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James McAvoy To Play James Bond Creator, Ian Fleming?
30 December 2009 7:49 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
In the vein of Sam Worthington and Ryan Reynolds, Wanted star James McAvoy is one in-demand actor. Adding to the list of projects he’s attached to – beyond Wanted 2 and I’m with Cancer – we now get word that McAvoy is attached to a biopic of James Bond creator, Ian Fleming.
Pajiba provides us with the story they’ve gotten from their source, The Hollywood Cog. The project, currently being referred to as simply Ian Fleming, is being developed by both Palmstar Entertainment and Animus Films. McAvoy is attached to the lead role, and the film will reportedly focus specifically on the years of Fleming’s life in which he got the inspiration to create the James Bond character.
Fleming’s life is prime material for a biopic: Years before creating Bond, Fleming struggled under the shadow of his family name (his father was a member of parliament, and »
- Ross Miller
James McAvoy to Possibly Star in Ian Fleming Biopic
29 December 2009 9:01 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Pajiba reports that Palmstar Entertainment and Animus Films are developing a biopic of James Bond author Ian Fleming with James McAvoy attached to play the lead. Currently titled Ian Fleming, the biopic would focus on the years that gave Fleming his inspiration to create the twelve novels and two story collections featuring MI6 super-spy James Bond. Apparently, Fleming was just a playboy in his early days but his experiences in World War II changed his life and caused him to become the creator of the semi-autobiographical 007.
McAvoy sounds like a solid choice for this role. He has the charisma to portray a playboy but perhaps with a little delusion that he’s as charming and as lethal as his fictional counterpart. The actor has been keeping busy as he wraps production on Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, and is attached to Wanted 2 and to co-star with Seth Rogen in »
- Matt Goldberg
DVD Review: 500 Days of Summer (Blu-ray)
29 December 2009 1:00 PM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »
500 Days of Summer shines on Blu-ray and after a week on the shelves I have finally found time to get my review up on the site. Thank you to those nice folks at Fox for passing it too me; I now honor you with my positive words of reflection on one of my favorite films of the year on glorious HD.
With its touted 2.40:1 framed, 1080p/Avc-encoded transfer (I read that on the package), it’s impossible not to fall for the beautiful cuteness of the film’s star Zoe Deschanel. Marc Webb’s gorgeously shot film has a vibrant color palette that captures that indie style but with a scope and intrigue usually reserved for something with a larger budget. Finally the boasted 50Gb dual-layer disc has no noticeable compression issues or other anomalies to ruin the mood and tone of the film.
The movie is a stylish »
- Kevin Coll
Philippe Mora: The Hollywood Interview
22 December 2009 11:28 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
"Stand and deliver, sir!" Dennis Hopper in Philippe Mora's Mad Dog Morgan.
Philippe Mora: Ballad Of A Mad Dog
By
Alex Simon
Born in Paris in 1949, Philippe Mora is a member of one of Australia’s best known artistic families. His parents, Georges Mora and Mirka Mora, migrated to Australia from France in 1951 and settled in Melbourne, where they quickly became key figures on the Melbourne cultural scene. Georges, a wartime resistance fighter, became an influential art dealer, and in 1967 he founded one of the first commercial art galleries in Melbourne, Tolarno Galleries. The Mora family home and restaurants were focal points of Melbourne's bohemian subculture. As a result of this, Philippe and his brothers had what he has described as a "culturally privileged childhood."
Philippe moved to London in late 1967 to pursue painting and filmmaking. He was one of many important Australian artists, writers and others who »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Kristin Scott Thomas: 'I've been a very sad person, but I'm not any more'
20 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Kristin Scott Thomas on self-belief, not being on the right list in Hollywood and playing John Lennon's Aunt Mimi in her latest film
The moment that Kristin Scott Thomas knew she didn't want to be a typical movie star, the moment it seems she switched from playing romantic leads to infinitely more interesting roles, was when a director told her she should make her character more appealing. The idea didn't grab her. "I just thought, I don't want to do that," she says. "I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable. Because if I'm watching that on screen I get irritated." She sits back with a sigh. "I can't bear it."
It was an astute response. After all, Scott Thomas's best work is not about looking doe-eyed and flicking her hair; instead it's defined by froideur, then thaw. There is a toughness in her performances, »
- Kira Cochrane
The Notable Films of 2010: Part Two
16 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: January 1st 2010
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley
Director: Christian Alvart
Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.
Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the »
- Garth Franklin
The Notable Films of 2010: Part Two
16 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: January 1st 2010
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley
Director: Christian Alvart
Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.
Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the »
- Garth Franklin
Sundance Stretching out the 'Shock Doctrine'
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Shock Doctrine (which was presented as an unfinished cut at Berlin) will be the lead off film and the keeping with the idea of films that "spur debate", I don't think that the other films to participate in Sundance Film Festival U.S.A initiative will be heavyweight fiction titles, but we can expect to see a good number of doc features that need the attention. - Since not everyone can jet out to Park City for Sundance festivities, the festival is making plans to bring a small portion of Sundance to you. While last year they made a small batch of short films available for download, this year they're laying the groundwork for what I imagine could be a popular, yearly event - one day (January 28th) of Sundancing at select art house theaters. Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Shock Doctrine »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Tracking Shot October 2009: The Social Network, The No Game, Cedar Rapids
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a half of a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This October (2009), we are keeping tabs on.... - At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a half of a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This October (2009), we are keeping tabs on.... Arteta's Youth in Revolt got pushed back to 2010, by then he'll be in post-production with Cedar Rapids. Backed by Ad Hominem and Alexander Payne, hot off The Hangover, Ed Helms will play a sad-sack insurance agent who goes to an industry. convention to try to save the jobs of his colleagues. I imagine the comedy will film in a tax incentive friendly city with a convention center for rent. »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Sundance Sends Filmmakers to 8 Cities to Show Their Films During the Festival
9 December 2009 9:39 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
If you can’t go to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, don’t cry! The Sundance Institute is making 2010 the inaugural year of Sundance Film Festival USA where eight filmmakers showing their film at the festival will show it to a major metropolitan area…so as long as you live in or near one of those eight major cities, then you don’t need to cry.
The films going out through the nation are The Duplass Brothers’ Cyrus starring John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, and Jonah Hill; John Wells The Company Men starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, and Kevin Costner (Brookline; The Safdie Brothers’ Daddy Longlegs; Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Jack Goes Boating starring Hoffman and Amy Ryan; Adrian Grenier’s documentary Teenage Paparazzo; Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning; Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s The Extra Man starring Kevin Kline and Paul Dano »
- Matt Goldberg
Shelf Life: Downhill Racer
9 December 2009 4:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Every once in a while (okay, usually in February and September) I find myself and my colleagues lamenting the fact that movies just aren't as good as they used to be. Looking back at the sheer volume of venerated classics from decades past, such a decree seems pretty indisputable. But the truth is that Hollywood has always churned out tons and tons of movies, and not all of them are good. In fact, most of them aren't. And that's the reason we remember the good ones, and forget the others. Even looking back just a few years, how many people ever think about The Man, starring Eugene Levy and Samuel L. Jackson? Or Ecks Vs. Sever, except maybe as a punchline?
That, however, is not to say that there are plenty of forgotten or overlooked films that aren't genuinely good. Quite the opposite, in fact: the deluge of grindhouse movies »
- Todd Gilchrist
Review & Photos: An Evening with Pinewood Legends
8 December 2009 4:51 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
On Saturday I was lucky enough to attend a very special charity evening in aid of the Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation. It took place, as you might have guessed at the legendary Pinewood Studios just outside London near Windsor. The event was in aid of the Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation, a charity that helps people with disabilities to increase independence and improve life skills.
The event was named the Pinewood Legends evening for a reason. Invited along as guests of the Foundation were:
Roy Button OBE (Senior Vice President & MD of Warner Bros.) Paul Weston (Stunts, Daylight, Superman I, II, III) Terence Clegg (Producer, Out of Africa, A Clock Work Orange) Mike Moran (Movie music score composer) Joss Williams (Special Effects Supervisor on Green Zone, Hell Boy 2, Rambo, The Bourne Ultimatum) Anthony Waye (Producer, Casino Royale) Saeed Jaffrey (Actor, Gandhi) Paul Hitchcock (Producers, Mission Impossible, Firefox)
The evening started with »
- David Sztypuljak
Downhill Racer
7 December 2009 7:14 PM, PST | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »
Reviewer: Jonthan Poritsky
Rating (out of 5): ****
Even in an artform as ever-changing as cinema, the best films from what many consider one of Hollywood's strongest, richest periods -- the late 60s/early 70s -- still feel remarkably fresh. And it's not just the famous examples, from The Graduate to The Parallax View, Chinatown to The Godfather, it's some of the lesser but still important films from that period that make it such a deep and endlessly fascinating era to study. And in that group I'd add Michael Ritchie's Downhill Racer, which is now out in a sparkling new Criterion DVD. Featuring some of the most innovative sports photography for its day and remarkable performances from Gene Hackman and Robert Redford, it's a wonder that this film isn't more well known. Thankfully, Criterion has reminded us to give it another look.
On its surface, Downhill Racer is a simple »
- underdog
Aamir Khan's film to compete at Sundance Film Festival
7 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST | The Bollywood Ticket | See recent The Bollywood Ticket news »
'Peepli Live,' an upcoming film produced by Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, has been selected to compete at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in January. It is one of 14 films chosen out of more than 1,000 submissions in the world cinema category, and it will be the first Indian feature film ever in the running at the prestigious independent film festival.
