Woody Allen’s latest comedy-drama starring Josh Brolin, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Gemma Jones and Freida Pinto is going to be titled ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’
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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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If it bleeds, we can corset it. Plans are afoot to make the first Jane Austen/Alien hybrid flick. To be called Pride and Predator, the film takes the characters from a Jane Austen-type costume drama and unleashes a crash-landed alien upon them. Carnage ensues in what I assume will be a sci-fi comedy.
Variety 2/16
An [...]
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Better late than never, it’s LiC’s weekly survey of what has surfaced lately in the Hollywood trades. This week we’ve got David Lynch, Werner Herzog, Aaron Eckhardt, Richard Jenkins, Josh Brolin x 2, John Malkovich, Woody Allen, Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Nolan, David Cronenberg, Andrzej Wajda and more. Read on…
Movies ‘R’ Us. Transformers. G.I. Joe. Monopoly. [...]
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Once again it’s time for LiC’s weekly survey of production news. Keep reading for updates on Martin Scorsese, Julia Roberts, Julian Schnabel, Aaron Sorkin, Dev Patel, Al Pacino, Barry Levinson, Sally Hawkins, Steven Soderbergh, Brad Pitt and more…
Silence! The biggest item since the last edition of Production Notes is news that Martin Scorsese’s Silence plans [...]
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Combing the trades so you don’t have to, we present your weekly look at some of the production news coming out of Hollywood:
And another Thing… For those of you who lose sleep at night wondering just what the hell happened to the Norwegians at the Antarctic research base before Kurt Russell showed up, you’ll finally [...]
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Ok, these are a day late, but hopefully not a dollar short. Here’s the last week’s worth of production tidbits.
End of World Moved Back Four Months. I have no interest in Roland Emmerich’s 2012 hence I have no interest in the fact Sony has moved it from July 10 to the November 13, but I [...]
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“We don’t put Wallace Beery in some fruity movie about suffering.
I thought we were together on that.” – Jack Lipnick, Head of Capitol Pictures
Ok, I’ve been slacking on some of the daily production items that appear in the trades for the last couple of months. The truth is they’re a pain in the ass to [...]
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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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IGN Movies has this featurette for Henry (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Selick’s 3-D stop-motion animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Hugo Award winning novella Coraline.
It’s a typical featurette where the artists pat each other on the back, but it gives a glimpse at how the movie is going to look.
Coraline tells the story of a young [...]
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