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Jeff Goldblum To Pay “Price of Admission”
Oscar nominee Jeff Goldblum is set to join Michael Sheen and Michelle Monaghan in writer/director Peter Glanz’s next feature “The Price of Admission” at Armian Pictures.
Part dramedy and part existential thriller, Sheen plays a man named Harold Sugar whose life is unravelling. He’s a middling playwright in a mid-life crisis and failing marriage to his wife (Monaghan) who is tired of being second-fiddle to his work and wants a family.
However incapable of functioning in reality, Harold submerges himself in an elaborate play about his life. The only person who understands his plight is his best friend, Alexander Taft (Goldblum), a behavioural psychologist with a mid-life crisis of his own.
Peter Glanz (“The Longest Week”) is directing the film from his own screenplay, and will produce with Neda Armian and Alex Foster.
Oscar nominee Jeff Goldblum is set to join Michael Sheen and Michelle Monaghan in writer/director Peter Glanz’s next feature “The Price of Admission” at Armian Pictures.
Part dramedy and part existential thriller, Sheen plays a man named Harold Sugar whose life is unravelling. He’s a middling playwright in a mid-life crisis and failing marriage to his wife (Monaghan) who is tired of being second-fiddle to his work and wants a family.
However incapable of functioning in reality, Harold submerges himself in an elaborate play about his life. The only person who understands his plight is his best friend, Alexander Taft (Goldblum), a behavioural psychologist with a mid-life crisis of his own.
Peter Glanz (“The Longest Week”) is directing the film from his own screenplay, and will produce with Neda Armian and Alex Foster.
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It's a sort of Bieber/Cupid animated film thing!
Or something!
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Bieber To Voice Cupid In Animated Film
Canadian singer is set to voice Cupid, the winged God of desire, in a new animated film project from Mythos Studios.
Mythos, a production company founded in March by former Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel and Bieber’s manager and music executive Scooter Braun, is behind the project which Bieber will also executive produce.
The young singer will provide the voice for the winged figure, who can provoke mortals to fall in love once struck by his enchanted arrows. No other talent has been announced as being attached to the project as yet.
Canadian singer is set to voice Cupid, the winged God of desire, in a new animated film project from Mythos Studios.
Mythos, a production company founded in March by former Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel and Bieber’s manager and music executive Scooter Braun, is behind the project which Bieber will also executive produce.
The young singer will provide the voice for the winged figure, who can provoke mortals to fall in love once struck by his enchanted arrows. No other talent has been announced as being attached to the project as yet.
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Ryan Reynolds To Lead Raimi’s “Bermuda”?
Its been five years since Sam Raimi has directed a film and at last report he had a mysterious project in the works at Skydance Productions and centering on the Bermuda Triangle.
Now That Hashtag Show is reporting that Ryan Reynolds is tipped to star as the lead of the film which “Power Rangers” scribe John Gatniss is writing and deals with a mysterious island and a missing nuclear submarine.
According to the site, Reynolds would play a theoretical physicist who uses his grandfather’s research to open a wormhole to said island inhabited by anything lost in the triangle including sharks, vikings, and Nazis, in the hopes of retrieving the weapons.
The film aims to begin production in September ahead of a 2019 release.
Its been five years since Sam Raimi has directed a film and at last report he had a mysterious project in the works at Skydance Productions and centering on the Bermuda Triangle.
Now That Hashtag Show is reporting that Ryan Reynolds is tipped to star as the lead of the film which “Power Rangers” scribe John Gatniss is writing and deals with a mysterious island and a missing nuclear submarine.
According to the site, Reynolds would play a theoretical physicist who uses his grandfather’s research to open a wormhole to said island inhabited by anything lost in the triangle including sharks, vikings, and Nazis, in the hopes of retrieving the weapons.
The film aims to begin production in September ahead of a 2019 release.
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ARACHNAPHOBIA remake is on it's way....
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For better or worse....
It's (sort of) sequel time.....
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Rock’s “Little China” Is A Sequel, Not A Remake
Three years ago came word that Dwayne Johnson wanted to both produce and star in a remake of John Carpenter’s iconic 1986 fantasy action-comedy “Big Trouble in Little China” – a proposition that made the original’s fans very nervous.
Things did not improve when Carpenter himself revealed he was only made aware of the project by the trade reports, saying he has no involvement in the new one which has “X-Men: First Class” scribes Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz penning the script.
Johnson has professed a love for the original, but seemed an odd choice to play Kurt Russell’s iconic role of Jack Burton, the all-American trucker who gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The film is tonally very delicate, the entire character of Jack Burton hinges on the fact he’s an idiot, a competent yet cavalier outsider who is always playing catch-up and his success is often thanks to dumb luck rather than any kind of exceptionalism.
It’s a welcome skewering of masculine action hero archetypes that Johnson himself has become known for in recent years. Even when Johnson mocks himself he does so lovingly and never betrays the self-seriousness that drives him – very different to the far more relaxed Russell who is more than happy to truly lampoon himself.
