Daemon's Movies (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Hugh Jackman is to take the lead in robot movie REAL STEEL. The 'X-Men' actor has been lined up to play an unlucky Robot Boxing promoter in the first film Steven Spielberg and movie boss Stacey Snider will release through the recently-changed DreamWorks. The plotline is based on a short story by Richard Matheson, and [...]
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | yesterday
HUGH Jackman has been confirmed as the star of futuristic Rocky-style boxing drama Real Steel . Set at a time when human boxing has become obsolete and fighters have been replaced by human-like robots, the film will find Jackman playing a down-on-his-luck promoter who happens upon a discarded robot who always seems to win. He also discovers that he’s the father of a 13-year-old son. The film,...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the very real dangers facing society today is the possibility of losing one's job to a machine. The "Terminator" series tells of a bleak future in which humanity is an endangered species, a ragtag resistance movement which has nearly been crushed beneath the iron heel of self-aware automatons. When will people learn?! Richard Matheson, [...]
JoBlo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Back in the end of September, we told you that Hugh Jackman was attached to star in REAL STEEL, a futuristic boxing movie somewhat based on Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots (but more so based on a short story by Richard Matheson). Now the project has officially been greenlit by Steven Spielberg as the first project under the new DreamWorks. Jackman is set to star with Shawn Levy directing the film, which...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you held out faint hope that Hugh Jackman wouldn't be helping Shawn Levy box robots , and would abandon it for a feature film adaptation of A Steady Rain , kiss it goodbye now. Variety reports that DreamWorks' Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider have green-lit Real Steel, making it the studio's first big financial project since it split with Paramount, and had to find its own money. Spielberg was...
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | yesterday
The big screen treatment of the Richard Matheson story that was once a great Twilight Zone episode, Real Steel, about a down-on-his-luck ex-boxer who returns to the ring to fight machines in an era when human boxing has been banned,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hugh Jackman has signed on to play a former boxer in Shawn Levy's futuristic thriller where robots are the heavyweights Hugh Jackman has signed on to play a former boxer who launches a new career as a promoter of battling robots in Real Steel . Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks is backing the project, which is being billed as an $80m (£48.25m) futuristic play on the Rocky films. Night at the Museum...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
The freshly funded (with $825 million) DreamWorks has greenlit its first project - Real Steel, which will be directed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) and star Hugh Jackman. You've probably heard about this project before, as we've written about it twice before. Real Steel is a futuristic Rocky-esque story about a father and son who take their human-like 2000-pound robot to the Bot Boxing Championship....
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
DreamWorks Pictures principals Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider have greenlit the Rocky -esque robot tale Real Steel starring Hugh Jackman, reports Variety . Filming will start in June. The Shawn Levy-directed futuristic film, budgeted at about $80 million, is based on a short story by Richard Matheson that was adapted into an original "Twilight Zone" episode. Jackman will play an ex-fighter...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The Robotic Stallion : Early last month we heard that Hugh Jackman was in talks to star in a mind-blowing Rocky -esque movie about boxing robots. Now it's official. Shawn Levy will direct Real Steel , which is based on a Richard Matheson short story, for DreamWorks. It focuses on a boxer who has to figure out how to remain relevant when robot boxers replace humans. So he becomes a trainer and works...
CinemaSpy (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
We already know that Hugh Jackman has been confirmed to star in Real Steel , which director Shawn Levy said will be "a rousing sports movie." In the futuristic film, to be produced by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider for the reformed DreamWorks, Jackman will play a struggling Robot Boxing promoter who finds hope in a discarded robot that always seems to win. As previously reported, the...
watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
#1 DIVXSTAGE : Full Movie Directed by Dan Curtis Produced by Robert Singer Written by Richard Matheson, William F. Nolan Starring Karen Black, John Karlen, George Gaynes Music by Robert Cobert Distributed by ABC MPI Home Video (DVD) Release date(s) March 4, 1975 (USA) Running time 72 mins Language English Followed by Trilogy of Terror II
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
CinemaScore is the audience-reaction research tool of choice for the film industry - because of its uncanny accuracy. Not good news for Richard Kelly, whose latest film The Box has just been awarded a rare-as-Ed-Wood's-teeth F-grade There can be no doubt that Cameron Diaz's new film has flopped. The Box, a horror thriller adapted from a short story by Richard Matheson by Donnie Darko director Richard...
Hollywood Dame (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Just days after Cameron Diaz’s thriller, ‘The Box‘ was released, film buffs across America have panned the film labeling it ‘one of the worst movies ever made.’ The thriller, based on Richard Matheson’ 1970 short story “Button, Button,” has been panned by film buffs in America, with officials at CinemaScore, who monitor fan reaction to [...]
Hollywood Rag (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Cameron Diaz's new film The Box has been voted one of the worst films of all time by moviegoers - just days after its U.S. release. The thriller, based on Richard Matheson's 1970 short story Button, Button, has been panned by film buffs in America, with officials at CinemaScore, who monitor fan reaction to movies, giving the flop an F rating - the lowest score possible. Company boss Ed Mintz says,...
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domino75 | 10/03/2009
The Box is an upcoming horror film based on the 1970 short story "Button, Button" by author Richard Matheson. The film is written and directed by Richard Kelly and stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple who receive a box with a mysterious power. Production began on November 2007 and concluded in February 2008. The film was originally scheduled for release on October 30, 2009, but on July
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