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‘Blindness’ - Mixed Reviews
”Blindness may well be the bleakest curtain raiser in the history of the festival, a nightmarish parable of the apocalypse, directed by the Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and just as impressive in its way as his career-making City of God.”
“Blindness is a drum-tight drama, with superb, hallucinatory images of urban collapse. It has a real […]
James Cameron’s next project is the romantic film ‘The Dive’
James Cameron has confirmed that his next project will be the romantic film The Dive.
The film, based on a true story, focuses on the relationship between free divers Francisco Ferreras and Audrey Mestre. Mestre broke several world records for holding her breath underwater but died while diving in 2002.
Cameron told that he will continue to […]
Jason Reitman directing ‘Up in the Air’
Jason Reitman will write and direct ‘Up in the Air‘, according to Latino Review.
Based on Walter Kirn’s corporate satire novel, Up in the Air centres on a career transition counselor who finds contentment in highly-pressurised airplane cabins and becomes obsessed with racking up one million frequent flier miles.
Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, Jason’s father, will executive […]
Cannes 05/16 - Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘A Christmas Tale’ and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ‘Three Monkeys’
Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘A Christmas Tale’
In the first US sale of a Competition title at Cannes, Wild Bunch has sold Arnaud Desplechin’ s A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël) to IFC.
The family drama, which screens here on Friday, stars an ensemble cast including Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Devos, Anne Consigny and Melvil […]
41 Kung Fu Pandas - Jack Black at Cannes
The animated movie Kung Fu Panda with voices of Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Angelina Jolie had its premiere yesterday at Cannes Film Festival, out of competition, of course.
Jack Black and 40 Kung Fu Pandas kicked off the Cannes Film Festival yesterday, and here’s some photos:
‘Hunger’ - Steve McQueen - Cannes 2008
‘Hunger‘ is showing at the Cannes Film Festival 2008, opening the ‘Un Certain Regard‘ category, from British director Steve McQueen, the artist who hit the headlines recently with his design for a postage stamp that replaced the Queen’s head with the faces of soldiers killed in Iraq.
Turner Prize-winnng British artist Steve McQueen makes his big-screen […]
Cannes 2008 - Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir
Playing in the Official Selection, Israeli director Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir, a documentary about the Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of 1982, is a major revelation.
Waltz with Bashir documents the struggle of the filmmaker, Ari Folman, to come to terms with the gaps in his memory surrounding the part he played […]
Daniel Craig Wants Amy Winehouse
Mark Ronson might not think Am Winehouse is good enough to record the new Bond theme but James Bond does.
007 himself, actor Daniel Craig said he was a “huge fan” of the singer and it would be “fantastic” if she sang the theme to the forthcoming Bond Film, ‘Quantum of Solace.’
Speaking to the BBC, Craig […]
Daniel Day-Lewis to sing in ‘Nine’?
Daniel Day-Lewis is in talks to follow “There Will Be Blood” with “Nine,” the Rob Marshall-directed musical for The Weinstein Co.
Day-Lewis in consideration for ‘Nine’ after Russell Crowe, George Clooney and Javier Bardem pass, as we previously announced. So, Bardem wasn’t even the first choice.
The Weinstein Company spokesman denied that a lead had been set:
“Any […]
Nicole Kidman to play Benazir Bhutto
Nicole Kidman is the latest addition to an already high-profile cast for the upcoming Benazir Bhutto biopic, ‘Ben.’
Amy Ryan, Peter Sarsgaard and Cynthia Nixon are on board to play Soviet activists.
Nora Ephron is directing the film after completing ‘Julie & Julia.’
Kidman serves as a co-producer through Blossom Films, which is known to be the only […]
‘The Incredible Hulk’ Trailer #3
The third trailer is released faster than we thought. We have the brand new trailers for ‘The Incredible Hulk‘, precisley 2 version of the same trailer. Take a look below!
Christina Ricci to play in ‘Long Time Gone’
Christina Ricci has revealed that she wants to concentrate on family films in the future.
The actress said she is tired of playing tortured souls and enjoyed the opportunity to star in her first action movie Speed Racer.
According to reports Ricci will star in Adam Davidson’s drama ‘Long Time Gone‘, alongside with Anjelica Huston, Josh Lucas […]
Leonardo DiCaprio as Ian Fleming - the James Bond creator
Leonardo DiCaprio may star as Ian Fleming in a biopic of the James Bond creator.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the actor’s production company Appian Way recently jumped on board to produce the film, based on the script Fleming by Damian Stevenson.
Producer Andrew Lazar said a film about the life of Fleming had the potential […]
‘Blindness’ Premiere - Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes film festival opens tonight with ‘Blindness‘, an apocalyptic nightmare adapted from the 1995 novel by Nobel laureate José Saramago and directed by Fernando Meirelles. The film is superbly photographed by Cesar Charlone.
In an unnamed city of the near future, a terrifying epidemic of “white blindness” - the sufferers seeing only milky white light […]
Karen Allen Interview - June Issue of ‘More’ magazine
She was the first crush of a million boys, the spunky role model for a generation of girls. As Marion Ravenwood, the game-for-anything heroine of 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, Karen Allen threw punches, drank burly men under the table and even managed to look good in a fussy white dress with a big […]
