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The Les Miserables and X-Men superstar, Hugh Jackman, was cast in his first new role since his Oscar nomination. The actor was just cast in Paramount’s newest project Six Years, based on a novel by New York Times Bestselling author, Harlan Coben. Jackman, a man of many talents, is certainly in high demand these days, so Six Years must be something special.
You probably haven’t heard of Coben’s latest book because it just hit bookstores today. | Full Story
According to TheWrap.com, Sacha Baron Cohen and his production company, Four by Two, will develop a new film for Paramount Pictures entitled The Lesbian. The idea stemmed from recent press surrounding a billionaire from Hong Kong who was willing to pay $65 million to any man who could land his daughter’s hand in marriage. The only catch? She’s a lesbian who recently married her longtime partner in Paris. Good luck gentlemen, your work is cut out for you. | Full Story
A reboot of the Ninja Turtle franchise has been shut down by Paramount, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter. Apparently the film was in pre-production in Vancouver when a stop work order was issued by studio execs.
An unsatisfactory script was the reason given in the report for pulling the plug. Now, pre-production staff has been temporarily laid off and informed that work stoppage was “indefinite.” However, another source told the THR the project, initially scheduled for a December 2013 release, has been pushed back to May 2014. | Full Story
A 26-year-old movie extra and aspiring actress, who was critically injured while filming Transformers 3, has won a $18.5 million settlement from Paramount.
Gabriella Cedillo, then 24, suffered a serious brain injury while appearing in the background of an action sequence in the city of Hammond Indiana, on September 1, 2010 for Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
The young woman was driving her own vehicle in the background of a scene when a cable snapped and plunged through her windshield — striking her in the head. | Full Story
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has signed on to play the lead role in the screen play adaptation of IDW Publishing’s graphic novel, Lore, written by Ashley Wood and T.P. Louise.
Bidding wars have begun between Warner Bros, Paramount, and Sony for rights to the sci-fi film. However, it appears that Warner Bros. may have an edge over the other two production companies, due to the fact they’ve already closed the deal for the rights to the book. | Full Story
Sacha Baron Cohen wants to show up at The Oscars this year as General Aladeen, his role from his upcoming movie The Dictator.
The actor reached out to Paramount about attending the prestigious ceremony as the sex-crazed dictator, but the studio nor the Academy responded to Cohen’s shenanigans.
This isn’t the first time the movie star attempted to prank the Oscars. In 2010, Cohen devised a sketch which was suppose to feature Borat dressed as an Avatar while carrying director James Cameron’s love-child, but it obviously didn’t make the cut. | Full Story
What is Tom Cruise doing?? His own stunts, that’s what! Cruise has no problem scaling the tallest building in the world, in the name of actors doing their own stunts, for the new movie Impossible Ghost Protocol. As you will see in the video below Cruise runs up, down, across and jumps out the window of the record-setting Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It was a bit concerning to see Cruise running around doing his own stunts on the side of the building like a tree animal. | Full Story
Breaking News: John Singleton sues Paramount for going back on a ‘Hustle and Flow’ two picture deal. According to The Hollywood Reporter John Singleton who was the producer of the 2005 breakout hit ‘Hustle and Flow,’ has filed suit today saying that he signed a $9 million dollar deal with Paramount with the promise to produce two more films, as long as the budget didn’t exceed $3.5 million each. An additional clause of the agreements stated that producing fees couldn’t be higher than 7.5 percent. | Full Story
Oooh lookie here: Eddie Murphy’s “A Thousand Words” gets new release date. Paramount makes a strategic move by pushing Eddie Murphy’s Comedy ‘A Thousand Words’ back. Before the release date was January 13. 2012, now its been pushed to March 23, 2012 that’s less than a month after the Academy Awards which Murphy will be hosting.
Perhaps Paramount is planning on riding the wave of Murphy’s hosting the Oscars, only to put it up against Lionsgate ‘s highly anticipated teen novels-turned-movie ‘The Hunger Games’
Paramount has not yet released a trailer or poster for “A Thousand Words”
More films Paramount has coming soon:
‘Footloose’ Oct 14, 2011
‘Hugo’ Nov 23, 2011
‘The Adventures of Tin Tin’ Dec 23, 2011
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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