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After Magic Mike, Still-Retiring Steven Soderbergh Looks to TV and Less ‘Important’ Movies

The Magic Mike director gave insight into his future endeavors once his hard stop to movie making begins in six months. He told Reuters that a book and even television work may occupy his interests, following in the footsteps of a number of filmmakers who are crossing over to the small screen in the past several years. “I’ve been planning this for five years … I gave myself an out date and I’m right on schedule. I turn into a pumpkin in January,” Steven Soderbergh told Reuters . He also noted that he’s over making what he dubbed as “important movies,” adding that Che satisfied that desire. Following his latest, Soderbergh will finish off the thriller The Bitter Pill starring Channing Tatum, who also stars in Magic as well as Rooney Mara. And he also has the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon shooting this summer. Candelabra may be a window, in fact, into the Oscar winning director’s future since it’s an HBO production. “After I take my self-imposed sabbatical, if I’m going to come back and do something, I think it’s more likely that it would be on television than it would be a movie,” he said.” What do you think of Soderbergh’s move to TV? [Source: Reuters ]

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Charlie Kaufman’s Frank or Francis A No Go?

Bad news, Charlie Kaufman fans: While some cast members had been hopeful in recent months that Frank or Francis would move ahead, Elizabeth Banks (doing the press rounds for People Like Us ) spilled news to the contrary. “I honestly don’t know where that film is at,” she told AICN. “We were supposed to make it sooner, but it’s been pushed. I think they’re waiting for everybody’s lives to come back together…I don’t really know anything about it.” Speaking with Moviefone, she elaborated that things “fell apart” before the Hollywood satire/musical could move forward into production: “We didn’t get to shoot that movie. It was ready to go, and, as many movies do, it fell apart at the last minute.” UPDATE: Over at The Playlist , the filmmaker’s reps say that the project’s not completely dead — it has just been “postponed.” [ AICN , Moviefone ]

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About That Time Cameron Crowe Fired Ashton Kutcher

“I’ll spend months working with an actor, and I think I spent four months with Ashton,” the filmmaker said recently about his time prepping Kutcher for 2005’s Elizabethtown . But the actor, who was still starring in That 70’s Show at the time, refused to devote a few weeks to the ill-fated project co-starring Kirsten Dunst. At the time, Crowe realized, “This is not meant to be,” dropped Kutcher and replaced him with Orlando Bloom. Although the film bombed at the box office, Crowe still remembers it favorably: ” Elizabethtown was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it.” [ THR ]

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REVIEW: The Lie Explores the Self-Defeat of Committing by Halves — But Only By Half

First-time director Joshua Leonard’s The Lie stretches the truth of its source material — an obsidian fragment from author T.C. Boyle, published by the New Yorker in 2008 — until its every glint is polished to a self-affirming glow. There’s a dark crackle to Boyle’s first-person account of a young man compressed to the point of fracture by the drudgery of his work as a tape logger at a film production house and the shackling disappointment of his domestic lot: He has a law student wife and an infant at home. Unable to face another day at the digital mine, the young man’s avoidant, off-white fibbing gives way to an inky whopper, and his sins soon yield a shopping bag full of money. If two decades of Coen brothers movies have taught us anything, it’s this: As good as a gun, that thing’s going to go off.

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Bella Swan, Real Girl?

“The Twilight series challenges what I would call the ‘Buffy Summers Maxim’: that teen heroines be physically empowered, oftentimes at the expense of emotional clarity. Bella Swan diverges from many of our more recent teenaged female heroines. The ones who appear in films — the feisty Olive from Easy A , the quirky ironist Juno MacGuff — often seem to be written by thirtysomethings seemingly desperate to revisit high school to work some alchemical magic: turning the abjection of it all into a badge of indie cred. But even the more complicated female heroines of recent young adult fiction — Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games or Katsa of Graceling — embody a suspiciously pleasing, ’empowered’ form of female adolescence.” [ The Hairpin ]

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Tyler Perry Stars in Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Cast Kim Kardashian?

Even I, a beleaguered devotee of Tyler Perry’s melodramatic, muumuu-rocking oeuvre, had a difficult time accepting the inevitability of… God, I can’t even write it. Kim… ugh. Kiiiimmmm… fuck . KimKardashian. Kim. Kar. Dashian. Whew. OK. Even I had a difficult time accepting the inevitability of Kim Kardashian’s casting in Perry’s upcoming The Marriage Counselor , and that was before the tragic unraveling of her nuptials to that discarded oaf, whoever he was. I wasn’t alone, either; other fans’ disapproval pelted the door of the specially reinforced storm closet where Perry sought refuge. Now, with Kar… Kar… da… Ugh. With her shooting completed, the filmmaker finally took to his blog today to explain himself.

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First Video: Takashi Miike’s Adaptation of the ‘Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney’ Video Game

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Japanese director Takashi Miike works fast. Blink and you’ll miss three films from the filmmaker, who is more happy than any other working director to leap from period action to hyper-violent thrillers to a kids’ movie. Back in May he said “It is a very light comedy that I am filming now, a court drama, based on a video game, the Nintendo game DS.” That led us to realize [1]that he is making an adaptation… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 28/10/2011 12:44 Number of articles : 2

First Video: Takashi Miike’s Adaptation of the ‘Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney’ Video Game

Joel Edgerton on Big Moments, The Thing Prequel, and Avoiding ‘The Hollywood Trap’

Australian actor Joel Edgerton has been in the business for a good 15 years, during which time he’s transitioned from Aussie TV to supporting turns in international films ( Kinky Boots , King Arthur , and Star Wars: Episode II — Revenge of the Sith ) and wrote and co-starred in the solid Australian thriller The Square with brother Nash (who directed). But in 2011 — on the heels of his work in the underperforming but critically-loved Warrior , on the eve of his lead turn in Universal’s prequel The Thing — he seems poised, finally, for his moment in the spotlight.

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Joel Edgerton on Big Moments, The Thing Prequel, and Avoiding ‘The Hollywood Trap’

Make Your Own Yarn Ryan Gosling: Some Heroes Are Crocheted

Despite that one disgruntled moviegoer’s complaints , there are plenty of diehard members of the cult of Drive , which incidentally has racked up a cool $30 million to date. Not too shabby, Film District. Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that Ryan Gosling ‘s Driver character has now been commemorated in the cutest, cuddliest way imaginable: as a crocheted amigurumi doll, complete with his signature toothpick and a yarn hammer. And you thought YOU were obsessed with Drive . Hit the jump for today’s Buzz Break…

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Christopher Columbus Face-Off: Who Has Had the Greater Impact on Film?

It’s the second Monday in October and you know what that means — it’s Columbus Day, the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 1492 arrival in the Americas. But let’s not forget, approximately 500 years after the Italian explorer set foot in the New World, a young filmmaker also named Christopher Columbus pioneered a new world of family comedy with hits like The Goonies , Home Alone , Mrs. Doubtfire and the Harry Potter franchise. In honor of today’s holiday, Movieline wonders which Christopher Columbus had the bigger impact on cinema — the navigator who brought attention to the mass of land that would eventually encompass the U.S. center of filmmaking and provide setting for millions of films — or the filmmaker who established some of our most nostalgic family films ( Adventures in Babysitting included) as well as three Harry Potter movies. Let’s investigate below!

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