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		<title>OLDBOY remake dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oldboy remake is done.

Latino Review report from "a trusted source" that Mandate (Korean studio behind the original film) and Dreamworks were unable to see eye-to-eye during negotiations over the manga's rights and it left Dreamworks into walking out on the project, along with Steven Spielberg and his star/producer Will Smith.
Oldboy survives for now but Hollywood continue
with remakes of Let the Right One In and
The Orphanage, among others.  
And without Dreamworks, there is no Hollywood remake.

Mark Protosevich had been writing the screenplay under Dreamwork's money I believe (and who knows if he actually penned anything because if he had, it could only be on the presumption they were to secure the rights), so it's not even like another studio could come in and take his screenplay and hatch a pitch to Mandate (unless of course Dreamworks sold them the script).

So at the moment it looks like there's not gonna be an Oldboy remake, at least not for many a year. Sanity restored. Birds can restore their morning song. The world is right again. ]]></description>
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		<title>Spielberg&#8217;s LINCOLN/INDY V news&#8230; plus Redford&#8217;s THE CONSPIRATOR casts two!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
"We are very happy that Redford will be doing this Lincoln movie. It is completely different from what our DreamWorks Lincoln movie will be, and we believe that it will add to the commercial potential of our film. Lincoln as a subject is inexhaustible."
The words of Steven Spielberg to Variety, as yesterday Robert Redford cast both James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn for his own Lincoln movie, the assassination aftermath drama The Conspirator.

Spielberg is right of course. His Lincoln movie is to focus on the president's anguish over the Civil War whilst Redford's is more about the trial of the assassination conspirators. If anything the two films would compliment each other quite nicely.

Yesterday's Variety said...
Wright Penn will play Mary Surratt, the only woman among a group charged with conspiring to kill the president. McAvoy will play Frederick Aiken, an idealistic young war hero who reluctantly defends Surratt and in the process comes to believe she is innocent.
That movie begins filming next month but Spielberg's is still no where to be seen, as he is more interested in playing with invisible rabbits than Lincoln. Though he still says "will be" to the trade but is anyone even remotely convinced he will ...]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Downey Jr third choice for HARVEY?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Already turned down by Tom Hanks, and now seemingly Will Smith (I think he would have signed up by now if he was going to do it), Hollywood's most famous director Steven Spielberg may turn his attention to Robert Downey Jr. to play the mild-manned Elwood P. Dowd, the possibly insane guy who has an invisible six foot rabbit as a friend, in the remake of classic 50's movie Harvey.

That's according to Peter Bart in Variety.

Good choice I say. Downey Jr is a smart fit for this... especially with the baggage that the actor would bring being a former substance abuser. With James Stewart's legendary performance, you were always trying to wonder whether he was drunk, simply insane or both when he was trying to convince the world of what he could see and I think this would suit Downey Jr. His recent roles as Tony Stark (a well known alcoholic, even if it was only barely hinted at with that picture) and Zodiac have lined him up well for this.

And yes... if you saw The Soloist - he can perfectly reduce his "I'm Robert Downey Jr, watch me" scene-chewing style persona, and is very capable of an emotional, likeable ...]]></description>
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		<title>If not now, when?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Steven Spielberg's comfort blanket remake of Harvey is a sign of the end. It's the movie where a once innovative and ambitious film-maker, the best guy holding a camera during a 18 year golden era which ended with Schlinder's List, has ran out of steam and ambition to take a risk and is entering those latter day directing years that most creative talents in this industry eventually hit. The years when they simply stop caring. 

The years when even the bad movies they make (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) are just shockingly lazy efforts, not bad because they were major failures by a an auteur who just got the puzzled mixed up (A.I.), just bad, bad, bad movies.

Bad, because there was no effort. I think the term is "hack job".

Spielberg stopped caring the moment he chose to remake James Stewart, instead of  stepping up to the plate and making Lincoln, a project at this point he is frightened of. 

Will today's news even be on Spielberg's radar? Is he so distanced now from the figure of Lincoln  - that he won't care?

