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The Worst Movie Biopics and Five That Are Pretty Darn Good

6 November 2009 6:15 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Watch enough movies and you learn pretty fast that they aren't about reality, they're about entertaining us. Which sometimes makes the world of the biopic a little tricky, because not only do you have to work in the truth, but you still have to keep those butts in the seats -- and the results are not always good. Over at Moviefone they've compiled some of the worst movie biopics, and no one was safe -- with films earning a spot for mixing up their facts, ridiculous casting, or just downright lazy filmmaking.

So who made the list? Well, you've got your usual suspects like Oliver Stone's Alexander, a film that has so much wrong with it I don't know where to put the blame (oh, that's right, on everyone). Other films that made the cut for the less than flattering title of 'Real Life Catastrophes' were Kevin Spacey's Bobby Darin flick, »

- Jessica Barnes

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Matthew Modine: The Hollywood Interview

2 November 2009 10:20 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Matthew Modine: Better Angels

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Alex Simon

Matthew Modine has been something of an iconoclast most of his working life. After being groomed for ‘80s teen idol status in early films such as Private School and Vision Quest, Modine was also one of the first actors of his generation, along with Sean Penn, to take on riskier projects, such as Robert Altman's Streamers, Alan Parker’s Birdy, Gillian Armstrong’s Mrs. Soffel, and Alan J. Pakula’s Orphans. It was his lead role as the cynical Marine Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam epic Full Metal Jacket that put Modine into the pantheon of young actors who were more than just pretty faces and knowing winks at the camera. This, after all, was the young man who turned down the lead in Top Gun, arguably the prototypical ‘80s blockbuster, due to its cold war politics. From the beginning, »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Sir Anthony Hopkins Cast as Odin in Thor!?

29 October 2009 5:20 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

I guess those rumors of Brian Blessed playing Odin in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Thor movie aren’t coming to fruition. Who needs him when you have a knighted Oscar winner in Sir Anthony Hopkins!

That’s right folks, director Kenneth Branagh as added another huge name and talented actor to his cast of awesomeness.  I am pumped.

This movie was already my most anticipated of Marvel’s upcoming slate of solo films leading up to The Avengers, here’s just on more big reason to be excited.

 

Unlike the rumors of big names like Robert De Niro and Jude Law joining the cast of Thor, this star is confirmed to be in negotiations for the role. Also joining the cast earlier this month is the talented Stellan Skarsgård in addition to the report of Dominic Cooper possibly playing Fandral. If you’re a fan of the Thor comics, Fandral the »

- Rob Keyes

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Liev Schreiber, Sons Bond Over ‘Straight Up Boys Stuff’

29 October 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | People - CelebrityBabies | See recent People - CelebrityBabies news »

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Boys will be boys! At least according to actor Liev Schreiber, father of Alexander ‘Sasha’ Pete, 2, and Samuel Kai, 10 months, who tells Us Weekly that the trio’s quality time spent together is, more often that not, nothing more than good old-fashioned male bonding.

“We like dinosaurs a lot. We like to draw. We like cars. Pretty much straight up boys stuff.”

While Liev certainly knows how to have a good time with his sons, he admits when it comes to more domestic areas — like searching for the perfect Halloween costumes — he finds himself in uncharted waters.

Fortunately his fiancée, »

- Anya

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'Shutter Island' Reels In Another New Trailer

28 October 2009 2:31 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Although two trailers for "Shutter Island" had been brought forth earlier, Paramount Pictures still came forward with another new trailer. This new one was debuted at the 2009 Scream Awards, which was aired on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27 starting from 10:00 P.M. Et/Pt, and has since been made available online by the cable channel.

When a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital mysteriously disappears, U.S. marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule are summoned to the fortress-like hospital in the remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate. Before long, Teddy wonders if the hospital's chief administrator is deceitful.

As he digs deeper, a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland trapping Teddy and his partner in the remote island. When more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, he begins to doubt everything, his memory, his partner, and even his own sanity. »

- AceShowbiz.com

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‘Ghost In The Shell’ Snags ‘Shutter Island’ Screenwriter [Updated]

27 October 2009 2:42 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Update: Laeta Kalogridis is female Not male. I apologize. Changes have been noted.

