First Images from PASSION PLAY and RABBIT HOLE; Starring Mickey Rourke, Megan...
Continuing on the journey of first look images, after the jump you can check out the first images from writer-director Mitch Glazer's Passion Play and director John Cameron Mitchell's (Shortbus, Hedwig...
View ArticleMark Boal to Produce and Possibly Write Film about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
Screenwriter Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) and financier Megan Ellison have optioned the rights to a New York Times Magazine piece about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The story was written by Times...
View ArticlePaul Thomas Anderson Close to Financing for His Scientology Film and an...
If you’ve been yearning for a new Paul Thomas Anderson film like the rest of us cinephiles, we’ve got some very good news for you. It looks like billionaire heiress Megan Ellison (daughter of Oracle...
View ArticleMegan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures Picks up Untitled Spike Jonze-Charlie...
Producer Megan Ellison has recently been proving herself to be the patron saint of film nerds. In addition to backing Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Inherent Vice and his untitled Scientology...
View ArticleDoes Osama Bin Laden’s Death Help or Hinder Kathryn Bigelow’s KILL BIN LADEN?...
First off, a little perspective: I am aware that the extent to which the long-awaited death of Osama Bin Laden affects movies is miniscule compared to the closure and sense of justice that death...
View ArticleMegan Ellison Enters Bidding War with Lionsgate for TERMINATOR Rights
Producer Megan Ellison and her Annapurna Pictures have entered a bidding war with Lionsgate over the rights to the Terminator franchise. As you may recall, Ellison previously has set her production...
View ArticleMegan Ellison Beats Out Lionsgate for TERMINATOR Rights
Lionsgate has missed out on the rights to The Terminator franchise again. After losing the bidding war to Pacificor back in February 2010, the rights went back up for sale at Cannes and Lionsgate once...
View ArticleColumbia Pictures Lands Domestic Rights to Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s...
Columbia Pictures has acquired domestic rights to Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's (The Hurt Locker) next movie, which has the working title Kill Bin Laden. The press release says, "the film focuses on...
View ArticleTERMINATOR Reboot Rumors: STAR TREK-Style Alternate Timeline? Paul Walker as...
Arnold Schwarzenegger put his acting career on hold when it was discovered he had a in-no-way-surprising secret love child with his housekeeper. That threw a wrench into Justin Lin's Terminator 5 but...
View ArticleFAST AND FURIOUS 6 Conflict Prompts Director Justin Lin to Leave TERMINATOR 5
Although Director Justin Lin (Fast Five) is still enthusiastic about the Terminator reboot, a scheduling conflict has arisen that may temporarily terminate his involvement. The Terminator franchise...
View ArticleChris Milk to Direct Movie Based on Danger Mouse Album ROME and THE REAPERS...
The concept behind this summer's Danger Mouse album Rome was a neat one, especially for Collider readers. Danger Mouse and Italian composer Daniele Luppi were inspired by the music from spaghetti...
View ArticleTERMINATOR 5 Will Be Rated R
Though Terminator 5 is currently without a director or screenwriter, a brief yet relieving update regarding the project was revealed a couple of days ago. Megan Ellison, who holds the rights to...
View ArticleGore Verbinski Provides Updates on THE LONE RANGER, SPACELESS, CLUE, and More
Director Gore Verbinski is currently in New Mexico filming his big-budget adaptation of The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. Depp will play Tonto, the sidekick of the Ranger...
View ArticlePaul Thomas Anderson’s THE MASTER May Open in October
It's been a bit of a long road for Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. The project was pretty much dead until Megan Ellison and her Annapurna Pictures resurrected the film and provided the financing...
View ArticleExclusive: William Monahan Talks SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE Remake &...
A few days ago we reported screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed, Kingdom of Heaven) was going to adapt Park Chan-wook's fantastic 2005 film Sympathy for Lady Vengeance with Charlize Theron set to...
View ArticleProducer David Ellison Joins New TERMINATOR Film
Producer Megan Ellison has been plenty busy financing films like The Master, Killing Them Softly, and Zero Dark Thirty through her Annapurna Pictures banner, so you’d be forgiven for forgetting that...
View ArticleLaeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier to Pen New TERMINATOR Movie
The new Terminator film has taken another step forward closer to production. Last month we learned that Megan Ellison’s brother, David Ellison, had come aboard the project to co-produce the next...
View ArticleParamount in Talks to Distribute Next TERMINATOR Film
Moves are being made with regards to the next Terminator film. If you’ll recall, the rights to the franchise were put up for auction in 2011, at which point Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures picked...
View ArticleNew TERMINATOR TV Series in the Works; Will Tie into Feature Film Reboot
Prepare for plenty of Terminator goodness over the next few years. Annapurna Pictures and Paramount Pictures are currently developing a feature film reboot of the franchise to be directed by Thor: The...
View ArticleAre Annapurna Pictures and Megan Ellison Developing a STARSHIP TROOPERS Reboot?
In 1959, Robert Heinlein's controversial novel Starship Troopers debuted on bookshelves. Nearly 40 years later, Paul Verhoeven's 1997 satirical take became a cult hit and landed an Oscar nomination....
View ArticleZERO DARK THIRTY Director Kathryn Bigelow and Writer Mark Boal Developing...
Well this is sure to ruffle some feathers. Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, the filmmaking team behind the Oscar-winning war drama The Hurt Locker and the tremendous post-9/11...
View ArticleTHE REVENANT, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, Gets Christmas 2015...
While many are eagerly anticipating director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s excellent-looking Birdman, which hits theaters this October, the filmmaker is already busy prepping his next feature, The...
View ArticleFilming Begins on Richard Linklater’s THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT; Logo...
As Richard Linklater’s groundbreaking Boyhood looks poised to be a serious awards contender this year, the director has already started production on his next film. That’s What I’m Talking About is...
View ArticleClassic Todd Solondz Movie WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE Gets Followed Up By...
Welcome to the Dollhouse was a funny, but emotionally brutalizing calling card for director Todd Solondz back in 1996 (it paved the way for the even more brutal Happiness). So I'm sort of circumspect...
View ArticleBennett Miller Talks FOXCATCHER, His 4 Hour and 15 Minute First Cut,...
Now playing in limited release is one of my favorite films of 2014: director Bennett Miller's (Moneyball, Capote) Foxcatcher. With career best performances and phenomenal direction, the film tells the...
View ArticleAnnapurna Pictures and Vice to Produce A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT...
Filmmaker Ana Lily Armipour has been receiving acclaim ever since her Iranian vampire fairytale A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night premiered at Sundance last year, and she’s found a pair of fitting...
View ArticleRichard Linklater in Talks to Direct WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE
Well here’s some fantastic news to brighten up your Wednesday. Coming off his masterpiece Boyhood and with his next film, the college comedy That’s What I’m Talking About, already in the can, filmmaker...
View ArticleKathryn Bigelow Settles on Bowe Bergdahl Pic as Next Feature
Last year, Kathryn Bigelow signed on to direct The True American and an untitled Bowe Bergdahl picture. These were in addition to her long-gestating film about the South American drug trade, Triple...
View Article‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Scribe Mark Boal Teaming with Megan Ellison for 2016...
If someone wrote the 2016 Presidential Election—from primaries up through inauguration—as a screenplay, it’d be turned down as being too far-fetched. Indeed, “stranger than fiction” often makes for...
View ArticleExclusive: Harvey Weinstein Movie Based on NY Times Reporting Taps ‘Colette’...
Annapurna and Plan B have hired Colette scribe Rebecca Lenkiewicz to write the script for a Spotlight-esque movie about the New York Times' investigation into serial abuser Harvey Weinstein, Collider...
View ArticleAmy Adams to Star in Dark Comedy ‘Nightbitch’— And Wait ‘Til You Hear the...
Amy Adams is teaming with Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures to produce an adaptation of Rachel Yoder's upcoming novel Nightbitch that will be developed as a starring vehicle for the six-time...
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