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 by Mario & Daniela  Brunetti

(Weblog entry 2007-106 -20 January 2007)

 








MARTIN SCORSESE RETURNS TO THE YEAR 1386 TO FILM 'THE LAST DUEL' IN FRANCE!

       

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The novel, written by University of California Professor, Eric Jager, may hold a record for the longest film title in any language: “The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal and Trial by Combat in Medieval France” . It tells the tale of the last duel by two French Cavaliers, Jean de Carouges and Jacques LeGris in the year 1356. Martin Scorsese's production company will manage the project, but it is still not quite clear if  he will direct the film himself.  No cast has been set yet. In the mean time Martin and long time favored actor Leonardo DeCaprio are in pre- production with ‘The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt’.  Leonardo will take on the starring role and produce, while Martin will be directing the epic movie.                      
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                   IT'S TIME TO SHAKE YOUR HEAD AGAIN AS YOU READ THE TOP HOLLYWOOD WOMEN STAR SALARIES!

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What you see below is not what they make per year, it’s what their theatrical agent’s are demanding and getting for their clients per film project and that doesn’t even count all the big bucks these mega stars receive from product endorsements, concerts television appearances and assorted other activities. An obvious missing person from this list is Julia Roberts. Her long stint away from films to try her luck in the theater and then the birth of her twins, kept her away from the public eye and in Hollywood, it’s “Out of sight , out of Mind!”.

1.  Nicole Kidman: $17,000,000.00

2.  Reese Witherspoon: $15,000,000.00

3.  Rene’e Zellweger:  $15,000,000.00

4. Drew Barrymore: $15,000,000.00

5. Cameron Diaz: $ 15,000,000.00

6.  Halle Berry: $14,000,000.00

7.  Charlize Theron: $10,000,000.00

8.  Angelina Jolie:  $10,000,000.00

9. Kirsten Dunst: $ 8 to 10,000,000.00

10. Jennifer Aniston: $8,000,000.00

                                                                                                                      

      

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STRANDED LIAM NEESON TAKES ON "TAKEN"!
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When George Lucas and Steven Spielberg finally, after ten years, began pre-production activities on Indy 4, Liam Neeson was left out of a job.  He was all set to star in what was going to be Steven’s next big project, “Lincoln". But Liam, is not one to lay around, so just days later, he signed on for Pierre Morel's “Taken” .Morel, who was cinematographer on “The Transporter” and “Danny the Dog”, made his directorial debut with “District 13”, released in Britain last year. “Taken” will revolve around Liam playing an retired soldier traveling in Europe with his daughter. When the girl is kidnapped by slave traders, he has to find her before she is taken out of the country.

 

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JAMES CAMERON'S "AVATAR" TO FEATURE 3D LIVE ACTION AND VIRTUAL CHARACTERS!

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Eleven years ago James Cameron wrote an 80-page treatment titled “Avatar”. Now he  is about to begin pre-production, which will herald his first dramatic motion picture since 1997, when he directed the Oscar-winning epic, “Titanic”.  James will start virtual photography on this new sci-fi project in April, with live-action filming to follow in August.  A summer 2009 release is planned. The entire movie will be produced in a new digital format and  released in 3-D. James has  already has spent years in research and development on the multiple processes required to create his $190 million epic combining live action and animation. He has almost calmed his producers vowing that the film will never pass the $200 million mark. Neither James nor his studio, Fox,  want to repeat the budget overruns that plagued the $200 million “Titanic”.  "I've been the busiest unemployed director in Hollywood," James further explained the filming schedule, "We are shooting only 31 days of live action, all on stage. It's controllable. No weather conditions. No water on this one," he said. "When you come back to the table years later to make a movie of a certain scale, you want to make sure you cross all the t's and dot all the i's. We're 2 1/2 years out, and we've already shot 10 minutes of the film. The FX guys are working, the characters are designed, and the animators are already working."  Partly through its efforts on six documentary features including “Ghosts of the Abyss”, Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment team has researched a potentially groundbreaking mix of live-action cinematography and virtual photorealistic production techniques for “Avatar”, which will result in lifelike virtual characters. James said recently. "We're going to blow you to the back wall of the theater in a way you haven't seen for a long time. My goal is to rekindle those amazing mystical moments my generation felt when we first saw “2001: A Space Odyssey” or the next generation's “Star Wars”. It took me 10 years to find something hard enough to be interesting.”
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