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‘The Rock’
keeping busyThe action / adventure movie "Helldorado," starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, has been retitled "The Rundown." Filmed on Oahu last September, "The Rundown" is set for national release on Sept. 26. And what about Johnson's "King Kamehameha" film announced a year ago? "The Rock" is now remaking the 1973 cult hit "Walking Tall" through September. The best case scenario, sources said, is that preproduction on the Kamehameha film could begin this year, with filming early next year. Screenwriter Jeff Poirier is still rewriting, but it's Johnson's frenzied film schedule that is delaying the production. There's also talk in Hollywood that Johnson may star as Captain Marvel in Warner Bros.' "Shazam!" pushing "King Kamehameha" back even further ...
In other titling news, the untitled John Hamburg project, starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston (and filmed on Oahu earlier this year), is now "Capture." Release is set for Mar. 12, 2004 ...
Salma Hayek will star opposite Pierce Brosnan in "After the Sunset" for New Line Cinema, to be directed by John Stockwell ("Blue Crush"). Stockwell, who is scouting locations in the Caribbean, says he still hopes to film it in Hawaii. Filming begins in October ...
Eric Byler, who directed the award-winning indie "Charlotte Sometimes," which showed at the Hawaii International Film Festival, is attached to "The Tattoo," a screenplay adapted from the 1999 book by Oahu writer Chris McKinney. Production coordinator/producer Angela Laprete, screenwriter William "Chico" Powell and Bob Gookin, writer and supervising producer on "Baywatch Hawaii," have the film rights. The story is set in contemporary Hawaii, tracing the life of Ken Hideyoshi, a young man with a troubled past. The film -- expected to cost up to $8 million -- is to be produced by Gookin's TFE Productions and LaPrete's ALaprete Productions and would be shot in Hawaii, though no production dates have been set yet ...
"Classmates," a new Fox reality show, recently filmed in Hilo, connects a Hilo man and a former love who lives on the mainland. The production filmed another reunion on Maui. The shows are scheduled to air this fall ...
Finally, a 12-minute version of local filmmaker Stephanie Castillo's two-hour documentary "Cockfighters" can be seen online at www.cockfightsonline.com/index.php.
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