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  • 14 Apr

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    The Return of Vincent Gallo? [Rumor]

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    Just last week I managed to finally connect with Vincent Gallo’s low budget, break-out indie film from 1998., Buffalo ’66. Pleasantly surprised by the artfullness on display and the goofy but heartfelt drama appearing on screen, I remarked that it was strange that he only made one more film after this one (The Brown Bunny) and then all but disappeared from the director’s realm of movie making. Then with some research found that The Brown Bunny was pretty universally panned. So what might’ve seemed like simple discouragement brings about a total give-up, was actually apparently just a long hiatus to “gather himself.”

    Apparently Gallo is back in the writer/director chair and has entered his latest film into this year’s Cannes Film Fest. This newest effort, Promises Written in Water tells the story of “a terminally ill girl that has decided that instead of seeking medical treatment, to kill herself after she begins experiencing the pain of her disease. She wants to be cremated, and asks a young photographer to ensure this. He begins working at a funeral home so he can cremate her himself when she dies.”

    The very minimal Wiki page claims that Sage Stallone makes an appearance in the film and also originally said this was a “snuff” film. But in the last day or so, the word “snuff” has been removed from that description.

    Whether the film will actually be in contention for awards at the Film Fest remains to be seen and is probably unlikely. But either way, given the infamy of his last two pictures, there will no doubt be plenty of buzz surrounding this latest picture. The fact that was all filmed in black and white, 16mm film stock intrigues me a great deal and I plan on catching The Brown Bunny asap, so’s that I know what all of the fuss is about before eventually sinking into Promises Written in Water.

     

  • 10 Feb

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    New Muppet Movie Cameos

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    As I recall, the muppet movies have always included a lot of cameos by famous actors who just want to be part of the Jim Henson experience – and can you blame them? These cameos were also a fun surprise and quite the delight for audiences. With the new Muppet movie well on its way through production and the script available for perusal online, the names of the cameos are popping up online… and man, it is quite the list.

    Now file this in the “maybe” category for now, but like I said, who’s gonna turn down a quick role in a Muppet movie? I mean it certainly can’t hurt your career, it won’t take long and I think someone like George Clooney or Jack Black would have pretty awesome chemistry together. So although none of these names are signed or set in stone, it’s a pretty sure bet that unless the script is changed quite a bit, the cameos written in to the screenplay are pretty likely to show up.

    If you don’t want it spoiled for you, I’ve hidden the names of the potential guest stars with the spoiler tag. Just click show

     

  • 17 Nov

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    Something New from Wright

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    The select few of us around here who will watch anything from Joe Wright nearly unconditionally should be fairly excited about this news. While we love Wright and his excellent sense of period film making (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), this will be a welcome departure for fans and mainstream movie goers alike.

    As Indian Summer (starring Cate Blanchett) fell by the wayside due to budget issues and a sense that the public isn’t too into period drama pieces at the moment, Wright switched gears completely and is going for a straight up action picture with the likes of something as tantalizing as La Femme Nikita meets Bourne.

    from Heat Vision

    The story centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When the girl is dragged back to her father’s world and discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp, she must fight her way to a free life.

    With “legendary” directors such as Danny Boyle and Alfonso Cuarón originally interested in the idea but ultimately passing on it, I’m super interested to see how well Joe Wright will make the transition from tears to blood. Keira Knightley to star?

     

  • 18 Aug

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    “Earth vs. Moon” Update

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    Way back in April of 2008 I put up a post about some rumbling of a movie called Earth vs. The Moon. At the time, I was just curious about the film based purely off of the title and the comment section of that post became epic in scale and is still one of the best discussions to ever come out of the RowThree archives. Today as I browse around, I found a little bit more information about this project: what it’s about, who it’s coming from and an approximate time frame of when we might get to see this.

    First of all, the story is penned by the writers of the upcoming Zombieland (Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg.

    “It’s about two societies at war, but it’s also about a family, not at war, but a fractured family. Half of them have gone to the moon and the other half are still on Earth and so they are on opposite sides of this conflict and we wanted to make sure that as big of movie as it’s going to be, it works on a small level. It works on a personal level, the way we like to think about Zombieland working. It’s just this huge post-apocalyptic landscape, but we really want it to work on an interpersonal level for just a few people who are the stars.”

    So to me this sounds like an updated version of The Civil War TV mini-series, North and South… in space. The writers go on to talk about how this will be a giant budget movie or not at all and they want Will Smith to star. Alright, so I’m one of the few who loves Independence Day, but c’mon. Why can’t you make this awesome on a smaller budget and with a little less Hollywood polish? Does District 9 ring a bell guys? Especially right after they get done saying that they got the idea based off of a speech from Stephen Hawking in which he talks about “the necessity to colonize other worlds because of the inherent dangers on Earth: nuclear dangers, biological dangers, and the need to have a back-up society.” So you’ve got a smart idea and you’re going to dumb it down? Not a good idea.

    Still, we’ve got Zombieland to look forward to and if that is as fun as it looks, I still have hope.

