Catherine Hardwicke Picks Plush
Evan Rachel Wood may star…
It’s been a few years since Catherine Hardwicke and Evan Rachel Wood worked together on Thirteen. Now it appears they might be teaming back up again for the erotic thriller Plush.
Hardwicke co-wrote the script with Artie and plans to direct. As for Wood, she’s attached to star, but we don’t exactly know what she’ll be playing as the only details that backers IM Global have released are that it’s a thriller set in the LA music world.
The company is about to start shopping the project around the European Film Market next week, intending to drum up enough cash to get it made. If it does go into production, it’ll see Hardwicke and Wood back on similar territory to Thirteen, which featured unflinching portraits of teenage drug use and sex. From the sounds of it, Plush will feature slightly more grown up characters, but still with lots of emotional manipulation.
Hardwicke last brought the world Red Riding Hood, and has been developing a few projects, including novel adaptation Maximum Ride and boxing biopic Knockout.
Wood, meanwhile, was last seen in The Ides Of March and TV miniseries Mildred Pierce.
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Catherine Hardwicke Picks Plush
Chronicle Overpowers The US Box Office
Woman In Black scares up a strong second
Given that this past weekend hosted the annual sportsgasm known as the Super Bowl, the usual trend is for lower box office results. So the teams behind super powered found footage thriller Chronicle and horror chiller The Woman In Black should be feeling extra pleased this morning, as both films performed beyond expectations. Chronicle managed to sneak out a win, taking the top spot with $22 million, but the Daniel Radcliffe ghost story did almost as well, earning $21 million for second place.
Liam Neeson and his hungry pack of wolves held off other competition, and The Grey only dropped one place to third, earning $9.5 million. That meant heart-warming family tale Big Miracle had to make do with fourth place, opening with a slightly disappointing $8.5 million. Underworld: Awakening rounded out the top five with $5.6 million.
Katherine Heigl’s latest, One For The Money, appears to be hitting a fast descent, sliding from third to sixth for $5.5 million. Red Tails was seventh with $5 million and The Descendants stayed at eighth, making $4.6 million. Man On A Ledge was another victim of bad word of mouth, falling badly from fifth to ninth and $4.5 million. Finally, we find Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close at 10th with $3.9 million.
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Seth Rogen Joins The B Team
Developing spy comedy at Disney
There was a time when The B Team was a cop comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, before a certain A-Team caused a name-switch to The Other Guys. But with The Other Guys now come and gone, and The A-Team a distant, tank-flying memory, The B Team is back, this time in the form of a spy spoof being developed by Seth Rogen. It just goes to show you can’t keep a good name down. Or something.
This project actually pre-dates those others, and its title was presumably in flux there for a while. Development being as slow as it is though, it’s fair game again. The story in this case is about a “top secret-agent” who gets kidnapped and has to be rescued by his back-up gang of researchers and techies, who presumably aren’t quite as “top” as he is.
The original pitch to the studio was by Derek Guiley and David Schneiderman, whose last produced screenplay was Chasing Liberty back in 2004. Rogen has come aboard as a producer at this stage, but may have his eye on a starring role as well. There’s no mention of his usual cohort Evan Goldberg being involved at the moment, but we’re sure it’s only a matter of time.
The B Team is still at the coming-together stage at the moment, with no start-date on the cards. Which is fine, because Rogen very much needs to give his complete attention to Jay And Seth Vs. The Apocalypse. Last we heard, that one’s due before the cameras in February.
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Seth Rogen Joins The B Team