Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up action-adventure treatment Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever from producer Adrian Askarieh, who is teaming with Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Doug Davison. Da Vinci is known as having been a painter (”Mona Lisa,” “The Last Supper), inventor, engineer, architect and mathematician. The project re-imagines him as a member of a secret society who falls headlong into a supernatural adventure that pits Da Vinci against Biblical demons in a story involving secret codes, lost civilizations, hidden fortresses and fallen angels. Askarieh, who is producing via his Prime Universe, came up with the original idea and wrote the treatment, with a search for a writer now under way.
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March 10th 2010 |
In Syriana , actor Matt Damon played an energy analyst who forms a bond with the Emir of the United Arab Emirates after a tragic accident, in The Informant! , he was the accountant for a corporation who turns whistle blower, and in Invictus , he is a rugby player who helped Nelson Mandela pull South Africa back together after the end of Apartheid. All three of those movies dealt with issues in the real world that could easily have been taken from the headlines, but in fact were telling stories that few moviegoers were aware of. In Green Zone , Damon reunites with director Paul Greengrass ( The Bourne Ultimatum ) to tackle the Iraq War and the little-known story of the soldiers assigned to find the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) who started questioning the Intel being…
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March 10th 2010 |
Geoff Boucher of L.A. Times ‘ Hero Complex had a chance to visit Christopher Nolan in the editing suite for his upcoming sci-fi thriller Inception , and of course, he couldn’t pass up an opportunity like that without asking about Nolan’s plans for his Superman reboot and Batman. There was a lot of excitement a few months back when Nolan’s name was mentioned as the “godfather” of a Superman reboot at Warner Bros., and speaking on the decision for the first time, Nolan told Boucher that his involvement with the Superman franchise came about from them having reached an impasse on what to do with their third Batman film and David Goyer having an idea of what could be done with the Man of Steel: “He basically told me, ‘I have this thought about how you would…
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March 10th 2010 |
IMAX Corporation announced today that the epic action-adventure Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time , from Jerry Bruckheimer Films, directed by Mike Newell and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will be released to IMAX theaters internationally with the film’s wide release on May 28, 2010. The film’s limited international IMAX release will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience with IMAX DMR technology.
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March 10th 2010 |
ComingSoon.net talked exclusively to Diary of a Wimpy Kid producer Brad Simpson, who told us that they are ready to get started on a sequel if the first film is a success. The March 19 release is based on the first out of four books.
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March 10th 2010 |
Walt Disney Pictures has provided us with a new billboard for Tron Legacy , opening in 3D theaters and IMAX 3D on December 17. You can get a bigger version of the billboard by clicking on the image below (and save it to your desktop in the gallery for an even larger version). In related news, Disney Parks has announced that the Monorail trains at Walt Disney World Resort will be skinned featuring Light Cycle art from Tron Legacy later this month
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March 10th 2010 |
Universal Pictures has released the full new trailer for director Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood , coming to theaters on May 14. The action-adventure stars Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Matthew Macfadyen, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Lea Seydoux, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, Alan Doyle, Danny Huston and Max von Sydow. Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as “Robin Hood,” whose exploits have endured in popular mythology and ignited the imagination of those who share his spirit of adventure and righteousness. In 13th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power. And whether thief or hero, one man from humble beginnings…
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March 9th 2010 |
Before Jay Baruchel turned 20, he was the star of Judd Apatow’s short-lived college comedy show “Undeclared” and now, seven years later, he’s finally achieving another even bigger breakout helped greatly by Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder , in which the lesser-known comic held his own against Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.