Even Julien Assange WikiLeaks gets its own film!

I was just perusing Deadline New York's website and I came across this piece of intriguing news...I say intriguing because I really didn't know what to make of it.

According to Deadline New York Dreamworks has already bought the screen rights to two books about Julien Assange and WikiLeaks and the events that lead up to him hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy because he didn't want to go back to Sweden to face a law suit of sexual assault on two women.

Anywho...the books that they have got the screen rights for are "Inside WikiLeaks:My Time With Julien Assange At The World's Most Dangerous Website" which was written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg who used to be Julien Assange's right hand man at WikiLeaks, and the other book is "WikiLeaks: Inside Julien Assange's War On Secrecy" by David Leigh and Luke Harding.

This though isn't the end says Deadline New York for film studios to be making films that are based on Julien Assange, apparently there is already a documentary lined up by Universal Studios has aquired a documentary that will be directed by Oscar winning documentary director Alex Gibney, this documentary will be produced by Marc Schmuger the former chairman over at Universal Studios as well as Alex Gibney.

HBO is already thinking of co-producing with it's long time collaborator BBC to co-produce a film about Julien Assange, the source material that is said by Deadline Hollywood to be an article from The New Yorker written by Raffi Khatchadourian in 2010 called "No Secrets: Julien Assange's Mission For Total Transparency", that was an in-depth look at Julien Assange and his team as they were gearing up to leak a 38 minuite top secret video that was filmed from the inside of a U.S Army Apache Helicopter Cockpit.

This HBO project will be executive produced by Joshua Maurer Alexandre Witlin.

Mark Boal the writer of "The Hurt Locker" and Management 360 are set to produce along with Megan Ellison who will produce as well as finance through her Annapurna Pictures an option to be made into a film "The Boy Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest", this was an article that was written in The New York Times Magazine that was written by editor of its newspaper Bill Keller.

Deadline New York seems to suggests that Mark Boal might write the script for this depending if his busy work schedule gets freed up any time soon, or if not then he'll have to do it sooner rather than later!

It's likely reports Deadline New York that Bill Condon will direct the DreamWorks Pictures film, and it also reports that conversations are being had between DreamWorks and Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch to play Julien Assange and The Killings Joel Kinnaman who will be Robocop playing Daniel Domscheit-Berg the former right hand man to Julien Assange.

But, there has been rumours says Deadline New York that DreamWorks had had conversations with Jeremy Renner who was most recently in The Bourne Legacy.

A Knight's Tale to be made into a TV series?! WTF!

I was reading this the other day and I really didn't know what to make of it and I still don't.

According to Deadline Hollywood the writer of Battlestar Gallactica executive producer/developer Ron Moore to adapt the film "A Knight's Tale" that stars the late Heath Ledger.

ABC have already brought the rights from Sony Pictures TV with them wanting a script for this series.

If your like me than you'll know that this film was about William Thacker (Heath Ledger's character) faking it as a knight of the realm to fight in a jousting competition, but then he gets found out by the black knight after following home when Thatcher visits his blind father but he falls for the princess and has a dance with her at the end to David Bowie's 'Golden Years'.

This series is said to stay pretty close to the storyline of this...but hopefully this storyline won't feature Paul Bettany as a playwrite who looses a bet and has to walk home with nothing but his fur trimmed coat.

This has already been described by Deadline Hollywood as :

"...a medieval fantasy incorporating modern music and themes that follows the journey of a young man who starts out impersonating a knight of the realm ends up becoming one."

Ron Moore will executive producing this alongside Meril Davis,- his producing partner at Tall Ship Productions-, he'll also be executive producing with Brian Helgeland who will be writing this as well as directing and producing this with Todd Black.
  

First name pulled out the hat for all girl expendables!

Variety Reports that the first name that has been attached to this project is the former MMA fighter Gina Carrano who you may or may not have seen in Steven Soderburgh's 'Haywire".

Adi Shankar will produce this first female Expendables film under the banner of 1984 Private Defense Contractors (the PDC is expected says Variety to fully fund this project).

This is the first name that has been pulled out of the hat after first hearing that this movie project was going to go ahead, and just adds to the ever growing and exciting list of films that Gina Carrano will be involved with as she is already attached to the Fast and Furious 6 film which will this time take place in London this time, and she is also attached to In the Blood which Variety says is a:

"...Taken-esque action thriller...."

This is all that has come out so far so I can only hope that this is the first of many more pieces of news about this, so hold onto your horses and get strapped in!

Twilight part 2 trailer!

I saw this on IMDb.com the other day and this I have to say looks like there will be a lot more action involved...I have to say thank god for this as I was a little bit disappointed with the first part of this last movie in the Twilight saga of films.

The story for this in case you don't know is that the Cullens get lots of other vampire clans to help them protect protect Renessame from the Volturi as a false accusation makes the Volturi think that she is a vampire child and from their history vampire children aren't suppose to exist.

