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Alec Baldwin: 'The movies are abandoning serious acting to television'
10 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The actor has been at Cannes making a documentary, Seduced and Abandoned, about the film festival. Here he talks about the state of his profession today
Where I've ended up, I'm pretty content. I see the people at the top of the movie business today and I compare their careers with those at the top 40 years ago. I wouldn't trade places with those that dominate today; I don't necessarily want what they have. I want the choices they have but I look at some of the films they make and think: "You could get anybody to play those parts."
They'll roll out a film like Lincoln every now and again with Kushner and Spielberg and Day-Lewis – who is someone I worship. I saw him at the SAG awards and I said: "Do you realise what your career means to other actors? You give them hope that there is still some purity in acting. »
- Catherine Shoard
Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell Cast & Crew Talk the Series' Creation/Approach, Portraying Satan, Favorite Horror Films, and More
11 hours ago | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The corporate world can be Hell, but according to Adult Swim’s horror sitcom "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell," Hell is a lot like the corporate world. Filled with demon bosses, deadlines, and cubicles of doom.
As the series' season finale, “People in Hell Want Ice Water,” approaches at the stroke of midnight tonight (5/23), it was about time we got a bit of insight into the men behind the madness and red face paint. The show’s creators, Dave Willis and Casper Kelly, alums of Adult Swim series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" and "Squidbillies," and cast members Matt Servitto ("The Sopranos," "The Mentalist"), Craig Rowan ("College Humor Originals," "The Onion Sportsdome"), and Henry Zebrowski ("Girls," Martin Scorsese’s upcoming The Wolf of Wall Street) sat down to discuss the origins of their diabolically funny series.
The show’s creation, according to Kelly, came from an earlier Kelly/Willis »
- Heather Buckley
Director Olivier Assayas Preps ‘Hubris’
22 May 2013 12:49 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Carlos” helmer Olivier Assayas is set to shoot his first film in the U.S. — “Hubris,” an action-packed crime thriller set against the backdrop of organized crime in Chicago in the 1970s.
Former MK2 exec Charles Gillibert (“On the Road”), who recently launched Paris-based CG Cinema, is partnering with Hollywood indie players Scott Stuber of Bluegrass Films, Alexandra Milchan’s Emjag Prods. and Scott Lambert’s Film 360 to produce “Hubris.”
Frederique Dumas at Orange Studios is co-financing and co-developing the pic.
Inspired by an article by journo Hillel Levin, “Hubris” turns on a gang of thieves led by notorious mastermind John Mendell who rob a pawn shop only to discover it is a front for Chicago’s most brutal crime boss, Tony Accardo.
Assayas is writing the script.
“Olivier Assayas is one of the most dynamic filmmakers on the global film scene. His previous films including the groundbreaking miniseries ‘Carlos’ have been masterpieces, »
- Elsa Keslassy
The Noteworthy: R.I.P. Alexey Balabanov (1959-2013), Miyazaki's "The Wind is Rising", Hoberman on Jacobs
22 May 2013 12:25 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
News.
The highly celebrated Russian director Alexey Balabanov has passed away at the age of 54. James Gray–whose newest film The Immigrant premieres in Cannes this Friday–has announced his next project: a sci-fi film produced by Rt Features. Variety has the details. Laurent Cantet, director of The Class, also has a new project: "Vuelta a Itaca is a Cuban set drama about Amadeo, who returns to the Havana after a 16-year exile. Over one night, he and his childhood friends retrace their lives." via Dark Horizons. At Cannes this weekend, Claude Lanzmann presented The Last of the Unjust, a companion piece to Shoah that focuses on one man whose interviews were left out of that masterwork. Check out this wonderful piece on Lanzmann and the new film in The Guardian. Above: Concept art and a frame from Hayao Miyazaki's new film, Kaze Tachinu (The Wind is Rising). Further details, »
- Notebook
Watch: What if Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch or Terrence Malick Directed 'Fast & Furious 6'?
