Tinseltown Tidbits - 5/15

A meeting of two Hollywood heavyweights.
Variety reports that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming to direct and produce three back-to-back features based on Georges Remi's beloved Belgian comic "Tintin" for DreamWorks. The films will be produced in full digital 3-D using performance capture technology.
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Wretched excess on celluloid
Papa H was a fight fan and so is The Lounge. That said, director James Toback will helm a documentary on former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. It will trace how the pugnacious brawler self-destructed and let a fortune and his ring legacy slip away.
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Here's an odd one
Tim Allen is set to star in "Redbelt," the mixed martial arts drama David Mamet wrote and will direct for Sony Pictures Classics, reports Variety. It's odd on so many levels. Tim Allen in a MAMET film?? Mamet making a mixed matial arts picture??? In any case, cameras roll June in the City of Angels.
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A Hemingway-esque plot
The indie film company H2O is set to develop a picture about Anna Politkovskaya, Russia's leading radical journalist and critic of Vladimir Putin's presidency. The Russian scribe was shot to death in a suspected contract killing in Moscow on Saturday, October 7, 2006. But it thickens... Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB/FSB officer who (four weeks later) become a rare victim of lethal polonium-210 radiation poisoning under highly suspicious circumstances, accused Vladimir Putin of Politkovskaya's assassination. Should be quite a film.
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