‘Man on Wire’ Supplemented. Trade Roughage 09/03/08

By Christopher Campbell posted 3 months ago

As if I really needed a reason to see my favorite film of 2008, Man on Wire, again: beginning this Friday, the Landmark cinemas showing the documentary in L.A. and NYC will include with the film an animated short from 2005 titled The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, which features narration by Jake Gyllenhaal. Although not as appealing as a sing-a-long version (I can’t help but annoyingly hum along to Eric Satie as it is), Magnolia Pictures is hoping for a bump in family attendance.
The Fox vs. Warner Bros. trial over the rights to Watchmen has been set for January 6, and here’s hoping it’s well-covered by the appropriate stations. I’d like to be able to flip back and forth between the actual trial — on truTV — and footage of the expected comic geek protesters outside — on G4.
Get ready for unnecessarily computer-generated gorillas and African tribesmen: Stephen Sommers (The Mummy; Van Helsing) is in negotiations to direct Warner Bros.’ new Tarzan movie, from a script by Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) expected to be “an entirely new approach” to the character.
The latest children’s book series hoping for a Spielberg-directed first film is called “The 39 Clues,” and it may happen with Jeff Nathanson (Catch Me If You Can; The Terminal) adapting the initial book, called “The Maze of Bones,” for DreamWorks.

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