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Zac Efron Makes Overall Deal At Warner Bros...
3 hours ago | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »
Updates Exclusive: Zac Efron Picks Two Projects
Update: Warner Bros has been as stingy as any major on handing out overall production deals to actors in recent years. But I've learned the studio has just given a first look 2-year deal to Zac Efron. And Warner Bros plans to buy pitches, spec scripts, and books for Efron and his still unformed company to develop as star vehicles. His manager, Alchemy Entertainment’s Jason Barrett, will be an exec producer on the projects. But that's not all at Warner Bros: I'm told the studio also is in the process of making an overall deal with its Sherlock [...] »
- MIKE FLEMING
Cameron Talks Avatar 2, Spider-Man, Terminator and More
3 hours ago | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
There's a lengthy (nine-parts) video interview with James Cameron over at MTV in which the Avatar filmmaker discusses pretty much everything you'd want him to at the moment -- Avatar 2, the Spider-Man reboot, the Terminator franchise, the Oscars, -- and more. My favorite segment (part 6) actually involves Cameron's opinion that Hollywood tends to get stuff wrong. Basically, from the way he sees it, his game changer isn't really a game changer; it's just a new game for everyone to cheat at.
"They assume from the success of [Avatar] that they can then turn movies into 3-D in eight weeks," Cameron says. "It should be a filmmaker-driven process, not a studio-driven process. Now it's getting crammed down from above. It should have been the other way around."
He partially refers to the upcoming Clash of the Titans, which stars Avatar's Sam Worthington and which is being retro-fitted for 3-D despite not »
- Christopher Campbell
New Behind the Scenes Featurette for Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg
2 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Focus Features has released a new three and a half minute featurette for Noah Baumbach's new comedy / drama Greenberg. Titled "Behind the Scenes: Brave At Our Age", the featurette has sit down interviews with the stars, Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Greta Gerwig, talking about the story, movie, and director. It also touches on the original score created by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. Watch the featurette now, embedded after the jump. And here's the official synopsis: Meet Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller): a dysfunctional 40-year-old at a crossroads in his life. Roger wants to “do nothing” for a while, so he agrees to housesit for his younger and more successful brother, giving him a free place to stay in L.A. While in town, he tries to reconnect with his old friends and band mates but times have changed, and old friends aren’t necessarily still best friends. »
- Peter Sciretta
Exclusive: Breck Eisner on 'Flash Gordon' 3D and 'The Brood'
1 hour ago | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
A week before the release of the hotly anticipated film The Crazies (hotly anticipated by this journalist), we chatted exclusively with director Breck Eisner. Invariably, the conversation went towards upcoming projects, including his pet project, Flash Gordon. He gives us "more on the film than I've given anyone yet," as well as a taste of what else we may see from him next. FEARnet: I heard that you are getting ready to turn in a draft of Flash Gordon to the studio. Can you give us an update? Breck Eisner: It took a lot of work to break story on this. It has nothing to do with the camp of the 1980s [film] or the serials. We looked back to the Alex Raymond comic »
David Thomson on Jean-Pierre Jeunet
25 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jeunet and Caro's Delicatessen was a sensation in its day and a faded outrage now. It was as if the staff of Vogue had tried to do a David Lynch film
Like it or not, Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a claim to be the dominant director in French cinema of the last 20 years. There are contenders for that title – Claire Denis, Jacques Audiard, Gaspar Noé, Laurent Cantet – but no one has had Jeunet's success in terms of box-office revenue, victories at the Césars, and even his penetration of the English-speaking movie scene. Born in 1953 (he was only six when the new wave broke), Jeunet is emphatically of the next generation, quite old-fashioned as a stylist and a storyteller, yet open to the jazzy world of comic books, video games and universal sci-fi apocalyptia that has done so much to colour modern cinema. And whereas, the collective spirit of the new wave »
- David Thomson
Bits 'n Pieces: 'Drive Angry' Casting, 'The Collector' DVD & More
34 minutes ago | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Lots of little stories popping up today including several casting announcements for the Nic Cage starrer Drive Angry, details on The Collector DVD/Blu-ray and Vincent Cassel starring as The Monk. Hit the jump for full details. Variety is reporting that Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) will star in an 18th century- set thriller based on Matthew Lewis' Gothic novel The Monk. Also set to star are Deborah Francois (The First Day of the Rest of your Life), Sergi Lopez (Leaving), and Geraldine Chaplin (The Orphanage) The Monk depicts the rise and tragic downfall of Capucin Ambrosio, a respected Spanish monk. French-German director Dominik Moll will direct with a budget of 15 million, the 12 week shoot is set to begin »
International Trailer for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
38 minutes ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The teaser trailer for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps may have been a little jokey and overly slick, but the Sun has premiered the international trailer for the film and it gets down to the nuts and bolts of the plot. It doesn’t reveal anything more that we don’t already know from the plot synopsis. However, the trailer also features boxing, riding motorcycles, and helicopters so that’s weird, although I suppose they’re symbols of extravagance. I just love that the whole thing is set to The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil.”
