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Paramount and Bad Robot Tap Newcomer Julius Onah to Direct Sci-Fi Film God Particle; J.J. Abrams Will Produce
11 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot have found a director for the intriguing sci-fi pic God Particle. Per Variety, the film “follows an American space station crew left abandoned after a problem with a Hadron accelerator causes Earth to vanish entirely.” It sounds a bit like Danny Boyle's Sunshine, though seeing Earth completely disappear might be a bit more disturbing/terrifying for this space crew. J.J. Abrams is set to produce, and newcomer Julius Onah has been hired to tackle directing duties with a script by Oren Uziel (Mortal Kombat: Rebirth). Having helmed a number of critically lauded shorts, Onah recently made his feature directorial debut with the thriller The Girl Is in Trouble. God Particle will be developed through Paramount’s Insurge arm, and thus will be made for a budget around $5-10 million. As with every Abrams project, further plot details are being kept firmly under wraps. The premise is highly intriguing, »
- Adam Chitwood
Clint Eastwood's daughter named Miss Golden Globe 2013
17 hours ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Francesca Eastwood is the envy of everyone in Young Hollywood — not only because she’s inherited a title previously bestowed on the likes of Laura Dern and Melanie Griffith, but also because she’s getting a chance to spend an entire night rubbing elbows with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced yesterday that 19-year-old Eastwood has been named next year’s Miss Golden Globe. Traditionally, the honor is given to the child of a celebrity; Francesca’s father, of course, is multiple Golden Globe (and Oscar) winner Clint Eastwood. Her mother is actress Frances Fisher »
- Hillary Busis
Nick Fury Gets A Day Off, Probably Won't Be In 'Iron Man 3'
16 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
As the Marvel universe continues to expand, the one sort-of constant has been Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, popping his head into "Iron Man," "Iron Man 2," "Thor," "Captain America: The First Avenger" and of course, "The Avengers" to ensure he can provide the exposition to keep the movies connected. But it seems he'll finally get to take a bit of break as the "Iron Man 3" won't be needing his services. "I think my next time as Nick Fury is in 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' Because I’m not in 'Iron Man 3,'" he told Total Film (via MTV). "None of the Avengers are in 'Iron Man 3.' It’s a standalone 'Iron Man' movie." So that will still leave plenty for fans to speculate about, particularly when it comes to the post credit sequence. With none of the Avengers being involved, will »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Bagged and Boarded Comic Reviews: American Vampire, Lot 13 and More
7 hours ago | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
New comic book Wednesday has come and gone. The dust at your local comic shop has settled. An eerie silence descends as you finish reading your last superhero book of the week. Now it's time for something a little more sinister. Welcome to Bagged and Boarded: comic reviews of the sick, spooky, twisted and terrifying!
American Vampire No. 33
This issue sees the culmination of the "The Blacklist" storyline, which followed the love story of Pearl the vampire and Henry the human. With her old enemies about to turn her dying love into a vampire under their control, Pearl has to fight to save her husband's life (and next-life).
Bag it or board it up?
This is a beautiful, heartfelt end to a great run with these characters. I don't know if the next storyline will pick up where this one leaves off, but I hope it does. Not only does »
- Giaco Furino
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
7 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Zombie Flesh Eaters | The Dark Knight Rises | The Bourne Legacy | The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp | Gate Of Hell
We've just endured yet another summer of bloated, boring, blockheaded blockbusters. For all the hundreds of millions of dollars spent, did any of them offer up anything as singular and memorable as the scene in the low-budget 1979 Italian shocker Zombie Flesh Eaters where a zombie has a fight with a shark? Italian cinema is full of rip-offs and cash-ins. Most have been forgotten by all but the most dedicated trash connoisseurs, but this is something different.
Director Lucio Fulci had toiled for years making spaghetti westerns, giallo, comedies, war movies, etc, so it was easy for critics to dismiss him as, at best, a journeyman, and at worst, a hack. But here we are looking at a lovingly restored Blu-ray of a movie that's over 30 years »
- Phelim O'Neill
This week's new film events
7 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Met Opera Live | Jonas Mekas | Sigur Rós: Valtari Mystery Film Experiment | Bristol Palestine Film Festival
Met Opera Live, Nationwide
Opera is supposed to be elitist and inaccessible, but ironically cinema is coming to its rescue. New York's Metropolitan Opera has become a global leader in the field, and three of its productions stream live in HD in cinemas across the country this month: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito, Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera (updated to a film-noirish context) and his Egyptian epic, Aïda. It might not be the same as the live experience, but it's a damn sight cheaper, and truly different.
