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Cannes: Tobey Maguire’s Material Pictures Sets Chris Pine, Amanda Seyfried, Chiwetel Ejiofor For ‘Z For Zachariah’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 15, 2013 @ 4:40pm PDTTags: Amanda Seyfried, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Chris Pine, Tobey Maguire, Z for Zachariah
Mike Fleming

Material Pictures and Zik Zak Filmworks are pleased to announce Chris Pine, Amanda Seyfried, and Chewitel Ejiofor have joined the cast of Z FOR ZACHARIAH. The film will be directed by Craig Zobel (The Great World of Sound, Compliance) from a script penned by Nissar Modi. Material Pictures’ Tobey Maguire and Matthew Plouffe will produce alongside Zik Zak Filmworks’ Skúli Malmquist, Thor Sigurjonsson and Palomar Pictures’ Joni Sighvatsson. Gary Ross and Lucky Hat Entertainment’s Stephen Bannatyne will executive produce, along with Silver Reel’s Claudia Bluemhuber and Lotus Entertainment’s Jim Seibel and Bill Johnson. Lotus will commence international sales at Cannes. CAA arranged financing for the project, and CAA and WME will co-represent domestic rights.

An adaptation of Robert C. O’Brien’s classic science fiction novel of the same name, Z FOR ZACHARIAH is a psychological thriller about a girl who believes she is the only survivor after a devastating nuclear event, but comes to learn she is not alone.

The project will begin shooting in August.

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Chris Pine, Jake Gyllenhaal Clearing Throats For ‘Into The Woods’ Pic

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday May 14, 2013 @ 9:22pm PDTTags: Chris Pine, Disney, Into The Woods, Jake Gyllenhaal

Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal aren’t exactly renowned for their pipes, but both are in discussions to join Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep … Read More »

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CinemaCon: Paramount Kicks Off ‘Star Trek’, Brad Pitt, Michael Bay At Convention

By PETE HAMMOND | Monday April 15, 2013 @ 9:29pm PDTTags: Brad Pitt, Chris Pine, CinemaCon, IMAX, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, Paramount, Star Trek, World War Z
Pete Hammond

CinemaCon kicked off tonight at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with a presentation from Paramount. In only its  3rd year, what used to be ShoWest is proving to have the magic touch as once again all the major studios plus … Read More »

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Chris Pine & Zoe Saldana To Host Sci-Tech Awards

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 16, 2013 @ 12:37pm PSTTags: Chris Pine, Sci-Tech, Zoe Saldana

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Actors Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday, February 9, at The Beverly Hills Hotel. They will present nine

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‘Jack Ryan’ Film Based on Tom Clancy Hero Scheduled For Release Dec. 25, 2013

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday August 27, 2012 @ 1:13pm PDTTags: Chris Pine, Jack Ryan, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Clancy

Related: ‘Jack Ryan’ Finally Set For 4th Quarter 2013; Keira Knightley Cast As Chris Pine’s Love Interest; Prequel Story Starts Trilogy

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Paramount’s ‘Jack Ryan’ Resurrecting Tom Clancy’s Hero Finally Set For 4th Quarter 2013; Keira Knightley Cast As Chris Pine’s Love Interest; Prequel Story Starts Trilogy

By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 22, 2012 @ 7:07pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Chris Pine, David Koepp, Jack Ryan, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Costner, Tom Clancy

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can now confirm the cast for this long gestating, highly anticipated action thriller that will be the first of an anticipated franchise trilogy. It resurrects the popular Tom Clancy character of CIA analyst Jack Ryan last seen on film in 2002 and now played by Chris Pine in the role already made famous by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. After various starts and stops, bad luck and good fortune, Deadline also has learned that Jack Ryan finally has come together for a release in the 4th quarter of 2013.

