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No More Politics For Schwarzenegger

18 November 2009 1:57 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Arnold Schwarzenegger has given his film fans a boost by announcing his days as a politician are numbered - and he'll quit chasing public office next year.

The former action man's second and final term as Governor of California comes to an end at the end of 2010 and he insists he won't be seeking any other political gig after he steps down.

The Austrian-bon Republican recently hinted at another possible political run when he challenged America's rules on the nationality of those who seek election as President, but Schwarzenegger insists he won't be seeking that role - or any other once he leaves office in Sacramento, California.

He says, "I have never labelled myself as a politician, so I am not going to run for anything else."

But he stopped short of announcing any film plans. Since taking office in 2003, Schwarzenegger suspended his movie career, appearing only in cameo roles in The Rundown, Around the World in 80 Days and The Kid & I.

He's attached to next year's star-studded blockbuster The Expendables, which will star Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis and Terry Crews. »

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Aliens, Another Reason to Get Excited for Battleship

8 November 2009 10:10 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

I was trying to remain positive about this upcoming Battleship movie because I think director Peter Berg has the potential to be great, but he's making it really hard for me right now. Latino Review got the scoop a few days ago that the big bad in Battleship won't be Nazis, reverse vampires, or ominous looking pegs. Instead, it's aliens. With this news I'm getting the sinking feeling that we're not getting the promising Peter Berg who gave us The Rundown, The Kingdom, and helped bring the fantastic Friday Night Lights to television---instead, I'm envisioning the guy who gave us Hancock. That the film is coming from the brother writing team Jon and Erich Hoeber, they who gave us Whiteout, is no more heartening. Then again, I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. What we're getting is a film adaptation of a Hasbro board game, and just like this year's G. »

- Devindra Hardawar

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Battleship spoilers?

7 November 2009 1:20 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Warning: As the headline implies, there are potential and substantial spoilers below. When we first heard that Universal was making a movie based on the classic game Battleship, it led to some head-scratching. How did they figure out a way to transform random guesses and the insertion of plastic pegs into a compelling and family-friendly movie about naval combat? What was it that lured filmmaker Peter Berg (The Kingdom, The Rundown, Hancock), and made the studio confident enough to slot it... »

- Dave Davis

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Tooth Fairy Trailer Starring Dwayne Johnson

2 October 2009 11:29 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Dwayne Johnson's movie career has taken an odd and relatively shameless turn over the past few years. Like most wrestlers, he started out in Hollywood as an up and coming action star doing movies like The Scorpion King, The Rundown, and Walking Tall. After Doom and Southland Tales, however, he settled into more family-friendly territory and has never looked back. Now the trailer for his latest film Tooth Fairy has arrived online, and well... let's just say it's about as family-friendly as it gets. The Rock is Derek Thompson, a scrappy minor-league hockey player who hits so hard that he has earned the nickname "The Tooth Fairy" from opposing players. His bad attitude eventually lands him in hot water, however, and he is granted magical powers and forced to serve as a real honest-to-goodness Tooth Fairy. Hilarious! Would you expect anything more from the director of The Santa Clause 2? »

- Sean

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Trailer for Tooth Fairy Starring Dwayne Johnson

1 October 2009 7:15 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

I may have to retire “Dwayne Johnson is better than this,” because while I know he has the charisma and ability to star in good movies, it’s been six years since “The Rundown” and he seems to have embraced lowest-common-denominator family fare that’s not only insidious but formulaic.  Look, he’s a big mean guy (which automatically means “Pro Athlete”, I guess) who needs to learn a lesson in kindness but first we’re going to strip away his masculinity and put him in really embarrassing situations!  Box Office Gold!  That’s pretty much the plot synopsis for “Tooth Fairy”.  The only difference between this and “The Gameplan” is that he gets turned into a Tooth Fairy as a penalty for “killing dreams”.

