Also in Thursday morning’s round-up of news briefs, the Tokyo International Film Festival releases details of its films for its 25th anniversary edition. Universal has removed the director from an upcoming Keanu Reeves epic. And Mexico names its Oscar contender for Best Foreign Language consideration. Tokyo International Film Festival Sets Lineup Recent Toronto titles No by Pablo Larrain, What Maisie Knew by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and Nick Cassavetes’ Yellow will screen in the competition at the 25th anniversary of the festival, which will screen around 300 films. The Tokyo International Film Festival takes place October 20 – 28. Details about the lineup can be found here . Around the ‘net… Marion Cotillard to be Honored at 16th Hollywood Film Awards The Best Actress Oscar-winner ( La Vie en Rose ) will be feted at the first awards show of the 2012 Oscar season at a gala on October 22nd. In her latest film Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard, she plays a paraplegic who finds help from an unlikely suitor, THR reports . Universal Removes Director of Keanu Reeves Film The studio assumed control of editing the samurai epic 47 Ronin from Carl Rinsch after the film’s budget ballooned to $225 million. The story is based on a Japanese legend in which a group of early 18th century samurai avenge the death of their master. The Hollywood 3-D version also adds fantasy elements such as giants and witches, The Wrap reports . Walt Disney Set for Flamingo Kid Remake Brett Ratner’s Rat Entertainment and Michael Phillips’ Lighthouse Productions will produce the remake of the 1984 feature that starred Matt Dillon. In it he played a high school grad who gets a job at the Flamingo Club and is mentored by the club’s owner. He soon grows disdainful of his blue collar roots and longs for the privileged life the club offers, but it comes with a price, Deadline reports . Mexico Names After Lucia as it’s Oscar Contender The film by Michel Franco had its world premiere in the Cannes Un Certain Regard section where it won a prize. The film centers on a father and daughter who move to a new town and face the challenges of change, THR reports .
Well, I don’t see any latex nipple protrusions, but our sister site Deadline makes an interesting point . After posting an exclusive ComingSoon.net shot of Joel Kinnaman in the new black RoboCop suit for Jose Padilha’s remake, Deadline noted that “The outfit does kinda have a Tim Burton’s Batman feel to it — a far cry from Peter Weller’s metallic get-up in the original. So, we’d like to put the question to you. Does the RoboCop 2.0 suit remind you too much of a certain Caped Crusader’s black get-up? Take the poll after the jump. RoboCop hits theaters on Aug. 9, 2013. So, the good news is, even if you don’t like it, you have time to get used to it. Oh yes, and one clarifying point about the nipples: as our commenter “Horrified” points out, those design details weren’t added until Joel Schumacher took the reins from Burton to direct Batman Forever and Batman & Robin .) Padilha’s update also stars Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley and Jennifer Ehle, Josh Zetumer and Nick Schenk wrote the re-boot script. Set in 2028, Kinnaman plays a Detroit cop seriously messed up in the line of duty. After the multinational, morally bankrupt Omnicorp saves his life and gives him super-human abilities — see suit, above — the newly christened RoboCop opens a can of whoop-ass on Detroit’s criminal element, and, if the new story follows the old, his very creators. Take Our Poll Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Also in Monday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs, a Dexter actress boards the Robocop bandwagon. Toronto ‘s Patience Stone heads to U.S. theaters. Despite a recession, the U.K. film industry is growing “significantly.” And the San Francisco Film Society Names a winner in its Hearst Screenwriting competition. The Last Harem Wins San Francisco Film Society Screenwriting Contest The $15,000 prize for SFFS’s Hearst Screenwriting Contest went to Maryam Keshavarz and Paolo Marinou-Blanco for their script, The Last Harem , while Musa Syeed received an honorable mention for The Doctor . Harem centers on a battle between a young female musician and the mother of the newly ascended boy-king for the affection of the new monarch and control of the palace’s extensive harem which will determine who becomes the most powerful woman in the Persian empire. Around the ‘net… German Far Right Group Wants to Screen Innocence of Muslims In Berlin; Germany Considers Ban The far-right Pro Deutschland Citizens Movement said it wants to screen the anti-Islamic Innocence of Muslims in Berlin saying it’s a question of “art and freedom of expression,” according to The Guardian. Meanwhile, THR said the move by the group has sparked the conservative government to invoke public safety laws to stop screenings of the film. Interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said he would use “all available