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Monday, March 28, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
***Marion Cotillard to Play Talia al Ghul; Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Play Roman Sionis in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES [UPDATED] ***New Poster for SCREAM 4 ***Rowan Joffe to Adapt Non-fiction Novel AGENT ZIGZAG for Director Mike Newell ***Michel Gondry to Adapt Philip K. Dick’s UBIK
Marion Cotillard to Play Talia al Ghul; Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Play Roman Sionis in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES [UPDATED]
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 16th, 2011
We reported in the past weeks that Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were in talks to join The Dark Knight Rises. Warner Bros. has now sent out a press release announcing that both have joined the film and that Cotillard will play Talia al Ghul while Gordon-Levitt will play the gangster Roman Sionis (aka Black Mask). That puts four potential villains against Batman with Anne Hathaway cast as Selina Kyle/Catwoman and Tom Hardy as Bane. Of course, we don’t know how all of these villains will interact with each other and how much bearing they’ll have on the story, but I have to assume that you don’t get popular actors this caliber for bit parts.Hit the jump for the full press release. The Dark Knight Rises opens July 20, 2012. [Update: This may be fake. In my rush to report Batman news that was forwarded to me, I didn't think to check the e-mail address it originated from: "warnerbrospicturesmedia@hotmail.com". Hit the jump for my sloppy journalism! Update 2: Definitely fake: The folks on the Nolan Fans message boards debunked the story. Update 3: Here's an explanation of why we're leaving this story up. ]
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New Poster for SCREAM 4
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 16th, 2011
After already releasing two bland posters, Dimension is taking another run at their Scream 4 marketing by high-lighting Ghostface and his killer chin. If the whole movie has Ghostface running around chin-stabbing his victims, I will declare Scream 4 as the best movie in the franchise. Anything less will be a disappointment.
Hit the jump to check out the poster. Directed by Wes Craven, Scream 4 stars Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox Arquette, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, and Hayden Panettiere. The film opens April 15th.
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Rowan Joffe to Adapt Non-fiction Novel AGENT ZIGZAG for Director Mike Newell
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 16th, 2011
Writer-director Rowan Joffe (Brighton Rock) will pen the adaptation of the non-fiction novel Agent Zigzag for director Mike Newell (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) Per Deadline, “Agent Zigzag tells the true story of Eddie Chapman, a suave thief/seducer who became a double agent during WWII working for both Germany and Britain.” I love that “seducer” is on the same job title as “thief” and “double-agent”. I hope Mr. Zigzag put that on his resume.
In addition to Brighton Rock, Joffe also wrote the screenplay for The American and 28 Weeks Later. In September, we reported that he has been hired to adapt Steve Watson’s debut novel Before I Go to Sleep. Last week, Newell signed on to direct a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Hit the jump for a synopsis of the novel.
Michel Gondry to Adapt Philip K. Dick’s UBIK
by Talia Soghomonian Posted: February 16th, 2011
The Green Hornet director Michel Gondry’s next movie will be an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1966 science fiction novel, Ubik. The screenplay will remain loyal to Dick’s original text.
This will be the second attempt by a French filmmaker to adapt Dick’s famed work. In 1974, Jean-Pierre Gorin commissioned the writer to adapt his own novel to a screenplay. The movie never got made but Dick’s labor didn’t go entirely to waste – it was instead published as Ubik: The Screenplay.
Highly respected in France, Philip K. Dick is perhaps one of the most popular American sci-fi writers in the world – and Hollywood. Hit the jump to find out which classic movies were inspired by his works.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
***Mike Newell to Direct Adaptation of GREAT EXPECTATIONS ***First Set Photos from Rian Johnson’s LOOPER ***Casting Call: Diane Kruger and Lea Seydoux to Star in LES ADIERUX A LA REINE; Richard Gere Joins ARBITRAGE
Mike Newell to Direct Adaptation of GREAT EXPECTATIONS
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 7th, 2011
Director Mike Newell (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) will direct an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. From what I gathered about the tale when South Park adapted it, it’s about an old woman who uses the tears of men to power her Genesis device. Of course, the more famous adaptation is David Lean’s 1948 film and the book was adapted again in 1998 with Alfonso Cuaron at the helm and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan Hawke, Anne Bancroft, and Robert De Niro. Strangely, neither Lean nor Cuaron’s versions featured the Genesis device. THR reports that Newell will have a “fresh take” on the material, but doesn’t specify if Newell will go classic like Lean’s version, modern like Cuaron’s, or absurd like South Park.
Newell’s Great Expectations will be part of the Dickens’ bicentenary in 2012. Hit the jump for a real (read: no Genesis device) synopsis of Dickens’ classic novel.
