So Ridley Scott is really going to make a prequel to Alien after all and he’s even planning to direct.

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Here’s the trailer for Tom Hooper’s The Damned United written by Peter Morgan (The Queen) and starring Michael Sheen (The Queen). It came out in the UK in March and was announced as a North American premiere at TIFF this morning.
I’m a little weary of the whole Peter Morgan/Michael Sheen thing and the ’70s UK [...]

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The UK one sheet for Steven Soderbergh’s comedy The Informant! starring Matt Damon as a real life corporate whistleblower whose own shady history complicates the FBI’s case against agricultural giant ADM.

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Here’s the trailer for Wes Anderson’s upcoming stop-motion animated Fantastic Mr. Fox featuring the voice talents of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman.

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Buried in the Universal press release that shuffled Wolfman and Green Zone off to 2010 was a bit about Jude Law and Forest Whitaker’s long-delayed (it began production in October 2007 and post-production in January 2008) sci-fi action thriller Repossession Mambo getting retitled Repo Men! and targeted for the first part of 2010.
Apparently this is [...]

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Like Mr. Creosote and his wafer thin mint, Toronto International Film Festival organizers crammed a few more titles into their lineup bringing the total number of films to 129.
The biggest add as far as LiC is concerned is the world premiere of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs a tire-larigot which we’ve been following anxiously for the last [...]

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Programmers for the 66th Annual Venice Film Festival announced their lineup today. You can see the whole list including 71 world premieres over at Variety and I’ve picked out some of the noteworthy entries below.
In competition

36 vues du Pic Saint Loup, Jacques Rivette
Baaria, Giuseppe Tornatore
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog
Capitalism: A Love [...]

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There are several limited releases worth checking out this weekend. Lorna’s Silence from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Danish World War II resistance thriller Flame & Citron and Sweden’s surrealistic You, The Living all get LiC’s coveted stamp of approval. Meanwhile, the harrowing dolphin rescue documentary The Cove has gotten terrific reviews and we’ve been [...]

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