Production on 3-D Pina Bausch project to resume after a period of mourning. Will Wim Wenders remain involved?
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The suddenly everywhere-you-look Mia Wasikowska (Defiance, That Evening Sun, Amelia, Alice In Wonderland, HBO’s In Treatment) has been cast as doomed Who drummer Keith Moon in…wait, no. That’s not it.
Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson (Bridge to Terabithia) have been cast as two siblings who go off to find the sperm donor for their same-sex parents played by Julianne Moore and Annette Benning. They come back with Mark Ruffalo who turns the family upside down.
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Patrick Goldstein talks to Amy Pascal about why she pulled the plug on Steven Soderbergh’s Moneyball
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Fresh off Moon winning the Michael Powell Award for the Best New British Feature at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, ScreenDaily spoke to Duncan Jones who confirms his next project is the sci-fi mystery-thriller Mute, a UK/German co-production budgeted at $25 million (roughly five times the budget of Moon).
According to Jones, “Mute is about [...]
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Nikki Finke just posted a release from a press conference given this morning in Beverly Hills where Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis announced that next year’s Oscars would feature 10 nominees for best picture.
This was the practice up through the 1943 ceremony, but why are they returning to it? It [...]
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I was never too keen on the subject matter – The Oakland A’s general manager who turned a small market baseball team into a winner by bucking conventional wisdom with statistical analysis – but I’m surprised to hear that Columbia Pictures has put Steven Soderbergh’s Brad Pitt starring Moneyball into limited turnaround. This means Columbia [...]
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Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winning The White Ribbon opens December 25, 2009.
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The Internet lit up today with MGM’s announcement that Peter Morgan (Froxt/Nixon, The Queen) had joined two of the writers of the last four Bonds, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, to write the screenplay for the as-yet-untitled James Bond 23.
This is slightly more interesting than speculation from two days ago that the next film would [...]
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With its scenes of genital mutilation, it was assumed that the most talked about film at Cannes this year could not be released to the public without some editing, but distributors and censors in the UK are apparently a little more enlightened. James Dennis is reporting for Twitch that Lars Von Trier’s controversial Antichrist has [...]
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Das A-Team saugt in jeder möglicher Sprache
Now that Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper are officially in talks to star in the A-Team adaptation being produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, the Internet is abuzz with A-Team excitement.
Originally I thought this was a stupid idea because the ’80s TV show was itself a stupid idea. I [...]
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E3 2009 where all the nerds gather in Los Angeles to talk about the latest electronic nerdery is ongoing as we speak. Normally we wouldn’t care, but Steve Wiebe just attempted once again to take the Donkey Kong title from mullet wearing videogame evil-doer Billy Mitchell – a rivalry captured by the great documentary King [...]
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…Here he is.
Commence Internet speculation that he’ll be played by Johnny Depp because he’s in Universal’s Public Enemies (and they also want him for Frank Sinatra) or Steve Carrell because…he has brown hair.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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Here’s my impression of 90% of movie fans when they find out today that Reel Talk with Jeffrey Lyons and Alison Bailes has been cancelled: “Wait, Jeffrey Lyons was still on TV?”
I have fuzzy, extremely hungover Sunday or Saturday morning memories of such a show existing in the last few years, but I couldn’t promise [...]
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“Please sir. I want some more.”
(Getty Images Photo)
Last year’s bit of Oscar-winning feel good poverty porn, Slumdog Millionaire, has turned into this year’s feel bad PR nightmare for the film’s producers and probably what amounts to more of the same for the film’s young cast.
We passed along an Onion-esque report a couple of weeks ago [...]
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His latest film Palermo Shooting (as yet unseen outside of the festival circuit in the US) got creamed when it played Cannes in 2008, but LiC favorite Wim Wenders is hoping to move ahead into the third dimension.
Screen Daily tells us Wenders is collaborating with legendary choreographer Pina Bausch to bring three of her dances, [...]
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Talk continues to swirl around Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and reviews continue to trickle in as Variety announces that the film has been picked up for US distribution by IFC along with Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric.
At SpoutBlog, I think Karina Longworth’s review benefits from coming after the initial wave of hype. There’s a sobriety [...]
