Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, December 7, 2008 December 8, 2008 7:27 pm
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Jurassic Park 4 Probably Not Going to Happen December 8, 2008 2:14 am
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Jurrasic Park producer Kathleen Kennedy was asked by ComingSoon.net about the status of a fourth film in the successful Jurassic Park franchise and she revealed that plans for the long-in-development sequel have fallen through:
“No… I don’t know. You know, when Crichton passed away, I sorta felt maybe that’s it. Maybe that’s a sign that we don’t mess with it.”
The three films–releaesed in 1993, 1997 and 2001, respectively–grossed a combined $1.9 billion in worldwide box office ($767,326,501 domestically and $1,134,784,425 overseas). The majority of that, however, came from the first film ($914.7 million). The second grossed $618.6 million and the third $368.8 million.
Next Bourne to be Based on The Parsifal Mosaic December 8, 2008 1:54 am
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Producer Frank Marshall revealed to ComingSoon.net that since they now have access to the entire library of Robert Ludlum, the late-author’s novel The Parsifal Mosaic may be one of the potential sources of material for the next film:
Question: Would you want to do a straight adaptation from one of the novels?
Frank Marshall: Actually, there is. “The Parsifal Mosaic” is one that we like.
Marshall also said that Matt Damon hasn’t signed on yet, and in fact, he and the writer (George Nolfi) are the only two signed on.
Here’s some of the plot summary of The Parsifal Mosaic via Wikipedia:
Michael Havelock, (an anglicized version of Mikhail Havlíček), is an intelligence agent in the United States. At the beginning of the novel he believes he has just witnessed the execution of his partner and the love of his life, Jenna Karas (anglicized version of Jenna Karasova) along an isolated stretch of the Costa Brava. Jenna had been marked for execution because she had been proved to be a KGB double agent.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Sneek Peak Videos December 8, 2008 1:43 am
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ABC Family’s Harry Potter marathon this weekend (discussed here) showcased five sneek preview videos from the sixth film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. All five of the videos have been released online. Check them out below.
The Story
Love is in the Air
Meet Professor Slughorn
Two more after the jump.
Forrest Gump Sequel Shelved Due To 9/11 December 8, 2008 1:38 am
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This is fairly interesting. /Film interviewed Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth about his latest film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Roth revealed that he had actually completed a version of his Forrest Gump sequel, but he, Hanks and Zemeckis shelved the project due to 9/11:
“I turned in my version of the Forrest Gump sequel, or Part II, whatever you call it… It’s a continuation really — I want to start the movie literally two minutes after the end of the last one, with him on the bus bench waiting for his son to get home from school. But I turned in the script the night before 9/11. And we sat down, Tom [Hanks] and Bob [Zemeckis] and I, looked at each other and said, we don’t think this is relevant anymore. The world had changed. Now time has obviously passed, but maybe some things should just be one thing and left as they are.”
Author Winston Groom wrote a follow-up novel titled Gump and Co. that was released in 1995 and its content is quite intriguing (via /Film):
[The novel] follows Forrest as he stumbled through important US events in the 1980s and early 1990s. According to Wikipedia, Gump plays football for the New Orleans Saints, sells encyclopedias door-to-door, works on a pig farm, and helps develop the infamous New Coke. He accidentally crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, fights in Operation Desert Storm and meets many celebrities along the way including: Colonel Oliver North, the Ayatollah Khomeini, John Hinckley, Jim Bakker, Ivan Boesky, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Tom Hanks.
Catherine Hardwicke Not Directing New Moon, Summit Searching for New Director December 8, 2008 1:22 am
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Summit Entertainment has announced that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke is leaving the franchise and will not be directing the sequel, New Moon (scheduled for release sometime between the end of 2009 and early 2010).
While the joint press release, read it in full after the jump, reveals that the decision was made due to timing issues with Hardwicke, Nikki Finke of DeadlineHollywoodDaily reports that Hardwicke was “difficult” and “irrational” during the making of the film, with one of her contacts saying:
“Summit didn’t like her. They’re saying the DP [director of photography] Elliot Davis is the one responsible for the film’s sumptuous visual look, that the editor Nancy Richardson had to save the film in post-production, and Summit thought Hardwicke’s [CAA] agent Beth Swofford was alternately ineffectual and hysterical.”
Well, that may have been all true, but I don’t see why they make the announcement now in the middle of the European press tour, a tour in which Hardwicke is–and will continue–participating in.
The full release follows after the jump.
Rosario Dawson Returning for Sin City 2; Mickey Rourke Unsure December 8, 2008 1:10 am
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IGN recently learned that Frank Miller has finished his script for Sin City 2 and plans to re-unite with Robert Rodriquez to shoo the film as early as April 2009, and now IESB has confirmed the start date with Rosario Dawson, who says she’s returning to reprise her role as Gail.
Meanwhile Mickey Rourke, who played Marv in the first film, didn’t seem all that interested in returning to the franchise when ComingSoon.net caught up with the actor at a press junket for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, a film in which Rouke is getting rave reviews:
“No, I’m not interested in that right now. That’s not a reality right now. It’s pissing in the wind,” Rourke admitted. “There’s different factions going different directions there. I don’t know. That’s three hours of make up and I’m claustrophobic, so I’m going to have to work something out.”
With a production budget of just $40 million, Sin City debuted in April 2005 and went on to gross $158.8 million worldwide ($74.1 million domestic and $84.7 million from foreign markets). Sin City 2 will be based on the mini-series A Dame to Kill For.
Will Smith Talks I Am Legend PREQUEL December 8, 2008 12:52 am
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There has been a lot of speculation on the internet over the past several weeks pertaining to whether or not the next I Am Legend film would be a prequel or a sequel. At Comic-Con this past summer, director Francis Lawrence confirmed that they were working on a prequel, but then rumors started coming out about how it would actually be a sequel. The way I Am Legend, a sequel seemed highly unlikely, but now we finally can lay all the rumors to rest. During a press junket for Will Smith’s upcoming film Seven Pounds, Collider talked with Smith, who revealed that the film will be a prequel, and focus on the fall of the last cities: Manhattan and D.C.:
“We’re still trying to work through a couple of bumps in the story,” said Smith. “It’s essentially the fall of the last city – the last stand of Manhattan. The movie would be… within the body of the movie D.C. and then Manhattan would fall as the last city. It’s a really cool idea trying to figure it out… there’s a reason why we have to take a small band and we have to get into D.C. So we have to make our way from New York to D.C. and then back to New York.”
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