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Young Dro On New Mixtape: 'I Kill Everything I Do'

9 November 2009 3:50 AM, PST | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

He also addresses his recent album leak, in Mixtape Daily.

By Shaheem Reid

Young Dro

Photo: Atlantic

Young Dro is on overload. Since his long-awaited album P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once) leaked on the Net months ago, Dro had to go back in the lab and retool the project. The Polo champ has this week's Main Pick — he's got homie and Grand Hustle CEO T.I. onboard, but he mainly runs the show on this one. Tip, we miss you. Oh yeah, and we have some more surprises for you this week, so stay tuned.

This Week's Main Pick

Street Kings: Young Dro and DJ Don Cannon

Holding It Down For: Atlanta and Philly

Mixtape: R.I.P.(I Killed That Sh--)

Real Spit: Shot to the heart. Young Dro was putting the finishing touches on his album P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once »

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Young Dro On New Mixtape: 'I Kill Everything I Do'

9 November 2009 3:50 AM, PST | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

He also addresses his recent album leak, in Mixtape Daily.

By Shaheem Reid

Young Dro

Photo: Atlantic

Young Dro is on overload. Since his long-awaited album P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once) leaked on the Net months ago, Dro had to go back in the lab and retool the project. The Polo champ has this week's Main Pick — he's got homie and Grand Hustle CEO T.I. onboard, but he mainly runs the show on this one. Tip, we miss you. Oh yeah, and we have some more surprises for you this week, so stay tuned.

This Week's Main Pick

Street Kings: Young Dro and DJ Don Cannon

Holding It Down For: Atlanta and Philly

Mixtape: R.I.P.(I Killed That Sh--)

Real Spit: Shot to the heart. Young Dro was putting the finishing touches on his album P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once »

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Smokin’ Aces 2 Trailer

31 October 2009 10:19 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has unveiled the trailer for the upcoming “Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball,” a prequel to Joe Carnahan’s kinetic hitman flick.

“Smokin’ Aces 2″ synopsis: Federal agents once again match wits with a cadre of creative killers in the high-octane feature-length film Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball. Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey (Martha Higareda), a power-tool wielding psychopath (Vinnie Jones) and a deadly master of disguise (Tommy Flanagan). Also in the hunt is the fan-favorite Tremor family from the original film, featuring nymphomaniacal gun-nut (Autumn Reeser) and her lethal kinfolk (Maury Sterling, Michael Parks and C. Ernst Harth). Baker (Clayne Crawford »

- Allan Ford

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‘Ghost In The Shell’ Snags ‘Shutter Island’ Screenwriter [Updated]

27 October 2009 2:42 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Update: Laeta Kalogridis is female Not male. I apologize. Changes have been noted.

Dreamworks’ adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s manga/anime classic Ghost In The Shell has snagged Laeta Kalogridis to adapt Shirow’s futuristic vision into a live-action 3D blockbuster. Kalogridis has penned such past gems as Oliver Stone’s Alexander and the American alt-history epic, Pathfinder, but is poised to be a breakout name for Her work adapting author Dennis Lehane’s novel Shutter Island into a Martin Scorsese film, which will be hitting theaters early next year.

Jamie Moss (Street Kings) had been tapped to draft an earlier version of Ghost In The Shell - guess his take on the story didn’t go over so well with the studio…

 

The Ghost In Shell universe created by Shirow was a vision of the future where technology is everywhere and human beings have been augmented with cybernetic bodies down to their very brains, »

- Kofi Outlaw

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New Writer For Ghost In The Shell

27 October 2009 12:57 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

In a brief flurry of publicity last year, Dreamworks picked up the rights to Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell. Steven Spielberg gushed about its wonderfulness (he's right) and Jamie Moss (Street Kings) was put to work on the screenplay. The rest was silence, but now it emerges that a new draft is being prepared by Laeta Kalogridis, hot from adapting Dennis Lehane's novel Shutter Island for Martin Scorsese. Avi and Ari Arad are still attached as producers on what's destined to be a live-action 3D (natch) action epic.No director or explicit story details yet, but we'd guess that, like the 1995 anime, the new Ghost in the Shell will home in on the mindbending Puppetmaster plot thread, about, more or less, a government-created super-ai gone rogue.Mad action, cyborg-enhanced cops and spider-like mecha-tanks (and lots and lots of boobs) ought to make for massive, jawdropping spectacle. But »

