Filmstalker: January 2008 Archives

Spiral trailer online

The trailer for Spiral has appeared online and it's pretty damn creepy. Joel Moore plays a strange, reclusive character who is a telemarketer by day and his only relationship is the dysfunctional one he has with his boss. One day a young co-worker enters his life and befriends him, and...

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Amelia Earhart new director found

A new director has been found for Amelia, the biographical film looking at the life of Amelia Earhart and starring Hilary Swank as the famous aviator. According to reports the new director, after Phillip Noyce left the production, is Mira Nair, who previously directed The Namesake and Vanity Fair....

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Be Kind Rewind fan made trailer by Director

This is going to be a little confusing, so hold on while I explain. Michael Gondry's film is all about two guys in a video store remaking all the classic films themselves because they've erased all their stock of proper films. Well the director Michael Gondry has decided to follow...

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The War On Democracy

In recent years I've been increasing my own awareness of what is really going on in the world, behind the populous news headlines, and so I find I'm drawn to documentaries such as The War On Democracy. Documentaries that look at world events hidden from view or that remain unreported,...

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Hartnett's Papier-Mache, CGI, Hitchcock, fight film

I'm as confused as you are, but Josh Hartnett is looking to shoot a new film called Bunraku, which from his description sounds rather insane - no offense intended! You see not only is papier-mache mentioned, but so is CGI, Hitchcock and Michael Gondry style, as well as four foot...

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Cloverfield sequel is on

Well when I wrote about the Cloverfield sequel or prequel, aka Cloverield 2, I didn't think that the deal would be signed this quickly, especially since J.J. Abrams had said that they wouldn't rush into it just because of box office figures, well it seems they will, and they have....

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Kevin Macdonald directs Bobby Fischer

Now here's a strange match indeed. Kevin Macdonald, who made the excellent documentary One Day in September and then the film The Last King of Scotland (Filmstalker review), has signed up to direct a film called Bobby Fischer Goes to War. The film is about the chess playing legend who...

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2007 BAFTA nominees announced

The BAFTA's normally bring with them a lot of sense from the over-hyped and far too cash and popularity focused Oscars, however this year there's an unnerving consensus between most of the award ceremonies, and there doesn't look like there's going to be a huge difference in the BAFTA's either....

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Wolfman replacement directors

There are a couple of names being banded around for replacing Mark Romanek after he left the production of The Wolf Man, the film starring Benecio Del Toro in the remake of the iconic film, and the names are pretty new, but interesting none the less. Breck Eisner and Matt...

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Cloverfield Director on Invisible Woman

It seems that not only is Matt Reeves, the Director of Cloverfield, signed up to create another big Cloverfield monster film in either a a prequel or a talk of a sequel...or even a same-time-quel, but he's also signed up to direct a film called The Invisible Woman. Except it's...

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International 21 trailer online

The international version trailer is online for 21, Robert Luketic's film adaptation of the novel Bringing Down the House (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com) which dramatises a much duller story from the novel which should be really exciting. You see the novel just reads out the story and there's no sense of...

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Stalked: Casting Elm Street, Young Kirk, Claire Danes, Destro and Gerard Butler

Robert Englund may well reprise his role as Freddy Krueger, there's a young Captain Kirk cast in the form of Jimmy Bennet. Beautiful Claire Danes is to join Me and Orson Welles. Destro from G.I. Joe has been cast and that's going to be David Murray. Finally Gerard Butler has...

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Watchmen's Sally Jupiter speaks

Carla Gugino has been talking about her role as Sally Jupiter in Zack Snyder's Watchmen, the hugely anticipated adaptation of the comic book series that fans have been waiting a very long time for. Gugino reveals that she ages from twenty five to sixty seven in the film and talks...

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Stallone says Rambo and Rocky are dead

Sylvester Stallone has finally put those rumours to rest and shown Harvey Weinstein that if he wants another instalment of Rambo that he's just going to have to recast the lead and get a new writer. Stallone revealed to reporters that these are the cinematic ends for both his famous...

