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Watch: 1-Hour Ridley Scott Documentary 'Eye Of The Storm'
23 May 2013 10:15 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Still (im)patiently awaiting Ridley Scott's, Cormac McCarthy penned crime tale "The Counselor" coming later this year? Yeah, so are we. But until then, here's a nice little treat to tide you over -- a one-hour documentary on the career of the filmmaker from the British series "Omnibus." Titled "Eye Of The Storm," the 1992 documentary was made circa "1492: Conquest Of Paradise" and covers Scott's career from his early days at school right up until the present time of the doc. An array of collaborators are brought into for their input with Tony Scott, H.R. Giger, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Douglas, Callie Khouri and more participating. It's pretty decent vintage trip down memory lane, and it's always fascinating to get perspective on a filmmaker's career during different points in their life, so give this one a spin below. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Something's Happening To James Franco 'On The Inside'
22 May 2013 11:14 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Cannes, France — James Franco's filmography is starting to look like a book shelf – and a very respectable one, at that.
The 35-year-old American has already played poets Allen Ginsberg ("Howl") and Hart Crane ("The Broken Tower"). He recently finished directing an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God" (having first flirted with doing McCarthy's novel "Blood Meridian"), as well as a biopic of the late poet and novelist Charles Bukowski.
But this week at the Cannes Film Festival, he premiered his version of William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," a novel of fractured perspectives and enormous cinematic challenges. Having earlier screened at Cannes a short film he made as a student at New York University ("The Clerk's Tale"), coming to the festival in the Un Certain Regard section – for innovating or daring works by young talent – is something of a graduation for Franco.
"I'm accepted here as a director, »
- AP
Prometheus 2 Develops Casting Rumors, But No Confirmed Plot
20 May 2013 8:52 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Loved it or hated it, the fact remains that Ridley Scott’s Prometheus was a major film that set up the distinct possibility – probability, really – of at least one more sequel to tie up the many many loose ends. It has developed into a difficult slog to get Prometheus 2 off the ground, though, what with screenwriter Damon Lindelof leaving the whole script up in the air, and director Ridley Scott taking on other projects. But for those of you who desperately want to know what happens to Elizabeth Shaw and Michael Fassbender’s head-in-a-bag, good news! Ridley Scott has been chatting up a young actor about a supporting role in Prometheus 2.
That actor is young Rik Barnett, a 24 year old with only a few credits to his name. He recently won an award at the 2010 Ibiza International Film Festival for his work in Rebels Without A Clue, a »
- Lauren Humphries-Brooks
‘The Counselor’ Producers Again Strike Fast To Pre-empt Frederick Forsyth’s ‘The Kill List’
15 May 2013 11:49 AM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: In a six-figure deal, producers Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz and Nick Wechsler have preemptively acquired rights to The Kill List, the new novel by Day Of The Jackal author Frederick Forsyth. The contemporary espionage tale is described as an intricate chess game between a brilliant Marine, an Israeli agent, a teenage hacker and a mysterious psychopathic cleric. The novel will be published in September by Penguin. Forsyth also wrote The Fourth Protocol and The Odessa File. Schwartz, Schwartz and Wechsler will produce and Roger Schwartz is co-producer. They bought this preemptively as they did The Counselor, which went from a Cormac McCarthy spec to a green lit movie at lightning speed. Matching the gritty intensity that McCarthy has poured into books like No Country For Old Men, the script quickly drew director Ridley Scott and a cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
James Franco Takes On Classic
14 May 2013 6:35 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
There's no rest for James Franco, who continues to add on to his busy year with the newly released trailer for his adaptation of William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying."
Franco wrote, directed and stars in the update on the novel, which had yet to receive a film version prior to the 35-year-old Oscar nominee's efforts. The trailer offers a stylistic blend of Terrence Malick's idyllic nature imagery, furtive camerawork and contemplative narration, along with the Coen Brothers' gritty Southern-gothic tone.
