Review: Australia
Posted on November 25, 2008 - Filed Under Western | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, New Releases, Theatrical Reviews, New in Theaters, 20th Century Fox, Western, Nicole Kidman
With his previous feature film Australian director Baz Luhrmann came within tasting distance of a Best Picture Oscar, as well as several other awards. Moulin Rouge! (2001) did win two, for Costume Design and Art Direction, but all the glory […]
Read More..>>Hollywood Isn’t Done with the Old West — Prepare for Hopalong Cassidy
Posted on November 22, 2008 - Filed Under Western | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Deals, Remakes and Sequels, Western
As soon as the Lone Ranger started to be pulled into modern Hollywood, I knew other cowboys would follow. If Hi, Ho, and Silver, aren’t your idea of a good time, how about Bill “Hopalong” Cassidy?
Variety reports that 300 producer Mark Canton is joining forces with Pterodactyl Prods. on […]
Ridley Scott is Still Teasing Us with ‘Blood Meridian’
Posted on November 20, 2008 - Filed Under Western | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Scripts, Western
It seems like every other day Ridley Scott is promising to make a movie (even when we wish he wouldn’t). But, one project that he can’t seem to get in motion is the feature film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s western, Blood Meridian. In an interview with Empire, Scott gave an update […]
Live from Fantastic Fest: Of Bouts and Boats
Posted on September 23, 2008 - Filed Under Western | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Documentary, Horror, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Lionsgate Films, Magnolia, Festival Reports, Fantastic Fest, Western
(from left to right) Fantastic Fest programmer Zack Carlson, Fantastic Feud co-hosts Devin Steuerwald and Scott Weinberg, and Not Quite Hollywood director Mark Hartley
With the weekend came no sure rest for Fantastic Fest attendees. Saturday kicked off with, among other […]
TIFF Interview: Ed Harris, Director and Star of ‘Appaloosa’
Posted on September 6, 2008 - Filed Under Western | Leave a Comment
Filed under: New Line, Festival Reports, Podcasts, Interviews, Toronto International Film Festival, Western
As the director, co-screenwriter and star of Appaloosa, Ed Harris follows up his Oscar-nominated work as an actor-director in 2000’s Pollock with an adaptation of Robert B. Parker’s novel, revolving around two old friends and partners (Harris and Viggo Mortensen) in 1882 New […]
Read More..>>Live From Telluride: Three Things I Have Learned
Posted on August 31, 2008 - Filed Under Western | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Documentary, Telluride, IFC, Cinematical Indie, Western
1. People are willing to get out of bed at seven in the morning to watch a movie about people starving themselves to death. I don’t care how much people paid to be here: it is simply amazing that the 8:30 am showing of Hunger (which Kim reviewed […]
Korean Western ‘The Good, The Bad, The Weird’ Picked Up by IFC
Posted on July 17, 2008 - Filed Under Western | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Foreign Language, New Releases, IFC, Distribution, Cinematical Indie, Western
Poised to debut in its native land today, a Korean Western is also making plans to conquer the United States. The Good, the Bad, the Weird has been acquired by IFC Films for US distribution, according to CJ Entertainment, the film’s Korean distributor.
As noted […]
40-Year-Old Garcia-Marquez Screenplay to Hit the Big Screen
Posted on July 16, 2008 - Filed Under Western | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Foreign Language, Deals, RumorMonger, Scripts, Western
While the big-screen adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera could not, unfortunately, live up to the text’s expectations, the famous writer is getting another shot. This time, however, it’s an old screenplay. The Guardian reports that Mexican actor and producer Rodolfo de Anda […]
Discuss: Should There Be a ‘Deadwood’ Movie?
Posted on July 11, 2008 - Filed Under Western | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Fandom, Western
In a battle between East Coast gangsters and West Coast cowboys, a New York-based company has sided with the Mob. Erik has just posted about HBO’s desire to make a movie based on The Sopranos, despite the reluctance of creator David Chase. However, HBO has shot down even the possibility of […]
Rumor Patrol: Is Thomas Jane ‘Jonah Hex’?
Posted on June 20, 2008 - Filed Under Western | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Casting, Warner Brothers, RumorMonger, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Images, Western
So what do you think? Is former Punisher Thomas Jane the right man to bring gun-slinging Jonah Hex to the big screen? Film School Rejects is posting what they claim might be test shots of Jane as Hex in the adaptation of John Albano and Tony DeZuniga’s […]
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