33&OUT NEWS: Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum Join Forces Again in ‘Ten Year’
August 26, 2010
The production list for Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum’s production company 33&Out continues to grow and grow on a weekly basis. In the past few months, they released their first film (the political documentary ‘Earth Made of Glass‘) and announced they will also produce the sci-fi film ‘Ion‘ and the drama ‘The Contortionist’s Handbook‘ with partner Reid Carolin.
I’ve been told that they have a ton of other films and film shorts in the works too (including some new projects for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s HitRecord.org), but you can add one more named project to that list…THR is confirming a project I reported on in June. Chan and Jenna are set to produce and star in their first film together since ‘Step Up‘, and it’s a high school reunion film called ‘Ten Year‘.
Chan, Jenna, and Reid will be heavily involved in the development process and are working with Jamie Linden (who wrote the ‘Dear John‘ screenplay) and producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill on the film, which is an ensemble drama about friends reuniting a decade after their graduation. Jamie will be wearing both the writer and director hats for this production.
Although the script is being written with specific actors in mind (including both Chan and Jenna), there are no deals in place for the actors and their involvement will depend on availability. The indie production also is currently assembling financing, but THR reports that the filmmakers are hoping to begin shooting in November, after Chan wraps on his romantic drama ‘The Vow‘.
Jenna tweeted the behind-the-scenes pics above when she and Chan filmed a short related to ‘Ten Year‘ this past June. The shoot included friends and fellow actors Haylie Duff, Nick Zano, ‘The Hurt Locker’s Brian Geraghty (Jenna’s ‘Love Lies Bleeding‘ co-star), and Kate Mara.
Jamie told me today that the film short they worked on was…
“…really just for fun and is an exercise in tone and style [for ‘Ten Year’]…It’s really only tangentially related to the project — the actual movie would be much more of an ensemble, and most of these scenes [in the short] aren’t even in the script.”
Jamie graciously allowed me to watch the ‘Ten Year‘ short today, and I LOVED it!!! In ten minutes, it made me both laugh and cry. More importantly, it was beyond amazing to see Chan, Jenna, and their undeniable chemistry on screen together again.
CONGRATS to Chan, Jenna, Reid, and Jamie on the new film!!! I can’t wait to bring you guys more behind-the-scenes info and to see the finished product!! 
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK: Jenna Dewan-Tatum’s Young Hollywood Interview for PETA
July 28, 2010
After an amazing Italian vacation/second honeymoon with husband Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum got back to work yesterday on one of her upcoming films. She tweeted this about her new comedy…
“Reshoots today for my movie Slightly Single in LA..funny stuff..I may or may not have chased someone with a pipe in 5 inch heels.”
Fans can CLICK HERE to learn more about ‘Slightly Single in LA‘ and can CLICK HERE to check out exclusive pics from the set.
Right before she left for Italy, Jenna filmed today’s Video of the Week with YoungHollywood.com’s R.J. Williams, the founder and CEO of the celebrity news site, to let everyone know about her new PETA campaign and her upcoming projects (including a film she’s working on with Chan). Enjoy!
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MOVIE BYTES: ‘The Eagle’ and ‘Ten Year Reunion’
July 9, 2010
I found a few bits of news about Channing Tatum’s film ‘The Eagle‘ and Chan and wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum’s new, untitled film that I’m going to call ‘Ten Year Reunion‘. Check out today’s Movie Bytes to get the latest scoop. Enjoy!!!
THE EAGLE
This week Focus Features, the distributor behind Channing Tatum’s Roman drama ‘The Eagle of the Ninth‘, announced that the film has officially been renamed to ‘The Eagle‘.
For those who don’t know, the movie is helmed by award-winning director Kevin Macdonald and is based on the best-selling, classic 1954 teen novel by Rosemary Sutcliff, and is set in the dangerous world of second-century Britain.
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (played by Channing) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca (Jamie Bell), Marcus sets out across Hadrian’s Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father’s memory, and retrieve the lost legion’s golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth. Donald Sutherland portrays Marcus’ uncle Aquila, who has retired in Britain; Mark Strong is cast as Guern, an ex-soldier who holds crucial information about the Ninth.
