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Mara Is THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

August 17, 2010 Rich Drees

Rooney Mara has been cast as computer hacker Lisbeth Slanader in the English language adaptation of Swedish novelists Stieg Larsson’s best-selling thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. She’ll appear opposite Daniel Craig in the [click for more]

Writer Alex Garland To Script LOGAN’S RUN

June 17, 2010 Rich Drees

The more I write about Warner Brothers planned Logan’s Run film, the more I am starting to believe producers Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman insistence that this film will be more an adaption of William [click for more]

LOGAN’S RUN Being Planned For 3D

June 3, 2010 Rich Drees

Producer Joel Silver has stated that his currently in development remake of Logan’s Run is being planned to be shot in 3D. Less than a week after the announcement that the project had acquired a [click for more]

Bloom To Cross Swords With MUSKETEERS

May 24, 2010 Rich Drees

Orlando Bloom is the latest addition to the cast of Paul W. S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers. But instead of taking a dashing heroic role, the Lord Of The Rings and Pirates Of The Caribbean [click for more]

Greengrass Off VOYAGE, Off To TREASURE ISLAND?

May 20, 2010 Rich Drees

Wondering what director Paul Greengrass is going to do now that he has decided to not return for a fourth Bourne film? He seems to be wondering what his next project will be as well. [click for more]

Fincher Diving 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

May 16, 2010 Rich Drees

Disney is taking another crack at bringing Jules Verne’s classic adventure novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea back to the big screen, this time with David Fincher at the helm. It was last November that [click for more]

CARTER Will BEAT THE DEVIL On Screen

March 28, 2010 Rich Drees

Carter Beats The Devil, Glen David Gold’s 2001 historical thriller novel about a famous stage magician who gets caught up in the events surrounding the death of President William G. Harding, has been optioned by [click for more]

Roland Emmerich To Shoot FOUNDATION In Mo Cap

February 12, 2010 Rich Drees

Filmmakers have been trying to figure out how to bring Isaac Asimov’s epic Foundation trilogy to the big scree for three decades with little success. But now Roland Emmerich, the latest helmer to be attached [click for more]

Friday Flashback: 2010

January 1, 2010 Rich Drees

Let’s face it. The movies are usually pretty bad at predicting the future. If they weren’t we all be deciding whether to take the flying car or the jet pack to work every morning. And [click for more]

First Look: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS

December 1, 2009 Rich Drees

Our first look at the first part of the two-film finale of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 comes to us courtesy of USA Today. At first glance, it [click for more]