Bad Robot Producing a Heist Film? David, March 17, 2009March 14, 2010 Paramount has nabbed big screen rights to an upcoming Wired magazine article about a band of Italian diamond thieves. J.J. Abrams is producing through his Bad Robot company. Joshua Davis, who has turned a number of his Wired articles into feature projects, wrote the story for the April issue of the mag. More information about the movie after the jump. Dubbed the untold story of the world’s biggest diamond heist, the article chronicles the crime thought to have been carried out by Leonardo Notarbartolo, who was arrested in February 2003 for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a seemingly impenetrable vault beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million in loot that’s never been found. Based on circumstantial evidence, Notarbartolo was sentenced to 10 years; he was released from a Belgium prison this week. Thanks to Production Weekly and FirstShowing.net for the info! News Bad RobotJ.J. Abramswired
New Sherlock Holmes Trailer November 4, 2009November 4, 2009The game is indeed afoot and Warner Brothers wants you to know about it this week! After a LONG wait between the start of this viral and now, WB’s have kick-started the campaign again. Nick reported yesterday on the start of a new game at 221b.sh yesterday. The game links… Read More
Lionsgate and Twitter Team Up For Screenings of “Warrior” August 31, 2011August 31, 2011Lionsgate co-COO and Motion Picture Group President Joe Drake announced yesterday a special sneak preview program of their upcoming inspirational sports drama, Warrior, starring Tom Hardy (Inception) and Joel Edgerton (The Thing). And to promote the event, Lionsgate has teamed up with Twitter. Find out more after the jump. Warrior… Read More
“Super 8” Changes Title To “Darlings” For Brazil January 5, 2011In a bit of Deja Vu for J.J. Abrams fans, it looks like his much anticipated sci-fi thriller Super 8 is getting a name change, at least in one foreign market, and it’s quite a familiar title. The teaser trailer for the film has a Brazilian version (found by MovieWeb)… Read More
Good article, David. With Bad Robot and JJ Abrams behind this, a viral is pretty much guaranteed. Can’t wait.@Rick, hello! Glad you like the site. 🙂
“Dubbed the untold story of the world’s biggest diamond heist, article chronicles the crime thought to have been carried out by Leonardo Notarbartolo, who was arrested in February 2003 for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a seemingly impenetrable vault beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million in loot that’s never been found. Based on circumstantial evidence, Notarbartolo was sentenced to 10 years; he was released from a Belgium prison this week.”That sounds like it’d make a great movie, can’t wait for more info on this! Hopefully there will be a viral.