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Jan 14, 2015 - 9:56 AM
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dragon53
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK---John Carpenter will be the executive producer of the long-gestating remake of his 1981 cult classic movie that starred Kurt Russell. 20th Century Fox won the bidding rights for the remake which will be the first of a Snake Plissken franchise. Charlie Hunnam (SONS OF ANARCHY) and Chris Hemsworth (THOR) are rumored to be the leading candidates to play Plissken.
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN---the GONE GIRL team of Ben Affleck, David Fincher and Gillian Flynn will reunite for a Warner Bros. remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 movie STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. The remake will be set in the present with Affleck playing a Hollywood star campaigning for an Academy Award when his personal jet has mechanical problems. He accepts a ride on the personal jet of a mysterious man which leads to murder. The remake is tentatively titled STRANGERS.
Also, Rosamund Pike commented on a GONE GIRL sequel after Gillian Flynn said it's a possibility, "Maybe, 10 years down the road. I'd think I'd want…to see what happens when the child is about 10."
THE BIG SHORT---Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling will star in this movie based on the book THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE about the 2008 financial crisis.
MR. MERCEDES---miniseries underway based on the Stephen King novel. David E. Kelley (BOSTON LEGAL) will write the script. Jack Bender (LOST) is the director.
NBC---Ann Curry is leaving the network she joined in 1990 to start her own production company. Curry's future with NBC was in doubt after her aborted stint as TODAY co-anchor. She was making $12 million a year.
THE REVISED FUNDAMENTALS OF CAREGIVING---Selena Gomez will co-star with Paul Rudd in the movie based on the novel.
GOTHAM---Scarecrow will appear in the February 2 episode.
HANNIBAL---Richard Armitage (THE HOBBIT) has joined the cast as serial killer Francis Dolarhyde.
BEN-HUR---Rodrigo Santoro (300) will play Jesus Christ in the remake movie.
BABY DRIVER---Ansel Elgort, Emma Stone and Michael Douglas are in talks to star in this movie in which a baby-faced getaway driver is pursued by his fellow bank robbers and law enforcement after a botched bank robbery. Edgar Wright is the director.
DOCTOR WHO---Season 9 has started filming. The BBC announced the guest stars for a two-part episode: Paul Kaye, Morven Christie, Arsher Ali, Colin McFarlane, Sophie Stone, Zaqi Ismail and Steven Robertson.
MOVIE TICKETS---a PriceWaterhouseCoopers poll of movie-goers in 2014 found that 25% went to movie theaters less than in 2013, and 53% attributed the decline due to the high cost of movie tickets.
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Mike is right, hunnam was shocking in green street. Ruined it in fact.
However, some years later, fair play to him, he was unrecognisable from that in Sons of anarchy.
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Well?
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Has Chris Hemsworth done anything successful outside of his Thor stint?
Don't know about commercial success, but he was sensational in BAD TIMES...ROYALE
He channelled Jim Morrison and Charles Manson into one psychopath!
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Escape From New York is a great plot idea. Manhattan Island as one big open prison, gangs in constant warfare, maybe one gang housed in the Empire State Building. The trouble is, the idea is epic & the film was REALLY cheap, more like Escape From The Mall (not even that). A really big budget & you could have something quite outrageous.
I disagree completely, it's because the film was cheap, producers and director had to come up with brilliant ideas to make the film work (watch the documentary on the newly released edition by Canal+). A fantastic film, many times copied, never surpassed !!!
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THE BIG SHORT---Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling will star in this movie based on the book THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE about the 2008 financial crisis.
I kinda hoped INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE was a documentary about my favorite classic Star Trek episode...
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He still deserves his own level in Hell for giving us Ally McBeal.
