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Disney Takes on Artemis Fowl Movie

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Walt Disney Studios announced today that it’s partnered with producer Harvey Weinstein to bring Artemis Fowl to the silver screen. The movie will be based on the first and second installments in author Eoin Colfer’s best-selling children’s fiction series.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix screenwriter Michael Goldenberg will pen the screenplay adaptation. Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal will executive produce the film.

“With its balance of mystery, adventure and family appeal, Artemis Fowl is a natural fit for Disney,” said Sean Bailey, president, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production. “We’re looking forward to collaborating with Harvey on this exciting project.”

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

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‘The Butler’ Dispute Moves Forward As MPAA Approves Weinstein Company’s Use Of ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

The Weinstein Company and Warner Bros.’ dispute over “The Butler” added another wrinkle late on Friday as the MPAA approved the former’s use of the title “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” for the upcoming film.

The Wrap appeared to break the news, followed closely by THR and Deadline.com. All industry publications had been following the story — which sent Harvey Weinstein himself to the airwaves to put pressure on Warner Bros. and the MPAA — for the duration of the conflict. The dispute centered on Warner Bros.’ claim that a 1916 short film of the same name should be enough to prohibit TWC from using the words “The Butler” in the title for a new movie (more information on the original complaints and rulings below.)

Friday’s news was touted as a victory by The Weinstein Company, which had previously been banned from using the words “The Butler” in any way in the film’s title. The MPAA reversal (of sorts) comes with some restrictions: “All letters of all words in the title must be in the same size and prominence as the size and prominence of the word ‘butler,’ except if the name ‘Lee Daniels’ is used int he title, then ‘Lee Daniels’ must be of a size at least 75 percent and of equal prominence to the word ‘butler.'”

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post

Styles & Fashion

It's a Boy! Georgina Chapman Welcomes Second Child

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By Justin Fenner

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Congratulations are in order for Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, who gave birth to a boy late last week.

Page Six reported that Chapman and her movie mogul husband, Harvey Weinstein, welcomed the new addition to their family on Thursday in New York. It’s the first son for both Chapman and Weinstein, and the second child the couple has had together (they had a daughter, India Pearl, in 2010). Weinstein has three daughters – Emma, Lily, and Ruth – from his first marriage.

From: http://www.fashionologie.com/Georgina-Chapman-Gives-Birth-Baby-Boy-29442929

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Chris O’Dowd, ‘The Sapphires’ Star, On ‘Bridesmaids’ Success And Being The ‘Irish Jason Segel’

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

The night before I interviewed Chris O’Dowd, I observed him dancing — surrounded by a group of onlookers, of course — to the A-ha earworm “Take on Me.” This isn’t a particularly embarrassing or scandalous observation (look, who hasn’t danced to “Take on Me”?), but what was noticeable was just how much fun O’Dowd was having.

Premiere parties aren’t always what a normal human being would call a good time. They’re often overcrowded, with the talent from the film safely secured in some sort of fortified backroom to protect them from the hoards of attendees who were not in the movie. By contrast, at the New York premiere party for “The Sapphires,” O’Dowd looked like a guy who wanted to make sure everyone was having fun. He even yelled at Harvey Weinstein in an effort to get Weinstein to sing. (Weinstein did not sing.)

The next morning, I met O’Dowd at his Soho hotel room to discuss the movie. In “The Sapphires,” O’Dowd plays Dave Lovelace, the mostly competent yet — depending on his alcohol consumption — sometimes hapless manager of an Australian singing group made up of four Aboriginal women who entertain American troops during the Vietnam War.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post

Movies & TV

Daniel Day-Lewis Was Almost in Pulp Fiction

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Just imagine for a moment Daniel Day-Lewis as Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega rather than John Travolta because it almost happened.

Vanity Fair‘s retrospective on the making of Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning film includes this revelation:

Casting proved to be one of the biggest challenges in making the movie. Harvey Weinstein was dead-set against giving the role of Vincent Vega to John Travolta. “John Travolta was at that time as cold as they get,” says Mike Simpson, Tarantino’s agent at William Morris Endeavor. “He was less than zero.” Simpson had given Weinstein a “term sheet” of Taran­tino’s demands, which included final cut, a two-and-a-half-hour running time, and final choice of actors. “One of the actors I had on the list was John Travolta,” says Tarantino. “And it came back: ‘The entire list is approved . . . except for John Travolta.’ So I got together with Harvey, and he’s like, ‘I can get Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Penn, William Hurt.’” By then, according to Simpson, “Daniel Day-Lewis and Bruce Willis, who was the biggest star in Hollywood, had both gotten their hands on the script and wanted to play Vincent Vega.”

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Sequel

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The Weinstein Company has set a May production start for a sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film will be based on Silver Vase, Iron Knight, the fifth book in the Crane-Iron Pentalogy by Wang Du Lu.

According to Deadline, the project will shoot in Asia from a script by John Fusco (The Forbidden Kingdom, Hidalgo), with Harvey Weinstein producing and veteran Chinese director Ronny Yu in talks to direct. Ang Lee, who directed the first film, is currently not involved with the followup.

“This was an opportunity to explore a lifelong passion I’ve had for Wu Sia, and if there wasn’t continuing source material, I would never have gotten involved,” Fusco told the site.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies