Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Burn After Reading, the new film from multiple Academy Award winning cinematic geniuses Joel and Ethan Coen, is set to open the 65th Venice Fim Festival on August 27.
The Brothers’ latest is a dark comedy that stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich. LiC is in full Coen Lockdown mode [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
It was a fairly quiet movie-going weekend here at the LiC head offices. The choice between Harold & Kumar and Baby Mama didn’t seem like a choice at all so I chose to skip the multiplex altogether. Instead I hit the arthouse and caught a screening of the surprising Shotgun Stories with Michael Shannon (Bug).
I [...]
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