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 September 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
In the few short months that I’ve been keeping tabs on daily movie news, Twilight pimping MTV has quickly positioned itself as the least reliable establishment source for news and the most likely to pass along unverified nonsense in the interest of page views. They didn’t originate the (probable) lie that Clooney would be The [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
I’m liking the idea of compiling the odd development, production and distribution tidbits into one post so Loose Ends might become an irregular feature. Here’s what’s been going on for the last few days:
Summit Entertainment has picked up US rights to The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow’s well-received Iraq action picture about a bomb squad in [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
With Burn After Reading set to premiere next month, it looks like Academy Award winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen are getting down to business with their next project, the black comedy A Serious Man.
According to Variety’s Tatiana Siegel, the brothers have chosen Richard Kind (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and TV’s Spin City) and [...]
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Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Back in July, I passed along some rumors regarding the production of the spy thriller Edwin A. Salt. You may remember at one point the film was set to star Tom Cruise with Philip Noyce directing. Then, Fox entertainment news clown Roger Friedman claimed Tom Cruise was out and Will Smith was in. Meanwhile, Moviehole’s [...]
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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
It’s official: Brad Pitt is a Bastard. According to Variety, the actor has signed on the dotted line to star in Quentin Tarantino’s next film Inglorious Bastards as a Tennessee hillbilly who leads a team of eight Jewish soldiers in fighting the Nazis during WWII.
You may remember I resisted this news all along while the [...]
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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Javier Bardem and Rebecca Hall in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rebecca Hall is turning up everywhere these days. She began appearing in made-for-television BBC productions when she was 12, then disappeared for a decade before reappearing as Sarah in Christopher Nolan’s underappreciated 2006 film The Prestige.
She’ll soon be seen in Woody Allen’s upcoming Vicky Cristina Barcelona (she [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
On his The Big Picture blog at the LA Times, Patrick Goldstein sniffs around the mystery behind the delay of Ridley Scott’s Nottingham by talking to Universal Chairman Marc Shmuger.
Apparently in the original script written by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris (Bulletproof Monk), the sheriff of Nottingham was portrayed as “a CSI-style forensics investigator, set [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the news in the last 24 hours or so.
The LA Times speculates on whether The Dark Knight will surpass Titanic’s hallowed $600.8 million domestic box office mark, but unless you account for inflation (ticket prices averaged $4.69 in 1998 compared to an expected $7 this year), it doesn’t [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Referring to unnamed sources last week, Fox entertainment monkey Roger Friedman reported that Tom Cruise was likely off the upcoming film Edwin A. Salt, the story of a CIA officer who is accused of being a Russian sleeper spy. According to Friedman, Cruise bailed because the producers no longer consider him a $20 million star. [...]
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