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Overture Sets Deal in 'Stone'

12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

I've sort of lost track of this project since it was first announced as a possible The Deer Hunter reunion between Robert De and Meryl Streep. A lot has changed since this first announcement. De Niro and Edward Norton remained on board but the supporting actresses were changed for Frances Conroy and Milla Jovovich. Today, John Curran's dramatic-thriller has a confirmed release next year with Overture swooping up domestic rights. - I've sort of lost track of this project since it was first announced as a possible The Deer Hunter reunion between Robert De and Meryl Streep. A lot has changed since this first announcement. De Niro and Edward Norton remained on board but the supporting actresses were changed for Frances Conroy and Milla Jovovich. Today, John Curran's dramatic-thriller has a confirmed release next year with Overture swooping up domestic rights.   Based on Angus MacLachlan's play, »

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Stone Promo Trailer Featuring Edward Norton, Robert De Niro and Mila Jovovich

16 September 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Millenium Films has released a marketing trailer for The Painted Veil and We Don't Live Here Anymore director John Curran's new film, a prison-set psychological crime thriller. Edward Norton stars as a convicted arsonist who looks to manipulate a parole officer (Robert De Niro) into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife (Mila Jovovich) in the lawman's path. Originally written as a play, and adapted for the screen by Independent Spirit Award-nominated scribe Angus MacLachlan, a Winston-Salem screenwriter and playwright, best known for the 2005 film Junebug and the short film Tater Tomater. A bit of trivia: Zachary Quinto (Heroes, Star Trek) played the lead in the one and only Los Angeles table reading performance of the play in 2003. It's a rough cut trailer for exhibitors and marketing, but you'll get the idea. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. »

- Peter Sciretta

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Signatures: Laura Dern

21 June 2009 4:37 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Adam of Club Silencio here with another look at my favorite actresses and their distinguishing claims to fame.

I had a dream. In fact, it was the night I met you. In the dream there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins... and the robins represented love. And for the longest time there was just this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love! And it seemed like that love would be the only thing that would make any difference... And it did. So I guess it means there is trouble till the robins come. Martin Luther King Jr. and Laura Dern; civil rights or robins of love. Both valid dreams from inspirational dreamers. Laura Dern is one of our most bright, inspiring and expressive actresses -- an angelic beauty with an edge. »

- Adam

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De Niro and Norton Reunite for Stone

6 May 2009 10:32 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Robert De Niro and Edward Norton have signed on to star in the indie psychological thriller Stone, which is being directed by John Curran. Angus MacLachlan (Junebug) penned the screenplay, which is based on his play. The story centers on a correctional officer (De Niro) who is seduced by the wife of a convicted arsonist (Norton) up for parole. De Niro and Norton previously teamed in 2001 on the heist flick The Score. Stone marks the debut film of Mimran Schur Pictures, a company formed earlier this year by private investor David Mimran and longtime music biz executive and former Geffen Records president Jordan Schur. De Niro is also set to reprise his Jack Byrnes character in the latest chapter in the Meet the Parents franchise, Little Fockers. Norton next stars in the indie dramedy Leaves of Grass, which was directed by his Incredible Hulk co-star Tim Blake Nelson. Curran previously »

- James Cook

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Al Pacino to Play Napoleon in John Curran's Project?

8 April 2009 12:41 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Al Pacino is a legend in his own right. He's played countless iconic characters, uttered famous lines in famous scenes of famous films. And he's set to do it again. The actor has long been interested in playing one of the most complex and infamous characters in human history: Napoleon Bonaparte. With Betsy and the Emperor, he's finally going to get his chance, according to THR. The film is to be the screen adaptation of Staton Rabin's children's book "Betsy and the Emperor", about Napoleon's last five years in exile on the island of St. Helena and his interactions with the teenage daughter, Miss Betsy Balcombe, of his jailer. The script was written by Brian Edgar and the film will be directed by John Curran, of We Don't Live Here Anymore and The Painted Veil. Previously, French director Patrice Chereau (Queen Margot, Intimacy) was on-board at Warner Brothers, with Pacino »

- Brandon Lee Tenney

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Al Pacino Set for Betsy and the Emperor

7 April 2009 11:15 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Al Pacino has signed on to star in Betsy and the Emperor, a film that will see the Oscar winner portray famous French emperor Napoleon. Killer Films is behind the project, which is based on Staton Rabin's young adult novel of the same name. John Curran, director of the 2004 Mark Ruffalo drama-romance We Don't Live Here Anymore and The Painted Veil, is attached to helm from a screenplay by Brian Edgar. Napoleon Bonaparte, later known as Emperor Napoleon I, was a military and political leader of France whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century. He revolutionized military organization and training; sponsored the Napoleonic Code, the prototype of later civil-law codes; reorganized education; and established the long-lived Concordat with the papacy. The novel is a historical fantasy based on Napoleon's earliest years on St. Helena. Rabin has re-imagined Napoleon's exile through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Betsy Balcombe, the »

- James Cook

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Daily news dose: Larry Charles to direct 'Discontent;' Sony to adapt 'Shadow of the Colossus'

7 April 2009 9:55 PM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »

Here's your daily dose of film news for April 8, 2009:

• Larry Charles, who directed the hilarious "Borat" and "Religulous," is in talks to helm "Winter's Discontent," according to Variety. The film follows a widower who moves into a retirement home to - guess what - get laid. Charles most recently directed Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming comedy "Brüno."

