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If you go way, way back to August, you might remember that Neil Gaiman apparently told MTV that David Slade, director of Hard Candy and unreleased-at-the-time 30 Days of Night , would be helming a film version of Gaiman's BBC TV series Neverwhere . At the end… Continue reading
I must have missed this nice piece of work by Jeremy back in September, because I really thought the former Ben Affleck vehicle Ghosts of Girlfriends Past was long dead and gone; thus the bevy of casting news this week caught me off guard. For other, the film… Continue reading
Remember Miguel Arteta? He's the guy who, in the early part of this decade, began working himself up the film industry ladder with films like Chuck & Buck and The Good Girl before becoming an occasionally working faceless TV director. Then, 2007 arrived,… Continue reading
Rebecca Miller (aka the woman who gets to have sex with Daniel Day-Lewis on a regular basis) must have really knocked one out of the park with her adaptation of her own unreleased novel, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. She already had the likes of Robin… Continue reading
I can't say I know about what I was expecting a film called Wolf Boy to be, but I definitely did not come up with the correct answer. The concept is an interesting one, though, so I'll give it a shot. Enjoy that cliffhanger for a second. Variety says The… Continue reading
Back in 2001, four executives of Lionsgate films left the company to form ThinkFilm. In 2008, a ThinkFilm executive will help Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys form Oscilloscope Pictures , a film distribution company that will be an extension of Oscilloscope… Continue reading
It appears Woody Allen's quest to find out if Europe is way cooler than the USA has been a success, as he just made a deal with production houses Mediapro and Gravier, which are based in Spain and produced Vicky Christina Barcelona, that will have them… Continue reading
Looks like Platinum Dunes is continuing on the course they set way back when with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . What I'm referring to specifically is that they want to put their own "unique" stamp on the classic horror properties they are handling. In the… Continue reading
What's this? Two adaptations of unreleased books greenlit this week? On Monday, we had Columbia picking up that theoretical book written by a prostitute, and today we've got Escape Artists and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment picking up the less… Continue reading
Crazy man takes on Wuthering Heights adaptation Continue reading
Linklater films adds casts members. Continue reading
I understand why all these remakes of crappy generic slasher films are greenlit. The things are cheap and, uh – wait, this seems familiar somehow… Anyway, you might not think the remake of Black Christmas is a good precedent for anything, but it… Continue reading
