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Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment is setting up to remake Ghost Graduation, a Spanish comedy, at Fox.
Overbrook, which is run by Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz, finished its deal Friday. Now, they’re looking for a writer to pen the project.
The plot is centered on Modesto, a high school teacher who sees the spirit of deceased people. This spookiness has caused him to get fired from every teaching job he has ever had and also ran-up his tab sky high at his shrink’s office. | Full Story
Will Smith and Denzel Washington could team up like Sydney Poitier and Bill Cosby for the remake of Uptown Saturday Night.
Adam McKay is currently in negotiations to direct Uptown Saturday Night, the Warner Bros remake that the studio is trying to get the two A-list actors to star in.
The original Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 comedy directed by Poitier, and written by Richard Wesley. The film starred Cosby and Poitier as friends who visit an illegal nightclub, and while there, the two are robbed for their wallets by thieves. | Full Story
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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