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Ghost in the Shell 3-D Live Action Remake Gets a New Writer

26 October 2009 4:41 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

A couple of years ago, we saw a flood of studios picking up the rights to live action remakes of popular anime films and series. Fast-forward to today, and most of these are still stuck in development hell, perhaps stalled by the massive failure that was Dragonball Evolution. While I wouldn't be surprised if some of these projects never actually reach completion, at least a couple of them are still showing signs of life, with the Akira adaptation recently getting a new team of writers [1], and now Dreamworks setting a new scribe for their 3-D live action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. Back when the project was first announced [2], the writer who had been assigned to craft the script was Jamie Moss, whose only previous credit was the Keanu Reeves crime thriller Street Kings. Now Variety [3] is reporting that the torch has been passed to Laeta Kalogridis, with no »

- Sean

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New Writer for Live-Action ‘Ghost in the Shell’

25 October 2009 6:30 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

It has been a year and a half since DreamWorks announced a live-action, 3-D adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.  There has been no movement on the anime-to-Hollywood conversion and like another Americanization, Akira, this seemed to have stalled in the planning stages.

Now Laeta Kalogridis has been brought in to take a new shot at the science fiction police thriller, according to Variety.  She contributed screenplay bits to the Oliver Stone’s disastrous Alexander, but recently wrote and executive produced Scorsese’s Shutter Island.  Fans may still be crossing their arms in defiance of the movie, but at least it’s an upgrade from Jamie Moss (Street Kings).

Ghost in the Shell is a franchise consisting of three manga volumes, three Japanese films, and an anime television series.  The original GiTS opened in 1995, but it was redone with computer graphics in 2008 around the same time as DreamWorks acquired the rights. »

- Jeff Leins

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Cool Where The Wild Things Are Photos

25 October 2009 12:04 AM, PDT | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »

Check out a few more really cool photos from the fantasy film “Where the Wild Things Are” by director Spike Jonze (Jackass Number Two) and starring Forest Whitaker (The Expendables, Street Kings), Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood), Catherine Keener (Hamlet 2, Capote) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos). Click Here for more photos, news and videos from Where The Wild Things Are. Synopsis: “Where the Wild Things Are” is an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie [...] »

- Brian Corder

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Who Should Play The Major in The Live-Action 'Ghost in The Shell'?

23 October 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

There has been talk of a live action Ghost in The Shell for some time now, and while I knew that a Us remake was probably inevitable, there was still a small part of me that thought that maybe this time, we would be spared another inferior North American 're-imagining' of a pretty spectacular anime. But I guess I'm not that lucky, because Variety is now reporting that Dreamworks has just hired Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island) to adapt the manga for a live action 3D film, bring the film that much closer to reality.

Street Kings writer, Jamie Moss, had originally been hired to write the story of "...the exploits of a member of a covert ops unit of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission that specializes in fighting technology-related crime." But I guess Dreamworks wasn't thrilled with the final result, because now Moss is out and Kalogridis is in. »

- Jessica Barnes

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Ghost in the Shell Gets Writer

23 October 2009 10:02 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

It was more than a year ago that Steven Spielberg bought the rights to the Japanese story Ghost in the Shell. Back then Jamie Moss of Street Kings had been hired as writer in order to adapt it into a live action 3D film. Now it appears that Moss has been replaced by Leata Kalogridis, according to Variety, who has previously written Alexander, Pathfinder, and the upcoming Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island. The project as of now has no director, but if the writing is any good, then Spielberg will probably find a way to make it (” ’Ghost in the Shell’ is one of my favorite stories,” he was quoted as saying). Manga and anime adaptations are becoming increasingly popular; Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the producers attempting to bring Akira to the big screen. The technology has gotten so great that all it takes is the money and the »

- Jacob

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Ghost in the Shell Goes Live Action and 3D

23 October 2009 6:23 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

The ultra-popular Japanese manga property Ghost in the Shell, which centers around a futuristic cyberpunk counter-terrorist organization, will soon be headed to the big screen. Writer Laeta Kalogridis, who is about to blow up huge with Shutter Island, Knight & Day, and Battle Angel, will handle the scripting duties for the film.

