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An Action-Packed, Dystopian ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Is In The Works Have you ever readWilliam Shakespeare’s work and thought,This is good, but wouldn’t it be even better if it was a trilogy set in a dystopian future? Wait, what if it was not only set in the future, but, like, totally also about ass-kicking superhuman soldiers? That’d be pretty chill, right?If that thought has ever crossed your mind, then Lionsgate is bringing your dream to life....

Annapurna Pictures Nabs ‘Where’d You Go Bernadette,’ And ‘(500) Days Of Summer’ Team Will Adapt We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The team behindThe MasterandZero Dark Thirtyhas agreed to bring a recent popular novel to the big screen, and they’ve got some high-end indie screenwriters to make it work.Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures has teamed up withHunger Gamesproducing teamNina JacobsonandBrad Simpsonto purchase the rights toWhere’d You Go, Bernadette, a comedic novel published last year from authorMaria Semple....

Ben Schwartz And Sam Rockwell To Reunite In New Comedy For Searchlight Pictures 2020 will go down as an awful year in global history, but if we put the pandemic aside, comedian/actor/writerBen Schwartzis actually having a pretty solid year career-wise – and it just got even better. Schwartz will write the screenplay for a mysterious new comedy for Disney’s Searchlight Pictures, which he’ll also executive produce and star in alongside Oscar winnerSam Rockwell....

Blade Runner Sequel Will Be Released Earlier Than Expected Warner Bros Pictures has announced thatBlade Runner 2will be released earlier than expected. The sequel was set to hit theaters on January 12th 2018 but will now hit the big screen on October 6th 2017. Learn more about the Blade Runner sequel release date change, after the jump. In January, the film would have gone head to head with an Untitled Fox / Marvel Film from 20th Century Fox and Paramount’s animated film Sherlock Gnomes....

Captain EO Returns To Disneyland On February 23rd 2010 Disney Parkshas confirmed that theFrancis Ford Coppola-directed/George Lucas-producedMichael Jacksonsci-fi action 3D musical short filmCaptain EOwill return to Disneyland’s Tomorrowland beginning on Tuesday, February 23rd 2010. Previously: Rumors that the attraction would return to the Southern California theme parkhit the webin September, but werequickly deniedby the mouse house. Bob Iger admitted at the time that Disney was considering the possibility but that “It’s the kind of thing that, if we did it, would get a fair amount of attention and we’d want to make sure we do it right....

Early Buzz: Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours We’ve got some brief news aboutDanny Boyle’s film127 Hours, which is in post-production now, and some very good early buzz to deliver. The news is casting-related — thanks to the official film synopsis from Fox Searchlight (reproduced after the break) we know thatClémence PoésyfromIn Brugesis playing the girlfriend of mountain climber Aaron Ralston (James Franco). Previously, we’d heard that Amber Tamblyn had the role, but she instead plays another hiker....

Early Buzz: Is ‘Jurassic World’ Finally A Worthy Sequel To ‘Jurassic Park’? Jurassic Worldhad its world premiere in Paris over the weekend. Even though directorColin Trevorrowsaid he probably wouldn’t beback as director for a potential sequel, the early buzz onJurassic Worldafter the premiere is that he did a fine job on the film. Keep in mind that this is a premiere screening, so some of the audience may be high on the hype of the movie and the allure of the event....

Evan Daugherty Has The Power Of Grayskull Warner Bros has hiredEvan Daughertyto pen a new draft ofGrayskull, Silver Pictures' live-action big screen adaptation of Mattel’sMasters of the Universe. Evan’s script Shrapnel was selected as one of the Grand Prize winners of the 2008 Script Pimp Screenwriting Competition. The screenplay, a psychological thriller about two mortal enemies who square off in a hunting trip to the death, is making its rounds among A-list talent after it landed onThe 2008 Blacklistas one of the “most popular” unproduced scripts of the year....

Han Solo And Princess Leia Cast For ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Live Read Thursday night isJason Reitman’s biggest live read yet. Literally. He and his cast will readIrvin Kershner’s landmark sci-fi sequel,Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and the venue has been changed from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to the Ace Hotel Theater in Downtown Los Angeles.Earlier this week, several members of the main cast were revealed.Aaron Paulwill be reading the role of Luke Skywalker, andJ....

J.K. Rowling To Release ‘The History Of Magic In North America’ To Lay The Groundwork For ‘Fantastic Beasts’ The basic storytelling inJ.K. Rowling’sHarry Potternovels is good stuff, a fairly typical “hero’s journey” tale told with wit and verve. However, Mr. Potter is not the main reason these books (and their film adaptations) are so incredibly popular – readers and viewers all over the world fell in love with the world he inhabits....

Jerry Bruckheimer Says He’s Currently Working On The Script For National Treasure 3 Lock up the Declaration of Independence: “National Treasure 3” might really be happening. News of the film, which is still apparently in the script stages, came directly from a Reddit AMA with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced Jon Turteltaub’s 2004 hit and its sequel. And while decades-later installments often turn out to be legacy sequels without their original stars, Bruckheimer seems pretty convinced Nicolas Cage will be returning, too....

John C. Reilly And Steve Coogan Are Unrecognizable As Classic Comedy Icons In ‘Stan & Ollie’ Laurel and Hardy, is that you? The classic Hollywood comedy duo were icons of slapstick comedy from 1927 to 1950, and it seemed like no one could replicate the magic of the legendary pair. ButSteve CooganandJohn C. Reillycome pretty close — at least in appearance. Coogan and Reilly star as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, respectively, in the upcoming biopicStan & Ollie....

Mark Hamill Once Again Expresses Unhappiness With New ‘Star Wars’ Sequels Another day, another interview in whichMark Hamillseems unhappy about the newStar Warssequels. Hamill isn’t one to sit back and keep his opinion to himself, and that’s refreshing in a way – many actors would do the opposite. But the implication is always clear: he wishes these new movies had turned out differently. It’s not that he thinks the movies arebad, per say – he just had something much different in mind before they were made....