Alice in Neverland?
Wow! Who saw this coming?! Cinema chain Odeon & UCI Group, the largest cinema chain in the UK, has announced that it will not be showing Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland. This announcement is a reaction to Disney’s plan to cut the time between the cinema and DVD release to only 12 weeks, down [...]
Sundance Buzz: The Killer Inside Me
What Antichrist was to Cannes last year, The Killer Inside Me appears to be for Sundance 2010. Michael Winterbottom, not a stranger to controversy following his art/porn examination 9 Songs in the past, directs Casey Affleck in an adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel about a sociopathic deputy sheriff and the people he leaves in his [...]
Sundance Buzz: The Runaways
The vast majority of the buzz surrounding this movie is split across the fact that Kristen Stewart is in it and that she and Dakota Fanning kiss in the film. I’m not wholly sure what the buzz is around the latter, but it should surely be more controversy that salaciousness given that Fanning is only [...]
Sundance Buzz: Cyrus
The Duplass Brothers, Jay and Mark, shift out of the mumblecore movement and into studio-backed filmmaking with a pretty decent cast and a story of comedy potential. John C Reilly plays a guy just out of a break-up who hooks up with Marisa Tomei and then has to deal with her son, played by Jonah [...]
Sundance Buzz: Howl
Having had its two stars, James Franco and Jon Hamm, compare the events surrounding Allen Ginsberg’s obscenity trial related to his poem of the same name of the film to the Proposition 8 battle in California, Howl arrives on the scene with a great deal of cache for the indie audience. Neil Miller at Film [...]
Link It
Looks like George Clooney could end up directing the Hamdan vs Rumsfeld project, with Matt Damon starring. Precious is beginning its Oscar buzz season with a win in Toronto. Apparently Gavin Hood wouldn’t mind making a shitty Magneto movie too. Jack Kirby’s estate has begun delivering copyright termination notices to a whole bunch folks, including [...]
Vampire Killers. Nothing Else. Just Vampire Killers
A row has broken out over the alleged censorship of DVD cases for Lesbian Vampire Killers, the ‘comedy’ and uber-terrible British comedy film starring James Corden and Matthew Horne. A number of retailers, notably supermarkets including Tesco and Asda, have been stocking copies of the DVD with the majority of the word ‘Lesbian’ blocked out [...]
Brewster’s Millions Remake
I’ve said before, I’m not one of those people who become immediately offended when remakes are announced. Will Smith’s family can’t come and take away all the copies of Karate Kid around the world, it’s still there for me. No matter how much they try to destroy our childhoods, they can never truly win. The [...]
RIP John Hughes
John Hughes, the venerable and generating-defining director of a host of superb teen films in the 1980s, has died. According to reports on TMZ, Hughes died while taking a morning walk in New York after suffering a heart attack. He was best known for his work in the mid-1980s, most notably the triumphant trio of [...]
Trailer for The Lovely Bones
Outside of the painfully awkward intro from Peter Jackson at the top of this trailer, this looks to be a pretty solid effort. The trailer seems to try and fit in everything and the kitchen sink into its runtime. The story, about a young girl who is murdered and the aftermath of her death for [...]
Rob Marshall to Direct Pirates 4?
Obviously, I haven’t seen Nine yet, but I can’t imagine it would help in generating any excitement for Rob Marshall being touted as helmer of the Pirates of the Caribbean series’ fourth instalment. Having said that, the news of this brings to mind the fact that Gore Verbinski, overseer of the decreasingly good series for [...]
Spielberg Directing Harvey Remake?
I was recently rewatching the two-hour documentary on the Jaws DVD which gives a pretty comprehensive overview of the making of that film. The absolute key result of watching this documentary, from my end, is that Steven Spielberg is a complete filmmaking genius. Whether you think Jaws is glorified B-movie nonsense. Maybe you think he’s [...]
Futurama Voice Cast Signed, A Good Idea To Bring It Back?
We chatted, angrily and with utmost Fox-aimed contempt, on the podcast a few weeks back about the news that the studio were planning to replace the entire original voice cast of Futurama for its return to television screens. The fury with which the majority of the online world and Futurama-fanbase reacted to the news was [...]