21 May 2013 6:00 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Whenever a big movie comes out there's always a part of us that wonders what it'd look like if someone else directed it. Like, what if Martin Scorsese directed Star Trek Into Darkness instead of J.J. Abrams (oh, the cursing!), or if Terrence Malick directed Fast & Furious 6 (oh, the shots of Vin Diesel frolicking in an open field!). Thankfully we have folks like Jesse Benjamin to animate these "what ifs" into a humorous video that imagine this week's Fast & Furious sequel as if it were directed by art house favorites like Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch (the best one, in our opinion) and Terrence Malick. Check it out below. And hey, at least Wes Anderson got a pass on this one. [via CinemaBlend] Follow @ErikDavis !function(d,s,id){var...
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- Erik Davis
Leonardo DiCaprio Wants Dennis Lehane To Pen Travis McGee
21 May 2013 5:41 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Dennis Lehane.s name is becoming a proven brand in Hollywood as more A-listers gravitate to the author and screenwriter.s prose . and his past works. Ben Affleck broke on the scene with an adaptation of Lehan.s best-selling Gone Baby Gone. The two plan to collaborate again on a feature-length version of the author.s book Live By Night. And now Lehane.s locking up another powerful player with which he previously worked. That would be Leonardo DiCaprio, who teamed with Martin Scorsese for a breathtaking adaptation of Lehane.s mesmerizing Shutter Island. Now Variety is reporting that Lehane is being pursued by Fox to write Travis McGee, a World War II drama that once had DiCaprio attached to star. The latest, on behalf of the trade, says that actor.s current involvement is .still being worked out.. The project is based on John D. MacDonald.s The Deep »
Cannes: The Weinstein Company Circles U.S. Rights to ‘Spivet’ (Exclusive)
21 May 2013 11:41 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Weinstein Company is in advanced negotiations to acquire all U.S. rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 3D adventure pic “The Young and Prodigious Spivet,” in what will be one of the highest-profile deals inked at Cannes.
Adapted from Reif Larsen’s novel by Jeunet and his scribe partner Guillaume Laurant (“Amelie”), the English-language “Spivet” centers on a 12-year-old boy (Kyle Catlett) with extraordinary skills who leaves his family in Montana and takes off on a cross-country adventure to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. to receive a prize.
Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Bates star in the film, Jeunet’s first English-language pic since 1997′s “Alien: The Resurrection.”
It’s also the director’s first 3D pic and he said that he studied movies including Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” and Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” to prepare “Spivet.”
Pic will be digitally remastered by Imax and will be released in France Oct. »
- Elsa Keslassy
Favourite Movie Soundtracks - Goodfellas
21 May 2013 9:12 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Brogan Morris on his favourite movie soundtrack....
Picking a best of anything always causes me more anxiety than it should – it’s my personal favourite of something, and so what? Every film fan’s got one. But it feels like ‘favourite movie soundtrack’ is one I have to get absolutely right.
There are so, so many; Almost Famous appeals to the long-hair within me, nostalgic for the 70s (a decade I never actually saw) and its rock decadence; Marie Antoinette speaks to the sulky little indie kid side of me, complete as Sofia Coppola’s picture is with juicy new wave and post-punk tunes; and there’s always O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the country ‘n’ bluegrass on that being damn near perfect. Then I remember Quentin Tarantino, and I go tumbling down a rabbit hole after seven films (not Death Proof) with wonderfully eclectic soundtracks.
Goodfellas tops all of them, »
- Flickering Myth
Martin Scorsese to present Mel Brooks with AFI Life Achievement Award
21 May 2013 8:17 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Martin Scorsese is to present Mel Brooks with the prestigious American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award.
The Blazing Saddles director's life and career will be honoured at a special ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on June 6.
AFI chairman Sir Howard Stringer has said that Scorsese is the perfect choice to pay tribute to the iconic filmmaker, given that he himself was given the Life Achievement Award in 1997.
"For over 50 years, Mel Brooks has given the world its greatest gift - laughter," Stringer commented.
"At the American Film Institute, we also want to shine a proper light on his contributions to the art form as writer, producer, director and actor - and who better to bestow this honour than one of the masters of American film, Martin Scorsese."
