This year, he returns to Sundance with Compliance , a very different film, firstly because it delves into the thriller genre, but also because it’s based on actual events. It stars Ann Dowd and Dreama Walker (“Gossip Girl”) as the manager and counter girl of a small fast food restaurant whose relationship is changed when a police officer calls accusing the latter of stealing from a customer. Over the next few hours, they’re put through a rigorous test to see how far they will go in following the instructions of the man on…
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Directed by Brad Peyton, the 3D family adventure also stars Michael Caine, Vanessa Hudgens, Luis Guzman and Kristen Davis.

The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean (Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist–a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean’s new stepfather (Johnson) joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot (Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Hudgens),…
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Scott Rosenberg, the screenwriter behind Con Air , High Fidelity and many more, sold his original spec script to Paramount last summer .

The story, a supernatural children’s tale, is said to evoke qualities of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and deals with a family who enlist the aide of a “Hauntrepreneur” to build them a haunted house in their new neighborhood.

Brand appeared last year in Hop and Arthur and can soon be seen in the Adam Shankman musical, Rock of Ages . Strangely, he was also once attached to the similarly-themed Rentaghost , though that project is currently set to star Ben Stiller.

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Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley announced today that the company has acquired U. S. rights to the fantastical drama BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. Directed by Benh Zeitlin and written by Lucy Alibar and Zeitlin, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD stars Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry. The film was produced by Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey and Josh Penn. Philipp Engelhorn, Paul Mezey and Michael Raisler are executive producers . The film is scheduled to be released in 2012.

“In his feature film debut, Benh Zeitlin has crafted a visually stunning and deeply poetic…
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The Raven was scheduled to go up against John Carter on March 9th, but the James McTeigue-directed thriller will now open in theaters on April 27th. Starring John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, the film faces The Five-Year Engagement and Safe on the new date.

Relativity also pushed back the Jennifer Lawrence-starrer House at the End of the Street from April 20th to September 21st. The horror thriller will go up against Dredd and Hotel Transylvania on the new release date.

Relativity’s Haywire just opened last Friday and their next film, Act of Valor , opens on February 24th.
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