Celeb News Aggregate
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Jack Ryan is back. That’s the plan that Paramount Pictures has in mind with Sam Raimi in negotiations to spearhead a new franchise.
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Alison Lohman will replace Ellen Page in Sam Raimi's horror film Drag Me to Hell, according to trade paper reports. Lohman will play a woman who is the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse in the story written by Raimi and his brother, Ivan.
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Oscar nominee Ellen Page will join Cillian Murphy to star in the psychological thriller Peacock. The film takes place in a small Nebraska town where a man with split personalities, Murphy, leads the locals to believe that he is man and wife. Page plays the woman who holds a key to his past.
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Spider-Man director Sam Raimi has raised doubts over his involvement in a fourth installment of the web-slinging superhero, because he is "exhausted."
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Kirsten Dunst will return to the Spider-Man franchise with Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi for a fourth outing of the web-slinging superhero, which will be ready for release by 2011.
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Spider-Man actor Tobey Maguire will play the web-slinging superhero a fourth time--just as long as the script is right.
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Spider-Man 4 is beginning to look a little shaky--director Sam Raimi is looking to tackle literary epic The Hobbit.
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Tobey Maguire has confirmed the upcoming Spider-Man 3 will be the last time he plays the superhero on the big screen.
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Spider-Man director Sam Raimi was oblivious to the blossoming romance between stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst when they started dating on the set of the first movie.
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Spider-Man director Sam Raimi has hinted he and his cast might be back for a fourth and final movie--because he still loves the web-slinging character.
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Nicolas Cage, Lisa Marie Presley Make Divorce Final; Madonna Postpones Concert; Charges Against Richard Simmons Dropped Allison Janney Harrison Ford
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Antiwar celebs are making their political views known via--what else? the small screen. Martin Sheen, who plays fictional U.S. President Jed Bartlet on NBC's The West Wing, headlines a TV ad that debuts in Los Angeles and Washington today. Also: Michael Jackson R Kelly Adam Johnny Paycheck Rich Alfred Molina Doc Ock Spider-Man sequel Jud Taylor Martin Sheen Trista Rehn The Bachelorette Nelly
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Columbia Pictures has snagged Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon to rewrite the sequel to the summer box office hit Spider-Man.Sam Raimi Laura Ziskin Avi Arad Ian Bryce David Keopp Tobey Maguire Kirsten Dunst Scott Rudin
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the weekend of Sept. 8, 2002.
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Madonna Robert Wagner Michelle Williams Sam Raimi Rob Tapert 30 Days of Night Jim Carrey Gary Shandling Over the Hedge Tim Johnson Joe Black School of Rock Mike White Scott Rudin Sarah Michelle Gellar Buffy the Vampire Slayer Jon Stewart CNN International
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the week of June 23, 2002.
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the week of June 16, 2002.
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Fears about whether moviegoers were ready for a film involving nuclear terrorism proved ungrounded as The Sum Of All Fears exploded with $31.2 million in ticket sales.
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Martin Grove's analysis of the Memorial Day weekend box office, May 2002.
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For Sam Raimi, chances of directing "Spider-Man" film were slim.
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Box Office Report: May 19
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"Spider-Man" continues to rule the box office for the weekend of May 12, 2002.
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Box Office Analysis: May 5 Spider-Man The Scorpion King Life or Something Like It Changing Lanes The Rookie Hollywood Ending
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The creators of Spider-Man will be returning to make a sequel. Tobey Maguire Kirsten Dunst director Sam Raimi are all onboard
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Spider-Man Tobey Maguire Sam Raimi Willem Dafoe Kirsten Dunst
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CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 4, 2001 -- Spidey fans, you can stop your salivating (for now).
Just days from the start of filming and one and a half years from its May 3, 2002, release date, the makers of Sony’s big-budget “Spider-Man” flick called a press conference on the Sony Pictures lot this morning to introduce the cast and give a little preview of what’s ahead.
