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Keira Knightley Is "My Fair Lady"...
8 December 2009 4:41 PM, PST
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Actress Keira "Pride And Prejudice" Knightley will play 'Eliza Doolittle' in the upcoming remake of the 1964 musical feature "My Fair Lady".
The original film was based on the stage musical "My Fair Lady", adapted from the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw, who was inspired by a play by classic Greek author Ovid.
The new screenplay is written by Emma "Sense And Sensibility" Thompson.
"...In London, 'Henry Higgins', an arrogant, irascible, misogynistic professor of phonetics, believes it is the accent and tone of one's voice which determines a person's prospects in society.
He boasts to new acquaintance 'Colonel Hugh Pickering', that he can teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball, pointing to a young flower seller in the street called 'Eliza Doolittle', who has a strong Cockney accent..."
Pickering bets Higgins that it can't be done.
Inspired by the challenge,
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- Michael Stevens
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A – Z Movie Reviews – D’s
7 December 2009 11:42 AM, PST
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To continue my review of my epic journey to watch all my films from A-z, this is the Forth part.
For those that don’t know I am watching all 700+ Dvd/Bluray films from A-z which has so far taken me 2.5 years to get to the end of H’s!
I thought I should retrospectively review each letter and give my top 5 films from each alpha block and maybe bring your attention to some films you may not have seen, films you’ve not seen in ages or films you should give another try. Click A, B, and C to read previous parts.
And so we reach the D’s and looking into the history of D’s I found some hideous movies I’m glad to say I don’t own like the Dr Doolittle remakes, Dude where’s my car, Deuce Bigalow male gigolo (2 parts, how!!), D3 Mighty Ducks,
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- Gary Phillips
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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: December 6, 2009
6 December 2009 8:33 AM, PST
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It’s Sunday and that means that it’s Wrap Up time.
This week:
The box office is Blind Sided; if you go down to the woods today you might see Tom Cavanagh in Yogi Bear; Leonardo DiCaprio knows Jack Frost in The Guardians; Have you ever heard Gun, With Occasional Music? Beautiful Creatures say P.S I Love You; John Madden will Dolittle directing with My Fair Lady and it’s all in the double barrel name as Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman find religion.
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Sandra Bullock’s The Blind Side just keeps doing better and better. The uplifting sports drama has took the top spot with an impressive $20 million after three weeks on the charts. 2009 has been a great year for Bullock and if Warner Bros. gives the actress the expected Oscar push then 2010 shouldn’t be too bad either.
Twilight’s New Moon
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- Niall Browne
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Free Flick of the Day: The Pirates of Penzance
2 December 2009 1:39 PM, PST
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Forget Pirates of the Caribbean. Forget musicals like My Fair Lady. My favorite swashbucklers don't have an Aerosmith swagger or terrible speech troubles. They hold their own against the very model of a modern major general. In 1980, theatrical producer and creator of the New York Shakespeare Festival Joseph Papp brought Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance to the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. It was so popular that it ended up making its way to Broadway, won a bunch of Tony Awards, sailed away to London, and then got turned into the film in 1983.
The movie starred Kevin Kline, Rex Smith, Linda Ronstadt, and Angela Lansbury, and detailed the life of Frederic (Smith), a boy who was supposed to become a pilot, until his hard-of-hearing nurse (Lansbury) misheard her instructions and apprenticed the kid to a pirate (Kline). On his 21st birthday, he's finally released, and soon falls for
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- Monika Bartyzel
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John Madden Set to Direct My Fair Lady Remake
1 December 2009 7:18 PM, PST
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John Madden, no not the animated and legendary football commentator, rather the Academy Award winning British director behind Shakespeare In Love is set to direct the remake of the classic Lerner and Lowe musical, My Fair Lady, a 1964 Academy Award nominated film.
Madden is currently completing production on the Helen Mirren film The Debt for Miramax and Marv Films, will ramp up the search for his leading lady and man in the new year. It was recently reported that Keira Knightley was still attached to the project after circling the project for some time, however there is no formal agreement for her to play Eliza.
