TOTAL LICENSING
armored car guard (Columbus Short) and Tim Allen. The film was produced
is persuaded by his veteran cohorts to by Pixar Animation Studios and Buena
empty a truck of its $10 million cargo. Vista Distribution. It was written by
Filming took place in Los Angeles. Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel
Cohen, and Alec Sokolow, and fea-
Fame tured music by Randy Newman.
MGM/Lionsgate This re-release will be in Disney Digi-
When Fame the movie burst onto the tal 3-D, with Toy Story 3 scheduled for
scene in July 1980, it took the world 2010.
by storm. The story centers around a
group of teenagers who are selected Ashecliffe
from New York City’s High School for Paramount Pictures
Ripcord’s (Marlon Wayans) induction
the Performing Arts to push their tal- Ashecliffe, also known as Shutter Is-
into the G.I. Joe Team, providing the
ents to the limit in order to make it land, is a thriller film directed by Mar-
audience’s point-of-view. Locations in-
big in show business. The new version, tin Scorsese and starring Leonardo
clude the Arctic, Paris, Moscow, Wash-
for release 2009, updates the original DiCaprio. The film is based on the
ington, D.C., Australia and the Sahara.
story for the modern world. As Paul 2003 novel Shutter Island by Dennis
Flett, Head of Marketing and Promo- Lehane. Two U.S. marshals investigate
Final Destination 4
tions, MGM Consumer Products, ex- the disappearance of a patient from a
New Line Cinema
plains: “It fits right into the huge inter- hospital for the criminally insane on an
The latest installment to the Final Des-
est in reality shows that there is at the island in Massachusetts. They run into
tination supernatural thriller franchise,
moment. That is why the cast won’t be trouble when they are deceived by
the film will be written and directed
the big name stars but talented lesser others, and a hurricane and an inmate
by Final Destination 2’s Eric Bress and
known actors for whom Fame will be riot traps them on the island.
David R. Ellis, respectively.
their big break”. Feature film rights to the 2003 novel
On what should have been a typical
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane were
day at the races for McKinley Speed-
The Surrogates first optioned to Columbia
way, Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo)
Touchstone Pictures Pictures in 2003, but the
has a grisly premonition of a race car
The Surrogates is based on the 2005- rights lapsed back to the
fatally crashing and sending debris
2006 comic book series of the same author. The author’s rep-
into the stands, gruesomely killing his
name. The film is directed by Jonathan resentatives then sold the
friends, and causing an overhang to
Mostow and stars Bruce Willis. rights to the production
collapse on him. He awakens, not be-
In the near future, humans live in isola- company Phoenix Pictures,
ing able to shake the feeling of how
tion and only interact through robotic who hired screenwriter
real his vision appeared, he panics, and
bodies that serve as surrogates. When Laeta Kalogridis to script the novel
just in time, persuades the group of
several surrogates are murdered, a cop for a film adaptation. The project was
teenagers to leave the bleachers. Im-
(Bruce Willis) investigates the crimes in development for a year. By October
mediately afterward objects begin to
through his own surrogate. The inves- 2007, the project had developed into
fly into the public as his frightening
tigation forces the cop to bring his hu- a co-production between the studios
dream turns into a reality. Unfortu-
man form out of isolation and unravel Columbia Pictures and Paramount
nately for Nick, along with his friends
a conspiracy behind the crimes. Pictures. Director Martin Scorsese
Lori Milligan (Shantel VanSanten) and
In March 2007, Disney acquired fea- and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who
Janet Cunningham (Haley Webb), this
ture film rights to the 2005/06 comic had worked together on three films,
is only the beginning. As the survivors
book series The Surrogates with the were both attracted to Shutter Island
begin to die one-by-one in even more
intent to distribute under Touchstone as their next collaboration.
terrifying ways than they had original-
Pictures. Under Disney, Jonathan Mo-
ly, Nick must figure out how to cheat
stow was attached to direct the film Where the Wild Things Are
death once and for all before, he too,
based on an adapted screenplay by Warner Bros
reaches his final destination.
Michael Ferris and John Brancato. The Where the Wild Things Are is a film
following November, Bruce Willis was adaptation of a Maurice Sendak pic-
SEPTEMBER
cast to star in the lead role. ture book of the same name. The film
Armored
will be directed by Spike Jonze and
Screen Gems
OCTOBER
written by Dave Eggers. The movie
Armored is an upcoming American
Toy Story 3-D
will combine live action, suitmation,
crime film directed by Nimród Antal,
Pixar / Buena Vista
animatronics and CGI. Filming began
written by first-time screenwriter
Toy Story is a 1995 American comput-
in April 2006 in Melbourne, Australia.
James V. Simpson, and starring Colum-
er-generated comedy film, directed by
Adam Keenan and John Nolan will be
bus Short and Matt Dillon. A young
John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks
responsible for the animatronics. The
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