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Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes Project With Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening & Owen Wilson Still In The Works

By Kevin Jagernauth
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November 14, 2012 5:01 PM
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News

Not seen on the big screen since 2001's "Town & Country," and not having directed a movie since 1998's "Bulworth," any Warren Beatty news is cause for curiosity -- though optimism is something that you'll likely want to keep on hold. Remember last year when it looked like he was going to do that Howard Hughes biopic before it went all Spruce Goose? Well it may still be alive. Although, he still has to make sure he can find financing which, in today's marketplace, is tough. Basically, he would have a better shot at making "Dick Tracy 2" in this climate than anything else.

By Oliver Lyttelton
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August 14, 2012 3:05 PM
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Features

It's almost impossible to overstate the influence of Arthur Penn's "Bonnie & Clyde." It wasn't alone as one of the film breaking down the walls of a "new cinema" -- Michaelangelo Antonioni's "Blow Up" had turned heads the previous year, and Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" helped with the impression of the changing of the guard when it followed a few months later. But it was Penn's film (written by journalists Robert Benton and David Newman, with a polish from Robert Towne and produced by Warren Beatty), which told the story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, the Depression-era bank robbing duo, that really felt like the lightning strike, bringing the techniques, sexuality, violence and cool-factor of European cinema to a mainstream audience for the first time.

By Oliver Lyttelton
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May 21, 2012 1:43 PM
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Features

To have one giant money-losing tentpole is unfortunate. To have two starts to look careless, and that's what's happened to Taylor Kitsch. The actor, who broke out on TV's "Friday Night Lights," was seen as Hollywood's next great hope, picked out to star in two great big blockbusters with a combined cost of half-a-billion dollars. But when "John Carter" arrived in March, the film wildly underperformed, with Disney taking a hit of at least $100 million on the project. And after this weekend, it looks that his other film, "Battleship," is going to lose similar amounts.

By Jen Vineyard
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November 30, 2011 1:19 PM
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News

By Kevin Jagernauth
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November 15, 2011 3:48 PM
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News

Did Paramount see the writing on the wall before anybody else? Warren Beatty has never been the easiest person to work with (the production history/drama of "Reds" is legendary), but with a project 25 years in the making, marking the return of return of a legend who has been out of the spotlight for more than a decade would be enticing for many. So while the studio declined to handle the untitled movie, New Regency swooped in to take control, teaming with Morgan Creek Productions and billionaire Steve Bing to produce, with a 45/45/10 split among the three. But somebody is now backing out.