‘The Eagle‘ is set to hit theaters on February 25, 2011. Fans can CLICK HERE to check out a ton of photos from the film in the CTU Photo Gallery.
TEN YEAR REUNION
As I previously posted, Chan and Jenna filmed a test shoot in the Los Angeles area for a movie they were working on last month and tweeted out a lot of great behind-the-scenes pics from the shoot.
The film short was directed by Jamie Linden (who wrote the ‘Dear John‘ screenplay) and included friends and fellow actors Haylie Duff, Nick Zano, ‘The Hurt Locker’s Brian Geraghty (Jenna’s ‘Love Lies Bleeding‘ co-star), and Kate Mara.
In the pic below, you have (from right to left) Chan, Jamie Linden, Jenna, and Reid Carolin (Chan and Jenna’s producing partner at 33andOut) on the set of the film short on June 12th.
I also have a few more details about the test shoot courtesy of ‘Twilight’ Saga producer Wyck Godfrey who’s producing partner, Marty Bowen (’Dear John‘), is working on the new film. While doing interviews for the recent release of ‘Eclipse’, Wyck told Fearnet.com and Collider.com that the project…
“is a ten-year high school reunion movie that Jamie Linden, who wrote Dear John, is writing and directing, and hopefully Channing Tatum and a bunch of his buddies are going to do it.”
It’s not a whole lot, but it’s a little more than we knew before and has me hopeful that ‘Ten Year Reunion‘ (or whatever it ends up being called) could be the next film where we get to see Chan and Jenna together on the big screen again. Fingers crossed!!!
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NEWS FLASH | Channing Tatum to Produce and Star in ‘Ion’ — Fox’s next ‘Avatar’?
June 24, 2010
It’s been almost a WHOLE week since the last new movie announcement for Channing Tatum, so we were LONG overdue. OK, I kid, I kid!!!
But what isn’t a joke is that THR’s Heat Vision Blog is reporting that Chan has been attached to yet another film, his second in less than week and his fourth in the past 3 months.
Four months ago,’Dear John‘ (which has made well over $100 million worldwide) was the first film to beat ‘Avatar‘ at the box office and now THR is reporting that Chan is attached to a new film that is being touted as Twentieth Century Fox’s next ‘Avatar‘. The new romantic, sci-fi film is called ‘Ion’ and here’s what they have to say about it…
“You can thank “Avatar” for Hollywood’s resurgent interest in sci-fi. Right now Fox, though its label Fox 2000, is getting ready to bet on sci-fi again and is the lead contender to pick up an original spec script by Will Dunn titled “Ion,” which is generating interest from several studios. Channing Tatum is attached to star in what is labeled a sci-fi romantic epic, with Ridley and Tony Scott attached to produce. The plot revolves around a man who travels to different Earths and dimensions in order to find his reincarnated lover. Execs are using the magic word — “Avatar” — to describe the scope and otherworldly elements of the script. “Ion” actually made the rounds last year but didn’t take. In the post-”Avatar” Hollywood, however, the script is generating renewed interest. It attracted the interest of the Scott brothers, who helped develop the script further, which then brought in Tatum, who could be one of Hollywood’s next leading men. The whole package raised the mercury even higher.”
What THR didn’t mention (and I can exclusively share with CTU Readers) is that Chan is not only attached to star in ‘Ion’, but he and his production partner Reid Carolin (’Stop-Loss‘, ‘Earth Made of Glass‘) are also producing the film through their 33andOut shingle, which is a HUGE accomplishment for them. As you can imagine, Chan is really excited about this project, although its going to be a while before it really gets started.
Deadline Hollywood had this to add…
“The spec in play is Ion, a Will Dunn scifi script that has Channing Tatum attached, with Scott Free producing. Fox 2000 (Scott Free’s home studio) has made an offer, but other studios are circling…It would be the first sale for Dunn, a British scribe, who has spent the past half year honing the material with input from Scott Free and Tatum.”
I feel like I’m starting to sound like a broken record as I extol Chan’s amazingly hot career, but honestly, talented people who work hard and stay grateful and humble deserve this kind of success. I’m so glad to see it happening for Chan so quickly. CONGRATS to CHAN, REID, and 33andOUT!!!