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Teaser trailer for Gaiman's Coraline online

The teaser trailer for the adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline is online to see, and although it's shaky camcorder, it is a nice little peak at what to expect. The film is directed by Henry Selick, the man who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, and it tells the story of...

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Quantum of Solace plot secret revealed?

Recently Gemma Arterton, one of the new Bond ladies, apparently revealed a major plot point for the new Bond film Quantum of Solace. I say apparently because to a degree it sounds like a hungry press person eagerly grabbing at a possible story rather than something concrete, still, the rumour...

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Blonde and Blonder clip online

Oh gods of Hollywood, please smite me down now for I've just witnessed what could be the most embarrassing and degrading piece of cinema ever. You thought Barb Wire was bad, wait till you see this clip from Blonde and Blonder with Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards. I couldn't believe...

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Nightmare on Elm Street remake

Although Robert Englund, the original Freddy Krueger in film, has talked about it many times before, the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise has never come back to life. Until now. New Line are the ones to pick up the banner and move forward, and with a choice that's been typically...

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Wolf Man loses Director

It seems to be contagious as Mark Romanek leaves the production of The Wolf Man over budget issues. The official word is sparse, but gossip is rife. At the moment it seems there was a budgetary dispute and Romanek felt that he couldn't make the film he wanted to....

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Caruso talks Y: The Last Man trilogy

D. J. Caruso has been talking about the screen adaptation of Y: The Last Man and has revealed that he has talked with Shia LeBeouf about playing the lead. Brian K. Vaughan wrote the story of Y: The Last Man (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com), about the last man on Earth after...

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UK largest robbery to be filmed

The UK's largest bank robbery which yielded a massive £53 million bank raid in 2006 is to be made into a film which will dramatise the recent court case which has just resulted in five men being convicted of the crime and facing the possibility of life sentences. However the...

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Chicago 10 trailer online

Before Steven Spielberg gets to tackle the subject, there's already a film on the go about the men who were arrested for inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention and who were found guilty but eventually cleared of all charges on appeal, and the trailer is online. The film is...

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Director reveals Cloverfield monster origins

The Director of Cloverfield has been talking indepth about the film. Not only does he talk about the name, the marketing and the film-making style, but he also addresses where the monster comes from and reveals its origins. He talks about some aspects of the monster that we've never heard...

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Crash the television series

I remember reading some time ago that the Crash film was being made into a television series, or at least that it was being considered, and now it's confirmed that the excellent ensemble film Crash (Filmstalker review) is going to become a television series. What's more is that we might...

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Re-Animator sequel still on?

I'm a little confused. We had heard from Jeffrey Combs, the star of the Re-Animator series, that the sequel just wasn't going to be happening. However William H. Macy, who was set to play the President in the sequel, has said that it is and that Stuart Gordon is working...

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UK retailer drops HD-DVD

Woolworths has announced that it is dropping HD-DVD from its product line and going Blu-ray only. Their official response states that the contributing factors are the higher sales of Blu-ray and the saturation of the marketplace by the PS3 with the inbuilt Blu-ray player. It seems there's more and more...

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The Cottage trailer online

There's a trailer for the British horror comedy The Cottage online, the film starring Andy Serkis, Jennifer Ellison and Reece Shearsmith, both from British television and very recognisable too. Funny thing is all we get of Ellison is a punch (she's throwing it) and a couple of aghast looks....

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Phillip Noyce strands Amelia Earhart

Phillip Noyce was set to direct Hilary Swank in the film about Amelia Earhart, however the word is that he's up and left the project and is going to concentrate on his Mary Queen of Scots film. According to his own words he spent five months working on the project,...

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Vin Diesel talks Fast and the Furious 4

Vin Diesel, and indeed all the cast of Fast and the Furious 4, have been rather quiet about the production of The Fast and the Furious 4, until now. Although he doesn't have that much to say, Diesel has talked about the sequel and why he ended up doing it...

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Stalked: Julianne Moore and Choi Min-shik

Choi Min-shik, of Oldboy fame, is set to star in Jeon Soo-il's latest film which is simply called Himalayas Project at the moment, while Julianne Moore is joining a secretive supernatural horror film called Shelter....