The AFI tribute to Brooks will air on June 15 on TNT, and again as part of a day-long salute »
Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Contemporary - Blu-ray Review
21 May 2013 7:51 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Warner Brothers celebrates the gangster genre with these five modern takes on the Tommy gun toting mobsters. However, the only new item you.ll get is the addition of a Paramount title and new packaging and artwork. Not that it is a bad thing since the movies are fantastic. Mean Streets (1973) . Martin Scorsese makes his arrival as a filmmaking force with his semiautobiographical tale of the first-generation son and daughters of New York.s Little Italy. Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro give star-making performances. The Untouchables (1987) . Director Brian De Palma.s tour-de-force from David Mamet.s screenplay is a larger-than-life depiction of Al Capone (De Niro), the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era »
- Jeff Swindoll
Perfect Father’s Day Gift: Ultimate Gangster Collection — Contemporary
21 May 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Ultimate Gangster Collection — Contemporary
Due Out: May 21, 2013
The “Ultimate Gangster Collection: Classics“ and “Ultimate Gangster Collection: Contemporary” are available on Blu-ray 5/21
Who’S It For?
My wife hasn’t seen Mean Streets, The Untouchables, Goodfellas or Heat. So while I would normally say this is the perfect gift for guys on Father’s Day, it’s really perfect for my wife. These are movies that must be seen by every adult. Not only to they showcase how the ugly side of society has evolved, but it’s also the evolution of gangster crime. Every one of these films is brilliant, and yes, I’m including The Departed. Jack Nicholson’s performance has someone gotten a bad rap. I’m convinced if it wasn’t for Martin Scorsese zooming in on the rat at the very end, everyone would still worship this film. »
- Jeff Bayer
Im Global Pacts with Impuls Pictures
21 May 2013 4:38 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Im Global and Switzerland’s Impuls Pictures have partnered on a new output deal, the companies announced Tuesday from Cannes.
Deal adds to Im Global’s existing network of output partners, which include Universum in Germany, Top Film in Russia and Eastern Europe, Sun Distribution in Latin America, and eOne in the U.K., Canada and Spain.
Im Global prexy Jonathan Deckter and senior VP of legal and business affairs Elizabeth Powell hammered out details of the partnership with Impuls’ Peter and Patrick Schaumlechner over the weekend.
Impuls’ three core divisions include home entertainment, theatrical and production. The Schaumlechners founded the company in 1986.
Im Global is shopping pics including Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” and mob pic “Gotti” at the festival. »
- Rachel Abrams
Cannes 2013: ‘Silence’ On the Biz Front
20 May 2013 11:17 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Cannes—This year’s Cannes saw a deluge of new titles brought onto the market.
But, through Monday afternoon at least, there had not been a deluge of deals snapping them up.
One day before the pre-sales market wound down, with major distributors planning to pack their bags Tuesday, most major U.S. and European sales companies had little to crow about in contrast to previous years where by this time a flurry of activity would have already been announced.
See Also: Andrew Garfield to Star in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ (Exclusive)
A L.A. based buyers rep said there was both a lack of quality and “ big mainstream commercial product with guaranteed wide USA theatrical release.”
“Sales are taking longer and have also been scattered: Many movies on the market have sold to most of Asia, Latin America, Germany, Scandinavia and the U.K. but that’s it.” added Constantin’s Martin Moszkowicz. »
- John Hopewell and Rachel Abrams
Cannes 2013. Passing Shots: Satyajit Ray, Joel & Ethan Coen, Alex van Warmerdam
20 May 2013 11:11 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, India)
Cannes Classics
There are few things more valuable at a film festival than catching a retrospective screening that puts it in perspective, resets your cinephilic enthusiasm, and reminds you what movies can be. Satyajit Ray’s Charulata (1964) served just that purpose as Cannes neared its halfway mark. Beginning with a beautiful sequence of pure cinema, for the first time I saw the link between Ray and Martin Scorsese (who holds the Indian filmmaker in the highest regard). Alone in a room in her home, the title character wanders to a window with her binoculars, opens the shutters and watches people outside. To track them, she moves from window to window, opening each shutter and observing their movement. It's hard not to think of the young Henry Hill looking out his window in Goodfellas, and even more recently, Hugo peering from behind the clock in the train station, »
- Adam Cook
Keanu Reeves' revolution: Matrix star to direct Chinese-backed kung fu film
20 May 2013 4:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With heavy financial support from Beijing, trilingual Man of Tai Chi aims to pack big punch at eastern and western box offices
In 1999, Keanu Reeves made what many people regard as his most memorable film: the Wachowski brothers' The Matrix. Now, he is making his directorial debut – and his martial arts trainer from the Matrix films is to take the starring role in the trilingual Mandarin-, Cantonese- and English-language kung fu movie, which comes with heavy financial backing from the Chinese state.
