Everyone’s got an opinion about how much trouble Tom Cruise’s latest project Valkyrie is in. Michael Cieply sums the whole thing up in the NY Times and gives United Artists chief executive Paula Wagner a chance to defend the film.
There’s no real news here, but the funny part is that, within minutes of the story [...]
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The 10th Annual Ebertfest, Roger Ebert’s festival of overlooked and underappreciated films kicks off Wednesday, April 23. Unfortunately Ebert won’t be there himself. The film critic is still recovering from a fractured hip he suffered during rehabilitation from a January surgery and he announced on his recently formed blog, Roger Ebert’s Journal, that he has [...]
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The full lineup for Cannes ‘08 will be announced soon, but it looks like Clint Eastwood’s Changeling with Angelina Jolie will join Woody Allen’s Vicky Christina Barcelona with Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem as representatives from the United States.
Variety is also reporting that Barry Levinson’s What Just Happened? may not be the closing [...]
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Ang Lee is set to direct a comedy based on Elliot Tiber’s memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, Concert, and a Life.
The story takes place in 1969 when Tiber, an upstate New York motel owner, went from witnessing the Stonewall Riots, regarded as a launching point for the modern gay rights movement, to [...]
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MTV apparently talked to Uma Thurman who dropped hints about an upcoming DVD re-release of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill.
Says the ridiculously beautiful actress, “Right now he’s putting the two films together with an intermission with an added anime sequence he had already written.” She goes on to say “It has nothing to do with me. It [...]
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O.K., not really, but they did unveil their Disneynature brand yesterday through which they plan to make a little green with a series of green flavored documentaries. The first film, Earth, will hit US theaters on Earth Day, April 22, 2009.
The documentary comes from Alastair Fothergill, the producer/director of the Planet Earth series, and it will be [...]
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