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Dennis Quaid and Arnold Vosloo in G.I. Joe

Wow, I am surprised, the cast for G.I. Joe is getting better and better, now they've added Dennis Quaid and Arnold Vosloo. The Stephen Sommers film adapted from action figures and comics is really building its cast....

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New 88 Minutes HD trailer online

There's a new trailer for the Al Pacino starrer 88 Minutes online and it's also in high definition. This trailer looks much better than the previous and gives a more coherent story as well as hyping up the tension a bit more. The film follows a forensic psychiatrist and college...

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Stalked: Dark Knight and Hancock images

Some images for both Hancock and The Dark Knight have appeared online, and while neither are earth shattering, both do show some never before seen moments. In particular we see the costumes of both superheroes. Christian Bale is seen standing in front of his cool new Batman outfit as well...

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Stalked: G.I. Joe and Star Trek casting

Channing Tatum has signed for G.I. Joe and Marlene Forte has signed for Star Trek. That's really all there is to say. Marlene Forte is to play the role of Chief Transporter while Channing Tatum will be playing Duke in the action figure/cartoon based film....

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Del Toro in talks for Hobbit 1 and 2

Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct the two films that will make up J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit on the big screen. There's no other word on who else is being considered for the job, but Peter Jackson will oversee both films as Producer....

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Another Rambo?

There's growing talk of another Rambo film, even though this was intended to be the closing episode of the Rambo series, it seems that everyone is wanting more. Now it's Harvey Weinstein's turn....

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Assassination of a High School President clips online

There are some clips online for Assassination of a High School President showing Bruce Willis in action as the military head of the school, and Reece Thompson as the lead character, Bobby Funke alongside fellow school mate Mischa Barton. They do look good, and there are some genuinely laugh out...

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More Public Enemies casting

I missed this when I wrote about Marion Cotillard joining Public Enemies this morning, there are a few more names being added to the cast along with her, and they're just as big. Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff , Channing Tatum and Jason Clarke are set to join the film too,...

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Flawless trailer online

The trailer for the Michael Caine and Demi Moore starrer Flawless is online, and I have to say I'm really quite taken with the film already. The trailer builds tension nice and slowly and looks to have rather strong character roles and promises great direction from Michael Radford, the director...

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Mann's Public Enemies to gain Marion Cotillard

The cast for Michael Mann's Public Enemies really is growing strong as word comes today that Marion Cotillard is in negotiations for a role. She's an excellent actress and is joining an already highly impressive cast....

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Screen Actors Guild announce winners

The Screen Actors Guild have announced the winners of their 14th Annual awards, and there are no real surprises in the film section, or to be honest on the television section either. Where's Battlestar Galactica I ask?! I wonder if the fact that these awards aren't too surprising is down...

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Directors Guild announce winners

Well the Directors have announced who they think are the best for the year in their part of film and television making, and the Best Director is no surprise at all, going to Joel and Ethan Coen, a prize I think is well deserved. I can't really comment on the...

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Filmstalker's Week 21st to 27th January

Here is your weekly roundup of what has been happening at Filmstalker. Inside are all the reviews, trailers and a selection of news stories from the last week....

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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane ten minutes online

There are ten minutes of All the Boys Love Mandy Lane online, and it's got a pretty strong introduction, great music, cool style, and a moment that hooks you right in. I've heard mixed reports about the film but from the looks of this introduction it seems rather stylish and...

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Cloverfield prequel?

The hype about Cloverfield is going crazy right now, and word on a sequel is high on the agenda, at least for the fans if not the film-makers. They are a bit more relaxed about it all and are waiting to see if there really can be another film made...

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Redford talks Bill Bryson film

Robert Redford has been talking about his next film, which we knew was going to be an adaptation of Bill Bryson's novel A Walk in the Woods (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com), but back early last year the word was that Christopher Columbus was set to direct, you know the guy who...

