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Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours To Have Over An Hour of No Dialogue
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A couple days ago it was reported that Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) had found his next film project, 127 Hours, a story of Aron Ralston, the mountain climber who amputated his own arm to free himself after being trapped by a boulder for nearly five days. Indiewire had a chance to talk to the filmmaker at the Bafra Brittania Awards, and Boyle confirmed that Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy has not yet started the screenplay, which will be based on Boyle's treatment. But the big news tidbit to come out of the conversation is how he plans to shoot the film. Boyle intends to film the first hour of the movie with no dialogue. In the true life story, Ralston was completely alone, stuck in the canyon. And Boyle will not be introducing and vollyball tricks ala Tom Hanks in Castaway. The film will have to ... »
- Peter Sciretta
Interview: Adam Goldberg on His New Film (Untitled), Static Art World Culture, and Kicking the Bucket
2 hours ago
When it comes to a working actor who humorously perfects the modern guy as a hip scepter for perpetual thought and frazzled irritation, Adam Goldberg holds the key to today's conflicted kingdom. Like his characters dating back to a break out role in Dazed and Confused and on to an ace performance in 2007's 2 Days in Paris (a rare romantic comedy that is meaningful and tolerable), part of Goldberg's charm seems channeled via friendly reluctance. He continues to mine such neurotic territory playing the lead in (Untitled), a surprisingly accessible quasi-satire of the contemporary New York art world. Portraying a struggling artist named Adrian Jacobs who composes abstract atonal music---and weighs suicide at age 30 for the sake of integrity---Goldberg captures, often in silence, the nagging doubts and petty contradictions of a personality burdened by the mythical qualifiers for "real art" and the "true artist." Standing in face of this absorbed »
- Hunter Stephenson
The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 74 - Interpreting Donnie Darko, Responding to S. Darko, and the Southland Tales Saga (Guest: Richard Kelly, Director of The Box)
20 hours ago
In this special episode of the /Filmcast: After Dark, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley chat with writer/director Richard Kelly about his reaction to S. Darko, and about the necessity of reading the graphic novel prequel to Southland Tales. They also discuss everything you ever wanted to know about Donnie Darko but were afraid to ask. Richard's newest film, The Box, is out in theaters today. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us next Monday at 9 Pm Est / 6 Pm Pst at Slashfilm's live page as we review The Box. Download or Play Now in your Browser: [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/slashfilmcast/Afterdarkep74.mp3] Subscribe to the /Filmcast: »
- David Chen
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21 hours ago
Vulture have been given a preview of Tim Burton's MoMA retrospective exhibition. Two of their 33 gallery images are above. Page 3 is the eccentric little brother of Page 2 and compiles even more stories which, for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. There’s a whole heap of different items after the break - video clips, posters, pictures, odd snippets of news. Below is the poster for Tom Ford's directorial debut A Single Man. Take a good look at Colin Firth here, on his way to an Oscar and Julianne Moore, already arrived at being reason enough to see a film just by herself. The NY Times have taken a look at plans for Mickey Mouse's makeover. It will start with Warren Spector's Wii game Epic Mickey (can't wait) and move on through a "parallel but separate effort" at Disney to rethink Mickey's persona. »
- Brendon Connelly
John Cusack Wants a Role in the Preacher Movie, Idris Elba Fancies a Part in 100 Bullets
22 hours ago
John Cusack says "I don't know if there are any more superheroes left", but he knows as well as we do that there's plenty more, cape-free comic books ripe for big screen adaptation, and that a great number of them seem fit to make for rather good movies. One project in particular has caught his eye, and that's the movie adaptation of Preacher that Sam Mendes is still attached to and that John August has been screenwriting. Meanwhile, Idris Elba - The Wire's Stringer Bell and Roque in The Losers - would really like a role in any 100 Bullets movie that might come along from Brian Azarello and Eduardo Risso's comic. I spoke to him at the McM Expo last month (think: the UK's Comic-Con, smaller but getting bigger and better all the time) and while the full details of what I found out about The Losers are still pending, »
- Brendon Connelly
This Week In Trailers: Mammoth, The White Ribbon, Love The Beast, Love, Starsuckers
6 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Mammoth Trailer Two things: 1. Lilja 4-Ever is a heartbreaking, sad, dismal film from 2002 and could not be more worth hunting out and watching. 2. Nothing good »
