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Schwarzenegger Is Ten

Arnold Schwarzenegger continues his return to action movies with Ten, a project from screenwriter Skip Woods and director David Ayer. Bill Block’s QED International is financing the project; Open Road Films , headed by Tom Ortenberg, will distribute in the U.S. Ten revolves around the members of an elite DEA task force who depart from their usual operations and steal millions from a drug cartel safe house. Just when the team thinks they got away with it, someone begins to take out them out one by one. Block, Paul Hanson, Joe Roth, Palak Patel and Al Ruddy are producing. Alex Ott of Ayer’s Crave Films will executive produce. Schwarzenegger’s casting puts the project on the runway after several years of development. Bruce Willis and Patrick Alessandrin (District 13: Ultimatum) once were attached to star and direct, respectively. Schwarzenegger is filming The Tomb and will appear in The Expendables 2 , which will be released in August. The first movie in which he toplines sin

What Is Star Wars 1313?

Late last year, the registration of a few new Lucasfilm domain names clued us in to a mystery project that would eventually become the museum exhibit Star Wars: Identities . Now George Lucas and company have registered a few more, leaving us with another mystery: What is Star Wars 1313 ? Last week, Lucasfilm registered eight domains via the Corporate Service Company, all centered around 1313: StarWars1313.com, SW1313.com, 1313starwars.com, 1313starwars.net, 1313sw.com, 1313sw.net, starwars1313.com, starwars1313.net, sw1313.com, and sw1313.net. With no official announcement of anything new from Lucasfilm yet, fan theories are beginning to emerge. The most prominent so far is that Star Wars 1313 could be a Boba Fett film. Captain America director (and former Star Wars VFX technician) Joe Johnston really wants to make one, but what does 1313 have to do with it? Well, in the young reader novel Boba Fett: Maze of Deception , the bounty hunter uses the alias " CT-1313 "

Jonah Hill Is The Wolf of Wall Street

Jonah Hill is looking to continue his foray into drama with The Wolf of Wall Street . The actor, known primarily for his comedies but who surprised many with an Oscar nomination for his supporting performance in last year’s baseball drama Moneyball, is in negotiations to join Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the Jordan Belfort memoir. DiCaprio is playing Belfort, a Long Island penny stock broker who served 20 months in prison for participating in a massive 1990s securities fraud that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including mob infiltration. Belfort -- who lived large, owned a yacht that sank off the coast of Sardinia and became an alcoholic and drug addict -- served as an inspiration for Ben Younger's 2000 movie Boiler Room. Hill is set to play Danny Porush, who is convinced by his future best friend and business partner Belfort to quit his job in furniture sales and enter the lucrative yet volatile wor

KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL Details And Information

HOLLYWOOD LOOKS EAST WITH DEBUT OF KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL, JUNE 23-24. Being myself of Asian decent I am honored to bring this information about the upcoming  KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL on June 23-24th. Grauman’s to Host Korean Film Screenings, VIP Events and First-Ever Castings of Korean Talent. An appreciation of all things Korean has swept into popular culture – from taekwondo to kalbi to K-pop – extending to a proliferation of film and television talent who trace their lineage to the Asian peninsula. This summer, Hollywood will offer an appreciation with the first  Look East: Korean Film Festival , a celebratory weekend taking place Saturday & Sunday, June 23-24. Hyundai Motors serves as a Lead Festival sponsor of the festival. Marking the first time in its 85-year history, Korean performers will cast their hand and footprints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Saturday, June 23. They include Korean actor Byung-hun Lee , an award-winning international

Juliette Lewis In The Days Of Mary

Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria is getting a contemporary re-imagining, one that will star Juliette Lewis and be titled The Days of Mary . The original movie, written by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli, followed a prostitute looking for love in Rome but finding only heartache. It won the 1958 Oscar for best foreign-language film. The movie was remade in 1969 as a Bob Fosse musical starring Shirley MacLaine titled Sweet Charity. The new movie, being directed by Brad Michael Gilbert (The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond), moves the action to Reno, Nev. Gilbert also wrote the screenplay with Meg McGarry. Constellation Entertainment acquired the rights to the Cabiria screenplay from the Fellini estate. Mike S. Ryan, who produced Teardrop Diamond, will produce along with Gilbert. Brandy Lewis will co-produce. Executive producing is Robbie Little (The Last Station). Little’s outfit, The Little Film Co., is handling international sales for Days of Mary and will intr

