Steven Soderbergh is putting off his Liberace biopic in favor of something with a little more heat and conventional appeal. Instead of Liberace, this fall Soderbergh will now shoot a script called Contagion by his The Informant! writer Scott Z. Burns. Said to be "an action-thriller about the outbreak of a deadly virus," the script reportedly is constructed in a style much like that of Traffic....
Get excited, fans of rebooted things! Nikki Finke and Mike Fleming report that Warner Bros. has asked Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan to play a "godfather" role in the development of a new Superman reboot. Nolan probably wouldn't direct — because he's also officially working on the second Batman Begins sequel now, say Finke and Fleming — but would just oversee the movie,...
Anne Hathaway is picture-perfect on the cover of InStyle magazine’s March 2010 issue. Here’s what the 27-year-old Alice in Wonderland actress had to share with the mag: On her appearance: “I think I’ve got really weird features. I have very large features on a very small head. But, you know, I’m not going to beat myself up… [...]
They're rebooting, or at least thinking about rebooting, the franchise, re-telling the origin story and setting it all back in high school again. (After three movies? After seven years') Wes Anderson, the clever but increasingly precious director of Rushmore, The...
In October of last year Lars von Trier revealed his next movie, Melancholia, a 'psychological disaster film' with sci-fi overtones. In true von Trier fashion he revealed little else about the movie, promising only "no more happy endings!" If you've seen Antichrist, or any of his other films, you know that a von Trier happy ending might just mean that one character suffers a bit less than...
Thirteen of the world's best young chefs gathered last month for the 2nd freewheeling Cook It Raw! culinary event, this year held in the trendsetting...
Steven Soderbergh must be awfully excited about his infectious new film Contagion. The director has pushed this flick to the top of his to-do list and snagged some of Hollywood's most prominent... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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I'm sure quite a few people have called for something like this in discussions about what Warner Bros. should do to make Superman work on the big screen: the studio is reportedly turning to Christopher Nolan to act as a "godfather" to help shepherd development of a new Superman film. Before we go further, at this point Nolan is not writing, and is not directing. Rather, Nolan would play more...
Celebrated tuxedo-shirt-wearing philosopher, one-time Reason cover beefcake, human rights activist, and Roman Polanski defender and Christmas greeting amanuensis Bernard-Henri Levy has stepped in some real deep merde regarding a recent attack on Immanuel Kant. When France’s most dashing philosopher took aim at Immanuel Kant in his latest book, calling him “raving mad” and a “fake”,...
Vulture buddy Nikki Finke reports that the rights to the Terminator franchise have been sold at auction to Pacificor, the hilarious hedge fund whose alleged malfeasance purportedly necessitated the sale in the first place. Finke says Pacificor — who lent $30 million to holding company Halcyon in 2007 to buy the rights to the series, then (allegedly!) bribed, extorted, and defrauded Halcyon so...
A little humor from De Smog Blog copied in full without permission below. The author is clearly one of those who missed the fact that even the wildly biased NAS panel, agreed with Wegman’s findings. h/t Tom Fuller – link on right. I don’t rely on panels myself but rather my own understanding, unfortunately the [...]
The term " hockey stick " was coined by the head of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Jerry Mahlman, to describe the pattern of historical temperatures in the northern hemisphere (it kind of looks like a hockey stick on its side). The chart, created by Dr. Michael Mann (now at Penn State University) shows relatively stable temperatures...
Filed under: Fashion , Celebrity , News , Celebrity Style Anne Hathaway gets romantic on the March cover of InStyle. Photographed for InStyle by David Slijper Just like her breadth in film, Anne Hathaway shows as much range while posing for the March issue of InStyle . The Oscar-nominated actress goes uber-elegant on the cover of the magazine , shot by David Slijper, in a voluminous violet gown (and...
According to Deadline.com, Warner Bros. has tapped Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan to have a sort of hands-on/godfather role in the upcoming Superman reboot to “ensure The Man Of Steel gets off the ground”. There is doubt he would direct both the reboot and the next Batman flick, but knowing Nolan’s eye [...]
PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) –The kind of introspective road film plenty of aspiring auteurs would probably like to make but few can pull off, "Bass Ackwards" follows a floundering hero without floundering itself. It should find a few soulmates on the festival circuit (it hits VOD and DVD on February 1) while earning filmmaker/star Linas Phillips a certain kind of cred for follow-up projects....
BURBANK, Calif. – Lined up in sweats and leotards, hundreds of sinewy dancers wait with paper numbers pinned to their chests and a singular hope within. Under gray, rainy skies, in dance shoes and bare feet, they've come to an open audition at a place called Center Staging with one dream: dancing on the Academy Awards. No. 149, April Thomas, brought her bundled-up 9-month-old son Kerrick along in his...
PARIS (Reuters) –U.S. director Tim Burton is to head this year's Cannes film festival jury, organizers said on Tuesday. Burton, who made his name with gothic fantasies ranging from "Edward Scissorhands" to "Sleepy Hollow" and "Batman" and whose "Ed Wood" was shown at Cannes in 1995 said he was looking forward to the two-week movie marathon that lay ahead. "After spending my early life watching triple...
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