But although trailers are just snap shots of movies that are suppose to pique your interest so you actually go and see the film I do have to say that now seeing this trailer after having read the harry potter sized last book I think little bits of this film have been done differently to the book,- (I relise that these parts of the book have been changed or done differently to the book so as to make the film more action packed and therefore more interesting to the people who will go and see this film when it comes out on the 16th November 2012 in the uk, here is the link to go to to see the release dates in your country:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673434/releaseinfo )

But after seeing this I think even if I did go and see this to see what it is like I think that there might be more action and I think I would enjoy the book more and to be honest when I read this book and then finished it I have to say that I really wished I hadn't finished it as I really enjoyed reading it as a lot happened in it.

And after seeing the 1st trailer for Sylvester Stallone's new movie trailer "A Bullet To The Head" I really wanted to see this movie:

 

The story for this is that after seeing their respective partners die a policeman and hitman team up to get the guy responsible

 

This did to me look like a really exciting film, that looks very different to "The Expendables" where it is just a bunch of aging action film stars going out in a film for one last hurray before they all come to the realization which I think Sir Paul Mccartney hasn't come to yet but needs to be told by someone especially after that shambles at the Olympic opening ceremony that their careers as action stars are over.

Come to think of it now with all names like Sylvester Stallone, Jean Claude Van Damme, Dolph Ludgrum, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger I was surprised that Chief Steven Segal wasn't in this line up....this I think would probably be a lot more in keeping with the theme of aging action film stars rather than having Dogeball's Chuck Norris (I still think this was a bizarre casting choice for this movie)

There are a lot of tatooes Sylvester Stallone has them, his daughter in the movie has them but it looks like no one else in the movie has them, so I just thought it's maybe to make his character seem more badass than just a hitman who sometimes wears a sharp looking suit.  

This will be released in the UK on the 1st February 2013, here is the link for other countries where it will be released:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1308729/releaseinfo

 

TED 2!

I heard this piece of news a couple of weeks ago and I have to say that it was and still is the best piece of news I have heard all year so far.

According to the Hollywood Reporter Steve Burke NBCUniversal's CEO has said at 'The Bank Of America Merril Lynch 2012 Media, Communication and Entertainment' conference that took place in LA that the big mothership of NBCUniversal Universal Pictures will focus more on film franchises and increase it's animated film output over time so as to strengthen it's film business.

He also said in this same conference session that his team wanted to do Ted 2 "...as soon as we can...".

But this next one will be of course directed by Seth McFarlane.

I have just found with the help of Amazon.co.uk that TED will be coming out on DVD over here in the UK on the 26th November, Woohoo! I can't wait!

He also said that:

"In terms of franchises, Fast Six will come out next year, and people can expect the studio to work on further Bourne movies after the recent Bourne Legacy".

Empire though doesn't hold out much hope for both these sequels, but I do have to agree with them at how the next Bourne  story has got to be a lot better than the story in the Bourne Legacy as I left the cinema with my dad after seeing this feeling a bit like there was something needed to finish this off and that it really didn't have much of a story and that it was more of a snowball film...meaning that it was setting things in motion and things were going to snowball into one big event.

But this sequel could see Matt Damon back in the fold as he has mentioned in a interview that he would like it if there was some kind of storyline where Jason Bourne and Aaron Cross team up in some way.

I'm back in the UK!

I'm finally landed back in blighty last night and now I'm going to be off to Top Draw London, so it's all systems go, go, go!

Paris was amazing! and to top it all off on the last day of staying in Paris me and the famile went to have lunch at L'Avenue Restaurant on Avenue Montaigne on the Champs Elysee and at the table across from where we were there was Ted himself Mark Wahlberg having lunch...I have to say that once me and my sisters saw he was there we got very excited and all the quotes from the film started coming out.

The apartment where we were staying at was amazing it was in the heart of Marmartre and the view from the apartment was right on the steps of Sacre Coure (sorry to any french people reading this if the spelling is wrong), and it was all systems go with  long nights and very early mornings on the metro to and from the Parc Expositions where me and my sisters company Scicheck Ltd. were doing a trade fair at Maison Object,-which we massively underrated as we all brought comfy shoes but with the size of this trade show we really should have brought hiking gear tent included as it felt like it took several days to get round just one of the many mazes of halls and 3 days for this was really not enough, if you wanted to get round all the halls then you really needed to stock up on water and snacks, you really needed a map, a compass and a well planned gap year to see everything that was here-, I thank god for Youtube and my own internal playlist of music that was on constant play as I don't know how me and my sisters would have survived!

To survive this week of walking around like zombies in the Paris heat Youtube was on morning, noon and night thankfully!

Important tunes to wake up to:

 

 

These songs were for  me very important for me to wake up with and to have stuck in my head all day,-although I am going to see both The Dead Famous and Ben Montague in concert which I am absolutely siked for and I can't wait to see both these amazingly talented artists did probably make me want to play these songs more than usual but I already do love these artists and this may sound a bit weird but I do constantly carry these artists songs around which makes any place I go a lot better-, which made me feel a whole lot better as I was suffering from flu during this week in Paris...fantastic just what you need when in Paris!

