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Spielberg Leaves ‘Harvey’ Remake
4 December 2009 11:51 AM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Steven Spielberg has backed out of directing Harvey, a remake of the 1950 classic starring Jimmy Stewart.
The 62-year-old director spent several months developing the film, which was to be his next production and the first under the newly stand-alone DreamWorks. Fox was allowing Dw to fund 50% through their deal with Dubai-based Reliance, but the movie fell apart when Spielberg couldn’t find a star for the lead. Fox will continue to work on it.
The obvious choice, considering their history, was Tom Hanks. Except he declined to make… well, I’m not sure. Robert Downey Jr. was also “courted” for the part, according to Variety, but didn’t sign on. What is wrong with Hollywood that Steven Spielberg can’t get anyone to star in his movie? Where was his golden boy, Shia Labeouf?
The story, an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Mary Chase, centers on a man »
- Jeff Leins
Stewart & Fanning's The Runaways To Debut At Sundance Film Festival
3 December 2009 5:31 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The Twilight Saga: New Moon stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning's new movie about Joan Jett's all-girl rock band will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah in January.
In much-anticipated new film The Runaways, Stewart portrays Jett, while Fanning plays Cherie Currie.
The film will be among the highlights at Robert Redford's film festival, where Ben Affleck and Kevin Costner's new movie The Company Men and Katie Holmes and John C. Reilly's The Extra Man will also premiere.
Stewart will screen a second film at the festival - Welcome to the Rileys, in which she plays a young prostitute opposite James Gandolfini. »
Film review: The Box
3 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
An intriguing premise turns in to 115 minutes of codswallop. Peter Bradshaw squirms away
There are some films that confront the viewer with profound ethical dilemmas, agonising moral choices. In this one, an ageing man with a horrible face approaches a happily married woman with a proposition that could earn her $1m. Oh, heavens to Betsy, you are probably thinking, it's that Robert Redford back again, the incorrigible old goat, making another of his indecent proposals: a sackful of cash in exchange for the chance to let his expensive trousers and pants pool round his ankles while he puts you on the receiving end of a one-off rogering. How absolutely loathsome. And yet it is a lot of money, so gosh, would I? Would I?
But it is not Robert Redford. This time it is Frank Langella, playing a man with an appalling wound to the side of his face, dressed »
- Peter Bradshaw
Canada's "Movie Star" And "Last Train Home" @ Sundance...
3 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
The Sundance Film Festival, the world's main event for independent cinema, runs Jan. 21-31, 2010 in Park City, Utah.
Sundance is noted for discovering/launching the best indie titles, including the most recent, 2009's "Precious" and "An Education".
The 2010 Festival received 2,080 submissions for narrative features and 1644 docs, totaling 3,724 films viewed by fest programmers for final selections.
Presenting sponsors are Entertainment Weekly, Hp, Honda and Sundance Channel, bolstered by support from the Sundance Institute.
According to Fest founder, actor/director Robert Redford there will not be as much 'glitz $ hoopla' surrounding Sundance as there was in Toronto at Tiff.
"We don't do red carpet and we don't have government officials and executives who demand this sort of thing, so we decided we didn't need that kind of opening night," he said.
The 2010 Sundance Competition Lineup will include:
"Blue Valentine", directed by Derek Cianfrance, "Douchebag", directed by Drake Doremus, "The Dry Land", directed »
- SneakPeek.Ca
Top Ten Overrated Films
3 December 2009 9:58 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Overrated films are an interesting breed. They are essentially the type that everybody goes crazy for until consideration, time, thought and retrospect force us to reassess the situation. They are, by and large, the product of Hollywood: though by no means exclusive. However, Hollywood films are the most hyped; the most seen; the most heard. They are garnered with awards and flattery and the cycle begins again. Is it genius of deception or commerce?
Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane is often labelled as “the greatest film ever made”. It will not appear in this list. It is not an overrated film. Even now, in the sixty-plus years since its release, Welles’ masterpiece remains inimitable. Searching for something to dislike in it is pointless. Yes, critics go ga-ga for Orson, and so they should. He was a true maverick.
If one looks at the history of the Best Film award at the Oscars, »
- Martyn Conterio
Chris Morris's 'jihadist comedy' to premiere at Sundance
3 December 2009 3:44 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The British satirist's new film joins the lineup of 113 independent films to unspool over the 2010 festival, together with new movies starring Kristen Stewart, James Gandolfini and James Franco
Satirist Chris Morris looks set to lead the British charge at next year's Sundance film festival – his debut feature has been selected to premiere at the event. Four Lions comes billed as a comedy about a band of wannabe British jihadists. Morris has claimed that the film will do for Islamist extremists what Dad's Army did for Nazis – making them look "scary but also ridiculous".
All the same, Four Lions remains likely to spark controversy. Morris was dubbed the "most hated man in Britain" after a Brass Eye TV special in 2001 which dared to poke fun at the moral panic surrounding paedophilia.
