'Greta' Review: Isabelle Huppert Goes Nuts In Neil Jordan's Wacky Thriller
Neil Jordan's Greta is a wacky but entertaining thriller that's part Fatal Attraction and part Mommy Dearest.
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TV Bits: 'Dexter', 'Boardwalk Empire', 'Downton Abbey', 'The Borgias', 'The IT Crowd', Larry David
Look how excited Masuka is about the impending return of Dexter. After the jump: HBO sets Boardwalk Empire and Hello Ladies premiere dates Bobby Cannavale joins Martin Scorsese's HBO pilot Michelle Fairley (a.k.a. Catelyn Stark) heads to Suits Dan Stevens is sorry about that Downton Abbey stuff The IT Crowd crowd is back at work for one…
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'Byzantium' Trailer: What Horror, To Be Sixteen Forever
Byzantium may be the year's ultimate horror movie, because it is about a girl who is sixteen years old forever, and I can't think of many things more horrible than spending eternity in that transitional phase. Saoirse Ronan plays a woman who appears to be young, but in fact is a vampire, and has been…
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'Byzantium' Trailer: Gemma Arterton And Saoirse Ronan, Stained With Blood
If you're attracted to the idea of a fable-like vampire tale but don't want to forego big splashes of blood and big, baroque emotional arcs, then Neil Jordan's Byzantium might be one to see. The film features Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as mother and daughter, with the twist being that they share vampiric blood.…
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Casting Bits: Alexandra Maria Lara In 'Rush;' Cody Horn In 'Magic Mike;' Caleb Landry Jones In 'Byzantium'
I'd like to make this the 'leading lady' edition of Casting Bits, but I don't think Caleb Landry Jones would like that very much. (Jason Segel would probably be OK with it.) Still, after the break you'll find that two films have chosen their lead actresses, while Jones joins Jordan. Ahem. To wit: Alexandra Maria…
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Neil Jordan Will Direct Saoirse Ronan And Gemma Arterton In Vampire Story 'Byzantium'
Is Saoirse Ronan the latest young talent to be cloned so that she can be attached to many projects at once? That appears to be the case. She's already scheduled for The Host, may be in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina and Emma Thompson's Effie, and the latest is a film called Byzantium, a 'mother-daughter' vampire…
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TV Trailer: Jeremy Irons In Neil Jordan's Showtime Series 'The Borgias'
Power! Sex! Decadence! That's the promise of Showtime's new series The Borgias. The show seems to act as a spiritual successor to The Tudors, but ups the ante by casting Jeremy Irons as the infamous Cardinal Borgia, who became Pope Alexander IV in 1492. And Neil Jordan acts as exec producer and directs the first…
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Neil Jordan To Direct 'Skippy Dies'
Paul Murray's novel Skippy Dies is "a sprawling boarding school comedy with a dark heart," according to the Guardian, which reviewed the novel when it was published in the UK earlier this year. (The paper also called the book " one of the most enjoy able, funny and moving reads of this young new year.")…
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Chris Columbus Enables Neil Jordan's Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman's 'The Graveyard Book'
In October of 2008 we heard from Neil Gaiman that a film was in development based on his novel The Graveyard Book. A few months later, Gaiman revealed that Neil Jordan would write and direct. And that, for the most part, is all we've known about the project. Now a report on the slate of…
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Movie Trailer: Neil Jordan's Ondine
Magnolia Pictures has released the official movie trailer for Neil Jordan's Ondine The dramatic fantasy story stars Colin Farrell as an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net who he believes to be a mermaid. Farrell's current girlfriend and actress Alicja Bachleda plays the suspected mermaid. The film premiered at the 2009…
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Neil Jordan And Jeremy Irons Team Up For Showtime's The Borgias
Showtime is going to make Neil Jordan's dreams come true. The filmmaker has toyed with projects involving the history of Renaissance family the Borgias for some time, and now Showtime has ordered a series for which Jordan will be executive producer. The Borgias will star Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia, and Jordan will direct the…
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Neil Gaiman Announces Graveyard Book Film By Neil Jordan
Neil Gaiman appeared on this morning's Today Show to discuss Coraline, as well as his newly Newberry winning The Graveyard Book. Shortly before he went on air, Gaiman twittered that he had been given the go ahead to reveal who was set to write and direct a big screen adaptation of The Graveyard Book and…
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The Brave One Movie Poster
Warner Bros has sent us the new theatrical poster for The Brave One, the new Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) film which stars Jodie Foster, Naveen Andrews, Terrence Howard and Mary Steenburgen. Earlier this month we showed you the film's trailer, which got our attention. Click on the poster to the right to see it…
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Stephen King's Son Goes To The Movies
A couple weeks ago I was browsing through a book store with a friend when we came across Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box. The name and cover was enough to catch my eye. But not enough to get me to buy it. The independent book store had a small printed author biography that revealed Hill as…
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