South Florida entrepreneur Carla Berkowitz was flipping through the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine one morning in 1997 when she came across an article about teenage chess players. The story, written by John Dorschner, chronicled the lives of students at Miami Jackson Senior High School as they competed in statewide and national chess tournaments. Led by coach Mario Martinez, Jackson's team of mostly low-income, minority students became one of the best teams in the nation.The story resonated so deeply with Berkowitz that she called the coach and eventually bought the life rights to the tale in hopes of someday producing a movie."I just felt this is a story that needs to be told," she says today. "The world needs to hear it."While Berkowitz worked with a writer on the script, Hollywood producer Scott Rosenfelt says he unknowingly stumbled across the same story. On a trip to Miami in search of funding, he discovered Berkowitz was already working on a film about the chess champs."Lo and … [Read more...] about John Leguizamo Is Directing Movie About Miami Jackson Chess Champs
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John Leguizamo Is Directing New Movie About Miami Jackson Chess Champs
South Florida entrepreneur Carla Berkowitz was flipping through Miami Herald's Tropic magazine one morning in 1997 when she came across an article about teenage chess players. The story, written by John Dorschner, chronicled the lives of students at Miami Jackson Senior High School as they competed in statewide and national chess tournaments. Led by Coach Mario Martinez, Jackson's team of mostly low-income, minority students became one of the best teams in the country.The story resonated so deeply with Berkowitz that she called the team's coach and eventually bought the life rights of the tale in hopes of someday producing a movie."I just felt this is a story that needs to be told," she says today. "The world needs to hear it."While Berkowitz worked with a writer on the script, Hollywood producer Scott Rosenfelt says he unknowingly stumbled across the same story. On a trip to Miami in search of funding, he discovered Berkowitz was already working on a film about the chess … [Read more...] about John Leguizamo Is Directing New Movie About Miami Jackson Chess Champs
John Wick 3 Will Begin Shooting in Montreal Soon
John Wick: Chapter 3 is expected to start filming in Montreal next month. The highly-anticipated third installment in the John Wick trilogy brings a series of events to a head with Keanu Reeves reprising his as John Wick potentially for the last time on the big screen, though there are plans for him to appear at least one time on Starz’s upcoming John Wick spinoff series, The Continental, which focuses on the “inner workings” of the Continental Hotel instead of Baba Yaga himself.John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2 director Chad Stahelski and writer Derek Kolstad are both returning for the sequel, which is expected to explore John Wick’s past as well as how the High Table works (which was first introduced in Chapter 2). Given how successful the first two movies have been – John Wick earned $88.7 million and John Wick: Chapter 2 earned $171.5 million, both against fairly moderate production budgets – Lionsgate is opting to give the third film a prime … [Read more...] about John Wick 3 Will Begin Shooting in Montreal Soon
Movie Critic Richard Roeper Gets Suspended for Buying Twitter Followers
Just a few months after The New York Times broke the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, the publication has broken another scandal wide open, which may have cost a prominent film critic his job. The Chicago Sun-Times announced that film critic Richard Roeper has been suspended by the newspaper, after his name was mentioned among many prominent actors, athletes, influencers and many more, who have used a shady company known as Devumi to purchase fake Twitter followers to enhance his social media presence. Here's what Chicago Sun-Times editor-in-chief Chris Fusco said in a statement. As of now, Richard Roeper has over 224,000 Twitter followers, but there is no indication as to how many of those followers are fake. The report first published by the New York Times listed Richard Roeper as one of Devumi's most prominent media clients, along with conservative pundit Britt McHenry, Fox Business Network journalist Elizabeth McDonald, Breitbart reporter Aaron Klein, radio personality Bobby Bones, … [Read more...] about Movie Critic Richard Roeper Gets Suspended for Buying Twitter Followers
Super Mario Bros. Animated Movie in Development
Illumination Entertainment and Nintendo are partnering on development for a Super Mario Bros. movie We’re getting an animated Super Mario Bros. movie, and it’s coming to us from Illumination Entertainment and Nintendo. The partnership was announced today by Representative Director and President Tatsumi Kimishima. The Super Mario Bros. movie will star, of course, Mario and will be produced by Chris Meledandri, Founder and CEO of Illumination, and Shigeru Miyamoto, Representative Director, Fellow of Nintendo. You can check out the tweet from Nintendo America below. The film set in the world of Super Mario Bros. will be co-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo and distributed theatrically worldwide by Universal Pictures. There was a live-action film Super Mario Bros. released back in 1993, directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, written by Parker Bennett, Terry Runté and Ed Solomon. The film starred Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha … [Read more...] about Super Mario Bros. Animated Movie in Development