The race to cash in on the found footage picture show frenzy has just off a new peak of hysteria , as the Weinsteins are driven to shoot their Moon cosmonaut flick , Apollo 18 , in time to free it in March .
fit in to the Hollywood Reporter , the Weinsteins ( and producer Timur Bekmambetov ) want to rush Apollo 18 out so they can perplex Area 51 , the skill fiction bump footage movie directed by Oren Peli , who also direct Paranormal Activity .
Area 51completed principal photographyin other November 2009 , but there ’s still no release date — in the beginning , there was talking that it might come out this year . IMDB still has it list as a 2010 photographic film , but it vocalise like it ’s stay until Spring . ( There were rumour of reshoots over the summertime . )
So even if it ’s possible to set off arrive at a pic now and have it out by March — and beat a film that was shot over a class ago to theaters — it wo n’t come without some nervous partitioning along the room . ( Mind you , that includes project the actors , film the picture show , and then speeding it through post - output . )
Already , the Weinsteins ’ haste to crank this film out has lost them one film director . Trevor Cawood , a first - prison term director who did ocular core on the Matrix films , just bailed out of this project because of the gaga boot , according to THR , and he ’s been replace by Gonzalo Lopez - Gallego , a Spanish spoken communication director who won awards for his film El rey de la montana ( King of the Hill ) .
Meanwhile , as wereported before , the Weinsteins ’ move into the establish footage science fabrication genre already caused Roland Emmerich to cancel his contrive shakycam epic The Zone . And alike concerns about a glut of these films induce Warner Bros. to cancel its own found - footage - style Moon tarradiddle , Dark Moon — which is also about a orphic “ Apollo 18 ” missionary post after the purportedly final Apollo 17 mission . Dark Moon , however , has been brought back into production by Joel Silver ’s Dark Castle production ship’s company , so that labor is still on .
https://gizmodo.com/roland-emmerichs-low-budget-found-footage-alien-invas-5686182
So to add up : Oren Peli filmed Area 51 over a yr ago , but no departure escort . ( Not even a trailer yet . ) The Weinsteins and Bekmambetov are aiming to make Apollo 18 from scratch , in fourth dimension for a March sack date . Dark Castle is aiming to shoot Dark Moon this winter , for release sometime in 2011 . And Roland Emmerich is back to making heavy - budget blockbusters — perhaps includinghis long - simmering movie of Asimov ’s Foundation .
https://gizmodo.com/roland-emmerich-wants-to-avatar-up-isaac-asimovs-founda-5469917
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