Joe Wright was also attached to direct previous to Madden’s now involvement. The pic is being produced by Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh, who have been attached to the project since its start. Variety who broke the news says that this remake will draw
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My Fair Lady Finally Finds a Director: Shakespeare In Love’s John Madden
1 December 2009 6:30 AM, PST
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Have to admit, I'm a bit surprised that a remake of My Fair Lady has generated as much talk as it has in 2009, but that's what happens when a couple of very high profile names get attached. (And not to really knock it, especially if it sticks close to the original Pygmalion, as reportedly it will.) Legit attachments have included Stephen Daldry and Baz Luhrmann. Then it was Danny Boyle circling the project. He bounced away from it to do 127 Hours, and there's talk that part of the reason Boyle didn't do the film is because he couldn't interest Daniel Day-Lewis in the lead role. Then there was talk of Atonement's Joe Wright directing the film, but that turned out to be speculative poop, for the most part. Wright denied any involvement flat-out.
Now there's a real bit of news: Shakespeare in Love director John Madden is in talks
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- Russ Fischer
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Bollywood Courts Helen Mirren, Tom Hanks For Biopic to End All Biopics
1 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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· Helen Mirren, Tom Hanks and Tommy Lee Jones are among the Oscarrific stars reportedly in talks to join Mother: The Indira Gandhi Story, a long-gestating, Bollywood-produced biopic of the former Indian prime minister who was assassinated in 1984. Mirren would reprise her signature role as Queen Elizabeth II, while Hanks and Jones would take on the roles of -- deep breath -- Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Respectively. Emily Watson and Albert Finney may also drop in as Margaret Thatcher and Peter Ustinov, the latter of whom was awaiting an audience with Gandhi when she was killed. "Queen of Bollywood" Madhuri Dixit is attached to the title role, having narrowly edged out this year's ambitious awards-season lock Sandra Bullock. [Telegraph via The Wrap]
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard makes their own Indian deal, the new My Fair Lady picks up a director and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
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My Fair Lady Set For Remake?
1 December 2009 3:44 AM, PST
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Everybody likes a musical…don’t they? It seems Columbia Pictures and Brit helmer John Madden do. Variety report that My Fair Lady is looking a likely prospect for a shoot in 2010. It has been over forty years since Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn warbled through George Cuckor’s classic – and everybody knows nothing is sacred in Hollywood.
It seems things are gearing up for a re-hash, remake, re-imagining, etc. Rumour has it (which means little) Keira Knightley is circling like a shark around the role of Eliza Doolittle. It won’t be anything too radical with Duncan Kenworthy and John Madden steering the project. At one point, Baz Luhrmann was attached.
The producer and director are location hunting for period London buildings circa 1912. The new version intends on sticking close to the original play by George Bernard Shaw than the 1964 film. If there are any worries Knightley can’t sing,
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- Martyn Conterio
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John Madden Directing My Fair Lady?
1 December 2009 3:25 AM, PST
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After we dispelled the rumours that Joe Wright was set to direct a remake of George Cukor's masterpiece My Fair Lady - the one with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison - all has been quiet for a month or so, but now we hear from Variety that the Shakespeare in Love director John Madden is closing in on the project.
According to the trade daily, seasoned producer Duncan Kenworthy (Love Actually, Notting Hill etc. etc.) and stage impressario Cameron Mackintosh are producing the project which will retain the 1963 score but go back to the original source (Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw) for a little bit of fresh drama.
To be honest, the less we think about this project the better - especially considering that Keira Knightley's name is still connected with the main role. We love the original and genuinely think that some things should remain sacred... what do you think?
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My Fair Lady Remake Finally Lands a Director in John Madden
1 December 2009 2:18 AM, PST
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This 1956 Broadway musical has already been given the big screen treatment before as a 1964 Academy Award nominated adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn. However, another remake of the classic My Fair Lady has been in the works for some time now with names like Danny Boyle and Baz Luhrmann attached to direct at various points in development. Now it looks like the Columbia Pictures project has found a director as Variety reports that Shakespeare in Love director John Madden will helm the project and search for his leading lady and gentleman in the new year after completing production on the The Debt with Helen Mirren.
