The Internet is getting its collective panties in a twist again. The big trades like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are routinely ’scooped’ by various Internet movie sites with news on upcoming projects. When the trades get around to making the news ‘official’, they never credit whoever broke the story.
Both Collider and Latino Review have [...]
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Due to ’scheduling conflicts’ (like maybe he’s just signed on to too many movies), Martin Scorsese is out as director of the upcoming Bob Marley documentary and Jonathan Demme is in.
Demme is no stranger to non-fiction music films, having made the classic Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense and, more recently, Neil Young: Heart [...]
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Jeff Wells appears to have gotten the Lawrence of Latin America he was hoping for. Here he is on Soderbergh’s Che and Guerilla. I didn’t read what he said, but the headlines sum it up.
[Updated 3:40pm PST] Variety’s Anne Thompson…not so much.
[4:20pm PST] Austin360’s Charles Ealy describes the scene more than the movies themselves.
[5:00pm PST] Variety’s [...]
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…to form a production company?
Two if they’re Mark and Michael Polish, the identical twin writing-directing-producing (and sometimes starring) brother team behind such enigmatic films as Twin Falls Idaho, Northfork and the more recent (and more mainstream) The Astronaut Farmer.
According to Variety’s Michael Flemming, the two have formed Prohibition Pictures with the aim of producing four [...]
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Studio Pinhead #1: You know, there just aren’t enough movies with swords anymore.
Development Weasel: You mean like light sabers?
Studio Pinhead #1: No, none of that phony sci-fi samurai shit. I’m talking about man swords.
Studio Pinhead #2: …like porn?
Studio Pinhead #1: No! Metal swords. Big ones. Like claymores. Like, roll a d20, score a critical hit [...]
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