First Set Photos from Rian Johnson’s LOOPER
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 7th, 2011
Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom was my favorite film of 2009 and I’m excited out of my mind for his follow-up, Looper. The sci-fi flick concerns hitmen (“loopers”) who use time-travel to cover the tracks of their murders. The film is currently shooting and has been posting photos from the set.
Hit the jump to check out the set photos which don’t really show stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, and Paul Dano, let alone major spoilers.
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Casting Call: Diane Kruger and Lea Seydoux to Star in LES ADIERUX A LA REINE; Richard Gere Joins ARBITRAGE
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 7th, 2011
We have two pieces of casting news for you this afternoon. First up, Variety reports that Diane Kruger and Lea Seydoux (Robin Hood) have joined the French period drama Les Adieux a la reine. The film is based on the novel by Chantal Thomas and centers on “the three decisive days of the French Revolution in July 1789, told from the point of view of Marie Antoinette’s reader.” Kruger will play Antoinette in the film, which also stars Gerard Depardieu and Noemie Lovski (The French Kissers). Benoit Jacquot will direct.
Hit the jump for news on Richard Gere joining Arbitrage.
According to Deadline, Richard Gere is close to signing on to Nicholas Jarecki’s debut feature film Arbitrage. When we first reported on the story in November, Al Pacino had signed on, but since there’s no mention of him in Deadline’s story, I assume that he’s dropped out and Gere is replacing him. The story is about “troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.” Jarecki, who previously directed the documentary The Outsider and wrote the script for Gregor Jordan’s The Informers (shudder), also penned the script for Arbitrage. Eva Green and Susan Sarandon are attached to co-star and shooting is scheduled to begin mid-April in New York.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Mike Newell and Jerry Bruckheimer in 'Prince of Persia'
Reporting from London Mike Newell, the director of "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," the latest pyrotechnic display from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, is standing on a brick path in his English garden when he poses a question to his wife."Darling, can I make green tea in this pot?" the 68-year-old filmmaker, clad in tissue-thin blue slacks and black slippers, asks in a lilting accent before popping through a door and into the kitchen. Several minutes later, he emerges with a pitcher of tea and two saucers, his 6-foot-3 frame ambling past the hanging ivy and tinkling fountain that adorn the backyard of his home near Primrose Hill in North London.
If this domestic scene seems a little incongruous — more suited to a starchy British novel than the CG flash of a $200-million summer action movie — it's for good reason. It would be hard to find a stranger cinematic pairing than Newell, the filmmaking spirit guide behind intimate character studies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Donnie Brasco" and "Enchanted April," and Bruckheimer, the spirit guide behind such extravagant noisefests as "Armageddon" and "Pirates of the Caribbean."
In fact, the director himself was a little perplexed by the matchup and questioned whether he might be the wrong man for the job after he took it. "I said to Jerry, 'I think you might have gotten the casting wrong,' " Newell recalls. That Newell had previously stewarded a franchise film, 2005's " Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," did little to relieve his concerns.
"I felt comfortable with 'Harry Potter' because it was an English schoolboy story, and I knew that world well," Newell says as he takes a seat at a wooden table in the garden. "I didn't know ' Prince of Persia' at all.' "
The fruits of Newell's education goes on full view this weekend, as Disney releases "Prince of Persia" around the country, after a release-date postponement of nearly a year and an executive housecleaning that saw the deposal of many of the studio officials who shepherded the movie.
Based on a popular video game from creator Jordan Mechner (who was also involved in developing the film) and a script from Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard, "Prince of Persia" concerns a prince named Dastan ( Jake Gyllenhaal) who is framed for the murder of his father, prompting him to flee to the desert. It also tracks Dastan's relationship with his two brothers (Richard Coyle and Toby Kebbell), his prickly courtship of an enemy princess (Gemma Arterton), a complicated dynamic with his uncle Nizam ( Ben Kingsley) who may or may not be Dastan's ally and — naturally — a dagger with the ability to turn back time.
As many of the reviews have noted, the film contains plenty of Bruckheimer trademarks with just scattered touches of Newell; overflowing with grand spectacle, effects-heavy battles and emotional crescendos, while sprinkling in only a few dollops of character (as a street urchin who is adopted into a royal family, Dastan evinces both toughness and vulnerability), and cinematographic nuance.
If there is an imbalance between Bruckheimer and Newell influences, there's a reason for that too. The collaboration was not without its hiccups, in particular, a creative disagreement between Newell and Bruckheimer that led to the hiring of an outside editor, Michael Kahn, to work on the film for several weeks, without Newell's involvement, after the director had turned in his cut. "I had been very happy with the stuff I had produced but Jerry clearly wasn't," Newell recalls. "What he said was, 'My ... detector goes off.' "
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