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National Treasure (2004) More at IMDbPro »
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Farber on Film: Introduction (Other Roads, Other Tracks)
4 hours ago | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Other Roads, Other Tracks
Criticism is very important, and difficult. I can’t think of a better thing for a person to do.
“One of the most important facts about criticism is obvious,” Manny Farber once advanced in an interview. “It’s based on language and words. The desire is always to pursue: what does the word mean, or the sentence, or the paragraph, and where does it lead? As you follow language out, it becomes more and more webbed, complex. The desire is always to find the end. In any thought you put down, what you’re seeking is truth: what is the most believable fact and where is the end?
“It’s the idea of writing about the film as commensurate with the way the filmmaker’s mind is,” Farber continued. “The work’s qualities should influence the structure of the piece. . . . I don’t think you can be mimetic enough. »
Jon Turteltaub to direct 'Greenpeace' movie
14 November 2009 10:29 AM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Jon Turteltaub, the guy behind "National Treasure," is set to direct an adventure film focusing on the origins of Greenpeace, and Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network") may end up writing the script.
Variety says the story will be set in the '70s and '80s, following Greenpeace founders Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler as they embark on missions to disrupt whaling ships, nuclear bomb tests and other activities.
The film will pull from the books "Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World" and "Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement." »
- Franck Tabouring
Jon Turteltaub Directing a Greenpeace Film That Aaron Sorkin Might Write
13 November 2009 9:27 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
It is time to save the whales. In Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Today, the development of a film treatment detailing the early years of the Greenpeace movement was announced. Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) has been signed to direct the movie which will be produced by Jerry and Janet Zucker in conjunction with Aurelius Films. Perhaps taking a page from the critically-acclaimed The Cove (and its thrilling black-ops filmmaking) Janet Zucker envisions the film as a large-scale, elaborating, “Jon likes to make big adventure movies. And we’ve found that the best way to reach people’s hearts and minds is through entertainment. For details on the project, hit the jump.
Though no writer has been officially selected, Variety is reporting that Aaron Sorkin has been approached. The film will likely take place during the late 1970s and early 1980s, the period in which Greenpeace transitioned from a local, grassroots organization in Vancouver, »
Turteltaub believes in Greenpeace
13 November 2009 6:26 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
"National Treasure" director Jon Turteltaub will direct a film detailing the roots of the Greenpeace movement. Jerry and Janet Zucker will produce.The story will be set in the late 1970s and early 1980s and told through the eyes of the organization's founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. According to Variety, Aurelius Films is financing development of the project, and the company's Matthew Joynes and Jesse Kennedy are also producers. Joynes, has secured the organization's official cooperation, and has also acquired the rights to two books that will form the story: Weyler's "Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World" and Hunter's "Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement."The producers have been in »
- Adnan Tezer
Turteltaub Lines Up Greenpeace Movie
13 November 2009 9:31 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Variety
"National Treasure" helmer Jon Turteltaub is on board to direct a bigscreen project chronicling the origin of the Greenpeace movement, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing.Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler.
Read more at Variety. »
- Brent Lang
Greenpeace: Origins: The Movie
13 November 2009 9:03 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
I always thought that Captain Kirk and Spock were the greatest environmentalists around, but apparently they are nothing compared to Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler, founders of Greenpeace. Now Jon Turteltaub of National Treasure fame is directing a movie based on the origins of their movement, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing. Variety has some details: Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization’s charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempted — often successfully — to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In the process, they inadvertently started a movement that is still going strong nearly four decades later. The film will primarily be based on two books, Weyler »
- Jacob
Jon Turteltaub Giving Greenpeace The National Treasure Treatment
13 November 2009 7:20 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
He found a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence and made us all believe John Travolta had special powers, and now Jon Turteltaub is going to make something out of those hippies who run around on boats trying to save whales. That's right: he's giving Greenpeace the National Treasure treatment. According to Variety, the film will be set in the late 70s and early 80s, when the organization was just getting started thanks to charismatic founding members Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. It sounds like the take will be something along the lines of an ecological Ocean's Eleven, with a ragtag group teaming up to stop things like infant harp seal hunting and nuclear bomb tests. Greenpeace will be cooperating on the project, which means we probably won't be seeing too many dirty hippie jokes or comments about exactly how relevant Greenpeace is these days. But »
Director Jon Turteltaub On Board for Greenpeace Origin Film
13 November 2009 6:38 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
It looks like former Vice President Al Gore isn't the only one pushing green films as Variety reports National Treasure director Jon Turteltaub is next set to direct a film chronicling the birth of Greenpeace, the organization fighting for the protection and conservation of the environment. The yet-to-be titled film will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members: Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler as recounted in their respective books Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement and Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World. The books (and the feature film to follow) chronicle a group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists, primarily in the late 1970's and early 1980's, as they set out to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In their frequent »
- Ethan Anderton
National Treasure Director Goes For Greenpeace
13 November 2009 6:29 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
Jon Turteltaub, the director behind the National Treasure films as well as the upcoming The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, is in talks to direct a film based on the origins of the Greenpeace movement in the 1970s and 1980s — specifically, its founders, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler.
