Tag: Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman’s FRANK OR FRANCIS Adds Elizabeth Banks and Paul Reubens
More good news on Frank or Francis!
Elizabeth Banks reunites with her 40 Year-Old Virgin co-stars Steve Carell and Catherine Keener on the musical satire of Hollywood, Charlie Kaufman’s sophomore feature.
Paul Reubens a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman has joined the cast as well.
Charlie Kaufman’s FRANK OR FRANCIS Adds Kate Winslet and Catherine Keener
Charlie Kaufman has added two big-name actresses to the celebrity market of ambitious, satiric musical Frank or Francis, which he also wrote.
Kate Winslet and Catherine Keener have received Oscar nominations for performing in films written by Kaufman – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich. Now they have been added to the already impressive cast of his musical comedy.
Black, Cage and Carell to Star in the Kaufman’s Frank or Francis
In late December 2010, some sources revealed that Charlie Kaufman would be re-teaming with long time collaborator Spike Jonze for a sophomore directorial effort. Well, that’s just-announced there seems to be some movement on that front as well. Joaquin Phoenix is secured to star and Kaufman has attached both Jack Black and Nicolas Cage and is also in talks with Steve Carrell to join Frank or Francis, the next project to be written and directed by Kaufman.
Joaquin Phoenix to Star in Jonze/Kaufman’s Political Satire
Joaquin Phoenix, a guy who is trying to overcome his difficulties in life, fills in very busy these days. Phoenix is now attached to an approaching Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman collaboration.
Cannes 2008 – ‘Synecdoche, New York’
Many of you will recognize Charlie Kaufman’s name from his unique screenwriting credits: Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.
The movie stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams and Samantha Morton.
Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway.
Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan’s theater district.
He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden’s own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele (Catherine Keener), a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany’s art scene, sneers at him from every corner.
Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele’s friend, Maria (Jennifer Jason Leigh). He’s helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire (Michelle Williams) into the ground. Sammy Barnathan (Tom Noonan), the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton).
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Hollywood and Cannes Film Festival
Clint Eastwood‘s film “The Changeling“, starring Angelina Jolie as a woman searching for her missing son in 1920s Los Angeles and “Synechdoche, New York,” screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut.joins a competition list.
Steven Soderbergh, who took the top Cannes award in 1989 for “Sex, Lies and Videotape“, won a race against time to complete his four-hour epic “Che“, on the life of the revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in time for the festival.
Steven Soderbergh’s inclusion looks like a last-minute decision. He competes with two pic ”Che” bio – “The Argentine” and “Guerrilla”
As predicted, Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” world preems down on the Croisette, possibly on Sunday May 18. It promises this fest’s must-attend, highest-glam event.
Thierry Fremaux, the festival’s head said the presence of Steven Spielberg and the stars of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, which will premiere outside the main competition, would ensure “a magnificent red carpet”.
Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and George Lucas are expected to join Spielberg on the steps outside the Palais des Festivals, guaranteeing the kinds of flashing cameras that add essential glamour to the festival’s arthouse fare.
