Hello ladies and gentlemen, here is some movie news with some of my thoughts and opinions (which will be in BOLD print). So without further ado...
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
Loosely attached to the project for years, five-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams is finally set to star as Janis Joplin in a big screen biopic that Deadline today reveals will be directed by fellow Academy Award nominee Jean-Marc Vallee. Joplin, who rose to fame in the late ’60s (first as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist), had her life tragically cut short at age 27 due to a heroin overdose. The film was, at one point titled Get It While You Can after Joplin’s iconic cover version of the Howard Tate song. “Get It While You Can” was one of three hit singles the year following Joplin’s death, alongside “Cry Baby” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” The film appears to be without an official title at the moment, however.
Scripted by Ron and Theresa Terry, the project was at one time eyed by Precious helmer Lee Daniels. Vallee, nominated for last year’s Dallas Buyers Club is already looking at early awards buzz for his latest, Wild, the Nick Horby-penned adaptation of Cheryl Stayed’s emotional memoir. He’s also already completed production on his next feature, Demolition. Featuring a “Black List” script by Bryan Sipe, the romantic drama stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts. Adams, meanwhile, stars opposite Christoph Waltz in Tim Burton’s Christmas Day release, Big Eyes and will reprise her DC Comics role as Lois Lane in 2016′s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
This is great casting. Amy Adams is one of the most talented actresses on the planet and eventhough she hasn't won an Oscar yet her time is coming and this film could be her chance. Also putting her with Jean-Marc Vallee is great as well especially seeing what he did with Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club. My main concern is Adams's age who eventhough she doesn't look it she is 40 years old and Joplin only lived to be 27 so to get a grasp on her earlier life a younger actress will have to be cast and a lot of work will need to be done to make Adams look 21 all the way to 27, but with today's technology and make-up designs the filmmakers shouldn't have a problem.
Even before Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opened in theaters this summer, 20th Century Fox was already making plans for a third film in the rebooted franchise, but after “Dawn” outgrossed the preceding “Rise” by over $225 million and became the highest-grossing film in the series, the studio might have begun thinking even bigger. Speaking with MTV, Caesar himself, Andy Serkis, was asked about the setting for the upcoming third film and revealed that the next one may not be the conclusion to the franchise. “It’s very, very early in where we choose to drop anchor in the next film. It could be five years after the event, it could be the night after the events of where we left ‘Dawn,’ so it’s very difficult to know where the story is going right at this moment because it’s being written as we speak. I know that part of the desire for Matt [Reeves] to do this next movie is about continuing the enjoyment of seeing these apes evolve. So I don’t think we’re going to see a situation where we’re jumping….It might be three films, It could be four. It could be five. Who knows? But the journey will continue. It might not necessarily be summarized or completely fulfilled in this next one. The point being, eventually we know that we’re going to end up back at ‘The Planet of the Apes,’ but whether it’s this film or not, I don’t know.” The Untitled Third Planet of the Apes film will be directed once again by Matt Reeves, who is co-writing the script with Mark Bomback. It’s set for release on July 29, 2016.
These are really great comments. Andy Serkis has really brought a lot to this franchise and helped make it relevant again mainly with his mo-cap work as Caesar. Hearing that there could potentially be a couple more films after this next one really gets me excited. I'm a huge fan of the entire Apes franchise and these past two has really given me hope for the future. I really would love to see a modern take on the original film with the new backstory that has been created with Dawn and Rise. I just glad to here this and I cannot wait for the next film.
Warner Bros. Pictures’ plans to adapt Stephen King’s massive 1978 novel The Stand into a single film are no more. Instead, attached writer/director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) reveals to Kevin Smith’s Hollywood Babble-On Podcast (via /Film) that he’s now looking at adapting the book into four features. “I really wanted to do an A-list actor, really grounded, credible version of the movie,” says Boone. “…I sold [Warner Bros.] on a single, three hour movie… So what happened is the script gets finished, I write it in like five months. Everybody loves it. [Stephen] King loves it. $87 million is what it was budgeted at. Really expensive for a horror drama that doesn’t have set pieces… They came back and said ‘Would you do it as multiple films?’ and I said ‘F–k yes!’…So I think we are going to do like four movies.”
