Until tonight’s announcement that Australian actress Mia Wasikowska was on the verge of being cast as Alice in Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland, I hadn’t given much thought to the project. Now I have and I think I like it.
It’s already got a story that Burton will have to stick to and that’s [...]
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We’ve had musicals become movies. We’ve had movies become musicals. We’ve had movies become musicals become movie musicals. Now we’re looking at the first sequel to a movie musical based on a musical based on a movie.
According to Variety’s Michael Fleming, New Line Cinema has asked John Waters to write a treatment for Hairspray 2 [...]
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Referring to unnamed sources last week, Fox entertainment monkey Roger Friedman reported that Tom Cruise was likely off the upcoming film Edwin A. Salt, the story of a CIA officer who is accused of being a Russian sleeper spy. According to Friedman, Cruise bailed because the producers no longer consider him a $20 million star. [...]
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The Hollywood Reporter has a list of the most recent MPAA ratings and it looks like the new Kevin Smith film has been slapped with an NC-17 “for some graphic sexuality.”
Zack and Miri is a romantic comedy starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as lifelong platonic friends who decide to produce a porn movie to [...]
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Kind of a slow news day so far. Almost makes you wish someone would get accused of smacking his or her mom around so we could analyze it and talk about it until it turned out to maybe not be exactly true. Allegedly. Sort of.
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The world of indie distribution continues to contract. Netflix has shut down its 2-year-old Red Envelope Entertainment which partnered with small distributors on over 100 titles including the Iraq war documentary No End in Sight and Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in Paris.
The question remains whether the current turmoil in the indie sector is a natural contraction or [...]
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