Posted on 03/12/2006 7:30:34 PM PST by Kimmers
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hot off his best picture win for "Crash," Paul Haggis is in final negotiations to direct and produce "Against All Enemies," a project based on Richard A. Clarke's best-selling memoir chronicling the Bush administration's handling of terrorist threats.
Clarke, a former U.S. terrorism czar, offers the ultimate insider's account into the nation's security apparatus, featuring a cast of power brokers that includes President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and himself.
The book was published by Free Press in March 2004 and hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, fueling intense criticism over the administration's security failures and its decision to go to war with Iraq.
It is unclear whether Haggis will tackle Columbia Pictures' hot-button political drama next or sandwich in another directing project first. Either way, he will initially supervise scribe James Vanderbilt ("The Rundown"), who is penning a second draft of "Enemies." Haggis is currently writing "Death and Dishonor" for Warner Bros. Pictures, which he is attached to direct.
In addition to nabbing a best picture Oscar for producing "Crash," Haggis also won a statuette for writing the film's original screenplay with Bobby Moresco. His producing credits also include last year's best picture winner, "Million Dollar Baby," which he adapted.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
I'm sure Clooney will be available.
Well if it is anti Bush it will be a shoe in for an oscar next year.
I forget who said it, but someone coined this gem, which will likely be appropriate:
There are two kinds of people, the innocent people who write memoirs, and the guilty people who don't.
"Crash" is an overrated POS movie.
I agree with you on Bush and the media thing. Bush just sits around all chumpish while they take potshots at him. Any of his proposals or statements are immediately twisted and spun by the MSM and there's tepid or non-existant responses from his spokespeople. Bush is one of the worst Presidents to utilize the media.
Shocking!;)
This should be huge... will probably will all the awards... /sarcasm
win*
Richard Clarke as Jack Bauer. Incredible.
Most around here think Bush kept on far too many. Exhibit A: Norm Mineta.
And yhey wonder why Hollywood is becoming 'Brokeass Mountain'.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593389/posts
World box office dipped 7.9 pct to 23 billion dollars last year : study
Hollywood movie ticket sales around the world dropped by 7.9 percent last year to 23 billion dollars, with the US box office accounting for nearly 40 percent of the haul, a study showed.
Movie ticket receipts in North America dipped by six percent in 2005 to nine billion dollars, according to a study by the ratings statistics firm Nielsen Entertainment/NRG that comes as movie-goers increasingly stay out of cinemas.
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Please, let's not do THIS again. BBM was an unmitigated hit. It cost little and made tons of profit.
That it fell off the radar after NOT winning Best Pic proves what, exactly? All movies nominated for Best Pic that don't win fall off the radar. The thing has been in theaters since December for Pete's sake.
Just because we dislike the movie's message doesn't mean we should ignore reality, and the reality is this thing was a huge financial hit.
Why does this make you go "hmmmm"? It'll probably be in video stores in April or May, no surprise for an indie movie released in December. Seeing how much of a profit it's made, the producers would be fools NOT to put it out on video to capitalize on the reviews and box office success.
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is coming out next month and it was released in December, too--does THAT make anyone wonder? Of course not. Neither should this.
What I find curious about this movie is that the most conservative AND the most liberal people I know HATED this movie. The liberal said he was hoping ANYTHING but Crash won.
Someone told me Geroge Clooney made a "great" acceptance speech and I asked what it was about she said "About how Hollywood ISN'T behind the times" and she had to wait while I laughed, and he claimed Hollywood was making AIDS movies when no one else was talking about AIDS. I challenged her to name all these AIDS movies during the 80's when all anyone talked about was AIDS, AIDS, AIDS. Clooney is a boob who thinks that having a platform means having the intelligence to say something meaningful. He's a moron who is told by other morons that he's a genius, so he believes it.
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