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2nd Joel Silver Interview Ninja Assassin. Plus Info on Dark Castle Projects, Remakes, Sherlock Holmes, More

24 November 2009 8:49 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

At last weekend’s press junket for Ninja Assassin, I had the opportunity to speak with producer Joel Silver twice.  The first time was an exclusive TV interview, and the second time was during a roundtable interview the following day.  While I normally would be happy to use just one of the interviews, since Joel Silver is producing so many high profile projects (Lobo, Sgt. Rock, The Apparition), I knew getting to speak with him twice would be a good thing.

Also, what a lot of people don’t realize is how much info a producer can tell you.  While it’s always great to talk with an actor, unless you’re a Brad Pitt, most actors don’t have that much juice to get a project made.  So that’s why getting to speak with Joel Silver is so great, because not only can he talk about all his projects that are getting made, »

- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub

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Joel Silver Interview, Ninja Assassin

22 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

Joel Silver, one of the most prolific and successful producers in the history of motion pictures, has produced over 50 films, including the groundbreaking “The Matrix” trilogy, the blockbuster four-part “Lethal Weapon” franchise, and the seminal action films “Die Hard” and “Predator.” To date, Silver’s catalog of films have earned more than $10 billion in worldwide revenue from all sources.

Under his Silver Pictures banner, Silver is currently producing “Sherlock Holmes,” directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams, and set for a Christmas release; and the action thriller “The Book of Eli,” starring Denzel Washington under the direction of Albert and Allen Hughes, and due out January 2010.

MoviesOnline caught up this weekend with Joel at the Los Angeles press day for his new film, "Ninja Assassin.” The film is directed by James McTeigue from a screenplay by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski and »

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Joel Silver Updates Lobo and Other Movies in Development

22 November 2009 12:10 PM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Producer Joel Silver has an incredible resume, including many of Hollywood's top properties — the Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Predator, and Matrix franchises. His latest film, Ninja Assassin, opens this week and Silver is in various stages of production on eight other movies, with another dozen or more in development.

With so many different projects, it's hard to keep track of the status of all of them. Thankfully, Latino Review caught up with Silver and probed him about several of the fan-favorite films he is working on. While Silver didn't mention anything about the 3-D adaptation of DC Comics' Swamp Thing that he teased back in August, he did say that he is working on Lobo, another DC adaptation. We're working really close on that. It's close, yeah. There is a good shot we can make that happen.

While many fans have been clamoring to see Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen »

- BrentJS Sprecher

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Seven More "Remakes" We'd Love Werner Herzog To Direct

19 November 2009 4:50 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Controversy has followed Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" right from the start. When word got to director Abel Ferrara that his original "Bad Lieutenant" film was being remade by Herzog and star Nicolas Cage, the outspoken director wished the other outspoken director would "die in hell." Herzog's response? "I have no idea who Abel Ferrara is. But let him fight the windmills, like Don Quixote." To which Ferrara shot back, "I'd rather chase windmills than steal other people's ideas. It's lame."

Ferrara's protectiveness is understandable, but his outrage is a little excessive, particularly given that, as Herzog's insisted all along, the new film is a remake in title only. The central premise may belong to Ferrara; this particular execution, with its sweaty atmosphere and iguana hallucinations, is all Herzog. The result is like watching a jazz musician riff on someone else's composition. You appreciate both »

- Matt Singer

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Eminem's Next Movie Gig to be 3-D Horror

9 November 2009 1:02 PM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »

More than seven years after receiving major props (and a Best Original Song Oscar) for his feature-film debut in the semi-biographical 8 Mile, hip-hop superstar Eminem will possibly be returning to the big screen for the big-budget 3-D horror anthology film Shady Talez. We've got some interesting details after the jump… better hit it! According to ScreenDaily, the chart-topping rap icon will be working with producer John Davis (Predator) and writer/producer Dallas Jackson on the 3-D horror epic, which the creators describe as kind of a cross between The Twilight Zone and Creepshow. It's the first of several productions in development from Davis and Jackson's new partnership DJ Classicz/Davis Entertainment;... »

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Updates on Robert Rodriguez’s Predators

5 November 2009 4:50 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

The original Predator inspired more American Film Market-screened knockoffs than just about any other movie, and the word on the street here at the sales event is that the upcoming Robert Rodriguez production Predators will also jumpstart a whole new stream of human-vs.-aliens movies. And those who gotten a look at the Predators screenplay have been raving.

