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Iron Man is a Valuable Search Term: Trade Roughage 05/06/08

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Iron Man 2 has a release date! Also, as hinted in the first film’s post-credits scene, and Avengers film is in the works, set to team up Robert Downey Jr’s character with the Incredible Hulk (Edward Norton’s Hulk? Let’s see how much money it makes!), Captain America and Thor.
Rapper Common has been cast as “a freedom fighter and member of [John] Connor’s inner circle” in that new Terminator sequel where Christian Bale plays a grown-up John Connor.
It Might Get Loud, a documentary about the history of the electric guitar directed by Davis Guggenheim (the director/producer of An Inconvenient Truth) and featuring appearances from Jack White and Jimmy Page, will make its debut in the market at Cannes.
Milos Forman and Arthur Penn are among a group of major directors who have protested the newly-elected mayor of Rome’s proposal to shut Hollywood films and stars out of the budding Rome Film Festival.

By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago

While Tom Cruise continued to abstain from publicizing his own politics on the Lions For Lambs press tour, the film’s director and co-star Robert Redford “lash[ed] out against the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq” at a press conference in Rome yesterday. “We have lost lives, we’ve lost sacred freedoms, we’ve lost financial stability; we’ve lost our position of respect on the world stage,” said the sometime Sundance Kid.
“The world’s first user-generated movie” begins shooting this week in London. MySpace users picked the director and some of the stars; Ewan Bremner’s in it, too. Be very afraid.
I’m not sure exactly what “two-way plug-and-play technology” entails, but the MPAA thinks it puts their copyrights at risk, and they want the FCC to ban consumer electronics manufacturers from making and selling it.

By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago

16 films are set to world premiere at the Rome Film Festival, including Francis Ford Coppola’s aforementioned Youth Without Youth, and Noise, a comedy starring Tim Robbins. Also noteworthy: the Tom Cruise/Robert Redford vehicle Lions for Lambs will play Rome first, thus scooping AFI.
Speaking of Coppola, the filmmaker’s office in Buenos Aires was burglarized this week. The perps allegedly “subdued a collaborator of the filmmaker and stole a camera and computers,” one of which contained the script for Coppola’s next planned project, which was set to be shot Buenos Aires with Matt Dillon in the lead.
The Mill Valley Film Festival will host the U.S. premieres of Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream and Things We Lost in the Fire, as well as a number of special events, including a performance of Shostakovich’s original score by the Marin Symphony alongside a screening of Battleship Potemkin; and a concert of Bob Dylan covers following a screening of Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There. The musicians for the latter event have not yet been announced, but I’d put money on an appearance from Pavement vet Stephen Malkmus, who ghost-sang for Cate Blanchett in the movie.

By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago

The Rome Film Festival is shaping up to be quite the Coppola family reunion. Francis Ford has long been scheduled to unveil his long-awaited Youth Without Youth at the event; now Variety reports that his wife, Eleanor Coppola, will debut a new documentary there, a follow-up to Hearts of Darkness called Coda: Thirty Years Later. With mom and dad already on the bill, fest organizers are apparently “hope to get the whole Coppola family, including children Sofia and Roman, onstage” as well.
IFC First Take has acquired two, semi-high-profile projects: Savage Grace, starring Julianne Moore; and Finishing the Game, a “Bruce Lee mocumentary” by Better Luck Tomorrow director Justin Lin. “Because each film sports bankable actors,” writes The Hollywood Reporter’s Gregg Goldstein, “IFC might test whether exhibitors resistant to day-and-date releases will book films also available on VOD.”
10,000 famous actresses have joined the remake of The Women, which is apparently shooting already in Boston.
Vague “schedule” problems have led Disney to postpone the production and release of their third Narnia movie. Luckily, something called G-Force was standing on the sidelines, waiting to take over the May 1, 2009 release date.