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Universal, JJ Abrams Set ‘Milk’ Scribe Dustin Lance Black For ‘Earthquake’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 27, 2012 @ 12:32pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Dustin Lance Black, Earthquake, JJ Abrams, Universal
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning scribe Dustin Lance Black has been set to script Earthquake, a big scale disaster film for Universal that is being produced by JJ Abrams, Bryan Burk and their Bad Robot banner. While Universal made the 1974 film that starred Charlton Heston, I’m told that the title and natural disaster subject is all the films share. So it is not a remake.

This puts Universal potentially in a competitive situation with New Line, which has a 3D earthquake project set up under the title San Andreas 3D.

There have been rumblings of an earthquake film from Abrams and Universal since 2008, when the project was first set up with The Omen‘s David Seltzer writing. It languished, but now the project is regaining momentum. Black won his Oscar for Milk, and followed with J. Edgar. He most recently has been adapting the Jon Krakauer book Under the Banner of Heaven at Warner Bros for Ron Howard to direct and Brian Grazer to produce through Imagine, and he scripted Barefoot Bandit for Fox. He’s currently adapting the Dark Horse graphic novel 3 Story as a directing vehicle, with Laurence Mark producing. He’s repped by CAA.

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Disney Shuts Down All Operations In Tokyo

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday March 18, 2011 @ 11:32am PDTTags: Disney, Earthquake, Japan, Theme Parks, Tsunami

The two Tokyo theme parks have been closed since last Friday’s earthquake and tsunami (they were used as shelters for park-goers stranded following the quake), and now the Burbank-based company is temporarily suspending operations in the city’s stores and administrative … Read More »

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Tokyo Disneyland & DisneySea Suspend Operations After Earthquake and Tsunami

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday March 13, 2011 @ 3:13pm PDTTags: Earthquake, Japan

Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea suspended operations due to the effect of the Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake on 3/11. Theme park operations will continue to be suspended tomorrow and thereafter. We will target 3/21 for a decision and notification on when to expect operations to resume.

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‘Hawaii Five-0′ Production Not Impacted By Tsunami

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 11, 2011 @ 10:13am PSTTags: CBS TV Studios, Daniel Dae Kim, Earthquake, Hawaii Five-0, Japan, Tsunami
Nellie Andreeva

Two months after the big tsunami episode of CBS’ Hawaii Five-0, the show is facing a real one. Hawaii, where the series is shot, has been under a tsunami warning after the massive 8.9 earthquake in Japan but, according to a rep for CBS TV Studios, which produces the series, … Read More »

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UPDATE: Japan Quake-Tsunami Puts ‘Tangled’ And ‘Megamind’ Openings In Limbo; Also Halts Sony Biz Production

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday March 11, 2011 @ 8:49am PSTTags: Apple, Earthquake, Japan, Sony, Taylor Lautner, Tsunami, Twilight

UPDATE: Two 3D animation movies were supposed to open big in Japan this weekend for the March school holidays. But Disney’s Tangled and DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind are now in limbo. That scary 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan also … Read More »

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