De Niro meets DeMille, Tatum doubles down, CAMILLA DICKINSON cast, more – News Links
Robert De Niro will be honored with the HFPA’s Cecil B. DeMill Award at next year’s Golden Globes ceremony. De Niro previously won one competitive acting Globe and has been nominated eight times. (HFPA) Channing Tatum is at the top of the list to play opposite Jonah Hill in Sony’s upcoming 21 Jump Street adaptation. (Deadline) And if that wasn’t enough, Tatum is also on board Randall Wallace‘s Catherine the Great pic, The Mercenary. (Screen Daily) Blind Side helmer John Lee Hancock has been tapped by Disney to direct Electric Boy Genius. (Deadline) Adelaide Clemens, Gregg Sulkin, Cary Elwes, and Samantha Mathis have joined Cornelia Moore’s Camilla Dickinson, which is based on the 1951 book by Madeleine L’Engle. (THR) Zing! Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev has something to say about the American one, David Fincher....
Read MoreTHE FLASH & GREEN LANTERN 2 scripts, SOCIAL NETWORK is No. 1 again, Pacino as Spector, more – News Links
Scripts for DC Comics adaptations The Flash and Green Lantern 2 are expected at Warner Bros. by Christmas. (Deadline) David Fincher’s The Social Network held on to the top spot at the box office, taking in another $15.5 million this past weekend. (erc BoxOffice) After winning an Emmy for his portrayl of Jack Kevorkian in HBO’s You Don’t Know Jack, Al Pacino is ready for another HBO biopic. This time he’ll star as record producer Phil Spector in a telefilm penned by David Mamet. (THR) The King’s Speech took home the Audience Award for narrative feature at the 2010 Hamptons International Film Festival. (indieWire)...
Read MoreTHE SOCIAL NETWORK movie review
The Social Network (2010)–*** “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” No, Mark Zuckerberg, arrogant millennial billionaire in The Social Network and real-life Facebook co-founder and CEO, didn’t say that. That 20th century technology innovator Bill Gates did. At least that’s what a quick Google search for “Bill Gates +quotes” told me. You see, we want the people who’ve changed the world to say inspirational things, phrases we can put in a frame and hang on an office wall. We don’t want to see them stammer and sweat their way through an interview. And if they don’t say anything inspirational? Well, we at least like to believe that these people who say witty and redeemable even when their behavior is beyond the pale, say kicking a best friend to the curb...
Read MoreSEVEN team together again for PETER PROUD
When they were released, David Fincher’s early thrillers (Seven, The Game) were better than anything else anyone else had delivered in the genre for years. His post-Fight Club thrillers, Panic Room and Zodiac, were more refined, close to masterpieces. Now after venturing into epic territory with Benjamin Button and dramatic filmmaking with The Social Network (in production early next year), Fincher will return to the genre he does so well with the team that helped him create one of the best films of the 1990s. According to THR, Fincher will reteam with his Seven writer Andrew Kevin Walker and producer Michael De Luca for The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. The premise sounds like Fincher and company could do great things: The film follows a college professor who realizes his dreams and nightmares are flashes from a past life. The...
Read MoreDiablo does Sweet Valley – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: Universal has figured out a way to get me to see a Sweet Valley High movie. The studio is negotiating for the rights to the book series and plans to have Academy Award winner Diablo Cody (love saying that) adapt and produce. (THR) In Other News: David Fincher has added three friends to his Facebook movie. The Social Network, written by Aaron Sorkin, will feature Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield will also star. (Variety) Twilight author Stephenie Meyer will see her adult novel The Host turned in to a feature film with Andrew Niccol adapting the book and directing. (Variety) Lionsgate picked up the worldwide rights to writer-director Stephen Gaghan’s next film, an action thriller about a deep cover operative turned beat cop who fights a global organization. (THR) Fin....
Read MoreFincher likes Sorkin’s Facebook movie – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: Fight Club and Benjamin Button director David Fincher is in advanced talks to direct the Aaron Sorkin-scripted The Social Network. The film follows the story behind the making of Facebook. Sorkin’s words and Fincher’s direction don’t necessarily seem like they need each other, but one thing is certain: this Facebook movie just got a little more interesting. (Variety) In Other News: Katherine Heigl is set to star in Greg Berlanti’s Life As We Know It for Warner Bros. The film, written by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson, centers on two adults who are given guardianship of a young girl after her parents, the adults’ best friends, die in a car accident. (THR) Zac Efron has signed on to star in an upcoming, but yet-to-be-titled thriller for Mandate Pictures. (Variety) Opening Today: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen...
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