I’d known about a long-lost Tennessee Williams script being filmed, but had basically forgotten about The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond until the gorgeous poster debuted not long ago. A Williams screenplay, a cast with a few names I like (Chris Evans and Ellen Burstyn, for example) and a period setting? OK, I figure I could give that a chance. But the first domestic trailer for the film doesn’t do it all that many favors. Indulge your curiosity after the break. Read More »
There is a story in the new print edition of Paris Match in which “The French Elvis”, Johnny Hallyday seeks to dispel recent rumours about his ill health and ease the French public’s concerns over one of their living national treasures. As well as promising we’ve far from seen the last of him yet, Hallyday goes on to tease some potential big screen appearances for the future.
Hallyday, if you don’t know, is a real pop culture icon in the French speaking world. He’s been dragging out the same farewell tour for over two years now, seemingly refusing to let the spotlight dim. He’s also appeared in a number of films both rather good (The Man on the Train), bad (Detective) and ugly (The Pink Panther 2).
The most exciting piece of Hallyday’s new interview is his claim that Quentin Tarantino is currently writing a script with a role set aside just for him. We all know how that worked out for Warren Beatty with Kill Bill, of course, and there’s a whole host of actors that I wouldn’t be in any hurry to discuss Inglourious Basterds with. But will Hallyday get what he is promised? And what will that actually be, anyway?
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Casting news will be thin until next week; Hollywood basically rolls up the sidewalks when a holiday like Thanksgiving comes around. Don’t expect much news. But we’ve got a weird note and a good one to get today going.
Woody Allen is working at a breakneck pace. There’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, his latest London-set film, which is already in post-production. He’s already thinking about his follow-up, which is said to be a romantic drama set in Paris. Back in June he met French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, and shortly after that he offered Bruni a role in his next film. Now she says she’s accepted, though in classic style for anyone taking a role in an upcoming Allen film, she doesn’t know what she’ll be playing. “He offered me a role in his next movie,” Bruni-Sarkozy told Canal Plus. “I don’t know for what character, but I said yes. I’m not an actress at all. Maybe I will be terrible. But, in my life, I cannot let such a chance go.” [Bloomberg] Read More »
With four horror pictures under his belt, Rob Zombie is starting to feel that audiences may be pigeonholing him somewhat. Though he’s currently on tour and has a new album out at the beginning of February, he’s obviously already at work on his potential next projects and is hoping to mount something to break our preconceptions of him a little.
So, to that end, he’s said once again that he’s hopeful his underground fighter film Tyrannosaurus Rex will be the next Rob Zombie joint out of the pipe and not the Blob remake he’s also already attached to. Seeing as the Blob picture has yet to be greenlit, and as far as we know might never be, he could well get his wish.
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The prospect of Richard Linklater making a third film in the Before Sunrise/ Before Sunset series is terrifying to me. The first film was a perfect piece of twenty-something romance, and through some sort of miracle, Linklater was able to craft a superior second film that sees the characters ten years later in very different places in their lives. Could they really do it a third time? Our friend Frosty from Collider recently had a sit-down with Linklater for Me and Orson Welles, and popped that very question.
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As Black Friday approaches, a bunch of really great movie deals are hitting the web. We’ll try to bring you a daily round-up of links throughout the week. The following deals are good for this week. Amazon is also doing a set of “Lightning Deals” which are only good for a specified set of hours. We have marked those hours below.
Today’s Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is the LG BD270 Blu-ray Disc Player for $99.99, 50% off the $200 msrp. The deal will only be good until midnight.
Lightning Deals:
4am - 8am PST
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army - $2.00
• The Mummy - $3.99
• The Tale of Despereaux - $5.00
8am - 12pm PST
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall - $3.99
• Fast & Furious [Blu-ray] - $9.99
• Fast & Furious - $7.99
10am - 2pm PST
• Watchmen (Nite Owl Ship Gift Set) [Blu-ray] - $49.99
12pm - 4pm PST
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - $2.00
• Horton Hears a Who - $5.00
• Baby Mama - $3.99
4pm - 8pm PST
• Appaloosa - $3.99
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno - $3.99
• A Christmas Carol- $4.99
8pm - 12am PST
• Traitor - $3.99
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry - $3.99
• Nim’s Island - $5.00
Good All Day:
Each of the listed 3-movie Blu-ray packs below is only $21.99 each. That’s basically $7.33 for each Blu-ray disc.
- Action Collection: Jumper, Transporter, Transports 2
- Action Hero Collection: The Day After Tomorrow, I, Robot, The Terminator
- Hard Action Collection: Hitman, Street Kings, Man on Fire
- War Hero Collection: Behind Enemy Lines, Patton, Rescue Dawn
- Funny Guy Collection: Napoleon Dynamite, Office Space, Young Frankenstein
- Jock Collection: Dodgeball, Hoosiers, Rocky
Advance word on James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin hasn’t been too hot, but perhaps this newly released red band trailer can change your mind. Not surprisingly, it’s blood drenched and features more gore than in previous trailers—and we also see far more extensive use of CG this time around. We’ve previously reported on footage of Rain training for the film, but with this trailer it’s hard to see any of that put to use.
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DreamWorks Animation has premiered the first photos from Shrek Forever After in Wednesday’s edition of USA Today. One of them can be seen above, the other (of Donkey), can be seen in the linked article. There are a bunch of new tidbits revealed in the article, including the story details, information of when we can expect the first trailer and new casting. We’ve rounded up all the tiny details, after the jump.
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Fox has announced the channel’s 2009-2010 midseason schedule. The highlights include:
- American Idol returns with a two-night season premiere Tuesday, January 12th and Wednesday, January 13th
- Lie to Me got picked up for a full season
- The winter finale of Fringe airs on February 4th, and the show returns April 1st (not an April Fools Day joke, we hope)
- The winter finale of Glee is December 9th, and the show returns on April 13th
- The Jackie Earle Haley comic book crime drama Human Target premieres on Sunday, January 17th.
You can read the full press release after the jump.
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Now this is truly bittersweet news to report. While in London for The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson updated the BBC on the status of Steven Spielberg’s Tintin and confirmed that filming is complete. The kicker? It’ll take about two years for the computer animation to be completed (remember this is a 3D motion-captured CG film).
I suppose we shouldn’t have expected any better when they announced that the film would be released on December 23, 2011—but I was still hoping that through some miracle we’d see the film earlier.
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