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  • Joel Edgerton to play Ramses in Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus’

    Joel Edgerton to play Ramses in Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus’

    MUMBAI: Joel Edgerton is in talks to star opposite Christian Bale in Ridley Scott’s Biblical epic Exodus

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    The actor, who cemented his in-demand status after a series of high-profile roles including Zero Dark Thirty and The Great Gatsby, would play the Egyptian ruler Ramses in the 20th Century Fox film that is moving toward a September start date. Bale is onboard to portray Moses.

     

    Exodus will shoot in Spain, Morocco and England.

     

    The project had picked up steam earlier this year when Steve Zaillian came aboard as scribe. Adam Cooper and Bill Collage penned a previous draft.

     

    Peter Chernin, who bought the project as a pitch, is producing alongside Scott. Both Chernin and Scott are based at Fox, as is Zaillian and Garrett Basch’s film rights.

     

    Edgerton, whose credits include the critically acclaimed crime drama Animal Kingdom, broke out in Gavin O’Connor’s 2011 MMA drama Warrior. He recently stepped into O’Connor’s Jane Got a Gun opposite Natalie Portman. The Aussie actor also is onboard to star opposite Michael Shannon in Jeff Nichols’ sci-fi film Midnight Special at Warner Bros.

  • ‘Expendables 3’ gets newcomer Glen Powell on board

    ‘Expendables 3’ gets newcomer Glen Powell on board

    MUMBAI: After getting some big names, a newcomer has joined the cast which already includes Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and Antonio Banderas. Powell will be playing a lead role. He will be playing a highly trained combat veteran, an expert hacker and a drone pilot.

    Bruce Willis, who was in the first two movies had been struck off the cast list after demanding a higher price for his role. He had asked for $4 million as compared to $3 million that had been offered to him for a four day shoot.

    Lionsgate has come up with a release date of 15 August 2014. Stallone will return as Barney Ross, who takes the team on yet another high octane mission. Patrick Hughes is directing. Screenplay is done by Stallone and Richard Wenk.

    Jackie Chan and Nicholas Cage are also said to have small appearances. Powell has worked in The Dark Knight Rises and upcoming Red Wing. He is repped by Resolution and Untitled.

  • Breaking Bad writer to pen Cop-Mafia Clash ’90 Church’

    Breaking Bad writer to pen Cop-Mafia Clash ’90 Church’

    MUMBAI: Universal has set George Mastras to adapt the Dean Unkefer book ’90 Church: the true story of the narcotics squad from hell’ who has won an Emmy for Breaking Bad. Rupert Sanders will be helming the project. +

     

    Three people will be producing it: Joe Roth, Palak Patel and Deborah Giarratana. The name ’90 Church’ refers to the place of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in New York, when it was formed to tackle the increasing organised crime and drug traffic in the 1960s and 1970s. FBI agents used cunning tactics to stop the increasing numbers. The reputation of ’90 Church’ grew with the body count as well.

     

    The book was a fiction story but was written by an agent himself who worked in the department. Mastras is repped by CAA and manager Dan Halsted.

  • Vin Diesel in talks to join ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’

    Vin Diesel in talks to join ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’

    MUMBAI: Vin Diesel just might be Groot. The Fast and The Furious franchise actor is in negotiations to join Marvel’s newest ensemble tent pole. If it all works out, Vin Diesel would play the tree-like alien in the James Gunn-directed Guardians Of The Galaxy.

     

    Diesel posted a captionless pic of Groot up on his Facebook page. For a while the drawing from the GOTG comic stood as his cover page before being taken down and then disappeared all together from his public timeline.

     

    The Groot character can absorb wood to gain strength and recover from injuries as well as control trees. While hyper-intelligent, the alien seems to only ever say the line “I am Groot” over and over to those who cannot hear his real voice.

  • Brad Pitt & Paramount get the last laugh as ‘World War Z’ cracks $500 mn

    Brad Pitt & Paramount get the last laugh as ‘World War Z’ cracks $500 mn

    MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures reports that World War Z had passed the $500 million worldwide gross mark,

    surpassing Troy’s $497.3 million to become Brad Pitt’s highest grossing film ever. One could argue that WWZ

    received the benefit of a higher ticket price particularly because of its 3D numbers. But considering how badly

    maligned this film was in the weeks before it bowed, hitting the half billion dollar plateau seems something to

    brag about, even for a movie that cost in the $220 million range.

     

    According to Paramount (which co-financed with Skydance), WWZ has set several records for Pitt, whose Plan B

    produced. It set a personal best with a $66 million opening on 21 June, and a total of $197.4 million in US, both

    of which exceeded Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s total domestic gross of $186.3 million and $50.3 million opening

    weekend. The film has earned $305.2 million at the international box office, to date.

