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Rumor: Are Bryan Singer And Leonardo DiCaprio Teaming For Big-Screen 'Six Billion Dollar Man'? | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | indieWIRE

The site reports that Universal and The Weinstein Brothers are teaming up to adapt "The Six Million Dollar Man," the TV series that followed Steve Austin (Lee Majors) as a test pilot who suffers a horrific accident, only to be rebuilt (we have the technology!) into a part-man, part-machine, government secret agent. The new version, again based on the Martin Caidin novel "Cyborg," will be entitled "The Six Billion Dollar Man," and Singer is apparently attached to direct. Latino Review also says that the writers of "Jack the Giant Killer" are likely to pen a new screenplay, but with four separate writers listed on that film, it's not clear who among Christopher McQuarrie, Darren Lemke, Dan Studney and Mark Bomback they mean.

Furthermore, the film may have already found its lead. The site also reports that Leonardo DiCaprio is being courted by both Singer and Harvey Weinstein to take up the lead role of Steve Austin. The actor doesn't have anything solid lined up after "Django Unchained," but it would be an out-of-character move for him to take the film. Since blowing up with "Titanic," he's favored working on serious projects with auteur types like Martin Scorsese, Baz Luhrmann, Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan, and we're not sure if Singer qualifies in that category anymore, even without a silly franchise property as the potential project. But maybe Singer has a take that will intrigue the star.
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Tarsem Singh to Direct Noirish Fantasy Thriller ‘Killing on Carnival Row’ | /Film

The story takes place in a city named the Burgue, which exists in the future, but is a bit like 18th century London. Humans live side-by-side with other creatures, and a killer stalks the streets of a neighborhood called Carnival Row inhabited by faeries working in brothels. The murderer is killing faeries, cutting off their wings and leaving telltale puncture wounds in their necks.
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Sounds cool, gonna need a bounceback from that Mirror, Mirror flick, which looks like a horrible misfire.
 
‘Delicatessen’ and ‘Amelie’ Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet to Make 3D Film ‘T.S. Spivet’ | /Film

French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a very specific, immediately recognizable visual style as seen in films like Delicatessen, Amelie and his most recent feature, Micmacs. He takes quite a bit of time between features, and since his 1991 feature debut with Delicatessen he has made only six films, and one English-language film: the not terribly good Alien Resurrection. (I think “not terribly good” is being pretty charitable to that movie, actually.)

Now Jeunet is set to make another English-language film, and it will also be his first in 3D. Given that Jeunet is all about visuals, the prospect of seeing his first foray into 3D is more tempting than would be the case from may other directors.


The most attractive part of this for some may be that it sees Jeunet reuniting with screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, with whom he wrote Amelie, A Very Long Engagement and Micmacs. The material at hand seems like the sort of story that plays specifically to the quirky strengths the screenwriting team has cultivated over the years, but the attraction here may still simply be seeing what Jeunet can do with 3D.

If you’re not familiar with the source material, here’s the recap:


When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T. S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping dinner table conversations normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T. S. from his family home just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum’s hallowed halls. There are some answers here on the road from Divide, and some new questions, too. How does one map the delicate lessons learned about family, or communicate the ebbs and flows of heartbreak, loneliness, and love?
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Duncan Jones On The Connections Between Moon And Mute And… An Unnamed Third Film Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

A couple of weeks back, Duncan Jones and his producing partner Stuart Fenegan hosted two special screenings of Moon at The New Beverly in LA. On one night, Sam Rockwell joined them, and the video cameras were switched on.
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First, though, a transcript of Jones’ answer to the question “Is there any chance of a Moon sequel?”

You’ll definitely see the world expanding. As far as the epilogue of Sam Bell’s adventures there are going to be… the plan was to do Mute first. Mute is a sci-fi story that takes place in Berlin. It’s very much a city film. Moon‘s obviously a film about isolation, about as isolated as you can get on the far side of the moon. And there’s a third science fiction film, which will hopefully be the next film, which is a very different thing, which I can’t say too much about right now. But all three of those are connected in that they all take place within the same universe and each one of them will have just a couple of little fingers into each other’s story, so you’ll… just a little link between them all. So you’ll find out a little bit more about what happens in Moon in Mute and in this other film.
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Another Earth Blu-ray review

Another Earth will certainly be remembered as the lesser of 2011's two films about phantom planets that sneak up on Earth—it pales next to Melancholia—but even when it doesn't work, it's still a striking example of how to make the most out of a tiny budget. Recommended for fans of similar sci-fi ventures like Moon and Monsters.
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Anybody see this? Really curious about it.
 
