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| Dwayne Johnson as the Fall Guy? Posted: The Rock may team up with filmmaker McG on the big-screen version of The Fall Guy. A big-screen version of the hit 1980 TV show The Fall Guy is coming together with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to star and McG directing. Both are are negotiating to come aboard the project, which will be financed by Ashok Amritrage's Hyde Park Entertainment and WWE Entertainment, a source close to the project told TheWrap on Thursday. Amritrage would produce along with Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, who own the rights to the show, and WWE's Michael Luisi. McG may also produce. The Fall Guy was a TV show that starred Lee Majors as a stunt man who did bounty hunter work on the side, utilising his Hollywood skills. It ran on ABC from 1981 to 1986. Warner Bros and DreamWorks have both considered projects based on the show in past years, with Nicolas Cage considered for the lead role. The Hollywood Reporter was the first to report the news out of Toronto, Canada, where the project is being shopped. — Reuters |
| Vin Diesel promotes 'Riddick' on Facebook Posted: The actor-producer is loving his latest sci-fi action film's box-office prospects. Vin Diesel's sci-fi action film Riddick opens in Malaysia today, and make no mistake – this is his movie. It will be No.1 – it's the week's only wide release and is projected to come in north of US$20mil (RM64mil) in the US alone – and it has his imprint all over it. Diesel secured the rights from Universal (in exchange for a cameo in Fast And Furious), sought out the financing to get the film made and dominates the screen as the intergalactic alien anti-hero with the see-in-the-dark peepers. On top of that, he's doing a heck of a job of marketing it on Facebook (www.facebook.com/VinDiesel), where he's been pushing Riddick for months to his more than 46 million followers. That's about as built-in a fan base as you could hope for. "I don't know that there's any actor out there doing what he is in that space," said Boxoffice.com editor-in-chief Phil Contrino. "I think it was directly responsible for getting Riddick made, in that it enabled to show potential backers that there was real and solid support for the project. And I think it had a lot do with making the Fast & Furious movies as strong as they've been, too," Contrino said. "He's really good at it, and by directly interacting with fans on these movies it makes them feel as if they have a stake in their success, so of course they're going to go see them."  Vin Diesel reprises his role as the inter-galactic anti-hero alien, in the latest sci-fi film Riddick. The critics are lukewarm on the R-rated space odyssey, which has a middling 63% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But it doesn't take night vision to see that if 6% of Diesel's 46 million Facebook fans turn out for Riddick in its first weekend – it should wind up with around US$23mil (RM73.6mil). The studio is more conservative with its estimate, and has it in roughly 2,800 theatres in the US. Riddick is the third film in the futuristic series that began with Pitch Black back in 2000. Written and directed by David Twohy and produced by Ted Field, it proved a breakout role for the then-36-year-old Diesel. Made for US$23mil, it took in US$39mil (RM125mil) domestically for Universal before going on to a very healthy after-life on DVD. Buoyed by that success, the studio bet big – as in a US$105mil (RM336mil) production budget – on the second film, 2004's The Chronicles Of Riddick. But it was a disappointment at the box office, topping out at US$115mil (RM368mil) worldwide. Diesel was determined to make a third film about the ex-con survivor of the planet Furya, but Universal wasn't interested. They did want him for the Fast And Furious movies however, and asked him to do a cameo in its third instalment, Tokyo Drift. He agreed, on the condition that he could have the rights to the Riddick character. With those in hand, he and Twohy set out to finance it independently and did, primarily through selling off foreign rights. When they came back to the US looking for a distribution partner, Universal decided they wanted to get back in the business with the star that had done so much for the cops-and-criminals franchise. The studio only has US rights. The foreign returns – which should be significant since the Fast franchise has made Diesel far more well-known internationally since the first two Riddick films – will be split among a number of distributors. — Reuters Related story: |
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