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.
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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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Hollywood watchers were abuzz last week amid reports of a disagreement between Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin over when to release Stephen Daldry’s World War II romance The Reader. Always looking for a little Oscar juice, Weinstein wanted to release the film starring Kate Winslet in December after a test screening went well. Rudin, who [...]
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Generally I’m willing to give Pixar the benefit of a doubt — they’ve earned it — but this business of willingly caving in to sequels, particularly a sequel to the weakest movie they’ve ever made, continues to give me pause.
Originally slated for 2012, Cars 2 will now be crossing the finish line in 2011. Maybe [...]
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The other day I passed along news of the much improved critical reaction at Toronto to Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness which has been re-edited and de-voiceovered since it got a mixed response at Cannes. Now according to an email I just received, Miramax has dropped the planned September 26 limited release of the film and it will be opening wide [...]
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According to ComingSoon, the Spike Jonze directed adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are has resurfaced on Warner Bros’ October 2009 Calendar.
Unsubstantiated rumors about the allegedly troubled production have swirled for months like turds in a toilet bowl and the film recently dropped off of WB’s release radar, but no one has gone [...]
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Of Time and the City, Terence Davies’ ode to his hometown of Liverpool, caused critics to go weak in the knees when it premiered at Cannes last May and now Variety reports that it has been picked up by Strand Releasing for a January release in the United States.
North American audiences will get their first [...]
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