The theater doors blast open, and Quentin Tarantino’s band of Jewish soldiers bursts in with fury, guns first. Showering the audience—once their oppressors—in a rain of bullets, the gunmen stand triumphantly on a balcony that deteriorates as it is licked by flames. The viewers fall to their knees at the sight of the screen’s collapse. [...]
Two-time Oscar-winning actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, has reached a deal to play Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s biopic about the 16th president of the United States. Several false starts and glitches cast doubt on whether the film would ever be made. But Friday’s announcement that the notoriously fickle method actor would star as the Great Emancipator [...]
It has been known for years that Eric Stoltz was the original choice to play Marty McFly in Robert Zemeckis’ all-time hit movie, “Back to the Future.” What hasn’t been revealed, until now, is that five weeks of footage were shot with Stoltz before he was replaced with Michael J. Fox, some of which will [...]
In an interview with Market Saw yesterday, James Cameron opened up about his plans to re-release his environmentally-conscious alien epic “Avatar” with an additional nine minutes of pure CG footage, the upcoming novelization of the film he’s currently working on, the status of “Avatar 2,” the future of 3D and a host of other juicy [...]
Remember that super high tech user interface Tom Cruise uses in Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report”? You know, the one where he scrolls through and manipulates unthinkable amounts of data with his bare hands in three dimensional space? The same concept that has been copied in dozens of films since, including “Iron Man”? Well, that’s not [...]
The same friendship and partnership that brought us “Jurassic Park,” “Twister,” and medical TV show, “ER,” will team up again for the pirate tale, “Pirate Latitudes.” USA Today reports that Steven Spielberg is currently developing a film based on the posthumously published novel by his friend, the late Michael Crichton. It is an adventure story [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is teaming up with Warner Bros. to bring another incarnation of “Twilight Zone” to the big screen. Variety reports that Rand Ravich has already been hired as scribe to pen a script based on the iconic TV series from 1959 through the mid 1960s. The original series, created, hosted, and often [...]
It’s been more than 40 years since luminary civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death outside of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee. DreamWorks has recently acquired King’s life rights from his estate and is planning to make him the center of a forthcoming biopic. Steven Spielberg is attached to produce, [...]
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