These sources tell Fango that this sequel ignores Predator 2 as well as both Alien Vs. Predator movies, and is a direct sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger-starrer. The script, by Michael Finch, Alex Litvak and Rodriguez, not only takes place on Earth, but its human characters also travel to the Predators’ planet to hunt the extraterrestrials. We will see new species—including Predator dogs!—and there’s going to be a Berserker Predator, the meanest badass of them all. And in some surprising FX news, Knb Efx’s Howard Berger and »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Tony Timpone)

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Blu-ray Giveaway: Rocky The Undisputed Collection

4 November 2009 7:28 AM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Imagine owning all the Rocky movies, from the original Rocky through Rocky Balboa, in one massive Blu-ray Disc set. Now you can as of November 3 and to help a few of you get an inside track on this set, we are giving away five of them to five lucky readers ($99.98 value).

For a chance to win one of the Rocky: The Undisputed Collection on Blu-ray Disc sets up for grabs, fill out and send in the completed entry form below. You can enter once per day as long as the contest is running. The more you enter, the better the odds of winning. Good luck!

This definitive collection enshrines the rags to riches tale of Philadelphia club fighter Rocky Balboa and his unwavering tenacity to go the distance. Memorialized with pristine picture and captivating audio, witness the epic span of Rocky.s fighting career, including memorable matchups with Mr. T, »

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Opinion In A Haystack: Eric Lichtenfeld Part 1

26 October 2009 2:09 AM, PDT | Quick Stop | See recent Quick Stop news »

Interview: Eric Lichtenfeld Part 1 of 2: Blood and Light

This week, the western world sees the release of Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen on DVD, a film very telling of the industry in which it swims. However, for those of us with more then two decades of life under our belts, this is a trumpet, an alarm, a loud drunk at the party of the “action” film genre, it’s a guest that reminds you how much has changed and how your style is no longer “in.” We can rest assured that the drunk is right. Action isn’t what it once was. The hardware has been replaced with software, and the hero has been replaced with the “hottie.” Spectacle is no longer flavored with primal instinct, blood, and brute force. Instead, it’s injected with pusillanimous, pixel-engulfed, stimuli. There’s no need to be bitter. Those that care about the past, »

- bobrose

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Derek Mears to Fight ‘Predators’

19 October 2009 5:36 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Earlier today, Robert Fure wrote about Robert Rodriguez's upcoming Predators movie, calling it out as one film that could really use an awesome big boss fight at the end. This comes on the heels of the announcement that the film will include the presence of a big super Predator who will be large and in-charge. And I'm right there with him -- bring on the big boss fight. Along with said revelation, we also now know (thanks to Shock Till You Drop) who else might be standing alongside badasses Adrien Brody and Topher Grace when they go up against the legion of Predators. None other than Jason Voorhees himself, Derek Mears. The Nimrod Antal (Armored) directed film has been looked at sideways by fans online for weeks now, ever since the likes of Grace and Brody were announced as part of the Predator-hunting brigade. Danny Trejo wasn't enough to make us believe that this film »

- Neil Miller

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Boiling Point: Big Boss Battles

19 October 2009 1:48 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Talking movies and video games in the same sentence is pretty obvious these days, but something that goes back even further is us nerds using video game terms all over the place.  When I say "big boss battle," you know what I'm talking about.  Coming to the end of a stage, the gamer is often faced with one last challenge, one big bad boss battle before he gets to move on to the next area.  Finally, at the end of the game, you're faced with the biggest, baddest bad guy the developer can throw at you.  They want you to earn it.  It's satisfying.  Each step is harder to take, but more rewarding to accomplish.  Movies, and since this is October we'll be talking monster/horror movies mostly, try to follow this scheme - but they get it wrong. What first put it in my head to talk about this was script news about the down-the-road Predator »

- Robert Fure

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'Predators' Adds Jason Voorhees to Cast

18 October 2009 9:20 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

We already know that Adrien Brody and Topher Grace recently joined the cast of Robert Rodriguez's Predators, rounding out an ensemble that includes Alice Braga as a tough female killer, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali as a man not afraid of death, Walt Goggins as a loose cannon, and Ufc fighter Oleg Taktarov as an ex-Russian special ops agent. Oh, yeah, and Danny Trejo as Cuchillo, a Mexican drug cartel enforcer.

