Trailer: The Wrestler
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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‘Ballast’ Nabs Four Gotham Nominations
Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Michael J. Smith Sr. in Ballast
Ready or not, it’s officially awards season with the IFP announcing its nominees for the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards (formerly known as the Gotham Awards).
Several films that might be familiar to you if you’ve been reading LiC lately have been showered with a little early awards loving and [...]
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‘Wrestler’ and ‘Che’ Tag Team AFI Fest
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
AFI announced yesterday that two highly anticipated films, Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler and Steven Soderbergh’s Che will be making their West Coast premieres at the 2008 AFI Fest.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen November 1 at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Che starring Benicio Del Toro [...]
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Fox Searchlight Enters the Ring with ‘Wrestler’
Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The ever vigilant Nick Plowman of Fataculture just gave me the heads up to Anne Thompson’s Variety report that Fox Searchlight beat out Lionsgate, Overture, The Weinsteins, Sony and others for the rights to distribute Darren Aronofsky’s much praised film The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke, Evan Rachel Wood and Marisa Tomei.
Which studio’s logo appears on the film [...]
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What’s Doing in Toronto
Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Is it just me or is there a little bit of Toronto ennui in the air? It’s not just indifference at LiC, I’m noticing it on the blogs actually covering the event. I didn’t focus on Toronto last year so perhaps this is par for the course.
I didn’t mention yesterday that Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler [...]
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Festival Hopping: Venice and Toronto
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
As Toronto fires up and Venice winds down, here’s a smattering of reviews of the higher profile films critics are talking about.
The Wrestler. Though he found the plot of Darren Aronofsky’s film predictable at times, THR’s Stephen Farber liked this story of a former wrestling star, especially the performances, calling Mickey Rourke’s a career-best:
“Rourke dispenses [...]
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‘Dark Knight’ Raises ‘Titanic’? and Other Stories
Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the news in the last 24 hours or so.
The LA Times speculates on whether The Dark Knight will surpass Titanic’s hallowed $600.8 million domestic box office mark, but unless you account for inflation (ticket prices averaged $4.69 in 1998 compared to an expected $7 this year), it doesn’t [...]
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