Often considered one of the greatest American novels, Faulker's 1930 book tells the story of Addie Bundren's death and her impoverished family's subsequent quest to bury her in Jefferson, Miss., according to her wishes. Franco portrays Darl Bundren, the second-oldest child, while Tim Blake Nelson plays the patriarch Anse. The film also stars Danny McBride as Vernon Tull, a friend of the family, and Ahna O'Reilly ("The Help, »
- The Huffington Post
Which literary novels should daredevil film directors adapt next? | John Dugdale
11 May 2013 12:55 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The same daredevil spirit that has informed many an apparently insane film or TV version over the past decade has seen adaptations of literary novels
When the Cannes film festival starts next week, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, adapted and directed by James Franco, will be in the lineup. The Spider-Man star is known for mixing bookish projects with acting in blockbusters, but has nevertheless raised eyebrows by selecting a novel with 15 narrators that tells the seemingly uncinegenic story of a southern matriarch's death and burial.
This month will also see Paul Thomas Anderson begin to shoot his version of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, the first of Pynchon's dauntingly complex works to be filmed; and Steven Soderbergh recently announced plans for a 12-hour TV dramatisation of John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor ("If it works, it'll be super-cool. And if it doesn't, you won't be able to »
Which literary novels should daredevil film directors adapt next? | John Dugdale
11 May 2013 12:55 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The same daredevil spirit that has informed many an apparently insane film or TV version over the past decade has seen adaptations of literary novels
When the Cannes film festival starts next week, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, adapted and directed by James Franco, will be in the lineup. The Spider-Man star is known for mixing bookish projects with acting in blockbusters, but has nevertheless raised eyebrows by selecting a novel with 15 narrators that tells the seemingly uncinegenic story of a southern matriarch's death and burial.
This month will also see Paul Thomas Anderson begin to shoot his version of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, the first of Pynchon's dauntingly complex works to be filmed; and Steven Soderbergh recently announced plans for a 12-hour TV dramatisation of John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor ("If it works, it'll be super-cool. And if it doesn't, you won't be able to »
As The Great Gatsby opens, what makes a good book adaptation, anyway? | Alan Yuhas
7 May 2013 7:30 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Baz Luhrmann is the latest to try translating a celebrated book to the big screen, but there's danger in being too faithful to the text
Gatsby fever won't break until Baz Luhrmann's new adaptation opens this week, but this fifth film version of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel raises an interesting question: what makes a good adaptation, anyway? Why does Stanley Kubrick's The Shining merit documentaries in its own right, and Stephen King's The Shining end up forgotten among the made-for-tv mini-series? What should we hope for – or fear – from Luhrmann's take?
Adapting a novel or short story into film is a lot translation – turning words on a page into the language of movies: angles, actors and images. Filmmakers, like translators, are stuck in the middle between the original and the audience, and have to balance three elements: story, style and ambition.
Story might seem obvious, »
- Alan Yuhas
James Franco to star in Wim Wenders 3D film 'Every Thing Will Be Fine'
7 May 2013 7:30 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
James Franco will star in Wim Wenders's next film Every Thing Will Be Fine.
Deadline reports that the 3D drama will centre on a man who accidentally causes the death of a child.
The story follows Franco's character Tomas over a 12-year period following the accident, and is also rumoured to star Sarah Polley.
Franco's self-directed adaptation of the William Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying will play in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
His adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Child of God is currently in post-production.
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Emilia Clarke To Star In James Franco’s The Garden Of Last Days
3 May 2013 3:39 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Like just about everyone, I have many mixed feelings about James Franco. One of those feelings is wondering just how he can write, direct, and star in everything he comes into contact with. What has he taken on now? Directing an adaptation of The Garden Of Last Days. Who does he have to star in it? Emilia Clarke, best known as Daenerys Targaryen on Game Of Thrones.
The Garden Of Last Days is based on the book by Andre Dubus III, who also wrote House Of Sand And Fog. It tells the tale of a Florida stripper who happens to bring her daughter to work on the same day that she danced for several terrorists that were involved in 9/11. So once more, Emilia Clarke will take her clothes off for our edification, in the service of art. I’m certain that James Franco will be very appreciative.
