BIG 6: WALKING DEAD producers talk, Michael Moore’s hate mail, more
Walking Dead producers talk Season 2, Frank Darabont’s departure and more Fans will still be pleased to know that the majority of the season was laid out by devoted fan Darabont before his abrupt exit from the show back in July. Darabont’s name remains in the opening credits as executive producer and Mazzara indicated that the credit would remain. Read the full HitFix post Michael Moore: I was the most hated man in America The hate mail after the Oscar speech was so voluminous, it almost seemed as if Hallmark had opened a new division where greeting card writers were assigned the task of penning odes to my passing. (“For a Special Motherfucker …” “Get Well Soon from Your Mysterious Car Accident!” “Here’s to a Happy Stroke!”) Read the full Guardian article An Interview with John Landis It’s a brave new world...
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BIG 6: Cronenberg’s METHOD, Big move from J.J. Abrams, more
A Dangerous Method: David Cronenberg’s Mild Manner and Outrageous Movies Indeed, the film — Cronenberg’s most thoughtful, based on a script by Christopher Hampton — might be closest to the ruminative figure he has been for decades, the man producer Jeremy Thomas calls “a professor.” “I was always an intellectual,” says the director, a science student at the University of Toronto who switched to English and won awards for his short stories and who cites Fellini and Bunuel among his favorite filmmakers. “I was cerebral, a little bit arrogant. But I feel a complete smooth continuum from there to here.” Read the full THR article J.J. Abrams’ New Mega-Company Could Allow Him to Overturn Hollywood’s Rules We’re told by insiders familiar with Abrams’ and Fogelman’s plans that FactoryMade is actually the second part of a plan that was hatched some years ago, when...
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BIG 6: Post-9/11 SEX AND THE CITY, Hitchcock nostalgia, more
Encyclopedia of 9/11 – Sex and the City: Was it still okay to drink Cosmos? Still, by October, when writing began on season five, the writers were still shaken up, unsure whether it was even possible to refit their stylized sex comedy to the new environment. “Would people want to see their four ladies having fun, or be sad with them?” recalled writer Elisa Zuritsky, who remembers cathartic venting, with writers pitching Bush-era puns (“We’re going to smoke men out”) and talk about post-9/11 promiscuity. Read the full NY Mag article North By Nostalgia: Remember, It Was Never Easy To Be Alfred Hitchcock I like film nostalgia as much as anyone. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have been at the theater on a Saturday night seeing North By Northwest in the first place. And when I saw that navy dress, I did briefly...
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Big 6: JEDI changes rebuttal, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS essay, more
Stop hating George Lucas, and stop loving Star Wars so much: Why it’s time to grow up The reason why our first response is to hate George Lucas is not because Lucas is ruining our childhoods. Far from it. Lucas is, perhaps accidentally, forcing us to admit two things: First, that our childhoods are over; and second, that the things we enjoy when we are children tend to be silly. Read the full EW post Friday Night Lights: Very Deep in America The series wants Dillon to function as a microcosm of larger working- and middle-class America: it takes its fifty or so hours and opens a window on American family, education, community race relations, athletics, social class and its various brokennesses. But lest you go away, it keeps you involved with the drama of high school—its romantic student soap operas,...
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BIG 6: Soderbergh’s HUNGER GAMES role, DESCENDANTS at Telluride, more
Why Was Steven Soderbergh on the Set of ‘The Hunger Games’? Steven Soderbergh Tells Us the Whole Story Back in April, [director] Gary [Ross] — who is a close friend of mine I’ve exchanged creative favors with non-stop over the last 15 years — when he got the boards for the shoot in April called me and said, “Hey, first week of August, I got these two days of second unit. Is there any way you can come down and help me out? Because I’d rather have you do it than hire somebody who I don’t know.” I said, “Actually, that works out.” We’ll just be finishing ‘Contagion’ and prepping ‘Magic Mike’ and, yeah, it could be fun. Read the full Moviefone post From Clooney’s Descendants to Pixar’s La Luna: 10 Buzziest Films at Telluride Love for Payne’s film would have...
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Big 6 – Telluride & Venice Film Fests
Watch Out, Oscar: Here Come the Film Festivals Venice has booked a few films that aren’t making it to Toronto, most notably Roman Polanski’s “Carnage,” Tomas Alfredson’s “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and Soderbergh’s “Contagion,” plus a lot that will screen in Italy and then immediately head for Canada (perhaps with a detour through Telluride along the way): “The Ides of March,” “A Dangerous Method,” “Coriolanus” and Madonna’s take on the Wallis Simpson story, “W.E.” Read the full Reuters article Clooney, Swinton and Étaix to be honored at Telluride film fest Also screening is Alexander Payne’s The Descendants starring George Clooney. The actor will receive one of Telluride’s Silver Medallion awards. Actress Tilda Swinton and French filmmaker/actor Pierre Étaix will also be honored with this award for their contributions to the world of cinema. Read the full Independent article Telluride film fest serves up...
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