Month: April 2015

April 24, 2015 By Mike Fleming Jr Kamala Films, Thunder Road and Film House Germany has teamed to secure the rights to The Swimmer, the debut novel by Swedish author Joakim Zander. Ben August is set to write it. The novel weaves three international stories to create an action thriller that revolves around an American spy who abandoned his newborn daughter …

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April 20, 2015 By John DeFore A study of denial and sublimated anger in the wake of a child’s loss, Meadowland checks in with a husband and wife (Luke Wilson and Olivia Wilde) a year after their son was abducted on a road trip. The directorial debut of cinematographer Reed Morano, it is tightly in sync with protagonists who find …

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April 16, 2015 By Valentina I. Valentini “Meadowland” star Olivia Wilde admits there was stiff competition to land the film’s coveted role of a mother whose son has gone missing. Her agent even told her not to get her hopes up — something she plainly ignored as she pushed to win over director Reed Morano. A two-hour meeting …

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April 01, 2015 By Garth Franklin Aaron Berg (“Section 6”) has been tapped to pen a new script for the third film in the “G.I. Joe” franchise. D.J. Caruso is slated to helm the next entry in the action franchise based on the Hasbro toyline. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing. Berg’s “Section 6” spec script …

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April 1, 2015 By Dana Rose Falcone Section 6 writer Aaron Berg will pen the script for the third G.I. Joe film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Based on the Hasbro action figure, Paramount released the first G.I. Joe movie in 2009, followed by 2013’s even more successful Retaliation. After sparking a four-way bidding war over his Section 6 script—which resulted in a lawsuit …

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April 01, 2015 By Borys Kit Aaron Berg, the writer behind Section 6, the hot spec that detailed the origins of British intelligence agency MI6, is now tackling a different mission. The scribe has been tapped to pen a new script for G.I. Joe 3, and will work with director D.J. Caruso to revamp the action franchise based on the Hasbro …

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