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• Did You Know: Hot Rod Was Written For Will Farrell?

  Published: July 24, 2007, 10:37 pm

  Tags: Paramount Pictures, Comedy, Casting, Screenwriting, Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, Hot Rod, Jorma Taccone, Pam Brady

  Did You Know: Hot Rod was actually written for Will Farrell? We met with The Lonely Island Boys Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer earlier today and they shared with us the following story: This woman Pam Brady had written it. She had written for the South Park series, then she co-wrote the South Park movie, co-wrote Team America

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• Four New Vince Vaughn Projects

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:09 pm

  Tags: New Line, Universal, Deals, Romance, Casting, Comedy, Screenwriting, Four Christmases, Jon Favreau, Male Doula, Realtors, Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn

  Vince Vaughn is “soooo Money.” According to Variety, the actor has signed a first-look two-year deal with Universal to produce three features as potential starring vehicles. The three Universal projects include: Male Doula: A high-concept comedy to be scripted by Dana Fox (The Wedding Date). An Untitled Jon Favreau Comedy: A comedy

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• I Am Legend Sequel?

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:59 pm

  Tags: Sci Fi Fantasy, Warner Brothers, Adaptation, Horror, Action Adventure, Rumors, Sequels Remakes, Screenwriting, I Am Legend, I Am Legend 2, Mark Protosevich, Richard Matheson, Will Smith

  I Am Legend screenwriter Mark Protosevich is already talking about a potential sequel. The LA Times writes: “There is no word yet on how Protosevich plans to extend the story of lone military scientist Robert Neville’s struggle to survive against a mutant populace. But it’s a good bet that he’s setting it at least 10 years

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• Roger Avary to make Return to Castle Wolfenstein Movie

  Published: August 3, 2007, 11:28 am

  Tags: Thriller, Deals, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Video Game, Screenwriting, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, Roger Avary

  Many of you might not remember this but, before Quake, Before Doom, there was Wolfenstein 3D - considered to be the first first person shooter video gameof all time. It’s even more popular sequel, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, was released in November 2001. And now Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary is set to write and direct a feature film

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• A Guide to Recognizing Your Street Fighting

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Deals, Drama, Action Adventure, Casting, Screenwriting, Channing Tatum, Dito Montiel

  A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints director Dito Montiel and star Channing Tatum have signed on to reteam for an untitled feature film about underground street fighting for Rogue. According to Variety, “Tatum will play a young man scraping a living scalping tickets in Gotham who becomes involved in the underground sport after a chance

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• Renewed Interest in Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:01 am

  Tags: Adaptation, Drama, Comedy, Rumors, Screenwriting, Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, Jesse Peyronel

  Chuck Palahniuk is my favorite author. You can probably tell by the extensive coverage I’ve given the various movie adaptations in development. Most of you will know Chuck as the author of Fight Club. Invisible Monsters was published after that success in 1999. Following the success of Swimming Out to Holly, a short film that played at the

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• JJ Abrams sells Mysterious Supernatural Thriller Pitch to Paramount

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:15 am

  Tags: Thriller, Deals, Paramount Pictures, Sci Fi Fantasy, Mystery Suspense, Action Adventure, Horror, Screenwriting, Cloverfield, Jj Abrams, Josh Marston

  JJ Abrams has sold a pitch for a new supernatural thriller to be written and directed by Maria Full of Grace filmmaker Josh Marston. The yet-to-be-titled-film will be produced under JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot production company, which means - we don’t know and won’t know shit for a long while. That’s right, yet another film

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• EXCLUSIVE: Zak Penn Confirms to Cinematical That Edward Norton is Now Writing 'The Incredible Hulk'

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:02 am

  Tags: Cinematical, Edward Norton, Edwardnorton, Film, Movies, Screenwriting, The Incredible Hulk, Zak Penn

  Fandom, Scripts & Screenwriting, DIY/Filmmaking, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and SequelsI was just as surprised as everyone else was when, during ComicCon, Edward Norton apparently announced that he was all of a sudden writing the screenplay for next summer's The Incredible Hulk. We all knew Norton possessed tremendous talent apart

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• Christopher Walken makes Five Dollars a Day

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:27 am

  Tags: Thinkfilm, Drama, Comedy, Casting, Screenwriting, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Walken, Five Dollars Day, Nigel Cole

  Christopher Walken and Alessandro Nivola have signed on to star in Nigel Cole’s (Calendar Girls, Saving Grace, A Lot Like Love) road-trip caper film Five Dollars a Day. The film actually has an interesting premise: Walken will play a conman proud of living like a king on $5 a day who reunited with his son Nivola, who had been jailed for one

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• 166 Screenplay Drafts of The Simpsons Movie

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:15 am

  Tags: 20th Century Fox, Television, Family Films, Comedy, Animation, Screenwriting, James L Brooks, The Simpsons Movie

  According to DH, Simpsons Producer/Writer James L. Brooks claims that there was 166 drafts of The Simpsons Movie screenplay. Is that a new record for Hollywood?

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• Fox Prepares for Live-Action Voltron Movie

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:43 am

  Tags: 20th Century Fox, Television, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Comic Book Superhero, Screenwriting, Justin Marks, Voltron

  The 20th Century Fox-based production company New Regency is close to a deal with the Mark Gordon Company to bring Voltron: Defender of the Universe the the big screen. The live-action project was in development since 2004. Interest likely skyrocketed after the huge popularity of Michael Bay’s Transformers. The popular 1980’s japanese

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• Shoot Em Up Sequel?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 2:51 am

  Tags: New Line, Comedy, Action Adventure, Sequels Remakes, Screenwriting, Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Shoot Em Up, Shoot Em Up 2

  Shoot ‘Em Up hasn’t even been released and yet they’re already talking about a potential sequel. Not only are they talking about it, but ComingSoon found out that writer/director Michael Davis has already written the script. “I’ve written another crazy wild funny action script that could be ‘Shoot ‘Em

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• Howard Stern's Porky's gets a Green Light?

  Published: August 14, 2007, 2:31 am

  Tags: Teen, Comedy, Sequels Remakes, Rumors, Screenwriting, Howard Stern, Howard Sterns Porkys

  Howard Stern has been hard at work on a remake of the cult teen comedy film Porky’s. Last week Stern took a vacation from his daily Sirius Satellite Radio Show and worked on the film project which the Shock Jock now claims is “ready to go.” “They say it’s all greenlit and everything, ready to go. They say they can

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• The Truth Behind Edward Norton's Hulk Screenplay

  Published: August 15, 2007, 8:14 pm

  Tags: Sci Fi Fantasy, Universal, Drama, Action Adventure, Sequels Remakes, Comic Book Superhero, Screenwriting, Edward Norton, The Incredible Hulk, Zak Penn

  News broke at Comic-Con 2007 that actor Edward Norton wrote the script for The Incredible Hulk. It was an announcement that virtually shocked everyone. The production had announced that X3 screenwriter Zak Penn had written a script long ago. Thankfully now the Los Angeles Times has connected the dots. The newspaper explains that Penn had been

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• Justice League of America Movie in 2008?

  Published: August 20, 2007, 3:06 am

  Tags: Action Adventure, Warner Brothers, Comic Book Superhero, Sequels Remakes, Rumors, Screenwriting, Brandon Routh, Bryan Singer, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Justice League Of America

  Our friends at IESB are reporting that a screenplay for the proposed Justice League of America movie is finished, and has been warmly received at Warner Bros. I always believed that the film wouldn’t happen until the Superman and Batman franchises started to die down. My theory being: why waste two superheros in one movie when you could

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