Posted on November 14th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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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Posted on September 11th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Mr. Angelina Jolie on the set of Burn After Reading
Open wide and say “Burn!”
Burn After Reading. Anyone who has read LiC for any length of time knows I’m completely in the tank for the Coen Brothers. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I loved this movie. It’s fair to [...]
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Three better choices for your weekend than any of the new releases
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the worst week for new releases I’ve seen since I started doing the Weekend Forecast 70 some weeks ago. Do yourself a favor. Skip all of these and just go see Trouble the Water, Man on Wire or Vicky Cristina [...]
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Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
It didn’t seem worth mentioning that Mike Myers nabbed what amounts to a cameo in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards the other day nor that David Krumholtz (Numb3rs) was out and Samm Levine (Freaks and Geeks) was in. However, combine all that with word that Simon Pegg is also out because of scheduling conflicts and you have something [...]
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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
This week’s Forecast starts off with a film that has already been released. Why? Because it’s one of the best movies of the year so far and it’s finally expanding from the two theaters in which it opened. If you’re wondering when I’m going to shut up about Man on Wire, the answer is: don’t [...]
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Posted on August 6th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The first source I could find for the supposed Quentin Tarantino remake of Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! was Variety fossil Liz Smith asking back in January if it would “shock any of you to learn that Quentin Tarentino (sic) is hot to remake the 1966 Russ Meyer campy soft-porn classic.” She doesn’t give [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The Playlist reported over the weekend a blurb in the print edition of Entertainment: Weakly that rumors of Leonardo DiCaprio starring in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards were false. Now Variety’s Michael Fleming and Tatiana Siegel are saying Hostel director Eli Roth is in talks for the part of a “baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter.”
Say what you [...]
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