Jennifer Flackett Tagged Articles at Cinematical
News Bites: Saving the World, Hitchcocks, and Nakedness
Filed under: Action », Comedy », Deals », Scripts », Comic/Superhero/Geek »
The story behind The Greatest American Hero is getting a new spin! The Hollywood Reporter posts that Barry Sonnenfeld is gearing up to direct The How-To Guide for Saving the World, a new action comedy script written by Ben David Grabinski. However, unlike Ralph, this unknowing earthling is "a loser who discovers a book on how to prevent an alien invasion and then has to put that knowledge to use when one actually occurs." I bet the guy wishes he lived back in the '80s, when aliens would provide how-to manuals for dorky yet powerful superhero suits.Meanwhile, "Hitchcock" is getting a whole new spin on the big screen. Variety reports that New Regency has grabbed a pitch by Nim's Island writer/directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett called The Family Hitchcock -- for the pair to write, produce, and direct. The family in question won't gain lots of weight and make shadow art of themselves. Instead, they find themselves in danger when they house-swap with a family in Europe. Man, you can never trust those shifty Europeans!
And finally, Variety reports that we're soon to get another comedy called Naked. As they describe it, the film will focus on "an insurance salesman who vows to run from Santa Monica to Studio City to prove himself to his wife and save their failing marriage." I'm assuming that the word "naked" should be placed after "run," since the piece said that this script is based on Fernando Sabino's The Naked Man. If not, that's definitely not a titillating, or naked-ish, premise.
Review: Nim's Island
Filed under: New Releases », Theatrical Reviews », New in Theaters », Family Films »
It's a good thing Child Protective Services never saw Nim (Abigail Breslin) in action or there wouldn't be any movie. Nim would be quietly toiling away in school, perhaps going to the mall and texting her friends. But in the new PG-rated family film Nim's Island, she climbs trees (and volcanoes), swings through the jungle, cooks dinner using mealworms as a main ingredient, reads adventure stories and talks to animals. Nim's father, Jack (Gerard Butler), is a marine biologist who has set up residence on a remote, South Pacific island to study microorganisms. It's just the two of them, so when Jack goes off on a two-day expedition to find new samples, Nim insists on staying behind. But after a huge storm, Jack is left stranded in the middle of the ocean. And when "pirates" (really tourists) invade the island, and her father fails to return on schedule, Nim gets scared.
New Photos from 'Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D'
Filed under: Action », Classics », New Line », Family Films », Movie Marketing », Images »
So in spite of everything, I have always enjoyed watching Brendan Fraser on screen. There have been highs, and God knows there have been plenty of lows, but I have stuck with the fellow Canuck through thick and thin -- up until now anyway. CinemaBlend is hosting a gallery of images from the update of Jules Verne's sci-fi classic, Journey to the Center of the Earth. The story has been updated ever so slightly and now centers on Fraser "as a science professor whose untraditional hypotheses have made him the laughing stock of the academic community. But on an expedition in Iceland, he and his nephew stumble upon a major discovery that launches them on a thrilling journey deep beneath the Earth's surface, where they travel through never-before-seen worlds and encounter a variety of unusual creatures". Joining Fraser are Josh Hutcherson as his nephew and Anita Briem as a fairly glamorous-looking mountain guide helping Fraser find his lost brother.Rumor has it that originally the indie director Paul Chart had been slated to direct, but once the 3D technology was part of the production, Chart bowed out. His loss was visual effects artist Eric Brevig's gain, and Journey is Brevig's first foray into directing a feature film. Erik brought us the exclusive first look at the poster for the film a few days ago, and it's kind of funny that a film that is going to rely on the visuals has released not one but two sets of relatively blah images -- I guess you really need the glasses to make it pop. Well, at least the film still has the distinction of being the first wide-release to be released exclusively in the emerging technology of Real D Cinema. Journey is set to arrive on over 1500 screens on July 11th, 2008.
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