Antoine Fuqua To Direct ‘Storming Las Vegas’ For Summit

Summit Entertainment, those crazy cats behind the Twilight movies and distributors of Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker, have just picked up another book and attached some pretty big names to it. Antoine Fuqua will direct Storming Las Vegas under the watchful eye of producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. To explain what Storming Las Vegas is about, one only needs to read the actual, full title of the book by John Huddy. The full title is "Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down The Strip to the Tune of Five World Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars." Yup. Got it. More after the jump. Deadline broke [1] the news of the deal to adapt the book, which is based on a true story. They're calling it modern day Robin Hood story set in the mid-1990s when a man named Jose Vigoa battled against Vegas's increasingly » By : IMDb.CoM

Jason Reitman's 'Young Adult' Will Apparently Skip The Fall Festival Circuit

There is no denying that the fall festival circuit has been very good to director Jason Reitman. Both "Juno" and "Up In The Air" premiered at Telluride, wowed crowds at Tiff and built on that momentum to have very successful awards season runs. With this latest film now slated for December release, it seemed only logical for "Young Adult" to repeat route taken by his previous efforts. But, both Tiff and Venice announced their first wave of titles this week and there was no mention of Reitman's film at all and it looks like those hoping to get an early… » By : IMDb.CoM