Here's a true win-win situation. Director Steven Soderbergh, whose latest (last?) film Behind the Candelabra premieres May 26 on HBO, has taken to the web to do some good. He's launched a site called Extension 765 where you can buy original props from films like Ocean's Eleven, Ché, Traffic and Erin Brockovich with all proceeds going to…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. GAMER The ADD-infused style that suited writers/directors Neveldine/Taylor so well on the Crank films doesn't quite work to their benefit in Gamer,…
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Yesterday a tipster wrote in to Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere to say that Steven Soderbergh is going to direct a play for Cate Blanchett's theatre company in Sydney, Australia. And, indeed, on the Sydney Theatre Co website there's a small printed exchange between Blanchett and Andrew Upton, the co-creative directors for the company, announcing…
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Note: This post contains spoilers from the prior season. With the season finale of AMC's crystal-meth drama, Breaking Bad, airing this Sunday, the season premiere of Showtime's Weeds arrives right in time to [insert a tired pun for TV addiction]. Scheduled for June 8th, season five finds Mary Louise Parker's drug-dealing California mom/widow, Nancy Botwin,…
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UPDATE: 09/10/08: IFC ultimately purchased the domestic rights to Che, not Magnolia Pictures. It will run for one week in December, and then be released in January via on-demand. Word from the TIFF via the NY Post is that Steven Soderbergh's $60 million 4-hour-plus Che Guevara biopic, Che, has finally been picked up by Mark…
Read MoreA bootleg trailer for Stephen Soderbergh's two part Che Guevara biopic Che has hit the interwebs. The Benicio Del Toro film which premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in May has yet to find a domestic distributor. It certainly seems like a hard sell, especially as two films. I think I'd rather see a…
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Today, director Steven Soderbergh's four hour subtitled Che Guevera biopic, Che (presented as two films entitled The Argentine and Guerilla) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Online, critical reception is already momentously loud and divided, in a "Here we go..." way. And as you might expect, the film(s)'s questionable commercial prospects and controversial depiction…
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With the Festival de Cannes kicking off later this week, a bunch of new production photos have surfaced. First up is Steven Soderbergh's Che, a pair of films (The Argentine and Guerrilla) starring Benicio Del Toro as Argentine revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna. The running time for the two films combined is a…
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