The sequel to the 1987 film stars Michael Douglas, Shia Labeouf, Carey Mulligan, Frank Langella, and Josh Brolin. Click here to check out the trailer and hit the jump to read the official synopsis. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps hits theaters on April 23rd.
For those just tuning in, here’s the »
- Matt Goldberg
Say Whaaaa? Special Edition: A Few Things About the 50 Most Racist Movies
39 minutes ago | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
A new list making the media rounds compiles cinema's 50 most racist films, along with the massive qualifier in fine print: "That you didn't think were racist." While this is not unlike many other lists that purport to enumerate Things That Are Contrary to What Everyone Says They Are, there's really not that much contrary about it at all. In fact, if anything, it raises a few questions about what film history's most insensitive and/or flat-out racist filmmakers are still getting away with. Actually, it raises only one question -- again and again and again, from the outspoken Movieline staffers whose protest you know well: Say whaaaa? »
Splice Director Vincenzo Natali Digs Tunnels
44 minutes ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Harry Potter publisher Barry Cunningham proudly declared that he had found the next world-shaking smash when he signed up authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams and published their book The Highfield Mole, renaming it Tunnels. It doesn't seem that he was quite right - there's three Tunnels books so far with a fourth to come soon and I only know of one person who's read any of them at all - but the first in the Tunnels series, unsurprisingly just called Tunnels itself, was at least was a very well received book by the press. Today, Relativity Media announced that they have signed Cube and Splice director Vincenzo Natali to direct their big screen adaptation of Tunnels. The book's protagonist is a 14 year old Albino boy Will who follows his father into a series of subterranean tunnels. What he finds down below may seem superficially reminiscent of The City of Ember, »
- Brendon Connelly
Why the newly unveiled film of JFK's last day is so compelling
45 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
William Ward Warren's footage of Kennedy's arrival at Love Field airport on that fateful day in 1963 is a poignant relic from an era before we all became paparazzi
When the president of the United States makes a public appearance these days, every minute – perhaps every second – is captured from multiple angles by multiple cameras, most of them owned by amateurs. The same was not true in 1963, which is one of the reasons the previously unseen footage of John F Kennedy arriving at Dallas's Love Field airport on the day of his death – released this week by the city's Sixth Floor Museum, which is dedicated to the assassination and its context – is so compelling.
William Ward Warren was a 15-year-old high school student when he filmed the three minutes of 8mm footage the museum released. Local kids were excused lessons because of the presidential visit, so Warren got a ride to the airport from his dad, »
- Ben Walters
PSA: Criterion Offers First 6 'Zatoichi' Films for Free Online
55 minutes ago | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Just a quick heads up that if you head on over to Hulu you can now find the first 6 films in the Zatoichi lineage online and for free thanks to film preservation heroes, the Criterion Collection. Not familiar with the blind masseur who wanders ancient Japan hiding a deadly skillset? Let's have a quick rundown of Japan's fascination with the character, then. To Wikipedia!
The cinematic legend first came to life in 1962 in the film Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman. There are 26 films in the original Zatoichi line, the last one appearing in 1989. It was never revealed what caused his blindness or how he became such a proficient swordsman. Takasehi "Beat" Kitano directed and starred in a 2003 resurrection of the character (this was my first introduction) titled simply Zatoichi. Takashi Miike (he of Audition fame) once directed a Zatoichi stage play. A television series based on the character ended a two »
- Peter Hall
The Lovely Bones: Film review
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Peter Jackson turns Alice Sebold's bestseller mushy
Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, from 1994, was about two young girls who become psychologically driven to commit murder, and who take refuge in an elaborate fantasy world. Now, with his defanged adaptation of the Alice Sebold bestseller The Lovely Bones – which softens and omits its nastier elements – it is as if Jackson has taken the spirit of Heavenly Creatures and turned it inside out, or upside down. Instead of a compelling nightmare, he has created a bland, girly-sparkly dream. It is a soothing, pseudo-redemptive fantasy which imagines that the teenage victim of a serial killer lives on, looking caringly over the lives left behind, in a weird but lovely-looking limbo, while the nearest and dearest can't get over the death. And then, once the living have got closure, she becomes united with the other victims, skipping hand in hand through a wonderful »
- Peter Bradshaw
Film review: The Headless Woman
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Disturbing and deeply mysterious, this tale of ghosts and guilt is nothing short of a masterpiece, says Peter Bradshaw
In the past decade, there have been three great films about guilt, denial and the return of the repressed: Mike Leigh's Vera Drake in 2004, Michael Haneke's Hidden in 2005 – and this is the third, La Mujer Sin Cabeza, or The Headless Woman, directed by Lucrecia Martel and co-produced by Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar. It is a masterly, disturbing and deeply mysterious film about someone who strenuously conceals from herself the knowledge of her own guilt.
