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5 A-List Casting Items that No Legitimate News Organization Would've Reported At This Stage in Development Five Years Ago

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (13)

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  • Per annual tradition, Steven Spielberg is dragging up the fossils of the Jurassic Park franchise again, meeting with a writer (Mark Protosevich) and tossing around ideas for a fourth film. It’s in the early stages, no writer is even attached, and the studio hasn’t even committed to making the movie, but in the movie blog world, all we need is a whisper and it’s NEWS! If it’s a slow news week in June, we don’t even need a whisper. We can hear it telepathically. Stamp it. Forty-seven other websites already have. (THR)

  • Deadline is reporting that James Mangold (Knight and Day, 3:10 to Yuma, Walk the Line) has been offered the director’s chair for the Wolverine sequel, after Darren Aronovsky walked away. Note that this is only an offer, and that negotiations haven’t even begun yet. Screw it. Stamp a seal on it. This is NEWS! according to at least 40 other sites.

  • Deadline’s Nikki Finke, who is apparently losing her hold on the trade news world and grasping desperately for relevance, is also reporting that Paul Feig’s (Bridesmaids) new pitch — which has been purchased by the studio and will be produced by Judd Apatow — is unconventional love story about a guy who becomes obsessed with a woman. The guy is apparently good looking, and the woman is apparently overweight. Naturally, Nikki Finke reports that it’ll probably be Jon Hamm and Melissa McCarthy, though no negotiations have begun and there’s probably no script. But, it sounds logical, right? Therefore, stamp it: NEWS! Fifteen other sites have already!

  • Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have taken a pass on a script that’s exchanged quite a few hands in Hollywood in recent years. The movie, called Neighborhood Watch, is about “an urbanite who gets more than he bargains for — in the form of extraterrestrial activity — when he moves to the suburbs and joins the neighborhood watch.” Apparently, the project has been offered to Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer to direct, and though he has not signed on, Ben Stiller may be interested in the movie. Note, however, he’s also interested in several other projects (including a remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty). But hey! Blood in the water! Stamp it: NEWS! Why not? 32 other sites have. (LA Times)

  • The idea of a remake of the 2006 French film Tell No One (great movie) has been bouncing around for a few years. Two years ago, the remake rights were purchased. Now Chris Terrio has been assigned to pen the script. Chris Terrio wrote Argo, the film that Ben Affleck is currently directing, ergo Ben Affleck is attached to direct Tell No One. Given the number of projects that Ben Affleck is attached to now, and will likely be attached to over the next year, will he ultimately make Tell No One? Probably not. But who cares? Stamp it: NEWS! It must be, 50 other sites have reported it! Thanks, Nikki Finke. (Deadline)










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    Comments

    Please tell me this news about Penn Badgley being cast as Jeff Buckley is false. My friend woke me up with a text and a link to Perez Hilton's site (I don't trust that piece of shit), but I still freaked out quite a bit.

    Posted by: Mel C. at June 16, 2011 11:15 AM

    • This is why I love you, Dustin.

    I had the revelation yesterday, after reading about five rumors circling around The Dark Knight Rises, that the internet is a 13-year-old middle school princess with unlimited texting.

    And Pajiba is the 17-year-old who's too cool for school, smokes, and drives a beaten up, red convertible Firebird.

    Posted by: RobP at June 16, 2011 11:19 AM

    Where I'm from, we call those Firebirds "burning chicken cars".

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at June 16, 2011 11:33 AM

    Please dear god, no more Jurassic Parks.

    Please dear god, no more Wolvy director rumors.

    Please dear god, tell Judd about the concept of over-exposure

    and tell Seth that too.

    leave Ben out of that loop

    Posted by: Protoguy at June 16, 2011 11:35 AM

    Ha. I love hearing about trade news as much as the next guy but I am getting tired of these kind of stories. Other sites put anything up. Half their titles end with a question mark.

    "Is such and such circling Spielberg's Next Project?" Come on just tell us when it officially goes down.

    P.S. Thanks for not writing about the Dark Knight Rises spoiler that's been going around.

    Posted by: junierizzle at June 16, 2011 11:54 AM

    I'm hoping Ben Affleck takes on "Moonlight Mile", the recently released sequel to "Gone Baby Gone", in the next few years. Let the actors age a bit first though.

    Posted by: TylerDFC at June 16, 2011 12:10 PM

    I'll take any trade news, confirmed or not, just to see a picture of Jon Hamm.

    ...just saying...

    Posted by: SugarKane at June 16, 2011 12:21 PM

    Oh, Pajiba. This is why I love you.

    Posted by: ChristianH at June 16, 2011 12:24 PM

    "screaming chicken car" around here

    Speilberg might be an "executive producer" on a Jurassic park movie but he's not actually gonna do one himself. "Executive producer" means he gets money for doing like 3 meetings and a lunch.

    Posted by: logan at June 16, 2011 12:45 PM

    I thought Tell No One was crap. Didn't engage me at all. Heard the book was good though.

    Posted by: Drea at June 16, 2011 5:55 PM

    ...is [an] unconventional love story about a guy who becomes obsessed with a woman. The guy is apparently good looking, and the woman is apparently overweight.

    Oh my god, that's SO edgy! It's edgy because we all know the handsome guy would never be interested in the fat chick. *eye roll*

    Posted by: snapnhiss at June 16, 2011 8:16 PM

    snapnhiss: What's your solution -- not make the movie and continue to watch typical conventional Hollywood schlock? Where everyone looks the same? Noting the fact that it is unconventional to have an overweight leading lady isn't a slight or a dig -- it's just the way it is. Snarking about it won't usher in any change from the norm.

    Posted by: elizalegs at June 18, 2011 2:22 PM

    Nice subject great exececution on your site

    Posted by: submissive at June 29, 2011 10:32 AM