Franco’s adaptation is apparently somewhat low-budget, »
- Lauren Humphries-Brooks
Game Of Thrones' Emilia Clarke to strip for James Franco, fall in love with Futurama's Zoidberg
2 May 2013 12:09 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Never one to pass up on a project full of weighty portentousness and heavy homoeroticism, Game Of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke has signed on to star in James Franco’s The Garden Of Last Days, Franco’s next literary adaptation after filming works by William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. The big-screen version of Andre Dubus III’s novel will find Clarke—who’s also never one to shy away from nudity—playing a stripper who’s forced to bring her 3-year-old daughter to work with her, and who comes into contact with some other “deeply flawed people” that include a man »
Natalie Portman And Michael Fassbender Lead 'Macbeth' Adaptation
1 May 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
After filming roles in one of Terrence Malick's upcoming projects, on-set drama foiled Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman's big screen reunion in "Jane Got a Gun," but the pair won't have to wait too long to make up for it.
Screen Daily is reporting that Fassbender and Portman have both taken roles in a new screen adaptation of one of William Shakespeare's most beloved, and feared, plays, "Macbeth." The take of a Scottish lord and his—let's call her—eccentric wife will be directed by Justin Kurzel, who won praise for his breakout film, the brutal "Snowtown."
According to the site, "Macbeth" starring Portman and Fassbender will not be a modernization of the psychologically terrifying play. "The new take on Shakespeare's classic... is set in the 11th century and in the original language," Screen Daily explains.
It seems that Kurzel's take on "Macbeth" will differ from the »
- Kevin P. Sullivan
I’m So Excited! review
1 May 2013 1:25 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Review Paul Martinovic 2 May 2013 - 06:47
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar reteams with Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz in the comedy, I'm So Excited! Here's Paul's review...
Pedro Almodovar’s appearance on The Graham Norton Show last week to promote I’m So Excited! caused a number of startled cineastes to spit out their popcorn/dummies in dismay, as if by agreeing to appear on a late-night show with one of our most prominent mainstream presenters were in itself an act tantamount to cultural treason. What’s next, Steve Reich on Steve Wright In The Afternoon? Cormac McCarthy on The One Show?
This kind of cinematic snobbery is to be expected, of course, but those who insist on applying it to Almodovar are missing the point somewhat – sure, he's a gifted, politically conscious film-maker, a keen stylist and absolutely worthy of the auteur label and all that it implies, but he »
- ryanlambie
Another Literary Adaptation For James Franco
29 April 2013 6:48 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
As usual, James Franco has an exceedingly long to-do list -- one that just got longer with the announcement that the 35-year-old jack-of-all-trades will direct and star in an adaptation of Andre Dubus III's novel "The Garden of Last Days."
"Garden" is Dubus' follow-up novel to the National Book Award finalist "House of Sand and Fog," which in 2003 became an Oscar-nominated movie starring Ben Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo. "Garden," released in 2008, tells three interwoven stories set in Florida on the days before the Sept. 11 attacks, but Deadline Hollywood reports that Dubus has given the Ok to set the movie in modern-day New York instead.
Shooting for "Garden" begins in July in New York City, with the movie's script penned by Hannah Weg, who also co-wrote 2014's "Hercules 3D." Gerard Butler will produce alongside Alan Spiegel and Danielle Robinson ("Olympus Has Fallen," "Playing for Keeps").
The new project is one »
- Matthew Jacobs
James Franco to Direct and Star in The Garden of Last Days
28 April 2013 9:10 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Known bookish busybody James Franco is about to screen As I Lay Dying at Cannes, and he's also close to wrapping an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Child of God. Now he's planning to helm and star in another novel-to-film effort, The Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus III's 2009 follow-up to House of Sand and Fog. Per the book's description, it's about the intersection of "the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people" — one of whom is a stripper who brings her three-year-old daughter to work. Franco will film in New York in July. »
- Zach Dionne
Child Of God Star Scott Haze Signs With ICM & Heads To Cannes With As I Lay Dying
20 April 2013 3:50 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Child Of God star Scott Haze has signed with International Creative Management (ICM Partners). This news comes shortly after we learnt that James Franco’s new film, As I Lay Dying, which Haze also has a role in, will be headed to the the 66th Cannes Film Festival this May.