Previously adapted as a television miniseries in 1994, The Stand tells the story of a full-scale apocalypse, driven by the accidental release of a biological weapon and the ensuing struggle of good versus evil carried out by the world’s final survivors. “I loved my script,” Boone continues, “but I was willing to drop it in an instant because you’re able to do an even truer version this way… I can’t tell you anything about how we’re going to do them or what’s going to be in which movie. I’ll just say we are going to do four movies, and we’re going to do ‘The Stand’ at the highest level you can do it at with a cast that’s going to blow people’s minds. We’ve already been talking to lots of people, and have people on board in certain roles that people don’t know about. We’re looking to go into production next year, maybe in the spring.” Previous reports suggested that Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey was being sought to play the story’s villain, the demonic figure Randall Flagg. Apropos of nothing, King’s book itself makes a brief-but-memorable cameo in the star’s latest, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
This makes great sense. Now my initial thoughts were that this idea was going to be a cashgrab like say The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 was becuase the book doesn't need top be split so many times. But in all honest this book has 823 pages and a single film wouldn't do and two films might be able to do it, but three would get every detail needed for the film to be good. Four films seems to be too much and it would feel like a cashgrab then, but I would be ok with 3 films.
Already set to star opposite some enormous reptiles in next summer’s Jurassic World, Bryce Dallas Howard is targeting Walt Disney Pictures’ upcoming remake of Pete’s Dragon. Variety has the news, reporting that the Spider-Man 3 star is in talks for the female lead in the David Lowery film. The original film, a hybrid of live action and animation, was released in 1977 and followed the adventures of Pete, a young orphan boy with an imaginary friend, Elliot, who just happens to be an enormous animated dragon. The new version will offer the dragon via CGI and will have the Pete character joined by a human friend, Natalie. Oakes Fegley (This is Where I Leave You) and Oona Laurence (“Penny Dreadful”) have already been cast in those respective roles. It was revealed last month that Academy Award winner Robert Redford (who recently starred in Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The Winter Solider) is targeting the role of a local storyteller who knows a few good tales about dragons. Howard, well known to fans of The Twilight Saga for playing Victoria in the second half of the franchise, also recently starred in Jonathan Levine’s 50/50 and Tate Taylor’s Academy Award-winning The Help. Jurassic World, wherein she stars opposite Judy Greer, Chris Pratt, Ty Simpkins, Irrfan Khan and many more, hits theaters June 12, 2015. Lowery has also co-written the screenplay for Pete’s Dragon with Toby Halbrooks and is set to begin production shortly in New Zealand. Jim Whitaker (American Gangster, The Odd Life of Timothy Green is attached to produce.
This is pretty great casting. Bryce Dallas Howard is a very talented actress and she is vastly underrated. I feel like she is a pretty good fit for this film and I;'m really curious to she what role she will play. I enjoyed the first Pete's Dragon (I wasn't a huge fan) and I'm really curious to see how this film will turn out.
“The Hobbit” films, “Sherlock” and “Fargo” star Martin Freeman is joining Tina Fey and Margot Robbie in Paramount Pictures’ Taliban Shuffle, says The Hollywood Reporter.The film is based on Kim Barker’s wartime memoir, which tells of Barker’s arrival as a fish out of water in Kabul, filing stories about militants, being a woman in wartime Iraq and Pakistan, dealing with boredom interspersed with dashes of violence, and the promiscuous war-correspondent culture. The trade adds that Freeman will play Fey’s unexpected love interest, a dedicated Scottish photojournalist. Robbie is a competing and hard-core on-air reporter. Freeman can next be seen in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, opening in theaters on December 17.
This is pretty decent casting. Martin Freeman is a really great actor and if you've seen Sherlock he does have a comedic sense of humor and being put in this film will really help him get more recognition. This film sounds really interesting and I'm really curious to see how it plays out.
