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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Splash Reboot In The Works

You might have read our recent interview with Daryl Hannah , which touched on her experiences making 1984 Tom Hanks comedy Splash . Now Brian Grazer , who produced the original, says he's pressing ahead with a remake. A potential follow-up, be it in sequel form or remake, has been floating around for years, though nothing has risen to the surface. But asked in a recent CNBC interview about who he'd cast if he made Splash today, Grazer demurred, revealing that he's actually working on a new version. The 1984 film was a literal fish-out-of-water comedy, which saw Hannah's mermaid fall for human Hanks in New York. Grazer wouldn't be pressed on real details for the new development, but did say the following: “We’re going to do a version of that, but I can’t tell you the twist." You can see the full interview here. Back in the day, there was an original treatment for the film known as Wet, which focused more on the mermaid's point of view. And Grazer

John Ridley To Direct Film Based On L.A. RIOTS

BROAD GREEN PICTURES PARTNERS WITH IMAGINE ENTERTAINMENT ON UNTITLED L.A. RIOTS FILM. Academy Award-Winning Writer John Ridley to Direct Based on His Own Script; Academy Award-Winning Producer Brian Grazer. Broad Green Pictures announced today a partnership with Imagine Entertainment to produce and distribute an untitled film about the infamous Los Angeles riots that transformed America’s perceptions on race, justice and economics, and sparked massive change in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). John Ridley , the Academy Award-winning 12 Years a Slave scribe and creator of the Emmy Award-winning “ American Crime ,” will direct the film from his own screenplay. Academy Award winner Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, American Gangster) will produce. The film will begin principal photography in spring 2016. In April of 1992, America’s worst civil disturbance in the 20th century took place in Los Angeles. Sparked by the acquittal of four LAPD officers tried for the near

#INFERNO Cast Photo

Photo from the INFERNO Cast and Filmmaker Photo Call in Florence. Inferno continues the Harvard symbologist's adventures on screen: when Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories and prevent a madman from releasing a global plague connected to Dante's "Inferno." The film stars Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Ben Foster and Sidse Babett Knudsen and is directed by Ron Howard. Please Leave A Comment-

#GETONUP "Can't Stop the Funk" Launch

SUPER HEAVY ON THE FUNK! DANCE WITH JAMES BROWN! On behalf of Universal Pictures , we are proud to announce the launch of our interactive celebration of the Godfather of Soul : www.cantstopthefunk.com . To flame fan passion for James Brown leading up to the release of GET ON UP , this UGC-fueled treat invites fans to join in an endless high-energy performance. As an endless backbeat of “ Sex Machine ” plays, a video player--framed in what appears to be the sleeve of a James Brown album cover--anchors this “endless performance” site experience. Fan videos will be showcased alongside classic dance clips of James Brown; clips of Chadwick Boseman , who portrays Brown in GET ON UP ; and original videos from DanceOn channel partners. The funktastic videos can also be shared with friends on Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. GET ON UP - IN THEATERS AUGUST 1 GET ON UP online - #GetOnUp Visit the official website Like Get on Up on Facebook Follow on Twitter , Google+ , Instagram Su

Kevin Hart & LeBron James Will Star In Ballers

Kevin Hart is signing on to star with LeBron James in Ballers , the basketball comedy for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. Brian Grazer and Michael Rosenberg are producing. Hart will first co-write the comedy along with his scripting teammates Joey Wells, Chris Spencer and Harry Ratchford. He’ll then star as a man who lives in the shadow of his NBA superstar brother ( James ), but gets a chance to prove himself when he and some pals attend a weekend fantasy basketball camp in Miami. Hart is certainly dominant in the stand-up arena, but posting up against this screen sibling could be dangerous. Hart is under 5’3″ while James is a towering 6’8.” That kind of sibling size differential hasn’t been seen since Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in another Universal comedy, Twins. They’ll sign a director when Hart and his cohorts turn in the script. The plan is to start production next summer when James has time off. James has been looking to make his featur

Rush Review. The Film Delivers The Danger Of Formula 1 Racing Right To Us, & We're All The Better For It.