legal means” to prevent Pro Deutschland from showing the film, which Friedrich called ” a series of tasteless and contempt(uous) assaults on religious sentiments.” THR reports . Arnold Schwarzenegger Asks James Cameron, Ron Meyer, Rob Friedman to Take Part in Think Tank The actor/former California governor has asked some of his high-power film friends to take part in the new USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy which the university unveiled last month. Non-Hollywood types such as former Florida Charlie Crist will attend a morning session titled, “The Importance of Post-Partisanship.” Senator McCain, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson are also expected, Deadline reports . Dexter Actress Joins MGM’s Robocop Aimee Garcia is joining the Joel Kinnaman starrer Robocop , which Jose Padilha is directing. Garcia will play a scientist who helps create the Robocop with his creator, played by Gary Oldman, THR reports . Patience Stone Heads to U.S. Theaters Sony classics picked up U.S. rights to Atiq Rahimi’s war drama The Patience Stone , which played at the recent Toronto International Film Festival. Adapted from Rahimi’s novel of the same name, it follows the story of a woman in a war-ravaged Middle Eastern country who struggles to keep her comatose husband alive and sends her children to live with their aunt. She falls into a relationship with a young soldier and starts a “secret dialogue” with her husband, Variety reports . U.K. Film Industry Worth £4.6 Billion in 2011 An independent report says the industry has grown “significantly” over the past two decades. The number of British films has grown from an average of 43 in the ’80s to 136 in the 2000s. The figure is about $7.475 billion BBC reports .
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Having labeled the 1990 sci-fi Total Recall “ cheesy ,” it was only a matter of time before the makers of this summer’s lackluster Colin Farrell-starring remake had the tables turned on them by Paul Verhoeven , the original film’s director. And so, Friday at a sold-out screening of the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Verhoeven seized the opportunity for a little payback, a good-natured gleam in his eye. “Colin Farrell called it in an interview ‘kitschy,’” he declared with a smile. “So I dare to say that his version was not good.” Verhoeven revisited the making of the film over 22 years ago over the course of an hourlong Q&A, joined by screenwriters Ron Shusett, who first optioned Dick’s short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” and co-scripted Total Recall and Alien with the late Dan O’Bannon, and Gary Goldman, who came on to help flesh out a third act and penned many of the film’s memorable one-liners. The trio shared memories of the film’s long journey to the screen, the difficulty in adapting a writer as brilliant as Philip K. Dick, and the unique challenges and benefits of writing for a star like Schwarzenegger. Scroll down for these and more highlights from the evening, including Verhoeven’s favorite scene! Why he cast Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct ! The connection between Total Recall and Alien ! (Plus: an update on his Winter Queen adaptation, which was to star Milla Jovovich but, he says, “fell into the wrong hands.”) 1. VERHOEVEN ON THE TOTAL RECALL REMAKE “Arnold being there made the movie a little light, and I think that’s very important for these Philip Dick stories,” he said. “I think if it would have been done in a straight way, I’m not so sure that it would have worked – at least, not at that time. And recently [in the Total Recall remake], it did not. I get to say that because the producer of the new one said that this was cheesy or something. And Colin Farrell called it in an interview ‘kitschy.’ So I dare to say that his version was not good.” 2. THE LONG ROAD TO TOTAL RECALL A notoriously long and troubled development saw Total Recall nearly derailed many times, as Shusett recalled. “Sets were being built in Germany, in Australia, and Mexico City — all over the world — and being cancelled. At that time it was the most expensive movie ever made… it was cancelled so many times that when I asked if they would save it, they said the only way we could do this was if we called it Partial Recall .” Once Schwarzenegger signed on, he lent his star power to supporting collaborators behind the scenes. Shusett, who’d written and was producing the project, was nearly removed from the film until Schwarzenegger stepped in on his behalf; the actor also handpicked Verhoeven to direct, as the filmmaker remembered. “Arnold picked me,” said Verhoeven. “Arnold was after this project for a long time… they had started to shoot in Australia and then [Dino De Laurentiis’] company fell apart and went bankrupt. Then Arnold convinced Mario Kassar of Carolco to buy the script out of the bankruptcy. And at the same time he said to Mario, ‘I want Paul Verhoeven because I have seen RoboCop .'” Even with Verhoeven onboard, the script was missing a conclusion. “I felt that something had to happen in the third act that would also be also a little bit philosophical or ambiguous or something, but that was not there,” he said. “And I really got scared – there were like 40 drafts where it was not solved. I thought, it’s unsolvable! It can’t be done! But I had signed already.” 