Cast members Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, director Sam Raimi (“The Gift”) and other filmmakers led the event, attended by a reported 300 journalists from around the world. While details such as the movie’s budget (think big) are still kept secret, we now have these tasty morsels to mull over:
THE CAST: As mentioned before, Maguire will star as Spider-Man/Peter Parker, with Dafoe playing the villainous Green Goblin and Dunst as Peter’s girlfriend Mary Jane. Franco (NBC’s cance
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 14, 2000 -- Try not to panic when you read this: The big "Spider-Man" movie is being pushed back.
Columbia Pictures has announced that it's rolling back the start of production on the big Sam Raimi-directed flick, which stars Tobey Maguire as the wall-crawling superhero and maybe John Malkovich as his foe, the Green Goblin.
That means the release date, which had been set for Nov. 2, 2001, is now May 3, 2002.
Nuts.
Why the delay? Producer Laura Ziskin says it's got nothing to do with the writers and actors strikes that loom on the horizon, as "Spider-Man" is supposed to wrap up principal photography before that stuff happens. She said the extra time is needed for post-production and effects.
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The set of Columbia Pictures' Spider-Man has lately been plagued with a run of bad luck, to say the least.
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James Franco is climbing up in the world.
The "Whatever It Takes" actor is in final talks to join Tobey Maguire in the much-hyped "Spider-Man" feature, Columbia Pictures says today.
In the Sam Raimi big-screen adaptation, Franco would play Harry Osborn, the high school pal and college roommate of Peter Parker, aka Spidey.
Franco is currently shooting the thriller "City By the Sea" with Robert De Niro and has just wrapped the TNT tube-pic "James Dean," wherein he plays the titular rebel.
GOING MOO: The Hollywood Reporter says that Cuba Gooding Jr. and Judi Dench will lend their voices to the Disney animated feature "Sweating Bullets" about a group of cows fighting to save their farm. Sarah Jessica Parker and Ja'Net DuBois have already signed on to do their cow duties, with actor Randy Quaid possibly joining them.
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25, 2000 -- Julia Roberts is no stranger to Joe Roth’s Revolution Studios. Already pegged to star in Revolution's "Project 3" and "American Sweethearts," Roberts might apparently also star in the studio’s upcoming "Perfect Strangers," Daily Variety reports.
The script will be written by Jon Bokenkamp, whose credits include "Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows."
'FIRE' IT UP: "American Psycho" star Christian Bale is in talks to star in "Reign of Fire," an apocalyptic tale about an England overrun by fire-breathing dragons, The Hollywood Reporter says. Bale will play the leader of the surviving earthlings.
SPIDEY SINGS A NEW TUNE: Don't expect that catchy TV theme song for the "Spider-Man" flick. Cinescape.com reports today that Danny Elfman, the composer who also gave the "Batman" franchise a new sound, will score the new Sam Raimi adaptation.
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 11, 2000 -- Our friends over at Eon Magazine (www.mothership.com) scored a major scoop this week, publishing the first-ever interview with director Sam Raimi on the subject of the wall-crawling, web-shooting "Spider-Man" movie. Of course, Raimi wouldn't talk about plot details, but he waxed about his love of Marvel Comics' marquee character, a pulp teen icon of the post-atomic age. "What I hope to put into the movie is what I found so attractive about the comic books," Raimi said in the interview. "[Peter Parker, Spidey's true identity] is not pretending to be somebody, like Superman pretends to be Clark Kent. Superman is really cool and unstoppable and he winks at us with the glasses and says, 'I'm just pretending to be a nerd.' But Peter really is. He never loses sight of who he is and that's what's great about him. He's still us in that costume."
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 5, 2000 -- Not one frame of film has been shot, the script isn't finished yet and, heck, the studio hasn't even officially announced the director's name (it's Sam Raimi). But this week, Sony started working on the most important part of its forthcoming "Spider-Man" movie: the toys. The formation of Spider-Man Merchandising L.P. was announced at an invitation-only meeting at UCLA, attended by hundreds of companies interested in licensing Spider-Man tie-in stuff when the film comes out in Fall 2001. "Spider-Man" will be one of the biggest event movies ever, and this is expected to be one of the biggest merchanidsing campaigns ever, too.