Rush Review By: MattInRC September continues to impress with the high-octane drama Rush. Apollo 13 director Ron Howard once again writes the book on real-life heroism, producing a compelling and exhilarating study of one of the most famous Formula 1 race car rivalries of the 1970's. An often deadly affair, this sport swallowed up both men and corporations determined to own the road. But what the sport needed was a rivalry to match the menacing machines that sometimes won the day. Enter the British driver James Hunt ( Chris Hemsworth ) and his nemesis Niki Lauda ( Daniel Brühl ), both with wildly different styles but similarly determined to win. Lauda is a brilliant but misunderstood engineer/driver whose banker father looks down on his abilities, while Hunt is the cocky playboy who's as comfortable with his threesomes as he is on the racetrack. Neither likes each other from the start, but both see their careers in parallel as they peel off from the minor-league F3, str

Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For RUSH In Sacramento

Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For RUSH Wednesday, September 25 - 7:00 PM Downtown Plaza in Sacramento. Two-time Academy Award® winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon), teams once again with fellow two-time Academy Award® nominee, writer Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), on RUSH , a spectacular big-screen re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The epic action-drama stars Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers) as the charismatic Englishman James Hunt and Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) as the disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda, whose clashes on the Grand Prix racetrack epitomized the contrast between these two extraordinary characters, a distinction reflected in their private lives. Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing, RUSH portrays the exhilarating true story of two of the greatest rivals the world has ever witnessed—handsome English playboy Hunt and his methodical, brilliant o

Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For RUSH In Fresno

Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For RUSH Wednesday, September 25 - 7:00 PM Manchester Mall in Fresno. Two-time Academy Award® winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon), teams once again with fellow two-time Academy Award® nominee, writer Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), on RUSH , a spectacular big-screen re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The epic action-drama stars Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers) as the charismatic Englishman James Hunt and Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) as the disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda, whose clashes on the Grand Prix racetrack epitomized the contrast between these two extraordinary characters, a distinction reflected in their private lives. Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing, RUSH portrays the exhilarating true story of two of the greatest rivals the world has ever witnessed—handsome English playboy Hunt and his methodical, brilliant oppo

Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For RUSH In San Francisco

Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For RUSH Wednesday, September 25 - 7:00 PM Century SF Centre 9 in San Francisco. Two-time Academy Award® winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon), teams once again with fellow two-time Academy Award® nominee, writer Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), on RUSH , a spectacular big-screen re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The epic action-drama stars Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers) as the charismatic Englishman James Hunt and Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) as the disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda, whose clashes on the Grand Prix racetrack epitomized the contrast between these two extraordinary characters, a distinction reflected in their private lives. Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing, RUSH portrays the exhilarating true story of two of the greatest rivals the world has ever witnessed—handsome English playboy Hunt and his methodical, bri

Pelé Movie On It's Way

If Goal didn't do it for you and you're still wrapping your head around the intricacies of Bend It Like Beckham , news of a Pelé movie will be like balm to your troubled, football-loving soul. Edison Arantes do Nascimento , the Brazilian superstar and arguably the greatest player to ever kick a goal, is getting the full biopic treatment in a movie that tracks his life from a poor upbringing in São Paulo to fame and glory as a 17 year-old superstar at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. No doubt there'll also be plenty on his years in a Allied POW camp and his heroic performance against a Wehrmacht XI in Paris. Wait, that's Escape To Victory . Scratch that. The so-far untitled Pelé movie has a heavyweight production team, with Brian Grazer , veteran of truth-life stories like Rush, Frost/Nixon and J. Edgar , and Ivan Orlic, Kim Roth and Dany Wolf overseeing things. If you're in Cannes and have some spare cash, Exclusive Media International will be touting the p

First Trailer For Ron Howard's RUSH

Here is the first trailer for Ron Howard's upcoming film " RUSH " starring Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde and Daniel Brühl . Two-time Academy Award winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon), teams once again with fellow two-time Academy Award nominee, writer Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), on RUSH , a spectacular big-screen re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The epic action-drama stars Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers) as the charismatic Englishman James Hunt and  Daniel Brühl  (Inglourious Basterds) as the disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda, whose clashes on the Grand Prix racetrack epitomized the contrast between these two extraordinary characters, a distinction reflected in their private lives. Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing, RUSH portrays the exhilarating true story of two of the greatest rivals the world has ever witnessed-handsome English playboy Hunt