I do have to say though I love 'The Dead Famous-Hide Your Halo' but when I first heard it I'd automatically get Chrisitina Agulera's 'Stronger' which really was annoying for a while but now everytime I sing this wherever I go Christina Aguilera has gone....thank god! now it's nothing but uninterrupted 'Hide Your Halo' !.

 

I really love Elissa Franceshi and after I heard 'Rainbow on Fire' I brought her album which I urge you to have a listen to if you haven't already yet, or if you haven't got the album yet go and get it, download the songs and love the album...anyhew I think I may have druven my parents a little crazy by playing these favourite songs of mine from her album 'Into the Light' that I played every day and every night.

I just have to say this even though I think that it may sound a bit much, I think that 'Rocks and Tears' is an absolutly perfect song to be played on The Vampire Diaries when there is an emotional scene going on as I think it is right for it as it is is sooo cool like all the other tracks they play like Hurts, Ed Sheeran, Pheonix, The Civil Wars and Florence and The machine etc and it has the same kind of emotionality as these other tracks,-talking about perfect cool tracks that should be played on the UK Vampire Diaries Of Monsters and Men Little Talk.

 

Annoying tracks that got stuck in my head:

 

When I first saw Christina Perri's 'A Thousand Years' all I could think about is how much of a fire hazard it was that there were so many lit candles!

And of course no night is complete without a little bit of LMFAO:

 

Review: TED

This may be a little premature to write this review but I just couldn't resist after I had seen this with my sisters.

What can I say about TED...TED is fucking hilarious! And I have to say that the audience is absolutely polar opposite to each time I saw 'The Dark Knight' as each time I saw this film the audience was soooo quiet you could hear a pin drop, and this happened each and every time I saw this film.

Anyhew...the audience including me and my sisters were in fits of tears with how hard they were laughing at every moment of this film.

If you think that the trailers that are all over the TV are the only funny bits in the film you are dead wrong, I really think that whoever cleaned those clips up to make into some sort of trailer for this movie is a miracle worker because these aren't even the whole clips or even the proper ones for that portion of the movie it's from.

From the get go of the film you are in fits of laughter with TED walking in to Mark Wahlberg's parents kitchen after he first comes to life with Mark Wahlberg's mum saying to TED 'Your like the baby jesus' to the voiceover guy saying that 'over time as with everything nobody really gives a shit about a talking bear' and then this cuts to a montage of TED through the years being taken away in handcuffs by two policemen at airport security then having his mugshot taken...to now where he sits on the sofa all day with Marky Mark with a bong smoking drugs...right up until the moment where Mark is late for work and TED drives him to work with huge wooden blocks on the foot pedals of the car but then he smashes into a parked car that is waiting to get rented...."My bad I was sending a Tweet".

The most hilarious part though of this movie is when because both TED and Marky Mark have grown up obsessing over Flash Gordan (which I also grew up with) and TED throws a house party after he gets thrown out of Mark Wahlberg and his girfriend Lori's (Mila Kunis) apartment after he invites over four prostitutes and one of them 'Sauvignon Blanc' has a poo on the floor and TED says after they come home 'Sauvignon Blanc, she's balsy' in his new apartment and Flash turns up and instead of Mark Wahlberg being at a works do with his girlfriend he slips out to see Flash and when Lori finds out he gets dumped and stays at a hotel and says some harsh things to TED, but TED then follows him and is soaked through but because it's such a shit motel he still opens the windows to the outside gardens and then he has a huge fight with Marky Mark involving some hard hitting, some pulling down of pants and spanking of Mark Wahlberg's ass with one of the TV aerial then the TV falls on his stomach.

But both of them ending up saying to each other "I love you man".

But there is also a hilarious point when TED gets a job and wears a little suit to the interview and tells the manager of the big Cosco like store he gets a job at that he slept with the managers wife and then the manager says 'No one's ever spoken to me like that before, your hired'...but when he gets caught having sex with his girlfriend in the back of the store while it's a busy time at the store he tells the manager that the other day he sold a carrot he used while having sex with Tammylee his girlfriendand then he sold it to a family...the managers reply is that that is balsy and that we need someone with balls you're promoted.

But with this there is also a sad part in the movie when TED gets kidnapped by a weirdo dad and his even creepier overweight son and they get cornered at an American football team's ground and while TED is climbing to get away from the weirdo dad he pulls on TED so much so that TED rips in two and dies, but Lori has the idea to take him back home and sow him up but it doesn't work and Lori wishes on a shooting star for him to come back to life and as you would expect that Lori and Mark Wahlberg get married and Flash Gordan is the minister that does the service.

This for me is a 5* comedy film and if you haven't seen it yet I strongly urge you to go and see this or if you are waiting for this to come on DVD make sure you preorder this as you do not want to miss this film as I'm betting that it will be sold out pretty quickly!

I have also just found on Amazon UK that you can get your hands on an actual TED and I am not kidding you, it is true: