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Release Date and Plot Details for Stephen King’s Joyland
22 hours ago | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Last month, we were one of the first to bring you news about Joyland, a new novel Stephen King was writing that revolves around an amusement park serial killer. The book has now been officially announced, along with plot details and a release date:
“Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, today announced it will publish Joyland, a new novel by Stephen King, in June 2013. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new book and has never previously been published. One of the most beloved storytellers of all time, Stephen King is the world’s best-selling novelist, »
- Jonathan James
Fear The Man in the Rearview Mirror
22 May 2012 4:15 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
More quick news coming out of the Cannes Film Market. Latitude Prods. and Lascaux Films have acquired Andy Pagana and Justin Thomas' spec script The Man in the Rearview Mirror. Read on for details!
Set in the 1950s, the Rear Window-esque story follows a man, his wife, and her mother, who pursue a suspected kidnapper at high speeds on the freeway. The film will be a co-production between L.A.-based Latitude Prods. and Dallas-based Lascaux Films, which aim to start production early next year.
The scribes are currently writing Parkfield for the Woodshed Horror Co., an outfit run by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh Waller that is dedicated to the production of elevated horror films.
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- Uncle Creepy
Paramount Buy ‘The Gun Eaters’; Latitude and Lascaux Pick Up ‘Rearview Mirror’
22 May 2012 4:14 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
A little bit of script news has poured in from Deadline, who inform us that Paramount have made an investment in The Gun Eaters. The Black List script, a reported action-thriller, has been penned by Jordan Goldberg and Alex Paraskevas; we’ve heard that it follows “two hardened detectives” trying to capture a psychotic engaged in a “day-long killing spree across New York.”
I don’t know how much this ended up impacting the final screenplay — or if it had any influence, as a matter of fact — but Goldberg is a compatriot of Christopher Nolan, having been a production assistant on Batman Begins, an associate producer on his next two pictures, and a co-producer on Inception. It’d be nice if some of that storytelling finesse rubbed off after years of firsthand experience, but I’ll take Paramount’s purchase as the only truly solid sign in the meantime. Oasis Media Group will be producing. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Deborah Kerr: The Darkness Inside
22 May 2012 2:03 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The Innocents communion: possessed Martin Stephens, Christian Deborah Kerr Deborah Kerr Pt.3: Socially Dubious Desires Later on, in the television miniseries A Woman of Substance (1984) and its follow-up, the TV movie Follow the Dream (1986), Deborah Kerr played a former kitchen maid-turned-businesswoman who didn’t reach the top by being all chaste and poised along the way. (Jenny Seagrove played the character as a young woman.) And once at the top, Kerr’s tycoon does whatever she feels necessary to remain there. Admittedly, Deborah Kerr didn’t create any of those characters all by herself. She did, however, bring them to life in ways that most performers, regardless of gender, would be either unwilling or unable to do. And even though Kerr once complained of her early "goody goody" roles, she surely knew what was going on inside those deceptively prim and proper women she played prior to From Here to Eternity. »
- Andre Soares
Andrew White rejoins The Australian after five-year stint at Afr
12 May 2012 9:13 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Australian Financial Review business writer Andrew White is returning to rival newspaper The Australian, the title he was poached from by the Afr almost five years ago.
He returns to The Australian to boost its coverage of national and international business as associate editor, the paper is reporting.
White joined the Afr from The Oz, where he was business editor, in July 2007 to edit its Rear Window gossip column. He was also companies editor during his time at the Fairfax newspaper.
White previously spent an 11-year stint at The Oz, between 1996 and 2007, before joining the Afr.
In 2008, White won a Walkley Award for business journalism for the investigative report, ‘Inside job: Who killed Opes Prime?’. »
- Robin Hicks
Review: Babycall With Noomi Rapace
10 May 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Thanks to its unfortunate title and the fact that its marketed as a straight-forward thriller, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Babycall is simply a Rear Window knockoff with baby monitors -- the film that Noomi Rapace will disown in interviews after Prometheus makes her a huge star in the U.S. However, it's far more intriguing, effective and ambitious than anything of that sort, and ultimately, because of how good parts of it are, it's a bit more disappointing too. Here's the high concept pitch: A woman buys a baby monitor (that's "babycall" in Norwegian) and discovers that it receives snippets of transmissions from another apartment using the same model of device. Those transmissions mostly consist of someone screaming in terror and begging for their »
5 Things You Might Not Know About Alfred Hitchcock's Masterpiece 'Vertigo'
9 May 2012 6:56 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Voting is currently underway on the Sight & Sound poll for the greatest film ever made, which takes place every ten years, and is generally seen as one of the most definitive of such polls. And one film that's near-certain to place in the top ten, given that it's been there in every poll since 1982 (and placed second in 2002) is Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo." The film was relatively poorly received on release, and indeed, remained unseen for twenty years, one of the five films to which Hitchcock bought back the rights to leave to his daughter (the so-called Five Lost Hitchcocks, which also include "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Rear Window," "Rope" and "The Trouble With Harry"). But since its re-release in 1984, the film has grown into the great director's most acclaimed masterpiece, and is now one of the most examined, deconstructed and written about films in the history of the medium. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
The BFI create a Neat Trailer for their forthcoming season: The Genius of Hitchcock
2 May 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Continuing their great work the BFI are basically fulfilling a lifetime’s wish of mine and showing all surviving works of Alfred Hitchcock on the big screen over a three month Hitchapolooza in London and around the UK.
Things kick off in June and among the various events someone, in a moment of mad genius, has decided to show a newly restored print of Blackmail in the British Museum, and if you’ve seen it then you’ll know why, with a live score from Neil Brand as well as numerous other cinematic accoutrements. For me though it’s the chance to see Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt and dozens of other classics on the big screen. Yes, friends. I am excited.
Taking cues from a number of Hitchcock’s greatest (or, at least, the most well known) films the BFI have just released this short trailer which has »
- Jon Lyus
Jeff Desom’S Awesome “Rear Window” Remix
1 May 2012 9:10 AM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Over the weekend, I stumbled across Luxembourg-based filmmaker Jeff Desom’s incredible Rear Window timelapse remix, which is shortlisted for the upcoming Vimeo Awards (although it just got pulled from Vimeo, presumably because of rights issues.) However, for the time being, it’s still on YouTube, and I’ve embedded it below for your enjoyment.
Desom’s remix is not only technically brilliant, but also winningly playful; part of its genius is that Desom shows you how he’s constructing the world seen from James Stewart’s window in Rear Window before he begins the action.
Here’s an extract from an interview with Desom on One Small Window in which he discusses his process:
How did the Rear Window project come into being?
The project was commissioned by a Luxembourg venue which has this extremely wide screen above their bar. They let me do whatever I wanted as long »
- Nick Dawson
Five things Alfred Hitchcock's films taught me | Anne Billson
23 April 2012 3:10 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hitchcock has been proposed for the national curriculum. Here are a few life lessons children might learn from watching his films
Never mind that cinema is the most popular storytelling medium of our time, and that if Bill Shakespeare were alive today, he would be writing screenplays, not stage plays; some people still think that, as an artform, it's automatically inferior to literature or theatre. So Heather Stewart, creative director of the BFI, caused a stir last week when she said: "The idea of popular cinema somehow being capable of great art at the same time as being entertaining is still a problem for some people. Shakespeare is on the national curriculum, Hitchcock is not."
One should never underestimate the educational value of films – and not just the worthy literary adaptations or bracing social documents our nannies imagine would be good for us. Adolescent exposure to The Charge of the Light Brigade, »
- Anne Billson
Tribeca Celebrates Universal's 100th Anniversary with De Niro & Apatow
20 April 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Yesterday, the Tribeca Film Festival kicked off it's "Tribeca Talks" series by celebrating 100 years of Universal Pictures. The panel featured a discussion between Judd Apatow and Robert De Niro that was moderated by Mike Fleming (from Deadline ) The panel was also meant to include Meryl Streep, but unfortunately, she was unable to attend due to a family illness. Before the discussion we were shown a six-minute package showing a bunch of clips from numerous Universal Pictures movies. Seeing them all together really made me realize how many amazing movies have come out of Universal, from The Deer Hunter to Jaws , Ray , E.T. , Knocked Up , Back to the Future , Schindler's List , Rear Window , American Graffiti , The Blues Brothers - really, this list could go »
The BFI celebrates the films of Alfred Hitchcock
18 April 2012 12:26 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The British Film Institute is hosting a celebration of filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock this summer. "The Genius of Hitchcock: Celebrating Cinema's Master of Suspense" will include screenings of nine of his newly restored silent movies - the culmination of a three-year project. The BFI's creative director said that they wanted to get out the “big guns” during Olympic year.
