It’s all a bit speculative at the moment, but David O. Russell and Bradley Cooper might be spending a lot of time together in the next couple of years, as they’ve just completed The Silver Linings Playbook together, and will be moving on to a currently untitled project (formerly known as American Bullshit), which is slated to shoot this February and will also star Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.
However that’s not the end of it, as THR spoke to O. Russell in Toronto, who said, “We’ve also discussed American Sniper, a property Bradley has acquired. I’m really excited to work with him again. He is like an athlete who wants to burst out of the blocks and wants to stretch in all these new ways.”
Cooper recently signed up to develop Sniper, based on the autobiography of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Jason Dean Hall will write the script about Kyle, who holds the records for most sniper kills by an American. The book has been praised for its frankness in telling a first-person account of a warrior who shoots from far and close distances. It also includes portions written by Kyle’s wife, balancing out the story to show both the home perspective as well as that of a soldier who’s out to kill.
At the moment, there’s no guarante all this would happen, as O. Russell is notorious from dropping in and out of projects. After Thr Fighter is looked like Mark Wahlberg would be his muse, with the actor working on various projects together, which all fell by the wayside, eventually leading to a rumoured estrangement between the pair.
Last month, it was revealed that James Gunn was Marvel Studios’ top choice to direct Guardians of the Galaxy, a big-budget ensemble that brings together characters such as Rocket Raccoon and Drax the Destroyer.
Zac was also happy to be ‘eroticised’ by director Lee Daniels, who’s spoken about how he brings his gay sensibility to his film. “I’ve always just embraced Lee as a brilliant artist,” Efron says, “So I followed him blindly, trustingly, and wholeheartedly. He’s searching for beauty and truth in every scene, so I believed in him and always felt safe.
Until fairly recently, one of the main reasons to have LGBT film festivals was because of the difficulty getting decent representation for gay movies in mainstream fests. However last year LGBT/indie specialist distributor Peccadillo had three of their movies included in the London Film Festival programme (
A couple of months ago there was a bit of a furore over a letter Brad Pitt’s mom sent to her local newspaper, where she said Barack Obama’s support for marriage equality was one good reason not to vote for him.
While we don’t normally think of South Korea producing gay-themed films, in recent years a few have emerged from the country, revealing a country still coming to terms with having openly LGBT people. Now one movie from the nation has picked up the 6th Queer Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, according to 
There’ll be some glum faced in Hollywood this week, with news that on the international market, box office is down about 20% compared to where it was this time last year (that’s more than a billion dollars less), and the US has seen its worse weekend for years. It’s the first time since 2008 that a movie has managed to hit the top spot with less than $10 million, with some sources suggesting that overall it’s the worst three-day total since 2001.
I would imagine that with the Depp and Jolie flick The Tourist not exactly setting the box office alight, the title of this movie will change before it hits cinemas, but as things stand, Mr & Mrs Smith and Bourne Identity helmer Doug Liman has signed up to produce and possibly direct a spy thriller currently called The Tourist.
Patrick Wilson went to TV last year with A Gifted Man, but now that show has been cancelled, he’s heading back to the movies with Caught Stealing, according to 
The main way for fans to find out early what a movie is going to be called is to keep an eye on domain name registrations. A studio has to buy the domains before they announce the title (to stop the inevitable cyber-squatters), but there’s no way to keep those registrations completely secret.