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dx23 wrote:Guttenberg, Selleck and Danson are back! Three Men and a Bride!

Guttenberg is also talking about a new Police Academy adventure, with the whole surviving cast returning!

Joy!

Beattie of course co-wrote the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" film

Is this something I was already supposed to know?

Apparently, Fincher's next (among many others) is Ness, with Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and Rachel McAdams all expressing interest. It's up to Paramount now to renew the rights.

Hollywood has no more new ideas, so they are remaking the 80's. They Live, Romancing the Stones and Arthur are in development. Also, Kristen Stewart, the flavor of the week actress, is tapped to play Joan Jett in the biopic.

James Gray gets Brad Pitt in the lead for his next film.

dx23 wrote:Hollywood has no more new ideas

Isn't that an accusation even Charlie Chaplin had to face a "hundred" years ago? Of Course there are an awful lot of remakes, but also a good amount of new ideas.

What's the Godard quote, "the problem with French cinema is that they have no money and the problem with American cinema is that they have no ideas"?

domino harvey wrote:What's the Godard quote, "the problem with French cinema is that they have no money and the problem with American cinema is that they have no ideas"?

So they decided to combine two phenomenons into one and now French cinema make Hollywood movies like "The Transporter" and "Babylon A.D.". Probably not the solution Godard was looking for.

The top unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.

And it looks like the Duplass brothers have cashed in their indie cred for the next film, as they line up Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei.

Herzog's next is called My Son, My Son, What Have You Done? and stars Michael Shannon, Udo Kier and Willem Dafoe

Thank God he's finally getting back to titles in the vein of his 70's/80's output.

Oliver Stone's next film is a doc about Hugo Chavez.

Latest rumor on Nolan's third batfilm: Rachel Weisz as Catwoman

Roman Polanski's next is set to be an adaptation of the British potboiler, The Ghost, and will star Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor and Kim Cattrall.

The Crow reboot is on its way. Someone needs to start shooting people in Hollywood.

Some random thoughts inspired by this news:

I actually like Norrington (Death Machine was a superb entertainment and an excellent example of what could be done imaginatively within the limits of a DTV level budget). Still, this sounds like a very bad idea. I have zero interest in a "realistic" Crow. His Clash of the Titans sounded far more promising.

I caught the original Crow on MTV the other night after having not seen it in a decade or more. It holds up rather well, especially as a testament to the temperament of its time. I was struck by how similar in tone the moment is when Brandon Lee surrenders to the exuberance of the costumed revelers and the justifiably famous shot of Ledger leaning out of the cop car in DK. Both read as spontaneous and strictly private moments of release and exultation for characters who otherwise position themselves primarily to be seen and responded to by others.

And I still think the second Crow was one of the most beautiful and enrapturing films I've ever experienced in the theater; this despite a lack of clarity and a cameo by Iggy Pop.

I could be wrong, but I wouldn't completely dismiss the idea of a "realistic" approach to the story. The source of inspiration for the original comic came from a pretty brutal and real place from the creator's life. This interview pretty much lays it all out.

Supposedly, Cronenberg is currently adapting a Robert Ludlum novel with Denzel Washington and potentially Tom Cruise attached. This career has long since shark jumped.

Baz takes on Gatsby.

I thought Scorsese was doing that one...

Robotron wrote:Supposedly, Cronenberg is currently adapting a Robert Ludlum novel with Denzel Washington and potentially Tom Cruise attached. This career has long since shark jumped.

You must not have seen his last three films.

swo17 wrote:I thought Scorsese was doing that one...

I thought most Entourage fans kept it to themselves out of shame.

chaddoli wrote:

Robotron wrote:Supposedly, Cronenberg is currently adapting a Robert Ludlum novel with Denzel Washington and potentially Tom Cruise attached. This career has long since shark jumped.

You must not have seen his last three films.

Spider is fine, Viggo Mortenson acting tough slitting throats and shooting faces while Cronenberg is pretending he has some kind of interesting message about violence that we haven't been hearing since the 70s in movies, and that he didn't explore more comprehensively in Videodrome anyway, while otherwise going "subversively mainstream" (read: not bringing anything experimental, radical, adventurous or complex to his films in aesthetics or content) is not.