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FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR is Ready to Soar Again with LUCIFER Showrunner

Flight of the Navigator is ready to soar once again. Joe Henderson, the showrunner of Fox’s supernatural show Lucifer, has been hired to write a reboot of the 1986 kids sci-fi adventure movie that is now set up at Lionsgate. The Henson Co. is on board to produce.

The movie told of a 12-year-old boy who is abducted by a UFO and reappears eight years later, at the exact same age and with no memories of what happened. When NASA officials spot a connection between the boy and a recovered UFO and try to ensnare him, the kid tries to unravel the intergalactic mystery while trying to reunite with his family.

Randal Kleiser, best known for directing Grease, helmed the movie, which was released by Disney but made by early 1980s outfit Producers Sales Organization (the company was also behind The Outsiders and The NeverEnding Story).

Disney tried reimaging the title in 2009 — at one point, Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly worked on the script — but that version didn't achieve liftoff.

Henderson also served as a writer and co-executive producer on White Collar, Graceland and Almost Human. He has an overall deal with Warner Bros. and sold a spec script titled In the Land of Imagined Things to Disney.

'Lucifer' Showrunner Tackling 'Flight of the Navigator' Reboot (Exclusive)

 

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Phil Lord & Christopher Miller to Direct ARTEMIS After Exiting Han Solo Movie

Phil Lord and Chris Miller are set to direct the adaptation of Martian writer Andy Weir's upcoming book Artemis.

The novel, which will be released by Crown Publishing on Nov. 17, is a near-future thriller that follows directionless 20-something Jazz, chafing at the constraints of her small town, Artemis, which so happens to be the first and only city on the moon. A budding smuggler, Jazz unwittingly finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy for the control of her hometown.

Artemis was picked up preemptively by Fox and New Regency in May. Simon Kinberg and Aditya Sood are producing via Genre Films.

Artemis marks the first project from the directing duo since they were let go from the Star Wars Han Solo stand-alone film in June with several weeks left on the shoot. Ron Howard took over helming duties for the rest of principal photography and into the extensive reshoots.

Lord and Miller are known for directing The Lego Movie, as well as 21 Jump Street and its follow-up 22 Jump Street, all of which were both financial and critical successes.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller to Direct 'Martian' Writer Andy Weir's 'Artemis'

 

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New TERMINATOR Movie Will Ignore Everything After T2; Release Date Set for July 2019

Skydance's David Ellison, along with distributor Paramount (Fox has international rights), has persuaded James Cameron to shepherd a new Terminator for the era of Amazon drones, Facebook news bots and artificial intelligence-fueled anxiety.

Calling it "a return to form that I believe fans of the franchise have been wanting since Terminator 2: Judgment Day," Ellison, 34, has for the past year worked secretly with Cameron and Deadpool's Tim Miller, who will direct the untitled sequel for a July 26, 2019, release.

They assembled a writers room with scribes David Goyer, Charles Eglee, Josh Friedman and Justin Rhodes as well as Ellison, a lifelong Terminator fan (Cameron himself shows up once a week), and have crafted what they want to be a trilogy with Schwarzenegger, 70, and original star Linda Hamilton, 61, passing the torch to a young female lead.

The team hopes it's launching the equivalent of the new Star Wars trilogy — but with the most successful filmmaker of all time pulling the strings. To unveil their plans and explain why the Terminator franchise is still relevant amid 21st century fears, Cameron, 63, and Miller, 47, joined The Hollywood Reporter's editorial director Matthew Belloni for a discussion Sept. 19 on the Paramount lot in Hollywood.

"This is a continuation of the story from Terminator 1 and Terminator 2," Cameron said. "And we're pretending the other films were a bad dream. Or an alternate timeline, which is permissible in our multi-verse. This was really driven more by [Tim] than anybody, surprisingly, because I came in pretty agnostic about where we took it. The only thing I insisted on was that we somehow revamp it and reinvent it for the 21st century."

"It took me a week just to get up the nerve," Cameron said on asking Linda Hamilton to come back. "No, that's not true. Linda and I have a great relationship. We've stayed friends through the thick and thin of it all. And she is the mother of my eldest daughter. [They were married from 1997 to 1999.] So I called her up, and I said: 'Look, we could rest on our laurels. It's ours to lose, in a sense. We created this thing several decades ago. But, here's what can be really cool. You can come back and show everybody how it's done.' Because in my mind, it hasn't been done a whole lot since the way she did it back in '91. There are certainly plenty of 50-, 60-, 70-something guys out there that just keep cranking along doing action movies and killing bad guys left and right. But there isn't an example of that for women, and I think there should be."

