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Steven Spielberg Signs on to Harvey Remake, Bridges Gap Between Production Companies

In 1950, Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Harvey was adapted for the silver screen. Nearly 50 years later, Steven Spielberg has recently agreed to direct and co-produce a remake of the classic film....  read more

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Tintin Gets Release Date(s)

We've reported previously on the all-star, international cast and crew for Steven Spielberg's latest endeavor, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. And now, the final piece of the puzzle, the film's release date, has fallen into place....  read more

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Steven Spielberg Set to Produce MLK Biopic

Steven Spielberg will make good on his longtime plan to put together a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. at DreamWorks, though he will do it as a producer rather than a director....  read more

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Steven Spielberg may get Lincoln into theaters this year

The rumor du jour is that Steven Spielberg has...  read more

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In coup, DreamWorks to release movies through Disney

In a major surprise and minor industry scandal, DreamWorks confirmed on Monday that it will now release its movies through Disney, not Universal, as had previously been announced....  read more

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Jamie Bell and Daniel Craig sign on to Tintin roles

Steven Spielberg’s next blockbuster, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, sure has shaped up nicely. We previously learned that Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost had signed on for roles, and now comes news that Jamie Bell has landed the title part while his Defiance co-star Daniel Craig will play a villain....  read more

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Still-awesome Goonies soundtrack re-released

For a huge number of twenty- and thirtysomethings—myself included—1985 movie The Goonies is inextricably linked to our childhoods. How many times did we all watch this at a birthday party or sleepover? And how many times did we argue over who was gonna be Mikey when we took on the roles of the film’s colorful characters, re-enacting the treasure-map-guided, deadly-obstacle-strewn search for “the rich stuff,” so we could save our families from foreclosure and forced removal at the hands of greedy developers, just like the kids in the movie?...  read more

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Spielberg's Will Smith collab not a remake of Oldboy

Just when we started to get worked up over Steven Spielberg’s supposed plans to remake the batshit Korean epic Oldboy with Will Smith—will he still eat a live octopus, rip out a dude’s teeth, cut out his own tongue?!?—it turns out the rumors were a little overcooked. The movie Spielberg has in mind for Smith is evidently a new interpretation of the Japanese manga Oldboy, not a remake of the actual movie....  read more

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Clint Eastwood in talks to direct supernatural thriller

Although some have pegged his latest, Changeling, as more or less a horror movie, Clint Eastwood is in talks to direct Hereafter, a new supernatural thriller to be produced by Steven Spielberg....  read more

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Will Smith and Steven Spielberg in talks to remake Oldboy

These days Steven Spielberg is up there with David Fincher and Steven Soderbergh in terms of sheer volume of announced-yet-nowhere-near-production projects. Spielberg's seemed a bit anxious about what he wants to film, and whether to repeat the escapism of Indiana Jones or to delve deeper like he did right before that with Munich. Still, about the last thing anyone expected was to hear that he's now looking to to adapt Park Chan-wook's Oldboy....  read more

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