It's been reported that Mr. Sundance Robert Redford intends to direct The Conspirator, a low budget Indie film focusing on Mary ...]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Spielberg resurrects HALO!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Steven Spielberg is in active negotiations to develop a feature film adaptation of the insansely popular Xbox video game Halo after Stuart Beattie's script blew him away and Dreamworks (who lost the cash cow of Transformers to Paramount during the recent studio split) egging him on, because they want a top money earner to stake their claim in the industry, according to IESB. 

Spielberg, Beattie and Dreamworks are pushing Microsoft hard to allow them the opportunity to make a Halo movie a reality. 

A film adaptation of Halo has lay dormant for nearly three years now when Peter Jackson and his protage Neil Blomkamp couldn't get the financing from anyone in town to make an epic movie out of the game. Beattie however wasn't to be un-done and just kept writing a script anyway. 

Back in March 2008, we reported that he had completed a script entitled Halo: Fall of Reach which was based on the game AND upon the best selling fan fiction novel from Eric Nylund.



My thoughts - well if anyone can get Halo made it would be Steven Spielberg. Peter Jackson couldn't do it... Guillermo del Toro couldn't do it... so maybe Spielberg (and maybe a very few handful of others) have the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Hanks turns down HARVEY remake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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Variety's Mike Fleming is reporting that Tom Hanks has turned down the chance to re-do Jimmy Stewart in Steven Spielberg's utterly useless remake of the 1950's comedy/drama Harvey announced Monday, declining to even read Jonathan Tropper script's for a remake because he is such a fan of Stewart and thought there was no topping the original. All it took was a brief conversation, Hanks never even gave it serious consideration. 

Good on him I say and please don't change your mind on this one if you get offered the silly money you got for turning up on the set of Angels &#38; Demons, because it certainly can't have been artistic integrity or a love for the character/situation that saw you reprise Robert Langdon.

For Harvey, attention will now turn to whether Will Smith will do the same. He has no firm deals for anything to shoot next year and was said to be Spielberg's second choice to play Elwood P. Dowd, the man who has an invisible six foot rabbit as a friend. Spielberg and Smith have been plotting to make something together for about 18 months now with The Trial of the Chicago 7 and a remake of Oldboy previously muted. 





Can Will Smith honestly think ...]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Spielberg is remaking HARVEY&#8230;. sigh</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

I'm stunned this morning. I'm reading Variety's story and it's telling me that when Steven Spielberg has finished Tintin he will remake Jimmy Stewart's classic 1950 drama Harvey and I can barely comprehend that it's true. Has Steven Spielberg completely and utterly lost his mind?

It's one thing thinking he can remake the embodiment of cinematic perfection in Oldboy but he's at least equalled in that foolishness by taking on this project. Remaking classic James Stewart - just insanity. Is that what it has come down too, and from a smart guy like Spielberg?



Unlike last week when we heard he was flirting with starting his own Bourne like franchise with Matt Helm (which is 100% most definitely a better idea than this), Spielberg has made sure a press release has gone out so that we all know in no uncertain terms this is what he will be working on next. No if's/but's. He will make Harvey next, the story of middle-aged eccentric Elwood P. Dowd who is best friends with a giant invisible rabbit, which unlike in Donnie Darko we never actually get to see on screen.

Harvey is best loved for James Stewart's immortal portrayal of Dowd where all the traits of what people expected from ...]]></description>
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		<title>Speilberg&#8217;s Bond is MATT HELM?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

In the 1950's, when director Alfred Hitchcock was sick of the ownership problems that had stopped a James Bond movie from being made, he came up with his own spy thriller concept and the result was Cary Grant and North by Northwest, the greatest Bond performance and movie, NOT to feature 007.

Could Steven Spielberg be planning something similar here? We all know he adores the James Bond franchise, his Indiana Jones films owe a great credit to Ian Fleming and the Bond canon, and he has always welcomed an offer that has never come from Sony to make a movie in that universe. Has he decided to do a Hitchcock and simply create his own Bond?

Variety are reporting that the world's most famous director has recently become excited by Paul Attanasio's (The Sum of All Fears, Donnie Brasco) script for a re-imaging of Matt Helm, a 60's "counter agent" (not strictly a spy, more Jack Ryan than 007) of the post World War II Cold War Era whose 27 novels written by Donald Hamilton had him taking down the world's most dangerous spies.

