Although it will doubtlessly inflame fans, Fox has hired Josh Schwartz, the man who brought us Gossip Girl and The O.C., to write the script for a youthful reboot of the X-Men franchise.
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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John Malkovich is known for a lot of things (good acting, his self-effacing sense of humor, baldness) but less so as an activist or film director. Still, he’s done his fair share of both, being a longtime outspoken Libertarian and directing the 2002 feature The Dancer Upstairs. So the announcement in Variety that he plans to fim a documentary on the plight of migrant children wasn’t totally out of the blue…but it was pretty close.
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Despite recent controversies, preparations for the Sundance Film Festival are in full swing, prompting the announcement of the annual event’s Jan. 15 opening night film: the Aussie animated import Mary and Max, featuring the voices of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette and Eric Bana. The selection is a major coup for the film, considering the attention
lavished on recent opening night films, like this year’s rather slept-on tragicomedy In Bruges.
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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The voice on the other end of the line was timid.
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by admin
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During a press junket for Universal’s upcoming Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard told Maxim that the much-ballyhooed Arrested Development movie was, in fact, on its way to the silver screen.
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by admin
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Check out Paste’s top 20 films of 2008…
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by admin
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Available now, Shout! Factory has released a 4-DVD set of The Johnny Cash Christmas Specials 1976-1979. While ‘76 and ‘77 were released last year, the ‘78 and ‘79 specials are new and are available separately or as part of the box set. Included on the new set are Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, Steve Martin and Andy Kaufman, amongst others.
Posted on November 19th, 2008 by admin
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Outside of journalists, Katharine Graham still isn’t that well-known. But for those in the industry, she remains a hero if only for her Washington Post leadership during the Watergate Scandal and her support of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation.
Posted on November 19th, 2008 by admin
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According to the Hollyood Reporter, Little Miss Sunshine producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa are set to join their fellow Hamlet 2 producer Eric Eisner in the production of a biopic about Jerry Garcia. The three have just signed on to produce the as-yet unnamed project, which promises a revealing look at the Grateful Dead frontman’s youth.
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Check out Paste’s top 10 television shows of 2008…
Posted on November 19th, 2008 by admin
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HBO has finally figured out a way to tackle the recession: make fun of it. The network has paired with author Andy Bellin to produce The Review, a comedy series set in 1987 at a literary magazine at the height of that era’s Wall Street meltdown.
Posted on November 18th, 2008 by admin
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Stan Lee’s influence has come to tower over the contemporary surge in comic-book adaptations, but even his expansive oeuvre has some underdeveloped patches. The 85-year-old touchstone has teamed with Showtime to develop a series, Hero, centered on the emergence of a gay superhero icon.
Posted on November 18th, 2008 by admin
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If the inherently morbid 6,557 mile cross-country trek in Killing Yourself to Live had one lesson for Chuck Klosterman, it was the old trope that the journey is more important than the destination. Still, the destination has been pretty nice for Klosterman; five books into his career, he’s the reigning king of pop-culture addicts. He’ll be adding another feather to his cap (probably a Kiss hat) soon too: Half Shell Entertainment has nabbed film production rights to Klosterman’s rock memoir/romantic confessional.
Posted on November 18th, 2008 by admin
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After years of talks, Marvel Studios has officially hired Joe Johnston to direct First Avenger: Captain America, part of an ambitious slate of major comic adaptations the studio is set to finance over the next several years.
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For his past two movies, Kill Bill and Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino appropriated some of the music by noted film composer Ennio Morricone. No actual collaboration ever occurred, even though Tarantino was requesting that people write Morricone-esque music for his next film. It’s not like this was the first time he’d tried for Morricone, either, since the Italian composer refused to work on Pulp Fiction.
Posted on November 17th, 2008 by admin
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