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The Hollywood Roundup: November 10
Madagascar 2 conquers, Captain America director set, and Hollywood OD's on remakes
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Nov 10, 2008
Nov 10, 2008
Welcome to CraveOnline's weekly movie news roundup - a weekly rundown of all the breaking news in the film world, with an eye for what Tinseltown's got in store for us in the near future!
BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
1. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $63.5 million ($63.5 million)
2. Role Models - $19.2 million ($19.2 million)
3. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - $9.2 million ($75.7 million)
4. Changeling - $7.2 million ($20.5 million)
5. Zack and Miri Make A Porno - $6.5 million ($20.9 million)
6. Soul Men - $5.6 million ($5.6 million)
7. Saw V - $4.2 million ($52.3 million)
8. The Haunting of Molly Hartley - $3.4 million ($10.2 million)
9. The Secret Life of Bees - $3.1 million ($29.9 million)
10. Eagle Eye - $2.5 million ($96.4 million)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa opened big at the box office this weekend, raking in $63.5 million to claim the #1 spot. The sequel is already being considered a massive success, having surpassed the $47.2 million debut for the 2005 original.
Stifler did good this time around, as Role Models opened at #2 with $19.2 million, upstaging High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which dropped to #3 in its third weekend with $9.2 million.
Changeling held steady at #4 with $7.2 million, while Zack and Miri Make A Porno's staying power doesn't measure up in its second weekend dropping to #5 with $6.5 million. Kevin Smith's movies never do well in theaters anyway.
Joe Johnston has signed on to direct First Avenger: Captain America, Marvel Studios' latest superhero tale to head to the big screen. No writers have joined the team yet, but Marvel's Kevin Feige is set to produce. Johnston first met with Marvel two years ago, and those early talks laid the foundation for the Captain America film storyline. "This is a guy who designed the vehicles for Star Wars, who storyboarded the convoy action sequence for Raiders of the Lost Ark, " Feige said. "From Rocketeer to October Sky to The Wolfman, you can look at pieces of his movies and see how they lead to this one."
Stay tuned for more as updates develop.
A big screen version of the DC/Vertigo comic series The Losers is headed our way. Sylvain White (Stomp The Yard..uh..) is set to direct, while Joel Silver produces (along with Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster). The movie is said tofollow a special ops team out for revenge after they are betrayed and left for dead. Sounds like three heaping bowls of awesome.
Brett Ratner is in final talks to direct Conan, which is due to hit theaters in 2010. Ratner was a big fan of the script by Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly, who based the story on Robert E. Howard's original pulp stories of the 1930s to create their updated take on the character. As it stands, the film will have a budget of around $85 million.
Way back in the political stone age of 2006, Edward Norton's production company (yeah, he has one) approached President-elect Barack Obama about shooting a documentary on him. He agreed, and the crew were given exclusive access to shoot the presidential hopeful for the next two years, throughout the historic primary battle and Presidential election. HBO has just finalized a seven-figure deal for the rights.
MGM will be the first major movie studio to present full-length feature films on YouTube. CNET News reported on Thursday that YouTube was gearing up to launch a feature-film service after spending months sweet-talking the bigwigs and rebuilding relationships in Hollywood. Lionsgate established a partnership with YouTube last summer, but that deal calls for the studio to offer only short clips from films and TV shows. MGM will also reportedly post TV shows on YouTube.
Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are in talks to remake Oldboy, the fantastic Korean film about a businessman who is kidnapped and incarcerated for 15 years without explanation. After his release, he spends the rest of the film searching for his captor and trying to find out why. Just think - this means we'll get to see a whole batch of new scenes featuring a confused, mildly frightened but determined Will Smith.
Has Sylvester Stallone been working all these years up to the latest Rambo, or did that gore-fest do for him what Tarantino movies do for just about everybody (i.e. revive their sputtering, dying or already dead careers)? Aside from talks of another Rambo movie (maybe even two), Stallone is set to write, direct, and star in The Expendables, a story about a group of ruthless mercenaries and their efforts to enter a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. Sounds pretty Rambo-y to me.
Jason Statham is also set to star in the film and Jet Li is in final negotiations for a role as well. Sounds like Rambo style jungle-slaughter ultra violence to us. Sold.
