Blond Ambition: Madonna will head to the big screen in Blond Ambition. Universal has acquired rights to a screenplay by Elyse Hollander that follows Madonna after she moved to New York in 1978 and eventually found success with the release of her first album in 1983. The script was the most popular title on the 2016 Black List ranking of the best-unproduced screenplays. [THR] Hue 68: Michael Mann (Blackhat, above) will produce a small-screen version of Mark Bowden's book Hue 1968. The book, which will be published on June 6, examines the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, known as the turning point for the U.S. during the years-long war. It's envisioned as an eight to 10-hour series; Mann plans to direct multiple episodes. [Deadline] The War With Grandpa...
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- 4/25/2017
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Blond Ambition: Madonna will head to the big screen in Blond Ambition. Universal has acquired rights to a screenplay by Elyse Hollander that follows Madonna after she moved to New York in 1978 and eventually found success with the release of her first album in 1983. The script was the most popular title on the 2016 Black List ranking of the best unproduced screenplays. [THR] Hue 68: Michael Mann (Blackhat, above) will produce a small-screen version of Mark Bowden's book...
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- 4/25/2017
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hutcherson Find Paradise Lost in Escobar
By Alex Simon
Most people know Paradise Lost as the title of John Milton’s epic poem, first published in 1667, concerning the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men.” With this metaphor in mind, writer/director Andrea De Stefano has fashioned a new piece of historical fiction, Escobar: Paradise Lost, putting a wide-eyed Canadian tourist named Nick (Josh Hutcherson) who has traveled to 1988-era Colombia looking for surf, sand and fun with his brother (Brady Corbet) at the story's center. After falling hard for a local beauty (Claudia Traisac), Nick is introduced to her favorite uncle, one Pablo Escobar (Oscar-winner Benicio Del Toro), who takes...
By Alex Simon
Most people know Paradise Lost as the title of John Milton’s epic poem, first published in 1667, concerning the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men.” With this metaphor in mind, writer/director Andrea De Stefano has fashioned a new piece of historical fiction, Escobar: Paradise Lost, putting a wide-eyed Canadian tourist named Nick (Josh Hutcherson) who has traveled to 1988-era Colombia looking for surf, sand and fun with his brother (Brady Corbet) at the story's center. After falling hard for a local beauty (Claudia Traisac), Nick is introduced to her favorite uncle, one Pablo Escobar (Oscar-winner Benicio Del Toro), who takes...
- 6/26/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Update: The Senate Intelligence Committee has begun a review of the contacts between "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal and CIA officials to determine if inappropriate access to secret information was given, following the committee chairwoman's "outrage" over the film's scenes that imply "enhanced interrogations." Days after the film's December 19 release, three U.S. Senators issued a statement decrying the depiction of torture in the film as not accurate, and CIA acting director Michael Morell stated that the film "takes significant artistic license." Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, who won an Oscar for torture documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side," laid out the reported facts of the case against the film's fiction. On the other hand, The Atlantic writer Mark Bowden writes that No, "Zero Dark Thirty" Is Not Pro-Torture. Bowden, himself an expert on the subject (his most...
- 1/3/2013
- by Anne Thompson & Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
A couple of weeks ago, when the heat over Zero Dark Thirty and the issue of torture was already percolating (it still hasn’t come close to full boil — that will happen when conservative commentators start to defend the movie and the liberal Academy Awards machine starts to have doubts about it), I began to frame a few thoughts about where, exactly, the film stood, and one of the things that occurred to me was the possibility that Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, the director and screenwriter, didn’t understand their own movie. I figured I probably wouldn’t float that theory,...
- 12/19/2012
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Washington -- The portrayal of torture leading to the U.S. killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the new movie "Zero Dark Thirty" is bogus, top senators on the Intelligence and Armed Services committees told The Huffington Post.
In the film by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, a harsh interrogation -- including waterboarding of the suspect -- extracts key information that leads to finding bin Laden.
