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Universal Pictures has finally released the first trailer for Leap Year, a movie I have been waiting for awhile and its a romantic comedy about a woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day. I really like the director Anand Tucker, he did a great film called Shopgirl not to [...]

Update - Just got an email from my MGM contact and he told me all this information is in fact incorrect regarding 20th Century Fox getting distribution rights of James Bond. “EON still behind Bond but we control worldwide.” He also told me that they plan to announce a distribution strategy and release date in [...]

Just a week after Peter Berg mentioned he’d like to make a sequel for Hancock, some more developments have come out and this time its 2 writers set to pen the picture for Columbia. Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara to pen Hancock 2, the sequel to the Will Smith anti-hero, superhero flick, which grossed $624 million worldwide [...]

A few days Corey reported that Kyle Ward was set to pen the script for Hitman 2, now the writer is going to also be adapting the video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for the big screen. Columbia has found Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. The studio is developing the action-adventure video game for a feature film, setting [...]

One of my favorite actors right now is Javier Bardem, I just find him talented and someone who I can see play a variety of characters. He is apparently in talks to star opposite Julia Roberts in Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy’s directed adaptation of the Elizabeth Gilbert memoir, Eat, Pray, Love for Columbia Pictures.
According to [...]

Philip K. Dick’s novel We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is getting a more contemporary adaptation this time around with a remake of its film version, the classic Total Recall. Kurt Wimmer has been tapped to write Columbia’s new version of Recall, which Neal H. Moritz is developing and producing through his Original Films [...]

The Los Angeles Times Hero Complex (via /Film) recently caught up with actor, writer, director Dan Aykroyd in order to talk about the Ghostbusters 3 project that is in the works at Columbia Picture. Some of the things we already know about the project are that Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky are writing the script [...]

One the most treasured projects one could think of reigniting has already gotten screenwriters and a possible film date but not much else is known about the Ghostbusters 3 project. Speculation from the beginning is that the original cast would return and that Ivan Reitman would co-produce along side Judd Apatow. With the muttering of [...]

Such a staple of my child hood, the whooping crane move, a pissed-off dragon dojo master, caressing his chin and looking at the bully of the film, Johnny, saying, “Sweep the Leg!”
The Karate Kid was a film that you just loved. The nerdy/awkward, Italian New Yorker who learns karate from his superintendent, an ex martial [...]

So the artist formerly known as Two-Face, Aaron Eckhart will star in a new a sci-fi action film for Columbia Pictures.
The Hollywood Reporter,
“the story was written by Chris Bertolini, and it surrounds itself around a Marine platoon’s encounter in the battle on the streets of Los Angeles against an alien invasion.”
Eckhart will play this [...]