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‘King Of Kong’ Director Seth Gordon Ready To Play ‘War Games’ In MGM Reboot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 5:27pm PDTTags: Ally Sheedy, Colin Farrell, Gary Barber, Horrible Bosses, Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jose Padilha, Kevin Spacey, Matthew Broderick, MGM, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Roger Birnbaum, Seth Gordon, War Games
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: MGM will reboot the 1983 thriller War Games, and the studio has set Seth Gordon to develop the film to direct. Gordon, who made his breakthrough with the gaming documentary The King of Kong, most recently directed the New Line comedy Horrible Bosses, with Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Jamie Foxx. The reconstituted MGM has been going to town with remakes — landing Jose Padilha to direct Robocop and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to script Carrie – but the John Badham-directed War Games is one that seems particularly reboot-able.

The original starred Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy as computer prodigies who finds a back door into a military computer program. They think they are playing games with the computer only to find they could trigger WWIII if the computer launches nuclear missiles at the Russians. In terms of computer games, kids were playing Pong back then; the level of sophistication with vidgames and the Internet in the digital age opens a wealth of possibilities, and Gordon will be given a wide berth to create a new take on the tale. The deal also reunites him with MGM toppers Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jon Glickman, who were at Spyglass when Gordon directed Four Christmases there. Gordon’s repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

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CBS Films Targets ‘American Assassin’ To Launch Mitch Rapp Franchise, Sets Ed Zwick To Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 8, 2011 @ 6:11am PDTTags: Amy Baer, Antoine Fuqua, Ben Foster, Cameron Diaz, CBS Films, Chris Pine, Colin Farrell, Colin Firth, Ed Zwick, Gerard Butler, Jason Statham, John Hillcoat, Less Moonves, Marshall Herskovitz, Matthew Fox, Nick Wechsler, Vince Flynn, Wolfgang Hammer
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films has redrawn its plans to launch a film franchise based on the Vince Flynn novel series about CIA agent  and Mitch Rapp. Ed Zwick has come aboard to direct an adaptation of American Assassin, a bestseller published … Read More »

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GK Films Hires Focus Exec Kahli Small

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 2, 2011 @ 7:00am PDTTags: Colin Farrell, David Cronenberg, George Clooney, GK Films, Graham King, Johnny Depp, Kahli Small, Keira Knightley, Martin Scorsese, Peter Morgan, Sacha Baron Cohen, Tim Headington, Viggo Mortensen
Mike Fleming

Graham King’s GK Films has hired Focus Features exec Kahli Small to be executive vice president of production and development. She will report directly to King and will work out of GK’s Santa Monica headquarters. Kahli is a seven-year vet … Read More »

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Kate Beckinsale Offered ‘Total Recall’ Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 20, 2011 @ 7:40pm PDTTags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Colin Farrell, Eva Mendes, Kate Beckinsale, Len Wiseman, Paul Verhoeven, Rachel Ticotin, Rosario Dawson, Sharon Stone, Total Recall
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Insiders are telling me I jumped the gun on this, but I’m sticking with my story about Kate Beckinsale being asked to join the film. I am persuaded that she will be starring alongside Jessica Biel when … Read More »

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Craig Gillespie Set To Direct ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 18, 2011 @ 11:26am PDTTags: Colin Farrell, Craig Gillespie, David O. Russell, Jane Austen, Mike White, Natalie Portman, Pride Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith
Mike Fleming

Lionsgate has made it official. Craig Gillespie has been set to direct Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the movie adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel that mixes the 1813 Jane Austen classic with a legion of bloodthirsty zombies. Gillespie, who … Read More »

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As Dave Franco Joins ’21 Jump Street,’ Will Johnny Depp Make A Cameo?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 8, 2011 @ 11:07am PDTTags: 21 Jump Street, Anton Yelchin, Channing Tatum, Colin Farrell, James Franco, Johnny Depp, Jonah Hill, Toni Collette
Mike Fleming

