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The view: Richard Kelly enters The Twilight Zone with The Box
13 November 2009 6:33 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Rod Serling's ghostly shadow looms large over the latest film from the director of Donnie Darko – but what's the problem? It's a hell of a show to take cues from
In certain eyes, the impending release of The Box, the third film from the still more-or-less boyish Richard Kelly, will be notable mostly as a trial by public opinion for its creator. This is, after all, quite the crossroads for a director whose deservedly beloved debut Donnie Darko proposed him as the emo David Lynch before its follow-up Southland Tales instantly made a lot of us stick a large and hasty question mark beside that judgment. Much therefore rides on his latest project. But, for me, the mixed response to the movie so far – out in the Us last week, released here next month – has been interesting not just for its implications about Kelly's future, but because almost every »
- Danny Leigh
The view: Richard Kelly enters The Twilight Zone with The Box
13 November 2009 6:33 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Rod Serling's ghostly shadow looms large over the latest film from the director of Donnie Darko – but what's the problem? It's a hell of a show to take cues from
In certain eyes, the impending release of The Box, the third film from the still more-or-less boyish Richard Kelly, will be notable mostly as a trial by public opinion for its creator. This is, after all, quite the crossroads for a director whose deservedly beloved debut Donnie Darko proposed him as the emo David Lynch before its follow-up Southland Tales instantly made a lot of us stick a large and hasty question mark beside that judgment. Much therefore rides on his latest project. But, for me, the mixed response to the movie so far – out in the Us last week, released here next month – has been interesting not just for its implications about Kelly's future, but because almost every »
- Danny Leigh
‘Se7en’ Writer and Director Reunite For ‘Peter Proud’
9 November 2009 10:53 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Back in 1995, director David Fincher and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker (The Wolfman) collaborated on what is now touted as a “crime classic” and “a blueprint for modern serial killer movies.” That movie was Se7en, and I totally agree with all the praise that’s been heaped upon it (it recently featured in our “Horror Plus” series).
Now, 14 years later, Fincher and Walker are going to be collaborating once more, this time on an adaptation of the novel The Reincarnation of Peter Proud for Columbia. THR’s Heat Vision Blog reports the news of their involvement, along with producer Michael De Luca (Blade, Ghost Rider). The author of the book, Max Ehrlich, adapted it into a movie in 1975 of the same name, so I guess in a way this movie is a remake by Fincher (there’s that “remake or new adaptation” question again). According to THR:
“‘Proud’ centers on a »
- Ross Miller
Bradley Cooper to Trip Out in the Dark Fields
5 November 2009 7:56 PM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Originally set to star Shia Labeouf as a down-on-his-luck loser who stumbles across a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes him super smart, the thriller “Dark Fields” has found a new leading man in “The Hangover’s” Bradley Cooper. The film, described as being in the vein of trippy David Fincher films “Fight Club” and “The Game”, will be directed by Neil Burger of “The Illusionist” fame, and will be based on the book by Alan Glynn, with big-screen adaptation courtesy of Leslie Dixon. Upon discovering the super drug, Cooper’s writer character experiences sudden financial and social success thanks to his new big brain, but soon discovers that the drug has lethal and lasting side effects, as they surely must. One of these side effects involve “trip-switching,” a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality, which will no doubt be revealed onscreen in all manner of groovy visuals. »
- Nix
Smallville Producer Hoping for a Season 10
28 October 2009 8:56 PM, PDT | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »
After hearing about a couple of intriguing upcoming guest appearances on the CW’s “Smallville”, I made it a point to DVR the show. Unfortunately the first episode of Season 9 that I really watched was the Green Arrow episode where he went through a cheapie TV version of David Fincher’s “The Game”, and oh my Lord was it bad. But hey, maybe that’s just me. Onto the news. “Smallville” producer Kelly Souders tells Entertainment Weekly that she and the gang over at “Smallville” would really like to return for a tenth season. Or as Soulders puts it: “We are really, really pushing for season 10. We really hope it happens.” From what I can tell, at this point in the show Clark Kent is running around Metropolis as some kind of black trenchcoat wearing vigilante (sans mask), and is apparently so fast no one can tell what he looks like. »
- Nix
Terminator Salvation UK DVD and Blu-Ray details
27 October 2009 4:59 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced that they will release Terminator Salvation on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK from November 23rd. We have all of the info after the jump. Stars Christian Bale (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) and Sam Worthington (Avatar) ignite the battle between man and machine in the futuristic action epic Terminator Salvation, blasting its way onto Blu-ray and DVD on 23/11/09 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The Terminator Salvation Blu-ray and DVD will arrive packed with spectacular bonus features, including "Re-Forging the Future," an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the film's production, "The Moto-Terminator," a featurette revealing how the film's visual effects crew and motorcycle manufacturer Ducati partnered to create the slick and deadly Moto-Terminators, plus eleven mini featurette focus points spotlighting how the ground-breaking special effects were created.