It's a claim that was already made in a book by former CIA agent Jose Rodriguez -- a claim that Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) denied last spring.
Feinstein stuck by that postion in a brief interview this week. "Based on what I know, I don't believe it is true," said Feinstein, whose committee is set to vote Thursday on a classified 6,000-page report detailing an investigation into U.
In the film by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, a harsh interrogation -- including waterboarding of the suspect -- extracts key information that leads to finding bin Laden.
It's a claim that was already made in a book by former CIA agent Jose Rodriguez -- a claim that Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) denied last spring.
Feinstein stuck by that postion in a brief interview this week. "Based on what I know, I don't believe it is true," said Feinstein, whose committee is set to vote Thursday on a classified 6,000-page report detailing an investigation into U.
- 12/13/2012
- by Michael McAuliff
- Huffington Post
Tonight, the film Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden premieres on the National Geographic Channel (8 p.m. Et) before becoming available to Netflix members in the U.S. on Nov. 5. Having already making headlines for its pre-election airdate — which director John Stockwell, distributor/Obama supporter Harvey Weinstein, and National Geographic have insisted is not politically motivated — the film uses composite characters to dramatize the events surrounding the killing of bin Laden. EW spoke with Stockwell.
Entertainment Weekly: Is there anything you’d like to make clear about Harvey Weinstein’s involvement with the film?
John Stockwell: Well,...
Entertainment Weekly: Is there anything you’d like to make clear about Harvey Weinstein’s involvement with the film?
John Stockwell: Well,...
- 11/4/2012
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Discovery Channel has just announced its 2012-2013 slate, and "Shark Week" is back for another run, promising to be even more exciting than last year's seven-day adventure.
The network has also announced an "Amelia Earhart" special, which will delve deeper into the mystery of the missing pilot, as well as "Osama: A History." Produced by Mark Bowden, the special will take a closer look at the life of Osama Bin Laden.
As for more returning favorites, "Gold Rush" will have its gold miners head to Alaska this season, while "Moonshiners" will be back for more scandalous illegal brewing. "Mythbusters" will return to reveal the truth about behind many legends and "Deadliest Catch" will bring another 10-part series full of fishing in the Bering Sea.
Discovery has also announced a new set of series including "Top Engineer," which searches for America’s brightest, boldest, out-of-the-box thinkers, and "Mark Burnett's Alaska,...
The network has also announced an "Amelia Earhart" special, which will delve deeper into the mystery of the missing pilot, as well as "Osama: A History." Produced by Mark Bowden, the special will take a closer look at the life of Osama Bin Laden.
As for more returning favorites, "Gold Rush" will have its gold miners head to Alaska this season, while "Moonshiners" will be back for more scandalous illegal brewing. "Mythbusters" will return to reveal the truth about behind many legends and "Deadliest Catch" will bring another 10-part series full of fishing in the Bering Sea.
Discovery has also announced a new set of series including "Top Engineer," which searches for America’s brightest, boldest, out-of-the-box thinkers, and "Mark Burnett's Alaska,...
- 4/5/2012
- by Leigh Weingus
- Huffington Post
Discovery Channel has just announced its 2012-2013 slate, and "Shark Week" is back for another run, promising to be even more exciting than last year's seven-day adventure.
The network has also announced an "Amelia Earhart" special, which will delve deeper into the mystery of the missing pilot, as well as "Osama: A History." Produced by Mark Bowden, the special will take a closer look at the life of Osama Bin Laden.
As for more returning favorites, "Gold Rush" will have its gold miners head to Alaska this season, while "Moonshiners" will be back for more scandalous illegal brewing. "Mythbusters" will return to reveal the truth about behind many legends and "Deadliest Catch" will bring another 10-part series full of fishing in the Bering Sea.
Discovery has also announced a new set of series including "Top Engineer," which searches for America’s brightest, boldest, out-of-the-box thinkers, and "Mark Burnett's Alaska,...