• And another video game will move to the big screen. This time, Sony will adapt "Shadow of the Colossus," with Justin Marks ("Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li") on-board to write the screenplay. The plot of the game follows a man who must fight his way through a wasteland battling 16 creatures. (Variety)

• Believe it or not, but Al Pacino is getting ready to play Napoleon in the big-screen adaptation of Staton Rabin's children's book "Betsy and the Emperor." John Curran, whose credits include the very interesting "We Don't Live Here Anymore" and decent enough "The Painted Veil, »

- Franck Tabouring

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Curran Set for Killer Films' Betsy Meets Napoleon Project

7 April 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Looks like Killer Films might once again position themselves in one of those uncomfortable situations where they embark on a project knowing that there is another similar project floating around. Recently I had discussed how they might lose in the first to get the Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg biography out there (their John Krokidas-directed Kill Your Darlings is going up against Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein's Howl) and now they have set up another fatal scenario – it all depends on whether financiers/producers Adi Cohen and Joseph Grinkorn’s Gc Corp. have really been able to acquire “all film and stage adaptation rights” as stated by Variety. Problem is that Killer Film's Betsy and the Emperor might be going up against Napoleon and Betsy – a project pegged with a 2010 start date after actress Emma Watson completes the Deathly Hallows part I and II. Watson would play the titular role of Betsy Balcombe. »

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Keira Knightley is Still Doing More Period Pieces

5 January 2009 11:10 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

I would've expected Keira Knightley to learn her lesson by now. After Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Silk, and The Duchess this year, I was hoping she'd stop making such dull period pieces -- apparently not. Knightley has been cast in The Beautiful and the Damned, the next project from filmmaker John Curran. Curran last directed the period film The Painted Veil as well as We Don't Live Here Anymore before that. The Beautiful and the Damned concerns the turbulent marriage of alcoholic writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his schizophrenic wife Zelda Sayre. Something to get excited about? I highly doubt it. The Beautiful and the Damned will begin production in March. The story takes place in the high society of the roaring '20s, which was when Fitzgerald wrote some of his greatest novels, including This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned (for which this movie is named), and The »

- Alex Billington

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Keira Gets Damned By Someone New

5 January 2009 8:59 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Nick Cassavetes may be a lot of things-- the director of the insanely successful romance The Notebook, son of legendary director John Cassavetes-- but he's not a guy who screams "high-toned period piece." Luckily, John Curran is, and he's replaced Cassavetes as the director of The Beautiful and the Damned, the story of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his totally loony wife, Zelda. Keira Knightley, of course, will be starring as Zelda-- is there a period piece she won't star in?-- and has been on board since Cassavetes was the director. Variety doesn't explain what happened to Cassavetes, just that he "fell out along the way," which could mean basically anything. Maybe there was a Nicholas Sparks novel that needed adapting? Curran, who directed the 2006 period piece The Painted Veil as well as We Don't Live Here Anymore, seems like a much better fit for the material, »

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John Curran to direct Knightley in 'Damned'

5 January 2009 8:48 AM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »

John Curran is set to replace Nick Cassavetes as director for Film Department's upcoming period drama "The Beautiful and the Damned."

The film is set during the Roaring '20s and centers on the extravagant lifestyle and turbulent marriage of alcoholic writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayre, a schizophrenic.

Hanna Weg wrote the script for the film, and Keira Knightley is on board to star.

Curran's credits include the decent "The Painted Veil" and "We Don't Live Here Anymore."

As for Fitzgerald, one of his short stories recenely inspired David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Another one of his creations, "The Great Gatsby," will be directed by Baz Luhrmann.

Variety says Cassavetes recently dropped the project but doesn't state the reason. »

- Franck Tabouring

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Curran to Direct Beautiful and the Damned

4 January 2009 10:02 PM, PST | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

John Curran has signed on to direct The Beautiful and the Damned, a upcoming period drama that Keira Knightley is attached to star in. Nick Cassavetes (Alpha Dog, The Notebook) was previously signed on to direct the film. Hanna Weg wrote the script, which follows the turbulent marriage of alcoholic writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his mercurial wife Zelda Sayre (Knightley), who was schizophrenic. The tempestuous relationship, which unfolded in the high society of the Roaring '20s, inspired some of the novelist's works. Curran’s past credits include Praise, We Don't Live Here Anymore and most recently The Painted Veil, which opened in 2006 and starred Sally Hawkins, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones and Liev Schreiber. Knightley hit the screen in 2008 in The Edge of Love and The Duchess. She next stars in the romantic drama Last Night, opposite Sam Worthington and Eva Mendes. Production on Dammed is slated to start in March. »

- James Cook

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