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Is David Cronenberg Still Adapting the Play The Talking Cure?

5 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

I love how the trades bury nuggets of info. At the bottom of the piece I used to source info about Michael Fassbender's upcoming role in A Single Shot was a throwaway sentence that suggests David Cronenberg is still at work on The Talking Cure, a project we've heard almost nothing about in the two years since it was first 'announced'. Almost exactly two years ago, a few reports said that Cronenberg was adapting The Talking Cure, a 2002 play by Christopher Hampton. (Ralph Fiennes, Cronenberg's star in Spider, appeared in one of the primary productions of the play.) The story's arc concerns the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and their parallel relationships with a beautiful patient, Sabina Spielrein. Shades of Dead Ringers in there, yeah? In some ways this sounds like the subtext of much of Cronenberg's work being brought right to the surface. Could »

- Russ Fischer

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News: Tom Baker in SFX

24 September 2009 12:15 AM, PDT | Kasterborous.com | See recent Kasterborous news »

Fourth Doctor Who Tom Baker is the star of a special free gift in SFX 188 - a 56 minute long BBC Audiobooks teaser CD! The CD features: * Extracts from the first two Hornet‘s Nest release * Clips of archive interviews with Tom Baker from BBC Audio’s Doctor Who At The BBC collection * Extracts of Tom reading the audiobooks versions of The Pyramids Of Mars, The Brain Of Morbius and Genesis Of The Daleks * An extract from Doctor Who And The Pescatons * The classic Dead Ringers... »

- Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com

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'Jennifer's Body' Director Karyn Kusama Offers More Details on her Rachel Weisz Project

21 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Last week "Jennifer's Body" director Karyn Kusama dropped a few hints to super sci-fi site io9.com about her pet project starring Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, which has yet to find funding. She said, "there's a screenplay I wrote a while ago with a partner that has a sort of element of horror, although I would call it a psychological horror in the David Cronenberg tradition, that I'm trying to get made."

In a recent interview with MTV, Kusama cited David Cronenberg, the director whose specific type of creepy-crawliness is often referred to as body horror, as "a really important influence, or just an important role model as a creative force." Although Cronenberg's more recent works like "A History of Violence" and "Eastern Promises" veered more towards the mainstream, there's no doubt his earlier work like "Videodrome," "Dead Ringers" (Kusama's favorite), and of course the remake of "The Fly" tapped »

- Jenni Miller

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Duncan Jones' (Inter)stellar Debut

12 June 2009 9:50 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Making a cerebral sci-fi film on an indie budget isn't easy, especially when it requires your star to tackle simultaneous dual roles. Yet that's exactly what 38-year-old writer/director Duncan Jones -- son of rock legend David Bowie, born Zowie Bowie -- undertook with "Moon," an assured, haunting saga set on a lunar outpost where the only inhabitant, Sam Rockwell's miner, awakens from an accident to find that he has a new guest: himself. With its eerily contemplative mood, stark space station setting and calmly speaking robot (voiced by Kevin Spacey), Jones' first foray into feature filmmaking after years spent making commercials reverently nods to past genre classics like "Silent Running" and "2001: A Space Odyssey." But rather than overwhelming his tale, these references enhance what is, at heart, a melancholy inquiry into loneliness and the nature of self. While in Manhattan for the film's Tribeca Film Festival premiere last May, »

- Nick Schager

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Won't Get Fooled Again

9 June 2009 8:40 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Since he emerged out of the psychotronica closet of his first potent but crude features, there have been two fairly distinct David Cronenbergs -- the extremist/obsessive who's been happy to exploit the fleshier anxieties of science fiction and surrealism, and the critic's darling that sprung up around the time of the still-underrated "Crash" (1996), all the easier to laud for having left the icky aspects of genre behind him. Relative to the psychosexual force on exhibition in "Videodrome" (1983), "The Dead Zone" (1983), "The Fly" (1986), "Dead Ringers" (1988) and "Naked Lunch" (1991), it seems to me that "eXistenZ" (1999), "Spider" (2002), "A History of Violence" (2005) and "Eastern Promises" (2007) are both fairly prosaic and predictable, especially in light of the critical handstands they inspired. It's not all as cut and dried as that, of course, but it still leaves "M. Butterfly" (1993) lingering, coyly and enigmatically, right in the middle. Cronenberg fans never warmed to this unsensationalized Broadway adaptation, »

- Michael Atkinson

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Cronenberg: A new look at Videodrome

23 May 2009 8:04 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

After taking a 30th Anniversary look at David Cronenberg's The Brood yesterday (read it here), Jack returns with a fresh look at Videodrome, a Fango favorite seen on the classic cover of Fangoria #25 (pictured below).