The network has also announced an "Amelia Earhart" special, which will delve deeper into the mystery of the missing pilot, as well as "Osama: A History." Produced by Mark Bowden, the special will take a closer look at the life of Osama Bin Laden.
As for more returning favorites, "Gold Rush" will have its gold miners head to Alaska this season, while "Moonshiners" will be back for more scandalous illegal brewing. "Mythbusters" will return to reveal the truth about behind many legends and "Deadliest Catch" will bring another 10-part series full of fishing in the Bering Sea.
Discovery has also announced a new set of series including "Top Engineer," which searches for America’s brightest, boldest, out-of-the-box thinkers, and "Mark Burnett's Alaska,...
- 4/5/2012
- by Leigh Weingus
- Aol TV.
* Movie hunk overload! Gerard Butler, Matthew McConaughey, and Sam Worthington have signed on to star in Thunder Run, a long gestating(like four years!!) Iraq War film from director Simon West(Con Air). Based on David Zucchino and Mark Bowden's non-fiction book, the motion capture, 3D film tells a story of the capture of Baghdad by American forces at the beginning of the Iraq War. Considering...
- 10/28/2011
- by Travis Hopson
- Punch Drunk Critics
When I heard that Matthew McConaughey, Gerard Butler and Sam Worthington were going to play a trio of soldiers in the upcoming Thunder Run, I thought that might be too much sexy for one action film, but it seemed like a reasonable idea. But what I don’t understand is what exactly Thunder Run is. It’s supposed to be an adaptation Mark Bowden’s book The Armored Strike to Capture Bagdad, but despite its roots in reality, the film is supposed to be some sort of...
- 10/28/2011
- by Paul Tassi
- JoBlo.com
What do Gerard Butler, Matthew McConaughey, and Sam Worthington have in common? They’ve all signed on to star in the new Iraq War movie “Thunder Run” for director Simon West. The movie will be based on the non-fiction book by David Zucchino and Mark Bowden (of “Blackhawk Down” fame) called “Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad”. The story, of course, follows the U.S. tanks as they storm into Baghdad, blasting Saddamn’s army to Hell and back along the way. But don’t expect anything approaching the aforementioned “Blackhawk Down”. Instead, think more “Call of Duty”. As in, “Call of Duty” the game. Yeah. Apparently in lieu of live-action, “Thunder Run” will instead by an all-cg movie utilizing motion-capture performances ala “A Christmas Carol” or the recent “The Adventures of Tintin”. The idea? Get some of that “Call of Duty” gamer cash. Producer Brian Presley explains...
- 10/28/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
The onslaught of Iraq War and Middle East thrillers continues. On the heels of the announcement that Into the Blue director John Stockwell plans a Navy Seals picture documenting the men who took down Osama Bin Laden . on top of Kathryn Bigelow.s in-development killing Bin Laden thriller . we.re now hearing three hunky Hollywood stars are suiting up for a 3D, all-cg military action picture for director Simon West. Thunder Run would adapt Prize-winning correspondent David Zucchino and Mark Bowden.s book of the same name that documents U.S. forces as they infiltrated and took over Baghdad at the onset of the Iraq War. A press release has been sent out announcing that Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey are on board with West.s project, and reportedly will use the same type of facial-capture technology and motion-capture tools that were utilized by James Cameron for Avatar.
- 10/27/2011
- cinemablend.com
It's been more than four years since Simon West's Thunder Run was first announced for development but today, Freedom Films has announced that not only is the project moving forward; it has lined up an ensemble cast with Gerard Butler, Matthew McConaughey and Sam Worthington set to star. Based on David Zucchino and Mark Bowden's nonfiction book "Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad," the film will be shot using motion-capture technology and rendered as a 3D CGI adventure. The book itself is officially described as follows: In one of the boldest gambles in modern military history, just three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into the heart of a city of 5 million people and, in...
