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 [...]
December 12, 2007 – 11:26 am
If Southland Tales is to survive its Cannes drubbing and crap box office to become the cult classic that it has the potential to be, it will be thanks to two primary factors: in-depth, after-the-fact considerations of the film’s power to seduce even those who want to resist its sloppiness and vulgarity, like this one [...]
November 16, 2007 – 8:14 am
Here’s a look at the notable films opening this week that we’ve previously covered here on SpoutBlog:
Redacted: Bill O’Reilly can finally get a look at the film he’s sight-unseen been threatening to boycott, while Magnolia finally gets to put that whole all-press-is-good-press maxim to the test. Here’s my review from Telluride; for a recap on [...]
November 13, 2007 – 3:52 pm
Richard Kelly’s disasterpiece isn’t a film for his fans––it’s an attack on them.
September 24, 2007 – 4:42 am
16 months after SOUTHLAND TALES was brutally rejected by the bulk of the world’s film critics at Cannes, Richard Kelly drops his wayward opus on Austin’s assembled fanboys.
September 20, 2007 – 2:51 pm
Wow — I guess this means they’re really going to release it (see previous coverage of the drama surrounding Southland Tales’ wavering release date here, here and here). I’m a little wary of the Mystical Female Asian Character, but we’ll see.
September 17, 2007 – 4:53 am
Plus: Another batch of YouTubers are called up to the majors.
Brian Lowry has a favorable review of The Simpsons Movie: “Put simply, if somebody had to make a Simpsons movie, this is pretty much what it should be — clever, irreverent, satirical and outfitted with a larger-than-22-minutes plot, capable (just barely) of sustaining a narrative roughly four times the length of a standard episode.”
Variety [...]
It’s the news Richard Kelly geeks have been waiting 15 months for: Southland Tales, the long-awaited film from the Donnie Darko auteur, has been given a release date. According to indieWIRE, Sony, Destination Films and Samuel Goldwyn are partnering to put the film in U.S. theaters on November 9th. November and December are usually reserved [...]
Bunnies on bikes. We likes.