"By joining forces with Marvel, we can maximize on major licensing opportunities to support the movie, while leveraging the enormous worldwide popularity that has already been built," Peter Dang of Sony Pictures said in a
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His dudeness Keanu Reeves is slated to star in Columbia's "The Ottoman Empire," a political parody penned and directed by Andrew Bergman ("Isn't She Great").
The flick tells the story of an erstwhile porn star (played by Reeves) who's blackmailed into providing certain vocation service to the first lady of the United States.
No word yet on when the film will go in front of the camera. Trade papers reported that the project will probably begin shooting some time between the Reeves vehicles "Sweet November" rolling this spring and back-to-back "The Matrix" sequels set to go into production this fall.
"GIFT" LOOKING SWANK: Hilary Swank, who was just named ShoWest 2000's female star of tomorrow, is set to begin work on "The Gift," the Sam Raimi film which principal cast includes Keanu Reeves and Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi, and Greg Kinnear.
Swank will pl
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., January 24, 2000 -- Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!
No, it's another "Spider-Man" rumor.
For nearly seven years, speculation has run rampant among comic-book geeks and genre-film fanatics about the red-and-blue building-climbing superhero. Nearly every director worth his box-office salt has been linked to "Spider-Man" at one time or another, beginning with no less than James Cameron ("Titanic") and ending with Sam Raimi ("A Simple Plan," "For Love of the Game"), who is now supposedly the front-runner for the job.
One thing's for certain: "Spider-Man," one of the most highly anticipated films in memory, is now on the fast track at Columbia Pictures. The studio wants to release the film in summer 2001, and that means a director is expected to be hired soon -- perhaps within a few weeks. At long last, Marvel Comics' biggest franchis
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 3, 2000 -- He's played idiots and superheroes. Up next for Keanu Reeves is an against type role as a brutal, spouse-beating murder suspect in the low-budget drama "The Gift."
As with Tom Cruise's supporting turn in the critical hit "Magnolia," Reeves reportedly will take a back seat (and a serious pay cut) to co-star alongside Giovanni Ribisi, Cate Blanchett and Katie Holmes ("Dawson's Creek"). Today's Daily Variety says Sam Raimi ("A Simple Plan") will helm the under-$10 million film for Paramount's art-house division, Paramount Classics.
For the chance to do evil things on celluloid, Reeves will pare down his usual per-picture asking price of $15 million to union scale, the trade paper says.
Written by "One False Move" screenwriters Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson, "The Gift" concerns a small-town Southern psychic who becomes inv
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 27, 2000 -- Edward Norton has certainly scored with his next picture deal.
The Hollywood Reporter reported today that the 30-year-old actor will receive $6.5 million up front plus 4 percent of first-dollar gross to star opposite Robert De Niro in Frank Oz's "The Score," filling in the slot left opened by Ben Affleck after his decision to drop out last month.
The Paramount/Mandalay pic tells the story of a veteran thief whose retirement is infinitely deferred by an upstart ruffian. The flick is slated to go into production in San Francisco in March.
Norton was seen last fall beating up fellow angst-ridden co-star Brad Pitt in "Fight Club." His next project is "Keeping the Faith," which Norton directed, produced and co-wrote. The flick, a comedy about the friendship between a rabbi and a Catholic priest and the woman they both fall for, co
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Spider-Man SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 5, 2000 -- Not one frame of film has been shot, the script isn't finished yet and, heck, the studio hasn't even officially announced the director's name (it's Sam Raimi). But this week, Sony started working on the most important part of its forthcoming "Spider-Man" movie: The toys. The formation of Spider-Man Merchandising L.P. was announced at an invitation-only meeting at UCLA, attended by hundreds companies interested in licensing Spider-Man tie-in stuff when the film comes out in Fall 2001. "Spider-Man" will be one of the biggest even movies ever, and this is expected to be one of the biggest merchanidsing campaigns ever, too.
"By joining forces with Marvel, we can maximize on major licensing opportunities to support the movie, while leveraging the enormous worldwide popularity that has already been built," says Peter Dang, Executiv