New Films in Production, v.2

[beamish13]

An updated A Christmas Carol, a Freddie Mercury/Queen bio pic and Beetlejuice 2....The creativity is flowing.

Yep. Even with Tom Stoppard writing, I fail to see the need for another retelling of A Christmas Carol. I think the Muppets and Richard Williams' animated versions are pretty much the definitive takes.

[beamish13]

Actually, scratch Beetlejuice 2

[FrauBlucher]

Ben-Hur wasn't that good the first time, so let's try it again.

[knives]

You do realize this will be the fourth adaptation, correct?

[FrauBlucher]

Yup. I was more or less poking fun at the filmmakers, suggesting that they are playing to plain folks who only know the Heston version and they are working off that premise.

[flyonthewall2983]

Horse Killed By ‘Flying Iceberg’ On Fast and Furious 8 Set

[flyonthewall2983]

James Ponsoldt to adapt I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story Of The Music Video Revolution, the excellent book about the network's early days and first decade. Presumably it'll be mostly about how it was built from the ground up as discussed in it's first chapters.

[knives]

So no discussion of the fight with MJ because MTV was super racist?

[flyonthewall2983]

Those issues are handled in the book, but I think the better movie is in how the idea of a 24/7 television channel dedicated to music was developed and sold to people. More importantly, not sold to some because in the early days they had disputes with the labels over royalties and such.

I'd cast Jennifer Lawrence as Nina Blackwood.

[FrauBlucher]

Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem in Talks to Star in Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish-Language Film.

[John Cope]

Mel Gibson may be returning for The Resurrection of The Christ. It's kind of hard to imagine as he would seem more capable of The Passion narrative but who knows. It will be interesting at the very least to see what his artistic models are this time around--some kind of extension, I would assume, of the same ones he used for the previous film.

[domino harvey]

A look at the next blockbuster

The producers realized it was a bad idea to make one Tetris movie, so... they're making three instead

[colinr0380]

What do you bet that the tagline for the third film will be: "now see the pieces all finally fall into place!"

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

These are the people who made Foodfight! They will never get to the third film and I'd be surprised if they even make the first.

[Ribs]

They're bringing back Saw

[flyonthewall2983]

That's surprising. I guess they weren't deterred by this.

[lacritfan]

Oceans Ocho (8) - All-female Oceans 11 spin-off.

[domino harvey]

Produced by Soderbergh!

[lacritfan]

Didn't know this -(Gary) Ross and Soderbergh are longtime informal collaborators, serving as second unit director on each other’s films and as sounding board on scripts and projects.

[Ribs]

Because Hollywood Reporter is getting it wrong - the title is not Ocean's Ocho, that's just a fun nickname that Gary Ross and the cast have used for it occasionally. It's just Ocean's Eight, as it should be.

Last reports said Clooney would be too busy to do anything with this, even a small cameo, which makes me honestly wonder what the entire point of this enterprise would be.

(I'm a little confused that the various outfits are saying they've filled seven of the eight slots, though - whilst we know that Bullock/Blanchett are the Clooney/Pitt figures surely one of these others could just as well be the Andy Garcia character?)

[Ribs]

John Turturro's new film Going Places will star him as his character from the Big Lebowski for some reason.

[flyonthewall2983]

Green Street Hooligans and Punisher: War Zone director Lexi Alexander to direct Chris Benoit bio-pic.

[The Narrator Returns]

Jeff Nichols is remaking Alien Nation

[FrauBlucher]

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's next film.

[domino harvey]

Kirsten Dunst will direct and co-write an adaptation of the Bell Jar starring Dakota Fanning and Jesse Plemons