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John Goodman Boards Paramount’s ‘Flight’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 7:56am PDTTags: Ben Affleck, Denzel Washington, Flight, John Goodman, Michel Hazanavicius, Robert Zemeckis, Sandra Bullock, Stephen Daldry, Tom Hanks
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: John Goodman has joined the cast of the Robert Zemeckis-directed Flight, which stars Denzel Washington as an airline pilot who averts a plane crash, only to come under a cloud for possible substance abuse problems. Goodman will play a friend of the pilot who helps him come to terms with his problems. Goodman, who stars in the Michel Hazanavicius-directed silent film The Artist, is shooting the Ben Affleck-directed Argo and most recently wrapped the Stephen Daldry-directed Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which stars Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. Goodman’s repped by Gersh.

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Paramount And Robert Zemeckis Eye Kelly Reilly For ‘Flight’ Lead

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 6:55am PDTTags: Denzel Washington, Film Casting, Flight, Robert Zemeckis
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount is negotiating with Kelly Reilly to play the female lead opposite Denzel Washington in Flight, the Robert Zemeckis-directed thriller. This is a real opportunity for the British actress, who scores a role that a lot of actresses wanted. … Read More »

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It’s Official: Robert Zemeckis And Denzel Washington Aboard Paramount’s ‘Flight’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday September 9, 2011 @ 1:26pm PDTTags: Denzel Washington, Flight, ImageMovers, John Gatins, Paramount, Robert Zemeckis

Deadline revealed a couple of weeks ago that Robert Zemeckis was dropping out of the Warner Bros drama Replay so he could direct Denzel Washington in the Paramount thriller Flight. Paramount just made that move official today:

HOLLYWOOD, CA (September 9, 2011) — Paramount Pictures announced today that Academy Award ® winner Denzel Washington will star, and Academy Award ® winning director Robert Zemeckis will helm, FLIGHT for the studio. Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald will produce under the Parkes/MacDonald production banner along with Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, and Jack Rapke under their ImageMovers banner. The movie is set to begin shooting this October in Atlanta, GA.

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Paul Greengrass In ‘Fear Index,’ Robert Zemeckis Out Of ‘Replay’ As He Takes ‘Flight’ With Denzel Washington

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 25, 2011 @ 7:09pm PDTTags: Denzel Washington, Dylan Clark, Jason Smilovic, Jenno Topping, John Gatins, Laurie MacDonald, Paul Greengrass, Peter Chernin, Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Walter Parkes
Mike Fleming

Back in June, Deadline revealed that Fox 2000 had acquired the Robert Harris thriller novel Fear Index, about a scientist who uses a revolutionary system of computer algorithms to trade on the volatility of the world’s financial markets. His hedge fund is wildly successful until he is targeted by an intruder who breaks into his home. At the time, I’d heard that Paul Greengrass was attached to direct, and his reps at CAA denied it. I wrote it anyway. Now, Harris has said in an interview for his soon to be published book that Greengrass is indeed going to direct and the filmmaker’s reps are now acknowledging it’s true. The novel will be published next month in the UK and January in the US. Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark and Jenno Topping are the producers. and Harris is scripting it. Greengrass next directs the Somali pirate pic A Captain’s Duty with Tom Hanks starring for Sony Pictures.

Robert Zemeckis has officially dropped out of the Warner Bros drama Replay, and the studio is trying to put the Jason Smilovic-scripted film back together with another filmmaker. Zemeckis exited because he has finally committed to direct Denzel Washington in the Paramount thriller Flight. Read More »

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Universal Makes Two-Year Deal With Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 4:47pm PDTTags: ImageMovers, Jack Rapke, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, Universal
Mike Fleming

Universal has closed a two-year first-look producing deal with Robert Zemeckis and his ImageMovers shingle. ImageMovers will stay in its current headquarters and will not be based on the Universal lot. There doesn’t appear to be a specific movie that … Read More »

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Paramount Wants To Take ‘Flight’ With Robert Zemeckis

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 20, 2011 @ 6:58pm PDTTags: John Gatins, Paramount Pictures, Robert Zemeckis
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is in early discussions with Robert Zemeckis to direct Flight, a live-action feature that has been scripted by John Gatins. Denzel Washington is loosely attached. Zemeckis, who has focused for the last decade on directing and producing … Read More »

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DreamWorks Revs Up ‘Real Steel’ Sequel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 10:54am PDTTags: Angry Films, Don Murphy, DreamWorks, Hugh Jackman, Jack Rapke, John Gatins, Real Steel, Robert Zemeckis, Shawn Levy, Steve Starkey, Steven Spielberg, Susan Montford
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Disney doesn’t release Real Steel until Oct. 7, but already DreamWorks is getting the machinery moving on a sequel to the Shawn Levy-directed drama that stars Hugh Jackman. I’m told the studio has commissioned John Gatins, who scripted the first film, to start on the second installment. It’s unusual to see that occur so early, but I can recall it happening when Warner Bros commissioned a Hangover sequel after early tests showed the movie was going to be a big hit. Development on the sequel’s just getting under way, and deals will have to be made with Jackman and Levy. Gatins is repped by UTA.

DreamWorks has gotten strong response to internal screenings of the film, and at a CinemaCon presentation of footage in Las Vegas. The film is a Rocky-meets-Transformers tale of a prize fighter whose pugilistic skills are rendered obsolete when human boxers are replaced by robots. The fighter (Jackman) becomes a boxing promoter and finds a discarded robot that wins and wins. The fighter also discovers he has a 13-year old son, who comes along for the ride as the robot heads toward the top against scary competition. Read More »

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Disney Insiders Claim ‘Yellow Submarine’ Sunk Before ‘Mars Needs Moms’ Tanked

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 14, 2011 @ 8:30pm PDTTags: Disney, Robert Zemeckis
Mike Fleming

Insiders at Disney are denying a Hollywood Reporter story that a lousy opening weekend for the Robert Zemeckis-produced animated film Mars Needs Moms sank Yellow Submarine, the  3D remake of the psychedelic animated Beatles film that Zemeckis had set up … Read More »

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Warner Bros Wants Zemeckis For ‘Wizard Of Oz’ Remake Based On Original MGM Script

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 16, 2010 @ 3:59pm PSTTags: Movie Deals, Movies, Robert Zemeckis, Sam Raimi Oz: The Great and Powerful
Mike Fleming

Whenever you remake a revered Hollywood film, there’s bound to be controversy, but going right to the original material is certainly an interesting approach. Warner Bros is in early talks with Robert Zemeckis to direct a live-action remake of … Read More »

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Eric Stoltz’s ‘Back To The Future’ Moment

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 12, 2010 @ 11:40am PDTTags: Back to the Future, Back to the Future Eric Stoltz, Back to the Future Video, Eric Stoltz, Movies, Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, Video

A video making its way around today offers up a great walk down memory lane. Can you imagine anyone else except Michael J. Fox starring in Back to the Future? Well, Eric Stoltz was the original choice but was recast 5 weeks into the film’s production. The clip below features Steven Spielberg, Robert … Read More »

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Robert Zemeckis Plots Return To Live Action — And Time Travel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 29, 2010 @ 12:53pm PDTTags: Movie Deals, Movies, Robert Zemeckis, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: It has been a decade since Robert Zemeckis last directed a live action film, the classic Cast Away. It has been 25 years since he launched the time travel trilogy Back to the Future. I’m told that Zemeckis is … Read More »

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