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John C. Reilly and Mary-Louise Parker Go 'Red'
5 November 2009 4:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
When Warren Ellis' Red was first optioned, I wasn't particularly excited. As readers have pointed out, Ellis has many books that would be more exciting to see on the big screen. The initial casting of Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman didn't inspire a lot of excitement, either. (I love both, but Willis as an ex-assassin? Hardly inspired.) But as Robert Schwentke has filled out his cast, things have gotten a lot more interesting. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mary-Louise Parker and John C. Reilly are in talks to join Red alongside Freeman, Willis, and Helen Mirren.
Reilly would play a retired CIA agent who is paranoid that everyone is out to kill him. Willis' predicament will naturally prove him right, and it's the frantic, nervous role that Reilly specializes in. Again, it's not the most inspired casting, but it's exciting to see Reilly finally land a comic book role. »
- Elisabeth Rappe
AFI Fest 2009: Christopher Plummer, Viggo Mortensen Tributes
24 October 2009 10:57 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer in The Last Station (top); Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence (bottom) AFI Fest 2009 has selected Christopher Plummer, who’ll turn 80 next December, and Viggo Mortensen, 51, as this year’s tribute honorees. Sponsored by the Skirball Cultural Center, Plummer’s tribute will precede the screening of The Last Station, in which he plays Leo Tolstoy, on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Mortensen’s tribute will precede the Us premiere of John Hillcoat’s futuristic drama The Road on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Both tributes will take place at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. A stage, film, and television and television veteran, during the course of his 50-plus-year career Plummer has won two Tony Awards (for Cyrano [...] »
- Andre Soares
New Criminologist dives deep into ‘The Irishman’ in “Inside an Upcoming Major Hollywood Mob Flick”
14 October 2009 12:58 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
While promoting the production of ‘The Irishman,’ we’ve found there are many disparate niches of fans for this film. For example, Vincent D’Onofrio, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Ray Stevenson and many of the other actors have dedicated fan groups and dozens of fan sites and busy message boards.
Ray Stevenson as Danny Greene in 'The Irishman'
There are folks who have a personal association with the Cleveland mob wars and others who care mostly that the film is made in Detroit. Then of course, there are mafia movies fans And also the historians and researchers who adeptly chronicle every nuance of the situations, characters and compare/contrast the reality with the movies.
A perfect example of the latter is the New Criminologist who published an deep-dive article into the story by Ron Chepesiuk called The Irishman: Inside an Upcoming Major Hollywood Mob Flick.
For those »
- Dave
Josh Olson On 'Oz,' 'The Twisted Land Of Oz' And Todd McFarlane
1 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Earlier this week, we ran an excerpt from MTV Splash Page editor Rick Marshall's interview with Todd McFarlane. In the article, the McFarlane discusses what some of the plans are for adapting his "Twisted Land of Oz" toy line into a feature film. He also mentions a writer, "A History of Violence" scribe Josh Olson, who turned in a script that McFarlane wasn't satisfied with. Well there's more to the story, and Olson has kindly taken some time out to share his side of the story.
My name is Josh Olson, and I am the screenwriter who wrote the script for the Warner Brothers "Oz" project. I read MTV's interview with Todd McFarlane yesterday, and just wanted to clear up some confusing misunderstandings.
I was never hired to write anything based on "The Twisted Land of Oz."
The project I pitched to Warner Brothers was based entirely on my own ideas, »
- MTV Movies Team
Exclusive: Todd McFarlane Speaks On The Story And Future Of 'The Twisted Land Of Oz'
29 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
This week, fans get to celebrate almost a century of "The Wizard of Oz" with a 70th Anniversary DVD/Blu-ray release of the 1939 film. It's fitting then that we have some exclusive new information to share with you on the screen adaptation of Todd McFarlane's "The Twisted Land of Oz" toy line.
MTV Splash Page editor Rick Marshall spoke to the man himself recently, and he was more than happy to delve into the project's genesis, some basic story elements and what the future holds. There's new stuff in here, things you haven't heard yet. The short version: this ain't your granddaddy's "Wizard of Oz." "Spawn" creator McFarlane has some dark ideas kicking around in his head, and they mesh very well with the inherently creepy qualities of "Oz."
