New Films in Production

[perkizitore]

IM Sang-soo*, the director of A Good Lawyer's Wife and The President's Last Bang, both excellent films, now has a re-make of KIM Ki-young's 1960 classic Hanyo (a/k/a The Housemaid) in pre-production. See link here. The luminous JEON Do-yeon is set to take on the title role. The film is slated for a 2010 release, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the original. Normally, I would be unexcited about a remake of such an landmark film, but I think the participation of IM and JEON in this project make it something worth waiting for.

*IM's name in Hangul is 임상수, which is sometimes westernized to LIM Sang-soo, as it is in the linked article.

The cast has now been filled out, with LEE Jeong-jae set to play the philandering husband, SEO Woo as the tormented wife, and veteran actress YOON Yeo-jeong (whose film debut was in Hwanyeo, KIM's 1971 re-imagining of Hanyo) in the role of a head housekeeper. Shooting is scheduled to begin this month.

That means the original is getting a blu-ray release? :-k

[King Prendergast]

What?

Mendes is sure to kill any residual goodwill towards the series that Bond fans still feel after the Forster debacle. Why can't they just stick with a competent hack like Campbell?

[foofighters7]

PTA does Jonestown. Could be good or could be There Will Be Blood: Part Two.

Not quite sure if your saying you liked like TWBB or not. Seems like no.?

At any rate, He has not made two films that all that similar yet, so I'm sure it will be quite a change from TWBB.

Thanks for shedding some light on that. I'm actually not surprised at all he didn't bring this to Paramount. My wild theory is that he's resentful towards them (Miramax as well) for possibly putting more weight behind No Country For Old Men to win the big two (best picture, best director) since both companies distributed them (with Miramax distributing No Country and Paramount TWBB stateside) during Oscar season.

Good Theory. If I was him, I wouldn't be too happy either.

I LOVE the Coens BUT TWBB was the Superior film IMO.

Sadly, I think voters are so pathetic anymore and watch so few of the films that they basically just vote based on hype.

Film lovers in Hollywood are a dying breed.

[perkizitore]

Why are the Bond producers so obsessed with 'indie' directors? Do they think Mendes will bring a desireable originality that their well polished product lacks?

[flyonthewall2983]

Honestly, I cannot decide between the two which is the better film. Both stunned me in equal proportion the first time I saw them. In a sense, as much as I was glad the Coens came away victorious part of me felt Paul was robbed. And I'm sure if Blood came big instead I'd be saying the same thing for the Coens.

[Caged Horse]

Surely if anyone was robbed of an Oscar that night, it was Roger Deakins (again)?

Mendes doing Bond? After his overstylised and sanitised Road to Perdition, can't say I'm enthused.

[Highway 61]

I'd be all for the Mendes Bond if Conrad Hall were still alive.

[dx23]

Sony rebooting Spider-Man after failing to agree with Sam Raimi. Ugh! The word "reboot" needs to be retired.

[Zumpano]

Sony rebooting Spider-Man after failing to agree with Sam Raimi.

Here's to the next ten years of Shawn Levy/Zac Efron Spiderman movies.

[colinr0380]

Lesley Manville was just on this morning's BBC Breakfast programme to promote a new play and mentioned in passing the latest Mike Leigh film, which she said has been completed and which they are hoping to get into Cannes this year. Sadly there wasn't anything more said about this due to the tiresomely perky interviewers who excel at barely scraping the surface of their subjects, so most of the interview was instead about how great the Cranford series was and asking Manville if she could explain Mike Leigh's improvisational way of developing characters and story for the hundreth time.

[tavernier]

Zemeckis' 3D performance-capture "Yellow Submarine" remake gets its Fab Four.

[HarryLong]

Who will rid me of this meddlesome director?

[jsteffe]

Zemeckis' 3D performance-capture "Yellow Submarine" remake gets its Fab Four.

The only plausible explanations for this are:

1. He's greedy.
2. He secretly hates the Beatles.
3. He secretely hates cinema.

At this point I'm leaning toward some combination of all three.

[domino harvey]

IFC has lost their fucking mind and are releasing this disgusting piece of work. Don't click on that link

[tavernier]

I can't believe Sasha Grey's not in this!

[Amy Racecar]

OK ignoring everything about that plot why must all 'intense' horror films not made in Japan have a single Japanese character who inevitably gets killed in some really abhorrent fashion? Having one Japanese person in your movie will not make you Takashi Miike.

[mfunk9786]

IFC has lost their fucking mind and are releasing this disgusting piece of work. Don't click on that link

In my experience, you have to pay extra to get into a human centipede. Worth every penny.

[Jeff]

Steven Soderbergh never quits. He bumped his Liberace pic to next year to shoot Contagion, from a lauded Scott Z. Burns script, this fall. He's already lined up Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Marion Cotillard.

[domino harvey]

Jules Asner must be an expert at entertaining herself at this point

[aox]

Rumor:

Lars Von Trier to remake Taxi Driver.

Starring Robert Deniro.

[domino harvey]

Oh Von Trier, you so crazy

[Foam]

Rumor:

Lars Von Trier to remake Taxi Driver.

Starring Robert Deniro.

*flails desperately for a bag, a jar, a shoe, any receptacle to vomit in*

[zedz]

Rumor:

Lars Von Trier to remake Taxi Driver.

Starring Robert Deniro.

*flails desperately for a bag, a jar, a shoe, any receptacle to vomit in*

He's going to cast Jodie Foster too. And he's going to make her wear Foam's shoe.

[domino harvey]

I can't wait for the part where Harvey Keitel masturbates furiously with those blown-off fingers

[Matt]

The Todd Haynes-Kate Winslet Mildred Pierce 5-hour miniseries redo is a go.