The Weinstein Company is helping Netflix compete with pay cable channels. Today the two companies announced a deal that "will make foreign language, documentary and certain other movies from The Weinstein Company exclusively available for Netflix members in the U.S. to watch instantly." In other words, when films like Oscar frontrunner The Artist, Ralph Fiennes'…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss the mediocrity of Safe House, despair for the next generation of digital natives, offer up some thoughts on the OSS 117 films, and try to make sense of Certified Copy. Special guest Scott Mendelson joins us from Mendelson's Memos. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and…
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With his modern update of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, first-time director Ralph Fiennes earned quite the warm reception earlier this year at the Berlin film festival. Some of the most vocal adulation went to the supporting performance by Vanessa Redgrave. Indeed, even in this trailer her performance looks nuanced and impressive, with fierce notes that stand out…
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If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 40 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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Big batch of new posters today. We've got the latest in a long series of one-sheets for Tron Legacy, though this one is supposedly the last. For real. There's the first poster for David O. Russell's The Fighter, and a sales sheet for Coriolanus, which is the directorial debut of actor Ralph Fiennes. And just…
Read MoreNO PHOTO We've reported briefly on Coriolanus before -- that's Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, and an update of Shakespeare's play about a Roman general who attacked Rome after being exiled from the city. Now we've got the first images from the film, and even though an updating of a story about men of war would…
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It's casting notes time again. Alan Cumming has joined Steve Antin's Burlesque, about "an ambitious small-town girl with a big voice who finds herself at a neo-burlesque club." Christina Aguilera is the girl, Kristen Bell is the rival dancer, and Cumming is the gender-bending club MC. So this is really a failsafe in case that…
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Here's a batch of casting news to tide you over until the next Page 2. Viola Davis, always a great actress and whose appearance in Doubt nearly owns the entire film, has taken two roles. One is in It's Kind of a Funny Story, where she'll work with...Zach Galifianakis? The film is about a depressed…
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