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Gary Ross to Rewrite, Direct “Venom” Movie

By Allan Ford | Oct 8, 2009 | Movie News (0) Comment

Gary Ross, Venom

Filmmaker Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) will write and potentially direct “Venom” spin-off, based on the villain from “Spider-Man 3.”

In the comic series, Venom is a parasite alien that bonds with Peter Parker and later his newsroom rival.

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Tobey Maguire signs on for Universals “The Crusaders”

By Allan Ford | Jul 21, 2008 | Movie News (0) Comment

Tobey MaguireTobey Maguire has signed on to star in new  Universal’s  “The Cruisaders.”

Gary Ross will be directing the drama about the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.

Maguire would play Jack Greenberg, who, as an idealistic lawyer fresh out of law school, joined with NAACP Legal Defense Fund head and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to win a Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in American schools illegal.

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