Speaking at the Cannes film festival, the 48-year-old, who will also take a leading role in the film, called Man of Tai Chi, described his love of kung fu movies. Kindled by seeing Bruce Lee classics as a child, this was later developed by working on The Matrix with his trainer, Tiger Chen, he said. "Kung fu movies are beautiful," he said, "exotic, wonderful, empowering."
"It's like play, »
- Charlotte Higgins
Martin Scorsese To Present Mel Brooks With AFI Life Achievement Award
20 May 2013 2:09 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Martin Scorsese will present Mel Brooks with the American Film Institute’s 41st Life Achievement Award – America’s highest honor for a career in film. The private black tie gala will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on June 6 and will air on TNT Saturday, June 15, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt and as part of an all-night tribute to Brooks on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Sunday, July 24, at 8 p.m. Et. Brooks will be recognized for his range of mastery as a director, producer, writer, actor and composer.
Martin Scorsese is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time having received the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to cinema, two AFI Awards, an Academy®Award, a Palme d’Or, Grammy® Award, two Emmys®, four Golden Globes®, a BAFTA and three DGA Awards. Scorsese’s body of work includes films such as The Departed, »
- Melissa Thompson
Cannes Podcast #2: Talking 'Inside Llewyn Davis', 'Monsoon Shootout', 'Seduced and Abandoned' and 'Jimmy P.'
20 May 2013 10:30 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Welcome to the second podcast from the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where my only guest for this one is Kevin Jagernauth from The Playlist as the two of us stood outside the Bazin theater before seeing Blood Ties and discussed Monsoon Shootout, Inside Llewyn Davis (read my review here), Seduced and Abandoned (read my review here) and Jimmy P. (read my review here). What I hoped to deliver with these was to give you a taste of some of the random conversations we tend to have after seeing the movies as we work out our own thoughts and take in the thoughts of others. That said, there are spoilers and it's not a traditional review format as we discuss the films with one another as if anyone listening has already seen them. I hope you enjoy. I have included the synopsis for each film discussed below as well as the timestamps where they are discussed. »
- Brad Brevet
Mel Brooks to be awarded AFI's Life Achievement Award by Martin Scorsese
20 May 2013 8:28 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Mel Brooks has won an Oscar, a Tony, a Grammy, an Emmy, and endless, endless accolades. Later this month, he’ll be honored once more when Martin Scorsese presents him the American Film Institute’s 41st Life Achievement Award. (Scorsese has also been awarded AFI’s Life Achievement Award, back in 1997.)
“For over 50 years, Mel Brooks has given the world its greatest gift — laughter,” said Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. “At the American Film Institute, we also want to shine a proper light on his contributions to the art form as writer, producer, director and actor »
- Adam Carlson
James Badge Dale, 'Iron Man 3' Star, Is Also in 'World War Z' and 'The Lone Ranger'
20 May 2013 7:40 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
James Badge Dale has always been one of those promising character actors who you knew to keep an eye on; he starred as a squirrely everyman caught in a vast conspiracy in AMC's short-lived series "Rubicon," and anchored the very best scene in Robert Zemeckis's "Flight" (he was the cancer patient in the staircase). But this summer he not only flirts with superstardom, he takes superstardom out to a five-course meal and brings it back to his place. In successive months, James Badge Dale stars in three of the summer's biggest, most talked-about blockbusters. You can currently see him as a gum-chewing bad guy in the excellent "Iron Man 3"; next month he battles hordes of flesh-eating zombies in the highly anticipated "World War Z," and in July he stars alongside Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer in Disney's mega-budget "The Lone Ranger." We got to speak with the actor »
- Drew Taylor
Martin Scorsese to Present Mel Brooks with AFI Award
20 May 2013 7:09 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Martin Scorsese and Mel Brooks are rarely mentioned in the same sentence. Although both men are film legends, their styles and subject matter are worlds apart -- one is associated with gritty depictions of criminality while the other is best known for his pioneering fart jokes. The two men will share the same stage, however, on June 6, when Scorsese will present Brooks with the American Film Institute's 41st Life Achievement Award. The award is one of the highest honors for a career in film and has been handed out in »
- Brent Lang
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