He is described by Wiki as "tough-minded, pragmatic, and competent" but is also an out of shape 36 year old ...]]></description>
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		<title>Spielberg has &#8220;cracked the story&#8221; and is &#8220;gearing up&#8221; INDIANA JONES V!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've gone from the "think mode" comments in October to having now "cracked the story" in June, as Shia LaBeouf claims Steven Spielberg told him personally before he went on press for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen that the new Indiana Jones movie is "gearing up".



LaBeouf spilled it to BBC News

Not that I think anyone cares anymore, surely the time has passed on this series now?

Was the final scene of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull the passing of the torch to LaBeouf as the fedora fell to his feet?

Will Harrison Ford, recently named by Forbes as the highest earning man of the past year in Hollywood for reportedly accepting a $65 million deal to star in the last movie and Crossing Over, even be a part of this picture? (of course he will).

Can anyone be duped again by George Lucas?

Remember when Spielberg was actually significant in modern day film-making? Do you not remember how great Munich was just four years ago, or how fun Catch Me If You Can was?

Why isn't he making INTERSTELLAR SCRIPTED BY JONATHAN NOLAN... and giving us the kind of film that made him the king of Hollywood.

Spielberg, seriously, give Sony a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Spielberg&#8217;s LINCOLN this Christmas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month we heard from star Liam Neeson that he hadn't even seen a completed screenplay for the proposed Steven Spielberg directed biopic of Abraham Lincoln and that it was unlikely to film this year. 

However as you know, unlikely doesn't neccessarily mean it won't happen.

MUICH screenwriter Tony Kushner has told grad students at a Harvard University Institute of Politics forum that “the decision will be made on Lincoln next week” and if it gets the greenlight it will be out by Christmas, so it can still be released in the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. 

Kushner said the film...
“only covers two months of his life,” and that “the first draft covered four months and [was] 500 pages,” and the 13th amendment — the abolition of slavery and involuntary servitude — “is a big thing in the movie.”
Which means 55 year old Neeson, the same age as Lincoln when he was assassinated, is able to play the part all by himself. No younger actor will be needed.

We shouldn't be all that surprised by the ambitious quick turn around for Spielberg. Recently he has become apt to shooting things quickly, the insane work ethic he showed on both MUNICH and WAR OF THE WORLDS was quite ...]]></description>
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		<title>Jamie Bell &amp; Daniel Craig join TINTIN. Full plot &amp; cast just one click away!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamie Bell will motion capure and voice TINTIN, Daniel Craig will play "the nefarious" villain Pirate Red Rackham in the joint 3-D animated Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson venture at Paramount and Sony.

Toby Jones, Gad Elmaleh, Mackenzie Crook round out the cast which we already know has Andy Serkis playing Captain Haddock and British comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as The Thompson Twins.

The movie will be based on THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN and has been written by Steven Moffat (DR. WHO) with some help from Edgar Wright (HOT FUZZ/SHAUN OF THE DEAD) and Joe Cornish (one half of comedy duo Adam and Joe) who have contributed according to a press release at Coming Soon.


The Secret of the Unicorn was one of the first truly great Tintin adventures and Herge's personal favorite, combining a puzzling mystery with a ripping pirate yarn. When Tintin finds a magnificent model ship in the street market, his attempt to buy it for Captain Haddock leads him on a trail of pickpockets, burglars, and secret treasure, and Haddock enthralls him with a tale of his seafaring ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock (who was exclaiming "Thundering typhoons!" generations before the Captain ever did), ...]]></description>
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		<title>Andy Serkis claims TINTIN begins filming in two weeks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Spielberg's first movie since he wrapped on INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL will begin filming in just two weeks.

The movie is the 3D animated motion captured TINTIN, directed by Spielberg and executive produced by Peter Jackson.

