Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Arnold Schwarzenegger sets another action comeback… James Franco gets kinky with James Dean… Doris Day draws love from the critics… Michael Shannon teases a bit of General Zod… and more.
It’s the most wonderful time of year — that calm October blip where Oscar season’s best films are coming up and we dream about how overrated many of them will be. I feel like a little kid again! While this season is far less objectionable than last year’s , I can think of a couple movies I’d normally (and irrationally) resist if it weren’t my job to deal with them. Can you?
Happy Friday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Catherine Zeta-Jones is getting Broken … The Bible is hot in Hollywood!… The only Akira takedown you’ll ever need… and more.
This is interesting: The New York Film Critics Circle announced today that it has moved up its 2011 awards-voting conference to Nov. 28 — two full weeks prior to its usual mid-December vote and right to the front of the line in terms of awards-season tone-setting and influence.
Woody Allen may have lost his knack for titling his films , but he hasn’t lost his sense of humor. In a recent New York Times interview conducted by Elaine May, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter asked Allen to reveal something “startling” about himself that he had never shared publicly. Allen deadpanned, “I’m wanted for pederasty in Mongolia.” Other revelations? “I am already more than sufficiently attractive. Of course the actual impact of my physique might not be apparent to the naked eye at first glance, but with some laser surgery or perhaps corneal transplants the viewer will be amply rewarded.” [ NYT ]
By the year 2013, IMAX theaters and Kodak will bring digital theatrical projection to the next level with a single, exciting, futuristic-sounding concept: LASERS ! The companies announced their partnership today in a statement promising advances in quality projection in large-scale IMAX and dome theaters in the coming years to benefit moviegoers, theaters, and investors. Win-win-win?
Happy Friday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: What will they call the Zorro reboot?… John Singleton closes in on the Tupac biopic… The Whistleblower gets its UN close-up… You’ll never guess what opened the Mumbai Film Festival… and more.
Happy Friday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Woody Harrelson may be next up for Now You See Me … The Half Nelson team gets Hate Mail … Idris Elba “would definitely consider” James Bond… The English Patient spawns a lawsuit… and more.
MGM’ s remake of Red Dawn has been languishing on the shelf for ages now, seeking a new home — and it looks like it found one in FilmDistrict, who is reportedly making a deal to release the film. The action pic, which cast up-and-comers like Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, Adrienne Palicki, and Josh Hutcherson before theirs stars began rising in the last few years, will likely hit theaters in 2012 featuring the altered plotline involving evil North Korean invaders. [ LA Times ]
Have you been on the lookout for a living, breathing Harry Potter cast member to call your own? If so, you’re in luck because an adorable actor who appeared onscreen in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is looking for a new home. Hint: It’s not Daniel Radcliffe.