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  • Mission Impossible 5 to be directed by Christopher McQuarrie

    Mission Impossible 5 to be directed by Christopher McQuarrie

    MUMBAI: It is confirmed that the Jack Reacher director will also be leading the fifth installment of the popular MI series. The film starring Tom Cruise will reunite him with McQuarrie. The two have previously worked together on Jack Reacher.

     

    The movie is being produced by Paramount and Skydance productions. Drew Pierce is writing the script for the movie. McQuarrie is repped by CAA. In 1996 McQuarrie won the best screenplay award for The Usual Suspects. He was recently associated with The Wolverine as screenwriter.

     

    Paramount Film group president Adam Goodman said that the series is famous for its signature directors and McQuarrie fulfills the role for them. The MI series have been a very popular series starring Tom Cruise. However, the movie hasn’t kept its audience going past the second movie.

  • Steven Spielberg opts out of directing ‘American Sniper’

    Steven Spielberg opts out of directing ‘American Sniper’

    MUMBAI: After having declared that he would be directing the movie about celebrated Navy Seal Chris Kyle, the Jurassic Park director has decided to not be a part of the project. DreamWorks, that joined Warner Bros in a co-production after Spielberg announced his association, has also decided to pull out of the film.

     

    The movie scripted by Jason Hall, has Bradley Cooper in the lead role. Cooper is also producing along with Andrew Lazar and Peter Morgan.

     

    This is the second time the acclaimed director has changed his priorities. He had previously pushed the filming of Robocalypse to a further date as he says he wants to redevelop it. The sudden change in plans is pointed to his keenness to follow up on Lincoln.

     

    Warner Bros will now have to look for another filmmaker to keep the movie on board. Spielberg is known to have his projects perfected to the T before he commits to them.

  • Hobbit trilogy price tag over $500 bn so far

    Hobbit trilogy price tag over $500 bn so far

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros’ three Hobbit films have racked up over half a billion dollars in production costs, reports the AP, citing Kiwi financial filings that say Peter Jackson has spent $676 million New Zealand dollars ($561 million) so far on his LOTR follow-ups.

     

    But this is just the total so far as of 31 March and doesn’t include post-March spending, post-production expenses, and marketing costs. WB has additionally enjoyed $98 million worth of New Zealand tax incentives for shooting in the area. The first of the Hobbit pics, An Unexpected Journey, grossed over $1 billion worldwide after debuting last December.

     

    Sequel The Desolation Of Smaug is set to follow with a 14 December, 2013 release followed by There And Back Again on 17 December, 2014.

  • James Cameron plans out an ‘Avatar’ movie quadrilogy

    James Cameron plans out an ‘Avatar’ movie quadrilogy

    MUMBAI: James Cameron’s planned Avatar movie trilogy is becoming a quadrilogy.

    Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), Shane Salerno (Savages) and Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planets of the Apes) have been hired to collaborate with the director to write three follow-ups to Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi blockbuster hit Avatar, 20th Century Fox announced last week.

     

    The original currently stands as the USA’s all-time box-office tyrant with a take of $760 million.

     

    The first sequel to Avatar, which followed a space marine (Sam Worthington) going native with a race of blue alien Na’vi on the moon Pandora, will begin production next year and will film simultaneously with the two other sequels.

     

    Avatar 2 is due out in December 2016, with Avatar 3 coming in December 2017 and Avatar 4 tentatively releasing December 2018.

  • Ex-Fox studio executive Rothman to make films for Sony

    Ex-Fox studio executive Rothman to make films for Sony

    MUMBAI: 20th Century Fox movie studio former co-chairman Tom Rothman has reached a deal to produce up to four films per year for a joint venture with Sony Pictures Entertainment, the company said last week.

    Starting 1 September, Rothman will serve as chairman of a venture with the studio called TriStar Productions. Sony will provide financing and retain worldwide distribution rights for TriStar’s films, and Rothman will receive an equity stake.

    Rothman left his job as chairman and chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment in January after 18 years at the company, where he oversaw filmmaking operations that produced blockbusters including Avatar and Titanic.

  • Hollywood mogul Weinstein’s mansion on sale for $32 million

    Hollywood mogul Weinstein’s mansion on sale for $32 million

    MUMBAI: Hollywood producer Bob Weinstein’s 12,000-square foot mansion on Connecticut’s Gold Coast near Greenwich has been put up for sale, with an asking price of $32 million.

     

    The recently renovated six-bedroom home is owned by Weinstein, and sits on three acres, including 440 feet of shoreline overlooking Long Island Sound. Weinstein, the younger brother of producer Harvey Weinstein, purchased the sprawling Gold Coast property in 2000 but is now selling it following a divorce with his wife, Annie, last year.

     

    The 58-year-old is the founder and head of Dimension Films, former co-chairman of Miramax Films, and current head, with his brother Harvey Weinstein, of The Weinstein Company and is known for producing hit movies such as Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, Scary Movie and The King’s Speech.

