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Hilary Swank playing The Resident
A stalker thriller from Hammer Films
BY James White Dec 4th 2008 // 6:06AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Hilary Swank has latched on to stalker thriller The Resident, which Hammer Films is producing.
Swank will play a doctor who moves into a New York loft, but soon discovers that her landlord is (cue the dramatic music sting!) a creepy stalker.
First-time helmer Antti J Jokinen will direct the film from his script co-written with Robert Orr.
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But the screenplay also has some added girl power – Secretary scribe Erin Cressida Wilson has polished it up, which is probably why Swank decided to star.
The film will start shooting in May, and once its released, we’ll all start hoping it turns out better than The Reaping.
Watchmen now shorter
Zack Snyder’s current cut is 2 hours and 35 mins
BY James White Dec 3rd 2008 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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Despite earlier attempts by director Zack Snyder to keep Watchmen around 2 hours and 45 minutes, he’s had to edit the film down a little.
Don’t panic, though – it’s not like an hour will be missing. "We're getting really close," producer Deborah Snyder tells Sci Fi. "We're at two hours and 35 minutes."
Though the Snyders have a shared passion to keep the film as long as possible, it looks like the studio wants them to keep on slicing.
Kristen Stewart playing Joan Jett
Twilight star to portray rocker
BY James White Dec 3rd 2008 // 6:06AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Kristen Stewart, who is currently starring in Twilight, will play Joan Jett in The Runaways, a biopic of the 1970s all-girl band.
The Hollywood Reporter has it that music video helmer Floria Sigismondi is set to direct the pic from her script.
For those now saying “Joan who?” a quick briefing: The Runaways were a hugely influential band, the first successful all-girl rock group.
Johnny Depp considering In The Hand Of Dante
His production company’s nabbed the rights
BY James White Dec 3rd 2008 // 6:06AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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Johnny Depp has bought the rights – via his production company Infinitum Nihil – to Nick Tosches’ novel In The Hand Of Dante, which Depp may star in.
Literary history buffs will like this one – the 2002 book focuses on Dante’s best-known work, The Divine Company, jumping between time periods to show him trying to complete it as Tosches aims to authenticate it.
Roland Emmerich’s 2012 is “crazy”
Star Amanda Peet has seen early footage
BY James White Dec 3rd 2008 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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Love his films or loathe them (or both), Roland Emmerich knows a thing or two about Earth-destroying spectacle.
And his current apocalypso sounds like it’ll top even previous efforts such as ID4 and The Day After Tomorrow.
At least, that’s the impression one gets from one of 2012’s stars, Amanda Peet, who talked about the early footage she’s seen to MTV.
Could Kevin McKidd be Thor?
“There’s been some back and forth”
BY James White Dec 3rd 2008 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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While he’s been rumoured as linked to the lead role in comic book adaptation Thor for a while now, Kevin McKidd has confirmed that he’s been in discussions with director Kenneth Branagh for the role.
Don’t go building your shrine/planning to kneecap the bloke just yet. While he tells IGN that there has been “a lot of back and forth” between his reps and Marvel, nothing has been determined.
Clever new Revolutionary Road trailer released
Fresh look at Sam Mendes’ Oscar contender
BY Chris Hicks Dec 2nd 2008 // 17:17PM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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A new trailer for Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road has hit the internet, showing off the talent of Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio and an unknown trailer editor. See it below.
Catherine Hardwicke Talks Twilight Sequel
“I want to do New Moon better than we did Twilight”
BY James White Dec 2nd 2008 // 6:06AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Given that Twilight is now a big box office success and the sequel – based on follow-up novel New Moon – has been greenlit, likely director Catherine Hardwicke has been talking about the film’s challenges.
While Hardwicke isn’t confirmed to helm the movie – she still has to work out a contract with the studio – she is ready for the job if all the details can be locked down.
There May Be A New Speed Movie
But Is There A Need For Speed?
BY James White Dec 2nd 2008 // 5:05AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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While there have been a few rumblings of mostly remakes in the past, rumours are rising of a possible return to the Speed films.
AICN has been sent a tip that Fox may be trying to find a way to return the Jack Traven character – as originated by Keanu Reeves in the first film – for a new outing.
A scriptment has been floating around that, while it offers little in the way of detail, might form a way for Reeves to return to one of the films that originally helped make him a star.
Shia LaBeouf Is The Associate
He’ll star in the new John Grisham legal thriller
BY James White Dec 2nd 2008 // 4:04AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Shia LaBeouf has nabbed the lead role in Paramount’s new John Grisham adaptation The Associate.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing the film, and recruited LaBeouf on the set of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, reports Variety.
The Eagle Eye star will play a Yale Law graduate who is manipulated into taking a job at a big legal firm and slipped insider information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.
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