Hancock made a bunch of money on Tuesday. Yay, Will Smith IS America!
All together now, in our best Werner Herzog voice: “Don’t call it a reeeemaaaaake!” But whatever it is, Val Kilmer and Xzibit have joined the cast of Bad Lieutenant.
Timothy M. Gray’s midyear assessment of the Oscar race finds a lot of ways to [...]
Also, he may or may not be remaking THE SEARCHERS, possibly as some kind of revenge.
Twitch has linked to a Spanish-language interview with Nacho Vigalondos, in which the Timecrimes director says David Cronenberg is in the running to direct the English-language remake of his time travel film–-that is, since Mario Bava is not available. Vigalondos also says Timothy J. Sexton, one of the writers of Children of Men, is writing [...]
Plus: A Tribeca favorite gets a remake, and the new Terminator hopes to bait children.
Quentin Tarantino will give the Cinema Master Class lecture at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
A new New York State budget makes room for a tripling of film production tax incentives, designed to stop the flow of productions running away to nearby states like Connecticut.
The remake of Prom Night is expected to narrowly beat out Street [...]
Plus: The future, as imagined in the mid-80s, is already here.
January 19, 2008 – 2:35 pm
We’ve made several updates to our Sundance 2008 Deal chart over the past 24 hours. The most significant news is that the Weinsteins have acquired the doc Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired for theatrical distribution in every territory *except* for the U.S. and Canada. I saw the film this morning and will have more to [...]
A look at the controversial film that cost a Dutch filmmaker his life–and indirectly led to Sienna Miller getting a job.
