Back when Marvel announced an April 2010 release date for Iron Man 2, Jon Favreau told Howard Stern that he hadn’t been offered a contract yet. Later he was asked on his Myspace page how contract talks were progressing. He said he’d had only one phone call from Marvel, yet he understood the studio was [...]
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Why, if I ever get my hands on that Thalberg…!
As news spread last week that the original version of Fritz Lang’s epic silent sci-fi film Metropolis had been uncovered in Argentina, Christian Divine’s thoughts turned to scenes from other films he’d like to see recovered.
At the top of Christian’s wish list are the numerous stop-motion animation sequences [...]
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Back in May, I scoffed at speculation Robert Downey Jr. would be playing Hugh Hefner in an upcoming movie about the founder of the Playboy empire; not because it wasn’t possible, but because it was being treated as though it was already happening.
Now Michael Fleming is reporting in Variety that the Iron Man star has [...]
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You may know Rajan Zed as the Hindu leader who sought to boycott Mike Myers’ The Love Guru for being offensive to Hindus. Or you might not. Either way, he apparently can’t let go of the movie even though it already embarrassed itself publicly at the box office.
In his most recent email dispatch, Zed asks Paramount [...]
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Gregg Kilday fleshed out the ongoing colonoscopy of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards a little bit last night. He says that Tarantino is planning for an accelerated European shoot to begin in October and to be finished in time for the Cannes Film Festival.
He also adds that The Weinstein Co. will co-finance, distribute [...]
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Marie-Josée Croze and François Cluzet in Tell No One
Based upon the novel by Harlan Coben, Tell No One (Ne le dis a personne) is a surprising French mystery thriller written and directed by Guillaume Canet. Taking a familiar missing-wife/husband-accused storyline, the movie is spun into something altogether more satisfying by keeping the plot and action [...]
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