Antoine Fuqua

Southpaw put on holdIt's increasingly hard to keep track of the potential projects pencilled into Antoine Fuqua's diary. Over the last year or so his name has come up connected to Prisoners, Escobar, Southpaw, The Tomb, Storming Las Vegas, Afterburn, Hunter Killer, Steel Town, a Chinese historical epic and a biopic of Tupac Shakur. Now however, Fuqua is adding Chicagoland to the list, and would seem to be making it a priority, since he...  

With Cannes around the corner, new film projects are cropping up, and deals are being signed. As Germain mentioned earlier we’ll see a lot of indie projects cropping up in the next couple weeks, but there are also studio projects moving forward. For instance, Antoine Fuqua has added another project to his slate. Chicagoland, written [...]  

We're not sure how or why a thoroughly average director like Antoine Fuqua can keep stacking up projects, but dude keeps stacking up the movies on his schedule, and good thing too since another one has fallen to the wayside for a moment. Variety reports that Fuqua will now take the helm of "Chicagoland," about which not much is known except that it's a heist flick at New Line. But this one was apparently attracting some big deal talent, as...  

Antoine Fuqua is adding yet another project to his crowded directorial development slate.  Variety reports that the Training Day director is in talks to helm the crime drama Chicagoland for New Line Cinema.  Plot details are thin, but the story apparently revolves around some sort of heist.  Fuqua has come in and out of a number of projects in the last year, and he’s currently attached to direct Steel Town, the crime spree pic Storming Las...  

Consider this an extension of my Pondering The Dismal Outlook Of Black Directors Working Within The Studio System piece I posted a few weeks back that got passed around quite a bit, and generated lots of emails. Too bad most of those emails resulted in ...  

We've heard several projects over the last few months which Fuqua has been attached to direct, but none which have started production that we know of. We last told you about Fuqua in talks to direct the Millenium thriller Olympus Has Fallen, described as a “Die Hard in the White House." Apparently, studios were rushing go into production for Olympus this summer to get ahead of the similarly themed film White House Down. There were...  

It was just last week that it was reported that Roland Emmerich is in talks to direct Sony Pictures' White House Down , an action thriller built around a para-miltary takeover of the White House. Now, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the similarly-plotted Olympus Has Fallen is racing to be the first project into theaters and that Antoine Fuqua ( Training Day , Brookylyn's Finest ) is in talks to direct. Set up at Nu Image...  

Proof that every derivative idea that floats through Hollywood requires at least two versions, Nu Image/Millennium is pushing forward with their own "'Die Hard' in the White House" film now that Sony/Columbia purchased James Vanderbilt's spec script "White House Down," at the end of last month, for a whopping $3 million. But wait. Nu Image/Millennium's "Olympus Has Fallen" was actually first, with screenwriters Creighton Rothenberger and...  

The race of the two “White House action-thrillers” is on.  Director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) has been offered the Nu Image/Millenium property Olympus Has Fallen, in direct competition with Columbia’s similarly-plotted White House Down, which has Roland Emmerich in talks to direct.  Olympus Has Fallen is described as “Die Hard in the White House” and has Gerard Butler attached to play a down-on-his-luck ex-Secret Service agent who becomes...  

BREAKING: Antoine Fuqua has been offered Olympus Has Fallen, the White House takeover pic that Gerry Butler will star in for Avi Lerner’s Millennium. Fuqua is thinking it over, but he’s mulling numerous other jobs, including the Peter Morgan-scripted ...  

*Antoine Fuqua is in early talks to direct “Olympus Has Fallen,” an action thriller that has been described as “Die Hard in the White House,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project achieved new urgency last week after Columbia acquired ...  

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Last we posted any news regarding the filmmaker was last month, when we announced Antoine Fuqua may be directing a screen adaptation of the Fox series 24. Now it looks like Fuqua is early talks to direct the Millenium thriller Olympus Has Fallen, described as a “Die Hard in the White House," according to this THR report. Olympus, penned by first time scribes Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, and produced by Gerard Butler...  

It’s the race to destroy the White House. Antoine Fuqua has an offer and is in early talks to direct Olympus Has Fallen, an Nu Image/Millennium action thriller that has been described as “Die Hard in the White House."  

Maybe it’s got something to do with the current divisive political climate, or maybe election years just bring out the most destructive tendencies in people. More likely, it’s just that weird Hollywood tendency to produce multiple films based on a single idea at the same time. (See also: Linda Lovelace, Snow White.) Whatever the reason, [...]  

Just last week, we were hit with the cataclysmic news that Roland Emmerich was likely to return to one of his favorite cinematic pastimes – blowing the White House the eff up – in the new, amusingly titled film White House Down. Turns out, that wasn’t the only script with a vendetta against 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. bouncing around Hollywood, and Emmerich, scribe Jamie Vanderbilt, and Columbia are just going to have to man up and deal with some...  

