Back in January we posted the first photos of Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s Milk. Focus Features has now released the first official production photo. Check out our previously released set photos of Emile Hirsch as gay activist Cleve Jones.
Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to any substantial [...]

Ang Lee will next direct an adaptation of writer Elliot Tiber’s memior, Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life for Focus Features, with the company’s co-president and longtime Lee collaborator, James Schamus, on board to write and produce. Like the book, Woodstock will not be the main focus of [...]

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Gus Van Sant is looking for Extras to share the screen in his upcoming Harvey Milk bio-pic Milk. On Sunday morning (beginning at 8:00am-ish), March 9th, they will be re-creating Gay Freedom Day 1978 with exact time and place to be announced. So visit MilkMarch [...]

While watching There Will Be Blood, I found that I was drawing thematic, musical and enigmatic comparisons to Jim Jarmusch’s American study Dead Man. It would make for an interesting essay. Jarmusch’s films are always unpredictable meditations and the director’s next movie, The Limits of Control, due in 2009, doesn’t look to break the mold. [...]

Jeremy Hooper sent me a link to this video footage from the Castro Street San Francisco set of Gus Van Sant’s Milk, mostly all store fronts we’ve seen before. But about 2:25 in you get to hear some of Sean Penn’s performance as Harvey Milk. Emile Hirsch also appears flaboyantly playing his character of Cleve [...]

Tonight Gus Van Sant shot with hundreds of extras in front of the newly-renovated Castro movie theater (looking more beautiful than it did in the 1970’s) for the new Sean Penn movie Milk. Click on the photo to enlarge.
There will be a bring-your-own-Candle-light March on Friday Night, February 8th, but only those who have signed [...]

Last week we posted photos of Castro Street in San Francisco, which has been retrofitted for Gus Van Sant’s Milk. Yesterday we gave you the first look at Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet. Today we bring you the [...]

Check out the first photo of Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet (according to Time Magazine). Gus Van Sant is filming the biopic in San Francisco, where parts of the Castro District have been retrofitted back to the 1970’s [...]

Gus Van Sant’s Harvey Milk bio-pic Milk is currently shooting in my hometown of San Francisco. But for some reason I’m stranded miles away in Park City. Anyway, the production designers are giving Castro street a retro make-over. The following photos shows work on some of the store fronts, which includes a new 70s psychedelic [...]

If you’ve never had the pleasure of spending five or so minutes looking for an “unstuffy, blue skies” photo of Sam Mendes, try staring at a piece of gray construction paper until your eyes glaze over. At least this new, upcoming project sounds like a nice change of pace (color?) for the director of [...]

Neil Gaiman has released a sneak peek at some early, not-quite-final footage from Coraline. Based on Gaiman’s short children’s novel of the same name, Coraline is a young bored girl who discovers that bricked-up wall behind a door in her house leads to another dimension, where she has a different mother, and different father. A [...]

A few days ago Sundance announced that In Bruges will be the opening night film of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, which begins on January 17th. IONCinema (the best place for film festival coverage on the web) has posted the trailer and poster (seen right) for this new hitman action comedy.
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I have a feeling that Bryan Singer is really pissed. He’s been attached to a biopic of famous San Francisco politician and gay rights activist for I don’t even know how many years now. Gus Van Sant announced months back that he would also be making a Harvey Milk movie, but one of the Hairspray [...]

Most men dream of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. So a movie starring both women together on the screen is something that most men should be excited about, right? The bad news is that it is a romantic period drama (a genre which is usually beloved by women and attested by men).
The Other Boleyn Girl, [...]

David Cronenberg is a director that tends to polarize audiences. Either you love him, or you hate him. I’m one of the few people who sways back and fourth depending on the film. I was a fan of his earlier films, and really ended up digging A History of Violence. And I was very excited [...]