"A lot of this is handing off the baton to a new generation of characters," Cameron on introducing new stars for the upcoming Terminator movie. "We're starting a search for an 18-something young woman to essentially be the new centerpiece of these stories. And then a number of other characters around her and characters from the future. We still fold time in the story in intriguing ways. But we have Arnold's character and Linda's character to anchor it. Somewhere across there, and I won't say where, the baton gets passed, so to speak."

James Cameron Sounds the Alarm on Artificial Intelligence and Unveils a 'Terminator' for the 21st Century

So no more Jai Courtney, Christian Bale, and Emilia Clarke?

 

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Official Trailer for GOTTI Starring John Travolta as the Infamous Mob Boss

Gotti follows infamous crime boss John Gotti’s (John Travolta) rise to become the “Teflon Don” of the Gambino Crime Family in New York City. Spanning three decades and recounted by his son John Jr. (Spencer Lofranco), Gotti examines Gotti’s tumultuous life as he and his wife (Kelly Preston) attempt to hold the family together amongst tragedy and multiple prison sentences. Directed by Kevin Connolly and written by Leo Rossi and Lem Dobbs, Gotti hits theaters and on demand on December 15, 2017.

I want this to be so good. I just dont think they can do John Gotti justice with just one film. That man deserves trilogy. Well actually, just two, a rise and then fall. Three be too much.

 

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Official Trailer for GOTTI Starring John Travolta as the Infamous Mob Boss

Gotti follows infamous crime boss John Gotti’s (John Travolta) rise to become the “Teflon Don” of the Gambino Crime Family in New York City. Spanning three decades and recounted by his son John Jr. (Spencer Lofranco), Gotti examines Gotti’s tumultuous life as he and his wife (Kelly Preston) attempt to hold the family together amongst tragedy and multiple prison sentences. Directed by Kevin Connolly and written by Leo Rossi and Lem Dobbs, Gotti hits theaters and on demand on December 15, 2017.

I remember there was some controversy when this movie was first announced many many years ago.

They did a press conference or something and had a big media thing with Travolta and people were smiling and really happy, and it came across like they were celebrating a mob boss or something.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

So no more Jai Courtney, Christian Bale, and Emilia Clarke?

It seems so.

I remember there was some controversy when this movie was first announced many many years ago.

They did a press conference or something and had a big media thing with Travolta and people were smiling and really happy, and it came across like they were celebrating a mob boss or something.

Maybe this is the one you were referring to.

 

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Sony Developing Another MEN IN BLACK Spinoff with a May 17, 2019 Release Date

The Men in Black are back. Sony Pictures has fast tracked a spinoff of its billion-dollar alien franchise. The studio today will stake out a May 17, 2019, release date for an untitled film that has a script by Matt Holloway & Art Marcum, the writers of Iron Man and Transformers: The Last Knight.

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones aren’t expected to reprise, but the film acknowledges and builds on the world they inhabited. Holloway & Marcum have scripted a contemporary sci-fi pic about the black-clad secret force that protects earth from the alien scum of the universe, focusing on new characters chasing villains that put the picture on more of a global scale than the two previous films. The ambition is akin to the way that Jurassic World rebooted and expanded that franchise.

The MiB spinoff film is being produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. They are actively involved in meeting with top directors right now and expect to land one quickly.

The project is a surprise, because it was expected that the next Men in Black movie would be a mashup with another Sony Pictures hit franchise, 21 Jump Street, with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill’s characters donning the black suits. That idea remains in development, but the spinoff is moving quickly and will come first. Sony, which separately is rebooting its Charlie’s Angels reboot with Elizabeth Banks directing and Kristen Stewart and Lupita Nyong’o in talks.

Sony Sets ‘Men In Black’ Spinoff For Summer, 2019; Script by ‘Iron Man’ Team Holloway & Marcum

 

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First Look at Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley in CHAOS WALKING Behind-the-Scenes Photo

Production is now underway on Doug Liman's adaptation of Patrick Ness' best-selling dystopian novel, Chaos Walking, and we have our first official glimpse of the movie courtesy of the behind-the-scenes image below.

The still features Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Homecoming) and a blonde Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) as protagonists Todd Hewitt and Viola Eade, who must traverse a dangerous world in which all living creatures can hear each other's thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise.

With a script from Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Jamie Linden (Money Monster), Chaos Walking is set for release on March 1, 2019.

First Chaos Walking Image Features The Last Jedi's Daisy Ridley & Spider-Man: Homecoming's Tom Holland

 

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Judy Greer to Play Jamie Lee Curtis' Daughter in HALLOWEEN Reboot

Judy Greer is getting ready for Halloween. The actress is in talks to join Jamie Lee Curtis in the upcoming Halloween reboot, EW has learned. If she joins the cast, she would play Karen Strode, the daughter of Curtis’ character.