One of the things that make David Cronenberg a great writer/director is that no matter how whacked-out his premises are, they come from a place of uncomfortable truth.

The director known for pioneering the “body-horror” subgenre frequently constructs his visceral nightmares as allegories for all-to-human anxieties, from disease and decay to familial conflict and divorce.

When he made Videodrome, Cronenberg was in between his creative breakthrough and his commercial one. He had recently made The Brood, which, in addition to being his most mature and sophisticated horror effort to date, drew on personal pain of the director’s own divorce. It balanced expert technical direction, genuine emotion, and pure terror. A few years after Videodrome, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Jack McDonald)

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David Cronenberg's The Brood Turns 30!

22 May 2009 10:39 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Can a lack of objectivity be a virtue? Art isn’t governed by the same rules as journalism, but the accepted wisdom is that the more adult a piece of art is, the less biased it is allowed to be. In “highbrow” cinema the assumption is that the subject or subjects should be presented in the clearest light possible.

But what about the visceral thrill of an artist letting go of his perspective and indulging emotion, holding a grudge, reveling in id? Thirty years ago, David Cronenberg made his best pure horror film and took the next great leap in his filmmaking with The Brood. The director openly acknowledged that the film was inspired by his acrimonious dissolution of his marriage, but even if he hadn’t, viewers would certainly have noticed that his vision of a divorce with a body count took a less than favorable stance on the sacred institution. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Jack McDonald)

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Kevin Spacey to Portray Jack Abramoff in Casino Jack

13 May 2009 7:30 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

It's been a while since Kevin Spacey has had a notable leading role but, oh boy, does he have one now. Variety confirmed that Spacey will star as the notorious Jack Abramoff in Casino Jack, due for release next year.

In 2006, Abramoff and several colleagues were indicted, tried, and convicted of defrauding American-Indian casinos out of many millions of dollars. Hayden Christensen, Christian Campbell, Spencer Garrett, and Jeffrey R. Smith will star as several of those colleagues.

Casino Jack will be directed by George Hickenlooper, who also helmed the Warhol-era indie Factory Girl. The screenplay is by Norman Snider, who also co-wrote the script for David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers.

Next Showing:

Link | Posted 5/13/2009 by Rich Z

Kevin Spacey | Hayden Christensen | Norman Snider | Spencer Garrett | Jeffrey Smith | Christian Campbell | George Hickenlooper | Casino Jack »

- Rich Z Zwelling

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Kevin Spacey To Play Abramoff

12 May 2009 11:52 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Kevin Spacey has signed on to play disgraced Us political lobbyist Jack Abramoff in Casino Jack, based on the true story of a man who went from hanging at the White House to chilling in the Big House.For those of us on this side of the Atlantic who have (at most) the vaguest idea who Abramoff is, he was a hugely successful Washington lobbyist who was convicted in 2006 on corruption, briberty and fraud in his dealing with several Indian casino groups, who he was said to have defrauded of tens of millions of dollars. He was also connected to the Bush administration, with some of its officials caught up in his trial.The film, originally called Bagman, is set to be directed by George Hickenlooper, who previously directed Factory Girl and Dogtown. It's based on a screenplay by Norman Snider (Dead Ringers). The film shoots in Toronto this month »

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Spacey for 'Casino Jack'

12 May 2009 9:20 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Kevin Spacey has signed up to star as Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Washington power broker, in Casino Jack. The project will be helmed by director George Hickenlooper, with a script from writer Norman Snider.

Spacey will take the lead as a formerly high-powered lobbyist who eventually wound up in prison over his indulgence in bribery schemes and fraudulent dealings with Native American casinos.

Abramoff was accused of defrauding indigenous peoples' tribes out of $25M for lobbying activities.

Hickenlooper was actually a co-director on the legendary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, the documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now. He also directed the excellent Mayor of the Sunset Strip, about Rodney Bingenheimer, and the passable Edie Sedgwick bio Factory Girl.

Snider’s most notable credit is as a co-writer, alongside David Cronenberg, of Dead Ringers.

This sounds like an interesting project for Spacey. He does well playing the smarmy, »

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Kevin Spacey to Star as Fallen Power Broker Jack Abramoff in Thriller "Casino Jack"

12 May 2009 7:14 PM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Kevin Spacey will play the disgraced Washington power broker Jack Abramoff in the thriller, yes thriller, "Casino Jack."

