Winter is slowly but surely inching to an end, so let's look ahead to what the next season has in store for us. The next few months promise to be an interesting one for indie releases, as both Spring Breakers and Zal Batmanglij's The East are slated to open. Further down the road, The Weinsteins are getting into…
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Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling made huge names for themselves at Sundance a couple years back with the release of his low budget sci-fi thriller Sound of My Voice. I loved the film, and while it got a small release by Fox Searchlight, not many people saw it in theaters (the horrible title probably didn't…
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The Sundance Film Festival has treated Brit Marling exceptionally well over the past few years. She was the big breakout story of the 2011 event, with the one-two punch of Mike Cahill's Another Earth and Zal Batmanglij's The Sound of My Voice, and she got to return in 2012 with Nicholas Jarecki's Arbitrage. This year,…
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While the competition and spotlight films at Sundance are usually where the best of the fest reside, the big names are in the premiere categories. 2013 is no exception. Among the highly anticipated films that will premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival are the Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs biopic jOBS; Richard Linklater's trilogy-closing love story Before…
Read MoreNicole Kidman's Blossom Films and Olympus Films have teamed up to acquire the movie rights for Kevin Wilson's bestselling book The Family Fang, which they plan to develop as a starring vehicle for Kidman. The two companies previously collaborated on Rabbit Hole, for which Kidman received a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Wilson's debut novel centers…
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The more people get cast in Zal Batmanglij's The East, the more interesting it sounds. The latest addition is the always excellent Patricia Clarkson, who'll play the boss of co-writer and star Brit Marling. The thriller revolves around an agent (Marling) from a private security firm who is tasked with infiltrating a terrorist group called The…
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M.C. Gainey, a.k.a. Mr. Friendly on Lost, has entered negotiations to star in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained as what sounds like one of the nastiest characters in a film filled with vile characters. Gainey is up for the part of Big John Brittle, an overseer at the Carrucan Plantation who sets the plot in motion…
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Ellen Page is in final negotiations to star with Brit Marling and Alexander Skarsgard in The East, Zal Batmanglij's thriller about a mysterious eco-terrorism organization called The East. Marling, who co-wrote the script with Batmanglij, leads as an undercover agent who infiltrates the group but then finds herself developing feelings for the group's leader (Skarsgard).…
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From Generation Kill through to True Blood, Alexander Skarsgård's profile has been rising quickly. He was a fan favorite choice to play Thor, and though that didn't happen -- and Chris Hemsworth acquitted himself pretty well in the role, making his own career in the process -- Skarsgård isn't hurting for work. He's already shot…
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Two actresses broke out of this year's Sundance Film Festival in a big way: Elizabeth Olsen (thanks to Martha Marcy May Marlene and Silent House) and Brit Marling, who starred in and co-wrote Another Earth and The Sound of My Voice. Elizabeth Olsen has four films in various stages of completion (Red Lights; Peace, Love,…
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The buzz surrounding indie screenwriter/actress Brit Marling has been all but deafening coming out of this year's Sundance and SXSW festivals. Marling co-wrote and starred in two films that earned rave reviews at both festivals -- the sci-fi romance Another Earth, directed by Mike Cahill, and the dramatic thriller Sound of My Voice, directed by Zal…
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