Each time I have seen it, this film has swirled residually in my subconscious for days, and each time I have witnessed exactly the same spectacle outside the cinema afterwards: knots of people excitably, grumpily arguing about it. Some denounce it for being boring, wilfully obscure arthouse stuff – and, yes, be warned, it is a difficult, »
- Peter Bradshaw
The dark arts of the red-carpet guest list
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Who to invite to your red-carpet film premiere? They need to be: a) really famous, b) likely to wear something stupid, or c) given to starting fights
It's not often you'll find Simon Pegg, Joe Calzaghe, the Saturdays, Leigh Francis, James Blunt and Brian May sipping champagne and nibbling mini-burgers together, but then, wouldn't you expect the world premiere for Avatar to be one of the weirder events of all time? If you've ever organised a wedding or any other highly fraught, rivalry-entrenched family grudge match you'll have a tiny inkling of the dark art of compiling a film premiere guestlist.
True, attendees may vary in quality; the Cristal combo of Brad and Angelina which lit up last year's Inglourious Basterds UK launch was not matched by the Cava set (Danny Dyer, Bianca Gascoigne, Blue's fourth most fancied member Anthony Costa, and Celeb Big Brother loser Lady Sovereign) who »
- Jane Graham
James Cameron’s Bavatar
1 hour ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Avatar is too big not to be mocked and so a constant stream of parodies have come along as the film’s popularity as grown. The film’s three-minute trailer is the best way to make fun of the film because then you can just do shot-for-shot parodies and just change out the players.
In the case of this new Funny or Die parody, babies represent the humans and adults are the Na’vi. It’s cute and you’ll get some chuckles until the end when the short transforms into brutal glory. Hit the jump to check out “Avatar…with Babies.”
Avatar… with Babies from The Midnight Show
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- Matt Goldberg
Discuss: Who Should Play Kurt Cobain in That Biopic?
1 hour ago | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Not to vent on how lame and old I am, but Nirvana was in their prime around my sophomore and junior year of High School. I clearly remember about a quarter of the boys in my school being obsessed with bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and with that whole grunge movement. I swear, no one in my class got a haircut for like 3 years. To this day my wife and I talk about Kurt Cobain and ponder what sort of music he'd be making and what sort of collaborations he'd be getting involved with if he were still alive today. And while it's painful to think about how much brilliant music we missed in all the years since Cobain's death, it's still nice to hold onto what we do have and cherish it; celebrate it.
By now you've probably heard of the upcoming Cobain biopic that Oren Moverman (The Messenger »
- Erik Davis
The Two-Minute Verdict: Avatar, With Babies
1 hour ago | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
By now, Jim Cameron's struggle to realize the crazy vision he'd been nurturing in his head for the better part of two decades is the stuff of moviemaking legend: years of stalking hospital nurseries, showing up unannounced in Ob/Gym waiting rooms to pose as a suspiciously strong-jawed woman with an endless list of detailed questions about the magical inner workings of the uterus, haunting the stalls of the Ecuadorian baby-black-market, where he could snap up every available orphan for study. »
London critics pick A Prophet and Fish Tank
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jacques Audiard's gripping prison drama and Andrea Arnold's unflinching portrait of an Essex girl were the big winners at the London Critics' Circle awards
Forget the big blue aliens, the best film of the year – according to 91 of Britain's professional critics – is the brutal, gripping French prison drama A Prophet.
The Jacques Audiard saga was tonight named film of the year at the 30th London Critics' Circle awards in central London, at a ceremony where James Cameron's Avatar did not even get a mention.
Chairman and Observer writer Jason Solomons called it a victory for world cinema and said critics were fed up with "the ghettoisation of films at awards ceremonies". He added: "The overwhelming feeling was that this year, the energy, daring, skill and drama of the best European film-makers should be recognised at the highest level possible. For those who love film, the only real »
- Mark Brown
Ultimate Spider-Man Writer Brian Bendis Consulting Spider-Man Reboot?
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Brian Bendis is a well known, well respected bestselling comic author. He has won critical acclaim including five Eisner Awards (the comic equivalent of the Oscar), while remains one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. Bendis was behind the Spider-Man comic book reboot, Ultimate Spider-Man, which he continues to write ten-years and 130-something issues later. Could Bendis be consulting on the upcoming 3D Spider-Man reboot? Latino Review noticed that Bendis tweeted on January 11th responding to fan questions about the film: i work as a consultant on the marvel movies. this is a sony movie. i have no involvement. but maybe if you all scream loud enough :) And earlier today Bendis tweeted: Just spent a very interesting morning at Sony with the entire spidey movie team!! Very very cool stuff!! Looks like Bendis might've been consulting Webb, screenwriter James Vanderbilt, and team on the new big screen reboot. »
- Peter Sciretta
The Crazies Movie Trailer 3
2 hours ago | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Overture Films released this new trailer for the upcoming film “The Crazies”. The film is a reinvention loosely based upon the George Romero classic about the inhabitants of a small Iowa town beset by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply. Directed by Breck Eisner (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Flash Gordon) and produced by Rob Cowan, “The Crazies” stars Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Elektra Luxx), Radha Mitchell (Rogue, Surrogates) , Danielle Panabaker and Joe Anderson and will hit theaters on February 26th, 2010. Synopsis: A biological weapon gone awry is only the start of problems in the little town of Evan’s City, Pennsylvania. Bouts of [...] »
- Brian Corder
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