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Spielberg Looks to Lincoln
Published 5/12/2008 at FilmWad
Steven Spielberg's long-gestating Abraham Lincoln period piece is finally getting the go ahead. According to Variety, the director told the German magazine "FOCUS" that he was planning to begin shooting the untitled Civil War era drama as soon as early next year, after he directs his portion of the "Tintin" trilogy this fall. The script by Tony Kushner (playwright of "Angels in America") is reportedly quite solid and practically ready to go. Kushner and Spielberg used Doris Kearns Goodwin's "The Uniter: The Genius of Abraham Lincoln" as a touchstone for the formation of the screenplay. This film is ...

Spielberg finally focusing on the other beard... no, not Lucas...
Published 5/12/2008 by Quint at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Word on the street has been that Spielberg was quietly developing his Lincoln picture while finishing up on INDY 4. Looks like that word has been proven right. Variety has a story linking to an interview with Spielberg where he discusses the Civil War/Lincoln flick, saying he's hoping to start production early next year, making it a nearly back to back effort with TINTIN, which he shoots this fall. It's a trend he's been doing since JURASSIC PARK/SCHINDLER'S LIST. He goes for the pop film, then the drama. WAR OF THE WORLDS/MUNICH. Now, TINTIN/Lincoln flick. Liam Neeson is still attached to play President Lincoln ...

Audrina in Blue: Trade Roughage 05/12/08
Published 5/12/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
It’s barely 9am, and I’ve already read a story that made me choke on a bagel and therefore fear for my life: Audrina Partidge, brunette scenery on The Hills, has become the first member of the reality drama’s cast to land a film acting role. She’ll play “a no-nonsense, beautiful beach babe whose boyfriend caters to her every command” in a sequel to Into the Blue, a Jessica Alba film that flopped at the box office but made gobs of money on DVD. Iron Man dropped almost 50% in its second weekend, which was still good enough for $50.5 million at the box ...

Steven Spielberg Meets Honest Abe
Published 5/12/2008 at Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
... be his long-gestating Abraham Lincoln biopic, with Liam Neeson as Lincoln and Tony Kushner's script based largely on Pulitzer winner Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography. Spielberg is expected to shoot back to back with Tintin, because he's a selfless man who only cares about one thing: keeping you entertained. To help raise awareness for the Lincoln project, Pau Gasol will try his damndest to look just like him. [Variety] Stoltz Goes to Battle: Eric Stoltz ...

Steven Spielberg To Finally Make 'Lincoln'?
Published 5/12/2008 by Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical
Filed under: Drama, Newsstand, Dreamworks, Steven Spielberg, WarWhile doing publicity rounds for a certain fedora-wearing adventurer, Steven Spielberg told German magazine FOCUS that he intends to return his focus to his long delayed biopic of Abraham Lincoln. According to Variety, Spielberg is shelving the Aaron Sorkin-scripted Trial of the Chicago Seven because he is dissatisfied with the script, and could not get the rewrites he wanted due to the WGA strike. Though that is over, it apparently needs some development time not even Tintin will provide. And ...

Spielberg Set for Lincoln Biopic
Published 5/12/2008 by Kirsten Anderson at At The Movies - Film News and Reviews
Liam Neeson, set to star as president and unfortunate theatergoer Abraham Lincoln.  Well, now that Stephen Spielberg’s got that little Indiana Jones thing out of the way (please let the rumors be wrong…please don’t let that movie suck…), what’s up next? First up for the director is Tintin, shooting in the fall. Now Variety is reporting that after that Spielberg will finally get to his long-rumored Abraham Lincoln-Civil War project. For a little while it had looked like Spielberg would be diverted by an Aaron Sorkin-scripted project about the trial of the Chicago Seven ...

Spielberg Finds Next Oscar Winning Project
Published 5/12/2008 by Carolina at That Other Blog - The Latest Gossip and Entertainment News
... Variety reports that after that Lincoln, Spielberg will choose between Chicago Seven or Interstellar, a sci-fi thriller. ...

Two Films For Speilberg In 2009
Published 5/13/2008 at Movie Blog
... reports that Spielberg’s Tintin is expected to go into production this September and the motion-captured film will be the first animated film he’s been at the helm of. After that it’s on to his long-in-development Lincoln which will most likely star Qui Gon as Honest Abe. Variety claims that Spielberg has told the German weekly magazine FOCUS that he will return his attention to the epic project about the 16th president for a DreamWorks film that could begin filming possibly by early next year. ...

Tuesday news take – May 13, 2008
Published 5/13/2008 by Franck Tabouring at The Screening Log
Spielberg to make film about Lincoln Steven Spielberg is still a very busy man, and while his latest action flick “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is still awaiting release, the director already talks about shooting his next film, an epic about Abraham Lincoln. Variety reports Spielberg is planning to make a Civil War film following the production of his next flick “Tintin,” which will head into principal photography early this fall. Tony Kushner ("Munich" and "Angels in America") already completed a script for the Lincoln ...