So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, which of these stories peaked your interest or was there another story that interested you? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
Loosely attached to the project for years, five-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams is finally set to star as Janis Joplin in a big screen biopic that Deadline today reveals will be directed by fellow Academy Award nominee Jean-Marc Vallee. Joplin, who rose to fame in the late ’60s (first as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist), had her life tragically cut short at age 27 due to a heroin overdose. The film was, at one point titled Get It While You Can after Joplin’s iconic cover version of the Howard Tate song. “Get It While You Can” was one of three hit singles the year following Joplin’s death, alongside “Cry Baby” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” The film appears to be without an official title at the moment, however.
Scripted by Ron and Theresa Terry, the project was at one time eyed by Precious helmer Lee Daniels. Vallee, nominated for last year’s Dallas Buyers Club is already looking at early awards buzz for his latest, Wild, the Nick Horby-penned adaptation of Cheryl Stayed’s emotional memoir. He’s also already completed production on his next feature, Demolition. Featuring a “Black List” script by Bryan Sipe, the romantic drama stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts. Adams, meanwhile, stars opposite Christoph Waltz in Tim Burton’s Christmas Day release, Big Eyes and will reprise her DC Comics role as Lois Lane in 2016′s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
This is great casting. Amy Adams is one of the most talented actresses on the planet and eventhough she hasn't won an Oscar yet her time is coming and this film could be her chance. Also putting her with Jean-Marc Vallee is great as well especially seeing what he did with Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club. My main concern is Adams's age who eventhough she doesn't look it she is 40 years old and Joplin only lived to be 27 so to get a grasp on her earlier life a younger actress will have to be cast and a lot of work will need to be done to make Adams look 21 all the way to 27, but with today's technology and make-up designs the filmmakers shouldn't have a problem.
Even before Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opened in theaters this summer, 20th Century Fox was already making plans for a third film in the rebooted franchise, but after “Dawn” outgrossed the preceding “Rise” by over $225 million and became the highest-grossing film in the series, the studio might have begun thinking even bigger. Speaking with MTV, Caesar himself, Andy Serkis, was asked about the setting for the upcoming third film and revealed that the next one may not be the conclusion to the franchise. “It’s very, very early in where we choose to drop anchor in the next film. It could be five years after the event, it could be the night after the events of where we left ‘Dawn,’ so it’s very difficult to know where the story is going right at this moment because it’s being written as we speak. I know that part of the desire for Matt [Reeves] to do this next movie is about continuing the enjoyment of seeing these apes evolve. So I don’t think we’re going to see a situation where we’re jumping….It might be three films, It could be four. It could be five. Who knows? But the journey will continue. It might not necessarily be summarized or completely fulfilled in this next one. The point being, eventually we know that we’re going to end up back at ‘The Planet of the Apes,’ but whether it’s this film or not, I don’t know.” The Untitled Third Planet of the Apes film will be directed once again by Matt Reeves, who is co-writing the script with Mark Bomback. It’s set for release on July 29, 2016.
These are really great comments. Andy Serkis has really brought a lot to this franchise and helped make it relevant again mainly with his mo-cap work as Caesar. Hearing that there could potentially be a couple more films after this next one really gets me excited. I'm a huge fan of the entire Apes franchise and these past two has really given me hope for the future. I really would love to see a modern take on the original film with the new backstory that has been created with Dawn and Rise. I just glad to here this and I cannot wait for the next film.
Warner Bros. Pictures’ plans to adapt Stephen King’s massive 1978 novel The Stand into a single film are no more. Instead, attached writer/director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) reveals to Kevin Smith’s Hollywood Babble-On Podcast (via /Film) that he’s now looking at adapting the book into four features. “I really wanted to do an A-list actor, really grounded, credible version of the movie,” says Boone. “…I sold [Warner Bros.] on a single, three hour movie… So what happened is the script gets finished, I write it in like five months. Everybody loves it. [Stephen] King loves it. $87 million is what it was budgeted at. Really expensive for a horror drama that doesn’t have set pieces… They came back and said ‘Would you do it as multiple films?’ and I said ‘F–k yes!’…So I think we are going to do like four movies.”
