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All posts by Joshua Rivera
Dennis Lehane to Adapt French Film ‘A Prophet’, Make It Less French
Because no one in America goes to the movies to read, Sony has hired acclaimed author Dennis Lehane to adapt the Grand Jury Prize-winning French crime film A Prophet for American audiences.
Lehane is the author of such well regarded works as Mystic River an...
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Extortionists are Fond of Extorting on the Set of ‘Transformers 4’
While prepping a rooftop location in Hong Kong, several crew members working on the latest Transformers film (which really should be called Trans4mers) were approached by four men (appropriate) who then demanded money from the crew (not appropriate). Fortunate...
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Adapting a Wedding Website Into a Movie is Totally A Thing That is Happening
If you want to get a film project greenlighted in 2013, consider not writing a movie at all. Instead, make something else. Anything else, really, it doesn't actually matter. A board game, a theme park ride, an action figure--all now viable sources for film fra...
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‘Entourage’ Film Held Up Over Ari’s Pay, Now Vince Can’t Do The Movie
In what will undoubtedly serve as the plot of a revived Entourage season 9, the HBO show's long-simmering film adaptation has reached it's latest obstacle: Ari Gold actor Jeremy Piven's pay. Piven, who according to The Hollywood Reporter, had long made far mor...
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“Mortal Instruments” Sequel Lives On, May Not Actually Be Mortal
For all practical intents and purposes, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones did one thing quite well, which was proving its mortality. The film was DOA, earning $14 million over it's five-day opening and $31 million total domestically. This, compared to it's...
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The Weinsten Co. to Distribute Fassbender-Led ‘Macbeth’
It's a good year for Shakespeare adaptations. Snowtown director Justin Kurzel's high-profile Macbeth adaptation will be distributed in the US and Canda by The Weinstein Co., writes The Hollywood Reporter. The film will star Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotill...
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CinemaGuild to Distribute ‘When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism’
Romanian writer/director Corneliu Porumboiu's 2013 drama When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism has been picked up for US Distribution by CinemaGuild, the Company announced on Twitter. No release date or proper trailer has been made available, but we ca...
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‘The Monuments Men’ Delayed Until 2014
Like a nostalgic teenager mourning summer's loss mere weeks after being so excited for fall and hoodies and pumpkin spice lattes, George Clooney has apparently just given his calendar a triple-take and thought, crap, it's almost NOVEMBER? When did THAT happen?...
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