Paramount chose to wait for Pine to complete the second installment of Star Trek in this contemporized original prequel story that picks up Ryan before he joined the CIA. (Paramount long ago locked in Pine after he played Captain Kirk.) His love interest and the female lead is Keira Knightley. Paramount was intensely searching because it’s a high profile role — an older version of the character was played by Anne Archer in the Harrison Ford films — and involves options that would potentially put the actress in three pictures.

As Deadline previously reported, Kevin Costner has an invented but key role as does the film’s director Kenneth Branagh who will play the Russian villain plotting to wreck the U.S. economy. Paramount began talks with the Thor helmer to replace the once-attached Jack Bender. Paramount courted Costner to become a linchpin in not only Jack Ryan but also the spinoff franchise Without Remorse based on Clancy’s 1993 novel. (The studio is now courting The Dark Knight Rises villain Tom Hardy to star, with Christopher McQuarrie rewriting to direct.) The deal that came together envisions Costner potentially headlining his own film as William Harper, a true blue American idealist who recruits and mentors both Ryan and John Kelly from Without Remorse. Kelly later becomes CIA operative Clark.

Paramount like every studio is looking to build tentpoles and has a good opportunity for more than one here by cross-pollinating characters Ryan and Clark like The Avengers successfully keeps doing.

Branagh recently described the movie as “an original story that allows us to understand how Jack Ryan develops into a CIA analyst, before joining, and perhaps even joining, the CIA. It’s a very contemporary action thriller set in the here and now.” its launching point is mentioned in Clancy’s The Hunt For Red October book and film: a terrifying helicopter crash that nearly killed Ryan when he was a 23-year-old Marines platoon leader and the only member to survive.

Paramount Pictures and co-financier Skydance Productions went top shelf to get the franchise relaunch to the starting line and hired David Koepp for 7-figures to redraft the script by Adam Cozad known as Moscow. Cozad was a screenwriter without a screen credit and yet now is in the middle of some of the bigger projects in town. Read More »

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Paramount Lands Kevin Costner To Rev Jack Ryan And ‘Without Remorse’ Pics

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 20, 2012 @ 6:33pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Chris Pine, Jack Ryan, Kevin Costner, Paramount Pictures, Tom Hardy, Without Remorse
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline told you two weeks ago that Paramount was courting Kevin Costner to play a key role opposite Chris Pine in the Kenneth Branagh-directed Jack Ryan film. I’m told that Costner has now accepted and they are working … Read More »

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Jack Ryan: Female Lead Between Keira Knightley, Felicity Jones, Evangeline Lilly

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 5:39pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Chris Pine, Felicity Jones, Jack Ryan
Mike Fleming

Paramount is looking hard for the female lead for its Jack Ryan franchise relaunch that will star Chris Pine in the CIA analyst role made famous by Alec Baldwin, … Read More »

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SDB Partners Settles Lawsuit With Former Client Chris Pine

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 8, 2012 @ 10:07am PDTTags: Chris Pine, SDB partners
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Century City boutique agency SDB Partners’ lawsuit against former client Chris Pine over commissions has been settled. I hear the two sides reached an agreement late last week, with the paperwork being filed at … Read More »

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Waterstone Enlists Chris Pine And Pals For Indie Comedy ‘Mantivities’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 2:30pm PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Chris Pine, Star Trek
Mike Fleming

Chris Pine MantivitiesBREAKING: Star Trek‘s Chris Pine has co-written and will star in Mantivities, a comedy that has been set up with Waterstone Entertainment heads Jeff Kalligheri and Stephen Bowen. Pine wrote the script with his buddies Will Greenberg, Drew Howerton, Robert Baker, Ian Gotler and Tony Liebetrau. Michael Patrick Jann is attached to direct. The comedy focuses on a group of friends in their early 30s, all in various stages of permanent adolescence. They get together with the aim of helping one of them grow up. Pine will produce with Sarah Babineau, Jordan Foley and Waterstone’s Kalligheri, Bowen and Steven Garcia.Waterstone Mantivities“I couldn’t be happier to begin the adventure of making Mantivities knowing how much fun we all had writing it,” Pine said. “‘Somehow I get to laugh with my friends and call it work.” Read More »

