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Green Olds

Thomas Haden Church, Alice Eve, and Finn Wittrock are set to star in Max Mayer’s comedy thriller “Green Olds”.

Dallas Brennan, Chris Gilligan, and Rabinder Sira will produce.

Mayer helms from a script written by Dallas Mitchell Brennan in which a young man in the American Southwest who encounters a married couple soon finds himself swept into a strange and dangerous love triangle.
 

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Grillo, Posey, Garcia Join Thriller “Decoy”



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“Teen Wolf” leading man Tyler Posey will join Frank Grillo and Andy Garcia in the Allan Ungar-directed action thriller “Decoy”

David Benullo pens the story which centers on a young identity thief (Posey) who finds himself being hunted by the NSA after he unwittingly steals the identity of a wanted man.

Grillo will play the head of a task force hunting Posey while Garcia will play the CEO of a private defense contractor who is the architect of all of Posey’s troubles.

Andrew Gunn (“Sky High”) and Michael Bien (“Billionaire Boys Club”) are set to produce.
 

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Hackford To Helm Cochran Film “Signal Hill”



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Taylor Hackford (“Ray,” “Devil’s Advocate”) is set to direct the upcoming young Johnnie Cochran film “Signal Hill”.

Anthony Mackie stars as the attorney famous for defending O.J. Simpson in the murder trial for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and waiter Ron Goldman.

In this case though the focus will be on one of his earlier cases, fighting for justice in the Signal Hill police brutality case concerning the death of 21-year-old African American running back Ron Settles in 1981.

David McMillan penned the script while Mackie, Jason Spire, Robbie Brenner, Kevin McKeon and Jeff Kwatinetz will produce. Filming aims to begin in January.






 

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Cumberbatch Goes Boxing In “Gypsy Boy”


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Benedict Cumberbatch is set to star in “Gypsy Boy,” a bare-knuckle boxing movie set within the Romany community in the United Kingdom.

The production, based on Mikey Walsh’s autobiographical novel and its sequel, is currently looking for a teenage actor to play Mikey, a young gay man pressured by his fearsome gypsy brawler father Frank (Cumberbatch) to follow in the bare-knuckle boxing tradition of his family.

Mikey is forced to make an agonising decision – to stay and keep fighting and face the shame head on, or escape and never return.

“X+Y” director Morgan Matthews and writer James Graham will re-team on the project which aims to begin shooting Summer next year.


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Stripped

Charlie Cox (“Daredevil”) and Brittany Snow (“Pitch Perfect”) are attached to star in “Stripped,” a new dramatic thriller which will serve as the directorial debut of veteran camera operator Patrick O’Brien. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Erik Howsam will produce.

Cox plays a married professional who becomes increasingly obsessed with a high-priced escort leading him down a dark path of deception and murder. Snow plays his wife. Filming begins in Vancouver this fall.
 

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The Revisionist

eOne has acquired the rights to the sci-fi thriller pitch “The Revisionist” which Hutch Parker Entertainment will produce. Michael Lloyd Green will pen the script,

The story follows a loyal soldier who is sent back in time with a hit squad to take out an illusive insurgent responsible for a global pandemic. But when their mission is compromised, he’s forced to go against his own team to change history.



 

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Nic Cage On His Lost “Superman” Film


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Back in the 1990s, before the comic book movie renaissance that began with “Blade,” “X-Men” and “Spider-Man,” Nicolas Cage and director Tim Burton spent years working on “Superman Lives”.

The project was an attempt to resurrect the DC Comics franchise which at the time had stalled in the 1980s following lackluster sequels, but their project never took off. Still, two decades later, it remains one of the more talked about ‘lost’ movies out there (along with George Miller’s “Justice League Mortal”).

Ultimately Superman was resurrected on screen first by Bryan Singer with 2006’s “Superman Returns,” and more recently with Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” in 2013. Even so, Cage still talks about his film every now and then.

