August 12, 2008 – 3:55 pm
If I was Nikki Finke, I’d start this headline with a “TOLDJA!”, but I’m too obsessed with search engine optimization for that.
So as I predicted, Steven Soderbergh’s Che, which has gone MIA since controversially premiering in a two-part, 4.5 hour cut at Cannes, has made the lineup for the Lincoln Center event. Also of note, [...]
No, probably not. But the British tabloids do know how to get our attention!
I believe this Hollywood Reporter story on the struggles faced by several American Cannes premieres to find a stateside distributor is the first notice that 2929 Entertainment has decided to give James Gray’s Two Lovers to Magnolia to distribute.
The film famously drew mixed reactions in Cannes; I gave it a thumbs up with some reservations, [...]
Oscilloscope, the fledgling distribution label spearheaded by the Beastie Boy formerly known as MCA, has picked up Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy, which premiered at Cannes to raves from some but measured praise from me. It’ll open at Film Forum on December 10. If his boys don’t try to push Michelle Williams for an Oscar [...]
Walden Media is planning a huge blitz to promote their fall Bill Murray starrer City of Ember at ComicCon. The current plan is to “re-create the mythical city depicted in the film on a private two-car train that will transport 25 members of the media on a 2½-hour journey to the convention’s San Diego locale,” [...]
The subject of today’s Friday Screen Test interview at DVD Panache is film blog hero David Hudson of GreenCine Daily. An excerpt, regarding something he learned from watching movies: “I’m going to have to be a little cryptic…I walked into the film in a state of torment, not even realizing that what was tearing me [...]
Cannes: complete coverage, plus Karina’s 5 favorites.
Sex and the City: Saving boyfriends, 5 Easy Ways To Dismiss It, is it Why They Hate Us
Also possibly about sex: War, Inc’s big opening weekend.
On FilmCouch: Bigger, Stronger, Faster (reviewed here), and gossip from Cannes.
Sydney Pollack died.
The Worst Film Ever Made is being remade.
Manhattan already has been…with Muppets.
Jean [...]
A Cannes blind item revealed. Plus: ROFLcon and Harvey Korman.
Cheating is fair, steroids are good for you, France loves Mike Tyson and the best films at Cannes weren’t in Cannes
FilmCouch #72 - Karina on Cannes, Kevin on steroids [31:03m]:
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For all the Sex and the City promotional madness and media hype, says Diane Garrett at Variety, “there’s no escaping the fact that the movie is a chick flick with strong appeal among an older femme demo but questionable interest among others. All the magazine coverage in the world — 63 pages in the May [...]