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Favreau talks Avengers plans

There's something going wrong with the Justice League of America right now, and I think it's really down to the fact that they haven't tied in the films of the individual superheroes, and the fact that most of them appearing in the ensemble film haven't even received their own films....

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Living in Oblivion

When I first saw the cover for Living in Oblivion I have to admit I was thinking that this wasn't going to be a pretty average film that happened to star some big names at the beginning of their careers. What struck me within minutes was how cleverly written and...

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Smart People trailer online

A trailer has appeared online for Smart People, a film that has gone a little under the radar as huge budget blockbusters take up all the headline space, and it looks rather unfairly so. Just reading the cast list of the film gets you excited, and I'll read it in...

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RKO signs with Writers Guild

So another studio signs an interim deal with the Writers Guild, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers must now be starting to worry. If these studios that have signed deals already are happy to give the writers better deals for new media channels such as the internet,...

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Stalked: Beyoncé in Cadillac, John Cleese in Earth Stood Still

Beyoncé also has signed up to Cadillac Records as the singer Etta James, and John Cleese is signing up to The Day The Earth Stood Still....

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Hellraiser delayed for rewrite

Earlier in the day the news came out that the remake of Hellraiser had been delayed for quite some time, there was no answer for it and it all seemed a little odd. Of course it might have been down to a rewrite, but the script had been finished for...

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Update: Shutter trailer online...but only for the U.S.

There's a trailer online for Shutter, well it is if you're over in the U.S. because otherwise the trailer is restricted to everyone else. Shutter is the story of a young couple who start to see ghostly figures in their photographs while on their honeymoon....

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A Hulk franchise? Who knew?!

Edward Norton has been saying that this new Hulk film is intended as the first chapter, hinting at a franchise for the Hulk. I mean who would have guessed? That's never intended for every superhero film there is, and it was never intended for the first Hulk was it? -...

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Quantum of Solace official plot

Well the new Bond film is titled, daft as it may be, and now we have the official plot for the film released online. This tells us everything…and indeed nothing. Actually that's a lie, there's a very comprehensive plot for the film right here....

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Ventimiglia joins Antal's Armored

Forgetting the incorrect spelling for a moment, Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes is joining the cast of Armored, and that's a film I'm really excited about seeing. You see Nimród Antal is the Director, the man who also brought us Vacancy (Filmstalker review), an excellent thriller....

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Another Scrooged?

Scrooged is perhaps the best version of A Christmas Carol that there is, Bill Murray is hilarious in it and the whole film is superbly written and acted. Word is out that there's going to be another comedy version made, but I can't see it being anywhere near as successful....

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Fast and the Furious 4 begins filming

The latest news is out about The Fast and the Furious 4, and word is that both Vin Diesel and Paul Walker have fully signed and sealed contracts for the fourth instalment. Well we already knew that they were on board, but what we didn't know is that they start...

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Writers work for Lionsgate and Marvel

The Writers Guild of America has reached another interim agreement with independent studios, this time it's with Lionsgate and again with Marvel. So horror and superheroes are once again being written. We've already seen the Weinstein Company and United Artists make deals, that means there are now four big studios...

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Toy Story 1, 2 and 3 coming in 3D?

I'm really not a fan of current 3D technology, but it seems the studios are plugging it like mad as Disney announce the news that they're going to be releasing the Toy Story films in 3D, including the third. Woo. Colour me uninterested. I love the Toy Story films, but...

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I Am Legend script online

The script from I Am Legend has appeared online, and with it I found a few other interesting script treatments. This one shows some immediate, up front changes from the film itself, subtle, but noticeable changes none the less....

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Jack Ryan gains Director

The latest in the Jack Ryan adventures, a franchise that has changed hands and stars a number of times, is now set to do both yet again and also drop Tom Clancy from the series. The new director that is being eyed as the front runner to get the role...

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Bond: Quantum of Solace plot revealed

You know sometimes you get a feeling about something that happens in the early days of pre-production, a feeling that can often turn out to be wrong. I got a similar feeling with Casino Royale to begin with – the whole reboot, forget the past, mix up timelines, drop gadgets,...