The films, with new scores by composers including Nitin Sawhney, Neil Brand, Daniel Patrick Cohen and Soweto Kinch, will be shown during the London 2012 Festival. Hitchcock’s first film The Pleasure Garden will be shown at Wilton's Music Hall, an open-air screening of Blackmail will be staged outside the British Museum, and boxing drama The Ring will be shown at the Hackney Empire.
The three-month long season will see a retrospective of his 58 films, with Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo, Rear Window and The Birds all being screened. Actors Tippi Hedren (The Birds »
- flickeringmyth
Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival To Showcase All 58 Of His Films (Video)
17 April 2012 12:51 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
At the end of Alfred Hitchcock's long and storied film career he directed a total of 58 films. This summer, London's BFI will feature all of the films, including the premier of nine of his newly restored silent films, the Guardian reports.
From June to October, BFI will show all of Hitchcock's films in "The Genius of Hitchcock: Celebrating Cinema's Master of Suspense."
Hitchcock's horror films are as pervasive in the world of cinema as Shakespeare's plays are to theater. Films like "Psycho" and "Rear Window" were not only a peek inside the psychology of fear, but also that of a innovative and genius filmmaker.
"We would find it very strange if we could not see Shakespeare's early plays performed, or read Dickens's early novels," said Heather Stewart, the BFI's creative director, in an interview with the Guardian. "But we've been quite satisfied as a nation that Hitchcock's early films »
- Amber Genuske
The Week (err.. or month?) In Horror! 4/11/12 Edition
11 April 2012 11:08 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Whoops! So almost a month has slipped by since our last “Week In Horror” column, but hopefully you’ve been entertained by Justin’s weekly Freddy’s Nightmares reviews? Well, we’re back! If you’re curious what’s new in DVD and Blu-Ray news, check out today’s earlier post right Here. And here’s what’s been going on in horror the last few weeks:
Holliston has officially premiered on FearNET! For those unfamiliar, filmmaker Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen) is the creator of this new sitcom series which debuted 2 weeks ago as the first piece of original programming for the FearNET cable network. Loosely based on his first independent feature film “Coffee & Donuts” and partially spawned from the “Road To Frightfest” shorts Green did with Wrong Turn 2 director Joe Lynch (see ‘em Here), Holliston follows the wacky exploits of aspiring horror filmmakers Adam & Joe who host a local cable access movie review show. »
- Rob Galluzzo
6 Filmmaking Tips From Alfred Hitchcock
11 April 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Alfred Hitchcock was born in the 19th century but gave birth in the 20th century to the age of modern filmmaking. Famous for his wit, inventive appreciation of the macabre, and a firm belief that suspense involves bringing a victim out from the shadows into the light he crafted the kinds of movies that made you care about characters even while reaching for your cholesterol medication. He also has a lot to teach. To fellow filmmakers and fans alike. Which is why we’ve chosen him as the first teacher in a new series of weekly articles where master movie-makers share their insights. Throughout his life, Hitchcock was candid about his methods and philosophies (amongst other things he flung around freely). Here’s a bit of free film school from a true visionary. Make Your Audience Suffer… Perhaps one of his most famous quotations, Hitchcock also seemed to delight in that suffering. His »
- Cole Abaius
Nicole Kidman to play Grace Kelly in Grace of Monaco
10 April 2012 3:21 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Star of The Hours will appear in Olivier Dahan's film about Oscar-winning actor who became princess of Monaco
Nicole Kidman is set to play Grace Kelly, the Oscar-winning Hollywood actor who gave it all up for a life as princess of Monaco, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Grace of Monaco, by screenwriter Arash Amel, was on the 2011 Black List of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood. It follows the format of recent films such as My Week with Marilyn and The King's Speech, both of which examined a famous 20th-century figure by focusing on a particular moment in their lives. The story on this occasion centres on a six-month period in 1962 when French leader Charles de Gaulle and Monaco's Prince Rainier III were at odds over the opulent principality's standing as a tax haven. Kelly, then 33 and in the first flush of her royal career, was said to have »
- Ben Child
Link Window
7 April 2012 6:10 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Empire Nicole Kidman to play Grace Kelly... circa 1961, in the Monaco years
Stranger Than Most enjoys an unbeatable double feature
Cineuropa remember that Danish film A Royal Affair that made a stir at Berlinale? It's now one of the biggest selling Danish films ever. It's already sold to 76 markets. Can't wait to see it.