Slow down.  There’s a penalty for killing dreams?  I highly doubt that.  If that were true, I’d be doing 500-1000 years for dream »

- Matt Goldberg

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Shawn Levy to Take a Swing at Peter Berg’s Futuristic Robot Boxing Movie Real Steel

15 September 2009 9:33 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Sometimes you think that you have Hollywood figured out and then they do something so random that it just confuses you.  First of all, I have never heard of this futuristic robot boxing movie named “Real Steel”.  I also didn’t know that it was one of the projects that Peter Berg has been attached to with hopes of directing.  Well, now we have news that Peter Berg will not be directing this cool as hell sounding movie and instead has been replaced by Shawn Levy (”Night at the Museum”, “Cheaper by the Dozen”).  So, yeah, this movie just went from sounding pretty bad ass to sounding kind of lame to me.  You can get the full details when you hit the jump.

THR gives us a plot synopsis of “Real Steel” by telling us that the story will take place in a near future where “human boxing has been outlawed, »

- Ramses Flores

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'Battleship' Sets A Course For July 2011 With Peter Berg At The Helm

15 September 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

The word emerged today that director Peter Berg's adaptation of the Hasbro board game "Battleship" will sail into theaters on July 1, 2011, according to a report in Variety. Berg described his adaptation as "a contemporary story of an international five-ship fleet engaged in a very dynamic, violent and intense battle." It's worth noting that he didn't actually name the aggressors, so it could be anything from terrorists to aliens and beyond. Given Berg's background -- "Hancock," "The Kingdom," "The Rundown" -- it could really be anything.

Last week, the MTV's Eric Ditzian had a little chat with the director, and he was all too excited to discuss his upcoming board game adaptation. When Eric expressed skepticism about the feasability of adapting a game of this sort for the big screen, Berg jumped quickly to dismiss any concerns.

"That's what we do man. It's our job to crack these things... and they're very crackable, »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Battleship hits Berg

14 September 2009 4:48 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

B7. Miss! C9. You sunk my interest! Studios are apparently quite serious about exploiting every possible brand and franchise, and so a movie based on the classic game Battleship is setting sail, with filmmaker Peter Berg (The Kingdom, The Rundown, Hancock) on the bridge. Universal and Berg have presumably figured out a way to transform random guesses and the insertion of plastic pegs into a compelling and family-friendly movie about naval combat... and they want it firing cannons on screens... »

- Dave Davis

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Weekly Ketchup: Spider-Man 5 & 6 Planned

21 August 2009 7:45 AM, PDT | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »

Although remakes have been a common trend in the Weekly Ketchup for quite a while, few weeks have ever been as dominated by them as this one, with remakes taking up 6 of the 11 stories. That is surely an all time (and dubious) record. And then there's a few sequels as well (White Chicks 2, Spider-Man 5 & 6). Hooray for originality, Hollywood. #1 The Original Spider-man 4 Writer Is Weaving The Web Of Spider-man 5 And 6 James Vanderbilt (Zodiac; cowriter of The Rundown), who Sony had originally hired to write the script for Spider-Man 4, has been... »

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Peter Berg Talks "Hancock" Sequel

19 August 2009 1:05 PM, PDT | www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news »

Director Peter Berg ("The Kingdom", "The Rundown") tells Sci-Fi Wire that a sequel to last year's critically maligned but financially profitable Will Smith superhero vehicle "Hancock" is still on the cards. "They [Sony Pictures] would like to fast-track it, but Will's busy, I'm pretty busy. We're excited to do one, but we want the script to be right and the movie to be right. We don't feel a burning imperative to go right back into it" says Berg. What story would he use? "There might be another god out there... Might be another one" he said, adding that Jason Bateman's publicist character should continue his storyline of starting a charity campaign.... »

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James Vanderbilt Tackles Spiderman 5 and 6

17 August 2009 5:37 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

There was a moment in which the Spiderman film franchise looked to be possibly dead in the water, and seemed an uneven string of works for director Sam Raimi. The first film was good but flawed, the second film incredible; the third film left such a bad taste in many people’s mouths that it became hard to revisit the others. In the wake of The Dark Knight, it was even harder to look back, and I assumed the franchise was going to stall for years before a reboot.