Four Lions takes its place among 113 independent films that are due to be unveiled at Park City. The 16 films selected »
- Xan Brooks
Sundance 2010 Competition Films Announced
2 December 2009 3:44 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The Sundance Institute announced today the first list of films that will play at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, which I will once again be attending and covering for Fsr. This announcement includes the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the fst. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in five out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 3. The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will also feature several category changes including a new section devoted to low- and no-budget filmmaking and Sundance Film Festival U.S.A.- a one-night only event when eight filmmakers from the Festival will visit eight cities nationwide. In addition, the Festival will break tradition by foregoing the conventions of one opening night film and instead focus on launching the total program: one narrative film, one documentary and one shorts program will play the first Thursday (January 21), beginning the roll out of the competitions. “Being »
- Neil Miller
Oprah Winfrey hires Irish celebrity chef (IrishCentral)
2 December 2009 5:21 AM, PST | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »
Oprah Winfrey has chosen an Irish celebrity chef who cooked for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as her new website chef. Aine McAteer (54), from Cavan, has also cooked for Hollywood stars such as Robert Redford and Simpsons creator Matt Groening during her career. McAteer told the Evening Herald newspaper she was hired after bringing her own cookies to the interview and speaking about the famous names she has already cooked for. "I knew Oprah was starting a new tv network and that they were creating a new website for it. I was put in touch with a guy who was working on her website, and I brought cookies and a pack for Oprah," she said McAteer focuses on a macrobiotic diet cooking with whole grains and vegetables. She most recently worked for actor John Cusack on the set of his new film, '2012.' She first came to notice when working in Hawaii. »
Interview: Robert Sean Leonard of Hugh Laurie’s ‘House M.D.’ on Self-Titled Episode ‘Wilson’
30 November 2009 11:44 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Robert Sean Leonard, who plays Dr. James Wilson on “House M.D.” (and the best friend of Golden Globe winner Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House), describes himself as less than ambitious with his career and even “lazy” in an interview with HollywoodChicago.com’s presence. He’s also remembered for his role on “Dead Poet’s Society”.
Tonight’s self-titled episode “Wilson,” which is episode nine of season six, puts Robert Sean Leonard more in the spotlight than fans are used to seeing him. The episode, which airs on Nov. 30, 2009 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt on Fox, is an intense examination into Wilson’s world when it’s not involving House.
“House M.D.” stars Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer and Olivia Wilde from creator David Shore. Tonight’s episode synopsis follows and then the Robert Sean Leonard interview follows thereafter.
When »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Sundance Stretching out the 'Shock Doctrine'
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Shock Doctrine (which was presented as an unfinished cut at Berlin) will be the lead off film and the keeping with the idea of films that "spur debate", I don't think that the other films to participate in Sundance Film Festival U.S.A initiative will be heavyweight fiction titles, but we can expect to see a good number of doc features that need the attention. - Since not everyone can jet out to Park City for Sundance festivities, the festival is making plans to bring a small portion of Sundance to you. While last year they made a small batch of short films available for download, this year they're laying the groundwork for what I imagine could be a popular, yearly event - one day (January 28th) of Sundancing at select art house theaters. Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Shock Doctrine »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Tracking Shot October 2009: The Social Network, The No Game, Cedar Rapids
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a half of a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This October (2009), we are keeping tabs on.... - At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a half of a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This October (2009), we are keeping tabs on.... Arteta's Youth in Revolt got pushed back to 2010, by then he'll be in post-production with Cedar Rapids. Backed by Ad Hominem and Alexander Payne, hot off The Hangover, Ed Helms will play a sad-sack insurance agent who goes to an industry. convention to try to save the jobs of his colleagues. I imagine the comedy will film in a tax incentive friendly city with a convention center for rent. »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Downhill Racer | Review
29 November 2009 8:53 PM, PST | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Michael Ritchie Writer: James Salter Starring: Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl Michael Vogler, Dabney Coleman David Chappellet (Robert Redford) is a skier from Idaho Springs, Colorado who joins the Us Ski Team after one of the regular members breaks his legs. The team is already in the middle of European downhill racing competitions when this occurs, so Chappellet is thrust into an already tense situation. Right away, Chappellet makes himself known as self-centered egomaniac who is only there to prove that he's the greatest downhill skier that ever lived. Before the first race, he whines to coach Claire (Gene Hackman) that he's too far back in the lineup and that he should be moved up. And he keeps whining about his position before every race, even though Claire does his best to accomodate him. He makes it known right away that he's not in this for the team, »
- Chris Boehk
The Guidelines: Random notes from pop culture
27 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This week: Stuart Heritage's top five moral dilemmas on film
The moral conundrum at the heart of new Cameron Diaz film The Box isn't whether or not you should see it – because reviewers seem pretty adamant that you absolutely shouldn't – it's this: would you push a button that gave you a million dollars, even if you knew it meant that a stranger would die? Fiendish. You would, obviously, but it's still quite fiendish. Here are five other cinematic moral dilemmas, along with their solutions …
Two boats filled with explosives – should passengers save themselves by blowing up the other vessel? Yes! They live in Gotham City, so it's not like they have anything to live for. Best-case scenario is that they survive and then a fat bloke dressed as a penguin comes along and kills them after a fortnight. They'd be doing the other boat a favour, »
- Stuart Heritage
Redford's Accent Demands Left McAvoy Exhausted
25 November 2009 4:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Scottish actor James McAvoy found his boss Robert Redford a tough taskmaster while working on the star's latest movie - after the Hollywood veteran ordered him to speak in an American accent at all times.