Previously adapted as a television miniseries in 1994, The Stand tells the story of a full-scale apocalypse, driven by the accidental release of a biological weapon and the ensuing struggle of good versus evil carried out by the world’s final survivors. “I loved my script,” Boone continues, “but I was willing to drop it in an instant because you’re able to do an even truer version this way… I can’t tell you anything about how we’re going to do them or what’s going to be in which movie. I’ll just say we are going to do four movies, and we’re going to do ‘The Stand’ at the highest level you can do it at with a cast that’s going to blow people’s minds. We’ve already been talking to lots of people, and have people on board in certain roles that people don’t know about. We’re looking to go into production next year, maybe in the spring.” Previous reports suggested that Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey was being sought to play the story’s villain, the demonic figure Randall Flagg. Apropos of nothing, King’s book itself makes a brief-but-memorable cameo in the star’s latest, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
This makes great sense. Now my initial thoughts were that this idea was going to be a cashgrab like say The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 was becuase the book doesn't need top be split so many times. But in all honest this book has 823 pages and a single film wouldn't do and two films might be able to do it, but three would get every detail needed for the film to be good. Four films seems to be too much and it would feel like a cashgrab then, but I would be ok with 3 films.
Already set to star opposite some enormous reptiles in next summer’s Jurassic World, Bryce Dallas Howard is targeting Walt Disney Pictures’ upcoming remake of Pete’s Dragon. Variety has the news, reporting that the Spider-Man 3 star is in talks for the female lead in the David Lowery film. The original film, a hybrid of live action and animation, was released in 1977 and followed the adventures of Pete, a young orphan boy with an imaginary friend, Elliot, who just happens to be an enormous animated dragon. The new version will offer the dragon via CGI and will have the Pete character joined by a human friend, Natalie. Oakes Fegley (This is Where I Leave You) and Oona Laurence (“Penny Dreadful”) have already been cast in those respective roles. It was revealed last month that Academy Award winner Robert Redford (who recently starred in Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The Winter Solider) is targeting the role of a local storyteller who knows a few good tales about dragons. Howard, well known to fans of The Twilight Saga for playing Victoria in the second half of the franchise, also recently starred in Jonathan Levine’s 50/50 and Tate Taylor’s Academy Award-winning The Help. Jurassic World, wherein she stars opposite Judy Greer, Chris Pratt, Ty Simpkins, Irrfan Khan and many more, hits theaters June 12, 2015. Lowery has also co-written the screenplay for Pete’s Dragon with Toby Halbrooks and is set to begin production shortly in New Zealand. Jim Whitaker (American Gangster, The Odd Life of Timothy Green is attached to produce.
This is pretty great casting. Bryce Dallas Howard is a very talented actress and she is vastly underrated. I feel like she is a pretty good fit for this film and I;'m really curious to she what role she will play. I enjoyed the first Pete's Dragon (I wasn't a huge fan) and I'm really curious to see how this film will turn out.
“The Hobbit” films, “Sherlock” and “Fargo” star Martin Freeman is joining Tina Fey and Margot Robbie in Paramount Pictures’ Taliban Shuffle, says The Hollywood Reporter.The film is based on Kim Barker’s wartime memoir, which tells of Barker’s arrival as a fish out of water in Kabul, filing stories about militants, being a woman in wartime Iraq and Pakistan, dealing with boredom interspersed with dashes of violence, and the promiscuous war-correspondent culture. The trade adds that Freeman will play Fey’s unexpected love interest, a dedicated Scottish photojournalist. Robbie is a competing and hard-core on-air reporter. Freeman can next be seen in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, opening in theaters on December 17.
This is pretty decent casting. Martin Freeman is a really great actor and if you've seen Sherlock he does have a comedic sense of humor and being put in this film will really help him get more recognition. This film sounds really interesting and I'm really curious to see how it plays out.
So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, which of these stories peaked your interest or was there another story that interested you? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
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