I was absolutely incorrect. Not only is Raimi and co. gearing up for Spiderman 4 with attached writers David Lindsay-Abaire and Gary Ross, but a writer has been hired to start the ball rolling on Spiderman 5 and Spiderman 6 as well. It’s not known whether Raimi plans on staying with the series that long, but one name will: James Vanderbilt. Variety has »

- John Cooper

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Hank Williams Biopic in the Works

10 August 2009 10:14 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Nashville-based 821 Entertainment Group and Strike Entertainment have teamed to turn the life of country music icon Hank Williams into a feature film, report the trades. Marc Abraham, a Strike Entertainment partner, will pen the screenplay. Williams ranks high among the most influential country music singer-songwriters, and he lived a life as hard as any character in a country song. After growing up dirt poor in Alabama during the Depression, Williams skyrocketed to fame with 11 No. 1 hits, including classics "Cold, Cold Heart," "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." Williams also suffered from spina bifida, which led him to turn to alcohol and morphine for pain relief. Haunted by demons and bad habits, Williams died in 1953 at age 29. On one side of the estate is singer Hank Williams Jr., and on the other is Jett Williams, the illegitimate daughter of the late singer, born days after he died. »

- James Cook

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[DVD Review] 12 Rounds

9 July 2009 3:06 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

12 Rounds is either one of the best tributes to action films of the last two decades or a horrible rip-off with nothing unique to say or show – it’s a genuine toss-up. But even if you can’t decide whether or not 12 Rounds borrows too much or the right amount, one thing isn’t debatable: John Cena has no place acting. The movie itself has problems left and right, but what’s really proven by the time credits roll is that action stars don’t just require muscular bodies in tear-away shirts, some acting is required. Bruce Willis didn’t rock our faces off in Die Hard by just being tough as nails – no, instead he threw in some acting to make John McClane endearing and even funny.

Detective Danny Fisher (Cena) and his partner Hank Carver (Brian J. White) took down the wrong criminal on the wrong night, a »

- Lex Walker

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Gary Ross is the Third Screenwriter Hired for Spider-Man 4

9 July 2009 3:13 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Sony is really going all out on this one. They've hired a third screenwriter to rewrite Spider-Man 4 once again. Back in 2007 it was announced that James Vanderbilt (The Rundown, Zodiac) was the very first writer to work on this script. Then it was announced last year that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire (Robots, Inkheart) would work on it. Now it's Oscar nominated screenwriter Gary Ross responsible for Big, Pleasantville, Seabiscuit, and The Tale of Despereaux. He's a good writer and has a long-standing relationship with Tobey Maguire, which is a good thing, but will that work wonders here? This could be taken as bad news, but I'm trying to look on the bright side. Sony is just making sure they're getting a damn good script. They've got to recover from the bad taste that Spider-Man 3 left in everyone's mouth and they've got boatloads of cash to spend to »

- Alex Billington

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Rumor Mill: The Rock’s Commando Remake? Megan Fox: Vampire Slayer? Bond 23 in Afghanistan?

10 June 2009 2:10 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

A couple rumors are circulating the interwebs this week, so I thought I'd put together a small round-up. First up, JoBlo caught wind of an article in the Australian magazine Rci that claims a remake of the 1980's Arnold Schwarzenegger action classic Commando is being developed.  Another site, Cinefools, has also heard rumblings of a Commando reboot, with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson rumored to star. Hollywood is rebooting all the other Schwarzenegger action films (Predator, Total Recall..etc) so why not Commando? And The Rock has long been compared as the Arnold of the next generation. Some might recall a mini "passing of the torch" in The Rundown. Mark this rumor as possible. UK Newspaper The Guardian speculates that the 23rd James Bond film will feature "the poppy fields and drug barons of [Afghanistan]." Apparently the screenwriters of the next Bond adventure sought technical advice from the British embassy in Kabul, »

- Peter Sciretta

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Zach Braff to Direct, Rewrite and Star in Swingles

