Jamie Foxx is set to play troubled boxer, Mike Tyson, in a brand new biopic to be penned by the man who brought The Wolf Of Wall Street from page to screen.
Terrence Winter, whose notable credits also include The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, will write the screenplay for the new film, with Variety reporting that Foxx has already signed on to star.
The report has no word on which elements of Tyson’s life the film will focus upon, but given the boxer’s “colourful” career, there should be plenty of incident to choose from.
The project is currently without a studio, although Foxx’s manager, Rick Yorn, is acting as producer, and charged with bringing the core elements together to present to distributors.
Given the calibre of Winter and Foxx, paired with the likely interest in Tyson’s story, we’d imagine there won’t be any shortage of prospective suitors…
Source: Variety
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ROBOCOP – From 13th August on Blu-ray and DVD!
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years - and it's meant billions for OmniCorp's bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) - a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit - is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice.
Director: José Padilha
Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton
DUTCH VERSION
ROBOCOP - Vanaf 13 augustus verkrijgbaar op Blu-ray en DVD!
Maak je klaar voor de toekomst met deze remake van de klassieker ROBOCOP van Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios en 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. ROBOCOP is vanaf 13 augustus beschikbaar op Blu-ray en DVD.
Synopsis
In het jaar 2028 raakt Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) zwaargewond. Het bedrijf OmniCorp redt zijn leven door hem te transformeren in de ultieme politieagent RoboCop: deels mens, deels machine. RoboCop wordt geprogrammeerd om de wet te handhaven op straat, maar kan uiteindelijk zijn menselijke kant niet onderdrukken. Een gevaarlijke combinatie die wel eens catastrofaal zou kunnen aflopen.
Cast
De Braziliaanse regisseur José Padilha heeft de klassieker ROBOCOP nieuw leven ingeblazen. Voor de cast zijn zeker niet de minste namen aangetrokken. Joel Kinnaman ( The Killing, Safe House ) vertolkt de rol van Alex Murphy/RoboCop. Michael Keaton (Batman) neemt de rol van de geldbeluste baas van OmniCorp, Raymond Sellars, op zich. Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight) speelt de wetenschapper Dr. Dennett Norton.
Blu-ray
De Blu-ray van ROBOCOP bevat uniek bonusmateriaal. Zie hoe RoboCop wordt ontworpen voor de 21e eeuw of bekijk de reclames die speciaal gemaakt zijn voor de producten van OmniCorp. De Blu-ray bevat daarnaast verwijderde scènes en twee bioscooptrailers van de succesvolle remake.
DVD
Ook de DVD bevat leuke extra's. Bekijk verwijderde scènes uit de film en de bioscooptrailers. Verder kan je ontdekken hoe de productadvertenties voor OmniCorp zijn ontworpen.
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Award-winning American filmmaker Robert L. Drew, a pioneer of the cinema vérité documentary style, died on Wednesday in Sharon, Connecticut at the age of 90, his family said.
Drew, who made more than 100 films on social issues, politics and the arts during a career that spanned more than five decades, died peacefully surrounded by children and friends.
"He had been declining for some time and it was not completely unexpected," his son, Thatcher Drew, said.
Drew, a former correspondent and editor at Life Magazine and a fighter pilot during World War Two, helped to develop cinema vérité, a direct type of observational or fly on the wall filming to capture reality.
He also founded the documentary film company Drew Associates in the early 1960s. Many of his films were shown on television and screened at international film festivals.
"He believed in the pure form of cinema vérité. It was a strict code that allowed no directing of subjects, no set up shots and no on-camera narrator or correspondent," his son explained.
Along with his innovative directing techniques, Drew also developed lightweight cameras. His film "Primary," which followed John F. Kenney and Hubert Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin presidential primary, was the first in which a sync-sound motion picture camera was used.
His most well-know films include "The Chair," about a criminal who finds redemption, and "Faces of November," a short about Kennedy's funeral following his assassination in 1963, which won a prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Drew also won an Emmy in 1969 for the ballet documentary "Man Who Dances." His last film, 2005's "From Two Men and a War," in which he recounted his war experiences and friendship with war correspondent Ernie Pyle, was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.
"He was deeply involved in every aspect of his craft and was obsessed with it till the end," his son said.
Two of Drew's films are in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.
Drew is survived by three children and three grandchildren. His wife, Anne, a partner in their filmmaking, died in 2012.
Source: REUTERS.