Just coming to the point we're at today has been quite a ride for McFarlane. The "Twisted" line of toys »
- Adam Rosenberg
David Cronenberg Returns to The Fly
25 September 2009 7:42 AM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
It’s very rare to see original filmmakers involved with the many remakes and reboots populating Hollywood, but that seems to be the case here as the Risky Biz Blog is reporting David Cronenberg is developing a remake of his 1986 cult classic The Fly. Cronenberg has previously gone on record as saying he didn’t want to be involved in remakes of his films, but he’s apparently had a change of heart. According to Risky Biz the filmmaker is developing the project at Fox with an eye at possibly writing and directing the new version. The 1986 title, itself a remake of Kurt Neumann's 1958 sci-fi classic, starred Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who, after an experiment with teleportation goes awry, is transformed into a fly. Geena Davis starred as Goldblum's love interest and partner, Veronica. The film spawned a sequel in 1989 that starred Eric Stotlz as Seth and Veronica’s son. »
- James Cook
Viggo Mortensen To Not Quit Acting
24 September 2009 1:55 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Collider recently caught up with acclaimed actor Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence) during the premiere of his upcoming film The Road at the Toronto International Film Festival, and took the exclusive opportunity to ask the Mortensen what was up with his declaration to step away from acting, which shocked Viggo-lovers across the Net earlier this past Spring.
To our shared semi-surprise (sarcasm alert), Mortensen pulled a Brett Favre-style about-face and shot down the rumore, stating that he’ll be sticking around to mess with this whole being-an-actor thing for the time being.
Ok, so maybe he didn’t say it quite like that - maybe it was more along the lines of “Eh, I’m good for now,” but… Oh heck, just watch this exclusive video scoop from Collider:
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Ah Viggo… as elusive and enigmatic as ever.
I could get snarky about actors / athletes / rappers (isn’t Joaquin Phoenix all three in one? »
- Kofi Outlaw
David Cronenberg to Remake The Fly
24 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
David Cronenberg (A History of Violence, Eastern Promises) has revealed that he is developing a reboot of his 1986 sci-fi classic "The Fly," with plans of directing and potentially writing the new film. His 1986 movie, which is a remake of Kurt Neumann's 1958 film, starred Jeff Goldblum and became a huge hit for Fox, earning $40 million and turning into a phenomenon. It centers on Seth Brundle (Goldblum), an eccentric scientist who, after an experiment with teleportation goes awry, is transformed into a fly. After making the film, Cronenberg stated that he was not interested in pursuing any more installments. Three years later, 20th Century Fox developed a sequel that Cronenberg was not involved with. It was mostly ignored by the moviegoers. »
Cronenberg circles revamped version of 'The Fly'
24 September 2009 11:25 AM, PDT | Denver Movies Examiner | See recent Denver Movies Examiner news »
Acclaimed director David Cronenberg will develop a remake of his 1986 film The Fly.
The Fly, a remake of Kurt Neumann’s 1958 feature, made an impressive $40 million domestically and starred Jeff Goldblum as a scientist who is accidentally transformed into a fly. Thanks to the botched experiment, the good doctor is given sweet, sweet powers like sticking to walls, doing flips and become a grotesque monster.
The film co-starred Geena Davis.
Cronenberg walked away from future installments but 20th Century Fox created a lackluster sequel in 1989 which opened to poor reviews.
The Canadian filmmaker will also begin work on The Maltarese Circle, a political thriller due out in 2010. He is best known for such films as A History of Violence, Eastern Promises (which scored an Oscar nomination for Viggo Mortensen) and The Dead Zone.
