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Lily Collins joins The English Teacher

Posted by  on 25 October 2011, 4:26 am

Lily CollinsLily Collins has joined The English Teacher, an indie comedy from Artina Films and director Craig Zisk.

The story centers on Julianne Moore’s title character, a passionate teacher who convinces her former star pupil (Michael Angarano) to put on his unproduced play at the high school. Lily Collins will portray a popular student who clashes with the teacher. Nathan Lane and Greg Kinnear also star.

Craig Zisk is directing The English Teacher from a screenplay by Dan Chariton and Stacy Chariton. Production is scheduled to start later this week in New York City.

The movie marks the feature directorial debut of Craig Zisk, who has directed episodes of Weeds, Hung, Nurse Jackie, Nip/Tuck, and The Big C.

The English Teacher comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Nathan Lane, Lily Collins, Michael Angarano. The film is directed by Craig Zisk.

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Warner Bros. sets Sherlock Holmes 3 writer

Posted by  on 25 October 2011, 4:02 am

Warner Bros. sets Sherlock Holmes 3 writerWith the second Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows just around the corner December 16th, Warner Bros. has hired on Drew Pearce to script the third installment of the period detective adventure movies starring Robert Downey Jr. as the infamous detective and Jude Law as his stalwart partner Watson.

Drew Pearce is the creator of the British superhero TV satire No Heroics. No production date has been set.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows comes to theaters December 16th, 2011 and stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Jared Harris, Gilles Lellouche. The film is directed by Guy Ritchie.

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The Blair Witch Project 3 Moves Forward

Posted by  on 17 September 2011, 8:07 pm

The Blair Witch Project 3

It has been 12 years since directors Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick made indie horror history with The Blair Witch Project in 1999. Eduardo Sánchez is doing press for his new movie, Lovely Molly, and the director recently revealed he and Daniel Myrick still plan on making The Blair Witch Project 3. Here’s what Eduardo Sánchez had to say below, indicating that the ball is currently in Lionsgate’s court.

“It’s completely up to Lionsgate. Dan and I are ready to do it. We’ve been toying around with a sequel idea that we really like. It’s just a matter of getting our schedules in line and having Lionsgate sign off on the idea. We’ve been ready to do a Blair Witch movie for a long time. We’re as close as we’ve ever been to making it happen but it’s still not a guaranteed thing.”

The director also said the sequel will completely disregard Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, the failed 2000 sequel which Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick executive produced.

“I actually liked the sequel but at the same time it exists in a world outside of the movie. So if we want to do a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, we have to stay in that world, which Book of Shadows didn’t stay in that world. Book of Shadows created a different world. It’s like if the sequel to Jaws started with shots of people lined up to see Jaws in the movie theater. For Book of Shadows it worked in a certain way but to me my biggest gripe with Artisan was you shouldn’t have called it ‘Blair Witch 2.’ It would’ve been fine to call it Blair Witch Chronicles. It wasn’t really a sequel to our movie. So it would be a direct sequel to our film living in that mythology of Burkittsville, being possessed, haunted by something.”

The stars of The Blair Witch Project – Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams – will likely return for The Blair Witch Project 3, although not as the main characters.

“The plan is to have them [back]. They’re probably not going to be the main characters but they’re definitely characters in the sequel.”

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Kristen Stewart suits up for battle in ‘Snow White’

Posted by  on 26 July 2011, 12:39 pm

Kristen StewartKristen Stewart dons armor and wields a huge sword and shield for her next movie. Rest assured, it will not be your mother and father’s Snow White.

Stewart joined other cast and crew Saturday at the Comic-Con fan convention for a preview of next year’s “Snow White and the Huntsman,” an action-packed twist on the fairy tale.

The “Twilight” star told a Comic-Con crowd that doing a sweet, traditional Snow White was not something “I was jumping at.” What attracted her was that this Snow White was a bold leader with her feet firmly on the ground. “Also, I get to have a sword and stuff,” Stewart said. “Really cool weapons.”

The movie is due out next June and is one of two “Snow White” movies Hollywood has coming. The other, due out next March, features Julia Roberts as the evil queen. The cast of Stewart’s “Snow White” includes Charlize Theron as the wicked queen, Chris Hemsworth as a rugged huntsman and Sam Claflin as a prince.

The movie starts shooting in a few weeks. Director Rupert Sanders showed off photos of the stars in costume, among them Stewart in her fighting outfit and Theron in a sleek black gown with savagely high and sharp collars.

How evil is Theron’s queen? “She’s a serial killer,” Theron said. “I’m pretty much preparing to play a serial killer.”

Sanders also showed a photo of the dwarves that accompany Snow White in this version, all standing in a row looking scruffier than a gang in a police lineup. The actors playing them include Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost and Toby Jones.

There are eight dwarves rather than the usual seven. Sanders said “there are eight because there are a few great lines when one of them gets killed.”

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Alex Proyas finds Paradise Lost

Posted by  on 17 September 2010, 11:39 am

Alex Proyas

John Milton’s epic poem adapted.

When you think of John Milton’s 17th-century poem Paradise Lost, does your mind immediately latch on to the idea of it (or at least a chunk of it) as an action spectacle with ripe potential for 3D? Alex Proyas’ brain-garden clearly does, as he’s signed on to make a battle-strewn adaptation for Legendary Pictures.

Proyas, who last brought the world Knowing, and has been working on developing Dracula Year Zero for a while now, has signed on to direct the ambitious adaptation for Legendary boss Thomas Tull.

The film, which has been waiting for someone to tackle it for a few years now, will chronicle the war between archangels Michael and Lucifer, with Lucifer’s fall and full-on angelic aerial clashes promised. Hopefully it’ll have the budget to provide proper angel footage as opposed to the empty visions of Legion.

And we’ve got some hope for the script too, since while Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi wrote the first draft, the majority of the script’s shape has come from Exam’s Stuart Hazeldine, who has toiled on both the Milton adaptation and The Tripods for Proyas. And his work has since been through the hands of both Lawrence Kasdan and Ryan Condal.

There’s no word on when Proyas will start making the film (it’ll likely have to wait until after the Dracula pic), but Warner Bros. will step up to co-produce and co-finance it, should it finally find its way to production.

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