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RUMOR OR REEL?: Channing Tatum’s ‘Knockout’ Gets New Name and Release Date
June 13, 2010
According to The Playlist, Channing Tatum’s action-revenge spy thriller, previously called ‘Knockout‘, has been renamed and is now set for a January 2011 release.
The film, which is directed by Steven Soderbergh (’Erin Brockovich‘, ‘Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve‘, ‘Ocean’s Thirteen‘), had a screening last week, after which attendee Rich Eisen tweeted…
“Saw the new Soderbergh movie “Haywire” the other night. Comes out in January. Already can’t wait to see it again. It’s THAT good.”
If the release date part of this rumor is true, Chan potentially will have three different movies in theaters all at the same time…’Knockout‘/’Haywire‘ (January 2011), the comedy ‘Cheaters‘ (January 14, 2011) and his Roman drama ‘Eagle of the Ninth‘ (February 25, 2011).
For those who don’t know, ‘Knockout‘/’Haywire‘ stars Mixed Martial Arts champion Gina Carano as a black ops spy that is betrayed by her team and goes rogue in an attempt to figure out who’s setting her up. While everyone is on the same side initially, the film supposedly features a lot of duplicity, double crosses, and reversals of allegiances.
Chan (who filmed his role in Barcelona, Spain and New Mexico this past February and March) will play one of the elite specialists on Carano’s team. His character is a military gearhead-type who’s sent to try and bring her back in once she’s been double-crossed.
The incredible supporting cast also includes Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton, Michael Angarano, and Mathieu Kassovitz. Fassbender reportedly plays an untrustworthy teammate, while Douglas ultimately proves to be an ally. McGregor, the owner of the Blackwater-type special ops team (and once a romantic interest to Carano), is instrumental in trying to make her character, Mallory Kane, take the fall for an incident that goes wrong and involves a murder.
Although I can’t confirm the ‘Haywire‘ rumor, I can share new pics of Jenna and Chan with some of their friends…
Jamie Linden (who wrote the ‘Dear John‘ screenplay) directed a film short that Chan and Jenna worked on yesterday and told me the photos are from a “test shoot for a pet project we’ve been kicking around for awhile”. The shoot included friends and fellow actors Haylie Duff, Nick Zano, ‘The Hurt Locker’s Brian Geraghty (Jenna’s ‘Love Lies Bleeding‘ co-star), and Kate Mara.
Below, fans can check out the new pics Jenna and Haylie tweeted to fans yesterday…
For now, that’s all we’re allowed to know about the shoot. Any more details and Jamie would have had to kill me. OK not really, but it almost does work like that in Hollywood. Projects have to stay very hush-hush until you’re really ready to expose them to the world. Stay tuned to CTU, and I’ll make sure to let you all know when and if there’s more to report on this particular project. 
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Why ‘What’s Left of Us’ Author Knows Channing Tatum is Right for His Movie…
June 11, 2010
At France’s Cannes Film Festival a couple of weeks ago, London-based Berkeley Square Films announced that Channing Tatum will star in Richie Farrell’s inspirational detox drama ‘What’s Left of Us‘, a hard-hitting chronicle of seven excruciating days in detox for a heroin addict.
Farrell, a former addict who directed the HBO documentary ‘High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell,’ will adapt his own gritty novel “What’s Left of Us
The author, who fought his way back from a deep drug addiction to land on both bookstore shelves and the silver screen, was recently interviewed by the The Cabinet Press and shared how the film came to fruition and why he feels Chan is perfect for the role.
Farrell tells The Cabinet Press that Chan was looking for a dark role, and after reading the book and meeting with the author to discuss ideas in New York City (where he was filming the crime thriller ‘Son of No One‘), they decided to make the movie.
Not surprisingly, Chan’s dark turn in the 2006 independent film ‘A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints‘ helped convince Farrell that the actor is much more than just another pretty face…
“Chan is a brilliant businessman and a sincere, wonderful, young actor. In fact, actors who acquire A-List status in today’s Hollywood are brilliant…Channing Tatum’s characters to date have been roles where, “He’s the hunky, kind of dumb guy, and all the girls love him. He’s got the dimples and the smiles and the eyes, and he’s really good looking.” But Channing Tatum is much larger than those roles. And by taking on the role of Richie Farrell in “What’s Left of Us,” Channing is going to prove to the world that he’s not only good looking, but he’ll probably become one of the best actors of this generation.”