The Last King of Scotland star is playing U.S. lawyer Frederick Aiken in Redford's The Conspirator, about the trial of a woman said to be involved in the assassination of 19th century American president Abraham Lincoln.
But McAvoy found himself at work even when the cameras stopped rolling - because Redford demanded he kept his U.S. lilt even during his downtime.
He says, "Bob wants me to stay in an American accent all the time. I'm trying to but I just can't be bothered all the time. I'm trying to make Bob happy, but that's an exhausting task.
"I'll get there eventually, hopefully, one day. So, no, I'm not particularly method with either my accents or my acting." »
James Earl Jones: confessions of Big Daddy
23 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
James Earl Jones has been breaking down barriers since the 1950s. As he prepares to star in an all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he tells Maddy Costa about his absent father, elderly sex – and why his stutter was his salvation
The septuagenarian walking slowly through the Novello theatre in London looks like an archetypal American tourist. Tall and wide, he wears a puffy gilet that makes him seem even bulkier, while a faded baseball cap shades his face. Yet this ordinary-looking man is one of America's pre-eminent actors: James Earl Jones. Over the last 50 years, he has won two Tony awards (playing a boxer in The Great White Hope, and for his role in August Wilson's Fences), an Oscar nomination (for the film of The Great White Hope), as well as multiple Emmy nominations and awards for his TV work.
You wouldn't know any of this to look at him, »
- Maddy Costa
Reject Radio: Episode 27: Good Times Had By None
22 November 2009 9:19 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Brought to you by: Phoning It In - That's what we're going to be doing. This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, we finally utilize the internet to do the show, special guest Kevin Carr can't stop talking about menstrual blood, and we do our impression of 1930s British Robert Redford. We do it all for you. We also manage to review The Blind Side and New MoonOMG. Listen Here: Download This Episode On This Week’s Show: Segment 1: Ripped From the Headlines [0:00 - 33:00ish] There Was No News This Week, so We Talk About Al Gore And NBC's Blatant Enviro-Themed Thursday All the Other News Involves How Many People Camped Out for New Moon And Idris Elba Just Got Cast in Thor as Hilmdall Heimdall, the Man Who Invented the Heimlich Maneuver In the Lollipop Forest Also, The American Gladiators Movie Hired a Writer Neil Is Dead Get Over It Trailer Round Up: Round »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
Stephen Root Joins The Conspirator
17 November 2009 11:00 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Stephen Root (”Office Space”, “The Men Who Stare At Goats”) has joined the cast of “The Conspirator,” about the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Robert Redford is directing the film. Root will play a key witness in the trial against the cabal of conspirators that were tried as sympathizers in the assassination of Lincoln and in aiding John Wilkes Booth carry out his deed and later escape. “The Conspirator” focuses on the story of Mary Surratt, the lone female conspirator and the first woman in Us history to be executed for treason. Robin Wright Penn will be playing Surratt. [...] »
- Costa Koutsoutis
DVD: Review:Downhill Racer
17 November 2009 10:01 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Bob Dylan sang about how there’s no success like failure, but in the films of Michael Ritchie, the opposite is often true. Elected to the Senate after a brutal, compromise-filled campaign in The Candidate, Robert Redford turns to his closest advisor and asks, “What do we do now?” He’s lost sight of the sure moral ground on which he once stood, and the trip across the finish line has left him—to borrow another Dylan line—with no direction home. The Candidate was conceived as the second in a series of Redford-starring/Ritchie-directed movies about what it takes ... »
Stephen Root has two new roles
17 November 2009 5:47 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Stephen Root has signed on to Fox Searchlight's "Cedar Rapids" and Robert Redford's latest directorial effort, "The Conspirator." In "Rapids," Root joins Ed Helms, Anne Heche and John C. Reilly, playing the proud owner of an insurance company and Helms' boss. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the comedy is being directed by Miguel Arteta. In "The Conspirator," Root joins James McAvoy and Robin Wright in the historical drama, where he'll play a key witness for the prosecution in the trial of a Confederate sympathizer who is tried as a conspirator in the assassination of President Lincoln. »
- Adnan Tezer
New on DVD This Week
17 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, Gone with the Wind, Thirst, Rome: The Complete Series and the Blu-ray debut of David Fincher’s awesome Fight Club (shown above with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton). We are Jack’s excitement at this release finally coming out.
Check them out:
Movies
Bruno ~ Sacha Baron Cohen, Paula Abdul (DVD and Blu-ray)
Clerks ~ Brian O’Halloran, Kevin Smith (Blu-ray)
Downhill Racer (The Criterion Collection) ~ Robert Redford, Gene Hackman (DVD)
Fight Club ~ Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter (Blu-ray)
Galaxy Quest ~ Tim Allen, »
- Heather Toshiko
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