Andy Serkis, who plays Captain Haddock in the movie, revealed the start date to Coming Soon...
"We are starting 'Tintin' the week after next," Serkis said. "Peter Jackson is producing and Steven Spielberg is directing. I remember reading them as a child. I wasn't this massive fan. I loved the almost storyboard nature of the beautiful, beautiful drawings. And the way its going to be done... It's obviously performance capture so it's is going to be perfect. There isn't a more perfect way of doing it."
So expect to hear soon which young kid will be playing TINTIN soon. Recently we heard that Nick Frost and Simon Pegg will be playing the Thompson Twins. The movie is expected to be out next Summer. ]]></description>
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		<title>Liam Neeson hasn&#8217;t even seen the script for Spielberg&#8217;s LINCOLN!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 marks the 200 year anniversary of the birth of American President Abraham Lincoln.

2009 was also intended to be the year of release when Steven Spielberg first approached Liam Neeson about a planned LINCOLN biopic four years ago but the SCHLINDER'S LIST star amazingly says he has still not yet seen a script for the movie, written by MUNICH writer Tony Kushner.


Talking to Coming Soon, Neeson claims he knows about as much on the development of the movie as we do and that the director "will do it whenever he's ready to do it".

Spielberg was set to make the movie before the kid in him wanted to make another INDIANA JONES movie and then the chance to work with Peter Jackson on TINTIN lured him further away from the biopic as did his brief flirtation with the story of the TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7.

For whatever reason, Spielberg's heart wasn't quite ready to make the LINCOLN movie and from what I read in 2005-2007, he kind of messed Liam Neeson around with starting dates which left Neeson in a limbo post-BATMAN BEGINS. He has only recently started to accept roles again.

Hopefully missing a convenient anniversary date hasn't quelled Spielberg's ambition ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pegg &amp; Frost confirmed for TINTIN!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first what we thought of as gimmick casting, has actually been confirmed today for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's TINTIN 3-D motion captured trilogy.

AICN say Brit duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will play the bumbling Thompson Twins. Which should be interesting because neither Pegg or Frost looking anything a like.

It's also been confirmed that Andy Serkis is also still on board as Captain Haddock but LOVE ACTUALLY youngster Thomas Sangster dropped out as the lead character when the Autumn shoot was pushed back to February 09.

After losing Universal's financing in the Summer, Sony Pictures stepped in to co-finance this $130 million production alongside Paramount Pictures - remarkably neither of them have as much faith in the worldwide appeal of TINTIN to finance it solo.

The first in the TINTIN trilogy will be released next Summer and will be directed by Spielberg. Peter Jackson's second installment will come sometime later. ]]></description>
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		<title>JURASSIC PARK 4 is extinct</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know a dinosaur franchise has run it's course when the best idea they could come up with for the next installment is giving them missiles and forming an army to take over the U.S. That was once the proposed idea for a JURRASSIC PARK 4 and thank God Steven Spielberg canned that idea before it got to far.



But then it could have been worse I suppose. He could have introduced aliens to this franchise. Or maybe he was saving that for number 5?

According to producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, the franchise is now extinct... (via Coming Soon)...
"No... I don't know. You know, when Crichton passed away, I sorta felt maybe that's it. Maybe that's a sign that we don't mess with it."
Not only that but I would say the death of visual effects icon Stan Winston must also play it's part in this decision.

But can a franchise ever really be dead, especially one without an aging lead like this one? ]]></description>
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		<title>Will Smith says OLDBODY remake, is not a remake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Film School Rejects got a rare chance this week to speak to Will Smith out promoting his new movie SEVEN POUNDS where of course the topic of discussion soon turned to the recently announced Hollywood remake of the Korean 2003 classic movie OLDBOY which we know now will be written by Mark Protosevich (I AM LEGEND) and directed by Steven Spielberg.

Smith says it's definitely happening and that it's not their intention to remake the Chan-wook Park movie but are instead looking to adapt the original Japanese manga graphic novels by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya novels for screen, just like Park did when he first stumbled across them.
We’re looking at that right now. Not the film though, it’s the original source material. There’s the original comics of ‘Oldboy’ that they made the first film from. And that’s what we’re working from, not an adaptation of the film…,” said Smith.