3. THE PHILIP K. DICK CHALLENGE “The other Philip Dick movies all failed for one reason,” declared Shusett. “He’s so brilliant with his set up, he paints you into a corner, he has no ending, there’s barely a second act, and if you don’t match his brilliance with a third act the audience is disappointed. You have to go to extreme length, talent and luck, and come up with an ending that’s worthy of his brilliant set up. That’s why it took six years to get a third act!” Verhoeven’s ambiguous ending leaves open both possibilities that Quaid is either experiencing real life or a fantasy. “I felt that it should be both. I thought in retrospect this is probably the first post-modern film,” said Verhoeven, adding that “the producer of the new one asked me [if it’s real or not]. I said no it’s both, and he said, ‘That’s nonsense.’” 4. SHARON STONE: FROM LORI TO BASIC INSTINCT “For me, casting Sharon was very handy because I started to realize during the shoot what she could do,” revealed Verhoeven. “There’s this beautiful moment when they kick the shit out of [Schwarzenegger] and Rachel [Ticotin] comes out of the elevator and starts shooting. Sharon is on the ground and looks at Arnold … and it was exactly these 5, 6 seconds that made me decide to take Sharon Stone for Basic Instinct . It was based on the fact that she could do that so fast and so believable and she is so mean and so nice and charming, one after the other, that I thought she would be perfect for Basic Instinct .” 5. THE REAL LIFE INSPIRATION FOR RICHTER’S DEATH As a child, Verhoeven played in an elevator that he briefly thought might cut off his legs as he dangled them over the side. He exorcised his lingering horror at the thought by condemning Michael Ironside’s Richter to death by elevator amputation. “I often think about it; I would have been without legs.” 6. VERHOEVEN’S FAVORITE SCENE “I came to the scene that is still one of my favorite scenes, the Dr. Edgemar scene with Roy Brocksmith, who comes to Arnold on Mars and says what we see in him, ‘You are not here.’ I thought that was such a fascinating scene to dare to do that, to say something to the audience that they have been looking at something that is completely not true, and then prove to them that it’s true again.” 7. PAUL VERHOEVEN’S CRUSADE , STARRING ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Verhoeven spoke fondly of Crusade , the famously never-produced period epic that would have reunited Verhoeven and Schwarzenegger in 1993. “We tried very hard when we were setting up The Crusades. The script was written by Walon Green, and we were supposed to shoot it then Carolco went into Chapter 11 and the movie was never made. Certainly Ridley Scott did Kingdom of Heaven but it was, again, with Arnold, a lighter version of The Crusades but very critical of the Christians.” 8. ABOUT WRITING FOR/DIRECTING ARNOLD… The Quaid character was originally written as an accountant, but that idea (not to mention the suggestion that he could pass as an everyman) went out the window when Schwarzenegger was cast. “It seemed completely ridiculous,” Verhoeven said. “We realized we had to give him a completely different job. Jackhammer worker. We adapted everything to Arnold because I felt that you could not go around Arnold!” “We wrote it like he was just an ordinary Joe, like Jeff Bridges, one of the earlier persons who was going to do it,” said Shusett. “And you don’t know he’s a super agent but Suddenly he’s believable – so he could be a nerd, and not. But we realized everybody knows Arnold’s going to be the real secret agent … but if you can get it made, it turns your mind around.” “In retrospect,” Verhoeven added, “I’m very happy that Arnold was forced upon me.” 9. TOTAL RECALL AND ALIEN Schusett took the audience back a few decades to tell the story of how Total Recall and Alien sprang from a moment of mutual writer’s block between him and Dan O’Bannon. “He said a lot of people want to be writers – he was very blunt and could cut you down in a minute, but he was always truthful,” Schusett laughed, remembering his initial meeting with O’Bannon. “‘Can you show me something you’ve written?’ I went home and gave him something I wrote, a spec script. He said, ‘You’re good – come on over, I have a proposition for you: I can help you finish this if you can help me finish this .’ And he pulled out this thing, he had 29 pages written. He said, ‘You can’t take it with you because I don’t know you and I don’t trust you yet, sit down here and read it.’ And I sat down and read it, and it was the first 29 pages of Alien . I said ‘This is brilliant.’ He said, ‘Yeah – and I’m stuck. What I see in you, I think you’ve got a good enough mind to help me make it work. So I’ll help you fix Total Recall and make it a reality, at least the script, and you help me fix Alien .’ And that day, both movies were born.” BONUS: THE WINTER QUEEN IS DEAD Verhoeven explained why the adaptation of Boris Akunin’s Russian novel he was producing is no longer happening. ” The Winter Queen fell into the wrong hands, so it will not be made,” he said. “I think the time might have passed for this kind of lightness that was in the movie – nowadays everything is so hard and serious. It would have been a very light adventure story at the end of the 19th century, Russians – I mean, played by Americans or English [laughs] but I don’t think that’s going to be made, no. I would have loved to do that five years ago.” Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Katherine Jackson says she will not press charges against her kids after she was allegedly tricked into spending about 10 days shacked up at a luxury spa in Arizona without her phone in what some believe was an attempted coup against Michael Jackson’s estate. Her attorney Perry Sanders said, “This chapter of chaos is closed, and we are supportive of family unity in spite of recent events and arguably poor decisions.” Katherine first went missing from her home in Calabasas, Calif., on July 14. In a sworn declaration filed last week, the 82-year-old Jackson family matriarch claimed she planned to drive to see her sons perform in New Mexico on that day, but a doctor advised her to fly instead. She did as instructed. When she got off her private plane, she found herself in Arizona. There, she was put up at a luxury spa, cut off from technology and kept in the dark about the state of Michael’s children – Prince Michael, 15, Paris, 14, and Blanket, 10 – for days while they had no clue what was going on either. That bizarre incident followed a letter sent by Janet Jackson and four of her siblings to the executors of Michael’s estate, accusing them of making bad decisions and putting Katherine – the kids’ legal guardian – in harm’s way. While she was missing, Katherine’s legal custody of Michael’s children was temporarily suspended in favor of her nephew, TJ Jackson, 34. Katherine was reinstated as guardian last Thursday.
He’s made dozens of films since his 2001 breakout Y Tu Mamá También charmed audiences not only at home in Mexico, but also north of the border. Since then he played a priest in The Crime of Father Amaro , acted with the likes of Brad Pitt and Cate Blachett in Babel , a footballer (soccer player) in Rudo Y Cursi and even the revolutionary Ernest “Ché” Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries . But now Gael García Bernal , the Mexican actor/director/producer and even festival founder (he and fellow actor Diego Luna co-founded Mexico’s Ambulante Documentary Festival), is playing a more conventional revolutionary of sorts in Pablo Larraín ‘s No , which debuted last May in Cannes and will screen at the Locarno Film Festival , which opens Wednesday. In No , he plays an advertising executive who creates an ad campaign to defeat Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1988. The publicity campaign by ad bigwig Rene Saavedra helped topple the brutal dictator who is still reviled and praised at home. The TV campaign urged Chileans to vote “No” to another eight-year term for Pinochet. The campaign worked and Pinochet was ousted with 55 per cent voting against his return and paved the way for a resurgence of Chilean democracy. García Bernal told the A.P. that he often met Latin American exiles while growing up in Mexico, but didn’t understand their plight until he began shooting No . “This made me realize the profound pain caused by the dictatorship and it hit me hard,” he told A.P. (http://news.yahoo.com/garcia-bernal-feels-chiles-pain-latest-film-033203261.html) before No ‘s premiere in the South American country’s capital Santiago on Monday. “The director wanted to make a movie about the history of what went on in 1988, as well as an introspection and reflection on democracy.” Pinochet continues as a divisive figure in Chile. He came to power in 1973 in a CIA-backed coup that overthrew the country’s democratically elected leftist president Salvador Allende and ruled with an iron fist until he left office. Up to 3,200 were killed and tens of thousands were tortured and jailed. But supporters laud Pinochet’s free-market policies that transformed the country’s economy. “Before this campaign no one dared to talk, so when they were finally given a chance, the knee-jerk reaction could have been let’s tell the world about everything that’s wrong with Pinochet — his countless atrocities and about those who have died. But the minds behind the campaign said ‘no,’ let’s use another way,” Pablo Larrain, the film’s director told the AP. “They said— the way to oust Pinochet is to show something positive about what would come next, to tell people: ‘the happiness is coming,’ and that was the turning point.” [Source: A.P. http://news.yahoo.com/garcia-bernal-feels-chiles-pain-latest-film-033203261.html]