Comedy Heavies Added to Paul Cast
Comedy-tastic. Honestly, this is truly comedy-tastic news. Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader and the great Jane Lynch have all joined the cast of Paul, the upcoming sci-fi road trip comedy from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The Spaced pair wrote and will star in the film about two sci-fi nerds who embark [...]
Katee Sackhoff for Typhoid Mary?
The rumours about this were raging over the weekend but it’s starting to seem like a lot of smoke for there to be no fire in the end. A blog entry on the page for Golden Apple comics said Katee Sackhoff entered the store in the past week to purchase a significant number of Typhoid [...]
Haneke Wins Palme d’Or
Michael Haneke has won the Palme d’Or for his acclaimed The White Ribbon (review by Peter Bradshaw at The Guardian). The film, described by IFC’s The Daily as “a two-and-a-half hour parable of political and social ideas set entirely in a north German village in 1913 and 1914″, marks the first Palme d’Or win for [...]
Antichrist Picked Up by IFC
IFC has picked up US distribution rights to Antichrist, Lars von Trier’s tilt at horror movie immortality and easily the most talked-about film from this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Antichrist, in short, follows the story of a couple, hit hard by the death of their child, who retreat to a cabin in the woods in [...]
Jonathan Glazer to get Under the Skin
Jonathan Glazer, the talented filmmaker behind the superb Sexy Beast and the very underrated Birth, is to make his return with an adaptation of Michel Faber’s Under the Skin (read the first chapter here). The book concerns itself with aliens who kidnap hitchhikers in Scotland and then process them to be used as gourmet food [...]
Parnassus Clip
Brief though it may be, here’s a very short little snippet from The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, the new Terry Gilliam movie starring the late Heath Ledger.
Arterton and Westwick to go to Wuthering Heights
The new adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights has managed to pick up Bond girl Gemma Arterton and Gossip Girl’s Chuck Bass, Ed Westwick. It’s to be directed by Peter Weber, of the Girl with the Pearl Earring. /Film notes interesting that this casting does mean that the two leads will be roughly the same [...]
Who Will Play Captain America?
The casting buzz for Captain America has been particularly out of the ordinary in comparison to his Marvel peers. The most notable name being bandied around for the role was that of Will Smith, coming after a comment made last year by Derek Luke. Marvel and Smith both denied the suggestion that he was being [...]
Rinko Kikuchi Joins Norwegian Wood Adaptation
Oscar-nominated Babel star, and co-star of the upcoming Brothers Bloom, Rinko Kikuchi has signed on to star in an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. It’s to be directed by Tran Anh Hung, previous credits of whom include Cyclo and The Scent of Green Papaya. The main character Toru is to be played by Kenichi [...]
Ferrara Taking on Jekyll and Hyde Too
Abel Ferrara, possibly still stinging from Werner Herzog putting him down after taking on Bad Lieutenant, has decided to launch his own version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Ferrara’s version will be called Jekyll and Hyde. His reading will also feature Forest Whitaker and Curtis ’50 Cent’ [...]
Scorsese To Tell Sinatra’s Story
Martin Scorsese is to team with Universal and Mandalay Pictures on Sinatra, a biopic of the legendary singer which the great man will produce and direct. The script has been written by Philip Alden Robinson, the writer of the classic Field of Dreams. Scorsese has long-considered undertaking a biopic of Sinatra, probably understandable given his [...]
Spacey for Casino Jack
Kevin Spacey has signed up to stary as Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Washington power broker, in Casino Jack for director George Hickenlooper and writer Norman Snider. Spacey will take the lead as a formerly high-powered lobbyist who eventually wound up in prison over his indulgence in bribery schemes and fraudulent dealings with Indian casinos. Hickenlooper [...]
Preacher Updates from Mendes
Sam Mendes has given an interview to MTV News over the past weekend, primarily concerning his new film, Away We Go. In the process however, he gave some updates on how the film adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s fantastic graphic novel series Preacher is coming along. Mendes said John August, the screenwriter, is [...]
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