G.I. JOE: RETALIATION Japaneses Trailer

We have the Japaneses trailer for G.I. JOE: RETALIATION . The trailer has some new footage in it. G.I. JOE: RETALIATION . In this sequel, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. A follow-up to the 2009 release of G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA, which grossed over $300M worldwide, Paramount Pictures, MGM and Skydance Productions, in association with HASBRO and di Bonaventura Pictures, commences production on G.I. JOE: RETALIATION. In this sequel, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. The film stars D.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Ray Park, Adrianne Palicki, Jonathan Pryce, RZA, Ray Stevenson, Channing Tatum with Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson. Directed by Jon M. Chu, and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Brian Goldner, from a sc

The Raid Director To Break The Bank

Universal Pictures has acquired the fact-based drama Breaking The Bank as a directing vehicle for Gareth Evans , whose Indonesian action film The Raid: Redemption electrified numerous festivals before being released recently by Sony Pictures Classics. The fact-based drama is based on the book Heist: The True Story Of The World’s Biggest Cash Robbery by Howard Sounes, and the Sports Illustrated article Breaking The Bank by L. Jon Wertheim. XYZ Films is producing with Evans. XYZ is the company that executive produced and handled worldwide sales for The Raid: Redemptio n, and the remake of the action movie that is in the works at Screen Gems. Breaking The Bank is based on the life of former UFC fighter “Lightning” Lee Murray, a mixed martial arts street brawler who masterminded the largest cash heist in history in England in 2006. The most recent draft of the screenplay was written by Kerry Williamson. It had originally been developed with director Darren Aronofsky, who dropped

Film School Chronicles

To celebrate the May 15th Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download release of intense found-footage thriller CHRONICLE , Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment & IGN are pleased to announce the launch of Film School Chronicles - a filmmaking challenge designed to give young filmmakers the chance to share their talents and celebrate the extraordinary! Launched today, the competition will run through the IGN Facebook page until May 22nd challenging users to create 30-90 second videos on the subject of the extraordinary. The best submission, as judged by Chronicle Director Josh Trank , will receive a fantastic Digital SLR camera set-up and the chance to fly to LA and meet with Josh. Go to apps .facebook.com/FilmSchoolChronicles for more details. Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny telekinetic powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to

Avengers Blows The Roof Off The Box Office

The Disney and Marvel Studios tentpole makes history in nabbing the biggest opening of all time in North America; globally " Avengers " has earned a massive $641.8 million in 12 days. Joss Whedon's The Avengers has set a new bar in opening to a walloping $200.3 million at the domestic box office, the largest debut ever and kicking off summer 2012 in high style. The Avengers -- marking a major victory for Disney and Marvel Studios -- easily dethroned Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 , which opened to $169.2 million last summer, then the largest number in history. THE AVENGERS Movie Review By: Matt- Avengers opened a week ago overseas, earning $441.5 million through Sunday. The worldwide total of $641.8 million has already surpassed the lifetime totals of Captain America: The First Avenger ($364 million), Thor ($449 million), Iron Man ($585 million) and Iron Man 2 ($624 million). The 3D tentpole is now positioned to reach $1 billion in global gro

Win Tickets To See BATTLESHIP In Sacramento

IN THEATERS MAY 18 Win tickets to see BATTLESHIP ! We have passes to the special advance screening on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 7:00PM in Sacramento. In Summer 2012, the battle for Earth begins at sea. Peter Berg ( Hancock, The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights ) directs and produces  BATTLESHIP , an epic-scale action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. BATTLESHIP  stars Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Alex Hopper, a naval weapons officer assigned to USS John Paul Jones; Alexander Skarsgård as Hopper’s older brother, Stone, Commanding Officer of USS Sampson; global music superstar Rihanna, making her motion-picture debut as Petty Officer Second Class Cora Raikes, Hopper’s crewmate and a weapons specialist on USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, Hopper’s fiancée and a physical therapist specializing in the rehabilitation of military combat veterans; Tadanobu Asano , as Captain