Over the weekend, actor Derek Mears (Jason Voorhees from the rebooted Friday the 13th feature) confirmed to DreadCentral that he has been cast as well. "People were talking for a couple of weeks, but I wasn't able to confirm," he said. "I kept assuring the filmmakers that I was not the leak. Now it's out there, but I'm still not saying who I play."

In the film, the group are all kidnapped by the Predators and taken to the creatures' home »

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Adrian Vs Predators

15 October 2009 2:58 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

The Guvnor Arnold Schwarzenegger may never have won any acting awards in his halcyon action days of the 1980s but one thing you could believe is that he could actually kill a Predator in single combat. So we can only say Wtf to discover the star of Nimrod Antel’s Predators will be …Adrian Brody, a man Arnie could probably kill with his thumbs. He hardly swashed our buckle in King Kong and is known for more thoughtful fare like The Darjeeling Ltd and Hollywoodland.  Perhaps he is ticking off a list of all the cool things he can tell his grandkids? Won an Oscar, snogged Halle Berry, killed a Predator. Brody will play a mercenary who has to try and keep his team alive when they are hunted by the multi-tooled aliens in producer Robert Rodriguez’s reboot of the franchise With Topher Grace also in talks to join »

- Michael Shelton

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Robert Rodriguez’s Predator remake to star Adrien Brody and Topher Grace

8 October 2009 4:45 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

You could tape Adrien Brody and Topher Grace together and you still wouldn’t get one Arnold Schwarzenegger.

That hasn’t stopped 20th Century Fox’s reboot of the Predator franchise to cast both men in the lead roles.

Producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal are already on board and Hollywood Reporter says Brody’s character “is a man who ends up inheriting the mantle of leader” amongst the film’s cast, as each player finds themselves the unwitting prey of a horde or Predators. Brody is also known as “a hunter of men.” Grace, meanwhile, plays “an accountant-type whose unassuming facade masks a dangerous serial killer.”

Yeah, that’s right … serial killer. So things are changing. But doesn’t this sound a little more exciting than Vin Diesel being cast in a remake?

Just to get the blood pumping, here’s the trailer to the original 1987 Predator film. »

- Jeff Bayer

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Brody Becomes The Prey In New Predator Movie

7 October 2009 12:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Slender actor Adrien Brody will be stepping into Arnold Schwarzenegger's musclebound role in the new Predator movie.

Director Robert Rodriguez is rebooting the sci-fi movie franchise, which saw the now California governor battle a killer alien in the 1987 original.

Now, Oscar-winner Brody is set to take on a pack of the dreadlocked extra-terrestrials in the franchise's latest outing, which is set to hit cinemas in July 2010.

The Pianist star will play the leader of a fearless band of warriors, who are being hunted by the bloodthirsty Predators.

The monster has previously featured in a 1990 sequel, starring Danny Glover, as well as two spin-offs from the Alien films, 2004's Alien vs. Predator and 2007's Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. »

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Brody Becomes an Action Hero in Predator Reboot

7 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Remember Adrien Brody? He’s the chap who played Wladyslaw Szpilman in the Pianist for which he won an Oscar. The Pianist is up there as one of my all-time favourite movies. He has also appeared in The Village and King Kong. This news today has surprised me a bit since it’s so different to the roles he normally plays.

Variety are reporting that Brody wants to reinvent himself as an action hero and has signed up for the lead role in ‘Predators’, the prequel to the movie made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987.

Variety: Brody and his Paradigm reps lobbied hard for the role. Fox has high hopes to spring a new franchise, and Brody has signed options to return for future installments, sources said.

