Director of "New Moon" has got tired of vampires
Directed by "New Moon" Chris Weitz clearly bored by the real world, where passions something surely will be more than the mystical melodrama for the younger generation.
Having reported on vampires-werewolves, Vajts will remove a drama «The Gardener» as which customer the same has acted all Summit Entertainment.
Scenario composed Erik Izon ( "Journey to the End of the Night", "Manitou"). Disclose details of the plot while not in a hurry, but it is known that the protagonist - an immigrant who works as a gardener in the U.S. and all the forces trying to protect his son. Shooting start in March-April 2010.
Weitz still on the off-chance (probably to no illusions), said: "There will be no werewolves and vampires - just a gardener, a Mexican in Los Angeles."
Hugh Jackman will act in film with robots
Screen adaptation of Richard Matheson's story «Real Steel», which gathered producing Steven Spielberg, got the green light. In October, Hugh Jackman reviewed the proposal for participation in this project, and now he has just need to prepare for filming, which will begin in June.
«Real Steel» be the first movie, which DreamWorks heads Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider put into production after the studio has received funding of $ 825 million dollars.
Steven Spielberg is not the first time confronted with robots in his films. Suffice it to recall his "Artificial Intelligence" or "Transformers", which Spielberg produced. At this time the director's chair will depart Shawn Levy. «Real Steel» is also one of 17 projects that Spielberg and Snider took away with them after last year's break with Paramount.
Hugh Jackman will play a former boxer who becomes an entrepreneur, once the boxing with the participation of people was considered too cruel. The new gladiators are not afraid of pain: a robot weighing a ton, but possessing human qualities. Hero much time, searching for parts for new fighters, until it finds a robot-loser, who had previously always won. While the robot loser regaining glory on a ring, the entrepreneur finds a common language with his 11-year-old son.
FOX studio has denied the rumors on the budget for the film "Avatar"
Film Company 20th Century Fox officially denied the rumors about the 500-million budget film by James Cameron "Avatar", which had been distributed recently.
"This is absolutely insane figure. Nothing to do with the real cost of painting it has. For this sum could not only make a film "Avatar", but also to build a studio like ours, 80 years ago ", - said the head of the studio Fox Filmed Entertainment JIM Dzhianopulos.
At the same time, he refused to clarify the budget of the new creations of James Cameron. Jim Dzhianopulos stressed that the company is confident that "Avatar" is not only pay off, but also bring great profit.
"After what we saw on the screen, we are confident in the safety of these investments", - he stressed. It is worth noting that about 60 percent of the budget the film was formed by investment funds and Dune Entertainment Ingenious Media.
His contribution to the budget pictures made, and the director, who has spent more than 14 million dollars to develop a special system of stereoscopic cameras and a unique set of capture and image processing.
The film goes to rent in December 2009.