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The highly successful “Wicked” production on stage is getting its film adaptation and a lot of possible directors have already expressed interest on the project. JJ Abrams, the creator of “Lost”, Ryan Murphy, the creator of “Glee”, Rob Marshall, who directed “Chicago”, and James Mangold, who directed “Walk The Line”, have all said they would be willing to do the film.

Based on a novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked is a story about Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, and Glinda, the Good Witch. The musical, which opened in 2003 on Broadway had Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth as stars. Both have been Tony nominated for the play, and Menzel even won it.

There have been attempts to do this play into a film over the years and Marc Platt, who has produced the musical is said to be interested about producing the film version.

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Fans of the Lord of the Rings trilogy are perhaps rejoicing when news of Peter Jackson assuming the directorial seat for The Hobbit came out over the weekend.

See, the award-winning director, who still keeps getting accolades for Lord of the Rings, several years after its run, initially said he didn’t want the director job. But when Guillermo Del Torro stepped down, looking to find his replacement was priority, lest production of the film will be suspended by MGM. Pre-production has already started with the movie and at this point, shutting down would have been very counter productive.

Of course, to fans, it makes sense for Peter Jackson to direct The Hobbit since this movie is like a partner to the Lord of The Rings. In spite many other director choices and candidates by the studio, he is the most logical choice.

Peter Jackson remains largely a part of The Hobbit even as he was not the principal director during pre-production. How they pick up the piece from where del Torro left off is what is being anticipated next.

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Director David Finch and writer Aaron Sorkin has been working on the movie about Facebook creator, Marc Zuckerburg for a while now and a very short teaser of this film has just been released. It doesn’t say much except to say how one young man has able to make millions introducing this social networking site without making a few enemies a long the way. The film open is October and stars Jesse Eisenberg who plays Facebook’s CEO and resembles him closely well. Also in this film are Justin Timberlake, who is Sean Parker, from Napster who later became the founding President of Facebook, and Andrew Garfield who plays Eduardo Saverin, one fo Facebook’s pioneers who had a falling out with its creator over money matters.

Here is the very short teaser:

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The Excalibur remake is apparently in the works and Warner Brothers is setting their sites on Guy Ritchie to direct the movie, following the scoring success of his last directorial work, Sherlock Holmes.

The Excalibur remake will be produced by the same people who has brought in 300, which means with Ritchie and this production in the project, expect another kick-ass blockbuster remake.

The production is now scouting for writers for the film.

On the other hand, Bryan Singer was also expected to do an Excalibur remake and from the looks of it, these two films will be totally different.

Excalibur is a very popular film from the early 80’s and was directed by John Boorman. It boasts of a superb cast and excellent storytelling.

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I love watching movies. It’s like a rest time for me after a long day of hardwork. Recently, I heard a lot of comments about the movie “Paranormal Activity”. I was so excited to watch it but I’m having second thoughts for the reason that I don’t like horror films. So I just made up my mind and I grabbed the oppurtunity to watch it  during my free time. Honestly, the first 20 minutes of the movie made me really dissapointed. There was a lot of conversations and I got really bored and wanted them to stop talking and wish they would just show all the spooky scenes.  So after a long wait, they showed the scary part, and there I was speechless. Chills came running down my body and I’m just so thankful I was watching it with someone. I don’t want to be a party pooper so I’m not going to blog  about what I’ve seen in the movie. But I’d like to congratulate the director of the “Paranormal Activity” Oren Peli for doing a superb job. The concept of the movie was really creative and unique. Their acting was so realistic that made a gullible person like me believe that the movie was real. After watching it I immediately searched the internet for some facts about this movie. The director said that he patterned this film with his personal experience. Some of the scenes did really happen when the director bought his new house. (creepy right?) but I was glad that the end part of the “paranormal activity” didn’t really happened in real life because that was the most scariest part of the movie. What I noticed lacking in this movie was that they didn’t thought about praying. They were resolving there “spooky problems” with their own strength and we all know that the only solution in this kind of situation is to believe in God and pray. Oh well, I’m not trying to be religious in any way but still I wish they’d considered praying because It’s a powerful weapon against demonic stuff. On the other hand, I would like to congratulate the special effects team in this movie. Some parts were really realistic so I’ll give them two thumbs up for that. The actors were really good, to the point that I was thinking if the movie did really happened (great acting guys!). To sum it all up, I think the movie was ok. It was purely made just to inform the people that things like these does exist.

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