Shame has certainly got a lot of buzz surrounding it, both from enthusastic film festival audiences and from the fact its US distributor has taken the unusual step of embracing the movie’s NC-17 rating (due to sexual content), rather than trying to cut it or release it unrated. In the movie Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon’s insular life spirals out of control. It’ll be in UK cinemas January 12th, but take a look at the new trailer.
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American Reunion Trailer
Will Stifler’s mom get it on with Jim’s dad? That’s the question people will be asking after they watch this new trailer for American Reunion! However it also reintroduces us to all the rest of the old American Pie gang, most of whom are now all grown up and more staid than in their teen years, but that’s all likely to change when they get back together for a high school reunion. The film will be in UK cinemas April 6th, 2012.
James Franco On For Spring Breakers
There seems something rather fitting about the idea of the free-spirited and experimental James Franco signing up to star in a movie by the slightly nutty Harmony Korine (Gummo, Mister Lonely, Trash Humpers). That said, with Emma Roberts also possibly coming on-board, it would appear Korine’s got a slightly bigger budget this time around and presumably therefore won’t be making anything quite as strange as some of his earlier work.
Variety has the news and says the film is about, ‘four college-aged girls who rob a fast food restaurant to afford spring break in Florida, only to get arrested upon their arrival… Alien, a rapping drug and arms dealer, bails them out and entices them to kill his arch-rival, a murderer who is appropriately named Arch.’ For most people that would be edgy, but for Korine it’s actually a little tame!
Franco would play the rapping drug dealer (a part he’s mentioned before, while not giving away any more details than that) while Roberts, who’s in early talks, would be Candy, a Southern brunette who feeds off danger.
Is Korine going mainstream? It happens to a lot of edgy directors as the get older, but hopefully he’ll be able to get a wider audience without completely giving up on the edge that made people take notice of him in the first place.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Amanda Seyfried Up For Lovelace
For a couple of years now there have been two rival movies about hardcore porn actress turned anti-smut activist Linda Lovelace in the works, but neither have actually got to the point where they’ve been ready to go in front of the cameras.
Actresses such as Olivia Wilde, Malin Akerman, Kate Hudson and Lindsay Lohan have flirted with playing the porn star (Lohan was essentially fired as they couldn’t get insurance for her), but now Amanda Seyfried has entered talks to play the role in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s (Howl) take on Lovelace’s life.
Variety also reports that Peter Sarsgaard is also in talks to join the film, playing Chuck Traynor, Linda Lovelace’s husband and porn director. Linda Lovelace is a fascinating figure far beyond the titilation of being the star of one of the best known porn films in history – Deep Throat. Initially appearing in hardcore (and even bestiality) movies, at first Lovelace seemed to revel in her status. However during her divorce from Chuck Traynor in the late 70s, she claimed that he was violent and had forced her into pornography at gunpoint (with some evidence to back her up).
She said that her marriage was plagued with beatings and rape, and that when she appeared in porn, it was basically enforced prostitution. While there have been some disagreements as to the extent Lovelace was a willing participant in her porn career (her assertions that everything was coerced have been questioned by many who were there at the time), there seems little doubt that her marriage to Traynor was viscious and cruel.
She then became an anti-pornography champion, speaking at public events and testifying at government hearings on pornography. However she later said she felt used by the anti-pornography movement, which got a lot mileage out of having Lovelace as a convert, but which never helped her out. She died in a car accident in 2002.
Epstein and Friedman (Howl) will direct from a screenplay by Merritt Johnson and Andy Bellin, which is adapted from Eric Danville’s book, The Complete Linda Lovelace. Production is finally scheduled to begin in January, around the same time as the rival movie – Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story – will start filming, with Malin Akerman in the lead role.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Steve Carell Has Conviction
People generally expect Steve Carell to be funny. Even if he gets a tad serious, they still expect to be able to have a smile on their face. He seems to be taking that seriously, as he’s just signed up for Conviction, which started out as action drama, but Deadline reports wi.ll now become an action comedy to better fit Carell.
Jonathan Herman wrote the original screenplay, which was a heist drama about a bank robber serving five years in prison, who is forced to give up his protege to the feds. That draft, which was compared to Heat, is being scrapped. Warner Bros. is seeking a new writer to turn it into an action comedy, although quite how it’s going to be funny and still be about giving up your protege to the government is anyone’s guess. The new take is said to be more like 48 Hours and Ocean’s Eleven.