The author also adds…
“After meeting with him, it was like we’re brothers…I’ll let him explain it, but he’s got his own story that’s similar. He feels connected to the story…I think he can do it; I’m convinced he can do it.”
The movie is being made independently on a $7 million budget, and Farrell is hoping that filming will begin in March in Lowell, Massachusetts. Farrell is also excited about not working with a studio, because he feels it gives the production “freedom…We can make another ‘Requiem for a Dream’ if we want.”
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NEWS FLASH: Channing Tatum to Play a Recovering Addict in New Indie Drama
May 19, 2010
For those who are keeping score…this year Channing Tatum has already promoted and released the romantic drama ‘Dear John‘, wrapped on two new films (Steven Soderbergh’s action-revenge spy thriller ‘Knockout‘ and Dito Montiel’s crime thriller ‘Son of No One‘ with Al Pacino, Ray Liotta, and Katie Holmes), shot reshoots for Kevin MacDonald’s Roman drama ‘Eagle of the Ninth‘, executive produced and premiered the political documentary ‘Earth Made of Glass‘ at the Tribeca Film Festival and is prepping to take a long-awaited comedic turn in Ron Howard and Vince Vaughn’s ‘Cheaters‘, which he films next month. Not too bad, considering we’ve barely made it through the month of May.
As if all that wasn’t enough, the busy actor’s dance card just got a little more crowded…
Earlier this week, the newly formed, London-based Berkeley Square Films announced at the Cannes Film Festival that Chan will star in Richie Farrell’s inspirational detox drama ‘What’s Left of Us’, a hard-hitting chronicle of seven excruciating days in detox for a heroin addict.
Farrell, a former addict who directed the HBO documentary ‘High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell,‘ will adapt his own gritty novel “What’s Left of Us
Boston.com interviewed Farrell last year. In the article we learn how the author managed to fight his way back from a deep drug addiction to land on both bookstore shelves and the silver screen. You can read a snippet of the story below to get an idea of what kind of character Chan will be portraying…
Richard Farrell looks uneasy, gripping the steering wheel with both hands as he pulls up to St. Patrick’s Church. “This street was all dealers,’’ he says, stopping the car in the shadow of the granite steeple. “I scored two [expletive] bags of dope right here before giving the eulogy at my father’s funeral.’’ Farrell is well acquainted with the dark corners of the Mill City, where he was born and, more than once, almost died of an overdose. A former heroin addict, Farrell has put his grim experiences to good use, directing an award-winning documentary, “High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell,’’ and writing a gritty new memoir.
The book - whose title, “What’s Left of Us,’’ is tattooed in tiny script on the author’s left bicep - is Farrell’s story of getting straight with other rogues at a dreary state-run detox. It’s already drawn interest from filmmakers attracted to the book’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’’-like quality. “I had no ambition when I was growing up here, none,’’ says Farrell, driving past his childhood home in the working-class neighborhood known as The Acre. “It’s amazing I’m still here.’’ Life didn’t figure to be easy for Farrell, who barely survived his own birth 52 years ago. He came out feet first and, deprived of oxygen for several minutes, suffered brain damage that weakened the right side of his body.
Farrell’s domineering and abusive father, an English teacher at Lowell High School, was embarrassed by his son’s limp. “No kid of his was going to be a cripple,’’ says Farrell, who was forced to lift weights, run, and stretch everyday. The terrifying relationship with his father is the centerpiece of Farrell’s memoir, and it was one of the reasons he became an addict. He tried heroin for the first time the day his dad died in 1984. (He was already hooked on painkillers after a series of knee surgeries.) Three years later, at the age of 31, Farrell and a couple of his junkie friends huddled in an abandoned mill building and tried to kill themselves by overdosing.
Farrell’s heroin addiction nearly killed him. Luckily, he lived to write about it, and now Chan has been given this incredible opportunity to bring his story to life. Knowing how well Chan portrayed the troubled and violent Antonio in 2006’s critically-acclaimed and award-winning drama ‘A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints‘, I have no doubt that this film has amazing potential.
BIG CONGRATS to Chan on landing yet another awesome new role!!!
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