     

    This pales in comparison to the numbers put up by Johnny Depp and his Alice in Wonderland and Pirates of the

    Caribbean franchises, but Pitt has done a lot of cool movies that were never meant to be blockbusters, and this

    was his most mainstream film since Troy and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Passing the half billion dollar mark begs the

    question of whether Pitt returns for an encore.

  • Mel Gibson, Antonio Banderas join ‘Expendables 3’

    Mel Gibson, Antonio Banderas join ‘Expendables 3’

    MUMBAI: News is that Mel Gibson and Antonio Banderas have joined The Expendables 3 ensemble, the Millennium Entertainment pic that already picked up Harrison Ford to add to the cast that has begun to resemble the Old Timers Day game held annually at Yankee Stadium.

    Recently Bruce Willis had a fallout with the franchise on grounds of demanding more remuneration for the assignment. Stallone took to Twitter to respond with Willis is lazy and greedy and will no longer be a part of the third installment.

    Sylvester Stallone continues to bring in aging action muscle for the franchise he hatched back in 2010. The only action stars left to be added by Stallone and Millennium are Jeff Speakman and Brian Bosworth. They seem to be about the only action heroes who haven’t joined the beefcake brigade, just yet?

  • Paramount dates ‘Paranormal Activity 5’

    Paramount dates ‘Paranormal Activity 5’

    MUMBAI: Paramount is setting details for its next two Paranormal Activity franchise outings.

    The newly titled Latino-focused spin-off is now called Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones and will debut 3 January 2014. The film helmed by series scribe Christopher Landon had originally been slated for a 25 October 2013 release but that spot will now be filled by comedy Paramount and MTV Films’ Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa.

    Meanwhile, franchise sequel Paranormal Activity 5 will open in time for next year’s Halloween on 24 October 2014.

  • Alec Baldwin in talks for MSNBC prime time show

    Alec Baldwin in talks for MSNBC prime time show

    MUMBAI: Alec Baldwin may well be following in the footsteps of Charles Grodin, segueing from a career as an actor to a gig as a talk show host on an NBC-affiliated cable network. Baldwin is in talks with MSNBC to host a primetime talk show.

     

    According to Mediate, which first reported the Baldwin-MSNBC negotiations, the Emmy-winning actor is eyed for the 10 p.m. hour. Following his seven-year run on NBC’s 30 Rock, the network kept Baldwin in the fold with a two-year overall deal inked late last year.

     

    Since then, he was considered for a late-night talk show, with the discussion focusing on Baldwin possibly taking over NBC’s 1:35 a.m. half-hour occupied by Last Call With Carson Daly. However, nothing came out of that, and Last Call was renewed for another season. Baldwin has been considered a solid talk show host contender.

  • Bruce Willis left ‘Expendables 3’ over $1 million-a-day fee demand

    Bruce Willis left ‘Expendables 3’ over $1 million-a-day fee demand

    MUMBAI: Bruce Willis has left the Expendables 3 and according to Sylvester Stallone it was because he was greedy and lazy. Stallone stunned Hollywood by tweeting “WILLIS OUT . . . HARRISON FORD IN!!!! GREAT NEWS!!!!! Been waiting years for this!!!!,” then following up with a second tweet reading “GREEDY AND LAZY . . . A SURE FORMULA FOR CAREER FAILURE.”

     

    Apparently Willis said that he would leave unless he got $4 million for four days. He was supposed to get just $3 million. Consecutively Stallone got Ford to join the cast. Willis’ reps at CCA did not wish to comment on this.

     

    Willis was recently seen in Red 2, which grossed just $80 million worldwide. This installment of The Expendables has a budget of more than $90 million and is set to release August 2014. In addition to Stallone and Ford, the cast includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke and Wesley Snipes.

  • Kate Winslet, Judy Davis to star in revenge dramedy ‘The Dressmaker’

    Kate Winslet, Judy Davis to star in revenge dramedy ‘The Dressmaker’

    MUMBAI: Kate Winslet and Judy Davis will be seen in the movie, written and directed by Australian Jocelyn Moorhouse. The movie is about Tilly Dunnage (Winslet) who ran away from her home when she was accused of murder and has now returned as a couturier. Now she has to make things right with her eccentric mother.

     

    The Dressmaker is based on a novel of the same name, the principal photography for which will be at Australia 2014. The DOP is Don McAlpine, production designer is Roger Ford, editor Jill Bilcock and costume designer Tim Chappel.

     

    The countries of Australia and New Zealand will have Universal Pictures International releasing the movie and worldwide, UK based sales agent Embankment films will do the work. For USA, it will be co-represented by CAA.

     

    Winslet is represented by CAA and United Agents. Davis is represented by Shanahan Management.