News Bites: Zooming Musicals and Murderous Mobsters
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Music & Musicals, Deals, Scripts
We’ve got another music-themed film on the way, and this time it isn’t based on an old movie or musical. Variety reports that Universal and Imagine have tapped Preston Whitmore (This Christmas) to write and direct a new music extravaganza called Zoom. Normally, I’d be happy to hear […]
Indie Winners: ‘Wendy and Lucy’
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Box Office, Cinematical Indie
Whoa! Keanu Reeves may have won the popularity contest with his one-note performance as an alien, but specialty audiences came out in big numbers for a variety of limited releases, according to estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo. In addition to the films mentioned by Eugene in his […]
Review: Seven Pounds
Posted on December 18, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, New Releases, Theatrical Reviews
There are plenty of movie stars (including one currently headed to theaters donning an eye-patch) whose acting skills amount to riffing on a one-dimensional celebrity persona. And then there are those valuable few like Will Smith, who actively seek out roles — often in so-so mega-blockbusters — that […]
Read More..>>Depp Dips Into Dante
Posted on December 3, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Deals
If you were itching for Johnny Depp to get into some more normal fare (rather than Mad Hatters and slaying barbers), this should be the ticket. Variety reports that Depp’s production company (Infinitum Nihil) has grabbed the rights to Nick Tosches’ novel In the Hand of Dante — to be a potential […]
Benderspink Attacking ‘The Straw Men’
Posted on December 1, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Horror, Thrillers, Deals, Mystery & Suspense, Newsstand
Michael Marshall is one lucky writer — he published a well-received trilogy, which was adapted into a comic series by Zenescope, and now The Straw Men are coming to the big screen. According to Variety, Benderspink has snatched the rights to the to the novels […]
Indie Winners: ‘Milk’ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Score Big
Posted on December 1, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Box Office, Focus Features, Fox Searchlight, Cinematical Indie
After a couple of weeks off (I had a bad case of Twilight fever), Indie Winners returns with a look at the best-performing independent films at the box office this weekend. As Indie Spotlighter Eric D. Snider noted before the long holiday weekend began, […]
Fan Rant: Wrong Soundtrack for the Wrong Trailer
Posted on November 29, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Universal, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips
Hollywood, please. Leave The Fountain’s soundtrack alone!
Somehow, in the course of my writing, I neglected to ever watch the Frost/Nixon trailer, something now rectified thanks to it being attached to Australia. I was into it right up until a familiar theme started playing … and […]
Another ‘Notorious’ Poster for Biggie Smalls Biopic
Posted on November 27, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Music & Musicals, Fox Searchlight, Images, Posters
It really was about time that Christopher ‘Notorious B.I.G.’ Wallace received his own biopic. Unfortunately, judging by what I’ve seen so far, Notorious has been flirting with being one step up from a movie of the week — and for someone so influential in music history, […]
First Look: Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in ‘Public Enemies’
Posted on November 26, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Fandom, Johnny Depp, Movie Marketing, Images
We’ve seen a few photos from the set, but Empire has snagged the first official images from Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in what has to be one of the most anticipated on-screen match-ups of 2009. In the flick, which is based […]
Read More..>>Hollywood Goes Bollywood
Posted on November 26, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, Thrillers, Deals, Scripts
Could you see Paul Scrader in Bollywood? See, this is much more than merely Hollywood delighting in all things Bollywood. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Paul Schrader, the pen behind Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, is heading to Mumbai to helm a Bollywood action flick called Extreme City.
What’s […]