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The filmmaking pair behind
The LEGO Movie and the
21 Jump Street franchise is developing the story for the superhero film, but they have not yet decided if they will write anything more than the treatment and certainly have not yet signed on to direct the project, though Waner Bros. appears to want them to do so. Ezra Miller will star as the title character in the film, which will hit theaters in 2018.
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Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who worked with the Russo Brothers on the
Captain America sequel, will write both parts of what will be the third and fourth
Avengers films,
Avengers: Infinity War, parts 1 and 2 . The two also penned the scripts for
Captain America: The First Avenger and
Thor: The Dark World in addition to
The Winter Soldier, and created Marvel’s
Agent Carter TV series.
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New Line is reinventing the 1979 George Burns comedy, which also starred Art Carney and Lee Strasberg. Zach Braff is directing from a script by Ted Melfi. The new version of
Going in Style will center on three retired men who lose their pensions when the company they’ve worked for their entire lives is sold to a foreign corporation. Desperate for money to survive, they set out to try to rob the very bank that’s withholding their money.
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Richard Dreyfuss and Christine Wagner are suing Walt Disney Pictures over the 1991 film
What About Bob? and 1989 motion picture
Turner and Hooch. Dreyfuss co-starred with Bill Murray in the former while Wagner's late husband produced the latter starring Tom Hanks and a dog. According to a complaint filed yesterday in LA Superior Court, Disney has refused a demand by Dreyfuss and Wagner to hire their chosen auditor.
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Director Gray will executive produce and look over all the creative decisions on
Hard Apple. The animated show is geared towards adults and based on Jerome Charyn’s books that track Isaac Sidel, a fictional detective who walks through three decades of law enforcement starting in the 1970s. Tomer and Asaf Hanuka ("Waltz With Bashir") will be on the animation team, the project is set up at Canal Plus, and a director and showrunner are yet to be announced.
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Ryan Gosling is in talks to play the lead in the film, based on the popular Disneyland ride. D.V. Devincentis wrote the most recent version of the script, originally crafted by del Toro and Matthew Robbins. There was a previous version of this movie, of course, released in 2003 and starring Eddie Murphy. The film was not a hit and Disney has been looking to reboot it.
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The battle for eyeballs — and advertising dollars — is a drama worthy of "Game of Thrones." The powerful, entrenched dynasties of TV's past are fighting desperately to keep what was theirs. It's an environment where allegiances are always shifting, and the line between friend and enemy is never clearly marked.
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If there is one thing that makes a big fantasy epic like
Game of Thrones fun, it’s the fan theories. Any massively complex story — especially one that is so incomplete — is going to draw the interest and ire of its fanbase. The fact that the story is incomplete is what makes it so compelling and unique.
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HBO has released the first trailer from the highly anticipated second season of the Emmy-winning anthology series. This version, which stars Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch, premieres June 21st.
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The 172-page screenplay by Joshua and Daniel Goldin, Sam and Ivan Raimi and Chuck Pfarrar, based on a story by Sam Raimi. Unspecified draft is dated February 9th, 1989.
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