the movie. In addition, you can hear Travolta talk about the filming since he was absent from press junkets due to the untimely death of his son. Plot: Washington stars as New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber, whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. Travolta stars as Ryder, the criminal mastermind who, as leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train's passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there's one riddle Garber can't solve: »

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