NEWS UPDATE: New Release Dates, Friday the 13th Reboot, Kubrik's Napoleon, Quentin Tarantino's Next Film

A bunch of new release dates have been announced today:

Duncan Jones' "Warcraft" movie will be released on March 11, 2016. The release date has been moved from December 18, 2015, because "Star Wars: Episode VII" will be released on that day and it's quite obvious who would come out a winner from that face off.
Universal Pictures' remake of "The Mummy" will be released on April 22, 2016. The remake will be directed by Andy Muschietti ("Mama"), produced by Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci ("Star Trek") and written by Jon Spaihts ("Prometheus").
Director Rob Cohen's "The Boy Next Door", a psychological thriller starring Jennifer Lopez, will be released on January 23, 2015.

This bit of news also qualifies as a release date update, but it's something that deserves a little more writing space. Paramount Pictures has decided that the release date for a new "Friday the 13th" reboot should be March 13, 2015. This would be the 13th installment in the horror franchise. The series has been rebooted before in 2009 by producers Sean S. Cunningham, director of the original, and Michael Bay. While the idea of a second reboot might sound dumb, it's actually something which was expected due to the fact that Paramount picked up the full rights for the Friday the 13th franchise from Warner Bros. in exchange for Warner getting in on "Interstellar", Christopher Nolan's new sci-fi flick. Here is the official announcement which came via Twitter:

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Paramount sets FRIDAY THE 13th for March 13, 2015. Not a sequel to the reboot, mind you, another reboot entirely.

Earlier this year it was announced that Steven Spielberg would be picking up Stanley Kubrick's long-developed project, a "Napoleon" biopic, and that the director intends on developing it as a miniseries for HBO. Now it seems that Spielberg and HBO are interested in letting Baz Luhrmann direct it. Luhrmann, whose work includes films like "Romeo + Juliet", "Moulin Rouge" and this year's "The Great Gatsby", seems like an interesting choice and HBO will surely provide a considerable budget for the project. This isn't the only Napoleon Bonaparte project out there. Warner Bros. is also producing a biopic which will be directed by Rupert Sanders ("Snow White and the Huntsman").

Quentin Tarantino has revealed in an interview that his next project will be another Western, but not a sequel to "Django Unchained". The filmmaker had previously stated his intention of creating a "rewritten history" trilogy which would include Django and "Inglorious Basterds". Also, it seems that Tarantino is almost finished writing the script, so we should find out pretty soon what the movie will be about.

"I haven’t told anyone this publicly, but I will say the genre: It’s a western. I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it’s like 'OK! Let me make another one now that I know what I’m doing'."

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Thursday, November 28, 2013

NEWS UPDATE: New Release Dates, Friday the 13th Reboot, Kubrik's Napoleon, Quentin Tarantino's Next Film

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