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SSN ORIGINALS
Hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes happen all the time all over the world, so disasters movies can be considered as “in season,” year round. Movies like
Twister, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and
Noah all have stunning visuals of the Earth seemingly trying to destroy itself, or mankind, and audiences love filling theaters to see them. When writing your own disaster movie, you’ll want to keep these tips in mind.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Director of
Saw,
The Conjuring and
Furious 7 will helm the DC Comics adaptation, to star Jason Momoa. Wan will also be supervising the script, to be written by Kurt Johnstad, and which follows Aquaman, the King of the Seven Seas and the reluctant ruler of Atlantis, who is caught between a surface world constantly ravaging the sea and Atlanteans looking to lash out in revolt, but is committed to protecting the entire globe. The film will hit theaters in 2018.
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On July 12, the cable channel will be available to users without a cable subscription for the first time. The service will be called Showtime, and the network is partnering with Apple on the deal which will bring the service to Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch anywhere in the U.S. as long as a subscription to the app is purchased. Subscribers will have access to the network’s series, along with movies, documentaries and sports programming.
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Studio is targeting the sequence
Night on Bald Mountain for a feature project, with
Dracula Untold writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless are tackling the challenge of turning the roughly 11-minute sequence into a dark fantasy adventure. They’ll be using the
Maleficent model of filling in some backstory for the dark, winged creature who raises spirits from the dead for a night of mayhem before they start to fade in the light of the rising sun.
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The Mouse House is dusting off one of its most successful comedies of the early 1990s and has hired Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith and Karen McCullah to write the latest chapter in the franchise, which spawned the 1992 original starring Whoopi Goldberg, a 1993 sequel and a Tony-winning Broadway musical. It is unclear at this point if Goldberg would return for a third outing in some capacity.
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Julie (Sellier) Swindell and co-owner/managing partner Tod Swindell are putting the film, TV, merchandising, licensing and novelization rights for the iconic California mountain man who launched a 1970s film and subsequent NBC television series on the block. Part
Jeremiah Johnson, part Wild Animal Whisperer, Adams was a Boston-educated man with an impressive lineage who moved west to search for gold and became a hunter/tracker. He ended up becoming a conservationist who lived with grizzly bears and befriended the Miwok Indians.
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In an interview for his upcoming action flick
Big Game, the actor confirmed that he won't be in next year’s Marvel film — and that he isn’t sure why not — but also that he still has two more movies on his contract with the studio and plans to extend his contract well beyond.
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Director Justin Kurzel has got a new project brewing with writing partner Michael Lesslie, as the duo have set up
Haven with Film4 and Element Pictures, with Kurzel directing and Lesslie writing. Plot details are still being kept scarce, though it will be a psychological thriller that takes place in a mental hospital. It will go after the duo work on
Assassin's Creed, starring Michael Fassbender for 20th Century Fox, which is due in cinemas next year.
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Mandy Moore will return from the 2010 film to voice Rapunzel on the small screen, alongside Zachary Levi, who voiced Flynn Rider (aka Eugene).
Tangled the show will be set between the events of the movie and the 2012 short sequel,
Tangled Ever After, which followed Rapunzel and Flynn Rider's wedding. The series will follow Rapunzel as she acquaints herself with her parents, her kingdom and the people of Corona.
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Throughout this TV season, fans have taken to Twitter to discuss edge-of-your-seat moments and minute-by-minute action. Whether to celebrate a game winning shot, mourn a fallen character or gasp at a scandalous plot twist, thumbs across the U.S. tapped furiously, sending millions of Tweets and generating over a billion impressions on average each week.
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