As I've never read the original source material, I have taken the top google entry for "oldboy manga review", a piece written by Floating Sakura at Manga Jouhou...
In comparing the manga with the movie, I see the two are actually quite different, although the general plot line is the same. To be ...]]></description>
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		<title>Writer of I AM LEGEND to reunite with Will Smith on OLDBOY remake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so the Summer tentpole blockbuster plans for the OLDBOY remake continues. The Hollywood Reporter say Mark Protosevich (I AM LEGEND, POSEIDON) is in talks with Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks to come up with a screenplay for the redo of the 2003 Chan-wook Park Korean classic.

As we mentioned two weeks ago, Will Smith is attached to lead and produce with Spielberg directing. All signs pointed towards a July 4th, watered down blockbuster and hiring the man who wrote the words which helped Smith make $584 million for Warner Bros. last year with I AM LEGEND, is further sad evidence of this.



Dreamworks are still trying to hatch a deal with Mandate who own the rights to the original film, who quite understandably are wanting to get a good deal out of this because a Smith/Spielberg combination should be huge.

Now I was in favour of I AM LEGEND, I thought it was a pretty good adaptation. It was only about 40% of the power of the original novel but the heart of it was still there and if it was an original screenplay, I think more people would have dug it.

What it did show was that Protovosich can deliver a studio friendly ...]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Spielberg &amp; Will Smith remaking OLDBOY</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can you say? We all know it ain't going to work. I hate to dismiss a big Hollywood project from this early a stage but I will eat a live octopus if this movie ends up being anything but a disaster. 

Variety carry the news this morning that the biggest movie star on the planet, Will Smith, is to work with the legendary Steven Spielberg for the very first time on what is likely to be a July 4th Hollywood Blockbuster. Right on! That gets you excited huh? And you know, usually I would be too... hoping for maybe a new MINORITY REPORT with Will Smith (I, ROBOT, I AM LEGEND) in the lead.
Think again...


They are remaking the disturbing, the frightening, the absolute one movie that I can guarantee will leave you with the God damn shakes and that's Chan-wook Park's 2003 Korean thriller OLDBOY. Already the remake is doomed. There ain't no way in anyone's imagination that this material should be seen with a wide multiplex release on a July 4th weekend. Just no way.

And if you water it down to secure that kind of release, then what's the point? You are stripping away what makes the original ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sony &amp; Paramount team for TINTIN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony Pictures Entertainment and Paramount Pictures are in talks to co-finance Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's TINTIN.

The digital 3D movie had been in limbo for the past six weeks or so as Universal made the risky decision of dropping a project because of the current financial climate, even though it could eventually be the biggest box office hit of 2010.

Paramount had offered to finance the whole $135 million themselves but Jackson and Spielberg held out for a better deal, which they now have... though the combined money both studio's have put up has been undisclosed.



Variety say the delay on the film has meant that 18 year old Thomas Sangster has left the project and Spielberg will need to find a new lead.

Andy Serkis is still on board as Captain Haddock.

Spielberg will direct the first movie, Jackson the second and I would guess Spielberg's pal Robert Zemeckis (BEOWULF, THE POLAR EXPRESS) must be favourite for the third. ]]></description>
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		<title>Spielberg is busy, Greengrass says no&#8230; so who do DreamWorks go after for THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hollywood Reporter say Ben Stiller is in, and they like to stress, "exploratory talks", to helm the DreamWorks 1968 period drama about the riots at the Democratic convention and their aftermath, which we have known for a good number of years now as THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7.

The studio are said to be desperate to move forward with the picture and now that Steven Spielberg is busy with TINTIN and Paul Greengrass is looking to prep BOURNE 4, they are likely to be considering more far reaching candidates for Aaron Sorkin's much lauded script.
Also working in Stiller's favour is the success of TROPIC THUNDER which apart from making $164 million worldwide, will have proven to them he can make a genre movie, handle a big ensemble cast of big name actors and for some, he even got some great direction credit.
Though of course that's a long way from suddenly becoming the guy who replaces Spielberg and helms a movie from the writer of A FEW GOOD MEN which delves into the real life moments of a historically significant event. I mean, Phillip Seymour Hoffman was once rumored for this film.. can you imagine him working under and taking ...]]></description>
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