George Hickenlooper ("Dogtown," "Factory Girl") is attached to direct from an original screenplay by Norman Snider ("Dead Ringers").

The film will tell Abramoff's fall from grace as a once high-powered lobbyist brought down by his fraudulent dealings with Indian casinos.

Hayden Christensen is in talks to star as Michael Scanlon, a former communications director who plead guilty to corruption charges in connection with Abramoff. »

- Manny

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Kevin Spacey Playing Jack Abramoff in Biopic

24 April 2009 10:30 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

According to Deadline Hollywood, Kevin Spacey is currently in Washington D.C., paying a visit to Federal Prison so he can meet with ex-lobbyist and scandal magnet Jack Abramoff. Is Spacey somehow involved in one of Jack's frauds? Nope, it's research for a role in his latest film, with his director George Hickenlooper also tagging along.

The two of them are shooting a script by Dead Ringers writer Norman Snider called Casino Jack (which was Abramoff's nickname). They've been negotiating for weeks to get face time with the imprisoned Abramoff, who is apparently a Kevin Spacey fan. That's cute.

The film is likely to cause a bit of a stir if marketed right: it's a Goodfellas-style thriller about Abramoff's corrupt stint in Washington, wheeling and dealing with members of the Bush administration. The film supposedly even involves figures such as Karl Rove, and most likely Tom DeLay as well.

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- Arya Ponto

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Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (April 24, 2009)

23 April 2009 6:00 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

So in last Sunday’s much-discussed episode of Brothers & Sisters, Kevin and Scotty considered having a threeway with Kevin’s oh-so-forward ex, Chad.

I didn’t mind that Kevin and Scotty ultimately decided not to go through with it – that seems to fit their characters, after all.

But I was shocked that the writers managed to do a whole storyline about a gay couple considering whether or not to have a threeway … without ever saying a single interesting thing about a gay couple considering whether or not to have a threeway!

No matter. It’s still enough of an excuse to declare this the “Threeway Edition” of B.G.W.E!

Incest, “Fun Buddies,” And Teabagging, Oh My!

Along with Brothers & Sisters’ potential threeway, the big news last week was when easily-manipulated Fox viewers decided to protest the fact that President Obama has already cut taxes for most taxpayers (while »

- AfterElton.com Staff

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Cronenberg to Be Honored with France's Highest Award

20 March 2009 9:58 PM, PDT | ESplatter.com | See recent ESplatter news »

Former horror filmmaker David Cronenberg is due to be honored with the Legion d'honneur, France's highest award, next month. As reported in Variety today: Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has been selected to receive the Legion d'honneur, France's highest distinction. The ceremony will be held April 1 in Toronto, with consul general Jerome Cauchard to host. Cronenberg will be presented the Medal of Knight to the French National Order of the Legion of Honor. Francois Delattre, France's ambassador to Canada, will bestow the honor on behalf of French Republic president Nicolas Sarkozy. The award is meant to recognize Cronenberg's accomplishments and the services he rendered to French culture and to enhance the cultural relationship between France and Canada. Cronenberg's films have played well in France, where he has won numerous awards that include the 1996 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for "Crash." This isn't just France's highest award for a filmmaker -- but France's highest award, »

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Breakfast With ... Claire Niveau

26 January 2009 7:31 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

What are you having for breakfast, Claire?

Dextramphetamine resin. Dosage form capsule 7.5 milligram.

Use: short term treatment of obesity.

Minor side effects: dry mouth, palpitations, restlessness, unpleasant taste in mouth.

Major side effects: sleeplessness, rapid heartbeat... euphoria.Claire ignores the marmalade and butter. Never touches her croissant. She just swallows the pill down with hot coffee (you can do that?). Claire is kind of a sick f***. The Physicians Desk Reference is her favorite bedside reading.

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- NATHANIEL R

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Q&A with Moon director Duncan Jones

14 January 2009 12:33 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

"There's a reason that 'indie' and 'science fiction' are not often seen together in the same sentence...the film was a technical and logistical mind-f*ck! But... we pulled it off." -- Duncan Jones

Duncan Jones' Moon has quickly become one of the most anticipated films premiering at this year's Sundance Film Festival. A highly ambitious film, both technically and dramatically, Moon looks to have the potential to end up changing the face of indie sci-fi forever.

Of course like many of you, I won't be at the Sundance Fest this year (fingers crossed for next year), but as a special treat for those of you itching to know more about the film, we've got for you the whole story of Moon as told through the experiences of the film's director Duncan (don't call me Zowie) Jones.

Warning: If you've been living in a cave all year, some of »

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