This is one of those news items that makes me check the calendar to see if it’s April Fool’s Day.
Apparently plans for a movie version of Monopoly, everyone’s favorite real estate game, have been kicking around Hollywood for awhile and Ridley Scott’s name was even attached as a producer. This morning I awake to find [...]

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Wong Kar-Wai’s Ashes of Time Redux, opening in limited release 
There isn’t much to get too excited about in the wide releases this weekend:

Body of Lies. A Ridley Scott thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA agent on the trail of a terrorist leader. He is guided from afar by CIA veteran Russell Crowe but with his life [...]

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In the few short months that I’ve been keeping tabs on daily movie news, Twilight pimping MTV has quickly positioned itself as the least reliable establishment source for news and the most likely to pass along unverified nonsense in the interest of page views. They didn’t originate the (probable) lie that Clooney would be The [...]

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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samantha Morton in
Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York
Moving right along with the Fall Forecast. Here’s what’s coming up in October. Once again, all dates are subject to change based on studio whim. LiC’s picks are starred.
October 3
An American Carol. I love Airplane! as much as anyone, but David Zucker’s name hasn’t been attached [...]

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Yahoo put up a much improved Body of Lies trailer yesterday (catch the old one here). The film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA operative who infiltrates a terrorist network in Jordan was written by William Monahan (The Departed) and is directed by Ridley Scott. Russell Crowe also stars as DiCaprio’s handler.
Body of Lies is set for [...]

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On his The Big Picture blog at the LA Times, Patrick Goldstein sniffs around the mystery behind the delay of Ridley Scott’s Nottingham by talking to Universal Chairman Marc Shmuger.
Apparently in the original script written by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris (Bulletproof Monk), the sheriff of Nottingham was portrayed as “a CSI-style forensics investigator, set [...]

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