Anders Danielsen Lie in Joachim Trier’s Reprise
LiC’s limited release Pick of the Week
There are plenty of decent limited releases from previous weekends still kicking around (The Visitor, Young@Heart, Son of Rambow, The Fall, OSS 117) and it might be a good time to try and find one because there is only one new wide release [...]
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According to Variety’s Pamela McClintock and Anne Thompson, Michael Moore is going to make a sequel to Farenheit 9/11 which will be released next year.
Though the original was the highest grossing documentary ever in the United States with $119.1 million and an additional $100 million overseas, Moore’s most recent film Sicko only pulled in $24.5 million [...]
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Jody Hill, Will Ferrell, Ben Best, Danny McBride and Adam McKay
Throw a press conference in L.A. to promote a $70,000 indie martial arts comedy called The Foot Fist Way written, produced and directed by three friends from the North Carolina School of the Arts and you might be hard pressed to find many takers. Promise [...]
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According to the L.A. Times’ Sheigh Crabtree, Steven Spielberg told German magazine Focus that Chicago Seven is on the back burner and that he hopes to begin filming the oft rumored Abraham Lincoln biography in 2009 to coincide with the 16th president’s 200th anniversary.
OK, I’ve already lost interest in this story, but I’ve gone and typed [...]
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In older but lighter news, John Waters is going to tacky up everyone’s favorite consumer holiday with Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey.
According to The Hollywood Reporter:
“The plot is officially under wraps but is said to center on the title character, a boy named after his favorite dessert. He runs away from home during the holidays [...]
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Go, Speed Racer! Go!
If week #2 of Summer’s wide releases don’t thrill you, there are a handful of interesting looking limited releases to choose from. First up, here’s what’s most likely opening at a theater near you:
Speed Racer. Box office watchers are smelling a bomb, but I really hope this movie is a splashy, kinetic [...]
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Three weeks after James Caan left David O. Russell’s Nailed, supposedly over an argument about how the actor should choke on a cookie, James Brolin has stepped in to fill the role.
Russell has a reputation for running a contentious set, not only getting into a fight with George Clooney on Three Kings, but most famously appearing all over [...]
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Heads were scratched over the scheduled January ‘09 release for Frank Miller’s The Spirit starring Gabriel Macht, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson, but Lionsgate must feel good about what they’re seeing because they’ve moved the film up to Christmas ‘08.
January is practically a graveyard for movie releases, whereas Christmas is one of the busiest movie going [...]
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Two weeks before Atom Egoyan’s latest film is scheduled to premiere at Cannes, Sony Pictures Classics has snagged it for domestic and select international distribution.
Adoration, starring Rachel Blanchard and Scott Speedman, is Canadian filmmaker Egoyan’s 11th feature and his 7th collaboration with producer Robert Lantos. The drama tells the story of a teenager who assumes a false [...]
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And so it begins: Summer Blockbuster Season. Fasten your seatbelts, hitch up your lederhosen and hold on to your hats.
Iron Man. In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a little superhero movie coming out this weekend. Factually, some theaters are rolling it out tonight at 8pm local time. All I ask is that they don’t play [...]
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Miramax has acquired the worldwide rights to the remake of the 2007 Israeli psychological thriller The Debt being written by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) and Jane Goldman.
The story begins 20 years after WWII when three Mossad agents track down and kill the Nazi war criminal known as “The Surgeon of Birkenau.” 30 years later, an elderly [...]
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After the Che films and after The Informant with Matt Damon, Steven Soderbergh is set to direct The Girlfriend Experience to be written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Rounders, Ocean’s 13).
The second film of the six-picture commitment Soderbergh has with Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner (the first was the super-low-budget Bubble), Girlfriend will tell [...]
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Burn After Reading, the new film from multiple Academy Award winning cinematic geniuses Joel and Ethan Coen, is set to open the 65th Venice Fim Festival on August 27.
The Brothers’ latest is a dark comedy that stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich. LiC is in full Coen Lockdown mode [...]
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With a few notable exceptions, the second half of the summer season doesn’t seem as promising as the first, but you can decide for yourselves.
After it’s all over, check out LiC’s Top 7 of Summer plus 7 Wildcards that might deliver. As always, release dates are subject to change.
July 2
Hancock. Will Smith kicks off July [...]
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According to the calendar, summer doesn’t begin until June 20th, but according to the movie industry, it begins the first weekend of May. That’s right, Hollywood’s Silly Season is nearly upon us; the time of year when audiences are pummeled by a surfeit of empty entertainment extravaganzas that make up for a lack of substance [...]
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