New Films in Production, v.2
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Against all financial wisdom and common sense,The Boondock Saints III, starring Norman Reedus and (co-writer) Sean Patrick Flanery and directed by Troy Duffy, will begin filming next year
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Kyle Buchanan’s NYT piece on the relative boom in black-and-white cinematography includes this nugget on Alfonso Cuarón’s next project:
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Tucked away in this Hollywood Reporter article on Taiwan's aspirations as an international production hub is the surprising detail that Abderrahmane Sissako is preparing to shoot a film there, after deciding not to do it in China because of all the restrictions he would've faced.
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Maybe I'm too old-school but I'd find the Jones biopic more promisingly written if it was by the Anna Karenina and War & Peace scribe. The original scribe, that is.
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In all seriousness, I am excited to see Leo play the cult leader- especially given his best performance is still the manifestation of mad charisma in Wolf of Wall Street
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A24 and HBO to develop cult TV series The Idol that also functions as a who's who of people in mini-major film now: the series, created (and perhaps co-written) by Sam Levinson and directed by Amy Seimetz, will star rapper The Weeknd, Lily-Rose Depp, and Red Rocket's Suzanna Son.
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I'm overstimulated right now, the entertainment industry is making too many perfect choices so close togetherNever Cursed wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 6:13 pmA24 and HBO...Sam Levinson... Amy Seimetz... Suzanna Son
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Vincent Gallo is back... in a D.J. Caruso film produced by the Daily Wire
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Tom Holland to play Fred Astaire in upcoming biopic
Wasn't Fred Astaire famously adamant against having his life portrayed on film, to the point of putting a clause in his will stipulating this wish?
Edit: A quick trip to Wikipedia confirms exactly this, but I wonder if the project will encounter any red tape around it..
Wasn't Fred Astaire famously adamant against having his life portrayed on film, to the point of putting a clause in his will stipulating this wish?
Edit: A quick trip to Wikipedia confirms exactly this, but I wonder if the project will encounter any red tape around it..
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There's a rider though for backsies if they can manage to wrangle the third actor to portray Spider-man
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A provision like that isn't enforceable. California law does allow a celebrity's "right of publicity" to be passed down to their heirs for 70 years after their death, but that only applies to purely commercial ventures like merchandising or endorsements (e.g. the vacuum cleaner commercial that Astaire's widow signed off on in the '90s, over the objections of his daughter). Blocking someone from producing a film (or book or TV series, etc.) based on the publicly-known facts of a person's life would violate the First Amendment unless it were judged defamatory, which is irrelevant for deceased subjects since under U.S. law that only applies to living persons. Astaire's estate could tie it up with a lawsuit but it would ultimately go against them.
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And as usual, it's one of two competing biopic projects, the other starring another former Billy Elliot, Jamie Bell (with Margaret Qualley as Ginger Rogers‽)
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For the very reasons I dislike all of his films - style over substance, shallow attempts at thematic or character weight, etc. - I can't think of a better director for this book. The book is entirely, literally, about an empty shell (the arriving spacecraft) so if he continues on course, the result could almost be a truly avant-garde SF film, something akin to Robbe-Grillet or Antonioni's "surface" films. If he's smart, he'll avoid the unnecessary addition of plot contrivance or motivation, and refrain from casting any strong personalities, opting instead for simple observation of space and the movement of bodies. I don't know much about modern video games, but the book seems very much a forerunner of games I've read about where all you do is explore a world - no conflict, no other characters, etc.flyonthewall2983 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:37 pmDenis Villeneuve to helm adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous With Rama
I remember when Fincher was attached, and am now glad he never made the film; this director seems a smarter choice.
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They actually did make a video game of it back in the day, tho' it was a Myst-style point-and-click, solve-difficult-logical-puzzles type thing. Not quite open world, but close-ish.
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Christopher Landon's next feature will be We Have a Ghost, starring Jennifer Coolidge, David Harbour, Anthony Mackie, Tom Bower, and Tig Notaro, adapted from a Vice short story with the following synopsis per IMDb:
A man claims to have befriended a mostly harmless ghost who bears a likeness to the actor Ernest Borgnine and becomes famous on the Internet.
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A rundown by David Hudson for the Criterion Daily of films to look forward to in 2022.
Buried in there is that the producer of Baumbach's White Noise has also bought the film rights to DeLillo's Underworld...
Buried in there is that the producer of Baumbach's White Noise has also bought the film rights to DeLillo's Underworld...
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Well, that's my favorite novel, period, but... I don't know if I want to see that. Maybe a miniseries, though the strengths are in the prose and internal existential thoughts vs. actions. White Noise is a much better book to adapt.senseabove wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:10 pmBuried in there is that the producer of Baumbach's White Noise has also bought the film rights to DeLillo's Underworld...