The Blu-ray edition of Terminator Salvation will exclusively include McG's Director's Cut of the film with »
- Paul
CinemaSpy's Week-End TV Recap (Oct. 24)
24 October 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Our reviews for this past week are down a couple of shows, thanks primarily to baseball. Fringe was a no-show on account of the former, and Supernatural offered us a repeat of this season's premiere.
That said, we've got some new entries in the mix, which we'll be continuing as well. Blaine Kyllo chimes in with his thoughts on this past week's episodes of House, 30 Rock and Dollhouse (the latter of which returned to the airwaves after a one week absence).
With choices reduced on account of America's favorite pastime, viewers had a second look at shows they might have otherwise missed the first go-round, in their quest for something to watch, and this benefited FlashForward, which earned its best audience since its second week, picking up a 6.2 rating/10 share.
Meanwhile, according to the stats, Fringe, which has been a big ratings loser in its sophomore season, saw an uptick the week ending Oct. »
Despite the Rules We're Talking 'Fight Club' Ten Years Later
15 October 2009 1:19 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I know the whole "I was into it before everyone else was" attitude is a hipster-douche move, but I don't care. I saw Fight Club opening night, because I anticipated it more than any other film of 1999 other than The Phantom Menace. After Seven and The Game, director David Fincher was pure gold in my book. So was Edward Norton. And then there was that fantastic trailer set to The Pixies' "Where is My Mind?"
I went with a large group of buddies in a half-empty theater, and to say the least in the most pun-intended, cliche-ridden manner possible: The film knocked us on our collective asses. Yes, thematically it's slightly muddled, but it's a masterpiece of craftsmanship; it's still the apex of visceral, music-video filmmaking (that is not a backhanded compliment). And arguably, the last ten seconds of the movie -- when "Where is My Mind?" starts humming on »
- David Frank
Top Ten Working American Directors
7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten Working American Directors
A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.
Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?
