Yo-ho-ho, and a pop-six-squish, unh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz. Variety says Disney is close to signing Chicago and Nine director Rob Marshall to take the helm of the currently rudderless Pirates of the Caribbean 4, on course for a 2010 production start. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney have been meeting with a number of directors in recent weeks, because the studio...
Monthly Archives: July 2009
(via FirstShowing.net) Part of the Man Trilogy (along with A Serious Man and A Single Man), The Other Man is based on a short story by Bernhard Schlink (The Reader) and directed by Richard Eyre (Notes on a Scandal). In case anybody is still in the dark about the plot after watching the trailer, here it is in words of mostly one syllable: The tale of a guy who thinks...
Tough for me to tell from these remarks who’s the biggest girl and who’s the biggest dick. Leave it to Howard Stern to bring out the sensitive side of Seth Rogan and Judd Apatow, both still nursing their bruised feelings because Katherine Heigl dared to suggest (2 years ago) that Knocked Up “paints the women as shrews,” while the men look “lovable.”...
I don’t usually feature a full-length look at a poster on the main page unless the design really grabs me. This one has enough hands to grab me in all sorts of inappropriate places. Passion of the Antichrist? And if that’s Charlotte Gainsbourg rutting in the roots, then who’s that striding across the bridge? (Bjork?) ...
The Damned United will have a gala at Toronto in September — the trailer is making the rounds. Peter Morgan is the writer. It’s directed by Tom Hooper, who directed John Adams, one of the Prime Suspect episodes, Longford and one episode of Elizabeth the I – I knew there was a reason I was loving the trailer. By the way, according to IMDb, Hooper will...