Variety reports that Ridley Scott will direct and produce The Kind One starring Casey Affleck as an amnesiac in 1930s Los Angeles who ends up working for a mobster. It’s based on a novel by Tom Epperson who will also write the screenplay.
I’m on the fence about Scott, but after The Assassination of Jesse James by [...]
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According to Variety, Phoenix Pictures and the Gold Co. are joining forces to bring you Amish Gone Wild, a comedy about two Amish teens who go to Las Vegas as part of the Amish “rumspringa” ritual where teens experience the outside world before deciding whether to adhere to the strict Amish way of life.
This is [...]
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Penélope Cruz © Pedro Almodóvar
Repeating information gleaned from Pedro Almodóvar’s blog and elsewhere, The Guardian reports that filming begins next month on Almodóvar’s latest collaboration with supernaturally beautiful Penélope Cruz called Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces).
Planning to shoot in the “style of 50s film noir,” the director calls it “the longest script I’ve ever written.”
In [...]
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So there it is. X-Files creator Chris Carter has told the Associated Press that The Untitled X-Files Film coming July 25th is now called The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
X-Files nerds will remember that phrase prominently featured on a UFO poster in Agent Fox Mulder’s office.
I was once one of those X-Nerds so you’d think [...]
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Little is known about the fabled Joel and Ethan Coen Suburbicon script except that it’s a dark comedy. Though it has been rumored that George Clooney was going to make it, the actor/director/inventor of Tang recently took a few moments out of his busy schedule mapping the human genome to tell MTV that this isn’t [...]
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Barry Sonnenfeld fears the Internet. Speaking at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, the producer/director and former Coen cinematographer sees a future world where pervasive Internet use leads to the end of democracy. Living in Cinema isn’t quite able to follow Barry’s logic, but we’d like him to know that a hat [...]
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