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“Talking Tom” App To Become A Film





“Assassin’s Creed” producer and former EuropaCorp CEO Jean-Julien Baronnet is teaming with developer Outfit7 to adapt the mobile app “Talking Tom and Friends” into a feature film.

Launched nearly a decade ago, the family-friendly app follows a wisecracking cat that responds to gestures made on smartphone or tablet screens, and can animate voice recordings.

The game has racked up more than 8 billion downloads and boasts 350 million monthly active users who’ve welcomed the game’s themes of friendship, listening, and tolerance. The film is said to be a “high-content, hybrid family film, featuring both digital characters and real-life actors”.

A CG animated web series based on the property began airing in 2015, while tie-in indoor amusement parks in China have also been constructed.

 

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Talking Tom Shorts Mega-Pack (Binge Compilation)

Love to laugh? Then we’ve got the video for you! Settle back and watch 10 incredible episodes of the Talking Tom and Friends Shorts in one place. It’s a laugh-a-minute riot of fun. Enjoy!

 

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The true story of Doaa Al Zamel, a Syrian refugee and mother of two fleeing Egypt for Sweden by boat.

Shipwrecked along the way, can she survive for days in open water holding her two small children in each arm with only the support of an inflatable water ring?

 

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Dunham Pens “Hope” For Spielberg, Abrams





“Girls” creator Lena Dunham has been hired to pen the film adaptation of Melissa Fleming’s non-fiction novel “A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea” for Paramount Pictures and Amblin Partners.

Producers Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams themselves reportedly hired Dunham for the project which documents the true story of Doaa Al Zamel, a Syrian refugee and mother of two fleeing Egypt for Sweden by boat.

Shipwrecked along the way, she survived for days in open water holding her two small children in each arm with only the support of an inflatable water ring. Dunham will appear in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” opening next year.

 

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OFID Annual Award Winner: Doaa al Zamel

20 year old Doaa al Zamel from Syria addresses OFID's Ministerial Council Gala Dinner in Vienna, Austria - June 2, 2016. Doaa was awarded OFID's 2016 Award for Development for her bravery in surviving a shipwreck and saving a child's life, and advocacy on behalf of refugees like herself. Click here to learn more about Doaa's story - http://tracks.unhcr.org/2015/06/the-d...

 

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The Death Boats: A Survivor’s Tale
The sea may have taken the love of her life, but Doaa still found the strength to save a young child.

http://tracks.unhcr.org/2015/06/the-death-boats-a-survivors-tale/

 

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Set in modern-day India but also incorporating mythology, The Kid emerges from prison to grapple with a world marred by corporate greed and eroding spiritual values.

 

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Dev Patel To Direct “Monkey Man”





“Slumdog Millionaire” and “Lion” actor Dev Patel will make his directorial debut on the revenge thriller “Monkey Man” which will be presented at this year’s American Film Market.

Set in modern-day India but also incorporating mythology, Patel plays The Kid who emerges from prison to grapple with a world marred by corporate greed and eroding spiritual values. Chung-hoon Chung (“IT”) will serve as cinematographer while 87Eleven (“Atomic Blonde,” “John Wick”) will choreograph the film’s action scenes.

Patel co-wrote the script with Paul Angunawela. Basil Iwanyk, Joe Thomas, Samarth Sahni, and Patel will all produce with filming to begin in the Spring in Mumbai. Patel will next be seen in “Hotel Mumbai”.

 

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A more character-driven take on the infamous crooks, Bonnie and Clyde, who gained renown during the Great Depression as they committed multiple bank and store robberies in the early 1930s before being ultimately slain in Louisiana.

Back to the previous movie.....

BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)......

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/bonnie-and-clyde-1967.2239/

 

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Moretz & O’Connell Are Bonnie & Clyde





Jack O’Connell (“Unbroken”) and Chloe Grace Moretz (“Kick-Ass”) are attached to star as Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in the film “Love Is a Gun”.