Madden's search for a lead actor and actress just might mean that the previously interested Keira Knightley may have gone out the window with also once attached director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice). So now it's anybody's guess just who will fill the shoes of Eliza
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- Ethan Anderton
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Trailer Number Three For Nine
1 December 2009 2:11 AM, PST
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With only twenty-five days until release, the third trailer for Nine finally reveals some of the story. Usually a music isn’t that contingent on story – the one prerequisite is that it’s cute or charming – but this is based on the legendary film 8 1/2, after all. Rob Marshall’s musical seems to retain most of the angles: the childhood whore, the Catholic guilt and upbringing, and Guido’s latest project which represents a creative roadblock – though the space rocket looks like it’s been replaced by some ancient Greek or Roman set. Of course, I’m pretty sure that the film’s plot will veer closely to the Italian musical, which I haven’t seen, and most people reading probably haven’t either. 8 1/2 is my only bearing. Hopefully it will combine the strong story of Federic Fellini’s classic with the musical pizazz of Rob Marshall to create an experience
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Joe Wright Was Directing My Fair Lady, And Now He’s Not, And Now John Madden Is, And That’s The Way It Is…Boom
1 December 2009 12:30 AM, PST
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Hall-of-Famer John Madden announced his stunning retirement earlier this year, leaving the NFL without its most famous ambassador for the first time since before cavemen could paint on walls, but Variety is announcing that he has come out of retirement to apparently direct the remake of My Fair Lady, which is based on a 1956 play starring Julia Andrews and Rex Harrison (itself based on a musical called Pygmalion) that was later turned into the first theatrical version starring Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. The remake will star Brett Favre as Eliza Doolittle. Brett Favre will also play the part of Henry Higgins. He’ll play every part, really. The title of the film will be changed to Brett Favre is Brett Favre. At the end of the film, the cast of Brett Favres will be so overwhelming that it will cause the celluloid to spontaneously combust.
(Puts hand in ear John Stewart style) What’s that?
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- Jacob
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Director For My Fair Lady?
30 November 2009 11:37 PM, PST
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Whirrr, whirr, whirr... That is the sound of back-pedalling, readers. Pretend you never heard anything about a My Fair Lady remake. We certainly never reported that Joseph Wright was directing, and that Keira Knightley was definitely in it. No, you are mistaken. This is the first time this story has surfaced. It is entirely new.So... Wouldn't it be luvverly! etc. A new version of My Fair Lady, in which Professor Enry Iggins takes on the ladification of the cockerny Eliza Doolittle for a bet, but ends up growing accustomed to her face, is in the works. It will retain the Lerner and Loewe original's songs and score, but at the same time return more to its roots in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.Keira Knightley has long been named in connection with the Eliza role, and it was previously reported that she'd beaten off competition from Scarlett Johansson, but
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Columbia Pictures to Remake ‘My Fair Lady’
30 November 2009 9:44 PM, PST
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Really, Hollywood? You’re giving us another remake? Great.
This time, Columbia Pictures is tackling the Audrey Hepburn classic My Fair Lady, the story of a flower girl’s transformation to fit in high society under the guidance of a snobby professor.
My Fair Lady itself was actually based off George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, although it did stray from the original story a bit. In what I think is a good move on Columbia’s part, the new film will closely follow the story of Pygmalion, rather than base itself off the first movie version. This should help create some distinction between the two movies, rather than the new film just feeling like a knock off.
The film won’t be updated from its original setting, but will still take place in 1912 London and feature the same London locations.
Several directors have already been considered to take on the project,
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A Serious Man and the odd movie out
29 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST
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A Serious Man may be getting rave reviews – but it's like nothing the Coens have made before. Joe Queenan on weird one-offs and the directors who make them
About halfway through the very funny, very disturbing, very ethnic new film A Serious Man, the modern-day Job who is the serious man in question climbs up on to the roof of his ghastly 1960s Minneapolis suburban home and tries to adjust the antenna to improve his TV reception. Beleaguered on all fronts – conjugally, professionally, medically – Larry Gopnik, a dorky physics professor who may be about to lose his job and is very likely to lose his family, is a bright, principled Jewish man whose children have begged him to fix the antenna so they can watch F Troop, an idiotic 1960s comedy. Many of Larry's travails unfold as songs from Jefferson Airplane's seminal 1967 LP Surrealistic Pillow play in the background.
