All Posts Tagged With: "Stephen Sommers"
Fraser, Rock meet G.I. Joe
Latino Review states that Brendan Fraser has joined Stephen Sommers’ G.I. Joe, in which he will cameo as Gung Ho during a training sequence at The Pit. The reports likewise believes Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has been offered the part of Hector Delgado (aka Shipwreck).
Stars talk G.I. Joe
Access Hollywood highlights the upcoming G.I. Joe film from director Stephen Sommers. The piece combines insight from the movie’s stars, including Channing Tatum, Dennis Quaid and Sienna Miller. “The film is reportedly an origins story. It could explain why Destro has a chromed head and why Snake Eyes doesn’t speak, among other outlandish details of G.I. Joe that the cartoon never explained,” notes the article.
Big Screen Roundup: 1/30/08 Edition - Part II
Ain’t It Cool News has the exclusive of premiering the new poster for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian online. The one-sheet features a sneak peek at the popular Narnia critter Reepicheep.
Coming Soon spreads the word of a new promotion for Columbia Pictures’ action-thriller Vantage Point. TV spots promoting the picture will air during the season premiere of Lost and the Super Bowl XLII telecast. The ads will direct viewers to the Vantage Point website, challenging them to solve a mystery inspired by the film.
Showcasing a new image from the highly anticipated film, Empire speaks with producer Frank Marshall about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. According to Marshall, the movie is already locked and ready for John Williams’ score.
Variety notes that Oliver Stone has found funding for his next directorial project, Bush, to focus on the life of current U.S. President George W. Bush. Helping make the film a reality is QED, the production/financing company started three years ago by Bill Block, Paul Hanson and Elliot Ferwerda. QED will sell offshore territories next week at the European Film Market in Berlin, with domestic distribution expected to arrive shortly afterward.
LEGO Group has reached an agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to secure construction toy rights for the upcoming live-action/CGI Speed Racer. Coming Soon has the press release.
IESB.net claims that relatively unknown actor David Murray has been cast as Destro in Stephen Sommers’ big screen adaptation of G.I. Joe.
Warner Home Video has revealed the contents of its DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD releases for August Rush, writes DVDActive. The film will be available to own on the earlier two of those three formats March 11, while its HD DVD release will not be until April 1.
Mira Sorvino is planning to direct an untitled baseball picture starring Christopher Backus, her sportsman-turned-actor husband. AceShowbiz has the story.
30Jan2008 | Josh E Armstrong | ContinuedBig Screen Roundup: 1/28/08 Edition
Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, informs The Hollywood Reporter. Both del Toro and Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will oversee writing for the films. Co-financed by New Line and MGM, the Hobbit series will have a production budget estimated at $150 million for each feature. At this time, it appears the release date for the first film will be in 2010, with the second one following in 2011.
Director Christopher Nolan has written a touching tribute titled “Charisma as Natural as Gravity” to the late actor Heath Ledger. Available to read at Newsweek, the essay focuses on Ledger’s enthusiasm and work ethic during the filming of Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Meanwhile, Superhero Hype! has collected three new images from the upcoming Batman feature.
Variety records that Universal Pictures and Working Title Films have agreed to a two-picture deal with Atonement director Joe Wright.
Julia Roberts will produce and star in the film adaptation of Margot Berwin’s upcoming novel Hothouse Flowers for Sony’s Columbia Pictures, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The actress will portray “a recently divorced woman who is dissatisfied with her job at a Manhattan ad agency and goes off on an adventure that takes her to places she never expected to go.”
IGN has learned John Cleese is in negotiations to join the cast of the remake for the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day The Earth Stood Still. Cleese’s role would be that of “physicist Dr. Barnhardt, a Nobel Prize laureate who plays a key part in figuring out the mission and meaning of the arrival of the alien Klaatu.”
Coming Soon rounds up sources showing Channing Tatum to have the lead role of Duke in director Stephen Sommers’ G.I. Joe live-action adaptation.The Canadian Press reports that the next project for Robert Redford to produce and star in will be A Walk in the Woods, an adaptation of the bestselling 1998 Bill Bryson book about hiking the Appalachian Trail. Barry Levinson is expected to direct the film.
According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Co. is already considering another installment in the Rambo franchise. An early idea from Weinstein involves “bringing the character back to the United States.”
ShockTillYouDrop.com speaks with Funny Games stars Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet about Michael Haneke’s remake of his own psychological thriller.
Variety indicates that Marlene Forte will be seen s “Chief Transporter” in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. The magazine also reveals Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff and Jason Clarkeas as joining Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in the Michael Mann feature Public Enemies.
Dark Horizons updates readers on release date changes for the following movies: Choke (8/1), Hellraiser (2009), Trailer Trash (no longer scheduled), Youth in Revolt (12/12), The Patriots (11/14) and Towelhead (8/15).
Coming Soon brings readers such exclusives as a clip from the King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters DVD, as well as an interview with Strange Wilderness star Kevin Heffernan.
28Jan2008 | Josh E Armstrong | Continued
