Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel – it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they’d see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them. —Steve McQueen
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Via Indiewire: The Studios are starting to line up their chess pieces movies for 2014 and 2015. It’s always interesting to see how they think are a movie will play by where it is placed for award season and box office.
"I try to take risks and I try to challenge myself and I try not to be complacent or lazy in any way. For Shame, I tried to do justice to the beautiful script that Abi [Morgan] and Steve put together. I’ve got to put myself out on the line and try and represent [that] as best I can. And that’s, I think, just part of my job description, I don’t see it as being exceptional or anything else. The thing is, I try and move forward, you know? I put heart and soul into this film six months ago, now I have to concern myself about the next thing. I can’t linger in the past."
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Michael Fassbender discussing Abi Morgan’s and Steve McQueen’s script “Shame”.
- This is all you can ask of an actor and all that they can ask of you as a writer to not to be lazy or complacent in any way.
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"Now, on Breaking Bad, I am kind of the last word on the set for the look of the show. And I’m very open. We don’t have rules there. Our rule is to tell the story honestly — that’s our credo. We don’t say, “You must tell it in long shots, You must tell it in wide shots, You must tell it in close-ups, you must do this…” What we do say, if that you must get to the essence of the story, and tell it organically. When you do something like that, then it kind of rolls off of the screen. It doesn’t feel like the photography is a separate job from the writing or the acting or the art directing or the makeup. Everything feels of a piece, and that’s the best compliment you can pay to any visual artists, I think — hen it all feels like it belongs there"
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‘Breaking Bad’ Director of Photography Michael Slovis Talks About Shaping the Look of the Most Cinematic Show on Television,
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Via Indiewire: Jessica Chastain has joined the cast of Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Intersteller”.
Script details are sketchy but, the story will involve time travel and wormholes.
“De Niro tried out for the part of Sonny. And we shot a test on De Niro, which I think exists, that was so electrifying. He was spectacular, but it was Sonny really like killer, nothing you could ever sell.” - Francis Ford Coppola on Robert De Niro’s audition for Sonny Corleone
It makes you wonder what could have been… But, we got James Caan instead and I think he did a great job and DeNiro was killer in Part 2.
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Via Indiwire: The saga continues for the troubled project as Bradley Cooper has now dropped due to “scheduling conflicts”. Natalie Portman and Joel Edgerton remain with the project. Hopefully all this off-set drama can be channelled into making an interesting film.
Steven Soderbergh weighs in on the state of the industry. It’s pretty fascinating worth a listen for those that are interested in that business side of show business.
Via Screendaily: Michael Fassbender is attached to star in a reimagined MacBeth, reuniting him with the producers of Shame.
Snowtown director Justin Kurzel is attached to direct the film, which is expected to shoot later this year. Writers are Todd Louiso and Jacob Koskoff.
The script has been one of the most in-demand ahead of the Cannes Film Festival with a number of sales outfits keen to work on the film.
Development and production backing on the UK-Australian co-production comes from Film4.
The part of Lady Macbeth is currently being cast and talks are underway with at least one Hollywood leading actress.
"The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and dance and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked…that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right."
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Neil Gaiman (via thatkindofwoman)
Note: There is so much truth in this statement all art… whatever it is that you do, draw, paint, sculpt, write, exposes a part of your soul and that’s what makes you feel like you have nowhere to hide and that is where you are on the money.
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Via Indiewire: New images of Thor: The Dark World have dropped and they are about what you’d expect from this superhero.. romantic comedy.
Yes, that seems to be the way the team behind the project are describing it.
Via Thompson on Hollywood: Tribeca has announced the creation of new prize in Nora Ephron’s name to be called “The Nora’.
The Tribeca Film Festival (April 17-28) has announced the creation of a new award, the Nora Ephron Prize. The $25,000 award will recognize a woman writer or director with a distinctive voice who embodies the spirit and vision of writer-director Ephron (1941-2012).
The inaugural prize, called “the Nora,” will be presented at the TFF Women Filmmakers Brunch on April 25. It will be given to a woman whose film is making its North American, International or World Premiere at the Tribeca fest
Via Screendaily:
Jérôme Salle’s Cape Town-set thriller Zulu, starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom, will close the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, running May 15-26
"When we write, we access different aspects of ourselves, different characters, different parts of our brains and hearts. And then, when they’ve each had their say, we mentally switch hats, step back from accessing our myriad selves, and take a more distanced and critical view of what we’ve done. Don’t we always work by editing and structuring the outpouring of our many selves? Isn’t the end product the result of two or more sides of ourselves working with one another?"
— David Byrne, How Music Works
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