That includes this week when he discussed the project with EW at the Toronto International Film Festival, saying that the film having not been made is almost irrelevant at this point:

“I would offer that the movie that Tim and I would have made, in your imagination, is more powerful than any of the Superman movies. I didn’t even have to make the movie and we all know what that movie would have been in your imagination. That is the Superman. That is the movie. Even though you never saw it – it is the Superman.”

Burton previously said in 2013 that their version was controversial at the time for being too dark, though comparatively it now: “looks like a light-hearted romp.” Cage has previously said he: “had great belief in that movie and in what Tim Burton’s vision was going to be for that movie.”

Director Brian Taylor, who helmed Cage’s latest film, also described the actor in a rather perfect way this week: “Directing Nic is like directing the weather – he’s like Hurricane Jose. You can’t change it, you can only wear the right clothing and hope you don’t get destroyed by it.”
 

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Boylan To Adapt Chastain’s “Painkiller Jane”


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Christine Boylan has been set to pen the feature film adaptation of Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada’s iconic graphic novel series “Painkiller Jane” for Lotus Entertainment and Solipsist Films.

Jessica Chastain will play Jane Vasko, a New York City street cop who gets recruited by the FBI to infiltrate a major NYC drug and human trafficking ring. In a near-death experience, Jane develops regenerative abilities that give her a unique indestructible advantage.

With nothing to live for and no way to die, Painkiller Jane becomes an unstoppable force of nature seeking revenge to those who destroyed her life as she leaves a path of death and destruction in her wake.

Chastain, Kelly Carmichael, Lenny Beckerman and Stephen L’Heureux will produce.
 

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Wan & Bender Team On “Sweet Tooth”


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“The Conjuring” director James Wan and “Final Destination” producer Chris Bender are teaming to produce a film adaptation of Nico van den Brink’s Dutch horror short film “Sweet Tooth” for New Line Cinema.

The story follows a woman who comes home to her tenement apartment and discovers via the TV news that her neighbors, a mother and her two kids, have been killed.

Then things turn creepy as she begins to hear the laughter and running of the kids.

A writer will soon be hired to flesh out the short’s concept into a feature. van den Brink will direct the feature and have a “story by” credit.


 

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Match
Peter Sollett (“Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist”) has been set to direct the romantic comedy “Match” for DreamWorks Pictures. Brenda Hsueh penned the story set in a world where a federal agency finds your perfect match. Dylan Clark and Beau Bauman are producing.
 

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Ruthless

“Baby Driver” and “The Hateful Eight” costume designer Courtney Hoffman has been set to direct the action thriller “Ruthless” for Amblin Partners. John Swetnam penned the script.

In the story, a legendary retired female assassin is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She must return to the life she left behind and complete one final job in order to secure a future for her young daughter.
 

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JOHN LANDIS ON THE PROPOSED REMAKE AND ON HIS SON DIRECTING IT......



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JOHN LANDIS: I have a Google alert and I was amazed by the headlines that came out of that. It was really like, ‘What is this Chicago in 1924?’ The headlines were insane! I just wanted to clarify that I didn’t just warn Max, I think anyone who attempts to remake a movie that is held in high regard is really risking something. The truth is that I’m not against remakes at all. I mean, David Cronenberg’s The Fly is a great movie and it’s a remake of a beloved classic, same with John Carpenter’s remake of The Thing.

COLLIDER: Yeah and even The Wizard Of Oz is technically a remake since there had been previous versions.

JOHN LANDIS: Absolutely. Sequels don’t bother me either, The Godfather Part II is one of the great American films. So any apprehension that I expressed is because I think it’s daunting. But the truth is that as I said, Max is brilliant and he wants to do it. He’s an incredibly smart, passionate guy and I was horrified to see that the impression everyone got is that I am somehow trash talking my son, which could not be farther from the truth.

COLLIDER: From my perspective, that was very clear to me in the room and I apologize if there was any confusion in how looked in print.

