Talk about selling what you got - and selling it well. Angelina Jolie is the star of Salt, and she is very beautiful and cool-looking. Speaking of wonderful taglines against strikingly simple one-sheets of a movie stars, here is the new poster for Crazy Heart....
As if the world needed more trailers/featurettes/gossip/financial projections concerning this impending theatrical great disaster/great success, here is another Avatar featurette, courtesy of 20th Century Fox....
It looks as though we'll be seeing a lot of Nine on ABC. The Weinstein Company, still struggling to stay above financial waters it seems, has signed a pact with Disney/ABC Unlimited to pepper the high-profile Rob Marshall musical all over ABC television, whether it's applying the song "Be Italian" (from the "Nine" musical) into Dancing With The Stars or name-dropped in day-time soaps....
I guess it's safe to be officially excited for this remake come March. Thank you well-cut, excitedly-scored and firey brimstone teaser trailer! Louis Leterrier hit-or-miss directing past (Unleashed, Transporter 2, The Incredible Hulk) seem to come to a head in this ridiculously epic [...]...
Fox Searchlight to be exact, this as reported by Slash Film. And the project is Darren Aronofsky's sci-fi/psychological ballet drama starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. It's been floating around for a while now, and it's sensible that Searchlight would buy Aronofsky's next project after The Wrestler...
And Len Wiseman, director of the first two Underworld films and Live Free or Die Hard, is set to direct and produce. "The project is based on an original idea about a group of people who survive the end of the world and the mystery surrounding how they got to that position" [THR]....
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....
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.