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- Joe Queenan
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Dutch Singer Laura Fygi Stars in Singapore's Victor/Victoria, 11/9-11/29
29 November 2009 2:00 AM, PST
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International jazz sensation and Dutch singer Laura Fygi will star in the upcoming Singapore production of Victor/Victoria. The show will play at the Esplanade Theatre in Singapore from November 9th through 29th.
Fygi will play opposite Jake Macapagal, who is currently playing the role of Narrator/El Gallo in Repertory Philippines' production of "The Fantasticks," as the debonair King Marchan in the Asian premiere of the Broadway classic.
Victor/Victoria the 1982 musical comedy film was a remake of "Victor und Viktoria" penned by German screenplay writer Hans Hoemburg and directed by Reinhold Schunzel in 1933. The film starred Julie Andrews as Victor/Victoria, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. It was later adapted in 1995 as a Broadway musical, also starring Julie Andrews. Acclaimed composers Henry Mancini and Frank Wildhorn wrote the music with book by Blake Edwards and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
Fygi has
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Media Theatre's Wizard Of Oz Plays Through 1/10/2010
25 November 2009 3:50 PM, PST
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"The Wizard of Oz", L. Frank Baum's family friendly fantasy in which a young Dorothy travels over the rainbow after a twister hits her Uncle's farm, is one of the most popular stories of all time due to the iconic film version. While the film celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, the stage version of the musical based on the movie claims The Media Theatre stage as its home this holiday season (Nov. 24, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010).
The Media Theatre will produce The Royal Shakespeare Company's version of the musical, which includes all of the well-known songs from the film ("Over the Rainbow", "If I Only Had A Brain", "Follow The Yellow Brick Road") and a number cut from the original movie ("Jitterbug"). Temple University's Peter Reynolds, who directed Media's popular "Altar Boyz" last season, will take the helm for "Oz".
Kim Carson, a Barrymore Award winning actress who was seen last
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Sony Inks International Distribution Deal with CBS Films
18 November 2009 5:09 AM, PST
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Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has signed a three-year marketing and distribution deal with CBS Films, under which Sony Pictures will handle international theatrical distribution of CBS Films productions as well as service worldwide distribution of the unit's films in the home entertainment marketplace, it was announced today by Peter Schlessel, president, Worldwide Affairs for Sony Pictures, and Jeff Blake, chairman, Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing & Distribution. CBS Films will handle domestic theatrical distribution of all titles and retains rights in a limited number of foreign territories.
CBS Films was established in 2007 and the division plans to develop and produce four to six movies a year spanning all genres, with production budgets up to $50 million per film.
The distribution pact builds on the strong relationship shared between CBS Films and Sony, as the two companies collaborate to produce Faster, an action-thriller starring Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton, set to begin production in early 2010. The film,
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Latest and Greatest Trailer For Nine
18 November 2009 3:00 AM, PST
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When one considers old musicals, one would immediately think of An American in Paris or Singing in the Rain: slick talking characters who can also tap dance really well. Sometimes a musical like My Fair Lady would include a great story too. It’s a real difference from today’s frenetic, tightly cut and choreographed, sensuous musicals. In the case of Nine, which I have not seen on stage, it looks to also be a departure from the original inspiration, Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2. I don’t know how many potential audience members will have heard of the Italian film (I have no idea who goes to these things, anyway), but it doesn’t look like that will matter: there is no reason to think that knowledge of the original is required.
The new trailer, which you can see below, mostly features Kate Hudson singing Cinema Italiano, with quick cuts to other parts of the film.
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Joe Wright in talks for Hanna
17 November 2009 10:51 AM, PST
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Here’s one way to really not direct a My Fair Lady remake – take on a film about a 14 year old female ass-kicker. That looks to be director Joe Wright’s next move, as the Brit is apparently eyeing Hanna, a film with a couple of different synopses floating around right now. Variety says the film is about a 14 year old girl who, “after being raised by her ex-u.S. military father in the Swedish wilderness…uses the survival skills she learned to battle U.S. intelligence agencies while she treks across Europe to be reunited with her father.”
Read more on Joe Wright in talks for Hanna…
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