Two films that came together under the shadow of Heath Ledger’s death are expected to be big with buyers. Also: details about Terrence Malick’s TREE OF LIFE! Sort of!
Screen Daily reports that the sequel to Donnie Darko, which begins shooting on May 18, will be looking for international buyers in the Cannes Market. Wait, back up––there’s a sequel to Donnie Darko? Yeah, and Richard Kelly, who is quietly working on a mainstream horror film in the aftermath of Southland Tales, has nothing to [...]
Twitch has a trailer for Tokyo!, the omnibus film with contributions from Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon Ho which will premiere next week at Cannes (ed. note: ahhh! I’m going to the South of France next week!). As far as trailers go, it’s not much of anything––it’s basically just footage of the [...]
Abel Ferrara and Sonic Youth, together at last in Las Vegas.
Lionsgate has moved up the release of Frank Miller’s The Spirit, from January 2009 to Christmas Day. It’s a huge, and not entirely explicable, show of confidence for the comic book movie, which will now compete against family holiday films and Oscar bait instead of having a January graveyard weekend to itself.
Ellen Page will prove [...]
Just minutes ago I was trying to figure out where to stay in L.A. during the Los Angeles Film Festival, when an email floated through informing me that the fest’s full lineup has been posted at The Circuit. The Film Independent-backed event will open with the, um, less-than independent Angelina Jolie action film Wanted; it [...]
I haven’t watched The Simpsons regularly in years, but I got a couple of text messages alerting me that last night’s episode, which follows Lisa (whose talent President Skinner assesses equates to “as if Ingmar Bergman and Penny Marshall had a baby), as she makes a documentary called Capturing the Simpsons, and then takes the [...]
The good, the bad, and the inexplicable from ten days at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues is a strange and beautiful little film, a potentially wispy slice of autobiography smartly elevated through irresistible, orgiastic style. The 82 minute feature cross cuts between the story of the director’s own divorce, and a loose retelling of the ancient Indian myth Ramayana; we’re led back and forth between [...]
Swedish vampire buzz magnet Let The Right One In took the top narrative prize at the Tribeca Film Festival last night. Shane Meadows’ Somers Town walked away with consolation acting prizes for its two young stars, and the extremely narratively confused My Marlon and Brando inexplicably won the Best New Narrative Filmmaker award. More [...]