I’m actually a little surprised that no one has attempted to put this story on film before, because the rise of this organization was quite an impressive feat from an unlikely alliance of teachers, pacifists and ecologists, who “attempted — often successfully — to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In the process, they inadvertently started a movement that is still going strong nearly four decades later.”
The film will draw source material from two books: Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World (written by Weyler) and Bob Hunter »
- John Cooper
National Treasure director to make Greenpeace film
13 November 2009 4:27 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jon Turteltaub signs up to direct a film about the birth of the campaigning group, with Jerry 'Naked Gun' Zucker producing
It started in 1971, when a ramshackle fishing vessel with a ragtag crew of anti-war protesters sailed to a remote island north of Alaska in the hope of disrupting Us nuclear weapons tests. Taking its name from the rechristened boat, Greenpeace grew into an environmental movement that is still grabbing the headlines almost four decades on. Now Hollywood plans to put that story on the big screen, with Greenpeace's blessing, and hired the director of National Treasure and the producer of the Airplane and Naked Gun films to do it.
According to Variety, Jon Turteltaub, whose CV also includes Cool Runnings and While You Were Sleeping, has signed to direct, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing. The trade paper also reports that The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has been approached to write the script. »
- Chai Hong Lim
Turteltaub to direct Greenpeace movie
13 November 2009 2:00 AM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
National Treasure helmer Jon Turteltaub will direct a movie about the formation of the Greenpeace movement, reports Variety. The story will centre on Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler, the founders of the environmental organisation, as they assemble an eclectic group of ecologists, musicians and teachers to protest American and French nuclear tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian seal hunters. Aurelius Films has picked up the screen rights to two books - Weyler's (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
Turtletaub Making Greenpeace Movie
12 November 2009 11:32 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Jon Turteltaub, director of the National Treasure movies and most recently another Nicolas Cage vehicle with The Sorceror's Apprentice, is set to tackle some rather more realistic events, with the news that he's developing a story about the founders of the Greenpeace movement.Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler, for it was they, turned a disparate group of pacificists, environmentalists, scientists, sailors, musicians and teachers into the anti-nuclear, anti-whaling group that we all know today. And helpfully they've both written books about it, which will form the basis of this film: Weyler's 'Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World' and Hunter's Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement.Turteltaub and his producers are currently looking for writers, and rather excitingly are in early discussions with West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin. He, of course, recently wrote the much talked-about script for the Facebook movie The Social Network, »
National Treasure Director To Helm Greenpeace Movie, Possibly Written By Aaron Sorkin
12 November 2009 11:21 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Jon Turteltaub is best known as the director of the National Treasure films and the upcoming live action movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice. So you can understand why I was a little shocked at first to learn that Turteltaub has signed on to direct Greenpeace, the story of the origin of the controversial conservation organization. It gets even better... According to Variety, West Wing/The Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin is in early talks to write the screenplay. The narrative will be adapted from two books: Weyler's "Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World" and Hunter's "Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement." Aurelius Films has also secured the organization's official cooperation. Set in the 1970s and early 1980s, the story will follow Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler as they led "an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as »
- Peter Sciretta
Greenpeace: Origins
12 November 2009 6:37 PM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
John Turtletaub making a film about the origins of the Greenpeace movement is already a strange idea in itself - the National Treasure director isn't exactly the one I'd pick for a serious project. But then it gets weirder: Airplane and Naked Gun guy Jerry Zucker is producing. With his wife. Nic Cage and Leslie Nielsen take on whale hunters?... The yet-untitled film would chronicle the organization's early days in the 70s and 80s, seen through the eyes of its founders Bob Hunter and Rex... »
- Tony Lang
Jon Turteltaub to Make a Greenpeace Film
12 November 2009 6:03 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Variety reports that director Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) is going to helm a film about how the Greenpeace movement was formed.
