Posted on November 14th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
According to Variety’s Nick Vivarelli, Italian composing legend Ennio Morricone has agreed to score Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards now filming in Germany. The problem is, shooting on the film will not finish until February and Tarantino has said he wants to bring the film to Cannes in April. That doesn’t leave enough time for Morricone [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
This is one of those news items that makes me check the calendar to see if it’s April Fool’s Day.
Apparently plans for a movie version of Monopoly, everyone’s favorite real estate game, have been kicking around Hollywood for awhile and Ridley Scott’s name was even attached as a producer. This morning I awake to find [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Studio Pinhead #1: I don’t know how he does it, but that Will Smith craps box office gold.
Studio Pinhead #2: I thought his last movie bombed.
Development Weasel: Hancock? No, it made almost $230 million. I’ll take a bomb like that any day.
SP2: Yeah, but it cost $150 million. Factor in marketing…
SP1: Well, it made almost [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
More Loose Ends: 10/29/08
We last heard from Vince Vaughn in connection to the upcoming Couples Retreat and now it appears he’s in line for Sunny and 68, a “drama with comic overtones” to be directed and co-written by Gavin O’Connor (Pride and Glory). Vaughn plays a poker pro who bottoms out and returns home to [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Turns out the movie business keeps rolling whether you’re paying attention to it or not. Here’s a handful of recent casting announcements featuring interesting actors in not-so-interesting projects.
Amy Adams is set to star as NPR correspondent Jacki Lyden in a film based on Lyden’s memoir Daughter of the Queen of Sheba. A fixture at NPR [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Gus Van Sant and his Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have been attached to an adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a while now, but the film is now apparently one step closer to reality. Borys Kit reports in THR that Fox Searchlight has picked up the project which tells the [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Did someone turn the clock back to the 1950s when I wasn’t looking? I’m sure Kevin Smith and The Weinstein Co. were expecting a little controversy over Smith’s romantic comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno — indeed they were probably hoping for it — but who’d have thought that TV stations and newspapers would [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
In the wake of John Hillcoat’s The Road officially getting bumped to 2009, the LA Times’ Patrick Goldstein spoke with Harvey Weinstein about the juggling going on with a number of his other films. Speculation is that The Weinstein Co. is low on money, but Harvey has a rational answer for each move.
Fanboys. The story [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Back in 2005 when Steven Soderbergh wrote the forward for a book about lo-fi band Guided by Voices, he asked author/band member James Greer to write a rock opera for him that he hoped would star Catherine Zeta-Jones as Cleopatra.
It sounds like a joke, but apparently Soderbergh is ready to roll on the project and [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
I was the last person to know Zack Snyder’s Watchmen adaptation was actually going to be R-rated, but now it’s official. The Hollywood Reporter published the latest batch of MPAA ratings today and Watchmen pulled an R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language. If you read the comic, you likely agree this is [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Back in February, LiC passed along a Variety report that David Fincher had signed on to direct Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary’s adaptation of Charles Burns’ 12-issue comic Black Hole. As big fans of Mr. Fincher (Zodiac) and Mr. Gaiman (The Sandman comic) and with a growing appreciation for Mr. Burns (see Fear(s) of the Dark), [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
I’ve deliberately been avoiding my newsfeed for the last week or so. Random news items were a logical source of filler when I first decided to start posting daily, but it turns out news can be all consuming. I could spend all of my limited blogging time simply combing the feeds for nuggets of information, [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
I haven’t had anything to say about the ongoing divorce between DreamWorks and Paramount because the daily machinations of the bean counting stooges bore me and which studio’s name is on what picture doesn’t account for much. However, as part of the DreamWorks shakeout, Paramount announced on Wednesday that it was scaling back its yearly [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Gérard and Guillaume Depardieu
Sad news arrives from France that Guillaume Depardieu, 37-year-old son of Gérard Depardieu, died suddenly in a Paris hospital of pneumonia contracted while working on a film in Romania
Though they had been estranged in recent years, the father and son worked several times on French television (The Count of Monte Cristo and [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Martin Scorsese is set to direct Robert De Niro in an adaptation of the book I Heard You Paint Houses about Frank Sheeran, the mob assassin who claimed to have murdered Jimmy Hoffa.
“Painting Houses” is slang for a mob hit referring to the blood and goo splattered on walls.
No word yet on where this fits [...]
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