New Films in Production

[Antoine Doinel]

It sounds like Nick & Norah Go To The Inauguration.

[Antoine Doinel]

Ridley Scott to direct an Alien prequel.

[HarryLong]

Let there be dancing in the streets ...

[Forrest Taft]

Terry Gilliam wants to adapt a Philip K. Dick novel; The World Jones Made.

[Antoine Doinel]

David Mamet adapting Anne Frank. WTF.

[HarryLong]

The world has long needed a version of the story where Anne andd her family say "fuck" repeatedly.

[domino harvey]

Thank God, the 1959 version had a lot of problems that I think Mamet will be able to smooth over. Very excited about Mamet working on a prestige picture, hopefully it draws more public and critical attention to his other great film work

[dadaistnun]

From Variety:

Kate Winslet is attached to "Mildred Pierce," a miniseries adaptation based on the James M. Cain novel that Todd Haynes is writing and directing. Sources said that HBO is the lead contender to get the mini, but payweb sources said no deal has been struck.

Cain's tale was famously turned into a 1945 film that won Joan Crawford an Oscar for the lead role of a bored housewife who gets into the restaurant business, an enterprise that leads to back-stabbing, romance and murder.

The involvement of Winslet--right after her Oscar-winning performance in "The Reader" and her work in "Revolutionary Road"--underscores how much paywebs like HBO have become prestige venues for films that might vanish as theatrical releases, a fact underscored by the success of "Grey Gardens," which garnered Emmy noms for Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange.

Haynes directed "I'm Not There," "Safe" and "Far From Heaven."

I love the Curtiz film, but Haynes is a favorite of mine, so I'm game.

[domino harvey]

Kate Winslet as Mildred Pierce? DOES NOT COMPUTE

[flyonthewall2983]

Spielberg rumored to helm Halo movie.

[Cde.]

White Chicks 2

[Cash Flagg]

White Chicks 2

Armond White will be pleased.

[Cde.]

Disney and Robert Zemeckis are planning a CGI motion capture remake of Yellow Submarine

[domino harvey]

Not to go all Andy Rooney here, but remember when a director would find a good script, hire some fine actors, scout a swell location, make some nice sets, contract a competent crew, and then film an actual movie? This non-interactive video games masquerading as movies trend needs to fizzle, and fast

[flyonthewall2983]

They still do that. Last I checked, not every movie to come out this year isn't an adaptation of something else.

[domino harvey]

P. sure Kevin James only exists in CGI

[flyonthewall2983]

You'll get no argument from me on that.

[kougogo]

According to Kick the Machine's "Community Talk", Apichatpong Weerasethakul's new feature is in preproduction. It is called "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" and will be released sometime in 2010.

[Cosmic Bus]

Uncle Boonmee is scheduled to be shown at TIFF next month.

[kougogo]

Uncle Boonmee is scheduled to be shown at TIFF next month.

That's the short - it's being extended into a feature film.

[tavernier]

David Mamet adapting Anne Frank. WTF.

Highlights of Mamet's adaptation have leaked.

[domino harvey]

David Mamet adapting Anne Frank. WTF.

Highlights of Mamet's adaptation have leaked.

Some of these were pretty easy lobs but this one was great:

Anne's diary is the only place she is able to finish a sentence

[so lightly here]

Disney and Robert Zemeckis are planning a CGI motion capture remake of Yellow Submarine

I am not a Beatles' fan but i was frightened when i heard that the dizzy Disney entertainment conglomerate is in negotiations to remake "Yellow Submarine" in 3D. I shudder when I think of all those pudgy pixar-like shadows that will soon be defacing that wonderfully flat cartoon's original state. I have alway admired the artist Yoko Ono, what is she thinking if and more likely when she signs the dotted line of this contract, along with the lesser representatives of the fabfour? ... and then Dizz plans to move it to Broadway like "The Lion King". It is events such as these that make me believe I won't miss the big checkout, when my day arrives!

[Antoine Doinel]

Michael Winterbottom has completed filming an adaptation of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. She was originally set to consult and narrate on the project but has officially distanced herself from the project after creative differences with Winterbottom's take on her book.

[fiddlesticks]

LEE Chang-dong's fifth feature, with a working title of either "Poem" or "Poetry," is now in production. It will feature the comeback performance of YOON Jeong-hee, star of such classics as Mist (1967) and Sorrowful Youth (1967), and is slated to premiere in May 2010.