Chevy Chase and Burt Reynolds are putting their teeth in, stocking up on Metamucil and heading back to Hollywood. The two old codgers have teamed up to spoof the nonstop, rage-inducing flood of spoof films in the upcoming indie comedy Not Another Not Another Movie.
Chase plays a studio head who quits his failing company and leaves his ex-con sibling (Michael Madsen) in charge. Their retarded gangster friend (Vinnie Jones) takes over and hires a production assistant to.. God. Can we stop? This is nightmarish and making me feel dirty. This is worse than Chase trying to star in a new Fletch movie.
Chris Rock is set to revamp and star in the British comedy Death at a Funeral, one of 2007's funniest films. Instead of a direct remake, Rock and company plan to build on the concept - an ensemble comedy about a funeral ceremony that leads to the digging up of shocking family secrets, as well as misplaced corpses and indecent exposure.
"Everybody Hates Chris" writer Aeysha Carr will co-write the script with Rock. I'm so sick of talking about remakes.
Variety reports that Fox has greenlit an adaptation (REMAKE) of Gulliver's Travels. You remember the story - abotu the giant. Jonathan Swift wrote it way the hell back in 1726. Anyway, Jack Black has signed on for the role of the skyscraper-tall Gulliver. Director Rob Letterman will update the story, portraying Gulliver as a travel writer on assignment in the Bermuda Triangle when he comes across the hidden island of tiny people. Black's involvement will surely make this a much more slapstick kind of film that previous incarnations.
Legendary author, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Crichton has died at 66 years old. He died suddenly in Los Angeles last Tuesday "after a courageous and private battle against cancer." His many books that have been made into several mega-smash films such as Jurassic Park, Congo, Twister, Sphere, The Andromeda Strain, and The 13th Warrior as well as "ER" on TV. His legacy, and his great stories, will surely live on forever.
Not to be a dick or anything, but wasn't this the guy who said that global warming was a crock of shit?
Charlize Theron and Tom Cruise are set to pair up in the upcoming action thriller The Tourist from Spyglass Entertainment. The film is, of course, a remake of a 2005 French film. Theron will play an Interpol secret agent who uses an American tourist in an attempt to find an elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair. The film is said to be mostly true to the original, except for a gender switch in certain characters.
BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
1. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $63.5 million ($63.5 million)
2. Role Models - $19.2 million ($19.2 million)
3. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - $9.2 million ($75.7 million)
4. Changeling - $7.2 million ($20.5 million)
5. Zack and Miri Make A Porno - $6.5 million ($20.9 million)
6. Soul Men - $5.6 million ($5.6 million)
7. Saw V - $4.2 million ($52.3 million)
8. The Haunting of Molly Hartley - $3.4 million ($10.2 million)
9. The Secret Life of Bees - $3.1 million ($29.9 million)
10. Eagle Eye - $2.5 million ($96.4 million)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa opened big at the box office this weekend, raking in $63.5 million to claim the #1 spot. The sequel is already being considered a massive success, having surpassed the $47.2 million debut for the 2005 original.
Stifler did good this time around, as Role Models opened at #2 with $19.2 million, upstaging High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which dropped to #3 in its third weekend with $9.2 million.
Changeling held steady at #4 with $7.2 million, while Zack and Miri Make A Porno's staying power doesn't measure up in its second weekend dropping to #5 with $6.5 million. Kevin Smith's movies never do well in theaters anyway.
Joe Johnston has signed on to direct First Avenger: Captain America, Marvel Studios' latest superhero tale to head to the big screen. No writers have joined the team yet, but Marvel's Kevin Feige is set to produce. Johnston first met with Marvel two years ago, and those early talks laid the foundation for the Captain America film storyline. "This is a guy who designed the vehicles for Star Wars, who storyboarded the convoy action sequence for Raiders of the Lost Ark, " Feige said. "From Rocketeer to October Sky to The Wolfman, you can look at pieces of his movies and see how they lead to this one."
Stay tuned for more as updates develop.
A big screen version of the DC/Vertigo comic series The Losers is headed our way. Sylvain White (Stomp The Yard..uh..) is set to direct, while Joel Silver produces (along with Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster). The movie is said tofollow a special ops team out for revenge after they are betrayed and left for dead. Sounds like three heaping bowls of awesome.
