MUMBAI: The world will have to wait another year for its Independence Day 2. Fox has announced that it is moving the long pending sequel from 3 July 2015 – a date it had announced in June – to 1 July 2016.
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That means the Roland Emmerich-helmed pic will arrive exactly 20 years and one day after the blockbuster original, which made a movie star of Will Smith. The sequel will go up against another bombing-themed movie Sony’s Angry Birds.
MUMBAI: The world will have to wait another year for its Independence Day 2. Fox has announced that it is moving the long pending sequel from 3 July 2015 – a date it had announced in June – to 1 July 2016.
That means the Roland Emmerich-helmed pic will arrive exactly 20 years and one day after the blockbuster original, which made a movie star of Will Smith. The sequel will go up against another bombing-themed movie Sony’s Angry Birds.
MUMBAI: Warner Bros has signed Rupert Sanders to direct Napoleon, a Scarface-style look at the French leader that will be produced by Gianni Nunari. Jeremy Doner is the scribe and Niija Kuykendall will oversee for the studio.
This comes a day after the studio tapped Joe Wright to direct Pan. Sanders made his feature directing debut on Universal’s Snow White And The Huntsman, which grossed near $400 million worldwide. He’s got 90 Church with that studio and producer Joe Roth, and he’s developing Juliet for Sony and New Regency, with Charles Roven producing, as well as the screen adaptation of the Frederick Forsyth thriller The Kill List for producers Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz and Nick Wechsler.
MUMBAI: British filmmaker Joe Wright may soon be directing a Peter Pan movie for the Warner Bros. studio.
Wright has been known for his period pieces starring Keira Knightley, is in talks to direct the origin movie. Scripted by the Jason Fuchs, an actor-turned-writer who penned Ice Age: Continental Drift, the movie will be a take on the Peter Pan myth.
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It is learned that Warner Bros is very high on the project and Sarah Schechter is overseeing and making it one of its priorities.
With this, Wright seems to be taking all the interesting choices — from romantic and tragic period dramas like Pride & Prejudice, Atonement and Anna Karenina to off-beat action movie Hanna.
MUMBAI: British filmmaker Joe Wright may soon be directing a Peter Pan movie for the Warner Bros. studio.
Wright has been known for his period pieces starring Keira Knightley, is in talks to direct the origin movie. Scripted by the Jason Fuchs, an actor-turned-writer who penned Ice Age: Continental Drift, the movie will be a take on the Peter Pan myth.
It is learned that Warner Bros is very high on the project and Sarah Schechter is overseeing and making it one of its priorities.
With this, Wright seems to be taking all the interesting choices — from romantic and tragic period dramas like Pride & Prejudice, Atonement and Anna Karenina to off-beat action movie Hanna.
MUMBAI: It was great moment for the Hollywood fraternity to see two of their best actors — Julia Roberts and George Clooney — come together on stage and appreciate each other.
At the 2013 BAFTA LA Awards on Saturday night, Roberts, who co-starred with Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven presented the 52-year-old with the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film.
Reportedly, Julia was in a very jolly mood when she came on stage. She joked: “There are two obvious reasons why I was chosen to do this: one, Brad Pitt was out of town. Two, Matt Damon, he’s in town, but he was unavailable.”
However, the actor took a serious turn to praise Clooney, who has been her co-actor, director and producer too. “All of which he is immeasurably gifted at,” she said.
How could Clooney not have reciprocated? He equally appreciated the Pretty Woman actor. “It has been such a pleasure to watch the woman you have become. It’s very hard for me to be just straight nice because she’ll get me later. But just an amazing mother, an amazing wife and a great, great friend. It’s really an honour to have her here.”
And they had a nice evening even after they stepped down from the stage. They sat next to each other and were seen laughing and chatting.
MUMBAI: Comedian-turned-filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait has signed a deal with MPI for all U.S. rights to his latest film, Willow Creek that stars Bryce Johnson and Alexie Gilmore.
The pact adds to MPI’s Dark Sky line-up that includes Goldthwait films World’s Greatest Dad and God Bless America.
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Willow Creek written by Goldthwait puts a faux-docu spin on the Bigfoot mythos as seen through the eyes of an aspiring documentarian (Bryce Johnson) and his skeptical actress girlfriend (Alexie Gilmore) as they take a tour of Northern California’s Trinity National Forest in search of Sasquatch. The film release in Q2 2014.
MPI’s Greg Newman negotiated the deal with Preferred Content’s Zac Bright and Kevin Iwashina and Cassian Elwes.
MUMBAI: Charlie Sheen turned many heads two years ago when he hurled abuses publically at Chuck Lorre, his Two And A Half Men boss and the channel CBS, after a fallout with them. The actor, infamous for his antics, has done the same again – this time, in order to making amendments with Lorre.
Apparently, the actor recently took to the social-networking site, Twitter, to reach out to Lorre. The actor wrote, “hey Chuck. I have an idea that u need to hear after I make amends to you and yours. which I will do in person.” Attached to this message was a picture of People’s Choice Award for Two and a Half Men from 2007.
Sheen, who now stars on Anger Management for FX, was fired from Two and a Half Men in 2011 after publicly insulting Lorre and his bosses on the CBS/Warner Bros. He objected to his firing and later included Lorre as a defendant in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit.
MUMBAI: Comedian-turned-filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait has signed a deal with MPI for all U.S. rights to his latest film, Willow Creek that stars Bryce Johnson and Alexie Gilmore.
The pact adds to MPI’s Dark Sky line-up that includes Goldthwait films World’s Greatest Dad and God Bless America.
Willow Creek written by Goldthwait puts a faux-docu spin on the Bigfoot mythos as seen through the eyes of an aspiring documentarian (Bryce Johnson) and his skeptical actress girlfriend (Alexie Gilmore) as they take a tour of Northern California’s Trinity National Forest in search of Sasquatch. The film release in Q2 2014.
MPI’s Greg Newman negotiated the deal with Preferred Content’s Zac Bright and Kevin Iwashina and Cassian Elwes.
MUMBAI: Dan Stevens, the Downton Abbey star, may soon join Ben Stiller and Robin Williams in Fox’s Night at the Museum 3, according to reports.
After leaving Downton Abbey, the actor has been busy with Adam Wingard’s, The Guest and Liam Neeson’s, A Walk Among Tombstones. In Night at the Museum 3, the actor will play the role of Lancelot, which was a negative character in the film.
The action is set in London this time as it sees Stiller return as security guard Larry Daley, Williams return as Teddy Roosevelt and Shawn Levy returning to the director’s chair. The series has grossed close to a billion dollars in the past.