- 10/27/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Listeria is a deadly infection that kills 30 percent of infected victims and is currently spreading in the food supply. Conficker is a fearsome virus described as the "largest ever" botnet, a army of drone computers all awaiting orders from hackers intent on creating mayhem by doing everything from stealing credit card numbers to shutting down the very Internet itself.
Shudder.
So, which is more likely to affect you?
The current Listeria outbreak, which began with tainted cantaloupes, is now being called the "deadliest in a decade," according to Indiana Public Media. In addition to cantaloupes, the bacteria has been found in smoked ham and Publix spinach dip. On Wednesday the Cdc confirmed 13 Listeria deaths and there are more under investigation. To avoid it, wash your food -- most victims who contracted Listeria via cantaloupe could have prevented infection if they had washed the outside of the melons prior to slicing.
Shudder.
So, which is more likely to affect you?
The current Listeria outbreak, which began with tainted cantaloupes, is now being called the "deadliest in a decade," according to Indiana Public Media. In addition to cantaloupes, the bacteria has been found in smoked ham and Publix spinach dip. On Wednesday the Cdc confirmed 13 Listeria deaths and there are more under investigation. To avoid it, wash your food -- most victims who contracted Listeria via cantaloupe could have prevented infection if they had washed the outside of the melons prior to slicing.
- 9/28/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
For a long time, it looked like Doug Liman’s moon heist thriller – now called Luna – might not ever get off the launch pad. But things are finally looking up, with Paramount locking in a deal to fund the film with a couple of partners and giving Liman the real greenlight to start rounding up a cast and crew.Luna finds a group of renegade scientists cobbling together a spaceship from spare parts to heist an energy source from the moon, and need one more crewmember to complete the job.The film has been struggling through development hell for a while now, originally landing at DreamWorks in 2007 and locking in Jake Gyllenhaal to star. But both the studio home and the star slipped away, with Paramount getting the rights to the film in the divorce from DreamWorks and Gyllenhaal moving on to other things.Since then, the script has been...
- 6/7/2011
- EmpireOnline
Doug Liman's long-in-the-works untitled "Moon" project is building momentum at Paramount.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project was originally set up in 2007 at DreamWorks under the title "Luna" with Jake Gyllenhaal attached.The story focuses on a group of former space employees, led by an Eastern European woman, who steal space equipment all over the world with the end goal of going back to the moon to acquire a valuable energy source. All that stands between them and the moon is kidnapping an ex-nasa employee.The script has gone through several rewrites from a number of writers including Mark Bowden, Ken Nolan and Simon Kinberg.Gyllenhaal is no longer attached and Liman has been meeting with several actors and actresses to fill...
- 3/24/2011
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
While Doug Liman's most recent film was the political drama Fair Game, the director is now looking to switch back to the more action-oriented material that he has exhibited in films like Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Jumper. Formerly known as Luna, his new sci-fi project "centers on a renegade group of former space employees" who steal equipment needed to travel to the moon, where they seek an energy source. The last thing they require is an ex-nasa employee, who they must kidnap. The film was originally set up at Dreamworks as early as 2007, but has now found a home at Paramount. In the intervening years since its inception, the script has gone through several revisions from high-profile screenwriters such as Mark Bowden, Ken Nolan and Simon Kinberg. Although the film hasn't been given the green light yet, Liman says he would like to begin shooting by the end of summer.
- 3/24/2011
- by Aaron
- FilmJunk
Paramount Pictures has expressed interest in moving ahead with director Doug Liman’s untitled sci-fi action Moon film, Hollywood Reporter is confirming. DreamWorks initially expressed interest in the movie, which was at one time called ‘Luna,’ in 2007, but eventually decided against releasing it. Paramount then picked up the rights, but failed to initiate filming. The movie, whose script was been worked on by several big name screenwriters, including Mark Bowden, Simon Kinberg and Ken Nolan, follows a renegade group of former space employees. Led by an Eastern European woman, the group steals space equipment around the world in an effort to go back to the moon to obtain an energy source. [...]...