Kalogridis took over the position after writer Jamie Moss (Street Kings) left the project.

Dreamworks along with uber-producer Avi Arad are designing the film — which was previously brought to life as an anime in 1995 — to be a live-action film for 3D.

The production design of this film is sure to be stunning, from a brief exploration of a Google image search for Ghost in the Shell. It’s certainly a property that lends itself to the 3D aesthetic, so I’m going to have to check out the original film to see what all the fuss is about. Between Battle Angel and this film, »

- John Cooper

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Laeta Kalogridis Writing DreamWorks' Ghost in the Shell 3D

23 October 2009 3:40 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Some news today on the anime front. Variety is reporting that DreamWorks has hired screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the Ghost in the Shell manga into a futuristic live-action 3D police thriller. It was first discovered that DreamWorks, under Steven Spielberg's supervision, would be bringing this anime to life on the big screen in 3D more than a year ago. Jamie Moss (Street Kings) was originally hired to write the first draft, but now Kalogridis is taking over. Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce, but Spielberg isn't named any more. I really hope she knows what she'd doing! Ms. Kalogridis has had a very interesting change of fate over the past few years. The 44-year-old writer previously wrote Alexander and Pathfinder, two movies that not only flopped at the box office, but were downright awful. Out of nowhere, she adapted Shutter Island »

- Alex Billington

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3D Live-Action Ghost in the Shell gets screenwriter

23 October 2009 12:07 AM, PDT | Affenheimtheater | See recent Affenheimtheater news »

ComingSoon.net reports that Dreamworks Pictures has hired Laeta Kalogridis as the screenwriter for the 3D live-action adaptation of Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell that has been floating around the net for quite some time now. Until now, (im at least in April 2008), Jamie Moss (Street Kings) was supposed to write the script for Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul’s Seaside Entertainment.

Well, color me unimpressed. For the live-action adaptation of Akira, Warner got Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (who wrote the screenplay for Children of Men) so there is a bit of hope for that, but looking at Kalogridis’ career so far (Alexander, Night Watch, Pathfinder) I just can’t see how she’s supposed to properly transfer the Ghost in the Shell universe into the reel (eh) world. »

- Ulrik

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DreamWorks Developing Live-Action 3-D Ghost In The Shell

22 October 2009 11:21 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

“Ghost in the Shell” is one of those films that I saw at just the right age.  The film blew me away and it still holds a special place since it was one of the first films to introduce me to anime .  Having said that, I’m not mad that DreamWorks is planning on remaking the film.  As unnecessary as it is, I actually really like the idea of a live-action 3-D remake and I’m happy to see that the project move forward with Laeta Kalogridis (”Shutter Island”) writing the film.  More after the jump:

According to Variety, the property was bought by DreamWorks last year, but I swear that I’ve been hearing about a live-action remake of “Ghost in the Shell” ever since I first got the internet. The original 1995 film was about a female cyborg cop and her partner hunting down a powerful hacker and it’s pretty out there, »

- Ramses Flores

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New Photos from Where The Wild Things Are

22 October 2009 12:35 AM, PDT | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »

Here’s a few very cool photos from the upcoming fantasy film “Where the Wild Things Are” by director Spike Jonze (Jackass Number Two) and starring Forest Whitaker (The Expendables, Street Kings), Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood), Catherine Keener (Hamlet 2, Capote) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos). Click Here for more photos, news and videos from Where The Wild Things Are. Synopsis: “Where the Wild Things Are” is an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news [...] »

- Brian Corder

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Movie Review: Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

16 October 2009 1:27 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen

Photo: Overture Films "Some justice is better than no justice at all," says Jamie Foxx playing Nick Price, a Philadelphia prosecutor in charge of bringing justice to the two men that killed Clyde Shelton's (Gerard Butler) wife and young daughter in Law Abiding Citizen. It's a statement that speaks to the cracks in the American justice system and as a result Clyde is going to see to it these cracks are turned into canyons once he learns only one of the men will be sentenced to death while the other serves a meager three-year sentence. This is something Clyde simply can't tolerate.