In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were »
- David Frank
Emilio directs again
1 October 2009 4:04 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
We haven't seen much of ex-Brat Packer Emilio Estevez since he spent so much time with the Mighty Ducks, but that's because he's been behind the camera. After directing a number of TV series episodes and the acclaimed drama Bobby, the bro-Sheen is underway on a new low-budget indie film called The Way. The movies stars smoky-voiced actress Deborah Kara Unger (The Game, Stander) and Brit actor James Nesbitt (Match Point, Bloody Sunday). Estevez also managed to coax screen veteran Martin... »
- Dave Davis
Messages Deleted Trailer Online
20 September 2009 11:00 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
That master juggler of the high concept and the low budget Larry Cohen has had a bit of a late surge of telecommunications-themed thrillers. The latest example is Messages Deleted, and you can check out the trailer here.Cohen of course, is the director of It's Alive, Return to Salem's Lot and Q The Winged Serpent, but he's as well known for his screenplays as his talent behind a camera. Phone Booth was directed by Batman villain Joel Schumacher, and Cellular by former stuntman David R Ellis, who went on to Snakes on a Plane and The Final Destination. Time will tell if such dizzy heights await Rob Cowan; lately a producer by trade, although he's credited as First Ad on Stakeout and Cocktail.Messages Deleted stars Deborah Unger, whose presence doesn't help this not feel a bit like The Game, and Matthew Lillard as the screenplay writer (and college lecturer, »
Timberlake's on Facebook
9 September 2009 | Cineman.ch/en | See recent Cineman.ch/en news »
Justin Timberlake will play one of the lead parts in a film dedicated to the birth of Facebook, directed by the brilliant David Fincher. The music superstar will play Sean Parker, Facebook's current president and co-founder of Napster. After his parts in, variously, a flop ("The Love Guru", voted worst film of 2008), a cursed masterpiece ("Southland Tales") and a number of under-the-radar films (such as "Alpha Dog"), Timberlake's participation in "The Social Network" will probably raise his actor's status. Even more so now that David Fincher, considered one of the best filmmakers in the world, is tapped to direct. His filmography speaks for itself: "Se7en", "The Game", "Zodiac", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Fight Club". While it is currently in pre-production and shouldn't start shooting before next month, "The Social Network" is already one of 2010's most awaited fil... »
- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
Field Notes From a Songwriter's Centennial
8 September 2009 11:32 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Many a tear has to fall but it's all in the game... September 24th is the centennial birthday of my late father, the songwriter Carl Sigman (1909-2000), who wrote nearly a thousand songs, including "It's All In The Game," "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story," "Ebb Tide," "What Now, My Love," "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" and "Arrivederci, Roma." In the first of two parts, I offer some fun facts and observations on his first half-century. Also born in 1909: Johnny Mercer, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Maybelle Carter, Burl Ives, Colonel Tom Parker and, absurdly, Eugene Ionesco. Johnny Mercer, the genteel Georgian who would become one of the greatest American songwriters, lived down the street from my dad in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, and became his mentor. Johnny would show up at the Sigman apartment most nights around dinnertime... »
- Michael Sigman
Nic Cage to Front Vigilante Thriller The Hungry Rabbit Jumps
7 September 2009 10:40 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
In his continued quest to star in 5 out of every 10 movies currently being made by Hollywood (it’s actually a pretty sound strategy; even if 4 of his 5 movies bomb, he’ll have at least 1 hit, right?), Nicolas Cage has attached himself to yet another movie, this time the Tobey Maguire-produced “The Hungry Rabbit Jumps”, a film with Roger Donaldson (”The Bank Job”) already onboard to direct. Originally, it was assumed Maguire would star, but that appears to have fallen by the wayside, and Spidey will now just produce the film with Cage fronting it. THR’s Heat Vision Blog says Cage will star as a man whose wife is the victim of a brutal crime, leading him to become involved with an underground vigilante organization. The object is to get revenge, one assumes, though since the film was previously described as being in the vein of David Fincher’s »
- Nix
Movies We Love: The Game
12 August 2009 10:28 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The Game (1997) Think of it as a great vacation, except you don't go to it, it comes to you. Synopsis Wealthy-beyond-belief Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is gifted entrance into a strange game by his prodigal brother Conrad (Sean Penn). He goes in for extensive testing, and when he's told he doesn't qualify, the game begins in earnest, testing his wits, physical strength and the emotional scarring caused by witnessing his father's suicide as a child. He allies himself with a beautiful waitress (Deborah Kara Unger) and watches his life fall apart all around him as he desperately tries to figure out what the object of the game is. Nothing is real, no one can be trusted, and he brought the conspiracy that plagues him upon himself. Why We Love It I have to admit to being a little obsessed with twists lately - namely the fine art of lying to an audience for several hours while »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
Sam Worthington Is A “Tourist” With Charlize Theron
4 August 2009 7:59 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Credit must really be given to Sam Worthington’s agent. The man really works his socks off for his client.
