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New French Trailer For Inglourious Basterds Is Far, Far Better Than The US Versions
Posted on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 by Brendon Connelly
The latest trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is streets ahead of the two US edits. It’s faster, it’s funner, it’s flashier… but it’s still not really representative of the film. In fact, you might even consider it the greatest misrepresentation yet. You can see it embedded after the break.
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An Inglourious Basterds Prequel Is More Likely Than We Thought
Posted on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 by Russ Fischer
A couple months ago, Quentin Tarantino told the New York Times that he had a half-written prequel to Inglourious Basterds that he’d like to make if the first does well. This didn’t come as much of a surprise; if there’s one thing Tarantino likes to do, it’s mention follow-up projects to whatever he’s currently promoting. Additional Kill Bill stories and anime, the Vega Brothers movie and other projects have all been QT-touted vaporware over the years. Then again, Inglourious Basterds was vaporware for a decade, too, and now it exists. So who the hell am I to say? Why you might actually see a prequel/sequel to Basterds, after the jump. Read More »
Update From Editor Peter Sciretta: The full second movie trailer for Inglourious Basterds has been released, and is included after the jump.
Entertainment Tonight has premiered some new footage from Inglourious Basterds - seemingly from an upcoming, full length trailer - and in their typical style, spouted banalities all over half of it. On the upside, they didn’t talk all over the other half. You can see the clip embedded after the break where I will also be stepping into something a little like spoiler territory beneath the video. That’s your warning.
New International Poster For Inglourious Basterds
Posted on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 by Russ Fischer
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds already has a handful of great domestic one-sheets, but now it has an international (Italian, to be exact) poster that is strives to keep with the images used to sell movies that inspired Tarantino to make his new war picture. Premiered on BadTaste.it, the image combines character portraits with a smear of blood, and continues to suggest that this is just a big fun Tarantino war movie. Which, of course, it isn’t. But hey, close enough. Read More »
/Filmcast Ep. 55 - The Taking of Pelham 123 (GUEST: Alex Albrecht from Diggnation and the Totally Rad Show)
Posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 by David Chen
In this episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley, discuss the mainstream appeal of Shutter Island, try and fail to get excited about Marcus Nispel (the newly minted director of Conan), and wonder about the possibilities of lost subplots in Pixar’s Up. Special guest Alex Albrecht joins us this evening from Diggnation and The Totally Rad Show.
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Is Harvey Weinstein Asking Tarantino To Cut 40 Minutes From Inglourious Basterds?
Posted on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 by Russ Fischer
Forcing a filmmaker to submit to editorial oversight can be a good thing, but when the Big Brother hanging over your Avid is Harvey Weinstein? Things can get ugly. We knew that Quentin Tarantino was making some cuts and changes to Inglourious Basterds in the wake of the film’s Cannes Premiere, tightening that 2 hour 27 minute cut and even adding a scene or two. But Sharon Waxman at The Wrap claims that The Weinstein Company wants Tarantino to cut a massive 40 minutes. Is this an artistic move to strengthen the film or a desperate bid to squeeze more cash out of the film in August by keeping the running time down? With The Weinstein Company having massive cash problems, what do you think? Read More »
Quentin Tarantino And Brad Pitt To Adapt Swedish Book Trilogy?
Posted on Monday, June 8th, 2009 by Russ Fischer
Now that Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt have Inglourious Basterds more or less behind them (Tarantino has test-screened the film in the US and is making additional edits now) will the pair work together again? Anne Thompson suggests that they might. She’s perpetuating a report found in the Times of London that Tarantino and Pitt are interested in the Millennium Trilogy, three hugely popular books by Swedish author Stieg Larsson.
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds premieres tonight at the Cannes Film Festival, and three clips from the film have shown up online. Watch them now after the jump.
It has been 16 years, I think, since Enzo G. Castellari’s last big screen work, but buoyed by the publicity of Quentin Tarantino stemming Inglourious Basterds from his correctly spelled original, he’s coming back in a big way. And this time, he’s going to be taking his title from Quentin.
Caribbean Basterds is being showcased at Cannes with a promo reel. According to Variety, the film “centers on a trio of young rich kids who rebel against their arms-dealing parents and also stumble across a big drug cache” and is set on a Venezuelan island - hence the title.
Out of Control Rumor: Sharon Stone to Star in Quentin Tarantino’s Weekend?
Posted on Monday, May 18th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Update #2: Our friends at The Quentin Tarantino Archives believe that the movie is being produced by A Band Apart, which has somehow been confused as a “Quentin Tarantino production”.
Update: Our friends at Production Weekly have provided us with more information about this project:
Michael Madsen & Bret Davidson were attached to direct together last year, Davidson wrote the script. Max, a retired war hero, sets to enjoy a weekend at his cabin. While riding his motorcycle on the way up he stops to give a helpful hand to a beautiful woman, Rita, whose car has broken down on the side of the road. He helps her to the nearest repair shop without knowing Rita’s current involvement with the most powerful influence in Las Vegas. Unbeknownst to him Max is soon to enter into the biggest battle for his life.
Celebrity gossip columnist Liz Smith is reporting a rumor that Sharon Stone is going to star in a movie for Quentin Tarantino titled Weekend. Supposedly the movie co-stars Jessica Biel, Lucy Liu, Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen and it will be filmed in Serbia
As Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is gearing up to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the soundtrack listing has been uploaded to the fest’s press site, giving us a preview of the songs from the film. Anyone who has ever seen a Tarantino film knows, the music that Quentin chooses is a huge part of the overall film. Check out the full listing after the jump.
10 New Photos From Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
Posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Universal Pictures International has released a batch of new photos from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourios Basterds on CineMovies (found via ThePlaylist). The new production photos take a look at some of the characters not included in the character posters we’ve been featuring over the past few weeks (as well as some of the “Basterds” we’ve seen before) and some of the location shots from the movie. Above is a photo of Til Schweiger as Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, an ex-Nazi who is recruited into the Basters unit. More photos after the jump.
