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Netflix is currently in talks with Liberty Media Corp’s Starz movie channel to renew their current deal, but Netflix says that the deal is not essential to its success. The DVD by mail is a major force in Hollywood, says it is in contact with Starz and thinks that they will come to an agreement, but even without the movie channel, Netflix sees a bright [...]
In his next indie project, Steve McQueen will direct Carey Mulligan in SHAME, the story of a man in his thirties living in New York, who is unable to manage his sex life. Mulligan will play the sister of the Michael Fassbender’s character. Mulligan has just been cast as Daisy Buchannan in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, where she beat out many actresses, including Scarlett [...]
Jesse Eisenberg, star of The Social Network, has signed on for his next film. Eisenberg will be seen alongside Teeth star Jess Weixler in the indie film FREE SAMPLES, which has been confirmed by producer Joseph McKelheer. Samples is the story of a law school drop out (Weixler) who fills in as a server for a friend’s food truck, where she gives out free ice [...]
Chris Colfer of the hit TV series Glee, will appear on the big screen in STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, a coming of age comedy that Colfer wrote himself. David Permut (Youth in Revolt) from Permut Presentations will produce Lightning. Colfer is planning to shoot the comedy next summer during his hiatus from Glee. Permut is planning on shopping the film to financers after signing a director [...]
Based on the novel from Matt Bondurant, THE WETTEST COUNTY IN THE WORLD is a Prohibition Era drama from John Hillcoat (The Road), and will star Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf. County is the story of a family of bootleggers and will be fairly new ground from LaBeouf and Hardy; both who primarily star in action films. Hardy has tried his hand in period pieces, [...]
RENTAGHOST was a British comedy show that Warner Bros. has just acquired the rights to. The studio is looking to take the remake in a Beetlejuice direction, and will write the film as a comedy vehicle for Russell Brand. Brand will play Fred Mumford, an every day slacker who winds up dead. Mumford decides to be more productive as a corpse than he was when [...]
Prima Cinema hopes to have their new VOD system in 250,000 homes in the next 5 years. The start-up company has the backing of Universal Pictures to make movies available to film fans the same day as their theatrical release. This idea isn’t new – Comcast and other cable providers have voiced that this would happen, but Prima Cinema is looking to start up in [...]
Los Angeles (December 8, 2010) – Following a hearing this afternoon, The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced that it has won a unanimous appeal of the NC-17 rating initially given to its feature film BLUE VALENTINE by the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPAA’s Classification and Rating Administration had bestowed the NC-17 due to one scene, a sexually intimate sequence between a married couple trying [...]
I remember when I first found out that the Narnia books were to be turned into a series of films. Even though I hadn’t picked up the C.S. Lewis series since I was young, the child within me was more excited than a kid on Christmas morning. It was that same feeling that struck me as I walked into THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE [...]
Before I saw ALL GOOD THINGS, the only things I knew about the movie were that it was based on a true story and starred Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst. I decided not to read anything else because I wanted to experience the movie without any expectations. Unfortunately, while I didn’t hate All Good Things, I can’t say that I loved it either, and it [...]
