WILL UPDATE AS SOON AS MORE INFORMATION APPEARS
MAY 6, 2011
Project Notes
All dates refer to when the comment was entered
20 Jan. 2007 Announced
31 July 2007 Producers are looking for a writer
23 May 2008 Optioned Property
Sony has made their payment to Marvel to renew the rights
04 Jun. 2008 Script (James Vanderbilt)
19 Jan. 2009 Filming rumored to start in 2010, maybe earlier
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AVATAR
Genre Sci-fi thriller
Director James Cameron
Writer James Cameron
Company 20th Century Fox
Starring
Sam Worthington
Sigourney Weaver
Michelle Rodriguez
Zoe Saldana
Giovanni Ribisi
Laz Alonso
The movie is 40% live action and 60% photo-realistic CGI. A lot of motion capture technology was used for the CGI scenes.
PLOT: On the distant moon Pandora, a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption, discovery and unexpected love -- as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.
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The story’s protagonist, Jake Sully, is an ex-Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. In order to participate in the Avatar program, which will give him a healthy body, Jake agrees to travel to Pandora, a lush rainforest environment filled with incredible life forms – some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also the home to the Na’vi, a humanoid race that lives at what we consider to be a primate level, but they are actually much more evolved than humans. Ten feet tall and blue skinned, the Na’vi live harmoniously within their unspoiled world. But as humans encroach on Pandora in search of valuable minerals, the Na’vi’s very existence is threatened – and their warrior abilities unleashed.
Jake has unwittingly been recruited to become part of this encroachment. Since humans are unable to breathe the air on Pandora, they have created genetically-bred human-Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars. The Avatars are living, breathing bodies in the real world, controlled by a human driver through a technology that links the driver’s mind to the Avatar body. On Pandora, through his Avatar body, Jake can be whole once again. Moreover, he falls in love with a young Na’vi woman, Neytiri, whose beauty is matched by her ferocity in battle.
As Jake slides deeper into becoming one of her clan, he finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth, and the Na’vi – forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.
Conceived 14 years ago and over four years in the making, AVATAR breaks new ground in delivering a fully immersive, emotional story and reinvents the moviegoing experience.
An epic 3D fantasy adventure ALICE IN WONDERLAND, a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. Johnny Depp stars as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. The all-star cast also includes Anna Hathaway, Helene Bonham Carter and Crispin Glover.
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Iron Man 2
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Garry Shandling, John Slattery
U.S. Opening Date: May 7th, 2010
Now that Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has come out of the closet as Iron Man, who knows who is going to pop out of the woodwork to fight him . .
Reports have it that Mickey Rourke plays a tattooed Russian baddie named Ivan who becomes Whiplash - a man with deadly, technologically
Sam Rockwell plays Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire
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Starring
Mike Myers as Shrek (voice)
Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona (voice)
Eddie Murphy as Donkey (voice)
Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots (voice)
Justin Timberlake as Artie (voice)
Ian McShane as Captain Hook (voice)
Maya Rudolph as Rapunzel
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Another Dr. Seuss character is coming to the screen -- this one in 3D. With family films increasingly showing big profits in theaters and in home-video outlets, Universal has made a deal with the estate of Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Giesel to turn his environmental fable The Lorax into a feature. Universal, which announced plans for the new deal, also indicated that The Lorax will be featured at its Universal Studios theme parks. Seuss's book has sparked controversy in the past with its warnings about spoiling the environment. A group in one California town once demanded that it be removed from a school library because, they claimed, it treated the timber industry unfairly.
'Funny People' finding its feet
$8.7 million bow Friday fends off "G-Force"
by Gregg Kilday from HollywoodReport
Judd Apatow’s new, more serious comedy “Funny People,” starring Adam Sandler, didn’t exactly kill ‘em at the boxoffice as it opened Friday.
Although number one for the day, the R-rated movie about stand-up comics that also stars Apatow regulars like Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann, collected an estimated $8.7 million in 3,008 theaters in North America.
That puts the Universal release on a path to score a first-weekend gross in the low $20-million range, which would put below Apatow’s last feature “Knocked Up,” which bowed to $30.7 million, and on about the same level as his first film, “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” which debuted to $21.4 million.
Fox’s new release “Aliens in the Attic,” a PG-rated family comedy directed by John Schultz, was even less of a draw. It took in $2.9 million in 3,106 theaters for a fifth-place showing for the day.
Freestyle’s R-rated horror-tale, Marcus Dunstan’s “The Collector,” the weekend’s other new wide release, was running even further back in the pack in eleventh place, grabbing $1.3 milion in 1,325 theaters.
Disney’s “G-Force,” with its rodent-heroes, which commanded the top spot last weekend, shifted to second place on Friday as it pulled in $5.7 million.
Warners’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” in its third weekend, was in the third spot as it took in an additional $5.4 million as it moves steadily toward topping the $250 million mark.
Rounding out the top five, Sony’s rom-com “The Ugly Truth,” registered fourth for the day as it took in $4.5 million.
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New Generation. Welcome to Elm Street
This name might not mean a lot to the little ones, but it means countless sleepless nights for people like me.
For horror fans like myself, New Line Cinema is bringing back our favorite dream monster with a new actor and all. Sadly Robert Englund is not in this movie, but it is about time he passes the "glove" to a new actor, and this actor is Jackie Earl Haley.
When I hear that this movie was going to be remade, I was SCREAMING LIKE A MANIAC. How could they do this??? Doesn't Hollywood have new ideas?? But after reading a early draft of the movie, I started to realize that this could be good. The script was written by Wesley Strick and in my opinion he did justice to Freddy.
The story maintains the essence of Freddy giving it a modern look.
Wesley Strick focus in the little details that work in the original one and enhanced it to a different level. I believe that this movie has the potential to be a GREAT film, if they don't change the script too much and the director does a good job.
Long story short, go see it when it comes out April 30, 2010
WARNING IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ PARTS OF THE SCRIPT, Stop HERE
His eyes snap open and he stares right at Kris, halfwhispering
a warning as his last words:DEAN
He’s back --
He falls backward off the ledge --
QUENTIN
‘At the seventy-hour mark, an
insomniac will begin to experience
‘micro-naps’ every eight to ten
minutes...
...Clinically, the subject
is asleep for those brief
moments.’
