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Odeon/UCI back down in Alice in Wonderland dispute The news that Odeon had refused to show Alice in Wonderland was discussed earlier this week, dependent on your viewpoint the good/bad newsis that the cinema chain announce today that they now WILL be showing the Tim Burton remake after an agreement was struck between the two [...]
Round Up – Michael Moore To Go Fiction
Michael Moore is, according to an interview with the Detroit News, planning to transition into narrative filmmaking. Not sure that will be much of a transition for our ‘documentarian’ there. Though this will please my podcast co-host, it won’t please anyone else. David Twohy and Vin Diesel are hard at work on another Chronicles of [...]
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George Clooney has signed on to star in A Very Private Gentleman, the adaptation of the Martin Booth novel being helmed by Anton Corbijn, the famed photographer and director of the excellent Joy Division biopic Control. Sean Penn is to star in the English language debut of Paolo Sorrentino, the director of Il Divo, called [...]
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Terry Gilliam is to make the incredibly insane decision to relaunch his Don Quixote project. Check out the very cool Where the Wild Things Are blog. Rob Marshall’s Nine has a very interesting trailer. Al Pacino is considering taking the lead role in the adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink by Stephen Gaghan, the writer of [...]
Round Up: Rachel Weisz = Hedy Lamarr
Rachel Weisz has reportedly been signed up to star as Hedy Lamarr in Face Value, a biopic being directed by Amy Redford. Disney has released thirty-eight photos from Up. It looks beautiful. Fox is teaming with Blue Sky Studios for Rio, a 3D animation to be directed by Ice Age’s Carlos Saldanha. Jason Patric is [...]
Round Up – Branagh Talks Thor
Kenneth Branagh has been chatting about Thor on the tour for his BBC series Wallander, saying filming on the Marvel adaptation is due to kick-off in January. ContentFilm has struck a deal for the distribution rights to Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, the follow-up to her brilliant Red Road debut, for the French market ahead of [...]
Round Up: Shandling Joins Iron Man 2!
Garry Shandling, the notoriously prickly star of the genius Larry Sanders Show, has signed up to star in Iron Man 2. The first trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mother has arrived on Twitch. Channing Tatum is not Nordic-looking enough to play Thor. Maria Bello has signed on for Adam Sandler’s as-yet-untitled reunion ensemble comedy. A [...]
Round Up: Ricci Joins Sandler Porn Comedy
Christina Ricci has joined the cast of Born to be a Star, a porn-concerned comedy written by Adam Sandler and directed by (no, not that one) Tom Brady. /Film has the first full trailer for Park Chan-Wook’s Thirst. John Woo’s post-war drama 1949 has been cancelled. Steven Soderbergh has released the poster for his new [...]
Round Up: DeWitt Joins Company Men
Rachel Getting Married star Rosemarie DeWitt has joined the cast of Company Men, the John Wells movie starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner. Chris Cooper is also in talks. Noah Baumbach has begun shooting a new film, starring Ben Stiller, about a man who house-sits for his brother. Night of the Creeps [...]
Round Up: Stone For Easy-A
Emma Stone, the Jonah Hill love interest in Superbad and probably the best thing about The Rocker, is to star in Easy-A, a modern retelling of The Scarlett Letter. For those uninterested, please understand, this is one of the Ginger Posterchilds and therefore must be supported for equal rights reasons. Cinema Spy has an interview [...]
Round Up: Ramis Talking Ghostbusters 3
Harold Ramis has been talking about Ghostbusters 3 and has apparently revealed some possible plot points. Tony Scott is taking on the action movie Unstoppable, about a runaway train. Toby Maguire is moving up from riding horses to jump into Grand Prix cars. David O Russell has been tapped to direct The Silver Linings Playbook. [...]
Round Up: Blunt for Sarah Marshall Spin-Off
MOD favourite Emily Blunt is reportedly signed on to star alongside Russell Brand in the Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin-off, Get Him to the Greek. UPDATE: Apparently, this is not true. The Italian trailer for Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s Game has turned up. The two are the duo that brought the cinematic poetry dubbed Crank. [...]
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