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Nov. 1st, 2006 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litheraBob Barker is retiring - http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/31/tv.bobbarker.retires.ap/index.html
Jerry Bruckheimer told MTV that National Treasure 2 is getting underway.
The're remaking Working Girl. Can I tell you how much this doesn't need to happen? Especially with Jessica Simpson and Luke Wilson? HELLO? Melanie Griffith, Segourney Weaver and Harrison Ford. That movie doesn't need to be remade.
Emmy award winner Eddie Izzard is no longer part of the hit TV drama 24 - after completing only one day of filming. The cross-dressing comedian quietly parted with the show and is currently working on his upcoming TV series The Riches with fellow Brit Minnie Driver, which was picked up by the FX network in September. Izzard has been replaced by British actor David Hunt, husband of former Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton. Hunt will take over the role and play a villainous accomplice on the show named McCarthy.
The big-screen, live-action version of Speed Racer is being made by Larry and Andy Wachowski.
Ben Kingsley is attached to star opposite John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack and Marisa Tomei in the political satire Brand Hauser: Stuff Happens.
Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang and director Jonas Akerlund ( Spun ) are mounting up for The Horsemen.
South Korean's best known directors Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook are teaming up to make La Transperceneige. It will be shot in English.
Dreamworks revealed Shrek 4 will hit theaters in 2010. Also, the Puss in Boots movie, previously expected to go straight to DVD, will instead be a theatrical release sometime after Shrek 4.
J.K. Rowling has updated her official site with a note saying that she now has three titles for the seventh and final book.
According to Production Weekly, Michelle Rodriguez, Jennifer Carpenter, Channing Tatum and Tzi Ma have been added to the cast of the ensemble drama Battle In Seattle. They join Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Andre Benjamin and Martin Henderson.
Unsurprisingly, they're making a Saw IV for next Halloween.
The son-in-law of Stanley Kubrick is shepherding a film treatment titled Lunatic at Large to the screen after he discovered it among Kubrik's storage trunks, the New York Times reported today (Tuesday). According to the newspaper, Kubrick had commissioned the treatment from noir pulp novelist Jim Thompson in the 1950s, but it had become lost until the son-in-law, Philip Hobbs, discovered it after Kubrick's death in 1999. Hobbs told the Times, "I knew what it was right away, because I remember Stanley talking about 'Lunatic.' He was always saying he wished he knew where it was, because it was such a great idea."
And Pirates 3 was recently filming in Niagra Falls for finishing scenes.
Jerry Bruckheimer told MTV that National Treasure 2 is getting underway.
The're remaking Working Girl. Can I tell you how much this doesn't need to happen? Especially with Jessica Simpson and Luke Wilson? HELLO? Melanie Griffith, Segourney Weaver and Harrison Ford. That movie doesn't need to be remade.
Emmy award winner Eddie Izzard is no longer part of the hit TV drama 24 - after completing only one day of filming. The cross-dressing comedian quietly parted with the show and is currently working on his upcoming TV series The Riches with fellow Brit Minnie Driver, which was picked up by the FX network in September. Izzard has been replaced by British actor David Hunt, husband of former Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton. Hunt will take over the role and play a villainous accomplice on the show named McCarthy.
The big-screen, live-action version of Speed Racer is being made by Larry and Andy Wachowski.
Ben Kingsley is attached to star opposite John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack and Marisa Tomei in the political satire Brand Hauser: Stuff Happens.
Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang and director Jonas Akerlund ( Spun ) are mounting up for The Horsemen.
South Korean's best known directors Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook are teaming up to make La Transperceneige. It will be shot in English.
Dreamworks revealed Shrek 4 will hit theaters in 2010. Also, the Puss in Boots movie, previously expected to go straight to DVD, will instead be a theatrical release sometime after Shrek 4.
J.K. Rowling has updated her official site with a note saying that she now has three titles for the seventh and final book.
According to Production Weekly, Michelle Rodriguez, Jennifer Carpenter, Channing Tatum and Tzi Ma have been added to the cast of the ensemble drama Battle In Seattle. They join Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Andre Benjamin and Martin Henderson.
Unsurprisingly, they're making a Saw IV for next Halloween.
The son-in-law of Stanley Kubrick is shepherding a film treatment titled Lunatic at Large to the screen after he discovered it among Kubrik's storage trunks, the New York Times reported today (Tuesday). According to the newspaper, Kubrick had commissioned the treatment from noir pulp novelist Jim Thompson in the 1950s, but it had become lost until the son-in-law, Philip Hobbs, discovered it after Kubrick's death in 1999. Hobbs told the Times, "I knew what it was right away, because I remember Stanley talking about 'Lunatic.' He was always saying he wished he knew where it was, because it was such a great idea."
And Pirates 3 was recently filming in Niagra Falls for finishing scenes.
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Date: 2006-11-01 06:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-01 08:43 pm (UTC)Spot the one that doesn't belong.
Dreamworks revealed Shrek 4 will hit theaters in 2010.
Wait, what? Was there a Shrek 3 already?
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Date: 2006-11-01 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-01 11:16 pm (UTC)Brilliant! I loves me some Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard both. Now I just need to make sure to SEE this show!
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Date: 2006-11-06 08:44 pm (UTC)It bothers me at my core. I'm not sure how accurate the movie is going to be but I don't like it. The 'greatest political movement of our generation' sell is kind of pissing me off. More than a little.
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Date: 2006-11-06 08:44 pm (UTC)