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Trade Roughage 1/24/08

By Christopher Campbell posted 1 year ago

With the fate of Heath Ledger’s final projects up in the air, Variety takes a look at some past films that were effected by the sudden deaths of their respective stars. Would Shrek have been as popular with Chris Farley as the voice of the titular ogre? Would Interview With the Vampire be better with River Phoenix? Should Jane Harlow’s final film, Saratoga, have been scrapped?
WGA reps and studio execs enter a second day of informal talks today, which should be more exciting that it feels to me. Maybe it’s because I just read this detail of how badly the writer’s strike is effecting the economy, and now my head hurts.
After confirming that Tony Gilroy had directed him to a second Oscar nomination, Tom Wilkinson has decided to reunite with the Michael Clayton director for the pharmaceutical company drama Duplicity. He is joined by Billy Bob Thornton and joins Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.
Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida are now considered a “husband-and-wife team” for writing an original screenplay that Oscar-winner Sam Mendes will direct as a low-budget comedy. Currently untitled, the movie will be about a young couple trying to decide where in the U.S. is best to raise a child. It could be a very short film if the couple just reads the latest issue of Fit Pregnancy magazine.

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Count on The Hater to find a movie-centric angle to this whole Britney’s pregnant sister thing, and as with a good 50% of the time wasters in the film blogosphere these days, it has something to do with Juno. A side-by-side comparison reveals that Jamie-Lynn Spears’ teen pregnancy seems to be somewhat less loveably quirky than that of a certain fictional character. Consider the contrasting fathers to be: “Juno: Quiet, shy high-schooler who loves running track and orange tic-tacs. Aptly played by Michael Cera. Jamie-Lynn Spears: Quiet (at least in Ok!) college student who loves statutory rape. Adequately played by Some Dude.”
This week marks the 10 year anniversaries of both the death of Chris Farley, and the release of Titanic. Whitney Matheson memorializes the former, Ryan Stewart wonders if/why the former merits memorializing at all.
At The Circuit, Mike Jones has a suggestion for Sundance’s “woefully attended” New Frontier program.
Is Rob Zombie turning the fake trailer he made for Grindhouse into a feature, or is he just playfully asking his blog readers what they want for Christmas?