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Johnny Depp Set for Next Wes Anderson Pic; Jerry Weintraub to Receive Zurich Fest Honors: Biz Break

Also in Tuesday morning’s round-up of news briefs, do young people care about older movies, or is it just about what’s happening now? Universal is moving forward with a revamp of its Universal City in L.A. And remembering Bill Asher, director of classic TV shows including I Love Lucy and the “beach blanket” movies of the ’60s. Johnny Depp to Star in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel This will be Wes Anderson’s next project following Moonrise Kingdom , currently in release. Depp continues to work on The Lone Ranger for Disney, Deadline reports . Perspective: Millennials Have Little Use for Old Movies “Young people, so-called millennials, don’t seem to think of movies as art the way so many boomers did. They think of them as fashion, and like fashion, movies have to be new and cool to warrant attention. Living in a world of the here-and-now, obsessed with whatever is current, kids seem no more interested in seeing their parents’ movies than they are in wearing their parents’ clothes,” the Los Angeles Times takes a look at the issue . Universal Redevelopment Moves Forward Without Housing NBC Universal is proceeding with a 20 year redevelopment of its Universal City property in Los Angeles, scrapping an original proposal to include 3,000 residential units in a backlot, Deadline reports . Producer Jerry Weintraub to Be Honored at Zurich Film Festival The Ocean’s Eleven producer will receive the Golden Eye lifetime achievement award at the Swiss festival on September 26th, his 75th birthday, and screen a selection of his films. The Zurich Film Festival takes place September 20 – 30, THR reports . Bill Asher, Dead at 90 Asher directed classic television shows as I Love Lucy , Bewitched and Gidget . He received four Emmy nominations and won an Emmy for Best Director for Bewitched in 1966. He also directed “beach blanket” films such as Beach Party , Beach Blanket Bingo and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini . He passed away in Palm Desert where he retired in 1991, The Desert Sun reports .

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Johnny Depp Set for Next Wes Anderson Pic; Jerry Weintraub to Receive Zurich Fest Honors: Biz Break

Johnny Depp Set for Next Wes Anderson Pic; Jerry Weintraub to Receive Zurich Fest Honors: Biz Break

Also in Tuesday morning’s round-up of news briefs, do young people care about older movies, or is it just about what’s happening now? Universal is moving forward with a revamp of its Universal City in L.A. And remembering Bill Asher, director of classic TV shows including I Love Lucy and the “beach blanket” movies of the ’60s. Johnny Depp to Star in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel This will be Wes Anderson’s next project following Moonrise Kingdom , currently in release. Depp continues to work on The Lone Ranger for Disney, Deadline reports . Perspective: Millennials Have Little Use for Old Movies “Young people, so-called millennials, don’t seem to think of movies as art the way so many boomers did. They think of them as fashion, and like fashion, movies have to be new and cool to warrant attention. Living in a world of the here-and-now, obsessed with whatever is current, kids seem no more interested in seeing their parents’ movies than they are in wearing their parents’ clothes,” the Los Angeles Times takes a look at the issue . Universal Redevelopment Moves Forward Without Housing NBC Universal is proceeding with a 20 year redevelopment of its Universal City property in Los Angeles, scrapping an original proposal to include 3,000 residential units in a backlot, Deadline reports . Producer Jerry Weintraub to Be Honored at Zurich Film Festival The Ocean’s Eleven producer will receive the Golden Eye lifetime achievement award at the Swiss festival on September 26th, his 75th birthday, and screen a selection of his films. The Zurich Film Festival takes place September 20 – 30, THR reports . Bill Asher, Dead at 90 Asher directed classic television shows as I Love Lucy , Bewitched and Gidget . He received four Emmy nominations and won an Emmy for Best Director for Bewitched in 1966. He also directed “beach blanket” films such as Beach Party , Beach Blanket Bingo and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini . He passed away in Palm Desert where he retired in 1991, The Desert Sun reports .

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‘High-Concept, Low-Budget’ Ouija Hatched at Universal

Just when it looked like we might dodge a movie based on Ouija (which even McG had the good taste and common sense to abandon at Paramount), along came Universal to pluck the Hasbro property out of turnaround like a dusky Goodwill relic. And now, with a release date looming, the studio has handed the project off to a new team that will get it in shape for 2013. But wait — it gets better. Variety reports that Knowing screenwriters Juliet Snowden and Stiles White will do both the scripting and directing honors for co-producers Michael Bay and Jason Blum, the latter of whose Paranormal Activity franchise will serve as the “high-concept, low-budget model” for Ouija . OK? I mean, I have difficulty envisioning anything engineered to move a board game off Wal-Mart shelves as “high-concept,” but low-budget, sure: Previous reports put the project’s budget, whose previous incarnation at the ‘Mount totaled a very, very ill-advised $150 million, at under $10 million. And even that might be too much under the circumstances — didn’t Breaking Bad already corner the market on foreboding uses of Ouija? Just bring back the Salamanca cousins! [ Variety ]

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Guess Who’s Not So Amused by Ted’s 9/11 Joke

“A 9/11 joke didn’t go down well during a showing of new movie Ted attended by former mayor Rudy Giuliani and wife Judith in the Hamptons on Sunday night. In one scene, Ted — the misanthropic CGI teddy bear in the film — asks singer Norah Jones about her nationality, then shockingly spits back, ‘Whatever. Thanks for 9/11.’ ‘No one in the theater laughed,’ the Hamptons spy said. ‘The joke fell completely flat.’ They added the audience ‘had too much respect for the mayor’ to make light of the disaster. But Rudy and Judi were later seen enjoying the rest of their night in the Hamptons.” Whew . [ NYP via NYM ]

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Guess Who’s Not So Amused by Ted’s 9/11 Joke

“A 9/11 joke didn’t go down well during a showing of new movie Ted attended by former mayor Rudy Giuliani and wife Judith in the Hamptons on Sunday night. In one scene, Ted — the misanthropic CGI teddy bear in the film — asks singer Norah Jones about her nationality, then shockingly spits back, ‘Whatever. Thanks for 9/11.’ ‘No one in the theater laughed,’ the Hamptons spy said. ‘The joke fell completely flat.’ They added the audience ‘had too much respect for the mayor’ to make light of the disaster. But Rudy and Judi were later seen enjoying the rest of their night in the Hamptons.” Whew . [ NYP via NYM ]

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The Dark Knight Rises Other Star: The Tumbler – Take a Look!

The Batmobile has had quite the evolution since actual volition appeared in the ’60s television version to its altogether super-suped up version heading your way in The Dark Knight Rises . Its latest incarnation includes some nifty gadgetry including a rocket launcher, the vehicle’s creator Andy Smith told Beyond The Trailer host Grace Randolph at Comic-Con where the vehicle, aka The Tumbler, is on display along with previous versions of The Batmobile. Smith has a history in race car work and worked on a car for a James Bond film and for an earlier Batmobile back in ’89. The current Tumbler is a hybrid of a Humvee and Lamborghini and it’s the only one that has ever been named something other than a ‘Batmobile.’ Smith gives a rundown of interesting factoids in the video below, including Christopher Nolan and production designer Nathan Crowley’s hand in creating The Tumbler after toying with various model kits. Of note, The Tumbler is 9 feet, 2 inches wide and 15 feet, 2 inches in length. Those stats keep it from being street-worthy at least legally speaking. It also has a top speed of 110mph, but “film makes it look much faster,” Smith notes. The video also shows previous Batmobiles including an interview with one owner and an interview with an early Batmobile designer who also designed many other famous on-screen vehicles including four-wheel stars appearing in Knight Rider , The Dukes of Hazzard and even The Monkees .

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