Cowboy & Aliens Movie Review By: CubicleMike

Cowboy & Aliens Movie Review By: CubicleMike I want to welcome CubicleMike to the mix over here at SandwichJohnFilms. The Cube will be doing reviews from time to time for the site.  Here's his first review for the site and let me tell you there are SPOILERS ! You have been Warned! The title holds so much promise; “ Cowboys and Aliens ”. Who in their right mind, if you are male, didn’t play Cowboys and Indians when they were a kid or imagined stopping an invading hoard of aliens? Let me start by saying the main character (Jake Lonergan) in this film was supposed to be played by Robert Downey Jr .; but he had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts, I guess we will never know what may have been. The film starts out panning across what seems like the Arizona or New Mexico wilderness where our hero has been dumped or fell to exhaustion. Amnesiac Daniel Craig (Jake Lonergan) wakes up with no shoes, blood on his shirt with no food, water or even a horse. I think Daniel Cr

Cowboys & Aliens Will Premiere At Comic-Con 2011

It looks like “ Cowboys & Aliens ” To take over Comic-Con 2011. Filmmaker Jon Favreau had just walked off stage Sunday night after a sparkling “ Iron Man ” reunion at the Hero Complex Film Festival, but his thoughts were already on a far-bigger spotlight moment this summer — Comic-Con International in San Diego. “The worldwide premiere of ‘ Cowboys & Aliens ’ will be at Comic-Con,” the director said of his hard-edged sci-fi western that stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell “And not only are we going to premiere it there, we’re going to find a way to include as many of the fans as possible. I feel like they’ve come out for me, they’ve supported me.” UPDATE: Universal now says the premiere will be at the 2,967-seat San Diego Civic Theatre on July 23. The red carpet events begin at 7 p.m. with the film to follow an hour later. Ticket info will follow at the “ Cowboys & Aliens ” outlets on Facebook and Twitter The movie goes into wide

New Cowboys & Aliens Trailer. WOW

This is one of the most anticipated film that will be coming out this Summer Cowboys & Aliens . Today Jon Favreau delivered the second trailer for the film. It's not the exact trailer they showed at Wonder Con this year, but is defintaily worth a look. The film stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano and Noah Ringer . Cowboys & Aliens is scheduled to be released on July 29, 2011. Watch the trailer after the Jump... The Year is 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger named Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford). It's a town that lives in fear. But Absolution is about to experience

Marc Forster o Direct The Runner

Walt Disney Pictures has acquired The Runner , a pitch for a futuristic science fiction film that will be written by Dave Andron as a potential directing vehicle for Marc Forster . Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer is producing with Forster's Apparatus Entertainment partner Brad Simpson. Andron hatched the NBC reinvention of Knight Ride r, and he's supervising producer of the FX series Justified . The premise: In the year 2027, Earth's surface has been rendered uninhabitable due to a devastating attack. A group of survivors living in the Rocky Mountains have discovered a way to send a man back in time. While the volunteer departs under the guise of trying to stop the devastating attack, he has an ulterior motive: to save the love of his life. The concept was hatched by Andron with Blacklight Transmedia. Grazer's Imagine made a first-look deal with that company, which develops big idea concepts on multiple platforms. In this case, The Runner will be simul

Dan Brown To Write The Screenplay For The Lost Symbol Movie

Hanks And Howard Not On Board Yet Mega-selling mystery author Dan Brown has taken over writing duties on the film adaptation of The Lost Symbol . Columbia Pictures is developing the film version of Brown's most recent novel, which was published in 2009 and sold more than a million copies in its first day on shelves. In it, Brown's regular protagonist, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, gets mixed up with the Freemasons in Washington, D.C. The 2006 adaptation of The Da Vinci Code and the 2009 version of Angels & Demons grossed $1.24 billion at the worldwide box office for Sony. But this is the first time Brown has taken on screenwriting duties. Akiva Goldsman penned Da Vinci and co-wrote Demons with David Koepp. Oscar-nominated Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight first took a run at the Symbol screenplay. Although Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment is once again producing, Howard, who directed the first two Brown adaptations, has not committ

Cowboys & Aliens Trailer & Photos

Favreau Out Does Himself Again Universal and director Jon Favreau have revealed the first trailer, For Cowboys & Aliens today. The ruff footage they showed us at Comic-Con this looked amazing and this trailer blows what we saw out of the water. The film stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford , and Olivia Wilde . Watch the trailer after the Jump.. The Year is 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger named Jake Lonergan ( Daniel Craig ) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde ( Harrison Ford ). It's a town that lives in fear. But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with b