Cele|Bitchy Charlize Theron goes Vogue
Awards Daily mesmerizing Rear Window timelapse video
La Daily Musto on Jeremy Renner's response to the gay rumors. (The end is priceless)
IndieWire box office winners and losers of the first quarter in the specialty market. Go A Separation!
Mnpp balloon men on Michael Bay sets
The Wrap Lindsay Lohan's transformation in 60 seconds
Movie|Line 9 unbearable theme songs to movies in honor of Titanic's "My Heart Will Go On"
Eric Orchard Veruca the Werewolf from Buffy hardly gets any attention.
And finally... I don't know how I missed »
- NATHANIEL R
Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window in Three Minutes
7 April 2012 12:23 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
We've got an amazingly creative short video to share that will be especially interesting to all you Alfred Hitchcock fans out there. We bring you Jeff Desom's imagining of Rear Window in three minutes. Dig it!
Desom did some incredible computer work to bring the classic film into a brief three-minute retelling of the story. "I dissected all of Hitchcock’s Rear Window and stitched it back together in After Effects," Desom said. "I stabilized all the shots with camera movement in them. Since everything was filmed from pretty much the same angle, I was able to match them into a single panoramic view of the entire backyard without any greater distortions. The order of events stays true to the movie’s plot."
Check out the film in its entirety below, and for more of Desom's quirky genius visit his official website.
Rear Window Timelapse from Jeff Desom on Vimeo. »
- Doctor Gash
Nicole Kidman in Talks to Play Grace Kelly in Grace of Monaco
6 April 2012 5:21 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Grace Kelly, star of Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, and High Noon, is an icon of Hollywood cinema, so stepping into her shoes will require a certain amount of boldness. Hopefully Nicole Kidman has what it takes since she's in talks to play the actress-turned-princess in the new film Grace of Monaco. Now, before anyone complains about "another biopic," the story will only focus on a six-month period in 1962 when Kelly, in her relatively new role as princess, worked behind the scenes to avoid a coup in Monaco when it "got into a heated dispute with France, which grew tired of the petite principality being a tax haven." The film is being developed as a lower budget project that's described in tone as being similar to The King's Speech. So, with a period setting, a popular public figure, some political issues, and a current A-list actress potentially involved, does this movie smell like Oscar-bait, »
- Aaron
Casting Call: Nicole Kidman In Talks To Play Grace Kelly In 'Grace of Monaco'
6 April 2012 12:55 PM, PDT | Access Hollywood | See recent Access Hollywood news »
Nicole Kidman is reportedly in talks to play yet another famous woman.
According to Variety, the Oscar winner is in negotiations to play fellow Oscar winner Grace Kelly in Olivier Dahan's "Grace of Monaco."
The movie, set between December 1961 and November 1962 focuses on how the "Rear Window" star - who went on the become the Princess of Monaco - successfully helped save Monaco from a coup. At the time, tensions between France's then-President Charles de Gaulle and Monaco's Prince Rainier III escalated surrounding the country's standing as a tax haven.
Director Dahan previously worked with ...
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- nobody@accesshollywood.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
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