The film will take place in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The story will be from the perspective of the controversial organization's founders, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. "The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempted -- often successfully -- to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In the process, they inadvertently started a movement that is still going strong nearly four decades later.'
The film will be based on two books: Rex Weyler's "Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World" and Rex Hunter's "Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement."
Currently, a writer is being sought for this project, »
Nic Cage images from Sorcerer’s Apprentice Revealed
11 November 2009 10:30 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
We’ve already seen him filming The Sorcerer’s Apprentice on the streets of New York and now Fanboyz.net (via MovieWeb) have the first production shots of Nicolas Cage in full costume, complete with long straggly hair and his patented look of earnest vim.
Teaming up with the National Treasure posse Cage plays Balthazar Blake, the eponymous Sorcerer who recruits an apprentice played by Jay Baruchel to fight off the dark power of Alfred Molina’s Maxim Hovarth.
So far, so typical magical/fantasy fare, only the presence of Molina (who was so good in An Education) raises any interest for me and Disney really do need to up their live action game in a big way.
Will The Sorcerer’s Apprentice achieve this? Time will tell – take a look at the pictures below.
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- Jon Lyus
First Photos from The Sorcerer's Apprentice
10 November 2009 12:14 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Fanboyz.net has posted the first official images (via Preview Movie Guide) from Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. View them below...
Walt Disney Studios, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Jon Turteltaub, the creators of the National Treasure franchise, present The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an innovative and epic romantic comedy adventure about a sorcerer and his hapless apprentice who are swept into the center of an ancient conflict between good and evil.
Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina). Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel), a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness. It'll take all the courage »
Nicolas Cage’s Extravagant Purchase Of A Dinosaur Skull
10 November 2009 10:11 AM, PST | Gossipvita | See recent Gossipvita news »
The ‘National Treasure’ actor - who has been forced to put several of his properties on the market after failing to pay millions of dollars of tax - filed a lawsuit in October claiming Samuel Levin, his former manager led him “down a path of financial ruin”. The 45-year-old American actor – whose films have grossed a collective $3.9 billion – owes $6 million in back taxes from 2007 and it is only now his extravagant purchases have come to light. The most bizarre purchase was in 2007 when he outbid ‘Titantic’ actor Leonardo DiCaprio for a $276,000 skull claimed to be from a prehistoric beast. He also owns a jet, two yachts, three castles, two islands in the Bahamas and a number of mansions. His most expensive car – out of a fleet of 50 – was a $495,000 Lamborghini whose former owner was the shah of Iran. Cage is a superhero fan - he had to sell his comic »
- cyan
Nicolas Cage spent his fortune on lots of stuff
10 November 2009 5:03 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Nicolas Cage once spent $276,000 on a 67-million-year-old dinosaur skull. The 'National Treasure' actor - who has been forced to put several of his properties on the market after failing to pay millions of dollars of tax - filed a lawsuit in October claiming Samuel Levin, his former manager led him "down a path of financial ruin". The 45-year-old American actor - whose films have grossed a collective $3.9 billion - owes $6 million in back taxes from 2007 and it is only now his extravagant purchases have come to light. The most bizarre purchase was in 2007 when he outbid 'Titantic' actor Leonardo DiCaprio for a $276,000 skull claimed to be from a prehistoric beast. »
Nicolas Cage's lavish spending
10 November 2009 5:03 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Nicolas Cage once spent $276,000 on a 67-million-year-old dinosaur skull. The 'National Treasure' actor - who has been forced to put several of his properties on the market after failing to pay millions of dollars of tax - filed a lawsuit in October claiming Samuel Levin, his former manager led him "down a path of financial ruin". The 45-year-old American actor - whose films have grossed a collective $3.9 billion - owes $6 million in back taxes from 2007 and it is only now his extravagant purchases have come to light. The most bizarre purchase was in 2007 when he outbid 'Titantic' actor Leonardo DiCaprio for a $276,000 skull claimed to be from a prehistoric beast. He also owns a »
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