Poor old Madonna, she doesn’t seem to have much luck when it comes to film. She’s been panned as an actress, so she’s had a go at directing. While there were initally high hopes for WE, it recently been moved out of a prestigious awards run spot and moved to February (although it’ll likely still have an Oscar qualifying run in LA just in case it picks up any nominations). Now a new trailer has arrived for the movie, which mixes a late 1990s take of a young New Yorker who’s obsessed with Wallace Simpson and Edward VIII, and the story of the King and his lover.
GENERAL MOVIE NEWS
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Julie Delpy Helming Joe Strummer Biopic
It seems to be the week for actresses taking on ambitious directing assignments, as yesterday it was revealed Scarlett Johansson was planning to tackle Truman Capote’s Summer’s Crossing and now Variety reports that Julie Delpy will direct a biopic of Clash frontman Joe Stummer, called The Right Profile.
Although there are few details on the exact direction the movie will go, it’s believed that the film will cover most of Strummer’s life and music, including his disappearance from the spotlight in 1982. Delpy is a pretty good choice, as she did a good job with Two Days In Paris and The Countess, and is currently finishing work on Two Days In New York. The real key now is finding the perfect actor to play Strummer himself.
Just to keep her extra busy, Ethan Hawke recently revealed that he looking to team up with Delpy and director Richard Linklater for a third entry in the Before Sunrise/Before Sunset series. As there were 11 years between the first two film, it might be worth them waiting another coule years for the third.
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Amber Heard Signs Up For Motor City
After making the likes of From Hell and The Book Of Eli together, brothers Albert and Allen Hughes have decided to go their own ways, with Allen about to start shooting Broken City with Mark Wahlberg and Allen putting together Motor City (and despite the fact they both have ‘City’ in their titles, the films have nothing to do with one another).
Recently it was revealed Dominic Cooper would play the lead role in Motor City and now Deadline reports that Amber Heard (whose diary has suddenly become free after her new TV series, The Playboy Club, was cancelled) has signed on too. The film follows an ex-con (Cooper) who seeks revenge against the men who framed him. It isn’t known exactly who Heard will play.
Chad St. John wrote the Motor City script, which landed on the Black List in 2009.
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Chris Evans Replaces James Franco In The Iceman
About a year ago when James Franco was signing up for pretty much every movie going, he was attached to The Iceman, about mob murderer Richard Kuklinski. However due to production delays he’s had to drop out and now Deadline reports that Captain America himself, Chris Evans, will take his place.
The film is based on Anthony Bruno’s book, The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer, which follows the extraordinary story of Kuklinski. Michael Shannon will play the title character, a notorious mob contract killer and loving family man. He earned his nickname by freezing the bodies of his victims, disguising the time of death, and throwing police off-track.
However he didn’t just kill for money, as Kulinski was a true psychopath, and had murdered numerous people before he attracted the mob’s attention. His family and neighbors believed he was an average businessman, having no idea about his deadly alternate life. Kuklinski killed over one hundred people during his life. Evans is set to play Robert Pronge, who became Kuklinski’s protege.
There was talk that The Iceman may have been falling apart after James Franco’s departure, although now it seems to be back on track, with production scheduled to begin next month. Ray Liotta, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and David Schwimmer will also star.
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Scorsese Confirmed For The Snowman
A few weeks ago it was revealed that Martin Scorsese was thinking hard about directing a thriller called The Snowman, based on the book by Jo Nesbo. Now THR reports that Scorses has officially signed on to helm the movie.
The novel is one of nine Nesbo has written about hard-drinking Norwegian detective Harry Hole. In this tale, he has to investigate a series of grisly murders. The scarf of one victim is found on a bizarre snowman, who appears to be staring into her family’s house. Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z) is writing the script.
It is said author Jo Nesbo had to sign off on Martin Scorsese directing this adaptation (it’s not like he was going to say no). Nesbo is also not insisting that the movie be filmed in Oslo, Norway, where the novel is set.
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Hopkins & Dench Put On Italian Shoes
After Thor, Kenneth Branagh could have had pretty much his pick of projects, but instead he opted for the small thriller Italian Shoes. He’s now busy putting together an illustrious cast for the project, with Variety reporting that Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench are in talks to star.
Richard Cottan is writing the script, which is adapted from a novel by Henning Mankell (who also wrote the Wallander books, whom Branagh playedin the English TV version). The plot follows a retired surgeon (Hopkins), who has become a recluse on a private island in Sweden. The doctor must confront the mistakes of his past when he is reunited with a former lover (Dench).
Production will start at the end of 2012 or early 2013, depending on when both actors are available.
Kenneth Branagh is also attached to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for Fox 2000 and The Boys in the Boat for The Weinstein Company. Those projects are still in early stages of development, so it’s quite possible that Italian Shoes will shoot first.
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Rampart Trailer – Woody Harrelson turns corrupt cop
‘Woody Harrelson is the most corrupt cop ever seen on screen’ is a pretty bold claim for a trailer for open with, especially as Rampart is meant to be based on a true story. In the film it’s late-1990s LA and Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet, Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. The movie has a superb cast and looks like it could be pretty good. It’ll be out early next year, when it’ll be having a bit of an awards run.
The Grey Trailer – Liam Neeson vs. Wolves!
It’ll be interesting to see what sort of film The Grey is, as from this trailer it looks part action film, part introspective drama and part rather pretrntious art movie. I just pray that whatever it is, the score isn’t as overbearing as it is in this trailer. The movie sees Liam Neeson as part of an Alaska oil drilling team who struggle to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wild. Hunting the humans are a pack of wolves who see them as intruders. No UK release date is currently set.
Empire Dark Knight Rises Covers Released
I think it’s safe to say that more than a few people are interested in Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. Indeed Empire is convinced it’s big enough that they are billing their latest issue, featuring the first interviews and pics from the movie, as ‘The Ultimate Exclusive’. They’ve also got dual covers you can see above and below, featuring Batman and Tom Hardy’s Bane.
The mag hits shelves on Thursday, at which point we’ll be able to tell for ourselves whether it really is the ultimate exclusive, or if Nolan is being as ridiculously secretive as he normally is (we wouldn’t be surprised if Empire had to wrestle these images from the director’s hands as he’s so reluctant to let anyone know what he’s up to until its time for a films’ release). The Dark Knight Rises hits cinemas July 20th, 2012.
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The Vow Trailer
The Vow wants to be the Valentine’s romance of 2012, with Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams as a newlywed couple who get into a car accident, which ends up with the wife in coma. When she wakes up, she has amnesia that stretches back several years, so while she remembers her family, she has no memory of the man who recently became her huband – so he sets out to woo her once again. Although it sounds rather contrived, it’s actually based on the true story of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, whose car was hit from behind by a fast moving truck in 1993. Take a look at the new trailer and decide for yourself whether this will be romantic or just incredibly cloying.
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