'Peepli Live' is a black comedy about a debt-ridden farmer who creates a media frenzy when he announces that he will commit suicide so that his family can receive government assistance. The film is directed by Anusha Rizvi and stars Raghubir Yadav, Omkar Das, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Shalini Vatsa, and Farrukh Jaffer. Khan does not appear in it.
The Sundance Film Festival—founded by Hollywood actor Robert Redford and held annually in Utah—showcases independent films from around the world. This year's festival will run from January 21-31.
Khan founded his production company, »
Review of the decade: Peter Bradshaw's noughties round-up
7 December 2009 3:01 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood struggled to respond to the war on terror, documentaries went through a golden age, and Michael Haneke was the noughties' moral conscience
If it is possible to whimper at the volume of a bang, then that is how this decade is ending on the big screen: with two high-profile, high-budget movies about the end of the world: Roland Emmerich's cheerfully silly 2012, and John Hillcoat's cheerlessly serious The Road, which arrive with a good deal of commentary to the effect that these movies typify the zeitgeist of the decade.
The noughties – that jokey word coined in the carefree 90s – are seen as damaged, injured, traumatised. The decade looks cracked from top to bottom by a sensational act of terrorism; by a reaction that achieved neither political palliative nor military success; by the confrontation between first-world prosperity and developing-world poverty; by the coming environmental catastrophe that threatens to engulf both; and finally, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Aamir Khan's production 'Peepli Live' selected for the Sundance Film Festival
6 December 2009 1:16 PM, PST | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Aamir Khan is on a high. His production Peepli Live has become the first Indian film to be selected for the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in the competition section. The festival will be held from January 21-31 at Park City in the Us.Talking about the honour, Aamir says, .Sundance is one of the biggest and the most important festivals in the Us. Robert Redford had started it to encourage independent filmmakers and directors. It.s prestigious to even get your film selected for the festival as they pick up 14 films out of the 1000 that enter the competition. I am very happy for director Anusha Rizvi and her young team as I believe it.s the first Indian film to be selected there. All crew members are young and new. The only known actor is Raghuvir Yadav and some of the actors are real adivasis from Madhya Pradesh. I am happy for these youngsters. »
Full of the strange
5 December 2009 4:09 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In September Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland. He faces extradition to the Us, having fled the States in 1978 to avoid being sentenced for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. The debate about the case has raged ever since. Martin Amis was the first writer to interview Polanski after his flight, meeting him in Paris in 1979 for a magazine article. Here, we publish the encounter in full
When I was being driven to the police station from the hotel, the car radio was already talking about it. The newsmen were calling the police before I was arrested to see whether they can break the news. I couldn't believe… I thought, you know, I was going to wake up from it. I realise, if I have killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. »
- Martin Amis
Spielberg Leaves ‘Harvey’ Remake
4 December 2009 11:51 AM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Steven Spielberg has backed out of directing Harvey, a remake of the 1950 classic starring Jimmy Stewart.
The 62-year-old director spent several months developing the film, which was to be his next production and the first under the newly stand-alone DreamWorks. Fox was allowing Dw to fund 50% through their deal with Dubai-based Reliance, but the movie fell apart when Spielberg couldn’t find a star for the lead. Fox will continue to work on it.
The obvious choice, considering their history, was Tom Hanks. Except he declined to make… well, I’m not sure. Robert Downey Jr. was also “courted” for the part, according to Variety, but didn’t sign on. What is wrong with Hollywood that Steven Spielberg can’t get anyone to star in his movie? Where was his golden boy, Shia Labeouf?
The story, an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Mary Chase, centers on a man »
- Jeff Leins
Stewart & Fanning's The Runaways To Debut At Sundance Film Festival
3 December 2009 5:31 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The Twilight Saga: New Moon stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning's new movie about Joan Jett's all-girl rock band will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah in January.
In much-anticipated new film The Runaways, Stewart portrays Jett, while Fanning plays Cherie Currie.
The film will be among the highlights at Robert Redford's film festival, where Ben Affleck and Kevin Costner's new movie The Company Men and Katie Holmes and John C. Reilly's The Extra Man will also premiere.
Stewart will screen a second film at the festival - Welcome to the Rileys, in which she plays a young prostitute opposite James Gandolfini. »
Film review: The Box
3 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
An intriguing premise turns in to 115 minutes of codswallop. Peter Bradshaw squirms away
There are some films that confront the viewer with profound ethical dilemmas, agonising moral choices. In this one, an ageing man with a horrible face approaches a happily married woman with a proposition that could earn her $1m. Oh, heavens to Betsy, you are probably thinking, it's that Robert Redford back again, the incorrigible old goat, making another of his indecent proposals: a sackful of cash in exchange for the chance to let his expensive trousers and pants pool round his ankles while he puts you on the receiving end of a one-off rogering. How absolutely loathsome. And yet it is a lot of money, so gosh, would I? Would I?
But it is not Robert Redford. This time it is Frank Langella, playing a man with an appalling wound to the side of his face, dressed »
- Peter Bradshaw
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