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Comic-Con: Drew Goddard Scripts New Ending To Brad Pitt’s ‘World War Z’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 9:55am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Brad Pitt, Damon Lindelof, Drew Goddard, Paramount Pictures, World War Z
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: While reports had Damon Lindelof coming in to write a new ending to the Marc Forster-directed Brad Pitt-starrer World War Z, it actually was his Lost compadre Drew Goddard who did the bulk of the writing of the finale. Lindelof, who reworked Prometheus and co-wrote the Star Trek sequel, cracked a potential new ending of the film, but Lindelof didn’t have time to do the scripting so that task fell to Goddard, who most recently adapted Robopocalypse, which is Steven Spielberg’s next film at DreamWorks.

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Both of those guys are off to other projects, so it’s quite possible that Paramount will tap another writer to punch up this ending — if the studio decides to use it. I’m hearing Christopher McQuarrie, whom the studio is high on after he adapted and directed Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher, based on the Lee Child novels. That isn’t set in stone because McQuarrie is Cruise’s go-to guy and he will be doing some script work on All You Need Is Kill, the Doug Liman-directed action film that Cruise will next star in after he completes Oblivion. So it is questionable whether he will be available or whether Paramount will need him. No date has been set for the reshoots that will be needed to implement the new ending, but insiders say Forster will be shooting those scenes. READ MORE »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Cabin In The Woods’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday December 5, 2011 @ 3:08pm PSTTags: Bradley Whitford, Chris Hemsworth, Drew Goddard, Jodelle Ferland, Joss Whedon, Lionsgate, Richard Jenkins, The Cabin in the Woods

The trailer for The Cabin In The Woods went online today. The horror thriller that stars Chris Hemsworth was finished before his breakthrough as Thor. Directed by Cloverfield scribe Drew Goddard, who co-wrote it with Joss Whedon, the MGM project stalled because of that company’s financial problems and Lionsgate made … Read More »

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Cross Creek Pictures Hires Becky Sloviter As Senior Production Veep

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 7:11am PDTTags: Brian Oliver, Buck Henry, Colin Firth, Cross Creek Pictures, Drew Goddard, Emily Blunt, James Gray, Jeremy Renner, Kevin James, Kurt Sutter, Steve McQueen, Timmy Thompson, Whitey Bulger
Mike Fleming

After making a splash by funding the wildly profitable Darren Aronofsky-directed Black Swan, Timmy Thompson and Brian Oliver’s Cross Creek Pictures has become an increasing presence in the independent film producing and finance game. To help manage the growing project volume, they’ve hired Becky Sloviter to be senior vice president of development and production. She started work yesterday and had most recently been veep of development and production at MGM, where she worked on such titles as the Kevin James-starrer Zookeeper and the Drew Goddard-directed The Cabin in the Woods, as well as the musical Valley Girl which is on a fast track at MGM. Before that, Sloviter had been a production exec at Stuber/Parent Productions. Read More »

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Joss Whedon’s ‘Cabin In The Woods’ With ‘Thor’s Chris Hemsworth Going To Lionsgate

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 28, 2011 @ 4:15pm PDTTags: Adrianne Palicki, Bradley Whitford, Chris Hemsworth, Drew Goddard, Josh Hutcherson, Joss Whedon, Lionsgate, MGM, Richard Jenkins
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is making a deal with MGM to distribute The Cabin in the Woods, putting an end to an unexpectedly long shelf life for a horror film that has a terrific creative pedigree and a high degree of fanboy wanna-see. Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard directed the film and co-wrote it with Joss Whedon. The film’s cast includes Chris Hemsworth, who made it before he was set to star as the title character in Marvel’s Thor. Ironically, Whedon and Hemsworth are reuniting, with Whedon directing The Avengers, and Hemsworth reprising his hammer-swinging role. It’s unclear when Lionsgate will release the film, but October is a good bet.

The delay has little to do with the quality of the film. It was once slated to be released by MGM on Oct. 23, 2009, but was pulled back because it was going to be converted to 3D. Then, everything froze at MGM because of the strangling debt load, and The Cabin in the Woods was among several pictures that languished. By the time the picture is released, Thor will have established Hemsworth’s star value, which will certainly help a film that also stars Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford.

That leaves the remake of Red Dawn as the last holdover MGM film seeking a distributor. That picture also stands to gain from having sat on a shelf. Read More »

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