I have no doubt he’ll do well in the role as every other film I’ve seen him in, he’s excelled in. »

- David Sztypuljak

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Famous action star Adrien Brody enlists in ‘Predators’

7 October 2009 8:25 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

In the odder side of movie news, Adrien Brody (The Pianist) has signed on to Nimrod Antal’s Predators for 20th Century Fox. The Oscar-winning actor will join Danny Trejo (Machete), Topher Grace, Alice Braga, made-up actor Mahershalalhashbaz Ali and Oleg Taktarov for the reboot of the famed ’80s action-sci-fi feature.

“When I looked at the news from The Hollywood Reporter, I just couldn’t believe my eyes. I’m a huge Adrien Brody fan. I simply adored him in The Brothers Bloom,” said Jon Mintez of the Predator Spectators Society (Psc). “In fact, if I didn’t start a Predators club, I would start a Brody club. I wish I could suckle his nostrils.” After the call I learned that the Psc had nothing to do with the line of Predator action films…

Predators will begin shooting in November in lush forests of Hawaii and at Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios in Texas. »

- Erik Buckman

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Adrien Brody and Topher Grace Will Hunt 'Predators'

7 October 2009 7:32 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

When you think of a man of brawn who can outwit the ruthless Predator, you think of two men: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Adrien Brody. What, you didn't picture that last one? Well, Robert Rodriguez and Nimrod Antal did. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brody and Topher Grace are both set to join Alice Braga, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Walt Goggins, Danny Trejo and Oleg Taktarov in Predators, a franchise reboot of sorts that will follow several of earth's "killers" who are kidnapped and dropped on the Predator's home planet for a game of hide, seek and be brutally murdered.

All joking aside, Brody and Grace's unassuming demeanors will be a big part of their characters. Brody will play a soldier forced to become a leader (presumably because the Predator killed the old one), but is fit for the job because he's "a hunter of men." Grace will play a nerdy, accountant »

- Elisabeth Rappe

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Predators Casting Updates: Adrien Brody & More!

7 October 2009 4:50 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

In the last few months, we’ve seen some major developments occur with the upcoming new installment in the Predator franchise. Titled Predators, the Robert Rodriguez script (co-written by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch) is set to be directed by Nimród Antal with a reported projected start date of two weeks ago.

Now, it appears that the cast of the film is coming together. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Adrien Brody is set to star in the reported re-boot of the Fox Studios franchise, Predators. Joining the Oscar winner are Danny Trejo (working with Rodriguez on Machete), Oleg Taktarov (Ufc fighter), Walt Goggins (The Shield), Alice Braga (I am Legend, Redbelt) and Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (The 4400).

 

Also in talks for a role in the film is Topher Grace. Yeap, the funny scrawny kid from That ’70s Show, who bulked up to play Eddie Brock in Spider-Man 3, may be duking it out with a Predator. »

- Rob Keyes

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Adrien Brody to Star in Predators

7 October 2009 3:18 AM, PDT | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »

I didn't see this one coming... Oscar-winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist) is preparing to take over the Predator franchise, taking on a role similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger's in the original franchise. I appreciate Brody's acting ability, but I've never pictured him as an action hero.

Variety says Brody is joining Alice Braga and Danny Trejo in the action movie which is set to begin filming soon in Hawaii. This new Predators will also be shot at Robert Rodriguez' Troublemaker Studios in Texas. Rodriguez is producing the project and helped shape the script.

20th Century Fox is looking to revive the alien franchise and, according to Variety, Brody's deal is for multiple films. The last time the dreadlock-sporting alien appeared onscreen was in the under-performing 2007 film, Avpr, directed by the Strause brothers (their first feature film as directors after years in visual effects work). This new take marks a »

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Trinity Of Terrors Guest Profile: Robert Kurtzman

7 October 2009 12:33 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Writer, Director, and Special FX legend Robert Kurtzman will be attending the inaugural Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors, to be held October 30 through November 1 at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas! Kurtzman will be onhand to discuss his work on the Jennifer Lynch-directed Hisss, his latest directorial effort Deadly Impact (formerly To Live And Die) starring Sean Patrick Flanery and Joe Pantoliano, and the latest FX projects from his Precinct 13 Creature Corps.

Tickets for our massive Halloween Weekend are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.

For more than two decades Robert Kurtzman has been an icon in the world of special make-up,creature effects, and genre filmmaking.

His award winning, photorealistic effects work can be seen inhundreds of movies including Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, franchises and television series. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Staff)

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