Still quivering in post-coital bliss over the vigorous tonguing they received from Hugh Jackman (plugging the upcoming Wolverine movie in a surprise visit), the Comic-Con masses in San Diego were sent into new convulsions of ecstasy by some unannounced footage from the sequel to Tron featuring Jeff Bridges. Referred to as Tr2n, reports vary as to [...]
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I yawned when MGM announced it might reboot RoboCop last spring (and don’t even get me started on the execrable Red Dawn) and I didn’t pay much attention when Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for Dream, The Fountain and the upcoming The Wrestler) was tossed around as a name, but word today that he has signed on to [...]
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There has been much discussion over the exit of Ebert and Roeper from At the Movies and Ebert himself finally addressed the matter this morning at Roger Ebert’s Journal.
“I was surprised how depressed I felt all day on July 21, when Richard and I announced we were leaving the Ebert & Roeper program,” he begins. [...]
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High school senior Hannah Bailey in American Teen
In 2005, filmmaker Nanette Burstein (The Kid Stays in the Picture) filmed the lives of five Warsaw Indiana High School seniors over the course of ten months. She then narrowed down 1000 hours of footage and the result is American Teen, a documentary that traces every up and [...]
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In brighter indie news, the report we previously passed along that Sony Pictures Classics was close to picking up Charlie Kaufman’s Cannes pic Synecdoche, New York was confirmed by the company today and a release is currently planned for October.
I can’t wait for the real movie season to start. How about you?
Source: Variety
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It looks like today is D-Day for staffers of Paramount Vantage, the mini-major that last month went through a management restructuring, had it’s slate cut from 12 to 6 pictures a year and had parent company Paramount assume marketing and distribution responsibilities. People who follow this kind of thing began speaking of Vantage in the [...]
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Per a heads up from Joel: Where the Wild Things Are producer Gary Goetzman was pigeonholed and gangbanged by a flock of Comic-Con reporters on the City of Ember train headed for San Diego yesterday.
According to CHUD’s Devin Faraci, Spike Jonze has final cut on Wild Things and that production house Playtone supports him. Faraci quotes Goetzman [...]
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Philippe Petit is a Man on Wire
Because the wide releases are mainly of niche interest this week, I’m starting with the much more appetizing limited releases.
Man on Wire. (NY. Opens wider 8/8) Who’d have thought a documentary about a man who walked a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 could [...]
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