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February 27, 2006
Silent Hill, Ultraviolet & Darkly Hit NYC Comic-Con This past weekend's comic-con in NYC drew some promos and celebs pushing a handful of upcoming genre flicks including Silent Hill and A Scanner Darkly. Variety says Jovovich was on hand to promote Sony Screen Gems' futuristic action pic Ultraviolet. The pic's trailer screened to a whooping audience, and while many of the movies are not actually based on comicbooks, they hope to attract filmgoers from the same base.
Cameron Taps Night Watch Scribe for The Dive Variety reports James Cameron has tapped Laeta KalogridisLaeta Kalogridis, who is co-writing Battle Angel with him, to write The Dive, the true, tragic love story of freediver Francisco "Pipin" Ferraras and his wife Audrey Mestre.
He plans to direct the film for 20th Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment.
The Dive won't be the next directing effort for Cameron, who hasn't helmed a feature since the 1997 Oscar-winning Titanic. Instead, he will next direct a film he's calling Project 880, with speculation rife that it is either Avatar or Battle Angel.
Cameron will shoot that picture in the 3-D technology he has road-tested with such docus as Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep.
"Dive," which would begin after that project, will tell the story of two pre-eminent free-divers who, with but a breath of air in their lungs, plunged to unimaginable depths before swimming back to the surface. She died during an attempt to better her world record to 557.7 feet.
Kalogridis's most recent scripting came on the Russian-language Night Watch, currently in release from Fox Searchlight.
February 24, 2006
Some Kong Monkey Business Date Movie has got a cool Kong parody up - check it out here: King is Kong Lost Production Diaries.
Punisher Star Joins Evilseek Variety reports The Weinstein Co. has acquired Evilseek, a supernatural thriller that Wayne Kramer wrote and will direct. Thomas Jane (Punisher) is set to star.
Kramer, who last directed The Cooler and whose follow-up, Running Scared, opens today, will produce Evilseek with Michael Pierce through their True Grit Prods. banner. Kramer has committed to make the film his next directing assignment, and the plan is to shoot later this year.
Synopsis as follows: Jane will play a cop so demoralized by the handiwork of a serial killer that he commits suicide. Satan uses the cop's body as a vessel, inheriting a disgruntled ex-wife, a promiscuous 15-year-old daughter, a lesbian partner and some of the cop's dogged determination to catch the killer.
February 19, 2006
Requeim Provides New Take On Emily Rose Territory The death of a Catholic woman in West Germany while undergoing the Catholic rite of exorcism in 1976 has inspired a second film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Following the Exorcism of Emily Rose comes Requiem, a German film by Hans-Christian Schmid. While Exorcism focused on a murder-trial battle between the priest and a prosecutor, Schmid's film details the behavior, events and socio-religious pressures that lead to the decision to perform such an extreme ritual.
Schmid and writer Bernd Lange reportedly pay close attention to all things that help answer the most obvious question: Why would anyone submit to an exorcism?
After debuting in Berlin, Requiem could prove a sellable item for Bavaria International. A North American sale might be iffy, but the film should generate plenty of theatrical and later television and video interest in Europe.
Michaela (Sandra Huller in her feature debut) grows up in a small southern German town in the 1970s. Hers is a deeply religious family with a warm father (Burghart Klaussner) and a cold, disapproving mother (Imogen Kogge). She has long suffered seizures diagnosed as epilepsy without the doctors ever being entirely certain. Nevertheless, she is given a regimen of pills to swallow daily and then more pills to offset side effects of the earlier ones.
Michaela, 21, is desperate to go to the university to obtain a teaching degree. Her father supports her but her mother is terrified something might happen because of her condition. Michaela prevails but university life brings stress. She loves the freedom, but the pressure of studying, new friendships and a first love with Stefan (Nicholas Reinke), all away from the protective shell of her parents' home, takes a toll.
During her first year, she suffers a mental breakdown. But her upbringing and a self-assured local priest (Jens Harzer) force her to see the condition in religious terms. During seizures she believes she sees faces and hears voices. Indeed so great is her fear of the psychiatric, she actually takes refuge in the notion she must be possessed.
February 14, 2006
Sharing Our Really Scary Heart With You Happy Valentine's Day! And in the spirit of sharing a little piece of our heart (literally), check out this Valentine from The Hills Have Eyes, opening March 10. Won't you be ours...click'm!
February 09, 2006
Del Toro Joining Killing on Carnival Row? Variety reports New Line has tapped Guillermo Del Toro to helm Killing on Carnival Row, which will be produced by Arnold and Anne Kopelson through their Kopelson Entertainment banner.
Del Toro is in final negotiations on the project. New Line acquired Killing on Carnival Row, a spec script by Travis Beacham, last fall in a preemptive bid. Story's set in a Victorian city inhabited by humans, faeries, elves and vampires, with a detective pursuing a serial killer.
Picturehouse, the HBO-New Line joint venture, recently paid close to $6 million for North American rights to Del Toro's dark fairy tale Pan's Labyrinth.
February 08, 2006
Cameron Talks Coffin & Alien 5 Dark Horizons reports that Ain't It Cool News talked with James Cameron at the Santa Barbara Film Festival about a couple of his projects:
Coffin
"I've changed the nature of my company. I'm now not developing movies for other directors. I've got four films teed up right now that are either in a good treatment or a good shooting draft form for me to do over the next five years. I'm teed up. I'm in for longer than five years, so I don't need a development staff right now. I just need a little core team, like my documentary team, except on the feature side to just go out and nail these films, one after another. That's going to be the game plan. So, we changed the company and a lot of people left the company as a result. What I've said is there are only a couple of projects that I will continue to be involved with that we did develop and "Coffin" is one of them. The reason for that is because Guillermo del Toro is one of my best friends and we've never really worked together. I mean, we always feel like we're working together because he gets all involved in my stuff, I get all involved with his stuff, but not in an official capacity. So, "Coffin" is definitely not dead and Guillermo says he still wants to make it."
Alien 5
"Ridley and I talked about doing another ALIEN film and I said to 20th Century Fox that I would develop a 5th ALIEN film. I started working on a story, I was working with another writer and Fox came back to me and said, "We've got this really good script for ALIEN VS PREDATOR and I got pretty upset. I said, "You do that you're going to kill the validity of the franchise in my mind." Because to me, that was FRANKENSTEIN MEETS WEREWOLF. It was Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other... Milking it. So, I stopped work"
Clive Barker's Thief of Always Getting Underway Shrek 2 co-helmer Kelly Asbury has written and is set to direct the live-action screenplay adaptation of Clive Barker's The Thief of Always for 20th Century Fox and Seraphim Films says The Hollywood Reporter (via Dark Horizons).
Asbury spent the past year writing the script, based on the 1992 juvenile dark fantasy novel after hitting it off with the writer during a convention.
The story follows average suburbanite Harvey who is offered the chance to live his dream life. But when the kids he's grown close to start to disappear and answers are rare - he learns that nothing good lasts forever.
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