Director James Marsh, the man behind the Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire, is set to direct The Vatican Tapes, to be produced by Lionsgate Films and Lakeshore Entertainment....
That's Jake Gyllenhaal, the younger of the talented two, to star in Moon helmer Duncan Jones' next movie - which will not be Mute, unfortunately - but rather Source Code. Here's the plot of the film: "The project centers on a soldier who wakes up in the body of a commuter and must solve the mystery of a train explosion." [THR]....
It feels almost wrong to write words in reporting this news, because the news itself proclaims its wordlessness. Well, so be it. /Film reports that Danny Boyle's intends to shoot the first hour of his new project, 127 Hours, based on the incredible true story of Aron Ralston, who had to amputate an arm to survive a hiking accident, with no dialogue....
They do stare at goats, in case you're wondering. But, like most scenes in this strangely square, oddly disengaging film about one of the more interesting military tales to be told in some time, the "goat" scene comes and goes and leaves the viewer cold, like after an emotionless night of sex. This is what the whole film feels like - a good, fun time that will be an engaging story to tell to your friends, but you'll end up feeling there wasn't much to be gained from the experience as a whole....
The rumors appear to true, plus one Charlize Theron.This according to THR, who reports Theron and Hardy are in talks to star in Fury Road, the 4th film in the Mad Max series....
It seems to be the case, according to Mania. According to producer Stephen L'Heureux, Sin City 2 will go into production at the end of 2010, and that Frank ...
It's a good thing one man revenge stories are in these days (see amnesiac hitmans and Jigsaws for reference), because this schlocky, overwrought, sloppy, patronizing, unintelligent, non-factual, blood-soaked, wrong-sided bastardization of a film will (and already has) made a killing at the box office (pun only halfway intended)....
When you're nine it's hard to imagine being any older, or any more responsible or any less adventurous. Words like "afford" don't exist yet. Everything that happens is the most violent, most scary, most vibrant thing that could be done in the moment of its doing. No film captures the violence of youth quite in the same way Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are does....
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.