Dreamworks’ adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s manga/anime classic Ghost In The Shell has snagged Laeta Kalogridis to adapt Shirow’s futuristic vision into a live-action 3D blockbuster. Kalogridis has penned such past gems as Oliver Stone’s Alexander and the American alt-history epic, Pathfinder, but is poised to be a breakout name for Her work adapting author Dennis Lehane’s novel Shutter Island into a Martin Scorsese film, which will be hitting theaters early next year.

Jamie Moss (Street Kings) had been tapped to draft an earlier version of Ghost In The Shell - guess his take on the story didn’t go over so well with the studio…

 

The Ghost In Shell universe created by Shirow was a vision of the future where technology is everywhere and human beings have been augmented with cybernetic bodies down to their very brains, »

- Kofi Outlaw

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Multiple Personality Disorder report

26 October 2009 11:23 AM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

[Editor's Note: Multiple Personality Disorder Reports are short news blasts meant to let you know about the stuff that didn't make it to the news page but still had us talking behind the scenes]

#1: RZA talks about films in the works

RZA is a genius musician but he’s ready to make the leap into film. In a recent interview with The A.V. Club, he confirmed that work is progressing on “The Man with the Iron Fist”, an old school “martial arts extravaganza” which will also be his directorial debut (with a little help from Eli Roth(?). If that’s not enough, RZA has also signed on to produce “The Last Dragon” remake with Samuel L. Jackson, a project he had already agreed to star in last year. [via: The A.V. Club]

#2: “Ghost in the Shell” goes live-action

Laeta Kalogridis (the writer behind “Night Watch”, “Alexander” and the god awful “Pathfinder” – 2 for 3 aint bad) is in the process of adapting a live-action version of “Ghost in the Shell.” Yes, he’ll try his hand at making high-brow, non-sensical (but awesome) anime into a package that Hollywood will eat-up. »

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Ghost in the Shell 3-D Live Action Remake Gets a New Writer

26 October 2009 4:41 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

A couple of years ago, we saw a flood of studios picking up the rights to live action remakes of popular anime films and series. Fast-forward to today, and most of these are still stuck in development hell, perhaps stalled by the massive failure that was Dragonball Evolution. While I wouldn't be surprised if some of these projects never actually reach completion, at least a couple of them are still showing signs of life, with the Akira adaptation recently getting a new team of writers [1], and now Dreamworks setting a new scribe for their 3-D live action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. Back when the project was first announced [2], the writer who had been assigned to craft the script was Jamie Moss, whose only previous credit was the Keanu Reeves crime thriller Street Kings. Now Variety [3] is reporting that the torch has been passed to Laeta Kalogridis, with no »

- Sean

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DreamWorks Hires Writer for 3-D 'Ghost in the Shell'

25 October 2009 8:17 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

If you're keeping score, there are a couple live action versions of anime classics heading to theater. Keanu Reeves is developing Cowboy Bebop, Leonardo DiCaprio is working on a new Akira film, and Steven Spielberg last year worked on bringing Ghost in the Shell to DreamWorks. There hadn't been much movement on that last project ever since we found out it would (or at least could) happen.

But now DreamWorks has signed Laeta Kalogridis to write the adaptation for Ghost in the Shell, which the studio hopes will be a 3-D affair. Kalogridis is a mixed bag. On the one hand, a co-writing credit on Night Watch. On the other, Alexander and Pathfinder. Jamie Moss was the original writer hired for the project, although we don't know if Kalogridis is starting from scratch or incorporating ideas that Moss brought to the table. »

- Colin Boyd

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New Writer for Live-Action ‘Ghost in the Shell’

25 October 2009 6:30 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

It has been a year and a half since DreamWorks announced a live-action, 3-D adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.  There has been no movement on the anime-to-Hollywood conversion and like another Americanization, Akira, this seemed to have stalled in the planning stages.