Haze, who is also repped by Josh Kesselman at Thruline Entertainment, will release his first feature length directorial documentary titled Ghost & Goblins later this year, and will also be seen in the aforementioned Child Of God (also directed by Franco), which is an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 1973 novel. McCarthy is also the writer behind All The Pretty Horses, the Pulitzer winning book The Road, and the screenplay for Ridley Scott’s upcoming film, The Counselor.
The highly anticipated Child Of God sees Haze play the film’s ostracized protagonist, Lester Ballard. We can also confirm Haze will also take »
- Blake Dew
5 Reasons Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Should Be Taught In Schools
13 April 2013 2:24 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a work of devastating beauty — a grim glimpse into a possible future for all of us. It tells the story of a father and son traversing the destroyed landscape years following an unnamed cataclysmic event has put the world to the torch. McCarthy’s writing is sparse, on the nose yet hauntingly poetic. He has much to say on what drives mankind to do the things we do.
Since the book was released in 2006, very little in our world has changed for the better and often feels as if we are on the precipice of something incredibly dangerous. Maybe it’s the perfect time for us to look inward and find what makes ourselves tick. Maybe it’s time our teenagers took lessons from a book that could lend them some desperately needed perspective on what life holds for them.
This novel isn’t »
- Lucas Flanagan
‘Silence Of The Lambs’ Scribe Ted Tally Follows Agent Robert Bookman To Paradigm
4 April 2013 1:06 PM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Ted Tally, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Silence Of The Lambs, has followed his longtime agent Robert Bookman to Paradigm. Bookman left CAA to go to work for Sam Gores’s agency a month ago, and Tally becomes the first big Bookie client to make the move. Bookman has been among a number of well established CAA agents who’ve recently moved on to other agencies, and the question is always whether their star clients will follow suit. Bookman had close relationships at CAA with the likes of Cameron Crowe, Paul Greengrass, Jim Sheridan, Martin McDonagh, John Hillcoat and Martin Campbell. No word yet on other talent, but landing Tally is a coup for Paradigm. His other credits include Red Dragon, Before And After, The Juror and All The Pretty Horses. He won the National Review Award for scripting that Cormac McCarthy adaptation. As playwright, Tally won an Obie »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
Brad Pitt to Headline David Ayer’s World War II Thriller ‘Fury’
4 April 2013 10:34 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
While Brad Pitt has spoken in the past about his retirement from acting (maybe as early as 2014), you wouldn’t guess it from his recent workload. This year alone, the A-lister is headlining the much-debated zombie blockbuster adaptation World War Z, playing an important supporting role in director Ridley Scott and writer Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor, and making an appearance in Shame director Steve McQueen’s true-story drama 12 Years a Slave, which opens just in time for an Oscar qualifying run during 2013.
If that’s not enough, Pitt has now lined up his next starring role in Fury, a Ww II-set thriller written and directed by David Ayer – the screenwriter on Training Day and Fast and the Furious, as well as the filmmaker responsible for Street Kings and End of Watch.
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- Sandy Schaefer
Digital Spy's 10 movies to watch on TV this Easter
28 March 2013 2:00 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Everybody knows that Easter weekend is all about the chocolate nests and the Mini-Eggs - and the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, if that's your bag - but let's not forget the other crucial element of any long holiday weekend: movies on telly.
Whether you're in the mood for Jennifer Lawrence, animated dragons or well-oiled, scantily-clad Spartan warriors, we're confident that the Digital Spy Easter movie list has got something for everyone.
March 29, 7pm, Film4
John Hughes's slacker classic is the definition of perfect holiday viewing, following charismatic wise guy Ferris (Matthew Broderick) and his downtrodden, depressive best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) as they skive off school and spend a day living it up in downtown Chicago.
March 29, 10pm, More4
The Coen brothers' Best Picture-winning thriller is a hypnotically tense treat, featuring one of the most frightening villains ever committed »
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