  • The inevitable defeat of Mister and Pete to release on 11 October

    The inevitable defeat of Mister and Pete to release on 11 October

    MUMBAI: The movie will tell the story of two abandoned and scared boys in New York City and how they live in the mega city. The movie will be directed by George Tillman Jr who has previously done acclaimed movies like Soul Food and Men of Honor.

     

    Written by Michael Starrbury, the motion picture stars Skylan Brooks, Ethan Dizon, Jordin Sparks, Jeffrey Wright, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Anthony Mackie and Jennifer Hudson. It has some tough competition from Sony/Columbia’s Captain Phillips and Open Road’s Machette Kills.

     

    The movie is produced by Lionsgate who have previously come up with big films like The Hunger Games, The Expendables 2 and have some lined up such as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, remake of Dirty Dancing as well as The Equalizer starring Denzel Washington.

  • Denzel Washington’s next a Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun

    Denzel Washington’s next a Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun

    MUMBAI: Renowned actor Denzel Washington has got another big credit in his kitty. This time he will be seen opposite Diahann Carroll in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun. The play was originally done by Lorraine Hansberry 55 years ago.

     

    Previews will be seen from 8 March 2014 and the opening night will be 3 April next year at the Barrymore Theatre, where the original production started half a century ago. The play is based on the various dreams and conflicts between three generations. Washington will be playing the second generation son and father.

     

    Directed by Kenny Leon, A Raisin in the Sun will only be on for 14 weeks. Washington has previously worked on several big flicks such as The Preacher’s Wife, Malcolm X, The Hurricane and is currently going to be seen in 2 Guns with Mark Walberg. Apart from acting, he has also indulged in directing and producing movies. He has also got Equalizer waiting to be released next year. He has also won a Best Actor Academy Award for Training day.

     

    Others who are part of the cast are Stephen Tyrone Williams, Jason Dirden, and Stephen McKinley Henderson. Washington has won several accolades in his more than two decades of acting career.

  • Rob Corddry in talks to join Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel in ‘Sex Tape’

    Rob Corddry in talks to join Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel in ‘Sex Tape’

    MUMBAI: Rob Corddry is in negotiations to join Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel in Sony’s Sex Tape, which Jake Kasdan is directing.

     

    The story revolves around a husband (Segel) and wife (Diaz) who take a night off from the kids and decide to spice things up by making a sex tape. When they wake up the next morning, the tape is missing, and the search is on.

     

    Corddry will play the couple’s friend who goes along on the adventure. Sex Tape is eyeing a shoot in the fall, with Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch producing.

     

    Corddry is in the middle of a busy period. He just wrapped filming Hot Tub Time Machine 2, for which he also helped craft the story, and can be seen on screens in The Way, Way Back. This year he also appeared in Warm Bodies and Pain & Gainand stars with Lake Bell in the indie comedy In a World, which Roadside Attractions opens 9 August.

     

    Childrens Hospital, the Adult Swim comedy he created and stars in, is coming off its second Emmy nomination. (Corddry also created the Adult Swim series Newsreaders, which wrapped its first season.)

     

    The funnyman is repped by WME and Principato-Young Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson.

  • Sony Pictures Entertainment to release ‘The Smurfs 2’ on 2 August

    Sony Pictures Entertainment to release ‘The Smurfs 2’ on 2 August

    NEW DELHI: The adorable and widely popular blue Belgian friends are back to spread their magic on the big screen from 2 August.

     

    Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is all set to release live action/animated family blockbuster comedy, The Smurfs 2 in 3D. The film will be released in English and Hindi in all key metros and is a sequel to the 2011 film The Smurfs and based on the characters and works of Belgian comics artist Peyo. The Hindi version has a song rendered by the nine participants of Sony Entertainment TV channel’s Indian Idol Junior.

     

    In this sequel the friendly blue creatures from mushroom houses promise to entertain their fans with more mischief and adventure.

     

    In this installment Director Raja Gosnell introduces two new characters, the Naughties, Hackus and Vexy.

     

    The film stars Neil Patrick Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Jayma Mays, with Katy Perry as Smurfette and Hank Azaria as Gargamel. Joining the voice cast are Christina Ricci and JB Smoove as Vexy and Hackus.

     

    In this sequel to the hybrid live action/animated family blockbuster comedy The Smurfs, the evil wizard Gargamel creates a group of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties to harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a true blue Smurf can give him what he wants – and only a secret spell that Smurfette knows can turn the Naughties into real Smurfs – Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and imprisons her in the city of Paris. To save their beloved Smurfette, Papa and the Smurfs return to our world and reunite with Patrick and Grace Winslow, joined in their new adventure by Patrick’s estranged stepfather Vic, before Gargamel can learn the secret and rule the world!

     

    The Smurfs, the world’s favourite three-apple-high heroes have entertained children and adults around the world since its inception in a Belgian comic book in 1958. The Smurfs have been a great success in every medium, right from coming to life in comics, books, television series, films, videogames, live shows, figurines and finally, they ruled the world’s box office.

     

    The film was a global phenomenon, going on to take in over $560 million and won hearts of people across the globe.