Tropic Thunder’s
Etan Cohen is the latest writer given a crack at trying to rewrite a script in
hopes of coaxing a good story for Sony Pictures' Ghostbusters 3. Cohen was tapped to rewrite the film that producer
Ivan Reitman last year said was "really good.” Still, while there never
seemed to be a demand for a third outing –especially coming off the frustrating second film- Sony seems eager now to move forward –perhaps because Men in Black 3 (which Cohen scripted as
well) showed some life ten years after the disappointing second? Still, it’s
been 23 years since Ghostbusters II,
so maybe the most logical aspect is to reboot the franchise altogether. Still,
it seems Sony is counting on Bill Murray’s involvement in it, despite his
misgivings and his desire to do more personal, character driven films. Also, it is known that no matter how much money they throw at him does not mean he'll do it either.
Lionsgate is not waiting for production to begin on Hunger Games: Catching Fire before
setting the release date for the third and final book, Mockingjay. And though there are only three books, the studio said that
they would be splitting the final book in the series into two movies regardless
of whether or not it’s entirely necessary. Nevertheless, we’ll be getting The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 on
November 21st, 2014 and The Hunger
Games: Mockingjay Part 2 on November 20th, 2015. According to the web site
Collider, “of the three books, Catching
Fire, would benefit the most from being split in half. There’s a pretty great splitting point that
would make for two tonally different yet ultimately entertaining separate
films. Alas, Lionsgate knows they can
reap an expectedly massive box office haul by making people pay twice to see
the franchise’s finale.”
Lionsgate is not waiting for production to begin on Hunger Games: Catching Fire before
setting the release date for the third and final book, Mockingjay. And though there are only three books, the studio said that
they would be splitting the final book in the series into two movies regardless
of whether or not it’s entirely necessary. Nevertheless, we’ll be getting The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 on
November 21st, 2014 and The Hunger
Games: Mockingjay Part 2 on November 20th, 2015. According to the web site
Collider, “of the three books, Catching
Fire, would benefit the most from being split in half. There’s a pretty great splitting point that
would make for two tonally different yet ultimately entertaining separate
films. Alas, Lionsgate knows they can
reap an expectedly massive box office haul by making people pay twice to see
the franchise’s finale.”
CBS Films has picked up the screen rights to the popular
video game franchise called Deus Ex. The series was first introduced in 2000 with Deus Ex, the second game was 2003′s Deus Ex: Invisible War, and then the
series went on a eight year hiatus before returning with the highly successful Deus Ex: Human Revolution. While they have all three games at their
disposal, word is they’ll concentrate the movie on the third entry. That one
focuses on an ex-SWAT security specialist who must mechanically augment his
body to fight a global conspiracy.
Legendary Entertainment’s Thomas Tull will be stepping up
his existing investment in Nerdist and
will be actually making an all-out acquisition of it. Nerdist was founded in 2008 by comedian, author, podcaster, and new
media personality Chris Hardwick. In 2011, Nerdist
merged with Peter Levin’s GeekChicDaily to
form Nerdist Industries. According
to Deadline “Hardwick and Levin will continue in their current roles within Nerdist, and will also take on the
roles of Co-Presidents of Legendary’s digital business with Hardwick serving as
Co-President Digital Content and Levin functioning as Co-President Digital
Strategy. They will work closely with Legendary’s executive management team on
event management and comics-related operations. The deal calls for Nerdist to maintain complete editorial
autonomy, as well (Hardwick and Levin wouldn’t have done the deal if they were
going to be stripped of their independence, though they will now they will
report to Legendary Entertainment COO Tim Connors).
Hardwick said: “This amazing deal allows Nerdist to not only scale our existing
business beyond what we could have imagined, but also to extend into film and
television while symbiotically supporting Legendary’s digital strategies. Legendary’s ‘let’s just make stuff that we really want to see exist
in the world,’ philosophy is exactly aligned with ours.” Adds Levin:
“Legendary’s vision and trajectory as a top-down leader in providing
genre-themed content to a very discriminating audience is the ideal environment
for Nerdist to thrive. The fact that
we can retain the independent nature of the brand while working closely with
the team at Legendary is an exciting next step in the evolution of the Nerdist Industries brand.”
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