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'Hustle & Flow' Director Craig Brewer Is Gonna Roll With 'Gangster Princess Of Beverly Hills'
"But what will I wear in jail?" That's the pretty tagline ready question asked by Lisette Lee, the socialite drug baron, when she was arrested in 2010. From the outside, she looked every bit the "Korean Paris Hilton," as she called herself, claiming among other things that sh...
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Magical Elves (Not A Typo) To Direct Katy Perry's 3D Movie; 'Footloose' Director Craig Brewer To Executive Produce
So, this Katy Perry 3D movie thing is now closer to happening, as directors and an executive producer are now on board to make this thing a reality.
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Craig Brewer Says Seeing The 'Karate Kid' Remake With A Cheering Crowd Inspired His 'Footloose'
Ever since Paramount Pictures announced they would be remaking “Footloose,” the studio has been under almost constant attack from fans of the 1984 original. Their quarrel is not just with who’s involved, but with its very existence: fairly or unfairly, those longtime fans can’t understand why the mo...
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Review: 'Footloose' Is An Expressive Old School Ode To Youthful Abandon
Once upon a time, there was an outsider who came to a small town of limited imagination. He looked upon the town’s ignorant forces of authority and challenged them, fighting for the oppressed and changing the social order. It’s a story that’s been told countless times in various forms of media, to t...
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Craig Brewer Says He's Looking At His Own Marriage As Inspiration For 'Tarzan'
Craig Brewer, director of the upcoming reimagining of “Footloose,” told The Playlist over the weekend that he recently finished his latest draft on a new script about Edgar Rice Burroughs’ iconic jungle-dweller, Tarzan. But while the commercial promise of his current film heralds good things for fut...
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Sorry John Singleton, N.W.A. Biopic Might Go To Craig Brewer, F. Gary Gray Or Peter Berg
Hollywood moves fast and literally days after director John Singleton told us he was in some early discussions about making a biopic about seminal gangsta rappers N.W.A. the tide appears to be shifting. But first let's rewind a moment.
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'Footloose' Soundtrack Features Cee Lo, Smashing Pumpkins & More; Due September 27th
If you didn't lodge your complaint way back when, there's no point in kvetching now. The "Footloose" remake is signed, sealed and almost delivered. The film that does not star unlikely teen heartthrob Kevin Bacon, or love interest Lori Singer, or have Kenny Loggins' version of the original theme, op...
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Watch: Everybody Cut Loose In This Uninspired 'Footloose' Trailer
It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly this '80s nostalgia virus seemed to grip the globe in such a breathless ecstasy-hold. Hollywood has already come for "beloved" films from that decade, either in the form of aerobicized remakes starring Kelsey Grammer (“Fame”) or laughable sequels (“Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights”) and no-one spoke out, so we only have ourselves to blame for this long-threatened “Footloose” remake, which is finally coming to fruition. Discerning “Archer” fans will excuse this writer as he invokes another Kenny Loggins song that doesn't share this film's title and ventures that we’re probably careening wildly into "The Danger Zo...
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Craig Brewer Says 'Footloose' Remake Has Songs by The White Stripes & David Banner, Talks 'Tarzan'
Also Updates On 'Mother Trucker,' Discusses 'Hustle & Flow' Sequel Pitch Craig Brewer causes a few differences in opinion here at The Playlist. Some of us find his two big films to date, "Hustle & Flow" and "Black Snake Moan" somewhere between overrated and terrible, while this writer happens to fin...
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So There's Going To Be A 'Tarzan' Trilogy Now; Craig Brewer Hired By Warner Bros. To Write
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Or perhaps, the mighty weren't such hot shit to begin with. Craig Brewer inexplicably got Oscar love for the overrated "Hustle & Flow," with a nomination going to Terrence Howard and a win for the wretched song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" by Three Six Mafia. Anywa...
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