Tag: David Fincher
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‘The King’s Speech’ wins top prize at Oscars
Tom Hooper’s British period drama, “The King’s Speech” won the Academy Award for Best Picture Sunday, the film industry’s most coveted prize. Hooper also won top honors in the category of Direction,...
Mar 1, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongNIN’s Trent Reznor Scoring Fincher’s ‘The Social Network’
When it was first announced that David Fincher, the man behind pitch black films like “Se7en,” “Fight Club” and “Zodiac,” would be turning his attention to the story of how Facebook was developed it...
Jul 2, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongFox Also Developing a ‘20,000 Leagues’ Movie; Ridley and Tony Scott Attached
Hollywood is notorious for its bandwagon tendencies. Notice how many vampire flicks surfaced immediately following the success of the “Twilight” films? This time around the trend centers on Jules...
May 17, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongDavid Fincher to Direct a ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Update in the Vein of ‘Star Wars’
With Hollywood mining comic books, toys, board games and established film and pop-culture properties like there’s no tomorrow, it was only a matter of time before Captain Nemo and his Nautilus would...
May 15, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong2010 Oscar Nominations: 82nd Annual Academy Awards
James Cameron’s juggernaut, “Avatar,” continued its dominance this week picking up a leading 9 Oscar nominations. That number is matched only by one other film, the little Iraq-war thriller, “The...
Feb 2, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Black List 2009: Most Popular Unproduced Scripts
The Black List is a famous Hollywood list of the best, or at least most popular, screenplays “compiled every year from the suggestions of 311 film executives, each contributes the names of up to ten...
Dec 12, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFincher to Adapt ‘House of Cards’
David Fincher, director of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Zodiac,” and “Fight Club,” has teamed with Media Rights Capital to adapt the popular British miniseries, “House of Cards,” for...
Oct 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMegan Fox is Catwoman? Not So Fast
The Sun, a British tabloid, announced Wednesday that they had the scoop on a bit of casting news for Christopher Nolan’s followup to the unimaginably successful, “The Dark Knight,” for Warner Bros....
Aug 26, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongNatalie Portman Gets ‘Booksmart’
Natalie Portman will add another project to her already full plate with Fox’s high school comedy, “Booksmart.” Variety reports that Portman will produce that juvenile comedy concerning “two...
Aug 13, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #17 – Public Enemies, Moon
Michael Mann’s highly anticipated depression-era gangster flick, “Public Enemies” gets the TMA FilmCast treatment this week. Does Mann’s foray into the controversies of digital video pay off, or...
Aug 5, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRidley Scott’s ‘Alien’ Prequel Takes Off
It’s official. Ridley Scott is returning to the “Alien” franchise to direct a prequel for Twentieth Century Fox, reports Variety . Jon Spaihts has been hired to pen the script which Scott Free will...
Jul 30, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongWashington Back on Track For Scott’s ‘Unstoppable’
Tony Scott’s new drama with Fox, “Unstoppable,” hit a snag a couple of weeks ago when long-time collaborator, Denzel Washington, pulled out of the project. But it looks like the film may just live up...
Jul 23, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDefiance (2008)
This week I decided to pick up “Defiance,” the true story of Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Russia who build a village in the forest and save thousands of persecuted Jews while fighting against the...
Jul 14, 2009 / Brian GraySony Wants to Make ‘Moneyball’ Without Soderbergh
We reported almost a month ago that Sony’s Amy Pascal had scrapped Steven Soderbergh’s “Moneyball” only 96 hours before shooting was scheduled to begin. It turns out that the studio still wants to...
Jul 9, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDavid Fincher in Talks to Direct Facebook Movie
David Fincher, director of “Fight Club,” “Se7en,” and “Zodiac,” is in advanced talks with Columbia Pictures to direct Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay about the formation of Facebook called, “The Social...
Jun 24, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
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