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In Bruges new International trailer

There's a new International trailer online for the film In Bruges starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes as hitmen all out to get one another in a rather amusing looking story from writer and director Martin McDonagh. The story sees two hitmen sent to Bruges by their boss...

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Behind the scenes of Bloody Omaha

Richard Hammond, aka The Hamster from Top Gear who has become famous for his hairstyles and crashing at high speed, hosted a BBC television show about the Omaha beach landings on D-Day, and part of that was a short recreation of some of the landings themselves. The making of these...

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New My Blueberry Nights trailer online

There's a new trailer online for Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights online, and this one looks much, much better than the one we saw some time ago. The film has a bevy of stars featuring Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, David Strathairn and Rachel Weisz to name but...

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Statham as Sub-Mariner and The Crow?

Not quite, but Jason Statham has been interviewed and he's been talking about his dream projects and other films in the pipeline, and a few interesting things have come up. First that there's a remake of The Crow being considered, and secondly that he's been considered for the role of...

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Thornton, Wilkinson join Roberts, Owens in Duplicity

Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Wilkinson are joining Julia Roberts and Clive Owen in the film from Tony Gilroy, Duplicity. The film has Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Wilkinson playing the CEO's of rival pharmaceutical companies who are both trying to corner the market with a new innovation which promises...

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Hidden Star Trek image captured

I already wrote about the hidden image on the new Star Trek viral site just the other day, well one of my fellow stalkers has written in and sent me a copy of the image that they've manged to pull off of the site. You can see the image of...

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New Get Smart trailer online

The trailer for the film version of Get Smart has appeared online. Starring Steve Carrell, Anne Hathaway and The Rock, you might think that it could be funny. Well I was sorely disappointed. You can see the trailer here for yourself, but this kind of humour really isn't working well...

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Frontier(s) UK trailer online

The trailer for Frontier(s) really did catch me by surprise, and although it is really dark, there's plenty to scare the wits out of you and creep/gross you out. Did I see a shoe heel being pushed into someone's ankle? Yes that give you the idea of how much horror...

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Gilliam's new film shut down

There's no real surprise that Terry Gilliam's new film has been shut down. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, but that doesn't mean it's not going to restart. The real question is how much work have they done so far and how far into production are they? Is there any possibility...

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District 13 (Banlieue 13)

District 13, or Banlieue 13, is a French film from Producer Luc Besson and first time feature Director Pierre Morel that was sold quite heavily on the act of Parkour, the urban sport of free running. However here the film is not about Parkour, and what the film-makers have done...

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WAZ trailer online

I saw WAZ (Filmstalker review) back in September of last year and was really quite impressed. Now there's a trailer online for you to see, although I didn't find it presented a coherent feel for what the film is about. WAZ is the story of an old cop assigned a...

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Is being a celebrity good for you?

Is being an actor good for you, indeed, is stardom good for you, and not just your health either, but is it good for your life and those around it? Friends, family and close relationships? With the passing of Heath Ledger who was undoubtedly going to reach much greater things...

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MPAA admits piracy figures wrong

The MPAA has admitted that there was a flaw in the figures regarding piracy that it produced in 2005. Figures which stated that students were responsible for 44% of U.S. piracy losses have been revised and now actually state that only 15% are responsible. These were figures that the MPAA...

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X-Files sequel disappoints

I have to say that the continuing news on X-Files 2 is getting worse and worse for me, and although I'm not a hardcore fan, I was an avid watcher of the series and really enjoyed the film. Yet with news of the removal of the ongoing alien conspiracy and...

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Directors Guild announce 2007 nominees

The Directors Guild of America have announced the nominations for their awards this year, and it's looking an interesting list, if reflective of so any award announcements this year in their choice of best film. I wonder if the fact that all the awards announcements are looking so similar is...

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Lust, Caution interview with Ang Lee

I've just been sent a question and answer session with both Ang Lee, the Director of Lust, Caution, and Tang Wei, one of the stars of the film, complimenting the existing interview with Tony Leung and the Tang Wei interview. The interview with Ang Lee is up first and it's...

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