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Movie Review: Bride Wars (2009)

9 January 2009 12:10 AM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway in Bride Wars

Photo: 20th Century Fox Midway through Bride Wars there is a scene where a lone tear falls down Kate Hudson's cheek. That one tear tells a much larger story than all of Bride Wars. In that one tear is Kate Hudson's career and it goes all the way back to Almost Famous, when William Miller told Penny Lane she had been sold to "Humble Pie for fifty bucks and a case of beer." A tear rolled down Hudson's cheek at that moment as well, and outside of Almost Famous and my moderate liking of How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days I imagine Kate Hudson looks back at a series of missteps and wonders how she went from an Oscar nominated actress in a Cameron Crowe film to a B-list actress performing alongside Dane Cook and following that up

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Brad Brevet

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Box Office Tracking: Bride Wars may hold off Marley & Me and Gran Torino for weekend win!

8 January 2009 1:46 AM, PST | From /Film | See recent /Film news

A year ago, Fox scored a January hit with the female-geared 27 Dresses. The Katherine Heigl vehicle chick-flick opened with $23M on the weekend of January 18 en route to a nifty $76.8M domestic gross. Now Kate Hudson has produced and stars in the wedding-themed comedy Bride Wars, debuting on just over 3,000 screens in Friday.

Early reviews are downright awful for Bride Wars (00% Fresh on Rottern Tomatoes as of Wednesday night), but Kate Hudson is a likable personality whose sub-par rom-com Fool’s Gold opened to $21.5M last February. Add to the mix Anne Hathaway with $100M-grossing movies Get Smart ($130.3M cume) and The Devil Wears Prada ($124.7) on her recent resume, and you’ve got a picture that could win the weekend. Tracking is strong with Under 25’s, and the Mean Girls-style marketing improves the chances that Under 25 Males will allow themselves to be dragged along to see

Steve Mason

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Writer Says Shazam! Movie is Dead

6 January 2009 7:21 PM, PST | From newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news

According to screenwriter John August, a possible Shazam! comic book adaptation is dead over at Warner Bros.  Already attached were director Peter Segal (Get Smart) and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to play the villain, Black Adam.

August relays the chronology on his personal blog, where he laments the new direction Warner Bros wanted to take following the writers strike and two key summer movies for the studio.

What he describes as “Big, with superpowers,” August originally intended for the Captain Marvel movie to be a comedy with lots of action.  He turned in an origin story that everyone seemed to like about Billy Batson discovering his abilities before facing the evil Black Adam.  Until 100 days of work stoppage had everyone thinking a bit differently.

August also says the failure of family-friendly Speed Racer and the massive success of a darker, deeper Batman changed the way Warners was looking at comic book properties.

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Jeff Leins

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John August Explains The Death of ‘Shazam!’

6 January 2009 3:50 PM, PST | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

Believe it or not, but I've been following the development of John August's Shazam! since Comic-Con 2007, when attached director Peter Segal and I chatted briefly about it during an interview for Get Smart, a film that was not even done shooting yet. And here we are more than a ...

Neil Miller

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Dead: Shazam!, Fright Night, Ender’s Game

6 January 2009 3:45 PM, PST | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news

Various projects that have been circling Hollywood for sometime now seem to be dead. It’s possible that they may start up again in different incarnations but for now they’re lifeless. First, Screenwriter John August has revealed over on his official blog that Shazam!, the big-screen adaptation of the DC comic, is no longer happening. August had been working on the film since 2007 and cites the trouble with New Line Cinema and the WGA strike for its demise. Director Peter Segal (Get Smart) and Dwayne Johnson were at one point interested in the project. You can read August’s full rundown of what happened here. The remake of the horror flick Fright Night is also no longer happening. According to the folks over at Shock Till You Drop, the proposed update to the 1985 Tom Holland film about a teenager who learns that his next door neighbor is a vampire,

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James Cook

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Shazam takes a rest

6 January 2009 3:31 PM, PST | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

One downside of The Dark Knight's unstoppable box office success: now Warner Bros. apparently believes that "dark and gritty" is the only way to go for comic book projects. Because copying something successful always works. Except for all those times it actually doesn't. One casualty of this new paradigm at WB (which owns DC Comics and its stable of heroes and other properties) is apparently Shazam. It was presumed to be the next project from director Peter Segal (Get Smart) and...

Dave Davis

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Shazam! It’s Dead

6 January 2009 12:13 PM, PST | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

A big-screen adaptation of Shazam! has long been in development over the years. And it appeared the project was picking up steam with the news that Peter Segal (the director behind Warner Brother’s recent Summer hit Get Smart) had signed on to direct.

But according to the film’s writer John August (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and Big Fish), Shazam! is in fact dead.

 

Speaking on his blog, August gave a detailed “blow by blow” report detailing the problems he faced with issues ranging from the age of Billy Batson (the lead character) to keeping the film’s villain Black Adam from being “too sympathetic.”

But August ultimately reveals the real culprit behind its demise:

“In retrospect, I can point to two summer Warner Bros. movies that I believe defined the real issue at hand: Speed Racer and The Dark Knight. The first flopped; the second triumphed. Given only those two examples,

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Jamie Williams

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'Shazam!' is Dead, Says Writer John August

6 January 2009 7:57 AM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

So remember that whole Shazam! movie, with John August writing, Peter Segal (Get Smart) directing and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson starring as the villain, Black Adam? Last year we talked about this project a lot, wondering which actor would eventually play Captain Marvel, as well as teenager Billy Batson. In fact, as recently as November of 2008, Variety had reported that Shazam! was part of Segal's first-look deal with Warner Brothers. (The project was originally set up at New Line, but moved to Warners when they went under.)

However, over on his blog, August says the project is now dead in the water after several re-writes, most of which came about after the studio wanted him to take the film from a lighter action-comedy to something much darker (a la The Dark Knight). And regarding the recent news that Segal would be directing, August notes that "press releases often have little relationship to reality.

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Erik Davis

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Will 'Bride Wars' be Anne Hathaway's 'Norbit'?

5 January 2009 11:28 PM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Photo: Paramount Pictures / 20th Century Fox I never saw Norbit and for that I am eternally grateful as I remember I was in Los Angeles for the 300, Zodiac and Wild Hogs press junkets and it was all anyone was talking about. How Eddie Murphy was going to lose his Oscar for Dreamgirls as a result of how bad the film was and blah, blah, blah... I was wide-eyed just taking it all in. I mean, how could a supposedly great performance in one movie be tainted by a bad movie? Murphy was nominated for his performance as James 'Thunder' Early in Dreamgirls, but didn't ultimately win, and many attributed it to Norbit as Alan Arkin took home the award in 2007 for Little Miss Sunshine. However, considering the film itself wasn't nominated for Best Picture is it any real surprise Murphy didn't end up winning? On top of that, are the Oscars really that petty?

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Brad Brevet

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