Daily news dose: 'Transformers 3' release date set; Carre's 'Manager' coming to big screen
Here's your daily dose of film news for March 17, 2009:
• "Transformers 3" has an official release date! Paramount announced Monday it will release the third installment in the series July 1, 2011. No word yet on whether Michael Bay will return to direct. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," the next film in the series, is set to open June 24, 2009.
• Paramount has also acquired the rights to develop the big-screen version of John Le Carre's espionage thriller "The Night Manager," according to Variety. The story follows a European hotel night manager who is recruited to infiltrate the network of an arms dealer. Robert Edwards is writing the adaptation.
• Here's more from Paramount: the studio has acquired the rights to Joshua Davis' article "The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist" in Wired magazine. The Hollywood Reporter says J.J. Abrams will produce and may even direct the project. The upcoming article focuses on a massive diamond heist in Antwerp, Belgium.
• Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the U.S. rights to distribute Anne Fontaine's upcoming Coco Chanel biopic "Coco Avant Chanel" (Coco Before Chanel). Audrey Tautou stars as the lead character in the film, which chronicles the life and career of the fashion designer. (Variety)
Franck Tabouring
Well, Paramount made a mistake, and "Tranformers" won't be released until 2012...
