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3 May 2012 12:13 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

The Hunger Games’ director Gary Ross could be about to make an action thriller based loosely on the life of Harry Houdini…

Having bowed out of the Hunger Games franchise for scheduling reasons, Gary Ross is reportedly in talks to direct a rather different kind of action adventure. This one’s called Houdini, and adapted from a book by William Kalush and Larry Sloman which goes by the considerably longer title, The Secret Life Of Harry Houdini: The Making Of America’s First Superhero.

Just as the recent Sherlock Holmes movies have reinvisioned Conan Doyle’s suave detective as a man of action as well as intellect, Houdini imagines the famous magician and escape artist as an adventurer who’s “part Indiana Jones and Part Sherlock Holmes”. With a script written by Noah Oppenheim, who’s also written the forthcoming WarGames remake, Houdini will introduce a character who, it’s hoped, »

5 January 2012 12:58 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

Looking back at 2011 on what films moved and impressed us it becomes more and more clear—to me at least—that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, our end of year poll, now an annual tradition, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2011—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2011 to create a unique double feature. Many contributors chose their favorites of 2011, some picked out-of-the-way gems, others made some pretty strange connections—and some frankly just want to create a kerfuffle. All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2011 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative »

2 items from 2012