- 3/23/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
"The Bourne Identity" director Doug Liman's long-in-development sci-fi feature at Paramount Pictures may have escaped development hell.
The story follows a renegade group of former space employees who travel the world stealing space equipment in an attempt to go back to the moon to acquire an energy source. The last item is an ex-nasa employee they intend to kidnap.
A few years ago the actioneer about lunar colonization was setup at Dreamworks and survived the migration to Paramount. In both incarnations Liman was set to direct and produce while Jake Gyllenhaal was attached to star. Liman co-write the script with John Hamburg ("I Love You, Man"), a script which scored polishes from the likes of Ken Nolan, Mark Bowden and Simon Kinberg.
However interest in the project cooled while Liman pursued other films including "All You Need Is Kill" at Warner Bros. Pictures. Now it seems the buzz has...
The story follows a renegade group of former space employees who travel the world stealing space equipment in an attempt to go back to the moon to acquire an energy source. The last item is an ex-nasa employee they intend to kidnap.
A few years ago the actioneer about lunar colonization was setup at Dreamworks and survived the migration to Paramount. In both incarnations Liman was set to direct and produce while Jake Gyllenhaal was attached to star. Liman co-write the script with John Hamburg ("I Love You, Man"), a script which scored polishes from the likes of Ken Nolan, Mark Bowden and Simon Kinberg.
However interest in the project cooled while Liman pursued other films including "All You Need Is Kill" at Warner Bros. Pictures. Now it seems the buzz has...
- 3/23/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Just yesterday we wrote that Doug Liman was developing a period epic [1] about a famous bodyguard by the name of Two-Gun Cohen. Now The Hollywood Reporter says he's got yet another film in development that's picking up steam and might shoot as early as this summer. Since 2007, Liman has been attached to direct a sci-fi heist film formerly called Luna. The now untitled Moon Movie centers on a group of former space employees who steal equipment in order to illegally head into space for a new energy source. Things get complicated, however, when they decide to kidnap a Nasa employee. Jake Gyllenhaal had long been attached with Liman but he's since moved on. To take his place, male actors such as Andrew Garfield, Chris Pine and Emile Hirsch all took meetings recently while Rosario Dawson, Megan Fox, Rachel McAdams, Eva Mendes, Zoe Saldana and Olivia Wilde have met to discuss female roles.
- 3/23/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Though we'd previously hear that director Doug Liman (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jumper) was in the running to direct an adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka's time travel action novel All You Need Is Kill. However, it sounds like a project from a few years back may still be in the running as Liman's next project to follow the forthcoming release of the Valerie Plame centric CIA thriller Fair Game. The observant eyes at The Playlist spotted some new info from Liman himself in an interview with ComingSoon. The filmmaker revealed that he's also in active development on an untitled moon project that was first announced back in 2007. Though Jake Gyllenhaal was attached to the project at the time, it's probably safe to say he's fallen away from the project since then. Between 2007 and now the script has gone through many drafts from writers like Mark Bowden (who wrote the Black...
- 11/1/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
On the heels of the most devastating economic collapse in recent history, Vanity Fair presents The Great Hangover: 21 Tales of the New Recession from the Pages of Vanity Fair, out next week by Harper Perennial. The collection features stories on the crisis from some of the country's best business journalists, including Michael Lewis, Mark Seal, Bryan Burrough, Bethany McLean, and Mark Bowden. In this exclusive audio excerpt, Nina Munk reads from her article, “Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard,” which examined the worst financial fallout in Harvard’s 373-year history and offered a cautionary tale about how even America’s oldest and most famous university wasn’t immune to the hubris and recklessness that shattered the nation’s economy. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 3/2/2010
- Vanity Fair
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