For those unaware of The Fly, here's a quick rundown courtesy of a search on YouTube: »
Latest Buzz: David Cronenberg Working On ‘The Fly’ Reboot
24 September 2009 8:18 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
We’ve all been there: sitting at a picnic, enjoying an egg salad sandwich and some watermelon. You turn your head to look for a napkin and when you turn back around, without fail, there is a nasty little fly trying to grab a free meal. Bah! The whole sandwich is ruined now; doesn’t matter if you only saw it sitting on the very top corner, you’ll have to throw the whole thing away “just in case” it had time to trod its dirty little fly feet all over your sandwich. No sir; no one likes flies!
Unless of course said fly is Jeff Goldblum in a remake of the Kurt Nuemann 1958 sci-fi classic, The Fly. David Cronenberg directed the 1986 remake with Goldblum as inventor/scientist-turned-fly, Seth Brundle, although neither director or star would return for the sequel three years later. For years, Cronenberg insisted he did not »
- Paul Young
David Cronenberg to gets ready for a remake of ‘The Fly’
24 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Luminary director David Cronenberg will develop a remake of his 1986 film The Fly.
The Fly, a remake of Kurt Neumann’s 1958 feature, made an impressive $40 million (hey, it was 1986!) and starred Jeff Goldblum as a scientist who is accidentally transformed into a fly. Thanks to the botched experiment, the good doctor is given cool powers like sticking to walls, doing flips and become a grotesque monster.
The film co-starred Geena Davis.
Cronenberg walked away from future installments but 20th Century Fox created a lackluster sequel in 1989 which opened to terrible reviews.
The Canadian filmmaker will also begin work on The Maltarese Circle, a political thriller due out in 2010. He is best known for such films as A History of Violence, Eastern Promises (which scored an Oscar nomination for Viggo Mortensen) and The Dead Zone.
Related posts:‘Fast and Furious’ and ‘Iron Man’ teams unite for ‘Highlander’ remakeBryan Singer in talks »
- Erik Buckman
David Cronenberg May Remake 'The Fly' Again
24 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
David Cronenberg is a filmmaker who knows how to properly employ gore. He is a master of body horror, a sub-genre focusing on the degeneration of the physical human form. Gore serves an artful purpose; the breakdown of the human body -- wrought by mutilation, mutation, disease or anything else -- is closely scrutinized for the purpose of creating fear in the viewer.
One of the classic examples of well-implemented gore in a Cronenberg film is "The Fly," a 1986 remake of Kurt Neumann same-titled effort from 1958. Jeff Goldblum plays Seth Brundle, a sort of mad scientist who metamorphoses into a humanoid fly after an experiment with a teleporter goes horribly wrong. It is a slow transformation, with Brundle shedding his humanity along with various body parts.
The word now is that Cronenberg is in talks with Fox to write and possibly direct a "reboot" of the 80s remake, according to »
- Adam Rosenberg
David Cronenberg Remaking His Classic 1986 Film The Fly For 20th Century Fox
23 September 2009 9:32 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Every day I read the latest film news and every couple of days there is always that one story which confuses me and makes me say “what.” out loud. I look forward to these news items just because I find them more fun than the average news item. Having said all that, I never thought that I would come home one of these days to see news pop out saying that David Cronenberg would be remaking his 1986 version of “The Fly” starring Jeff Goldblum. This all just confuses me so much because how could you make something that is already perfect better? If you are just as confused/fascinated as I am about this one, just hit the jump for more details.
THR’s Risky Buisness Blog tells us that the Canadian master of all things weird and fucked up will be developing a reboot of his film with Fox. »
- Ramses Flores
Cronenberg Working on 'The Fly', Again
23 September 2009 9:15 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
One of David Cronenberg’s most well-known movies could be getting a reboot...by David Cronenberg.
The Fly, which the Canadian auteur wrote and shot for Fox in 1986, was itself a remake of Kurt Neumann’s science-fiction classic. But critics lauded Cronenberg’s film for being, they claimed, an allegory about AIDS, and the movie clearly struck a chord: it earned $40M at the box office and helped make stars out of Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis.
Goldblum played Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist experimenting with how to teleport living creatures. He uses himself as a guinea pig, but when a fly enters the teleporter, Brundle’s DNA gets altered and his body begins mutating—in miraculous, then grotesque ways. Davis starred as his partner and love interest Veronica.
