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Rosario T. Calabria on January 28, 2010 at 11:37 am
The CW is dipping into the past again. The network has picked up a pilot remake of the 1990’s action-thriller La Femme Nikita. Beginning first as a French film by Luc Besson in 1990, ‘Nikita’ was then remade as a U.S. film starring Bridget Fonda called Point of No Return in 1993 and [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 7, 2009 at 3:08 pm
During the BD-Live chat event with Terminator Salvation director McG, the director re-iterated his plans to make a Terminator 5 and Terminator 6 (via Gizmodo’s transcript of the event):
7:13: He just announced that he’s making another Terminator movie. Seriously.
7:16: …He said he’s making one after that.
7:46: He says Sarah [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Disney has put a hold on Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The film, which was scheduled to begin production in February, has been halted indefinitely and McG is no longer attached to direct.
The studio confirmed that it won’t proceed with the film for now, and reps for the director confirmed he [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on July 8, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Disney has hired Randall Wallace to rewrite the script for the McG-directed feature film Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The film will tell the origin story of Captain Nemo, who was revealed to be Prince Dakkar in the lesser-known sequel The Mysterious Island.
Bill Marsilii and Justin Marks previous worked on the script. Wallace [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 22, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Terminator Salvation’s first-day drew a solid $13.37M on Thursday (including approximately $3 million from midnight Wednesday performances) from 3,530 theaters.
Directed by McG and starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington, the film is expected to take in somewhere around $60-70 million over the five-day holiday frame (Thur-Mon).
The film will get competition today with the release of [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 5, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Director McG has refuted a report by Production Weekly that Dwayne Johnson was cast as the lead in the upcoming remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo. The Terminator Salvation director told SCI FI Wire that he has never spoken to Johnson about the role and doesn’t know where the news is coming [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 4, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Terminator Salvation is still about two weeks away, but it’s never too late to begin discussing the future of the franchise, and that’s exactly what director McG did in a new interview. As is widely known, Terminator Salvation is the first film in a planned three-picture trilogy. Here’s what McG told Film Journal (could be [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on April 22, 2009 at 2:21 pm
After an extended will he/won’t he period, it looks like a cameo from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting nearing a possibility. In a webcast interview yesterday, Schwarzenegger told blogger Bill Bradley that he has met with Terminator Salvation director McG and that he agreed to be in the film as long as he didn’t have [...]