  • 04 Aug

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    Sam Bell in Duncan Jones’ Next Film

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    Sam RockwellWe really really liked Duncan Jones’ directorial debut, Moon; yes we did. We are also big fans of Sam Rockwell – a well kept secret for years he finally may be coming into his own and getting the due respect he deserves. At any rate, in a recent interview over at Cinematical, Rockwell mentions that he’s actually going to be in Jones’ (“Blade Runner-esque”) next film, again playing Sam Bell, his character from Moon.

    When asked if that was true, he responded, “Yeah. I think it’s a cameo. Something like that. I think so, yeah.”

    So take that as you will. Next question.

  • 03 Aug

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    Netflix on the iPhone? Why Not?

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    I take a lot of shit for watching the occasional movie on my iPod. But it seems I’m not the only one willing to watch My Bloody Valentine while on a bumpy bus ride or in the back of a taxi on the way to my next very important engagement.

    Apparently Netflix, or at least so says an industry executive “insider,” plans to soon extend the “watch instantly” feature over to iPhone, iPod touch devices and the wii console. Of course Netflix refuses to comment on “rumor and speculation”, but a non-answer is pretty much an admission of ‘guilt’ is it not?

    So what do you think? Gonna give me more guff over watching Saw V or would you too, if bored on your way to work on the smelly bus or in the back of your parent’s car commuting through Iowa for your family vacation, whip out the ol iPhone and watch an episode of “Family Ties” or maybe stream an old favorite; like Mystic Pizza?

    UPDATE: Oop. Wait, hold the phone (pun intended). “However, Netflix’s streaming-video feature would probably be restricted to access over local Wi-Fi connections only — not over AT&T’s 3G data network — in the same the way other bandwidth-heavy video apps for the iPhone are limited.”

    So I guess unless I’m in the dentist office or coffee shop with nothing else to do or read – and I forgot my laptop – this will be a useless feature. Nevermind.

  • 11 Jul

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    Zooey, McBride, Franco, Portman. Seriously?

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    Yeah, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the four of them are teaming up to star in a fantasy film co-written by McBride himself entitled Your Highness. According to McBride, It’s about two brothers (James Franco and Danny) whose fiancée gets kidnapped by an evil wizard and we have to go on the road and save her. There’s everything from stop-motion creatures to puppets like in Dark Crystal. Other inspirations floating around include Barry Lyndon and Krull.

    According to Collider, McBride plays an arrogant, lazy prince who must complete a quest to save his father’s kingdom. Joining him on the quest is his more heroic brother (Franco). Deschanel would play Belladonna, Franco’s virginal bride. Natalie Portman is McBride’s love-interest, a warrior princess. Sounds like ten tons of fun to me.

    They’re going for a mostly British cast and not necessarily comedians for the rest of the parts. Which sounds to me like a bit of The Princess Bride thrown in for good measure. I’ll definitely be watching where this one goes over the next several months. Early reports sound promising.

  • 02 Jun

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    Tokyo Suckerpunch

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    Tokyo SuckerpunchGreat title. I hadn’t heard about this novel before, but now that it’s being made into a film I’m all ears; especially since I now find that my new crush, Anne Hathaway, is involved.

    According to Amazon (and other sources), this is a story about Billy Chaka, a popular writer who’s come to Tokyo to cover the 19 and Under Handicapped International Martial Arts Championship. While Chaka is waiting in a bar for the arrival of his old friend, filmmaker Sato Migusho, an apparently drunken woman enters and rushes for the ladies’ room. Immediately recognizing her as a geisha in disguise, on the lam from Anne Hathawaydisgruntled clients, Chaka helps her escape. While on a quest to find the mysterious geisha, Chaka keeps stumbling over imponderables which begin to strangely resemble one of his own story plots; including a run-in with a yakuza leader named Kwaidan and an unnamed religious cult. Sort of like if you crossbred The Big Sleep with Memoirs of a Geisha and then took its offspring and crossed it with Chinatown you’d end up with Tokyo Suckerpunch–a tongue-in-bloody-cheek quasi-punk-noir tale of death and deception in the superfantastic Far East.

    Sounds like quite the genre picture… with Anne Hathaway? For now, despite the casting of Tobey Maguire (also producing), you can count me in on this one.

  • 15 May

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    Behind the Mask 2. Say it with Me: AWESOME

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    About three years ago I had the pleasure to sit down with Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon as the closing gala screening at Toronto After Dark’s inaugural year. Next to Funky Forest: The First Contact, this is probably the best film I’ve seen in the three years of attending the festival… or at least one of my favorites.

    Nathan Baesel and Leslie Vernon

    Behind the Mask is a film that defies conventions and manages to create a fun new sub-genre called a slashumentary in which we follow the stages of a young man determined, as he prepares to become one of the greatest slasher villains of all time; better than Michael Myers or even the great Freddy Krueger. Check out our full review for the details, but I can assure you it is one spectacular romp through the mind of a psychotic.