So it comes as a welcome surprise today when Hiram Garcia, president of production at Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions and one of the producers on the film, tells Collider they’re not going the remake route:
“There’s a lot of things going on with [Big Trouble in Little China]. We are in the process of developing that, and let me tell you, the idea is not to actually remake Big Trouble in Little China. You can’t remake a classic like that, so what we’re planning to do is we’re going to continue the story. We’re going to continue the universe of Big Trouble in Little China.
Everything that happened in the original exists and is standalone and I think there’s only one person that could ever play Jack Burton, so Dwayne would never try and play that character. So we are just having a lot of fun. We’re actually in a really great space with the story that we’ve cracked. But yeah, no remake. It is a continuation, and we are deep into development on that as well, and I think you’ll start hearing some things about that probably soon.”
It’s a smart move, allowing for a film to be set in the same world without stepping on the iconic work by not just Russell but others such as James Hong as David Lo Pan. The film is still a while off either way with Johnson currently filming “Jungle Cruise,” then jumping onto “Hobbs & Shaw,” “Jumanji 3” and “Red Notice”.
Three years ago came word that Dwayne Johnson wanted to both produce and star in a remake of John Carpenter’s iconic 1986 fantasy action-comedy “Big Trouble in Little China” – a proposition that made the original’s fans very nervous.
Things did not improve when Carpenter himself revealed he was only made aware of the project by the trade reports, saying he has no involvement in the new one which has “X-Men: First Class” scribes Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz penning the script.
Johnson has professed a love for the original, but seemed an odd choice to play Kurt Russell’s iconic role of Jack Burton, the all-American trucker who gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The film is tonally very delicate, the entire character of Jack Burton hinges on the fact he’s an idiot, a competent yet cavalier outsider who is always playing catch-up and his success is often thanks to dumb luck rather than any kind of exceptionalism.
It’s a welcome skewering of masculine action hero archetypes that Johnson himself has become known for in recent years. Even when Johnson mocks himself he does so lovingly and never betrays the self-seriousness that drives him – very different to the far more relaxed Russell who is more than happy to truly lampoon himself.
So it comes as a welcome surprise today when Hiram Garcia, president of production at Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions and one of the producers on the film, tells Collider they’re not going the remake route:
“There’s a lot of things going on with [Big Trouble in Little China]. We are in the process of developing that, and let me tell you, the idea is not to actually remake Big Trouble in Little China. You can’t remake a classic like that, so what we’re planning to do is we’re going to continue the story. We’re going to continue the universe of Big Trouble in Little China.
Everything that happened in the original exists and is standalone and I think there’s only one person that could ever play Jack Burton, so Dwayne would never try and play that character. So we are just having a lot of fun. We’re actually in a really great space with the story that we’ve cracked. But yeah, no remake. It is a continuation, and we are deep into development on that as well, and I think you’ll start hearing some things about that probably soon.”
It’s a smart move, allowing for a film to be set in the same world without stepping on the iconic work by not just Russell but others such as James Hong as David Lo Pan. The film is still a while off either way with Johnson currently filming “Jungle Cruise,” then jumping onto “Hobbs & Shaw,” “Jumanji 3” and “Red Notice”.
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New movie in the works?
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A New “Police Academy” Movie Is Coming?
Steve Guttenberg, the star of beloved 1980s comedy franchise “Police Academy,” has indicated that another installment in the series is on the way.
Responding to a Twitter fan recently, Guttenberg said on Twitter: “The next Police Academy is coming, no details yet, but it is in a gift bag being readied!”. Seven films were released in the Police Academy franchise from 1984 to 1994 with only the first one rated R.
Despite Guttenberg’s comments, there’s no indication of another one making serious progress as yet. A script for another film has been in development for over a decade with the last serious update being “The Break-Up” scribe Jeremy Garelick taking a shot at a draft back in 2012.
Steve Guttenberg, the star of beloved 1980s comedy franchise “Police Academy,” has indicated that another installment in the series is on the way.
Responding to a Twitter fan recently, Guttenberg said on Twitter: “The next Police Academy is coming, no details yet, but it is in a gift bag being readied!”. Seven films were released in the Police Academy franchise from 1984 to 1994 with only the first one rated R.
Despite Guttenberg’s comments, there’s no indication of another one making serious progress as yet. A script for another film has been in development for over a decade with the last serious update being “The Break-Up” scribe Jeremy Garelick taking a shot at a draft back in 2012.
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A recently widowed mother returns to her father’s isolated hotel only to find a sinister folklore presence haunting the land.
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A Spriggan
John Boyega is set to executive produce the UK fantasy horror film “A Spriggan” from writer-director Keir Burrows and producer Josephine Rose for the Bandit Country production company. The story follows a recently widowed mother who returns to her father’s isolated hotel only to find a sinister folklore presence haunting the land.
