...but nothing has been posted here for a while (due to tyrannical essays). The best measure to counteract this? Copy and paste from pre-existing news items and pass it off as one's own...
(all text in bold is quoted directly from source)
ARONOFSKY’S NEXT FILM NEWS
Darren Aronofsky’s next film, THE BLACK SWAN now has the announced cast of Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey and Vincent Cassel.
“Portman and Kunis are rival ballerinas vying for the same spot, a vacancy left by Ryder's character as the Swan Queen in Swan Lake. What moves this into the crazy Aronofsky category is that Kunis may or may not be a figment of Portman's imagination. Hershey would play Portman's mother and Cassel would be the "sinister" director of the ballet.”
Source: Ain’t It Cool News
DAVID BOWIE’S SON’S NEXT FILM NEWS
Summit will be producing Duncan Jones’ next film, called SOURCE CODE. Apparently this script has been doing the rounds for a while and a lot of people are impressed with it. Jones’ previous film, Moon, was his own script so this would be a departure in that respect (I don’t know if a one film trend an auteur make). Personally I didn’t like Moon. I thought it was predictable and obvious (in that sort of way where it pretends it isn’t predictable and obvious). In its defence, however, the film looked beautifully retro and I did watch it immediately after Antichrist.
Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to star. The one-liner is “a soldier wakes up in the body of a commuter who must solve the mystery of a train explosion”
Source: Ain’t It Cool News
SGT. ROCK NEWS
I Am Legend and Constantine director, Francis Lawrence, and screenwriter, Chad St. John, have been brought on to finally make real Joel Silver’s long standing obsession to make a Sgt. Rock film. Guy Ritchie had a stab at it a while back but he is now working on LOBO (another Silver produced, comic book adaptation).
The new found life in the project is due to Warner Brothers seeing the success of INGLORIOUS BASTERDS and the forthcoming Captain America film (both WWII set).
Source: Empire
THE DISNEY SHUFFLE
“In the biggest executive departure since the arrival of Rich Ross as chairman, Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group president Mark Zoradi has exited his post.
Zoradi, a 29-year Disney veteran, oversaw global marketing for the entire theatrical slate and was one of the most powerful studio executives in the field. His tenure delivered numerous $1bn-plus domestic and overseas years including an extraordinary run of 12 consecutive $1bn years at the box office during his time as president of Buena Vista International (BVI).
He was a close friend of ousted chairman Dick Cook. Ross now gets to appoint his own choice to the role after recently announcing the departure of Miramax Films president Daniel Battsek
Zoradi assumed the post of president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group in July 2006 after having led the studio’s international distribution and marketing arm formerly known as BVI for 14 years.
He joined the Disney fold in 1980 as marketing manager for Walt Disney Home Video during the beginning of the home entertainment boom, eventually moving into television as marketing director for the Disney Channel.
In 1985 he entered the feature business as director of sales for Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. He was named vice-president and general manager of Buena Vista Television and from 1987 to 1992 led the rapid growth of this business unit and was responsible for ad sales, finance, administration and operations.
In 1992 Zoradi set up the stand-alone BVI, generating $16.8bn from 1995-2006.
Source: Direct quote from Screen Online
OLDBOY REMAKE
To the dismay of many of my peers, I had never seen OLDBOY until a month ago. My reluctance was foolishly because it was so recommended. It did, however, astound me. So as I am usually for remakes, sequels, etc, the prospect of Will Smith and Steven Spielberg adapting OLDBOY for an American audience excited me dearly – especially as they were to adapt it from the source text (Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya's manga) as opposed to Park Chan-wook's 2003 film.
Unfortunately (or maybe, fortunately purely on the fucking fanboy backlash that it would provoke) the project has fallen through. Although some will see this as a success – “Hooray, now we can keep OLDBOY to a niche instead of it being Americanised and thus never find as larger audience as it could (an audience that would hopefully then be encouraged to look into the Korean cinema that birthed it)”, more alarmingly is that a studio, Mandate and Dreamworks, could not reach an agreement with Will Smith and Steven Spielberg. The recession climate renders even those two names unbankable.
Source: Ain’t It Cool News
WILL SMITH WILL EVENTUALLY BEAT YOU. ALWAYS.
Will Smith is set to star in a film adaptation of Daniel Keyes' novel Flowers For Algernon. I remember this book fondly from my Year 9 English days. It seems to be standard Seven Pounds and Pursuit of Happyness Oscar fodder that Smith seems to churn out yearly. Indeed, “Cliff Robertson when he took home the Oscar for the 1968 version Charly.”
Produced “at Sony by Smith's own production company Overbrook Entertainment”, I’m sure Smith will have a lot of say in the process. Tracy Nyberg (I Am Legend and Hancock) is to produce.
Source: Empire
BEGBIE THREATENS BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY
“Trainspotting actor urges cinema chains to give 'a wee leg up' to the British film industry
Actor Robert Carlyle has called on cinema chains to "give a leg up" to the British film industry by reserving at least one screen in multiplexes to show UK productions.
Speaking at the Bafta Scotland awards in Glasgow on Sunday, the Trainspotting and Full Monty actor said, "I look at all these multiplex cinemas, 15 and 20 screens. They are basically wall-to-wall American product. You will be lucky if you find any British subject in there at all.
"I don't see why there's anything wrong in giving our industry a wee lift up, a wee leg up, and reserving one of these screens, just one of these screens for a British product.
