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About that ‘Bad Lieutenant’ remake…

In Internet time this is already old news, but in the interest of following up on stuff I’ve already talked about, here it is anyway.
Speaking to Defamer’s Stu VanAirsdale, Werner Herzog shed some light on his upcoming Bad Lieutenant project with Nicholas Cage.
Turns out he’s not actually remaking Abel Ferrara’s film so much as making [...]

Museum of the Moving Image Goes Online

I just read about this in Variety this morning and haven’t had a chance to fully explore it yet, but New York’s Museum of the Moving Image launched the Moving Image Source today, a website edited by Dennis Lim “devoted to the history of film, television and digital media.”
There is a database portion that contains [...]

Capricorn One Remake: Sure to be Number Two

They’re cranking out remakes faster than I can make fun of them. This time it’s an LiC childhood favorite: Peter Hyams’ Capricorn One, the conspiracy thriller about a fake mission to Mars starring Elliot Gould, Sam Waterston, James Brolin, Hal Holbrook, Karen Black, Telly Savalas, Brenda Vaccaro and of course, O.J. “Stabby” Simpson.
Peter Buchman who [...]

Weekend Forecast: 6/5/08

Mmmm…Dumplings
I love a Weekend Forecast in June, how ’bout you? Actually, there isn’t much to write home about this week. Undaunted, we start off with the wide releases:

Kung Fu Panda. DreamWorks hasn’t done much in the animation department that has gotten me excited. This one’s an unlikely hero story about a tubby panda chosen to [...]