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  • Paramount set to revive Beverly Hills Cop series

    MUMBAI: The fourth film in the series is under discussion to be produced, after looking at the success of the TV series pilot episode last year.






    The first film was released in 1984 and the third in 1994 after which it stopped. The first three installments together grossed about $750 million.


    Eddie Murphy will still be playing the role of Axel Foley, the Detroid-based tough cop. Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec who have had successful stints in movies such as Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are also part of the ensemble.


    The decision came after a tough bidding for the series on TV ensued, before going to CBS. The pilot was produced by Sony Pictures TV with Paramount as rights holder. However, the series was never aired but it has created enough buzz to be made into a fourth installment in the franchise.

  • Vin Diesel to be seen in ‘World’s Most Wanted’

    Vin Diesel to be seen in ‘World’s Most Wanted’

    MUMBAI: Universal Pictures has roped in the famed The Fast and the Furious actor to be the lead of the movie. Dan Mazeau is the script writer who had previously co-written the script for Warner Bros‘ Wrath of the titans. The action adventure movie is being rewritten by him. The original was written by Will Staples and Sean O‘Keefe.

    Neal Moritz will be producing the movie. Moritz and Diesel have worked together on The Fast and the Furious series. Mazeau is represented by CAA, Circle of Confusion and Katz Golden while Diesel is repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

  • Ben Foster to portray cyclist Lance Armstrong in biopic

    MUMBAI: The untitled movie directed by Stephen Frears, is in final negotiations with Ben Foster. The movie will talk about the renowned cyclist‘s rise to fame while battling testicular cancer in the nineties and his recent tryst with performance enhancement drugs and subsequent disgrace.


    John Hodged has penned the script for the movie while Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will be producing it. The movie by Working Title‘s movie is one of three movies that are being made on the world number one cyclist. The other two are being created by Warner Bros and Paramount but this seems to be lagging behind the other two.






    Foster was previously seen in movies like Ain‘t them bodies saint and will soon be seen inLone Survivor.

  • Two classic martial arts titles to be remade

    MUMBAI: Celestial Pictures and The Weinsten Company announced that they will be joining hands to recreate The Avenging Eagle and Come Drink with Me. These movies are owned by the Shaw Brothers Library, the largest Chinese feature film in the world.


    Harvey Weinstein and David Thwaites will be the producers while Jon Fusco will be making the screenplay. This will be Celestial Pictures‘ first English language adaptation of the martial arts movies from Shaw Brothers‘ films.






    In The Avenging Eagle, orphans are raised by a cabal master called as King Eagle who grow up to be a part of his gang of thugs called The Thirteen Eagles. But one of them starts to rebel and avenge the King Eagle. The original movie released in Hong Kong in 1978 won many accolades.


    A group of thugs kidnap an official in Come Drink With Me, in exchanged for their captured leader. The official‘s sister, a martial artist is sent to free him but is hit by a poisonous dart. She is then helped by a beggar, who is a Kung-Fu master in disguise. The original is a 1966 movie from Hong Kong.






    The deal for The Avenging Eagle and Come Drink With Me was negotiated by Kristen Tong for Celestial Pictures with David Glasser for TWC.

  • Gandolfini starrer ‘Enough Said’ gets a release date

    MUMBAI: The comedy film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener will be released on 20 September. The movie stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Catherine Keener as well as James Gandolfini as Louis-Dreyfus‘ love interest. Gandolfini died of a heart attack on 19 June.






    The film centers on Eve (Louis-Dreyfus), a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne (Keener), the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest Albert (Gandolfini), a sweet, funny and like-minded man – who also happens to be Marianne‘s dreaded ex-husband.


    Toni Collette, Ben Falcone, Eve Hewson, Tavi Gevinson and Tracey Fairaway co-star, and Anthony Bregman produced.


    Gandolfini had been working on many projects at the time of his death. Release dates of the others are still not known.

  • Disney’s playful ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Poster

    MUMBAI: Two weeks post the release of the first poster, the second poster shows a pleading Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) with a shadow of Mickey Mouse and P L Travers (Emma Thompson) with a shadow of Mary Poppins.


     






    A charming tagline reads ‘Where her book ended, their story began‘ referring to the classic childrens‘ book Mary Poppins written by Travers.


     


    The movie is first big screen bopic to be made on Walt Disney, which shows his struggle to make an adaptation of the book Mary Poppins battling resistance from Travers, which turns out to be his main struggle.


     


    The movie is set to be released on 13 December.

  • Chinese theaters ban Despicable Me 2

    MUMBAI: In an effort to thwart imported animated flicks, the government has denied permission to release the movie in the country. The previous installment was also not released in 2010.


     







     


    Despite the fact that an article, praising the movie‘s success in the US was published, hopes of getting a release in the country were crushed. Though the movie got a good reception from Hong Kong, it won‘t see the light of the day in China.


     


    Previously DreamWorks‘ movie The Croods was pulled from the country‘s screens two weeks early in June this year. However, Monsters University has got clearance to be released on 23 August in China. It will face competition from the 3D version of Jurassic Park.

  • Paul Greengrass to helm ‘The trial of Chicago 7’

    MUMBAI: Paul Greengrass is in final talks to direct the movie written by Aaron Sorkin, creator of the Newsroom, the movie is based on





    the trial of seven people who were charged with conspiracy and inciting to riot during the Chicago protests of 1968‘s Democratic national Convention.


     


    DreamWorks will be funding development while Disney will be distributing the movie. Sorkin had signed a three project deal with DreamWorks in 2007.


     


    The project which has been in the doldrums since long, Steven Spielberg‘s name was once attached to it. Due to the delay, he left, after which the contenders were Greengrass and Ben Stiller.


     


    Greengrass‘ next movie is Captain Phillips. He is represented by CAA.

  • Keanu Reeves plays a samurai in ‘Ronin 47’

    MUMBAI: The movie by Universal will have Reeves playing a Japanese warrior. Four posters for the movie have been released showing the samurai with a sword. The movie is due to be released on Christmas this year.


     






     


    Based on a true account of the 47 Ronin, the film directed by Carl Rinsch, will have fantastical elements like sorcery and witchcraft. The posters that are out are labelled as ‘outcast, warrior, freak and witch‘.







    Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine), Kou Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano (Thor)and Rinko Kikuchi (Pacific Rim) also star in the flick

  • Crossface a tribute for tragic story of wrestler Chris Benoit

    Crossface a tribute for tragic story of wrestler Chris Benoit

    MUMBAI: SRG Films has set Vicente Amorim to direct Crossface, a feature adaptation of the Matthew Randazzo book Ring Of Hell: The Story Of Chris Benoit And The Fall Of The Pro Wrestling Industry.

    Amorim, who helmed the Viggo Mortensen-starrer Good, will chronicle the pressures that WWE superstar Chris Benoit faced through his wrestling career and how a lethal combination of drug-use, depression, and head trauma became unbearable for him. In 2007, Benoit murdered his wife and young son before taking his own life. Sarah Coulter wrote the script and production is expected to begin next year.

    “Wrestling is showbiz taken to the extreme and Crossface is Limelight on steroids,” said Amorim, who with other directors is currently working on Rio, I Love You. “Chris Benoit‘s story is the perfect vehicle for a fiercely honest film that is as much about him and the world of wrestling as it is about America and show business. I am very happy to be on board to help tell this story.”

    Amorim‘s past helming credits are Too Much Brazil, The Middle Of The World and Dirty Hearts. SRG Films chief Dale Alexander Carnegie called Amorim‘s work “not only thrilling, but also touching, two things we hope to bring to our film.”