Production rumors and announcements are the bread and butter of many movie websites, but after awhile you start to realize that none of it really means anything until cameras are rolling. Still, there are a handful of filmmakers I like to keep tabs on and Martin Scorsese and Steven Soderbergh are two of them.
The Playlist [...]
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Ok then. With production scheduled to begin on True Grit in Texas and New Mexico on March 20 (it’s not a remake goddamnit, it’s Joel and Ethan Coen’s re-adaptation of Charles Portis’ original novel) and with several of the major roles filled by the likes of Jeff Bridges (Rooster Cogburn), Matt Damon (La Boeuf) and [...]
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Josh Brolin and Matt Damon are in talks to join Jeff Bridges in Joel and Ethan Coen’s redo of TRUE GRIT. Outstanding
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Nikki Finke has some anonymously sourced details about Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel set to begin filming August 10th with a tentative February 2010 release date.
21 years later and fresh out of jail, Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko seeks to repair his relationship with his daughter who is engaged to marry young Wall Street trader Shia [...]
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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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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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I remember watching Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s terrific documentary Lost in La Mancha about the implosion of Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote project and thinking “Damn, that would’ve been a cool movie.”
Well, with Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus set to premiere at Cannes, word comes from Variety that the filmmaker has found a producer [...]
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