• • Atlas Shrugged, Part II Debuts a Full Trailer 

Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  |Image  |Video  | Continuing the proposed three-film adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, Part II follows the 2011 release with a new set of actors, including Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe, Patrick Fabien, Richard T. Jones, Esai Morales and Diedrich Bader.  

• • Box Office Preview: Only Stooges Dare Enter The Hunger Games Fray 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  | Angelina Jolie had been trying to make a movie based on Ayn Rand’s cult classic novel, but instead, we got Atlas Shrugged Part 1 (Rocky Mountain Pictures), a poorly-reviewed adaptation starring Taylor Schilling which tanked with $1.7 million in 299 theaters to also end up outside the Top 10 [this weekend last year].  

• • Audiences flock to Rio opening weekend 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  | The first part of a proposed trilogy based on Ayn Rand’s popular novel, Atlas Shrugged Part 1 (Rocky Mountain Pictures) took in $1.7 million in its opening weekend in 300 theaters.  

 The weekend warrior: April 15 - 17 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  | Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged Part 1 (Rocky Mountain Pictures) is brought to the screen by director Paul Johansson with Taylor Schilling (“Mercy”) playing Dagny Taggart who runs the largest railroad in America and is drawn to an industrialist at a metal company (Grant Bowler from “True Blood”) whose innovative alloy will help rebuild her company’s rail line. Part 1 of the historic epic opens in select cities on Friday.  

• • • Atlas Shrugged Part I 
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Altruism  |Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Egoism  |Inaccurate  | Ultimately, “Atlas Shrugged Part I” is [...] a laughable failure. Wholly unappealing, it replaces storytelling with zealousness to foolishly argue that, if you have nothing to add, you should get out of the way of the people that do. “From each according to his ability,” stands as the central tenant of Objectivism. Whatever ability the forces behind “Atlas Shrugged Part I” have, filmmaking isn’t one of them.  

• • • Trailer for Atlas Shrugged Part I online 

Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  |Image  |Video  | The trailer for the $5 million Atlas Shrugged Part I, the adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, is now online [....]. In the film, Dagny Taggart ([Taylor] Schilling) runs Taggart Transcontinental, the largest remaining railroad company in America, with intelligence, courage and integrity, despite the systematic disappearance of her best and most competent workers. She is drawn to industrialist Henry Rearden ([Grant] Bowler), one of the few men whose genius and commitment to his own ideas match her own. Rearden’s super-strength metal alloy, Rearden Metal, holds the promise that innovation can overcome the slide into anarchy.  

• • Atlas Shrugged to begin shooting in June 

Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  | “Atlas Shrugged,” the 1957 Ayn Rand novel about a dystopian future, will move into independent production on June 11, according to Deadline New York. The book was optioned in 1992 by John Aglialoro, who paid one million dollars for complete rights to a film version. Since then, a number of false starts have plagued the project, including former plans to develop the story as a television miniseries. Aglialoro’s current plan is to turn the massive novel into four features, directed by first timer Stephen Polk with a script by Brian O’Tool and Aglialoro himself.  

• Now entering the City of Ember 
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Report from the set of the movie City of Ember.
Scattered throughout the city [set] are posters celebrating everyone doing their jobs. They're classic '40s and '50s style posters, like the cover of an Ayn Rand novel.  

• • • Vadim Perelman shows The Life Before Her Eyes 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  | Interview with the writer/director.
[Q:] You've optioned and adapted a few books, so as far as having the original author involved, what's your take on that? [A:] So far, I've had three, now four, adaptations that I've done to date. I did "The Giver" which is like a big huge young adult novels, and then I'm just in the process of doing “Atlas Shrugged”... well, that author is dead, but she has millions of minions that are watching over me. [Q:] I know a lot of people who consider that book their favorite book, and it's a really hard book to try and adapt. [A:] It's kind of like "Lord of the Rings" in a way. There's a very vocal fandom and community and very intelligent ones at that, so you can't really f**k around with them.  

• •Jolie and Pitt circling Atlas Shrugged? 

Lionsgate has picked up worldwide distribution rights to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged from Howard and Karen Baldwin (Ray), who will produce with John Aglialoro, reports Variety. Angelina Jolie, a longtime devotee of Rand's, and Brad Pitt, also a fan, are rumored to be circling the leading roles of Dagny Taggart and John Galt.  

•DiCaprio to rock the Cat’s Cradle 

News of plans by Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way, to develop and produce a film version of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle to be written by James V. Hart.
Hart is adapting Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged for Baldwin Entertainment.