Now Laeta Kalogridis has been brought in to take a new shot at the science fiction police thriller, according to Variety.  She contributed screenplay bits to the Oliver Stone’s disastrous Alexander, but recently wrote and executive produced Scorsese’s Shutter Island.  Fans may still be crossing their arms in defiance of the movie, but at least it’s an upgrade from Jamie Moss (Street Kings).

Ghost in the Shell is a franchise consisting of three manga volumes, three Japanese films, and an anime television series.  The original GiTS opened in 1995, but it was redone with computer graphics in 2008 around the same time as DreamWorks acquired the rights. »

- Jeff Leins

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Photos: Michelle Williams and Matilda Fly Home

25 October 2009 9:25 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Matilda Ledger is getting so big! The late Heath Ledger's lookalike daughter and her mom, Michelle Williams, landed at JFK Airport in NYC and scurried past waiting paparazzi on their way home to Brooklyn.

Celebrity BabiesSwing Time

Gwen Stefani beams at her little guy Zuma, as other son Kingston laughs and plays on the swing set in a Beverly Hills park.

Back to L.A.

Usher totes son Usher Raymond V — along with his »

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'Ghost. Writer Announced

24 October 2009 9:10 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Laeta Kalogridis, the writer of the stylish action-fantasy Night Watch, has been hired to adapt "Ghost in the Shell" into a feature for DreamWorks.

"Ghost" is a manga property created by Masamune Shirow and originally published in 1989. In Japan, the series spawned additional manga, an animated TV show, and several anime film adaptations. During the mid-to-late 90’s, "Ghost" helped usher in the popularity of Japanese-style art and animation stateside.

The series revolves around a fictional intelligence agency, Public Security Section 9, which operates in a cyberpunk-influenced world. According to Variety, DreamWorks, which released the second Ghost in the Shell anime film in the U.S. in 2004, is looking to make a 3-D, live-action futuristic police thriller.

No director has been announced yet, but the studio is looking at a 2011 release date. Kalogridis, who replaces writer Jamie Ross, wrote and executive produced the upcoming Martin Scorcese film Shutter Island. She also wrote »

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Laeta Kalogridis Writing DreamWorks' Ghost in the Shell 3D

23 October 2009 3:40 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Some news today on the anime front. Variety is reporting that DreamWorks has hired screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the Ghost in the Shell manga into a futuristic live-action 3D police thriller. It was first discovered that DreamWorks, under Steven Spielberg's supervision, would be bringing this anime to life on the big screen in 3D more than a year ago. Jamie Moss (Street Kings) was originally hired to write the first draft, but now Kalogridis is taking over. Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce, but Spielberg isn't named any more. I really hope she knows what she'd doing! Ms. Kalogridis has had a very interesting change of fate over the past few years. The 44-year-old writer previously wrote Alexander and Pathfinder, two movies that not only flopped at the box office, but were downright awful. Out of nowhere, she adapted Shutter Island »

- Alex Billington

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A new writer haunts Ghost in the Shell remake

23 October 2009 1:19 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »

The new screenwriter working on DreamWorks' 3D live-action version of Ghost in the Shell is Laeta Kalogridis. A project still trapped in development hell and headed nowhere fast, the studio likely brought in Kalogridis because she has experience writing projects in the sci-fi/action genres that feature heroines, like the Bionic Woman and Birds of Prey TV shows. She's also working on James Cameron's Battle Angel remake, another sci-fi project that shares more than a little similar ground with Ghost in the Shell.

The original Ghost in the Shell was a Japanese manga created by Masamune Shirow that came out in 1989. The anime movie adaptation was released in 1994 and picked up interest from Stateside fans. Among the future movies it influenced was The Matrix.

The story takes place in 2032. Technology has made it possible for AIs to exist, for police officers to be more machine than human and for »

- Patrick Sauriol

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3D Live-Action Ghost in the Shell gets screenwriter

23 October 2009 12:07 AM, PDT | Affenheimtheater | See recent Affenheimtheater news »

ComingSoon.net reports that Dreamworks Pictures has hired Laeta Kalogridis as the screenwriter for the 3D live-action adaptation of Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell that has been floating around the net for quite some time now. Until now, (im at least in April 2008), Jamie Moss (Street Kings) was supposed to write the script for Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul’s Seaside Entertainment.

