Medicine For IFC. Trade Roughage 06/19/08

By Karina Longworth posted 2 months ago

IFC has picked up Medicine for Melancholy for day-and-date distribution. It’ll be released sometime next year; in the meantime, it’ll play in competition at the impending Los Angeles Film Festival.
Paramount is getting sued by Mario Puzo’s son, based on allegations that he wasn’t paid proper royalties on a video game based on The Godfather. He’s trying to make the studio stick to contract they made with his father seven years before his death, which was in turn intended to provide reparations for Paramount having gyped him when first buying the Godfather rights.
Sienna Miller will play Maid Marion opposite Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood Sheriff in Nottingham. Sure, it’s an unnecessary retread of a beloved brand, but it should be a nice break for her after filming G.I. Joe, don’t you think?

Ryan Stewart said 2 months ago
Crowe is the Sheriff of Nottingham. (He’s the good guy in this version, with Hood being the bad guy.) They haven’t cast Hood yet.