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Where does he get all those wonderful toys?! I get Candy Land. I get Battleship. I even get View-Master. But Erector Set: The Movie? (EW) Hugh Jackman’s Avon Man finds Enchanted director. (Variety) Wuthering Heights is set to be Twilight-ified. No joke. (Deadline) NBC, desperate to find hour-longs for the 10 p.m. time slot, settles [...]
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS, AVON MAN, ERECTOR SET, and more in your Thursday morning News Links
Posted by TheFilmChair on February 18th, 2010
Posted in The Pictures 
Tags: avon man, erector set, hugh jackman, steven spielberg, twilight, wuthering heights 
No Comments »NEW MOON opens to $140 million, THE BLIND SIDE opens big
Posted by TheFilmChair on November 23rd, 2009
New Moon sparkled like a vampire in the daylight this weekend, taking in $140.7 million at the domestic box office. That’s enough to give The Twilight Saga: New Moon the third biggest opening of all-time, behind The Dark Knight ($158m) and Spider-Man 3 ($151m). The film is on pace to beat Twilight‘s $192 million total [...]
$72.7 million for NEW MOON. Breaks midnight, single day, and Friday records.
Posted by TheFilmChair on November 21st, 2009
UPDATE: The official numbers put The Twilight Saga: New Moon at $72.7 million for it’s opening day. Still the biggest single day and Friday grosses ever. Sorry, Dark Knight fans. EARLIER: Well, I said The Twilight Saga: New Moon was going to be big, but I never thought it would be this big. Nikki over [...]
NEW MOON the #1 pre-release title in Fandango history
Posted by TheFilmChair on November 16th, 2009
If you’re wondering how big The Twilight Saga: New Moon will be when it hits theaters this weekend, well, it’s gonna be BIG. Fandango announced that New Moon is now the top-selling pre-release title in the company’s 10-year history. That’s bigger than Star Wars: Episode III. Bigger than the latest Harry Potter. And yes, bigger [...]
Diablo does Sweet Valley – TFC Morning Report
Posted by TheFilmChair on September 23rd, 2009
Top Story: Universal has figured out a way to get me to see a Sweet Valley High movie. The studio is negotiating for the rights to the book series and plans to have Academy Award winner Diablo Cody (love saying that) adapt and produce. (THR) In Other News: David Fincher has added three friends to [...]
Dr. Seuss’ Lorax headed for the big screen – TFC Morning Report
Posted by TheFilmChair on July 29th, 2009
Top Story: Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment are planning a 3D CG animated feature of based on Dr. Seuss’ children’s classic The Lorax. Universal had previously distributed two live-action Seuss adaptations, but this will be the first time the studio jumps into animation territory. It will be the second major CG animation based on a [...]
Hardwicke to direct Hirsch in Hamlet
Posted by TheFilmChair on June 2nd, 2009
Variety is reporting that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke will direct Emile Hirsch in an modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Hardwicke directing Hamlet strikes me as the perfect creative follow up to her disturbing Stephenie Meyer adaptation. Now, that’s not a dig at Meyer suggesting that the author is no Shakespeare (which she is not). But [...]
Posted in Random Tags: catherine hardwicke, emile hirsch, hamlet, ophelia, thirteen, twilight No Comments »Chace Crawford officially set for Footloose – TFC Morning Report
Posted by TheFilmChair on May 20th, 2009
Top Story: Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford has put pen to paper, signing on to star in the Footloose remake. Rumors about Crawford’s casting have circulated for weeks, but Crawford hadn’t officially joined until yesterday. He will take on a role that was originally filled by Zac Efron. When Efron passed director Kenny Ortega and Paramount [...]
Posted in Random Tags: breaking dawn, chace crawford, eric, footloose, francois ozon, ghostbusters 3, ifc films, ken loach, kenny ortega, paramount, ricky, robert pattinson, twilight, zac efron No Comments »TFC Morning Report – Thursday, April 23, 2009 – David Slade gets Twilight Saga gig
Posted by TheFilmChair on April 23rd, 2009
Top Story: Someone at Summit Entertainment is freaking crazy because they hired Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night director David Slade to helm The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. If this is an attempt to get non-Twilighters to see the movie, it will fail. Not only is the hardcore Slade a piss poor choice for this [...]
Posted in Random Tags: barney's version, broken embraces, cannes, clark gregg, david slade, eclipse, inglourious basterds, iron man 2, issac asimov, kate mara, kevin macdonald, new regency, paul giamatti, richard j. lewis, robert lantos, summit entertainment, the end of eternity, twilight, woodstock No Comments »TFC Morning Report – Wednesday, March 11, 2009 – Disney moves up Princess and the Frog
Posted by TheFilmChair on March 11th, 2009
Top Story: Disney has moved up the release of the first traditionally animated musical of the Pixar era. Instead of a Christmas Day opening, The Princess and the Frog will go wide on Dec. 11 after a NY-LA release on Nov. 25. The new date avoids head to head competition with the Alvin and the [...]
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