Law Abiding Citizen is madness, mayhem and carnage all wrapped up into one big dumb actioner filled with plot and logic holes galore. Fortunately, it's too much fun along the way to even concern yourself with the hows and the whys of it all. »

- Brad Brevet

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New “Law Abiding Citizen” Posters

13 October 2009 4:19 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

Two new posters for psychological thriller “Law Abiding Citizen” have been revealed. /Click on any of them to enlarge/

Law Abiding Citizen Poster

Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) who, 10 years after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered, returns to exact justice from the assistant district attorney (Jamie Foxx) who prosecuted the case against their killers. His vengeance threatens not only the man who allowed mercy to supersede justice, but also the system and the city that made it so.

If you haven’t seen “Law Abiding Citizen” trailer you can check it out Here

Law Abiding Citizen Poster

The movie is directed by F. Gary Gray (Italian Job, A Man Apart, Be Cool) from the script written by Kurt Wimmer (Ultraviolet, Street Kings, Salt).

“Law Abiding Citizen” which also stars Leslie Bibb, Josh Stewart, Michael Gambon and Viola Davis will be released on October 16, 2009.

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- Fiona

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Two New Featurettes From “Where The Wild Things Are”

10 October 2009 8:15 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

Warner Bros has released two brand new featurettes for the upcoming adventure film “Where The Wild Things Are“.

Adapted from a children book of the same name by Maurice Sendak, “Where The Wild Things Are” revolves around imaginary adventures of a young boy named Max. Being sent to his room without supper, the disobedient little boy creates a forest inhabited by many large imaginary monsters, who crown him their ruler. Befriending a large monster named Carol, he soon learns the meaning of love.

The film, directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), starring Forest Whitaker (Vantage Point, The Last King of Scotland, Street Kings), Paul Dano (Taking Woodstock, There Will Be Blood, Little Miss Sunshine), Catherine Keener (”Synecdoche, New York”, Hamlet 2, Capote) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos, 8mm).

“Where The Wild Things Are” opens to theaters October 16th, 2009.

Check out complete gallery of images and posters from “Where The Wild Things Are »

- Allan Ford

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Willie The Kid Concentrates On Lyrics In The Fly

5 October 2009 4:02 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

DJ Head Dibiase gives us a taste of the newest Gangsta Grillz in Mixtape Daily.

By Jayson Rodriguez and Shaheem Reid

Willie The Kid

Photo: Aphilliates

Mixtape Daily. We always told you we're fly. Today we're bringing you the latest joint from Willie the Kid, in which Will literally gets sky high to bring you that flavor ... but onto the next now. The full list of Hottest MCs has been revealed. We're ready for all of your comments, so tell us what you think, who we missed and who should have been higher or lower. Now the conversation really begins. It's all love though. And please, send in your top-10 lists!

This Week's Main Pick

Street Kings: Willie the Kid, DJ Drama and DJ Head Debiase 

Holding It Down For: The Atl

Mixtape: Gangsta Grillz: The Fly

Real Spit: Willie the Kid took it back home to cook this one up. »

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Oj Da Juiceman Goes 'Below Zero' On Alaska In Atlanta Tape

28 September 2009 3:53 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

DJ Holiday 'turned the thermostat down' for his and Oj's ode to bling, in Mixtape Daily.

By Shaheem Reid

DJ Holiday and Oj Da Juiceman

Photo: Rob/Lights Out

Every week is huge on this Web site, but this week in particular, we're going in. Mixtape Daily is going to keep rolling strong, and we got that Hottest MCs project finally being released from the cage. It's a beast. Check for numbers 10 through 6 all this week right here on MTVNews.com, and on Sunday, we're going to reveal the rest of the list on "P. Diddy's Starmaker."

Not to neglect the current business at hand, Oj Da Juiceman and DJ Holiday just put a new mixtape out to the streets and, yeah, judging from the title, you know it has everything to do with them diamonds. On a totally unrelated note, much love to DJ Infamous.

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