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Behold: The Social Network

It’s official: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield will star in David Fincher’s Facebook movie The Social Network written by Aaron Sorkin

David Fincher took the “10 Stupid Movie Ideas” quiz…

Fincher! Facebook! Yawn!

Pitt and Fincher talk ‘Button’ with Charlie Rose

I just finished watching the day-after rerun of this episode of Charlie Rose which originally aired Christmas night. Charlie has an unfortunate habit of dropping plot spoilers willy nilly and, though he’s not as bad here as he was on two episodes about The Reader (author Bernhard Schlink one night and Kate Winslet, David Kross, [...]

Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) **** 1/2

Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
It is said that youth is wasted on the young, but in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the title character is blessed – and cursed – to live life the other way around. Born a frail, infant-sized old man with cataracts and arthritis, [...]

Gaiman and Avary Fall Out of Fincher’s ‘Black Hole’

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 appreciationĀ for Mr. Burns (see Fear(s) of the Dark), [...]

Trailer #2: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I caved in and watched the teaser trailer for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, but I’m drawing the line on this one. Nothing could make me want to see the movie more, so why risk ruining it before I see it? Anyway, I’m a [...]

The Slashing of ‘Benjamin Button’ Continues

After catching 20 minutes of clips from David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Telluride, SlashFilm’s Peter Sciretta seems hell-bent on taking the film down. He was disappointed with the compilation, which by his own later admission contained clips that were mostly one minute plus with one romantic scene going over two minutes.
Now [...]

Karina Longworth on ‘Benjamin Button’ preview

Judging an entire movie by 20 minutes is madness, but SpoutBlog’s Karina Longworth has seen the preview of David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Telluride and she liked it. In my book, she’s kind of an anti-fanboy and also one of the sharper characters out there when it comes to indie films [...]

The ‘Benjamin Button is too long’ meme begins

All it took is one clown spouting off about a friggin’ test screening at AICN and suddenly the idea that David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is too long is on its way to becoming conventional wisdom.
Next Anne Thompson rings in. I don’t know if she’s referring to the AICN piece which had [...]