File this under “I’ll believe it when I see it.”
Star Wars creator George Lucas said that he is planning to retire – from making big budget movies. He made this claim after production for his new movie Red Tail ended.
According to Lucas, “I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.” [Read more…]
Piracy of music and movies is becoming more rampant. In fact, it is so prevalent that people are now issuing year-end lists on piracy – it’s that significant.
TorrentFreak, a popular Bittorrent news site, has recently listed the most pirated films of 2011. According to the TorrentFreak list, the most downloaded (pirated) movie that was released last year was Fast Five, the fifth installment in the Fast and The Furious series of movies. [Read more…]
A few weeks ago, it was announced that Sony got the rights to make a movie out of Walter Isaacson’s official biography on Steve Jobs. The latest news on the Steve Jobs biopic is that Aaron Sorkin, the scriptwriter who wrote the award-winning The Social Network is being offered the project. [Read more…]
One of the biggest news in Hollywood lately was Sony’s announcement that it has acquired the rights to make an Assassin’s Creed movie. It was big news because Assassin’s Creed is one of the hottest video game properties right now and it is a property that has been hotly fought over by various movie studios – among them, Dreamworks, Universal and Warner Bros. Sony getting the rights is big news indeed.
But more than the acquisition of a hot property, Hollywood is all abuzz because the terms of the agreement is just coming to light, and it’s one that Hollywood insiders are not comfortable with, to say the least. [Read more…]
Director George Sluizer has plans to enlist Joaquin Phoenix to help finish the last movie brother River Phoenix was working on before his untimely death in 1993.
When he died of drug-related heart failure, River Phoenix was working on a drama called “Dark Blood” for Sluizer. It tells the story of a desert hermit living near a nuclear testing site waiting for the world to end. When a Hollywood couple on a driving honeymoon breaks down nearby, Phoenix’s character “Boy” takes them prisoner because he desires the woman and wants to create a better world with her, according to an IMDB summary.
Sluizer – who directed the Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland psychological thriller “The Vanishing” – told The Hollywood Reporter he still has the original film footage from “Dark Blood” and has re-edited it. Sluizer said he believes with some voice over work he can deliver a final version to be released next year.
He plans on asking River Phoenix’s brother Joaquin to assist. “The voices of both brothers are very much alike,” Sluizer, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Before his death at 23, River Phoenix had roles in 24 movies. In honor of his return to the silver screen, here’s a list of favorite performances:
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