Curtis recently announced that she’ll be reprising her role as Laurie Strode, 40 years after starring in John Carpenter’s beloved 1978 original. Comedian Danny McBride and his writing partner David Gordon Green wrote the script for the new Halloween, with Green set to direct. (Carpenter is also on board as an executive producer and creative consultant.)

Green and McBride are keeping exact plot details under wraps, but the new film is said to pick up years after the events of the original 1978 film, as Laurie finds herself once again facing off against the murderous Michael Myers.

The new Halloween will hit theaters Oct. 19, 2018.

Halloween reboot eyes Judy Greer to play Jamie Lee Curtis’ daughter

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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Movie Lands at Paramount

Paramount Pictures has nabbed the movie rights to Sonic the Hedgehog, the popular SEGA video game franchise.

Neal H. Moritz, whose Original Film banner recently signed an upcoming first look deal with Paramount, will produce the project, which is coming to the studio after Sony Entertainment put it into turnaround.

Much of the team that was developing it at Sony remains: In addition to Moritz, Deadpool director Tim Miller is executive producing, while his longtime Blur Studio collaborator Jeff Fowler will make his feature directorial debut on the film.

Sonic the Hedgehog centers on Sonic and his friends, such as Tails and Knuckles, who run around collecting items and points as they attempt to foil the global domination plans of Doctor Eggman Robotnik.

The game was first released by SEGA in 1991, with the character becoming one of the world’s biggest gaming icons. More than 360 million copies, including both packaged and digital games, have been sold on various platforms.

Paramount plans on making a movie that will blend live action and CGI animation as it brings Sonic to the big screen for the first time.

Fowler previously wrote and directed the animal-centric Gopher Broke, the 2005 Academy Award-nominated animated short that Miller executive produced.

Neal H. Moritz and Tim Miller's 'Sonic the Hedgehog' Movie Races to Paramount (Exclusive)

 

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Judy Greer to Play Jamie Lee Curtis' Daughter in HALLOWEEN Reboot

Judy Greer is getting ready for Halloween. The actress is in talks to join Jamie Lee Curtis in the upcoming Halloween reboot, EW has learned. If she joins the cast, she would play Karen Strode, the daughter of Curtis’ character.

Curtis recently announced that she’ll be reprising her role as Laurie Strode, 40 years after starring in John Carpenter’s beloved 1978 original. Comedian Danny McBride and his writing partner David Gordon Green wrote the script for the new Halloween, with Green set to direct. (Carpenter is also on board as an executive producer and creative consultant.)

Green and McBride are keeping exact plot details under wraps, but the new film is said to pick up years after the events of the original 1978 film, as Laurie finds herself once again facing off against the murderous Michael Myers.

The new Halloween will hit theaters Oct. 19, 2018.

Halloween reboot eyes Judy Greer to play Jamie Lee Curtis’ daughter

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Dear Hollywood,

Best,
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Judy Greer to Play Jamie Lee Curtis' Daughter in HALLOWEEN Reboot

Judy Greer is getting ready for Halloween. The actress is in talks to join Jamie Lee Curtis in the upcoming Halloween reboot, EW has learned. If she joins the cast, she would play Karen Strode, the daughter of Curtis’ character.

Curtis recently announced that she’ll be reprising her role as Laurie Strode, 40 years after starring in John Carpenter’s beloved 1978 original. Comedian Danny McBride and his writing partner David Gordon Green wrote the script for the new Halloween, with Green set to direct. (Carpenter is also on board as an executive producer and creative consultant.)

Green and McBride are keeping exact plot details under wraps, but the new film is said to pick up years after the events of the original 1978 film, as Laurie finds herself once again facing off against the murderous Michael Myers.

The new Halloween will hit theaters Oct. 19, 2018.

Halloween reboot eyes Judy Greer to play Jamie Lee Curtis’ daughter

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I'll give them credit, the math works out on that one... but just barely.

 

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Judy Greer to Play Jamie Lee Curtis' Daughter in HALLOWEEN Reboot

Judy Greer is getting ready for Halloween. The actress is in talks to join Jamie Lee Curtis in the upcoming Halloween reboot, EW has learned. If she joins the cast, she would play Karen Strode, the daughter of Curtis’ character.

Curtis recently announced that she’ll be reprising her role as Laurie Strode, 40 years after starring in John Carpenter’s beloved 1978 original. Comedian Danny McBride and his writing partner David Gordon Green wrote the script for the new Halloween, with Green set to direct. (Carpenter is also on board as an executive producer and creative consultant.)

