Len Wiseman in final talks to direct "Total Recall"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

Is Hollywood running out of ideas? One would think so, as another movie remake is set to roll!

Columbia Pictures' remake of the 1990 sci-fi actioner "Total Recall" has found a director for the job. "Underworld" director Len Wiseman is in final talks to direct the remake.

An announcement by Columbia's co-presidents, Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, described the remake as "contemporized adaptation of Total Recall, which was based on the story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick".

Tolmach was also quoted as saying,"Len has an incredible love of the genre and a great gift for action," said Col prexy Matt Tolmach, who will oversee the project with Sam Dickerman. "He'll bring a contemporary feel to the film while taking care with everything we love about (the) original story."

Kurt Wimmer "Salt" is writing the screenplay. Neal Moritz will produce through his Original Film banner.

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Rihanna's on board Universal's "Battleship"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

Singer-songwriter Rihanna is set to make her big screen debut starring in director Peter Berg's live-actioner "Battleship."

Universal announced yesterday that Rihanna will play the female lead, and starring alongside Alexander Skarsgard "True Blood" and Taylor Kitsch "Friday Night Lights". Kitsch will play a naval officer, and Skarsgard plays the brother of the naval officer. Rihanna's role in the movie is yet unknown.

Berg, who directed movie such as "Friday Night Lights", "The Kingdom", "Hancock", will direct from the script written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, based on Hasbro's naval combat board game.

Berg will produce "Battleship" with his Film 44 partner Sarah Aubrey, and alongside Hasbro's Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir, Stuber Pictures' Scott Stuber.

Movie is set to be released by Universal on the 25th of May, 2012.

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Box Office July 23-25 Results

1 Inception - $43,505,000
2 Salt - $36,500,000
3 Despicable Me - $24,100,000
4 The Sorcerer's Apprentice - $9,685,000
5 Toy Story 3 - $9,030,000
6 Ramona and Beezus - $8,000,000
7 Grown Ups - $7,600,000
8 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - $7,033,000
9 The Last Airbender - $4,173,000
10 Predators - $2,850,000

Source: Boxoffice.com
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Box Office July 24-25 Results (Japan)

1 INCEPTION - WB
2 Karigurashi No Arrietty (JPN.Animation) - Toho
3 TOY STORY 3 - Disney
4 Bayside Shakedown 3 Set The Guys Loose! (JPN.) - Toho
5 Pikachu The Movie 2010 (JPN.Animation) - Toho
6 THE LAST AIRBENDER - Paramout
7 PREDATORS - FOX
8 Confessions (JPN.) - Toho
9 Sword Of Desperation (JPN.) - Toei
10 Surely Someday (JPN.) - Shochiku

Source: Cinemanavi.co.jp
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Tim Burton to develop and direct "Monsterpocalypse"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

DreamWorks comfirmed that Tim Burton is on board to develop and direct the feature adaptation of Monsterpocalypse board game, which the studio acquired the filming rights in May 2010.

Burton's frequent screenwriting collaborator, John August, is also on board to write the adaptation script which centers on giant robots developed by humans to fight against the invading alien monsters.

Dick Zanuck and Roy Lee are producing "Monsterpocalypse". Matt Wilson, the creator of the board game is also co-producing, while Tarik Heitmann, Gerald Moon and Doug Davison are exec producing.

"Monsterpocalypse" will most probably be released in 3D, though there is no confirmation from DreamWorks as yet.

Movie is set for release at year end of 2012, which DreamWorks will be distributing.

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Box Office July 16-18 Results

1 Inception - $60,400,000
2 Despicable Me - $32,700,000
3 The Sorcerer's Apprentice - $17,373,000
4 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - $13,500,000
5 Toy Story 3 - $11,742,000
6 Grown Ups - $10,000,000
7 The Last Airbender - $7,450,000
8 Predators - $6,800,000
9 Knight and Day - $3,700,000
10 The Karate Kid (2010) - $2,200,000

Source: Boxoffice.com
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Box Office July 9-11 Results

1 Despicable Me - $60,100,000
2 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - $33,400,000
3 Predators - $25,300,000
4 Toy Story 3 - $22,021,000
5 The Last Airbender - $17,150,000
6 Grown Ups - $16,400,000
7 Knight and Day - $7,850,000
8 The Karate Kid (2010) - $5,700,000
9 The A-Team - $1,800,000
10 Cyrus - $1,375,000