"We make stuff and we bury it. You don't get to see it and what's the point in that? Reserve something so people will then vote with their feet."
Carlyle, who can currently be seen in SGU: Stargate Universe on Sky1, was in his home town to pick up the Scottish Bafta award for best television actor for his performance in Samantha Morton's The Unloved, beating Doctor Who's David Tennant to the prize.
He added that he was unlikely to shoot a film in Britain in the near future due to problems getting movies made and distributed.
He said: "I'm not going to be hanging about making films in Britain for quite a wee while, to be honest with you.
"The major problem for me is it's getting harder and harder to make these types of films, more and more difficult to get the finance."”
Source: Direct quote from Guardian Film
YOUR MOBILE PHONE MAY NOT RUIN THIS FILM
Orange, the France Telecom-owned mobile operator, has signed a deal with number of French film bodies to invest $120.2m (€80m) over the next three years in French and European cinema.
The deal has been signed with the Bureau de Liaison des Industries Cinematopgraphiques (BLIC), Bureau de Liaison des Organisations du Cinema (BLOC) and ARP, which covers producers, directors, distributors and exhibitors in France.
Orange Cinema Series (OCS) will invest the cash through its pay-TV service Orange Cinema Series and about 60% of that will be committed to pre-buying French films and the rest invested in film co-productions.
It has also committed to spending 25% of the budget to acquiring French-language films with a budget of $8m (€5.35m) or less, and it will also support film distribution and exhibition, specifically promoting digital.
Orange has also committed to compensating rights holders for the use of content on the interactive features of the Cinema Series service, such as catch-up TV.
The mobile operator and content provider has been increasingly investing in film over recent years through its production arm, Studio 37. It works with a series of independent producers and has co-produced films includingm Riad Sattouf’s first film Les Beaux Gosses.
OSC, launched last November, is available on TV, PC and mobile phone. It offers programmes and a large selection of films on a five dedicated channels.”
Source: Direct quote from Screen Online
MONOPOLY? YOU WANT TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT…MONOPOLY?
Following David Fincher’s next film on Facebook, Sir Ridley Scott is to base a film on a similarly ludicrous source, Monopoly. However, both very talented directors. It’s just…Monopoly?
Producer Frank Beddor, has shed some light on the subject to the LA Times.
"I took the approach of thinking of the main character falling down the rabbit hole into a place called Monopoly City," he says. The main character is envisaged as a dorky Manhattan real-estate agent who's also an obsessive Monopoly player. A magic chance card transports him to the city where Monopoly money is currency, and where the evil Parker Brothers (what, not the Waddingtons?) must be defeated.
"It tries to incorporate all the iconic imageries -- a sports car pulls up, there's someone on a horse, someone pushing a wheelbarrow," says Beddor, also mentioning recurring sight-gags with Uncle Pennybags (the guy on the box) showing up in different guises.”
Pamela Pettner (CORPSE BRIDE, MONSTER HOUSE, 9) is to write the screenplay
Source: Empire
THE LION’S WHIMPER
“The studio with the famous lion logo and library of James Bond films appears to be headed for the auction block to recoup some $3.7bn in debt
The MGM lion, a star of cinema since the 1920s, may be looking for a new home amid rumours that the studio is to be sold off in the Hollywood equivalent of a fire sale. Reportedly saddled with debts totalling $3.7bn (£2.2bn), the company looks likely to sell its MGM and United Artists libraries to the highest bidder in the next few weeks.
Variety suggests that the studio's film archive, which includes the lucrative James Bond adventures, may be snapped up by a major company such as Time-Warner. The famous logo featuring Leo the lion could well be auctioned off separately. Either way, it appears that the heyday of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is officially over.
Founded in 1924, MGM operated under the motto "Ars Gratia Artis", a Latin phrase meaning "art for art's sake". The company enjoyed a long and profitable heyday thanks to the success of films such as The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind and Singin' in the Rain. It scored what was arguably its biggest hit in 1959 with the Oscar-winning Ben Hur.
In recent years, however, the company's output has dwindled and it has become increasingly reliant on money generated by the 007 franchise. MGM has released only three pictures in 2009: The Pink Panther 2 and the remakes Fame and The Taking of Pelham 123. All of these were co-productions with other studios.”
Source: direct quote from Screen Online
HOORAY FOR SCORSESE, AGAIN.
Martin Scorsese will receive the Cecil B DeMille Award for his “outstanding contribution to the entertainment field” at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 17, 2010.
The award, voted by the board of directors of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was announced by Vera Farmiga at a press conference this morning [12].
The show, hosted by Ricky Gervais, will be broadcast live coast-to-coast from The Beverly Hilton.
Scorsese received two best director Golden Globes for The Departed and Gangs Of New York. He earned five additional Golden Globe nominations, including four as best director (Casino, Age Of Innocence, Goodfellas, and Raging Bull) and one for best screenplay for Raging Bull with Nicolas Pileggi.
Steven Spielberg won the Cecil B DeMille award last year and previous winners include Warren Beatty, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Williams and Michael Douglas.
Scorsese is the founder and chair of The Film Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and protection of motion picture history.
Nominations for The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards will be announced on December 15.”
Source: Direct quote from Screen Online
*all text in bold is quoted directly from source.
Trailers I Procrastinated With This Week...
UP n the Air
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/upintheair/medium_co-pilot.html
Clash of the Titans
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43026
Kick-Ass
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43027
-the ‘superhero’ Red Mist has the best power ever seen. A gun.
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