Harrison Ford Eyed for Ender’s Game; Asa Butterfield Confirmed

Less than two week’s after Asa Butterfield (Hugo) was offered the lead in Ender’s Game, we can confirm that the young actor will indeed portray Andrew/Ender, the third Wiggin sibling. Fans of the source material (the 1985 Hugo/Nebula Award-winning novel by Orson Scott Card) will be happy to see that sights are now set on casting Colonel Hyrum Graff. None other than sci-fi fan-favorite Harrison Ford is reportedly being eyed for the role. Who better to play the aging Commander of Training for the International Fleet than the grizzled veteran?

Director Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Ender’s Game will follow the titular character in a coming-of-age tale as he develops military strategies through war games in an attempt to prepare for an intergalactic battle. Summit Entertainment’s Ender’s Game hits screens on March 15, 2013. Hit the jump for more.

Variety reports that producers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough are discussing possible casting choices for Colonel Graff in a veteran group that includes Ford. Viggo Mortensen was previously in talks for the role, but negotiations broke down. Colonel Graff is essentially a surrogate father for all of the children at the Battle School, but takes special notice of Ender. Whether this works out well for the young man in the end…well, you’ll just have to wait and see. Get caught up with all of our Ender’s Game coverage here. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the story, check out the novel synopsis below (via Amazon):




In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut–young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender’s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is.
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JOHN CARTER Movie Trailer

Ok, this certainly does quite a bit to ease my fears. Still, looks like a desert Avatar...but all the footage prior to this looked so sparse, like they just filmed in the desert with 5 or 6 people and no sets. Apparently at least 70% of this movie is cgi. Ok, well at least it looks better than anything we have seen so far.
 
Check Out The Hauntingly Beautiful Trailer For The Henson-Produced Puppet Film THE NARRATIVE OF VICTOR KARLOCH!
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Created by Kevin McTurk and produced by Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams Films, THE NARRATIVE OF VICTOR KARLOCH is a sort of haunted Jules Verne yarn about "an alchemist, ghost hunter and scholar" who investigates matters of the supernatural. It began life as a radio drama tailored specifically to blind children (with surround sound and tactile special effects), and, over the last two years, has metamorphosed into a fanciful, lovingly crafted puppet film. The movie features the voices of Christopher Lloyd and Elijah Wood, and puppets were created in their likeness.

I've been privileged to catch glimpses of McTurk's work over the last year or so as the film has come together.
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Steampunk zombie novel Boneshaker shuffling to the big screen - HitFix.com

Hammer Films is bringing Cherie Priest's zombie novel "Boneshaker" to life for the big screen.

John Hilary Shepherd ("Nurse Jackie") is writing the screenplay. Project will be co-produced by Hammer and Cross Creek Pictures and co-financed by Exclusive and Cross Creek Pictures.

Nominated for a 2012 Hugo Award, the steampunk SF story takes place in an alternate version of 1880s Seattle, where much of the city's populous has been turned into "Rotters" (AKA zombies) after exposure to toxic gas. A young widow searches for her teenage son against the apocalyptic backdrop where airship pirates, criminal overlords and armed refugees roam the desolate Emerald City.

"Boneshaker" is, naturally, the first book in a proposed series called "The Clockwork Century." The second novel, "Dreadnought" was published in 2010, with "Ganymede" following this past September. Tor Books will release "Inexplicables," and Priest is currently working on the fifth novel, "Fiddlehead."

"First and foremost this is a great story. Bringing a steampunk style novel to life on the big screen is going to be very cool, very unique," said Hammer's Tobin Armbrust in a release.

"'Boneshaker' is a classic zombie movie with a modern twist which is quintessentially Hammer so it’s a perfect fit for us," added Simon Oakes of Hammer. "Cherie Priest’s steampunk series are fantastic with a distinct, unique style and we’re really looking forward to bringing her ‘Rotters’ to the big screen."

"It’s like Jules Verne meets ‘Resident Evil,’ and we’re thrilled to have such a fun, commercial potential franchise in Boneshaker,” says Cross Creek's Brian Oliver. "John’s an exciting screenwriter and we see this being a real crowd pleaser."

"Boneshaker" is the most recent in a string of projects for which Cross Creek Pictures and Exclusive have collaborated, including George Clooney’s “The Ides of March" and the upcoming “The Woman in Black” starring Daniel Radcliffe the "Harry Potter" films).
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It's only a matter of time before Steampunk is the next vampires. This sounds interesting, anyone read the books?
 
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