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Because of our embarrassing man-crush on George Clooney, we’re constitutionally required to pass along all movie-related Clooney news we hear that is not gossip.
With that in mind, here we go with two unrelated Clooney items…
Variety reports out of Cannes that Clooney will star in Anton (Control) Corbijn’s A Very Private Gentleman for Focus Features based [...]
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Yeah, alright. That’s it. I’m done amusing myself with Thor casting news.
Tom Hiddleston co-starred in Thor director Kenneth Branagh’s BBC crime drama Wallander.
Source: Finke
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Earlier this month it was announced that Ray Stevenson (HBO’s Rome), Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer would star in The Irishman, a true crime drama about Danny Greene (Stevenson), an Irish mobster stirring up trouble with the Italian mafia in 1970s Cleveland. Walken will play Shondor Birns, Cleveland loan shark and nightclub operator while Kilmer [...]
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Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard and François Cluzet
Word comes from Cannes that Guillaume Canet (whose Tell No One overcame American reluctance to watch foreign films last summer and earned 6.2 million American dollars for its trouble), has written and will direct Les Petits Mouchoirs, described as a “generational tragicomedy” that follows a group of friends from [...]
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Just in case you forgot what they looked like
Remember when the first Milk trailer came out and everyone was asking “Dustin who?” Well now, Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black is set to make his directorial debut with his screenplay What’s Wrong with Virginia. What’s more, Variety’s Michael Fleming reports the film will star Oscar nominee [...]
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Sometimes one just can’t resist posting pointless superhero casting news. Other times one can, but not when the headline writes itself.
Nikki Finke reports this afternoon that Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, who most recently got alternate realitied to death as Papa Kirk in the latest Star Trek movie, has been cast as Thor in Kenneth Branagh’s [...]
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It reads almost like an article in The Onion.
According to the AP’s Erika Kinetz (via USA Today), young Slumdog Milionaire star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and his family were recently kicked out of the shanty they lived in before it was bulldozed in advance of monsoon season.
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THR team Borys Kit and Jay A. Fernandez had some additional reporting on Martin Scorsese’s planned Frank Sinatra biography yesterday.
They speculated that the film would allow Scorsese to work in elements of the shelved Dean Martin project Dino he’s been working on for years with Nicholas Pileggi (GoodFellas) based on Nick Tosches’ biography of the [...]
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Scorsese’s made a movie about the guy on the left.
Could the guy on the right be next?
A year ago, we (meaning me and my imaginary friends) scoffed at rumors Martin Scorsese was going to tackle a film about Frank Sinatra, but then Nikke Finke reported this morning that the project was officially being set up [...]
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Ok, Rachel Weisz isn’t really going to play Madeleine Stowe, but she is going to play a part that the Short Cuts/Stake Out/Last of the Mohicans actress originally wrote for herself back in the ’90s.
According to Michael Fleming in Variety, Fox offered Stowe $3 million in 1993 for the script Unbound Captive (co-written with husband [...]
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I’m not sure there’s a bad time to be Rachel Weisz, but the last few weeks seem like especially good ones because her name keeps turning up everywhere.
She’ll be seen later this year in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lovely Bones; Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora with Weisz as fourth century mathematician, philosopher and astronomer Hypatia of [...]
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He may indeed be a flaming prick both personally and professionally, but we’re fans of David O. Russell’s work here at LiC and we’re happy to leave the other stuff for the gossip columns.
We’d been looking forward to his film Nailed starring Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal and we kept tabs on the trouble-plagued production [...]
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Looking disheveled and unshaven, Studio Pinhead #1 enters the shabby conference room with a rolled up copy of Variety under his arm and a trail of toilet paper clinging to his shoe. He’s wearing a suit, but somehow it only makes him look cheaper.
Unfurling the trade paper, he slaps it down on the table and [...]
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Traditional western fans (not to mention fans of John Wayne) are sure to cry foul over news that Joel and Ethan Coen are adapting True Grit, the Charles Portis novel which became the 1969 film which finally earned John Wayne an Oscar.
Quit yer cryin’. It’s the Coens and they’re making a western and my cinematic [...]
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