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Post by fifiserafino on Jan 9, 2014 2:13:56 GMT -5
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Post by fifiserafino on Jan 9, 2014 2:23:08 GMT -5
Just reading more about the original - directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty) www.imdb.com/title/tt0102685/. I had no idea that she is 62! thought she was in her 40's. A very well-preserved and natural-looking woman.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 4:12:40 GMT -5
Just read the specs on the film's remake it has a $100 million dollar budget and Warner Bros will distribute in U.S.along with Lionsgate. It was also a hot property.
The only thing that bugs me is that I worry Gerry is going to move to doing the bad guy roles. I hate to see that happen but if they are a success I guess he could move back out of those roles. I think he will really rock this role though.
Wishing him the best.
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Post by fifiserafino on Jan 9, 2014 4:22:56 GMT -5
Thanks Elenoire www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/afm-lionsgate-sells-worldwide-alcon-654890AFM: Lionsgate Sells Out Worldwide on Alcon Entertainment's 'Point Break' Reboot 7:00 PM PST 11/9/2013 by Scott Roxborough, Pamela McClintock UPDATED: In the biggest deal of AFM, the $100 million action-thriller -- billed as an extreme-sports update of Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 classic -- wows buyers despite having no cast attached. Lionsgate is hanging ten with Alcon Entertainment's Point Break reboot, which has quickly become the biggest success story of the 2013 American Film Market after selling out around the globe. The big-budget update of Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 action-thriller will feature a myriad of extreme sports, and not just surfing. In the current uncertain market climate, it is almost unheard of for an independent film to sell without a cast attached, but uber-salesman Patrick Wachsberger, co-chairman of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, has done just that with Point Break, as foreign distributors rushed to outbid each other for rights to the movie, which Warner Bros. will release domestically in the spring of 2015 on behalf of Alcon. Alcon, coming off the box office success of Prisoners, is fully financing the ambitious project. Lionsgate is handling the film internationally. Point Break's dazzling success at AFM is all the more impressive when you consider the film's director, Ericson Core, has just one feature directing credit to his name -- the 2006 football movie Invincible, which stars Mark Wahlberg. But Core knows how to deliver wow-'em visuals (he was the cinematographer on the first Fast and the Furious film) and a pitch reel produced for AFM apparently blew buyers away. “Buyers were sold on the high concept of the film,” Wachsberger tells The Hollywood Reporter. “This is going to be a much larger scale film than the first one.” While Wachsberger wouldn't comment on Point Break's budget, buyers suggest it will come in at tentpole level, with insiders placing it somewhere between $90 million-$110 million. Wachsberger said the concept of the reboot would revisit the original film's characters: Johnny Utah -- an undercover FBI agent investigating a series of daring robberies -- and Bodhi -- the head robber and extreme athlete whose spiritual pursuit of the ultimate kick fascinates and intrigues the cop. In the original film, Keanu Reeves and the late Patrick Swayze played Utah and Bodhi, respectively. But the new film will go beyond big wave surfing to include the massive world of extreme sports, including wingsuiting, snowboarding, rock climbing and motorcycle racing. Giving the project street cred are extreme sport stars, including professional skydiver and BASE jumper Jeb Corliss and legendary American rock climber Chris Sharma, who will act as consultants on Point Break. While the first Point Break was largely set in California, the new film will go global, with location shooting planned in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, China and Malta.
“This will be much more like a James Bond film,” Core told buyers in the AFM pitch reel, giving an idea of the planned scale of the movie. “It is probably the best high-concept film out there,” said Markus Zimmer, acquisitions head for Germany's Concorde, which is thought to have paid several million for the German rights to the picture.Kurt Wimmer (Total Recall) has penned the script to Point Break, which Oscar-nominated The Blind Side producers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove are producing for Alcon with John Baldecchi (The Mexican), Wimmer and Christopher W. Taylor. Robert L. Levy, Peter Abrams and John McMurrick are executive producing. Principle photography is set to start in March 2014. While there is no official release date yet, buyers suggested Warners will bow Point Break around Easter 2015.Lionsgate has had a bumper AFM. In addition to Point Break, Wachsberger also sold out its two other biggest market titles: Alex Proyas' epic adventure film, Gods of Egypt, starring Gerard Butler; Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites and Geoffrey Rush; and Mortdecai, in which Johnny Depp plays a debonair art dealer and part-time rogue who goes on a globe-trotting adventure with wife Gwyneth Paltrow in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the secrets of long lost Nazi gold. Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn and Paul Bettany also star. David Koepp (Premium Rush) is directing. Rushing off from speaking with THR to catch a flight to the London premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Wachsberger noted that before AFM he had been worried his tight schedule would leave him too little time to close deals. “It didn't turn out to be a problem,” he quipped. “We're done.”