Green and McBride are keeping exact plot details under wraps, but the new film is said to pick up years after the events of the original 1978 film, as Laurie finds herself once again facing off against the murderous Michael Myers.

The new Halloween will hit theaters Oct. 19, 2018.

Halloween reboot eyes Judy Greer to play Jamie Lee Curtis’ daughter

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Jared Leto to Star as Hugh Hefner in Biopic Directed by Brett Ratner

Jared Leto, 45, will soon be donning the iconic silk pajamas and smoking jacket of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who died Sept. 27 at age 91, for an upcoming biopic from Brett Ratner.

"Jared is an old friend," says Ratner, 48, who will direct the film. "When he heard I got the rights to Hef's story, he told me, 'I want to play him. I want to understand him.' And I really believe Jared can do it. He's one of the great actors of today."

The project is in early development with Ratner's RatPac Entertainment. The director-producer has been set on helming the movie since 2007, when it was initially set up at Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. Robert Downey Jr. had once been attached to play Hef.

When the rights expired, they were purchased by producer Jerry Weintraub (Ocean's Eleven, HBO'sWestworld) for Warner Bros. After Weintraub died in 2015, Ratner snapped up the rights for his own company. Says Ratner, "My goal is to do the motion picture as an event."

Jared Leto to Star as Hugh Hefner in Biopic (Exclusive)

 

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Leto is a method actor. I foresee sleeping with lots of women labeled as "research". Of course, that's probably not a far departure from his regular life.

 

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release on March 1, 2019

Spoiler

 

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Kate Winslet Reunites with James Cameron to Join the AVATAR Universe

Kate Winslet is headed to Pandora. The actress is reuniting with Titanic director James Cameron as he works on his Avatar followups, THR has confirmed. It is unclear how many of the four planned sequels to Cameron's 2009 film Winslet will appear in.

Cameron is currently filming Avatar 2 and 3 concurrently. He plans to shoot 4 and 5 to be simultaneously soon after, plans recently spoke about in last week's THR cover story. The production also recently announced seven young castmembers who are to play a big part in the sequels.

Winslet and Cameron made box office history in 1997 when Titanic hit theaters. It went on to become an unprecedented success, raking in $2.1 billion worldwide to become the top-grossing film of all time. The record stood until Cameron's Avatar dethroned it.

Winslet can soon be seen in theaters in the survival thriller The Mountain Between Us, opposite Idris Elba and opening Thursday. She is also set to topline in Woody Allen's upcoming feature Wonder Wheel for Amazon and due out in December.

20th Century Fox opens Avatar 2 on Dec. 18, 2020. It will be followed by Avatar 3 in 2021, Avatar 4 in 2024 and Avatar 5 in 2025.

Kate Winslet Joins James Cameron's 'Avatar' Universe

 

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Jenny Slte in Talks to Join Tom Hardy in Sony's VENOM Movie

Jenny Slate is in negotiations to join Tom Hardy in Sony’s Venom movie. Sources say Slate will play a scientist in the film. Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed are also on board with Ruben Fleischer directing.

Scott Rosenberg (Jumanji) and Jeff Pinkner (The Dark Tower) will write the script for Venom, with Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach producing the movie, along with Amy Pascal.

The studio has made it clear that Spider-Man will not appear in these stand alones but have left the door open for Venom to possibly appear in other Spider-Man related pics. Venom is set to hit theaters on Oct. 5, 2018.

Slate has already shown her range in 2017, jumping from dramas like Gifted to lighthearted dramedies like Aardvark and The Polka King. She recently starred in Landline for Amazon, reteaming with Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm, the filmmakers behind her 2014 comedy Obvious Child.

She just wrapped production on Drew Pearce’s Hotel Artemis opposite Jodie Foster and Sofia Boutella and lent her voice to Illumination’s Secret Life of Pets 2.

Jenny Slate Joins Tom Hardy in ‘Venom’ (Exclusive)

 

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First Trailer for Netflix's Horror Comedy THE BABYSITTER

Netflix presents: human sacrifice with hot people. The Babysitter slashes to Netflix October 13.

 

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First Trailer for Netflix's Horror Comedy THE BABYSITTER

Netflix presents: human sacrifice with hot people. The Babysitter slashes to Netflix October 13.

This looks amazingly bad, but at the same time amazingly entertaining, which is to be expected from McG. As is the high quality eye-candy.

But I do have to wonder at the premise. That kid looks way to old to be left with a babysitter that's implied to be a teenager herself.