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Nicolas Winding Refn on Valhalla Rising, Extreme Filmmaking and Going Hollywood

A few months shy of his 40th birthday, Nicolas Winding Refn has already directed a trilogy (the Pusher series), a biopic of England’s most violent criminal ( Bronson ), and has flirted with Hollywood projects featuring A-listers including Harrison Ford and Keanu Reeves. He is preparing to shoot the mainstream thriller Drive with Ryan Gosling, and he famously wants to make a megabudget adaptation of Wonder Woman . So with all this going for him, what is it about his gritty, nasty, surreal new Viking film Valhalla Rising that makes it the prolific Refn’s personal favorite?

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Sharon Stone Comes to Jesus

Law & Order performance artist Sharon Stone is set to play the mother of Mary in Sweet Baby Jesus a quirky retelling of the Nativity Story. Set in the ’70s, the film revolves around a pregnant and hippie-ish Mary (Pixie Lott), her husband Joseph (Adrien Brody) and the town of Bethlehem, Maryland. Bette Midler co-stars as the inn keeper. Yes, this is a real project. [ Deadline ]

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Sharon Stone Comes to Jesus

Why Do Our Most Technology-Obsessed Filmmakers Make Movies That are Anti-Technology?

Did the recent, eerie trailer for David Fincher’s Facebook movie The Social Network make you feel bad about spending so much of your life in front of a computer? It’s more than a little ironic, since Fincher clearly spends so much time in front of his.

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Why Do Our Most Technology-Obsessed Filmmakers Make Movies That are Anti-Technology?