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 8:53:42 GMT -5
fifiserafino -Thanks for posting Elenoire's article which I was quoting in my post, it does make the film more appealing. I am not a fan of remakes because comparisons are inevitable and I HATE the comments that fans of the first film want the film to fail. Those can sink a good project. I am still upset about Kurt Russell coming out and dissing Gerry as the next Snake in Escape from New York because he wasn't an American which I think had something to do with sinking that project. Gerry sure likes to take on iconic roles LOL Interesting that Kurt Wimmer who wrote LAC is writing this film and Gerry auditioned for Salt. Lots of positives in this project I know he will prove the nay-Sayers wrong (which are all vocal already) about being about to do this role, I am hoping that he will be able to be a Scotsman in this film since it is going to have a international flair. Loved this comment: P.S. One of the articles said the movie was to start filming this Summer, instead of March which is good news that Gerry will get in both films this year. One to be released in 2015 and one in 2016(GOE)
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Post by elenoire on Jan 9, 2014 14:27:05 GMT -5
Well, now we know why Malibu all this time And remember this guy from Miami? It was movie related His name is Dean Morrison "The Dingo", a snowboarder with his own TV show www.imdb.com/title/tt1302810/
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Post by fifiserafino on Jan 9, 2014 15:54:24 GMT -5
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Post by TeePat on Jan 9, 2014 18:23:47 GMT -5
He's a snowboarder...wonder if he's any good?
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Post by fifiserafino on Jan 9, 2014 19:54:44 GMT -5
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Post by Lily on Jan 9, 2014 20:23:44 GMT -5
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Post by catty on Jan 10, 2014 23:02:42 GMT -5
Why do I get nervous when I read Gerry is going to play an 'extreme sports specialist' in this Point Break re-make ? #StuntDoublePlease
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Post by scottishdreamer on Jan 11, 2014 0:24:45 GMT -5
Well at least this sounds like they are trying to rev the movie up to get the younger audience. That's their plan since younger people generally aren't aware of Point Break. Let's hope they can not only make this fun and exciting but market it properly!!
It sounds like Gerry will be traveling the world this year again only due to working this time around. We could be some happy fans if we get fan sightings wherever he goes! We'll be right behind him!!!
Thanks for all the info about Dingos ladies!
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Post by Lily on Jan 11, 2014 9:36:03 GMT -5
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Post by Lily on Jan 11, 2014 9:40:18 GMT -5
Shellie: "positive about Gerry/Point Break AMC Movie Talk"AMC Movie Talk - Gerard Butler to Star in POINT BREAK Remake
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Post by mina on Jan 11, 2014 10:36:54 GMT -5
Gerard Butler's Rumored Point Break Remake Not Going Over Well With Fans Fans are not too excited about the possibility of Gerard Butler having a prominent role in the Point Break remake. The negative response comes on the heels of sources telling The Hollywood Reporter that the Scottish actor is in "final negotiations" to star in an adaptation of the 1991 classic surf film. The original movie, directed by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow, tells the story of an FBI agent (Keanu Reeves) who goes undercover to try to catch a gang of bank robber-surfers, led by Patrick Swayze. The remake, which is slated for release in 2015 and will be directed by Ericson Core, keeps the same theme of an FBI agent trying to infiltrate a crime ring, however this version takes place in the world of extreme sports. Butler is expected to take the part of Bodhi—Swayze's character in the original film. The new Bodhi, according to THR, is "an expert extreme-sports athlete who seeks nirvana through the conquest of a series of athletic feats such as surfing 100-foot waves." The role of the undercover FBI agent has not been cast yet. The news of Butler as Bodhi in the cult classic generated lots of excitement on Twitter, but not much positive reaction. "And, if you insist on remaking Point Break, at least have the DECENCY to cast Matthew McConaughey as Bodhi. Gerard Butler is an insult," one user tweeted. "Bad: Point Break remake. Worse: Gerard Butler as Bodhi," another added. "If I had even a speck of interest in seeing a POINT BREAK remake to begin with, casting Gerard Butler completely obliterated it," a fan of the original wrote. it.eonline.com/news/497826/gerard-butler-s-rumored-point-break-remake-not-going-over-well-with-fans
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