Hot on the heels of the Australian star being cast in James Cameron’s Avatar, Terminator Salvation and Clash of the Titans comes news that he is set to replace Tom Cruise in The Tourist opposite Charlize Theron.
In the thriller Worthington will play a tourist who is used by an Interpol agent(Theron) to flush out an international criminal.
The male lead was originally supposed to be American and there are currently no details as to whether the filmmakers will make the character Australian to accommodate Worthington’s natural tones.
Tom Cruise had been mulling over starring in the film since last year (along with a whole host of projects) and his loss now appears to be Worthington’s gain as the young actor ratchets up another high profile acting job. »
- Niall Browne
Sam Worthington is The Candidate
21 July 2009 7:50 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Well dang, is there a movie that this Sam Worthington guy isn’t attached to star in? Okay, it’s not like he’s in every movie, it just seems that way. Having snatched primo roles in Louis Leterrier’s “Clash of the Titans” remake, James Cameron’s “Avatar”, and this summer’s “Terminator Salvation”, Worthington is looking to front the Hollywood remake of the Danish thriller “The Candidate” for Summit Entertainment, the same folks behind the “Twilight” franchise, though this doesn’t look very teen friendly. THR says Worthington will play… …a defense attorney that goes on the hunt for a group of blackmailers when he is suddenly accused of murder. In a nothing-is-what-it-seems fantasia reminiscent of David Fincher’s “The Game,” the mystery ends up tying back into the suspicious death of the lawyer’s father. The Danish original, which doesn’t currently have a Stateside distributor, was »
- Nix
Sam Worthington Headlining a Us Remake of The Candidate
21 July 2009 4:05 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Australian actor Sam Worthington is looking to become a producer, too. THR announces today that Worthington is attached to star in a remake of the 2008 Danish thriller The Candidate directed by Kasper Barfoed. Summit Entertainment picked up the rights in a package deal sold with Worthington attached as a producer as well as the lead actor. First-time screenwriter Beau Willimon will pen the screenplay. In The Candidate, a defense attorney goes on the hunt for a group of blackmailers when he is suddenly accused of murder. It's apparently a "nothing-is-what-it-seems fantasia" kind of story reminiscent of The Game. Although this remake is gaining steam in Hollywood, the original Candidate still hasn't even received Us distribution (similar to the situation surround [Rec] and Quarantine). And in case you are worried that Beau Willimon can't write as well as John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris (the two who wrote The Game), he's ... »
- Alex Billington
Sam Worthington in The Candidate Remake
21 July 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation) is attached to star in a remake of the recent Danish thriller "The Candidate." Beau Willimon has been hired to write the project, and Summit has picked up the remake rights. In "The Candidate," a defense attorney goes on the hunt for a group of blackmailers when he is suddenly accused of murder. In a "nothing is what it seems" fantasia reminiscent of David Fincher's "The Game," the mystery ends up tying back into the suspicious death of the lawyer's father. Written by Stefan Jaworski, "The Candidate" played in theaters in Denmark in the fall, but it has no American distributor at the moment. »
AFI Gives Michael Douglas an Lifetime Achievement Award. No, Really.
14 June 2009 3:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Maybe it gives away my age, but I really do think I remember a time when awards were given to people purely because an organization thought they'd actually earned them. I'm not crazy, am I? That really used to happen, right?
Well, this week Michael Douglas was honored by the American Film Institute, who threw a gala black-tie shindig at Sony Pictures Studio and handed him their 37th AFI Life Achievement Award. Bob Dylan sang a song, and Douglas' wife Catherine Zeta-Jones performed an adorable little tap dance number, and Jack Nicholson was Jack Nicholson, and a stuntman fell through the ceiling in an homage to the ending of The Game. All in all, a nice evening of entertainment that'll be televised next month. But ... Michael Douglas?
The AFI award started out as a true Lifetime Achievement trophy -- the first went to John Ford in 1973. Over the next two decades, »
- Dawn Taylor
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