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Weekend Newsreel: June 2, 2006 Compiled by the FilmBuffOnLine Staff
Brando’s Final Film Back In Production: Brando And Brando, the film actor Marlon Brando had been working on at the time of his July 2004 death is now back in production with a new title- Citizen Brando. The original version of the film from director Ridha Behl told the story of a Tunisian boy who traveled t the United States to meet the actor. The film will now be part-fiction, part-documentary, based on the six months the director worked with the actor on developing the project.
Blogs And Blobs: FilmBuffOnLine launches its new blog as well as a specific section dedicated to the classic monster movie The Blob. You can read all about both additions to the site here.
Blade Runner Returns: Plans have been announced for a definitive director’s cut of the science-fiction classic to reach theaters and DVD in 2007. You can read about it here.
Deja View: Legendary Pictures has signed a deal to bring the classic 1970s television series Kung Fu to the big screen. The series, created by Ed Spielman who is co-writing the screenplay, focused on a Shaolin monk, plated by David Carradine, who fled China to roam the American frontier. . . Chris Tucker is set to star in Gangster M.D., a remake of the recent Bollywood hit Munnabhai MBBS, according to the remake’s director Mira Nair. Tucker will star as a gangster who pretends to be a doctor whenever his parents visit. Once the truth is revealed, he then decides to actually become a doctor.
In Remembrance Shohei Imamura- The Japanese director who was one the leading directors in the Japanese New Wave movement has passed away at age 79. Paul Gleason- The tough-as-nails high school principal in the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club has passed away at age 67. Ted Berkman- The screenwriter who wrote the story for the comedy Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) has passed away at age 92
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