Well, color me unimpressed. For the live-action adaptation of Akira, Warner got Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (who wrote the screenplay for Children of Men) so there is a bit of hope for that, but looking at Kalogridis’ career so far (Alexander, Night Watch, Pathfinder) I just can’t see how she’s supposed to properly transfer the Ghost in the Shell universe into the reel (eh) world. »

- Ulrik

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Photos: Jen Garner and Girls at Park

22 October 2009 7:09 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Jennifer Garner had a girls' day out with daughters Violet and Seraphina in Cambridge, Mass. today. The little ones played on the swings and slide while dad Ben Affleck was across town filming "The Town."

Celebrity BabiesBack to L.A.

Usher totes son Usher Raymond V — along with his Elmo doll — to a waiting car after landing at Lax.

Fowl Fun

Tom Brady and his little man John feed the birds at the Famous Granville Market in Vancouver. »

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Photo: Nicole Richie's Little Sparrow

21 October 2009 12:51 PM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Nicole Richie shows off her 6-week-old son Sparrow on the cover of People magazine -- and the proud mama declares, "I couldn't be happier."

Richie and Bf Joel Madden are now parents of two -- daughter Harlow is now almost 2. Nicole tells the mag that her focus is on family now. "The only thing you want is for your kids to be healthy and happy, and they are. I'm right where I belong."

Nicole, 28, and Joel, »

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Breakdown: The Actors Who Might Be in Thor

19 October 2009 4:44 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Casting is in full-force this month for Marvel's next big comic adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh directed Thor, which means that you will undoubtedly be bombarded with more than a few "this person is auditioning" stories. And until official word is heard from inside the halls of Marvel, it is all nothing more than hearsay. However, it is fun and I would like to indulge you by breaking down some of the names who've been named in the past few days. Dominic Cooper The most solid of these rumors is Mamma Mia! star Dominic Cooper, who is doing press for his role in Lone Scherfig's An Education. He talked to Movieline this week, and it was revealed that he's been studying for an audition for the film. When probed as to what part he might play, Cooper and interviewer Kyle Buchanon settled on the part of Fandral the Dashing, one of the Warriors Three. All »

- Neil Miller

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Jude Law & Robert De Niro Join Thor Cast?

18 October 2009 5:59 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

In last two weeks there have been a few additional announcements made for Marvel Studios’ upcoming Thor film. We learned that Stellan Skarsgård, father of Thor candidate Alexander Skarsgård, was cast into the movie but he had to remain tight-lipped about who he was playing. Following that, a pair of open casting calls surfaced that asked for a college student and a bunch of large “fearless” warriors.

So, if you weren’t excited about the cast so far which also includes Chris Hemsworth as the title character, Tom Hiddleston as his nemesis, Natalie Portman, Jaimie Alexander, Colm Feore and possibly Brian Blessed as Odin, you might be more excited now with the following two names possibly added to the cast.

According to actor Matthias Schweighöfer (Valkyrie) in an interview for the German edition of GQ, he reveals that he’s in the running for a role in Thor but that »

- Rob Keyes

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Megan Fox and the modern movie murderers

14 October 2009 6:12 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

After attending a screening of Jennifer’s Body, the soon-to-be-released Megan Fox vehicle written by Juno’s Diablo Cody, I got thinking about evil women. The film follows the eponymous Jennifer (Fox), who becomes possessed by a demon after a ritual sacrifice goes awry, and proceeds to sustain her health by feasting on her male peers. It’s initially worth mentioning that the film warrants a look, introducing a comedic element to the horror genre and displaying Cody’s familiar witty dialogue (although, it must be noted, it’s not as clever as it thinks it is.) Beyond the script, though, and as the marketing campaign has indicated, this is basically the Megan Fox show, a practical homage to the raven-haired siren that some men would probably permit to feast upon them if it involved pre-dinner foreplay. Her look may be a little tacky for some tastes, but there’s »

- Uprising

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