One of the busiest directors in town just got a little busier, as Antoine Fuqua is in negotiations to direct "Chicagoland" for New Line. Peter Morgan penned the script, with Simon Kinberg on board to produce. Project is the latest among a handful to which ...  

A film based on the late rapper/actor's life is still in Limbo (Antoine Fuqua was to direct it, and even began the casting process last spring, but nothing came from that, and Fuqua left the project; John Singleton then was said to have taken over for Fuqua, but then he left the project as well); but a Tupac Shakur stage musical is indeed in the works with Kenny Leon (maybe the most popular black director working on Broadway right now...  

Gerard Butler began negotiations with Relativity to topline the adaptation of the sci-fi comic Afterburn in 2010.  Antoine Fuqua was attached to direct at the time, but has since moved on.  Butler is still interested in the project if he can work it into his schedule, so the studio is motivated to find a Fuqua replacement.  Heat Vision reports that Tommy Wirkola is now attached to direct and rewrite the script.  The Norwegian director parlayed...  

Even as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama race to win the White House, Roland Emmerich and Antoine Fuqua are competing to take it down. Both filmmakers are signed on to direct projects described as “Die Hard on Pennsylvania Avenue” — Columbia’s White House Down for Emmerich, and Millennium’s Olympus Has Fallen for Fuqua. While Fuqua’s [...]  

Antoine Fuqua is directing White House Taken. PHOTOS: Cannes Day 3: 'Madagascar 3' Premiere, Sean Penn's Haiti Event "We're very excited to be working with Klay and his team at West Coast. Clearly, they have financing expertise. But also the movies they ...  

Most recently di Bonaventura Pictures has produced the box-office hits "Transformers," "Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen" and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," all directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf; "Shooter," directed by Antoine Fuqua ...  

Training Day director Antoine Fuqua is in talks to take charge of Gerard Butler's new presidential movie Olympus Has Fallen. Butler has already signed on to play a Secret Service agent in the action film, based around a fictional terrorist attack on the White House.  

Mythology, which also set up the drama series "The Lobotomist" at HBO with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way banner, is currently in production on Showtime's Antoine Fuqua-directed Suge Knight documentary. Vanderbilt is repped by WME and uFuse Management ...  

The film recently lost its director Antoine Fuqua, although Stallone is not thought to be keen on multitasking and taking on that job on the project too. It's believed that the plot will centre on a designer of supposedly impregnable prisons being forced ...  

Partnership, announced Saturday at Cannes, kicks off with "White House Taken," directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Gerard Butler. Actioner centers on a U.S. Secret Service agent who has fallen from grace -- until the White House is attacked and taken ...  

PanARMENIAN.Net - Millennium Films has signed a $100 million, three-year co-financing and co-production agreement with West Coast Film Partners, which will kick off with Antoine Fuqua's "White House Taken," an action film about the U.S. Secret Service ...  

The 24 movie had Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) lined up to direct at one point, with a script by Billy Ray, who also contributed to the Hunger Games script. The film also had a tight window to get made because of Sutherland's schedule for the new ...  

Many of these were made while Fincher worked with Propaganda films, a hugely prolific firm that employed some other video-turned-feature directors you may have heard of, such as Michael Bay, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Antoine Fuqua, Alex Proyas ...  

Antoine Fuqua directed Owen in “King Arthur,” and Spike Lee was at the helm of his exceptional and, clever crime drama, “Inside Man.” Soon to be seen in theaters is the intriguing “Intruders,” in which the gifted performer takes you on an eerie ...  

and Millions of Dollars into a gritty thriller worthy of attached director/producer Antoine Fuqua (Training Day). Based on the real-life exploits of Cuba native Jose Vigoa, Storming Las Vegas follows the headline-snagging crime spree of ...  

Millennium Films has signed a $100 million, three-year co-financing and co-production agreement with West Coast Film Partners, which will kick off with Antoine Fuqua's "White House Taken," an action film about the U.S. Secret Service.  

Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day”) would direct a screenplay by Kurt Sutter (FX’s “Sons of Anarchy”). Sutter told Deadline.com in late 2010 that he had taken meetings for several years with Eminem’s producing partners, and that boxing ...  

Vanderbilt will produce alongside Bradley Fischer, Laeta Kalogridis and Harald Kloser. Millennium is working on a similarly project called Olympus Has Fallen, with Gerard Butler attached to star and Antoine Fuqua directing.  

replacing Antoine Fuqua. Butler will play a treasure hunter who goes into the quarantine zone with his team to recover priceless artifacts, taking on deadly mutants, rival bounty hunters and pirate gangs.