Though early in the festival, Mike Leigh’s touching drama Another Year , looks poised to grab an award after it received the most positive reviews so far from any film in competition. It’s his best work since 1996’s Secrets and Lies .
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At Cannes: Critics Swoon Over Mike Leigh’s Another Year
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Upgrade! After trying to mount a big-budget version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with McG helming, Disney has now plunked David Fincher in that director’s chair. Coming off the Facebook drama The Social Network , it seems that Ol’ Hundred Takes was anxious to make a “visually dazzling” “four-quadrant tentpole movie,” reports THR . Disney’s budget-crunchers are already saying their novenas. [ THR ]
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Sweet! Yesssss! Or gosh! Insert whichever ironic exultation you want to borrow from Napolean Dynamite here: Fox has revealed it’s developing an animated adaptation of the indie sleeper hit. Director Jared Hess and stars Jon Heder and Efran Ramirez are all participating. Not much more is known at the moment, but the 10 or so hipsters who still have their “Vote For Pedro” T-shirts will no doubt be happy to have that fashion option back. [ The Live Feed ]
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The ever-fascinating, never predictable Wachowski Brothers seem to have taken to bold new levels those recent viral videos of military men stationed in Afghanistan blowing off steam with Lady Gaga and Ke$ha impersonations with news of their purported next feature as co-directors, a hard-R gay Iraqi love story that the chatterati has already nicknamed The Hard Locker , Brokeback Locker and Desert Storm Hearts .
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We told you not long ago about Rubber , the Cannes title about a homicidal radial tire on the loose in the California desert. Here’s another juicy morsel from this year’s program to tide you over until something more palatable (or even more ridiculous than Rubber ) is served on the Riviera.
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Cannes-ibalism: Check Out the Trailer for the Fest’s Best Mexican Flesh-Eater Movie
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If you ever want the Alphabet network to pick up your medical drama, you’ll have to get past Shonda Rhimes first. The Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice creator received news today that her latest endeavor, Off the Map , was greenlit to series, and it sounds like it’ll be a hybrid of Grey’s and your favorite soon-to-be-over ABC island adventure. Cue the smoke machine.
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Roman Polanski’s already-embattled fortunes just took a turn for the worse. Today in Los Angeles, actress Charlotte Lewis (who starred in Polanski’s Pirates ) accused the director of sexually abusing her when she was 16. Was it illegal? Not necessarily, as the age of consent in Paris is 15. Is it an added headache for Polanski? Most definitely.
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After a relatively quiet decade spent dabbling in TV, studio comedies and a few underperforming indies, Michael Douglas is taking no prisoners in 2010. Currently in Cannes promoting Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps — in which he reprises his Oscar-winning role as treacherous capitalist baron Gordon Gekko — Douglas spent the earlier part of this week in New York talking to Movieline about his other cutthroat comeback kid in Solitary Man .
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What’s Charlie Kaufman been up to since writing and directing Synechdoche, New York ? Oh, just putting a polish on some of the biggest animated franchises in town. THR brings word that the venerated screenwriter spent two weeks punching up Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom , while a Slashfilm commenter in the know says Kaufman pulled the same duty on Shrek Forever After . Should either of the movies existentially fold in on themselves, I guess we’ll know for sure. [ THR via Slashfilm ]
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As you might have figured, Shia LaBeouf is in Cannes promoting Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps . As you might not have figured, the young star is spending some of that time confirming he’s on the same page as the rest of the world when it comes to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen . To wit: Yup, it sucked. But! At least he expects the third installment to redeem it.
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