New Films in Production

[Antoine Doinel]

Everyone's favorite show on the N is about to get the full-length treatment

No surprise there. Over the years there have been two Degrassi movies that have been made for TV, and it seems like this will be same deal.

[aox]

After barely getting Murray to do the second one, I thought he said it would be a cold day in hell before he would do this. Surely he doesn't need the money? #-o

Stars reunite for Ghostbusters III

The Daily Telegraph

HOLLYWOOD studio Columbia is planning to revive its hit 1980s franchise Ghostbusters with a third film that will reunite the four main spook-hunters. Entertainment industry daily Variety reported on its website that Columbia Pictures had already hired screenwriters Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write the third film in the money-spinning series.

The first two Ghostbusters movies - about an intrepid team of ghost exterminators battling supernatural forces in New York City - grossed more than $US500 million ($613 million) worldwide in total.

The main members of the original cast, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson, would also return for the third film, Variety reported.

Director Ivan Reitman made both the 1984 original and the 1989 sequel.

[Antoine Doinel]

After barely getting Murray to do the second one, I thought he said it would be a cold day in hell before he would do this. Surely he doesn't need the money?

If the price is right, Bill Murray will do anything.

[domino harvey]

spook-hunters

Surely there was a better way to say this

[mfunk9786]

hired screenwriters Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky

These guys are quite funny, though. Aside from the general embarrassment of a sequel this late in the game, it could have its moments.

[aox]

After barely getting Murray to do the second one, I thought he said it would be a cold day in hell before he would do this. Surely he doesn't need the money?

If the price is right, Bill Murray will do anything.

Agreed, but that is a cake job. Doesn't even have to get dressed in the morning or comb his hair, and he probably finished the work in two weeks.

[flyonthewall2983]

DeNiro drops out of Edge Of Darkness.

[exte]

I wonder what happened...

[flyonthewall2983]

I heard sand traps were difficult, but this takes the cake.

[Fletch F. Fletch]

After barely getting Murray to do the second one, I thought he said it would be a cold day in hell before he would do this. Surely he doesn't need the money? #-o

Stars reunite for Ghostbusters III

The Daily Telegraph

HOLLYWOOD studio Columbia is planning to revive its hit 1980s franchise Ghostbusters with a third film that will reunite the four main spook-hunters. Entertainment industry daily Variety reported on its website that Columbia Pictures had already hired screenwriters Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write the third film in the money-spinning series.

The first two Ghostbusters movies - about an intrepid team of ghost exterminators battling supernatural forces in New York City - grossed more than $US500 million ($613 million) worldwide in total.

The main members of the original cast, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson, would also return for the third film, Variety reported.

Director Ivan Reitman made both the 1984 original and the 1989 sequel.

Confirmation from Harold Ramis:

The Chicago Tribune received an e-mail from Harold Raamis all but confirming Ghostbusters 3:

"yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we'll take it from there.
best,
harold

[aox]

"mentor capacity"?

ugh #-o

[domino harvey]

Seth Rogan will change the franchise to Ghostbutt and fight the spirits away with his obscenity-laced rants against the afterlife

[Antoine Doinel]

....let's begin the countdown from when the sequel number will be dropped, and the film will become a "re-boot" for the franchise. I predict Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Michael Cera and Craig Robinson (or some other token ethnic character) will be the new Ghostbusters.

[Fletch F. Fletch]

Quintet Join Ginsberg's "Howl"

By Garth Franklin

Tuesday, September 9th 2008 2:24am

David Strathairn, Alan Alda, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker and Paul Rudd have joined the biopic "Howl" for Telling Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.

Documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will make their narrative writing, producing and directing debut with the 1950s-era tale, focusing on the obscenity trial launched to censor Allen Ginsberg's groundbreaking book-length poem.

James Franco is already attached to play Ginsberg. The quintet will play various real-life characters including prosecuting attorney Ralph McIntosh (Strathairn), Judge Clayton Horn (Alda), prosecution witness Professor David Kirk (Daniels), radio personality and prosecution witness Gail Potter (Parker) and literary critic and defense witness Luther Nichols (Rudd).

Graphic novelist and Ginsberg collaborator Eric Drooker will create an animated reimagining of Howl, and Carter Burwell will write the original score.

[domino harvey]

James Franco as Ginsberg? What's next, David Cross as Ginsberg?

[miless]

except that Cross was an inspired choice.

[Fletch F. Fletch]

except that Cross was an inspired choice.

And he did a good job.

[mfunk9786]

Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment has set Wes Anderson to write "My Best Friend," a remake of the 2006 Patrice Leconte-directed French comedy "Mon meilleur ami." Anderson is also eying the project as a directing vehicle.

[Antoine Doinel]

Oh god, I really hope Wes Anderson doesn't go the remake route. I've very partial to mainstream French comedies, but Mon meilleur ami is trifiling at best and is ultimately a tepid morality comedy about the value of friendship. Yeah, it's about as good as that sounds. Anderson should hook back up with Baumbach or Wilson to write his next film.

[LQ]

Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment has set Wes Anderson to write "My Best Friend," a remake of the 2006 Patrice Leconte-directed French comedy "Mon meilleur ami." Anderson is also eying the project as a directing vehicle.

aha.

[pianocrash]

Oh god, I really hope Wes Anderson doesn't go the remake route....Anderson should hook back up with Baumbach or Wilson to write his next film.

A man's gotta eat, y'know? With any luck, he could make Leconte's film more French than it already probably is (sorry, Canada!), or at least enough for one of the Wilson brothers (I think you know which one) to fumble through it with enough believability to cut out a few slices of cake to take home and freeze until the gumption and heady financing come knocking again.

[MyNameCriterionForum]

"A man's gotta eat"?

Yeah, I'm sure Wes is wasting away.

[AWA]

I just support the idea of Wes trying something different for a change to see how he handles the material.

[dx23]

Aparrently the Guitar Hero movie will have to wait since Brett Ratner is now working on Beverly Hills Cop 4 with Eddie Murphy.

[Murdoch]

Aparrently the Guitar Hero movie will have to wait since Brett Ratner is now working on Beverly Hills Cop 4 with Eddie Murphy.

If a sentence has ever convinced me that cinema is dead, this is the one.