Picturehouse & Curzon cinemas & various venues, Sat to 27 Dec
Jonas Mekas, London
Mekas is just about the last surviving link to the golden postwar age of American avant garde film-making, which has been a well of inspiration for modern cinema, indie and mainstream. He helped preserve the work of Andy Warhol, »
- Steve Rose
This week's new films
7 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sightseers | Great Expectations | The Hunt | Laurence Anyways | Rise Of The Guardians | Trouble With The Curve | Yossi | Alex Cross | Talaash
Sightseers (15)
(Ben Wheatley, 2012, UK) Steve Oram, Alice Lowe, Eileen Davies, Richard Glover. 88 mins
It's been billed as Badlands meets Nuts In May, but what separates this English country killing spree from its influences is its finely tuned sense of humour, which owes more to Alan Partridge or Edgar Wright. That's the black icing on a cake that's already rich with satire, twisted romance and gruesome violence, as our caravanning couple carve a murderous swathe through our nation's more mundane tourist attractions. It makes you proud to be British.
Great Expectations (12A)
(Mike Newell, 2012, UK/Us) Jeremy Irvine, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter. 128 mins
To be honest, expectations weren't that great for this lavish, handsome, star-stuffed but essentially orthodox Dickens adaptation. Despite the epic scope, the dense plot feels crammed in, and »
- Steve Rose
Jeff Kinney: 'People ask me, is Greg really you?'
7 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jeff Kinney, author of the hugely popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid books – and one of Time magazine's top 100 most influential people – tells Nick McGrath why his stories resonate around the world
The parallels between unassuming middle child Jeff Kinney and his star-crossed fictional anti-hero Greg Heffley are too arresting to ignore. With his preppy shirts, earnest, toothy grin and diffident manner, Kinney – a 41-year-old father of two and self-confessed former computer games addict – was probably never picked first for the school football team.
Heffley, a luckless video games fanatic frozen in cartoon time as the simplistically drawn adolescent protagonist of Kinney's phenomenally popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, is similarly flawed and – however hard he tries – rarely penetrates beyond the outer fringes of the in-crowd.
Belittled by his cooler, tougher elder brother Rodrick, frustrated by his mollycoddled younger brother Manny and ignored by the class catch Holly Hills »
- Nick McGrath
Revealed: 1961 Goya 'theft' from National Gallery was a family affair
7 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
It was the son wot done it. Released archive evidence points to father claiming Goya for fight against BBC licence fee payments
It has been called one of the great art heists of the 20th century. For more than 50 years, the identity of the master art thief who stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London has been a mystery.
But a confidential director of public prosecutions (Dpp) file released at the National Archives last week finally identifies the "thief" as the 20-year-old son of a retired Newcastle bus driver, who had told the police he had done it to "draw attention to my father's campaign" against pensioners having to pay the BBC licence fee.
The theft of the Goya portrait in 1961, which had been valued at £140,000 (more than £2m at today's prices), was the first time a painting had been stolen from the National Gallery. »
- Alan Travis
Seven Psychopaths: 'You can't kill dogs in Hollywood'
7 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The new comedy thriller from In Bruges director Martin McDonagh saw him locked in an unusual battle with the studio (fortunately, the dog was spared)
A lot of people die in Seven Psychopaths. It is brutal and it is bloody and it revels in its own excess: throats are slashed, people are burned alive, women are shot in the stomach, men get blown to pieces. CBS, which funded the film, was delighted when it read the screenplay, director Martin McDonagh's follow-up to the much-loved In Bruges. Delighted, except for the bit where someone kills a dog. Hollywood doesn't like dog-killing, and the studio suggested it would be prudent for him to remove that bit. Not a word about the women who die horribly and slowly, but a dog? You can't kill a dog. "Of course," says McDonagh. "It's rule number one."
Martin McDonagh is not in the business of taking notes from financiers. »
- Alex Godfrey
The Oranges: How I found myself in a real-life Entourage
7 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
When Brit director Julian Farino landed a script on Hollywood's "black list", his life took a strange turn
I was leaving the schoolyard, having dropped off my boys, when my mobile, or should I say cellphone, rang. "Hey Julian, it's Ed. Ed Limato. My client loves your movie. My client wants to be in your movie. My client is Richard Gere. We should talk, no?"
I had never spoken to Ed Limato before, but I knew of him as a legendary Hollywood agent. Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Denzel Washington, Steve Martin… he was an old-school giant. One of the biggest players in town. The fact that he should be ringing me (how did he get my number?), an outsider from London who started on Coronation Street, struck me in that 'how did I get here?' way. Am I really doing this whole thing in Hollywood?
The movie was The Oranges, »
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