Emily Blunt eyed to be Mary Poppins

Last September, we reported that Disney is reviving Mary Poppins [see the story HERE]. Now, Variety reports that actress Emily Blunt is in negotiations to star in Disney's sequel to "Mary Poppins". John DeLuca and Marc Platt will serve as producers on the film with Rob Marshall directing. The new film will take place 20 years after the original 1964 film, "Mary Poppins", which starred Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. The story follows a nanny who comes to work for a bankers unhappy family in pre-World War I England. Disney has found success adapting a number of classic animated films such as "Alice In Wonderland" and "Cinderella". The studio just completed production on a live-action "Beauty and the Beast" film starring Emma Watson set for release next year and is also developing a 'Cruella Deville' origin film starring Emma Stone. Blunt is currently filming 20th Century Fox's "Girl on a Train" film adaptation and has Universal Pictures' Snow White-prequel, "The Huntsman: Winter's War" starring Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, and Jessica Chastain set for release this summer.
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Disney Reviving Mary Poppins

Disney is reviving one of their most beloved and iconic characters with a new Mary Poppins movie. Rob Marshall (Chicago) is on board to direct the new original live-action musical from a script by David Magee (Life of Pi). EW reports that the new Mary Poppins film will take pace 20 years after the original classic, in Depression-era London, and will draw inspiration from the existing works P.L. Travers‘ Poppins book series and explore Mary’s further adventures with the Banks’ family. [hit the jump to continue]

Syowing this Week [June 11, 2014 to June 17, 2014]

How to Train Your Dragon 2
This sequel to the first How to Train Your Dragon movie, takes place five years after the first film, featuring Hiccup and his friends as young adults.At the end of last film, all these Vikings who were previously somewhat landlocked are now on the backs of dragons so the entire Northern Hemisphere opens up to them. And with that Hiccup's curiosity increases, the map expands and inevitably they are going to come across new dragons, new cultures. Hiccup then discovers a larger conflict brewing between humans and dragons and he finds himself at the center of it.
SCREENING SKEDS:
Robinsons Movieworld Cinema 1 = 1:05 PM | 3:25 PM | 5:45 PM | 8:05 PM
SM Iloilo Cinema 1 = 1:00 PM | 3:40 PM | 6:20 PM | 9:00 PM
SM Iloilo Cinema 8 [3D] = 12:00 PM | 2:40 PM | 5:20 PM | 8:00 PM
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Blended
This is romantic comedy film directed by Frank Coraci and written by Ivan Menchell and Clare Sera, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore with an ensemble cast. After a bad blind date, single parents Jim Friedman (Sandler) and Lauren Reynolds (Barrymore) find themselves stuck together at a resort for families in Africa, where their attraction grows as their respective children benefit from the burgeoning relationship.
SCREENING SKEDS:
Robinsons Movieworld Cinema 6 = 1:15 PM | 3:35 PM | 5:55 PM | 8:15 PM
SM Iloilo Cinema 7 = 1:00 PM | 3:40 PM
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Noah (2014)
This epic inspired by the biblical tale, directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel, stars Russell Crowe as Noah along with Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Anthony Hopkins, and Douglas Booth. The film is based on the story of Noah's Ark.
SCREENING SKEDS:
Robinsons Movieworld Cinema 5 = 5:30 PM | 8:10 PM
SM Iloilo Cinema 6 = 12:00 PM | 3:00 PM | 6:00 PM | 9:00 PM
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My Illegal Wife
This Tagalog comedy flick stars Pokwang and Zanjoe Marudo, and directed by Tony Y. Reyes. It spoofs the TV series "Legal Wife"
SCREENING SKEDS:
Robinsons Movieworld Cinema 2 = 12:45 PM | 3:15 PM | 5:45 PM | 8:15 PM
SM Iloilo Cinema 4 = 1:00 PM | 3:40 PM | 6:20 PM | 9:00 PM
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Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy film classic directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney. The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars Julie Andrews in the titular role of a magical nanny who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family's dynamic. Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns are featured in supporting roles. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
SCREENING SKED: UPV Cinematheque = 3:30 PM
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7500
This is an unreleased American film directed by Takashi Shimizu, starring Jamie Chung, Leslie Bibb, and Amy Smart, revolves around the story of Vista Pacific Flight 7500, which departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. The take-off is routine but what transpires over the next ten hours is anything but ordinary. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.
SCREENING SKEDS:
Robinsons Movieworld Cinema 5 = 12:00 PM | 1:40 PM | 3:20 PM
SM Iloilo Cinema 7 = 6:20 PM | 9:00 PM
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On The Job
Critically-acclaimed Pinoy movie directed by Erik Matti and stars Piolo Pascual, Gerald Anderson, Joel Torre, and Joey Marquez, is about the passions and ambitions of four men trying to survive, and a make living for themselves and their respective families. It depicts parallel worlds between two inmates who are hired as contract killers, and law agents investigating the crimes. As the two groups are caught in the jobs of corrupt government officials, the two groups are lead into a inevitable collision against each other having their loved ones as collateral damage.
SCREENING SKED:
FDCP CINEMATHEQUE ILOILO
June 10, 2014 to June 15, 2014
Tuesday to Friday - 3:30 PM | 5:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday - 1:30 PM | 3:30 PM
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MARY POPPINS to be Screened at the UPV Cinematheque

Cinema Exmundo and the UPV Cinematheque presents a screening of the classic family movie "Mary Poppins" this coming June 15, 2014 Sunday at 3:30 PM (doors open 3:00 PM) at the UPV Cinematheque, U.P Visayas, Iloilo City Campus, Infante Ave., Iloilo City. The event will be RSVP to confirm your seats, so visit their facebook page first [CLICK HERE to go to the page] if you intend to go and watch it. [hit the jump to continue]