July 9, 2008–Robert Downey Jr. will star in “Sherlock Holmes,” ro be directed by Guy Ritchie for Warne. The picture begins shooting in October. Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin are producing.
Nine Musical Still in the Works
July 9, 2008 by
July 9, 2008–Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media will to co-finance the Weinstein Company's $80 million Rob Marshall musical “Nine.”
Ripper Serial Killer: Channel 4 Trilogy of Crimers
July 7, 2008 by
July 7, 2008–Channel 4 is producing a trilogy of films about the hunt for Yorkshire Ripper serial killer. The three crimer Revolution is producing for Channel 4 are based on three of the four books in British novelist David Peace?¢¬Ä¬ôs ?¢¬Ä¬úRed Riding Quartet,?¢¬Ä is set in Yorkshire in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Cruelest Miles, The: Alaska's 1925 Epidemic Story
June 26, 2008 by
June 26, 2008–Walden Media is reteaming with “Chronicles of Narnia” producer Mark Johnson for the true story of a team of men and sled dogs that braved temperatures of 60 below to save an Alaskan town from a deadly epidemic in 1925.
Sex and the City Breaks Box-Office Records
May 31, 2008 by
May 31, 2008–New Line's big-screen adaptation of the cult HBO TV series “Sex and the City” grossed $26.9 million Friday from 3,285 theaters on the strength of women, by far the best opening day ever for a romantic comedy and kind of success that usually defines male-driven actioners or family fare.