    Immediately following the screening in Toronto was a Q&A with director Glosserman in which someone inevitably brought up the question of a sequel. Glosserman made some remarks that he had a couple of ideas but that would be a long way down the road. Apparently we’re nearing the end of that road as there are some mur murs of a sequel possibly already in the works.

    In an interview over at Icons of Fright, co-writer of Mask, David J. Stieve, mentions that despite a poor theatrical run, consistent, healthy DVD sales provided some “concrete interest in making a sequel to BEHIND THE MASK soon”. He goes on to talk about overall ideas of how the film might continue on with the real-world scenarios played out in the first film and stick with the documentary feel to the film but still maintain the slasher goodness that Leslie has now become known for.

    Definitely check out the full interview to glean some more details and thoughts on what Vernon might have in store for us in the future. It really sounds like this is a go project and so for me the details don’t concern me. I will be giving my money to the film makers gladly for anything more from Leslie Vernon and the sleepy town of Glen Echo.

  • 25 Apr

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    Ever Closer to a Goonies Sequel

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    Goonies reuion 2001It’s been rumored for years and years: Steven Spielberg is going to continue the adventures of our favorite childhood mentors, The Goonies. A script was complete about ten years ago and Donner was going to begin shooting. Then a couple of years back there was supposedly going to be an animated series for which Data and Chunk (don’t know their real names) were approached to lend their talents with some voice work. I don’t know if this ever panned out or not (anyone? Bueller?).

    Personally I don’t ever see a live-action feature sequel happening, but I have no reason to believe that other than it seems to me that the story was already told, the kids are older than dirt now and Spielberg probably has better things to work with sitting on his proverbial plate. BUT…

    Yesterday on Corey Feldman’s blog (that’s right, I frequent Feldman’s personal site – what of it?) he talked about how much fun it was to reunite with the original cast members again (including Spielberg and Richard Donner) and how they did this big video interview for Empire Magazine’s 20th Anniversary issue. But he also dropped little hints about the cast’s hope for the franchise’ future and “hopefully it is just the start of more good Goonie things to come.”

    So then I head over to the Empire site and find a contest in which readers give their original idea of what a Goonies sequel story might be, in order to win a Goonies poster signed by the entire cast.

    And many in the internet rumor mill believe that Spielberg is using this event as a starting point to announce some major news/secret. He is guest-editing a big chunk of the Empire magazine anniversary issue, so there is hope there.

    None of this really adds up to a hill of beans; but still there is some smoke there to suggest that the prospect of a Goonies sequel isn’t comletely out of the realm of possibility. Hey, I suppose we can have hope.

  • 16 Apr

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    Maybe Finally Possibly? Bubba Nosferatu

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    Ron PerlmanAround here we’re all pretty big fans of Coscarelli’s Bubba Ho-Tep (who isn’t?) and the prequel has been on again, off again for some time. I first heard about the possibility of this “She-Vampire” prequel about 5 years ago and that P. Giamatti was on board to co-star. After Bruce Campbell bailed on the project for “irreconcilable differences” with the director, a lot of us gave up hope of ever seeing this prequel seeing the light of day.

    Today I stumbled across an interview over at Sci-fi wire with Ron Perlman in which he talks a bit about Bubba Nosferatu and that it is indeed a go! We’re just waiting for a window of time to open up to start shooting. The line of questioning went something like this:

    Word is that you may take over the Elvis role from Bruce Campbell if and when Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires comes to pass. How close is that to happening?

    Perlman: “It’s looking good for maybe late fall that we’ll get down to principal photography. I’m on board. Paul Giamatti is on board [to play Colonel Tom Parker]. Don is on board. The script is finished. They are thinking that the resources are finally in place. And when I get done with season two of [his F/X TV series] Sons of Anarchy, I think I’ll have a little window at the same time Paul does, and we hope to do it then.”

    Unless he’s just blowing sunshine up a mummy’s asshole, I think we can look forward to this film hitting theaters sometime in the fall of 2010? Just in time for Halloween festivals maybe? We can always hope. I’ll keep an eye out for it most certainly.

  • 21 Feb

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    Place Your Bets Now

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    By now you’ve probably heard that a supposed list of this year’s Oscar winners has somehow found its way onto the information superfreeway and has everyone wondering if it’s legit or not. My opinion is that it’s very likely a hoax. However, the picks are somewhat convincing. All the locks are there and with one or two surprise upsets, it seems to be the type of list one would expect to get out of the awards show.

    So instead of placing bets on the winners in the list below, we want you to place your bets on whether you think the list itself is legit. Place your imaginary Row Three bets below. I for one cry foul, but this is something we’ll definitely be keeping tabs on come Sunday night during our live, interactive Oscar chat.

    The list can be seen by clicking this link. I suppose technically could be considered spoilerific, so we’ve kept it hidden from those that want to be “surprised.”

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    You can take a look at the actual “letter” right here. Which is all the more reason to believe this is garbage. The letterhead is horribly amateur and since when does the Academy send a letter out to its members with a list of the winners a few days before the show? Since never. That’s when.

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