With print news dying faster and faster each day, many publications are implementing pay-walls on to their Web sites, attempting to salvage dwindling profits. For Variety, it seems their new pay-wall (which began on December 10th, 2009) is not panning out that way....
House arrest/actual jail time hasn't (and apparently will not) prevent filmmaker Roman Polanski from getting his newest film, The Ghost Writer, off the ground and into theaters....
Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to Chan-Wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, the first film in his revenge trilogy, which also includes Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, in that order...
Is The Wolfman getting cut up once again? By someone else? What is going on with this movie? Literally a month before its February 12th release, the news has been all over the place....
The future of the what was once to be Nicole Holofcener's I'm With Cancer (written by Will Reiser) is no longer up in the air. So to speak. Anna Kendrick has joined James McAvoy and Seth Rogen in the project, now to be directed by Jonathan Levine....
Terrence Malick's epic The Tree of Life has been (and still is) a long time coming, as most all Malick films are. Luckily, this one appears to finally be poking its head above post-producive waters, courtesy of Apparition...
A few weeks back Soderbergh took on a play (called "Tot Man") in Sydney (yes, Australia), which he wrote. While down there, he also apparently shot an improvised film using much of the play's cast....
Do you remember ( a few hours ago) when we reported that 'Bond 23' was delayed due to MGM being on the fritz/up for sale and all of that? Well, somebody didn't get the memo because director Sam Mendes is in talks to take on the project....
Dan Mecca is the co-founder and managing editor of The Film Stage. He is a producer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh. He watches a lot of movies and tracks them on Letterboxd.
