There are about 547 ways this thing could go horribly and embarrassingly wrong, but news that Nic Cage and John Carpenter might make a prison break film together warms my heart.
I can’t remember the last time Carpenter made a film I really liked and Cage has always been spotty, but there’s something about this that [...]
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Filming was supposed to begin in mid-August on Ridley Scott’s Nottingham starring Russell Crowe as the Sherriff, but The Hollywood Reporter’s Gregg Kilday says the film has been put on hold due to “script concerns, location logistics and the current labor unrest.”
In a statement from Universal, the studio claims that everyone remains committed to the [...]
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“Mr. Moore, will you sign my DVD of Watchmen Babies?”
Anne Thompson spoke to Zack Snyder prior to the Watchmen panel at Comic-Con on Friday and, though the panel itself sounded like a snooze (read about it here if you must), Anne dug up some interesting information.
A year or so ago when Watchmen first started gaining [...]
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High school senior Hannah Bailey in American Teen
In 2005, filmmaker Nanette Burstein (The Kid Stays in the Picture) filmed the lives of five Warsaw Indiana High School seniors over the course of ten months. She then narrowed down 1000 hours of footage and the result is American Teen, a documentary that traces every up and [...]
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In brighter indie news, the report we previously passed along that Sony Pictures Classics was close to picking up Charlie Kaufman’s Cannes pic Synecdoche, New York was confirmed by the company today and a release is currently planned for October.
I can’t wait for the real movie season to start. How about you?
Source: Variety
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Philippe Petit is a Man on Wire
Because the wide releases are mainly of niche interest this week, I’m starting with the much more appetizing limited releases.
Man on Wire. (NY. Opens wider 8/8) Who’d have thought a documentary about a man who walked a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 could [...]
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Until tonight’s announcement that Australian actress Mia Wasikowska was on the verge of being cast as Alice in Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland, I hadn’t given much thought to the project. Now I have and I think I like it.
It’s already got a story that Burton will have to stick to and that’s [...]
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Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, one of the more anticipated films around the LiC offices, may soon be picked up by Sony Pictures Classics for distribution in the US. The Hollywood Reporter’s Gregg Goldstein and Steven Zeitchik describe the process as being in “advanced negotiations.”
Normally this is where I’d tell you what the film was [...]
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Screen Daily’s Mike Goodridge reports that Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (Black Book, RoboCop) is attached to direct a film based on the acclaimed World War II memoir The Forgotten Soldier by Frenchman Guy Sajer.
As a teenager, Sajer was recruited into the German army and sent to the eastern front.
The controversial Verhoeven is already attached to [...]
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Seven days in the making…it’s the Weekend Forecast. Here’s where I just get out of the way for the big one.
In bat-theaters everywhere:
The Dark Knight. In order for this movie to live up to the hype, it’s going to have to buy me dinner and give me a lap dance, but not necessarily in that [...]
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Geoffrey Macnab reports for The UK’s Screen Daily that Alex Cox has finished writing the screenplay and is looking for studio backing for Repo Chick, a return to his iconic cult film Repo Man which mixed post-apocalyptic science fiction with early-‘80s LA flavored punk angst and served it up with Cox’s unique brand of deadpan humor.
The new [...]
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The Wackness is the dopeness
Friday is a major US holiday and the release calendar is all mucked up so I’m rolling out the Weekend Forecast a day early again this week. First up is the only wide release which actually opened on Tuesday for those of you keeping score at home:
Hancock (7/1). Just what summer needs, [...]
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Moviefone has the new James Bond trailer in HD Quicktime.
Click here to see the Low-D version.
There’s something about James Bond that’s connected directly to the part of my brain that’s still 12 or 13 years old so please forgive my continual plugging of this movie.
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Eve and WALL•E - Just a couple of crazy robots in love
Thursday brings us to another Weekend Forecast. Prospects are certainly better than last week.
WALL•E. I’m taking a break from the tail end of the LA Film Festival just for opening night of the latest from the fine folks at Pixar. I’ve said it before [...]
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You could do worse than watching Singin’ in the Rain this weekend
I’m just saying…
I thank the movie gods that the LA Film Festival starts tonight because this is truly an awful weekend for new movies. My suggestion? Go rent an armload of Cyd Charisse musicals instead.
Nevertheless, because we must, here are the wide releases:
Get Smart. [...]
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