JOHN LANDIS: Well, that’s what happens. It’s true of anything taken out of context. It’s what they glom on. And what’s interesting is that then they have all these headlines about me trashing Star Wars. Well, I’m not trashing Star Wars at all. I think what George created is remarkable. I think J.J. Abrams is terrific and Ron Howard is terrific. I was bemoaning the fact that so many people have come and gone. It’s clearly the new Lucasfilm. But I certainly wasn’t criticizing the filmmakers or calling them slaves. Not at all.

COLLIDER: Yeah, you referring to a quote from George Lucas.


JOHN LANDIS: Yeah. It’s unfortunate because I don’t mind criticizing the new Lucasfilm, but I do mind people thinking that I was criticizing the filmmakers because I wasn’t.

COLLIDER: Well, I’m happy to get this out there and clarify.

JOHN LANDIS: Good. I really want to correct the impression that somehow I’m dissing Max because that’s the furthest thing from my mind. My main emphasis is that I am fucking crazy about my son. He’s a really good person and an extraordinary talent. He never fails to amaze me. And I also don’t think that people understand that once a writer writes a script, the director’s making a movie. If the writer’s not a director, you don’t know what’s his. Every director changes stuff. Even I’ve done that. So do movie stars. So the actual movies don’t always reflect the screenplay. Think of all the directors who were screenwriters, Billy Wilder, Francis Coppola, Preston Sturges. These are all writers who became directors because they were tired of having their scripts fucked up. The other thing that I’ll address even though it won’t do any good but because I’m fascinated by it is that people always say that he gets jobs because he’s my son. Well then they know nothing about the movie business. Even I’m looking for work!
 

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Universal’s series of horror reboots is set to continue with Bride of Frankenstein, now currently preparing for an early 2018 shoot in the UK.

Bill Condon, director of Beauty and the Beast, will helm the film, which was previously described by Universal chairman Donna Langley as the "story of a very modern woman in a very classic tale."

The film is the next in the planned shared universe franchise from the American studio giant, which will see the revival of classic monster characters interconnected in a series of films that are being branded collectively as Dark Universe.

Universal launched the canon with The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise, which shot in the UK last year. There are plans for several more features to follow featuring well-known characters from Universal's iconic horror archive, including The Invisible Man and Dr Jekyll.

Bride of Frankenstein is one of many big-budget feature films setting up in the UK. Statistics from the BFI showed that inward investment in Q1 of this year hit an all-time high for film production.
 

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Hardy, Tatum Wanted For “Beverly Hills Cop 4”?


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Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy are reportedly under consideration to star alongside Eddie Murphy in the fourth entry in the “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise.

Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah came onboard to develop and direct the film last year, and the pair recently appeared on a Dutch talk show and suggested both names as one they were interested in for the key role.

Whomever is cast will play a new cop in Detroit who winds up clashing with Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley, essentially flipping the premise of the original film. The plan is also to shoot much of the movie in Detroit, but getting a satisfactory script in place has been a problem.

Murphy’s involvement is also a big question – the actors hesitancy to commit to a recurring role on a “Beverly Hills Cop” TV series in 2013 was said to be a major reason the project never went to series despite a well-received pilot.


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Vaughn: Why “Flash Gordon” Won’t Work Today


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Filmmaker Matthew Vaughn has revealed that his plan years ago to make a reboot of the “Flash Gordon” franchise was kind of cut off at the knees by James Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy”.

Speaking with Collider during “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” press rounds, the British helmer says the project hasn’t made much progress as making the comic adaptation stand out in the market today is difficult:

“For me, the only problem with Flash Gordon is Guardians [of the Galaxy] kind of stole what I would have liked to have done with it. You’ve got Star Wars, you’ve got Guardians, so you’ve got to have your own space opera, but you have to find something that can survive among these two very, very great franchises.”

Vaughn confirms he’s still working on the idea, but has shied away from locking in any production dates:

“The way I choose films is when I know I have to make it. Simple as that. There will be a moment where I can’t think of anything else other than getting behind a camera and shooting a movie. It’s a very hard switch to click; once it’s on, nothing stops me.”

Vaughn’s name has been linked to several projects in the works, most notably including the standalone “The Flash” film.
 
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