It’s often difficult to understand why someone would board a project when they basically want to change everything about it, but it happens a lot in Hollywood. Hopefully though it’ll all work out here.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Oren Peli Producing New Horror
When Oren Peli made Paranormal Acitvity, in his wildest dreams he can’t have imagined the success it would become. However the helmer himself hasn’t had anything he’s directed in cinemas since his standout success. He shot another found footage flick shortly after Paranormal Activity came out, Area 51, but there’s still no sign of that. However he did produce Insidious, and is now producing another movie that’s just started shooting, which he also came up with the story for.
FilmNation Entertainment is backing the currently untitled film, which has commenced principal photography in Eastern Europe. The film is based on an original story by Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) and centres on a group of friends who become stranded in an eerie and desolate city. Abandoned years before in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, nature has begun to reclaim everything. As the sun sets on this radioactive ghost town, inhuman cries cut through the night air. It seems they are not alone. The ensemble cast includes Jonathan Sadowski, Devin Kelley, Jesse McCartney, Olivia Dudley, Nathan Phillips, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal and Dimitri Diatchenko. Brad Parker is directing.
Peli says, “I love my job. I get to work with a talented director like Brad on the kind of scary movie I know I’d happily stand in line to see.” The movie is due in cinemas in 2013.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Colin Farrell Joins Dragon Tattoo Director’s Film
Niels Arden Oplev made a bit of a splash with his Scandinavian version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but it’s taken him a while to sort out his follow-up. Now things are coming together, with THR reporting that he’ll helm Dead Man Down, and that Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace will star.
The $30 million action thriller, written by J.H. Wyman (Fringe, The Mexican), is a tale of vengeance, with Colin Farrell playing Victor, right hand man to an underground crime lord in New York City who is seduced and blackmailed by Beatrice (Rapace), a crime victim seeking retribution. Their intense chemistry leads them spiraling into payback delivered in violent catharsis.
Dead Man Down is scheduled to start shooting in early 2012.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Eddie Redmayne Joins Les Miserables
After so many years of people trying and failing to get a film version of the Les Miserables musical off the ground, it’s hard to believe it’s really happening, but it is. Now the the cast has grown once more, with Deadline reporting that Eddie Redmayne is joining Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway in the film.
The Pillars Of The Earth actor will portray Marius, a role that’s been played on stage by everyone from Michael Ball to, um, Jon from S Club 7. Les Miserables is set in the revolutionary France and revolves around Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), who must carry a yellow passport branding him as an ex-convict after being released from a 19-year prison sentence. Russell Crowe will be Inspector Javert, a policeman who keeps pursuing Jean Valjean, even though he is a free man. Anne Hathaway plays the female lead, Fantine.
Marius meanwhile is a student revolutionary who falls for Valjean’s adpoted daughter, Cosette.
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) is directing Les Miserables from a screenplay by William Nicholson. Production is expected to start fairly soon.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Taylor Lautner Teams With Gus Van Sant For New Film
There’s been a fair amount of talk about whether Taylor Lautner will have much of a career post Twilight. Few people were that interested in him in Abduction, and while he has a slew of other projects lined up, the jury’s still out on whether Lautner can escape Jacob.
However it appears he’s making a fairly smart move by helping to put together a small indie movie with a lauded director, which could help prove to naysayers he’s actually a decent actor.
THR reports that Taylor is currently in toalks to star in a low-budget flick for Good Will Hunting and Milk helmer Gus Van Sant. Details about the movie are a little sketchy, with not much more known than it’s based on a New Yorker article that Lautner has optioned and will probably shoot early next year. It’s not even known who’s writing the script.
It could be a very smart move on Lautner’s part as he tries to prove he’s not just a one franchise wonder.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Joss Whedon Producing In Your Eyes
Joss Whedon is one ridiculously busy man. Not content with taking on The Avengers, it was revealed last week that he’s also managed to find the time to shoot a new, low-budget take on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing which he planning to take on the festival circuit next year.
If that weren’t enough, Deadline reports that he’s also written and is planning to produce In Your Eyes, which Brin Hill will direct – or at least he wrote it a while ago but is only now moving forward. The movie will be the second film (after Much Ado) from Whedon’s new micro-studio Bellwether which will embracce ‘a DIY ethos and newer technologies’ to make small indie movies.
Not a vast amount is known about the plot, other than that it’s ‘a metaphysical love story about two seemingly polar opposites who are deeply connected in ways neither could have ever imagined’. Whedon says, “When I wrote In Your Eyes, I didn’t have the wherewithal (or the moxie) to make it without an established production house. I believe, as I did then, that it’s a pretty timeless romance, and now, with the creation of Bellwether Pictures (and Brin Hill’s elegant, passionate take on the piece), I have the opportunity to prove it. (I also have a 37% increase in moxie.) I love this team and I can’t wait to see them bring In Your Eyes to life.”
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
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