BuddyTV (Free subscription) | yesterday
ABC's adaptation of Life on Mars is beginning to sound a lot better as it approaches its premiere date. After casting Michael Imperioli, best known as Christopher Moltisanti on HBO's The Sopranos, the time travel-police procedural has now enlisted Oscar...
/Film (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alex Proyas showed an extended trailer for his upcoming thriller Knowing, which just finished shooting. The footage begins with a young girl standing in a school yard looking up at the sky. A teacher calls everyone inside, but Lucinda doesn’t move. Title card: Lexington, Massachusetts 1959. The teacher instructs the kids to draw pictures of [...]
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
News: Arrow Films have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of King of New York (Special Edition) on 22nd September 2008 priced at £17.99. Christopher Walken stars in Abel Ferrara's uncompromising, blood-drenched and profanity-packed saga of one man who s...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Denzel Whitaker is set to star in Bad Lieutenantstaring Nicolas Cage and Val Kilmer. Bad Lieutenantis a remake of the Abel Ferrara’s cult classic. I really liked Whitaker in The Great Debaters. He really showed his talent, just like his father Forest. Denzel Whitaker at the N.Y. premiere of “The Great Debaters.” © 2007 Bryan Bedder / Getty [...]
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker and Xzibit have joined Nicolas Cage in the cast of Werner Herzog's "update" of Bad Lieutenant.
StyleCritics (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Eva Mendes is in talks to join Nicolas Cage in Werner Herzog’s remake of Bad Lieutenant for Nu Image/Millennium Films. Variety reports Billy Finkelstein has written an updated script for the film – which is based on the 1992 movie that featured Harvey Keitel and was directed by Abel Ferrara from a screenplay by [...]
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Variety.com said Kilmer and Xzibit will join the cast led by Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in the movie being helmed by Werner Herzog....
Movie Reviews Blog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
More actors have been announced for the impending Bad Lieutenant remake that will be directed by acclaimed director Werner Herzog. Among the actors announced are Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker and Xzibit. The actors join both Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in the cast. Other actors announced were [...]
ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Val Kilmer and Xzibit have joined Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in Bad Lieutenant , the Werner Herzog-directed remake of the 1992 Abel Ferrara cult...
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Eva Mendes is in negotiations to star opposite Nicolas Cage in the Werner Herzog-helmed reimagining of "Bad Lieutenant" for Nu Image/Millennium Films. The 1992 original pic starred Harvey Keitel as a corrupt cop investigating a nun's rape..
Drifting: A Director's Log (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
I'm sad to say that I'm not at CineVegas right now. No Britney Spears parties. No Abel Ferrara madness. Woe is me. But I did find the above image, courtesy of Patrick Walsh at Cinematical. It's pretty cool to see...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
The Happening had a much better opening weekend than expected (or is it feared'), coming in at third place with $32.1 million domestically, and actually beating The Incredible Hulk overall overseas. Meanwhile, Universal and Marvel insist that their superhero movie is a hit, even though it mad six million dollars less in its opening weekend [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
"CineVegas, celebrating its tenth year with a steady turnout and lively festivities to accompany the program, hosts one of the strangest big budget showcases of American independent filmmaking this side of Sundance," writes Eric Kohn at indieWIRE. "It's less...
E! Online (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Eva Mendes is ready to be a Bad girl. The actress is in talks to reunite with her Ghost Rider partner Nicolas Cage for Werner Herzog's update of Abel Ferrara's 1992 pulp...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Eva Mendes has signed on to reteam with her GHOST RIDER co-star Nicolas Cage in the upcoming remake of BAD LIEUTENANT. As we've been told, the film is less a remake and more of a reimagining of the Abel Ferrara cult classic. Director Werner Herzog even told Defamer that "the name of the bad lieutenant is a different one, and the story is completely different." Sooo, why even bother making it a "reimagining"...