21 May 2009 12:24 AM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Zach Braff is in negotiations to direct, rewrite and co-star in the comedy Swingles for Paramount Pictures. The project, which Cameron Diaz is attached to star in, would mark Braff’s first feature directing effort since the 2004 indie hit Garden State. The story centers on a bachelor who is dumped by his wingman and teams up with a sharp-tongued woman he can't stand in order to meet singles. Duncan Birmingham penned the original spec script, which Paramount acquired in 2006. Jeff Roda wrote a draft as well. Kevin Misher, whose credits include The Scorpion King, The Rundown, The Interpreter, Fighting and the upcoming Michael Mann-directed Public Enemies, is producing. Diaz, who most recently starred in What Happens in Vegas, will next be seen in the Nick Cassavetes drama My Sister’s Keeper and the Richard Kelly-helmed horror thriller The Box. Braff recently signed a deal to return for a ninth season of Scrubs. »

- James Cook

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Does The Battleship Board Game Movie Have A Director?

18 May 2009 9:48 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Remember the good old days when Hollywood just remade everything, adapted video games or extended a series beyond it’s rightful lifetime with unnecessary sequels? Oh yes, that was a simpler time…

It appears that wasn’t enough for them and they’ve gone a step further than just those three types of usually bad paths by making movies out of board games. No, that’s not some industry specific term for a new type of sequel or remake. That’s right, I’m referring to those family-friendly pastimes which usually have dice and plastic pieces you move around on a flat board when you’ve got nothing else to do…

 

There are already plans put in motion for movies based on the board games Monopoly (with Ridley Scott set to helm it… no joke), Candyland, Magic: The Gathering and even one based on the Ouija board (is that a board game, »

- Ross Miller

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Peter Berg Wants To Sink Your ‘Battleship’

18 May 2009 9:45 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

This is just stupid. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Peter Berg may be signing on to direct a big screen adaptation of the classic Hasbro board game Battleship.  Jon and Eric Hoeber are writing the script for the "epic naval action adventure" but I honestly don't see the point.  An action movie filled with large-scale battles could be quite cool, but what exactly is the Battleship connection?  Aside from the iconic line from the commercials ("You sunk my battleship mother-fucker!") there's absolutely nothing identifiable to the game that could go into a film.  No plot, no characters... there's nothing at all. Berg gets flack for his films but I count myself as a fan thanks in large part to the action and intensity of The Kingdom as well as the action and humor of The Rundown.  I don't doubt that Berg can make an exciting naval adventure, but again, I »

- Rob Hunter

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Universal Hires Peter Berg to Direct Their Battleship Movie

18 May 2009 1:40 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Another day, another board game movie. Universal is adapting the Milton Bradley board game Battleship and has hired Peter Berg (The Rundown, The Kingdom, Hancock) to direct. Wow. Can anyone else believe this? Universal has a deal with Hasbro and has been setting up huge projects based on various board games like Monopoly and Candyland previously, but now Battleship? Brothers Jon and Erich Hoeber (of only the upcoming Whiteout so far) will write the script. The game will, obviously, be turned into an epic naval action adventure movie. Now I can use this pun properly - Peter Berg has "sunk" to a new low today. I've been fighting for Peter Berg all along, I generally think he's a good director (give or take Hancock), and I was looking forward to seeing what he could do with Dune. You know, in the end we'll probably see a very epic naval movie »

- Alex Billington

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Peter Berg to Direct Battleship, Could Robert Pattinson Be a Shipmate?

17 May 2009 11:37 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Peter Berg is in talks to direct a big screen adaptation of Hasbro’s board game Battleship for Universal Pictures. Brother screenwriting team Jon and Erich Hoeber have signed on to write the script, which is said to be “an epic naval action adventure” loosely inspired by the game.  Universal seems to have a multi-picture development deal with Hasbro/Milton Bradley. Twilight star Robert Pattinson, while on break from shooting New Moon, was spotted last week leaving Berg’s Los Angeles home. At the time, many speculated that Pattinson might be in talks to join Berg’s planned remake of Dune, but Berg has so many projects in the development pipeline that it would be impossible to narrow it down to one of them. And it would be too speculative for me to say that Battleship is probably the film. Actor turned filmmaker Berg has directed Very Bad Things, The Rundown, »

- Peter Sciretta

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