Earlier in April, Javier Bardem dropped out of Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro and now, citing exhaustion from work and awards season, Variety is reporting that he’s also leaving Nine, Rob Marshall’s musical adaptation of Fellini’s 8 1/2.
The actor, who recently won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Anton Chigurh in Joel and Ethan Coen’s [...]
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Apologies in advance for this LA-centric post, but in the big picture, what’s good for cinema in one place is good for cinema everywhere. LA’s New Beverly Cinema is a part of the continuum of movie-going goodness and by making LA a better place, in its own small way it makes the world itself a [...]
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Miramax has acquired the worldwide rights to the remake of the 2007 Israeli psychological thriller The Debt being written by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) and Jane Goldman.
The story begins 20 years after WWII when three Mossad agents track down and kill the Nazi war criminal known as “The Surgeon of Birkenau.” 30 years later, an elderly [...]
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“There’s a whole ocean of oil underneath our feet.
No one can get at it except for me.”
I feel like I haven’t strung the words There, Will, Be and Blood together since the Oscars so here’s a thinly disguised excuse to do just that.
For the 17% of you who care about such things, Paramount is starting to announce [...]
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Roar!
The only really great thing about the inexplicably popular monster movie Cloverfield was Michael Giacchino’s Roar! theme which played over the closing credits.
It captured the essence of the old Godzilla movies in a way I wish the movie had as well. I know, Cloverfield simply wasn’t that movie and it was never supposed to be. It [...]
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There was some head scratching when the Cannes lineup was announced recently and Fernando Meirelles’ drama Blindness was nowhere to be found. Nevertheless, Hollywood Reporter’s Steven Zeitchik speculated it would ultimately be chosen to fill the vacant opening or closing spots.
Variety reports this morning that the drama about an epidemic of blindness starring Julianne Moore [...]
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After the Che films and after The Informant with Matt Damon, Steven Soderbergh is set to direct The Girlfriend Experience to be written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Rounders, Ocean’s 13).
The second film of the six-picture commitment Soderbergh has with Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner (the first was the super-low-budget Bubble), Girlfriend will tell [...]
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According to The Envelope’s Todd Martens, Amy Winehouse is working on a theme song for the upcoming James Bond film, Quantum of Solace with producer Mark Ronson. Ronson told the BBC “The demo sounds like a James Bond theme, hopefully. But I don’t know if it’ll get used.”
Artists have been asked to record songs for [...]
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Joel passed this along to me this morning.
Just a day after posting a lovely and moving tribute marking the passing of his wife in 2006, The House Next Door’s Matt Zoller Seitz has announced he’s leaving behind the world of print journalism after seventeen years.
I don’t know Matt. I’ve never met him or had a [...]
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Where is Travis Bickle when we need him?
This is a little far removed from movies and a little too close to the kind of salacious Entertainment Tonight/TMZ nonsense I hate so much, but it’s all over and since it involves Disney, it plays.
As you probably know, Annie Leibovitz took some creepily sexualized photos of teen [...]
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