The development of any motion picture is always an exciting time when possible story ideas are generated, discussed and then used or discarded. Sometimes, the most fascinating ideas are the ones that are discarded, either [click for more]
Some days I wonder if there is any really interesting film news out there that isn’t about yet another classic film being set up for a remake by a clueless studio. But last week, we [click for more]
Warner Brothers has hired Changeling scribe and Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski to script a remake of their 1956 classic film Forbidden Planet. The original, loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, tells the story [click for more]
Akira Kurosawa’s detective drama High And Low is being set up for an English language version with Mike Nichol’s in the director’s chair, David Mamet on screenplay duties and Martin Scorsese serving as executive producer. [click for more]
When we last left the saga of Dimension Films’ struggle to remake the Clive Barker horror classic Hellraiser, the sturio had just hired writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton to take a pass at the [click for more]
Things change pretty fast in the financial world, as anyone watching the news over the several weeks should know. Among the many casualties of the recent economic downturn is the screenplay for 20th Century Fox’s [click for more]
Leonardo DiCaprio must like the idea of turning anime into live action. First his production company, Appian Way, bought up the rights to do a live action adaptation of the classic Japanese animated film Akira. [click for more]
Another film is looking to make its way to the boards of Broadway and its producers are hoping you’ll have the time of your life at the show. Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story Onstage, [click for more]
Producer Ed Pressman is continuing to push forward with his plans to make a sequel to the 1987 cautionary tale Wall Street. Variety is reporting that Pressman has hired 21 scribe Alan Loeb to pen [click for more]
Over at AintItCool this morning, writer Quint has a pretty good interview with writer/director Kevin Smith about his upcoming comedy Zack And Miri Make A Porno. It does get into spoiler territory, so if you’re [click for more]
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