We’ve certainly gotten an eyeful lately of actor/soap star/Oscar host James Franco. We even met his grandmother in that Funnyordie.com spot where she deemed moviegoers too squeamish to watch 127 Hours “a bunch of pussies.” Now it’s actor/writer Dave Franco … Read More »

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Craig Gillespie Poised To Direct ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 5, 2011 @ 6:16pm PDTTags: Colin Farrell, Craig Gillespie, Lionsgate, Mike White, Pride Prejudice and Zombies
Mike Fleming

Craig Gillespie will soon be set as director of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, Lionsgate’s adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel that enhanced the Jane Austen classic with a smattering of flesh-eating walking corpses. Now, Gillespie has been a … Read More »

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Who’s Reading For ‘Total Recall’ Gals?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 9:47am PDTTags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Colin Farrell, Eva Green, Eva Mendes, Jessica Biel, Kate Bosworth, Len Wiseman, Neal Moritz, Paul Verhoeven, Paula Patton, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Total Recall
Mike Fleming

Sony Pictures is casting up its Total Recall remake, which Len Wiseman will direct with Colin Farrell starring in the role originated by Arnold Schwarzenegger. There are two major female roles in the film, and several top actresses are vying … Read More »

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Michel Gondry Meets His Quirky Sensibility Match In Philip K. Dick

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 3:19pm PSTTags: Anonymous Content, Colin Farrell, Emily Blunt, Garrett Basch, Len Wiseman, Matt Damon, Michel Gondry, Philip K Dick, Steve Golin, Steve Zaillian
Mike Fleming

Michel Gondry is adapting and is attached to direct Ubik, the legendary book by scifi author Philip K. Dick. Steve Zaillian and Steve Golin are producing through Film Rites and Anonymous Content, with Golin putting up the financing for development … Read More »

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CAA Signs Director Len Wiseman

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 11, 2011 @ 4:47pm PSTTags: Agents, CAA, Colin Farrell, ICM, Len Wiseman, Movies, Total Recall
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed director Len Wiseman, who is following Live Free Or Die Hard by helming the remake of Total Recall with Colin Farrell playing the Arnold Schwarzenegger role for Columbia Pictures. Wiseman launched his feature directing career with … Read More »

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In Book Deals: New Regency Taps Swedish Crime Series ‘Three Seconds’, Struggling CBS Films Makes Stephen King’s ‘Stand’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 1, 2011 @ 7:40am PSTTags: Amy Baer, Anonymous Content, CBS Films, Colin Farrell, Gerard Butler, Les Moonves, Matthew Fox, New Regency, Shine, Stephen King, Vince Flynn, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

The book-to-movie business is kicking back into gear. Hoping for another Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, New Regency has just acquired Three Seconds, part of a bestselling Swedish crime novel series by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom. Shine will produce and they will set a writer quickly. In Three Seconds, an ex-con who works undercover for the Stockholm police is charged with breaking the Polish mob’s stranglehold on amphetamine dealing in Sweden prisons. The ex-con gets himself arrested so he can infiltrate the mob in a maximum security prison. Beyond the fact his wife is unaware he’s working undercover, the operative’s challenge is to crack the ring and get out before he’s exposed. The book is the fifth novel in the series, was named Sweden’s top crime novel of 2009. The author team is intriguing, considering one’s a former journalist, the other an ex-criminal.The book was published by Silver Oak.  Shine’s Sue Swift brought the book to Regency’s Michelle Kroes to get the deal started and Dan Wilson will oversee for Regency.

In other deals, a film option deal was made for Cutting For Stone, the Abraham Verghese novel optioned by Anonymous Content for its production company.

