Locarno, Conan and Combs: Trade Roughage 08/13/07

By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago

The lineup boasted a wealth of warmed-over Hollywood pics (1408, Planet Terror), but the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival went this weekend to Masahiro Kobayashi’s controversial drama, The Rebirth. The Hollywood Reporter’s Eric J. Lyman called the film “cerebral and weighty … one of the most talked about films of the festival, but it was not without its detractors, who were turned off by the film’s deliberately repetitive construction.”
Millennium Films, the company that’s currently working on bringing the Rambo series back from the dead, will next concentrate on resurrecting the Conan series. They’re planning “multiple pictures”, the first of which will go into production next spring.
Sean P. Combs Esq. has signed on to exec produce that Biggie Smalls biopic.
Ever hear of Movie Gallery? Yeah, that’s part of the problem. The long-shot competitor to Netflix and Blockbuster says it still hopes to launch DVD-by-mail and video-on-demand services within the next six months, despite admitting “substantial doubt as to our ability to continue” operating.

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