In the past, Cronenberg said he was not interested in remaking The Fly, but clearly he has changed his opinion. Lately, »
'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
Fame, Rage and Capitalism
21 September 2009 6:55 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
This week, contrasting approaches to filmmaking bring about balance and equilibrium. Experimentalism (Sally Potter's "Rage" and Michael Almereyda's "Paradise") collides head on with tried and tested formulas (the Clive Owen starrer "The Boys Are Back" and a remake of "Fame").
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Stanley Tucci adapts and stars in the second remake from the canon of slain Dutch director Theo Van Gogh, the first being Steve Buscemi's 2007 "Interview." A whimsical psychological tussle between a husband and wife who play games to patch up their marriage, the story hones in on the attempted romantic rediscovery between long-married Don (Tucci) and Jenna (Patricia Clarkson).
Opens in New York.
Writer/director Russell Brown's comedy stays true to the adage "write what you know," as a miserably bad screenplay threatens to »
- Neil Pedley
Toronto 2009: "Chloe" is Heated, "Whip It" Whips It Good
14 September 2009 8:56 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Some may disagree, but I think there's something pretty cool about Toronto's mayor David Miller coming out to declare how proud he is of Atom Egoyan's new erotic thriller "Chloe." Of course, Miller was more likely taking pride in the depiction of his fair city than the film itself, which opens with Amanda Seyfried putting on a lacy black brassiere and never looks back. Egoyan has never shied away from the erotic -- it's the thrills part that has eluded his work for mainstream audiences, and when we meet Catherine (Julianne Moore) at the start of "Chloe," she, too, is dissatisfied.
As a locally prestigious gynecologist, Catherine is smart and sophisticated, but in a foretelling scene, she informs a patient that orgasms are "just a series of muscle contractions." When her husband (Liam Neeson) fails to return home for a surprise birthday party she has planned for him, Catherine »
- Stephen Saito
Why Josh Olson is an Asshole
14 September 2009 12:10 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
A few years ago, I fell in love with the format of screenplay writing. The craft is understandably intoxicating for anyone who has any inclination toward writing - it's all action, all dialog, and none of the fluff. So I packed up my bags, moved to the only city in the country where you can be successful at screenwriting and promptly wrote a novel. That's right. As soon as I got to Los Angeles, I realized that I needed more description in my life (and that I was far, far too egotistical to allow my story to be a group effort), so I wrote a novel. But that doesn't mean that I didn't learn a metric ton by working in production. Above all, I learned that it takes a lot of hard work undertaken with a smile to garner any notice in that world. The reason to get noticed of course is that having a helpful hand »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
Celebs React: Bay v. Fox Round 8, Clooney's Impressed and about that Script
13 September 2009 1:03 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Michael Bay laughs as Megan Fox squeezes one out at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards
Photo: MTV Michael Bay saw fit to respond to an open letter from his crew members (which has since been deleted) that was posted on his official site by denouncing it: I don't condone the crew letter to Megan. And I don't condone Megan's outlandish quotes. But her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm. The fact of the matter I still love working with her, and I know we still get along. I even expect more crazy quotes from her on Transformers 3. Uh, Mr. Bay, the next time you don't condone something don't allow for it to be posted as a news item on your official site. Just a piece of solid advice I'd say. The Road director John Hillcoat talks about the misleading trailers for the film with Movieline telling the site: »
- Brad Brevet
Read Your Script? F—, No!
13 September 2009 9:56 AM, PDT | newser.com | See recent newser news »
Josh Olson is a professional screenwriter, and his time and experience are money. So just as the author of A History of Violence wouldn’t ask you to “represent me in fucking court, or take out my fucking gallbladder,” please, don’t ask him to give you advice on your screenplay. “I will not read your fucking script,” he writes in the Village Voice —because you’re probably no good, and he’ll feel obligated to tell you. It’s also a point of pride. “Everybody can write, right?” So aspiring ink-stained wretches “don’t regard working screenwriters with any kind of real respect” and “will... »
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