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Disney/DreamWorks’ ‘Welcome To People’ Gets New Title, Release Date

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 6:59pm PDTTags: 'People Like Us', Chris Pine, Roberto Orci, Welcome to People

Disney and DreamWorks have set a June 29 release date for People Like Us, the film previously known as Welcome To People. Starring Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Banks and Michelle Pfeiffer, the dramatic comedy … Read More »

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Chris Pine Sued By Former Agency SDB

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 14, 2012 @ 11:44am PSTTags: Chris Pine, SDB partners, Star Trek

Century City boutique agency SDB Partners has filed suit against former client Chris Pine, whom SDB claims dumped them via email in November despite previous declarations of loyalty and appreciation for their hard work establishing his career. SDB claims Pine … Read More »

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Fox Delays ‘This Means War’ Release

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 9:50am PSTTags: Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, This Means War, Tom Hardy

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is waving the white flag on what is supposed to be a worth-the-price-of-admission movie which in and of itself is a rarity these days. The studio was supposed to open its ‘romantic action comedy’ This Means War on Tuesday … Read More »

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Hot International Trailer: ‘This Means War’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 12:29am PSTTags: Chris Pine, McG, Reese Witherspoon, Simon Kinberg, This Means War, Tom Hardy

Chris Pine and Tom Hardy play spies who discover they’re dating the same woman — Reese Witherspoon. The decide to go at each other rather like another 20th Century Fox pairing (we’ll let you guess which one) and “may the best man win.” Occasional hilarity and physical comedy ensue. You … Read More »

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Original ‘Robocop’ Peter Weller Adds To Sci-Fi Resume With ‘Star Trek’ Sequel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday December 5, 2011 @ 3:00am PSTTags: Alice Eve, Benicio Del Toro, Chris Pine, Film Castings, JJ Abrams, Paramount, Peter Weller, RoboCop, Star Trek, Zachary Quinto
Mike Fleming

Peter Weller’s reps confirm he’s joining the cast of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek sequel, in what is a principal role but one they would not specify. Weller, best known in feature sci-fi circles for his iconic role as Robocop, has … Read More »

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‘Star Trek’ Star Chris Pine Leaves Longtime Agency SDB Partners After 9 Years

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 14, 2011 @ 2:09pm PSTTags: Chris Pine, SDB partners, Star Trek
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Pine has left his longtime agents at SDB Partners, who represented him for almost a decade. Pine is yet to land elsewhere, with CAA or WME considered likely destinations. SDB signed Pine when he was a complete unknown. … Read More »

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Skydance Acquires ‘Bad In Bed’ Pitch

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 14, 2011 @ 11:42am PSTTags: Adam Shankman, Barbra Streisand, Brad Pitt, Chris Pine, Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, Jennifer Gibgot, Seth Rogen, Steve Golin, Tom Cruise
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: David Ellison’s Skydance Productions has made a preemptive acquisition of Bad In Bed. The comedy pitch will be written by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, the scribes behind The Wedding Planner. They describe it as a racy high concept … Read More »

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McG Eyes Summit’s ‘Puzzle Palace’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 5:32pm PDTTags: Chris Pine, David Guggenheim, Denzel Washington, McG, Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds, Summit Entertainment, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment is in talks with McG to direct Puzzle Palace, the cop drama script by David Guggenheim. Summit acquired the project at a pitch early last year from Guggenheim after the scribe sold the spec script Safe … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: McG’s ‘This Means War’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 3:28pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Chris Pine, McG, Movie Trailers, Reese Witherspoon, This Means War, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

20th Century Fox has released a trailer for This Means War, the McG-directed comedy that pits the world’s deadliest CIA operatives and inseparable best friends against one another when they find they are dating the same woman. The operatives use all their skills and gadgetry in an attempt to prevail. … Read More »

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