And Warner Bros and CBS Films will try to turn Stephen King’s celebrated novel The Stand into a feature. Given the spectacularly restrictive budgets that have forced CBS Films to rely on forgettable films like The Back-Up Plan and Extraordinary Measures, it seems likely Warner Bros will have to put up the dough for this to get off the ground. Even then, King’s apocalyptic epic will be very difficult to compress into a feature film, which is why it previously was turned into a 1994 TV miniseries. Each time I write about CBS Films, the question lingers: why did Les Moonves bother to form a feature division in the first place and hire away a capable exec like Amy Baer from Sony only to hobble her by not taking any big swings? Baer has a franchise percolating in Vince Flynn’s Consent to Kill, which focuses on ruthless government operative Mitch Rapp. It’s a Jack Ryan waiting to happen, but though CBS Films last year had discussions with Gerard Butler, Colin Farrell and Lost‘s Matthew Fox for the Rapp role, it still hasn’t happened. A lot has to do with the need to secure a partner. Hey, Les? In the movie business, it’s no guts, no glory. Deadline has heard that a “reconfiguring” is coming to the still struggling movie unit. CBS Films will make more acquisitions to fill the pipeline. Read More »

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L.A. Screenwriter’s Memoir (About Her Suicide Attempt And Boyfriend Colin Farrell) Turning Into Movie

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 7:29am PSTTags: Book-to-Movie, Colin Farrell, Movie Deals, Movies

Ruby Films, the British production company behind Jane Eyre and Tamara Drewe, has optioned Your Voice In My Head, a memoir by Los Angeles-based screenwriter Emma Forrest. Then aged 22, Forrest tried to kill herself before being saved by a New York–based psychiatrist who was secretly dying of cancer. It’s Good Will Hunting meets Girl, Interrupted and “it will make a brilliant film,” Ruby Films boss Alison Owen tells me. But the elephant in the room is that Your Voice In My Head is also about Forrest’s ex-lover, actor Colin Farrell. Never named in the book (he’s referred to only as “GH” – ‘Gypsy Husband’’, she and Farrell were together when she was writing it. She warned him there was going to be a lot of Brit tabloid interest in her book and offered Farrell the chance to read it before publication. He declined. It’s not clear if he now knows the book is being made into a film. It’s not the first time she’s used Farrell for subject matter. Following the break-up of their year-long relationship, she wrote Liars (A-E) about him and other actor boyfriends. It focuses on a woman who’s so swept up by President Obama’s supposedly perfect marriage that she travels across America to the inauguration and stops off along the way asking old boyfriends why they broke up with her. Scott Rudin and the old Miramax bought the script for Richard Linklater to direct, and now Forrest says Rudin wants the project back. Read More »

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William Monahan To Anonymous Content

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 12, 2010 @ 1:37pm PDTTags: Anonymous Content, Colin Farrell, GK Films, John Grisham, Keira Knightley, London Boulevard, Michael Sugar, Paramount, The Associate, The Departed, William Monahan
Mike Fleming

monahan_williamWilliam Monahan, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Departed, has signed with management firm Anonymous Content’s Michael Sugar. Sugar joins WME’s Chris Donnelly and attorney David Fox on Monahan’s rep team. Monahan is in post-production on London Boulevard, making his directing debut … Read More »

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Colin Farrell, Eric Bana Circling Sheldon Turner-Directed ‘By Virtue Fall’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 29, 2010 @ 8:41am PDTTags: By Virtue Fall, Colin Farrell, Eric Bana, Indie, Nicolas Chartier Voltage Pictures
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eric_bana1EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell and Eric Bana are in early talks to team on By Virtue Fall, an independent drama that will mark the directorial debut of Sheldon Turner, who shared an Oscar … Read More »

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Kevin Spacey: Another Horrible Boss Turn

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday June 27, 2010 @ 5:20pm PDTTags: Casting, Colin Farrell, Horrible Bosses, Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey
Mike Fleming

spacey-headshot2Now here is perfect casting. Kevin Spacey has joined the roster of Horrible Bosses, the Seth Gordon-directed New Line comedy that stars Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis. Donald Sutherland has also joined the cast–playing a nice … Read More »

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