March 2012
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'The Town' scribe tapped for 'Top Gun 2' -... →
Via Variety: Peter Craig has been hired to write the sequel. Late last year X-Men First Class Ahsley Miller and Zack Stentz were hired, but nothing was ever written.
“Top Gun 2,” which will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Films and David Ellison’s Skydance Prods.
I am in two minds about this one… does it really need a sequel? I am not in entirely sure it does, but none...
'Five-Year Engagement' to open Tribeca -... →
Via Variety: The Tribeca Film Festival will kick off this year with Universal Pictures’ “The Five-Year Engagement,” the latest comedy from Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel.
It will screen at the festival on 17 April followed by a wider release on 27 April.
It looks like a fun film to add to my watch list for 2012.
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Nicole Kidman in talks for Rowan Joffe thriller... →
Nicole Kidman might be stepping on board Rowan Joffe’s pyschological thriller Before I Go To Sleep, Scott Free is set to produce. The project is adapted from Steve Watson’s debut novel.
Watson’s acclaimed novel is a psychological thriller about a woman who wakes up every morning without remembering the past 20 years of her life.
This is an interesting concept and I’m actually...
February 2012
252 posts
“I always wanted to give a lecture at film schools. You go in and you see all...”
– David Fincher (via in-the-afternoon)
Wahlberg, Kitsch Into Peter Berg's Lone Survivor →
Peter Berg is in talks with….Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Ben Foster for his next project on Navy Seals. Sounds promising so far. I hope it’s a good script.
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“Best advice on writing I’ve ever received: Finish.”
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Peter Mayle (via AdviceToWriters) …and how!
Oh, yes. So true. (via mrgregfrancis)
'Descendants' scribes sell pitch to Paintbrush -... →
From Variety: Fresh off their Oscar win for “The Descendants,” scribes Nat Faxon & Jim Rash have sold an original action-comedy pitch to Indian Paintbrush that has Kristen Wiig attached to star.
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The 2012 Oscars and the Film Festival Circuit: Why... →
For the Festival junkies, Indiewire has a rather interesting article on how the awards machine and festivals intersect.
“Every year, film festivals around the world vie for bragging rights that the best such-and-such Oscar winner debuted at their festival.”
Cannes Film Festival: Six wins, 19 nominations (“The Artist,” “The Tree of Life,” “Midnight in...
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EFM announces 15% attendance boost | News | Screen →
Good to hear that there was a boost despite the frigid weather. Trying new things is always a risk, but it seems that this year the new initiatives and sometimes a new location for an event paid dividiends for the following events, ’Meet the Docs, Sundance at EFM, American Indepedents at Berlin, Meet the distributors and meet the festivals.
EFM and Berlin is on my list of Festivals to...
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Cannes' Official Poster Features Marilyn Monroe -... →
Fantastic poster.
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Fassbender joins Your Film Festival team -... →
It looks like another relationship like Crowe has with Scott is starting to develop. Fassbender has joined Scott’s Your Film Festival.
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“What we crave most in this world is connection. For some people it happens at...”
– Wally Mars (via filigrees)
UK domestic productions down, co-productions up in... →
AMC Theatres Movie News: The Link Between... →
amctheatres:
Fans of the “Alien” franchise have been wondering about the connection between Ridely Scott’s sci-fi classic and the directors upcoming space-epic “Prometheus” since the current project’s inception. Many will recall that “Prometheus” began as an “Alien” prequel and then transformed, throughout the…
Explaining Dujardin’s Greeting at the Oscars →
Short and sweet, this is beautiful and I would’ve screamed as well. What a great way to remember her grandfather.
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via positive-outlooks)
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Alan Ball Stepping Down as Head Writer of 'True... →
popculturebrain:
Forbes is exclusively reporting that the creator will be abandoning his post as show runner due to reasons that include exhaustion. They also speculate that money could have something to do with it. He will be staying on the show in some capacity (I’d assume as EP).
Speaking of shows that should end…
Hmmm, interesting news.
Meet the Hottest Screenwriter Around - Abi Morgan →
This is Abi Morgan’s year. She’s had an incredibly well reviewed show—The Hour—air in England and here in the States. To top that off she has not one, but two, films hitting the movie theatres this awards season—Shame and The Iron Lady. Shame has gotten star making reviews for Michael Fassbender (and there are talks of an Oscar nomination) and The Iron Lady hasn’t even yet started to...
“At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...”
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via inothernews)
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Academy Awards - Best Actress
Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Viola Davis – The Help
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn
Academy Awards - Best Original Screenplay
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids – Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
Margin Call – JC Chandor
Midnight In Paris – Woody Allen
A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
Academy Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants – Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Hugo – John Logan
The Ides of March – George Clooney and Grant Heslov
Moneyball – Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian and Stan Chervin
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughn
Academy Awards - Best Original Song
Man or Muppet from The Muppets – Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Real in Rio from Rio – Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett
“You’re only two years older than me, darling, where have you been all my life?”
– Christopher Plummer (via oldfilmsflicker)
“I’m wrapping up. I’m sorry. I’m freaking out.”
– Octavia Spencer (via oldfilmsflicker)
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