Spanish helmer Kike Maillo directs this more character-driven take on the infamous crooks who gained renown during the Great Depression as they committed multiple bank and store robberies in the early 1930s before being ultimately slain in Louisiana.

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway famously played the pair on screen in 1967. Marissa McMahon and Ashley Schlaifer are producing the new take which has a script by Sheldon Turner and Johnny Newman. Filming begins early 2019.

 

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"Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde"- Georgie Fame

 

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The most likely case is it will follow the now grown up Lucius, son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and nephew of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix).

Back to the original movie....

GLADIATOR.....

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/gladiator-2000.6410/

 

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The “Gladiator” Sequel Is Finally Happening?





After nearly two decades of talk about it, Ridley Scott is going back to the Colosseum and has begun proper development of a sequel to 2000’s “Gladiator” at Paramount Pictures.

“The Town” and “12 Strong” scribe Peter Craig, who recently turned in a script for a new take on “Logan’s Run,” has been hired to pen the script but how the story will continue isn’t clear considering Russell Crowe’s Maximus character is killed by the end of the film. The most likely case is it will follow the now grown up Lucius, son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and nephew of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix).

Crowe starred in the original as General Maximus Decimus Meridius who leads the Roman army to victory against the Germanic tribes and is loyal to Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) who wants him to succeed him as regent.

Marcus’ snivelling son Commodus, enraged by the news, murders his father and becomes Emperor. Maximus is left for dead while his family is brutally murdered, and he’s eventually forced to become a gladiator and return to Rome to fight whilst plotting his revenge against Commodus.

The film scored Oscars for Best Picture and Best Actor for Crowe’s work, while it was also a hit with $460 million at the worldwide box office. DreamWorks released the first film but is no longer involved. Co-producer Universal Pictures reportedly has the option to co-finance.

At one point over a decade ago, Scott and Crowe approached famed musician and “The Proposition” writer Nick Cave about doing a script. That version was a wild flight of fancy and would’ve seen Maximus being reincarnated by the Roman gods and transported to fight in important periods in history including World War II and the Vietnam War. It was rejected as being too far-fetched, and not in keeping with the spirit and theme of the original.

 

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A mother searches for her daughter in a post-apocalyptic world.

 

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Genesis

Kate Bosworth has been set to both produce and star in the sci-fi action thriller “Genesis” at Make Pictures Productions and Bad Idea. The story follows a mother searching for her daughter in a post-apocalyptic world. Mike Le Han is directing from a script by Brian Michael Scully while Jason Tamasco, Jerry Careccio and Zak Kristofek will produce.

 

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"JENNN-ISS-ISSS!?!?!? ALLOWED IS NOT!!!! IS PLANET FORBIDDEN!!!!!"

 

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A young valet driver who gets involved in a government mission to take down an international arms dealer after he valets a car for a government agent.

 

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Noah Centineo To Lead Action Film “Valet”





Recent breakout star Noah Centineo (“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”) has been cast in a leading role in the action-romance film “Valet” for the newly minted Proxima Media.

Centineo will play a young valet driver who gets involved in a government mission to take down an international arms dealer after he valets a car for a government agent.

Assaf Bernstein helms from a script by Jason Hall. Mark Burg, Michael Lambert, Daniel Herther, Brad Kaplan and Brent Baum will be the producers. Centineo is currently filming the “Charlie’s Angels” reboot.

 

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A group of women, wives of military men who would never describe themselves as feminists, band together to save their fighter pilot husbands who were shot down, captured and imprisoned for years under deplorable conditions during the Vietnam War.

 

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League of Wives

Fox 2000 has preemptively acquired the rights to Heath Lee’s non-fiction book “League of Wives” with plans for an adaptation which Reese Witherspoon will produce.

The story follows a group of women, wives of military men who would never describe themselves as feminists, that banded together to save their fighter pilot husbands who were shot down, captured and imprisoned for years under deplorable conditions during the Vietnam War.