Brett Ratner is in final talks to direct Conan, which is due to hit theaters in 2010. Ratner was a big fan of the script by Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly, who based the story on Robert E. Howard's original pulp stories of the 1930s to create their updated take on the character. As it stands, the film will have a budget of around $85 million.
Way back in the political stone age of 2006, Edward Norton's production company (yeah, he has one) approached President-elect Barack Obama about shooting a documentary on him. He agreed, and the crew were given exclusive access to shoot the presidential hopeful for the next two years, throughout the historic primary battle and Presidential election. HBO has just finalized a seven-figure deal for the rights.
MGM will be the first major movie studio to present full-length feature films on YouTube. CNET News reported on Thursday that YouTube was gearing up to launch a feature-film service after spending months sweet-talking the bigwigs and rebuilding relationships in Hollywood. Lionsgate established a partnership with YouTube last summer, but that deal calls for the studio to offer only short clips from films and TV shows. MGM will also reportedly post TV shows on YouTube.
Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are in talks to remake Oldboy, the fantastic Korean film about a businessman who is kidnapped and incarcerated for 15 years without explanation. After his release, he spends the rest of the film searching for his captor and trying to find out why. Just think - this means we'll get to see a whole batch of new scenes featuring a confused, mildly frightened but determined Will Smith.
Has Sylvester Stallone been working all these years up to the latest Rambo, or did that gore-fest do for him what Tarantino movies do for just about everybody (i.e. revive their sputtering, dying or already dead careers)? Aside from talks of another Rambo movie (maybe even two), Stallone is set to write, direct, and star in The Expendables, a story about a group of ruthless mercenaries and their efforts to enter a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. Sounds pretty Rambo-y to me.
Jason Statham is also set to star in the film and Jet Li is in final negotiations for a role as well. Sounds like Rambo style jungle-slaughter ultra violence to us. Sold.
Chevy Chase and Burt Reynolds are putting their teeth in, stocking up on Metamucil and heading back to Hollywood. The two old codgers have teamed up to spoof the nonstop, rage-inducing flood of spoof films in the upcoming indie comedy Not Another Not Another Movie.
Chase plays a studio head who quits his failing company and leaves his ex-con sibling (Michael Madsen) in charge. Their retarded gangster friend (Vinnie Jones) takes over and hires a production assistant to.. God. Can we stop? This is nightmarish and making me feel dirty. This is worse than Chase trying to star in a new Fletch movie.
Chris Rock is set to revamp and star in the British comedy Death at a Funeral, one of 2007's funniest films. Instead of a direct remake, Rock and company plan to build on the concept - an ensemble comedy about a funeral ceremony that leads to the digging up of shocking family secrets, as well as misplaced corpses and indecent exposure.
"Everybody Hates Chris" writer Aeysha Carr will co-write the script with Rock. I'm so sick of talking about remakes.
Variety reports that Fox has greenlit an adaptation (REMAKE) of Gulliver's Travels. You remember the story - abotu the giant. Jonathan Swift wrote it way the hell back in 1726. Anyway, Jack Black has signed on for the role of the skyscraper-tall Gulliver. Director Rob Letterman will update the story, portraying Gulliver as a travel writer on assignment in the Bermuda Triangle when he comes across the hidden island of tiny people. Black's involvement will surely make this a much more slapstick kind of film that previous incarnations.
Legendary author, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Crichton has died at 66 years old. He died suddenly in Los Angeles last Tuesday "after a courageous and private battle against cancer." His many books that have been made into several mega-smash films such as Jurassic Park, Congo, Twister, Sphere, The Andromeda Strain, and The 13th Warrior as well as "ER" on TV. His legacy, and his great stories, will surely live on forever.
Not to be a dick or anything, but wasn't this the guy who said that global warming was a crock of shit?
Charlize Theron and Tom Cruise are set to pair up in the upcoming action thriller The Tourist from Spyglass Entertainment. The film is, of course, a remake of a 2005 French film. Theron will play an Interpol secret agent who uses an American tourist in an attempt to find an elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair. The film is said to be mostly true to the original, except for a gender switch in certain characters.
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