‘The Conspirator’ At Cannes? Possibly
Though it only started shooting in October and is planned for a late 2010 Oscar-based release, Robert Redford's 'it wasn't there and now it's finished' film...
Dan Mecca
Olga Kurylenko Runs Silent, Deep In Malick Audition
Though you probably know Olga Kurylenko as the Ukrainian beauty in actioners like Hitman, Max Payne and Quantum of Solace (she plays even an assassin hersel...
[Off Stage] Underworld U.S.A.
Someone needs to rediscover the films of Samuel Fuller. Hopefully this feature will jump start the movement....
Bill Condon To ‘Break Dawn’?
All April Fool's Day jokes aside, it appears Bill Dreamgirls Condon (pictured on the right) is at the tippy-top of the director's list for Breaking Dawn, th...
Tony Scott On ‘Potsdamer Platz’ With Statham, Rourke and Bardem
Action auteur Tony Scott has his next project, and all the main actors and financiers are (nearly) ready to act.
The film's Potsdamer Platz, and it conce...
‘Twelve’ Reasons To Give Joel Schumacher’s New Film A Chance
There's been a considerable amount of preliminary backlash against Joel Schumacher's upcoming young-rich-people drug drama Twelve, starring Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford as a drug dealer with a heart of gold and an especially gravelly Kiefer Sutherland as the narrator....
Michael Mann To ‘Break Dawn’
With the unexpected employ of David Slade behind the third Twilight film, Eclipse, plus the oddly violent and perverse subject matter of Stephanie Meyer's f...
The Return of Stephen Dorff: Once ‘Alone in the Dark,’ Now ‘Somewhere’
The hype has Dorff back on people's minds, and now into Tarsem Singh's next epic, War of the Gods.
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Edward Norton’s ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Coming In Good Time
Edward Norton, after a decade of pre-production talks, is still confident in adapting Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn for the silver screen....
[Review] Greenberg
Focus Features | USA | 107 mins
There's never a moment in Noah Baumbach's new film in which we openly root for Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), the film's...
Dan Mecca
Managing Editor
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.