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Ron Howard Whaling Tale ‘In The Heart Of The Sea’ Casts Tom Holland

By JEN YAMATO | Wednesday April 10, 2013 @ 3:21pm PDTTags: In The Heart Of The Sea, Tom Holland, Warner Bros

EXCLUSIVE: Brit youngster Tom Holland is moving from his breakout debut The Impossible to another watery high profile project. He’s been cast in Warner Bros.’ In The Heart Of The Sea, the long-gestating seafaring adventure helmed by Ron Howard from a script by Charles Leavitt (Blood Diamond). Chris Hemsworth is starring in the pic adapted from Nathaniel Philbrick’s award-winning book In The Heart Of The Sea: The Tragedy Of The Whaleship Essex, an account of a whaling ship that was stalked and destroyed by a sperm whale in 1820. The tragedy left the crew of the Essex adrift for 90 days in the Pacific during which they turned to cannibalism before eight survivors made it home, an ordeal that partially influenced Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.
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‘The Impossible’ Exclusive Featurette: Video

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday November 16, 2012 @ 5:35pm PSTTags: Ewan McGregor, Juan Antonio Bayona, Naomi Watts, Summit Entertainment, The Impossible, Tom Holland
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EXCLUSIVE:  One of the sleeper entries in this year’s Oscar race is the emotionally wrenching true story, The Impossible which chronicles a family split apart in the terrifying Tsunami in Thailand in 2004 and their efforts to survive and find each other, despite horrific injury and unspeakable devastation at the … Read More »

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UK’s Channel 4 Cancels Screening Of Islam Documentary Amid Security Fears

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday September 12, 2012 @ 2:33am PDTTags: Channel 4, Tom Holland

When historian Tom Holland’s documentary, Islam: The Untold Story, originally aired on Channel 4 in late August, it prompted over 1,000 complaints to the network and 200 to regulator Ofcom. Now, the UK broadcaster has cancelled an invite-only screening that was to be held this Thursday at its London headquarters, saying it did so after “having taken security advice.” Among the Twitter messages Holland has received since the broadcast is one that reads, “You might be a target in the streets. You may recruit some bodyguards, for your own safety.”

The controversial doc examines the origins of Islam and questions some of the writings in the Koran. In the film, Holland says, “When it comes to Islam’s beginnings, there is no full light of history… I felt like I was being sucked into a black hole.” After the Aug. 28 airing, the Islamic Education and Research Academy responded, saying in part, “Holland appears to have turned a blind eye to the rich Islamic historical tradition. There are no ‘black holes’ and there is no missing information.” Read More »

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Justin Long In Talks For Stephen King’s ‘The Ten O’Clock People’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 12:24pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Justin Long, Movie Casting, Stephen King, The Ten O'Clock People, Tom Holland

EXCLUSIVE:  Justin Long is in negotiations for the lead role in The Ten O’clock People. The Live Free Or Die Hard actor would play Brandon Pearson in the modernized adaptation of the Stephen King short story. As … Read More »

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Stephen King’s ‘The Ten O’Clock’ People Gets Feature Treatment From Tom Holland

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 5, 2012 @ 4:24pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Stephen King, The Ten O'Clock People, Tom Holland
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Tom Holland has signed on to adapt and direct The Ten O’clock People, a feature adaptation of a short story by Stephen King. Holland and King previously collaborated on The Langoliers and Thinner. Holland took an extended hiatus, then returned to directing in 2007 in the Masters Of Horror series for Showtime. He’s writing and directing Twisted Tales, a series of shorts for FearNet, and plans for The Ten O’clock People to be his first theatrical  since Thinner, which King wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.

The Ten O’clock People comes from a short story published in King’s 1993 Nightmares And Dreamscapes collection. Set in Boston, the story follows Brandon Pearson, who in trying to kick his smoking habit uncovers a frightening aspect of reality that he plans to extinguish through extreme measures. Read More »

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