Source: Boxoffice.com
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Box Office July 10-11 Results (Japan)

1 TOY STORY 3 - Disney
2 Pikachu The Movie 2010 (JPN.Animation) - Toho
3 Bayside Shakedown 3 Set The Guys Loose! (JPN.) - Toho
4 PREDATORS - FOX
5 Confessions (JPN.) - Toho
6 Sword Of Desperation (JPN.) - Toei
7 THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADEL BLANC-SEC - Asmik Ace
8 Soreike! Anpanman The Blacknose And The Magical Song (JPN.Animation)I - Tokyo Theatre/Media Box
9 SEX AND THE CITY 2 - WB
10 IRON MAN 2 - Paramount

Source: Cinemanavi.co.jp
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Caleb Jones, Nicholas Hoult join "X-Men: First Class"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

Caleb Landry Jones ("The Last Exorcism," "The Social Network") and Nicholas Hoult ("About a Boy," "A Single Man") have joined 20th Century Fox's "X-Men: First Class".

Jones will play Irish mutant Sean Cassidy aka Banshee, who possesses a sonic scream, capable of harming enemies’ auditory systems and causing physical vibrations, and also has the abilty to to fly and hover at the speed of sound.

Hoult will play the young Hank McCoy aka Beast, who possesses superhuman physical strength and agility. Throughout his history, he undergoes progressive transformations to his physiognomy, permanently gaining increasingly animalistic physical characteristics.

Matthew Vaughn ("Stardust," "Kick-Ass") will direct from the script by Jane Goldman based on the original story by Bryan Singer.

The story centers on two young men, Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr, discovering their superhuman powers. They were close friends before they took the names Professor X and Magneto. They worked together with other Mutants to stop a threat to the world, but in the process, a rift opened between them, which leads to the war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.

James MacAvoy stars as Xavier, and Michael Fassbender stars as Lensherr. Alice Eve plays Emma Frost.

Singer will produce the feature alongside Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg.

Shooting is scheduled to begin next month and will be released on June 3, 2011.

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Jeremy Irons stars as chief executive in "Margin Call"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

Jeremy Irons, whose last big screen starring role was in the 2006 fantasy-adventure "Eragon", has signed on to star alongside Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore and Zachary Quinto in J.C. Chandor's Wall Street thriller "Margin Call."

Chandor is making his directorial debut with this thriller, directing from his own script.

In the movie which centers on eight people at a prominent investment bank in a tumultuous 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis, Irons will star as the chief executive of the bank.

Paul Bettany, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Stanley Tucci and Mary McDonnell are also co-starring in the movie.

The movie is now in it's third week of shooting in Gotham.

Quinto, Neal Dodson, Corey Moosa are producing through their Before the Door Pictures banner with Michael Benaroya and Robert Ogden Barnum of Benaroya Pictures, and Joe Jenckes. Kirk D'Amico's Myriad Pictures handling international sales.

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Box Office July 2-5 Results

1 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - $82,500,000
2 The Last Airbender - $53,150,000
3 Toy Story 3 - $42,223,000
4 Grown Ups - $26,500,000
5 Knight and Day - $14,000,000
6 The Karate Kid (2010) - $11,500,000
7 The A-Team - $4,275,000
8 Get Him to the Greek - $1,700,000
9 Shrek Forever After - $1,258,000
10 Cyrus - $1,019,445

Source: Boxoffice.com
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Box Office July 3-4 Results (Japan)

1 Bayside Shakedown 3 Set The Guys Loose! (JPN.) - Toho
2 Confessions (JPN.) - Toho
3 THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADEL BLANC-SEC - Asmik Ace
4 IRON MAN 2 - Paramount
5 SEX AND THE CITY 2 - WB
6 Masked Rider Den-o Trilogy The Movie Episode Yellow (JPN.) - Toei
7 Outrage (JPN.) - WB/Office Kitano
8 THE BOOK OF ELI - Kadokawa/Shochiku
9 ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Disney
10 300 Million (JPN.) - Kadokawa

Source: Cinemanavi.co.jp
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