John Boyega is set to executive produce the UK fantasy horror film “A Spriggan” from writer-director Keir Burrows and producer Josephine Rose for the Bandit Country production company. The story follows a recently widowed mother who returns to her father’s isolated hotel only to find a sinister folklore presence haunting the land.
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No updates on this project in ages, so I will be bumping it and a fair few other floundering films with my newfangled lazy card above.... 
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Feig On His Scrapped “Ghostbusters 2” Plans
However you feel about director Paul Feig’s “Ghostbusters” reboot, there’s no question the 2016 film was a dud. Costing $144 million and taking in a box-office haul of $229 million, the film lost any chance of a sequel and while critical reviews were fine, they weren’t stellar.
Feig’s back in cinemas this week with the much tighter budgeted “A Simple Favour,” dubbed a ‘post-modern film noir’ thriller which stars Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick. Out doing promo rounds for it, he spoke with Happy Sad Confused podcast where he looked back at “Ghostbusters” and revealed his initial inspiration for the now abandoned sequel was while he was doing press for the first film:
“I definitely wanted us to go to another country. Because when we were doing the press tour, the international press tour, every country the reporters would come with these drawings or artist renderings of that country’s ghosts. And every country has these really wild ghost stories and ghost characters that they scare kids with or keep people in line with. I really loved the idea of the Ghostbusters going to like Asia. Yeah, so there’s a lot of fun stuff what we could have done.”
Things are looking happier for Feig’s “a Simple Favour” which is drawing rave reviews and is expected to have a $12-15 million opening weekend.
However you feel about director Paul Feig’s “Ghostbusters” reboot, there’s no question the 2016 film was a dud. Costing $144 million and taking in a box-office haul of $229 million, the film lost any chance of a sequel and while critical reviews were fine, they weren’t stellar.
Feig’s back in cinemas this week with the much tighter budgeted “A Simple Favour,” dubbed a ‘post-modern film noir’ thriller which stars Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick. Out doing promo rounds for it, he spoke with Happy Sad Confused podcast where he looked back at “Ghostbusters” and revealed his initial inspiration for the now abandoned sequel was while he was doing press for the first film:
“I definitely wanted us to go to another country. Because when we were doing the press tour, the international press tour, every country the reporters would come with these drawings or artist renderings of that country’s ghosts. And every country has these really wild ghost stories and ghost characters that they scare kids with or keep people in line with. I really loved the idea of the Ghostbusters going to like Asia. Yeah, so there’s a lot of fun stuff what we could have done.”
Things are looking happier for Feig’s “a Simple Favour” which is drawing rave reviews and is expected to have a $12-15 million opening weekend.
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Movie planned.....
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Ritchie Rumored For “Captain Britain” Film
Little is known about the fourth phase of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, especially in the wake of production on the third “Guardians of the Galaxy” being put on indefinite hold. Once both reshoots on the fourth “Avengers” and main filming on “Spider-Man: Far from Home” wraps later this year, Marvel Studios will have to move forward with something fast to start populating its 2020 and 2021 slate.
One possibility has popped up in a report on AICN which says “The Man from UNCLE” and “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword ” director Guy Ritchie is being eyed to take on a film adaptation of the Marvel Comics hero “Captain Britain”. The site says studio space has been booked at Pinewood Studios in November and December to hold auditions for a project referred to as “Captain Britain and The Black Knight”.
Ritchie is said to be the director booked in for those dates, with Marvel reportedly looking to fill the space left by the likely to be delayed next James Bond film. The report is pure rumor for now, and hasn’t been confirmed. Bond is still trying to retain those dates while Ritchie’s schedule is booked solid with post-production on Disney’s live-action “Aladdin” along with plans to shoot a third film in the Robert Downey Jr.-led “Sherlock Holmes” film series.
Little is known about the fourth phase of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, especially in the wake of production on the third “Guardians of the Galaxy” being put on indefinite hold. Once both reshoots on the fourth “Avengers” and main filming on “Spider-Man: Far from Home” wraps later this year, Marvel Studios will have to move forward with something fast to start populating its 2020 and 2021 slate.
One possibility has popped up in a report on AICN which says “The Man from UNCLE” and “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword ” director Guy Ritchie is being eyed to take on a film adaptation of the Marvel Comics hero “Captain Britain”. The site says studio space has been booked at Pinewood Studios in November and December to hold auditions for a project referred to as “Captain Britain and The Black Knight”.
Ritchie is said to be the director booked in for those dates, with Marvel reportedly looking to fill the space left by the likely to be delayed next James Bond film. The report is pure rumor for now, and hasn’t been confirmed. Bond is still trying to retain those dates while Ritchie’s schedule is booked solid with post-production on Disney’s live-action “Aladdin” along with plans to shoot a third film in the Robert Downey Jr.-led “Sherlock Holmes” film series.
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An adaption of James Scott’s 2014 frontier novel “The Kept”