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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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