1984 in the works to bring dystopia back to its roots
Dystopia is big lately, with The Hunger Games coming on Friday and countless teen dystopian novels flooding the shelves of bookstores. But what about the originators? Where would we be without them? According to The Hollywood Reporter, we don’t have to worry about that for much longer. Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment is working with LBI […]
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Dark Tower still in the works, Universal trying to minimize budget
Well, it’s not canceled yet. Ron Howard’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is still with Universal after rumors that it was being put into turnaround proved to be false. However, according to Deadline, they’re also pushing back the start date and trying to slim the budget down to something more manageable. Originally schedule […]
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Javier Bardem officially getting on board The Dark Tower
A couple of months ago, we talked about how Javier Bardem would possibly be signing on as Roland Deschain for The Dark Tower series of films and television shows. Now, it looks like that is very close to becoming a reality. According to Deadline, Bardem’s representatives, along with director Ron Howard, are finishing up the […]
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Quick Cuts: The Hunger Games gets a release date, Javier Bardem may be Roland in The Dark Tower and other stories
Get ready for the next big thing. Lionsgate has announced that the first film based on Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy will hit theaters on March 23, 2012. The young adult novels are the latest crossover craze, in the vein of Harry Potter or Twilight, and tell a story of gladiatorial games in a […]
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Stephen King’s The Dark Tower coming to big and small screens
I am tempering my excitement. This has the potential to be absolutely amazing or a destructive travesty of one of modern fantasy’s epic works. In an exclusive over at Deadline, Universal has announced that they’ve acquired the rights to Stephen King’s The Dark Tower and will be turning the seven volume epic fantasy into a […]
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Trisha’s Quote of the Day: Even actors aren’t free from homework
That’s what was fun about [Frost/Nixon]. I’ve grown up with Watergate; I’m a little bit older than you, but I think I was 12 when Nixon resigned. But I grew up with the specter and the aura of it. But in drilling down in the research, I realized there was so much I didn’t know […]
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