- Christopher Stipp
Avatar: New TV Spot, Coke Commercial and Japanese Trailer
6 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST
During the World Series a new ad spot for Avatar popped up on television, and I think if this had been the first thing people saw for the film they would have been all over it. Because this is a spot cut to look like an ad for Terminator 2 or Aliens. It's all killer, no filler -- power suits, alien beasts, combat, angry men and plenty of big blue cats, but none of their feelings. Check it out after the break. This comes on the heels of a report that says the full-length theatrical trailer boosted Avatar's online views by 418%. Which is a confusing number, as reported by Variety, that doesn't really tell us much about whether more people really know more about the film now. But it does suggest that the whole Avatar Day thing was really a big waste of money, which a lot of us had ... »
- Russ Fischer
Early Buzz: Is Kick-Ass The Best Superhero Movie Ever Made? Trailer Coming Soon
6 November 2009 11:27 AM, PST
Lionsgate held a round of test screenings in the last couple days for Matthew Vaughn's big screen adaptation of the Mark Millar comic book series Kick-Ass. I'm not quite sure why they are testing the film, as I know the studio knows they have a great movie on their hands. Also, I heard about screenings in both Los Angeles and London. Lionsgate released a batch of character teaser posters, launched the film's official website iamkick-ass.com, and the trailer will be online on Sunday November 15th (at least according to the countdown clock, although the weekend date seems a bit odd). A friend called it "one of the best movies" he's "Ever Seen" and claimed that he got more of a movie high off of that than the first Matrix. Someone else called it a cross between Matrix and Shaun of the Dead (you will see that the Matrix »
- Peter Sciretta
Eminem to Star in Multiple Roles in 3D Anthology Horror Movie Shady Talez
6 November 2009 11:14 AM, PST
Nationwide, Juggalos are already boycotting in parking lots, in addition to breeding. Eminem, the 37-year-old adolescent rapper, will follow up his $116 million grossing fictionalized biopic, 8 Mile, from 2002 with a 3D anthology horror movie horrifically entitled Shady Talez. The project has kicked around for a while, and is now part of a synergy package that includes a same-named four-issue comic book series due 2010 from Marvel Icons. The above image comes from that. Slim Shady will produce and star in multiple roles in the film, which will give an "urban wink" to genre classics such "as Christine, Aliens, and The Lost Boys" in the style of George Romero's Creepshow. What, no characteristic ode to Irreversible or Twisted Nerve? A director was not announced. According to Screen Daily, the script is being written by co-producer Dallas Jackson (Uncle P starring Master P, The Last Dragon remake) and Kevin Grevioux, who created the »
- Hunter Stephenson
It Had To Happen: Aliens Versus Ninjas
6 November 2009 9:18 AM, PST
For years, Japan has had an amazing scene where low-budget genre films can flourish. Lately it seems to be exploding, as films like Tokyo Gore Police, Machine Girl and the upcoming RoboGeisha push the form into pure absurd balls-out bliss. These go way beyond the level of craziness in films like Wild Zero and Versus, and those films were already pretty nuts to begin with. The current wave of movies don't make any particular sense, and they're often not even good in the traditional meaning of the word, but they're mind-bogglingly amazing at the same time. Now, straight from the American Film Market comes news of a film that I'd think was six or seven years too late, if it wasn't sprung from the same mold. From Seiji Chiba and action director Yuji Shimomura, who previously collaborated on Death Trance, comes Aliens Versus Ninjas. Twitch has news of the film, »
- Russ Fischer
Bait, Written by Bret Easton Ellis, is a Tale of Revenge, With Sharks
6 November 2009 8:19 AM, PST
American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has a couple of projects in the works. One is his co-writing deal with Gus Van Sant, where the pair will chronicle the lives and odd, tragic suicides of artist/filmmaker couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. The other project is another writing gig that we haven't known much about. But many things become clear during the American Film Market, where indie pics are shopped for financing and distribution. The latest Ellis script is a revenge tale that takes place among a group of rich kids when they get involved with a working class kid in a beach resort town. The film is called Bait, and the main character seeks to use an unusual and possibly entertaining method of gaining his revenge: he wants to feed the rich kids to sharks. Ellis really must struggle with hating the rich. (And, to some extent, with »
- Russ Fischer
Interview: Jon Ronson, the Author of The Men Who Stare at Goats
6 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST
While journalist and documentarian Jon Ronson is currently undergoing a metamorphosis into a screenwriter, the first film to bear his name is not from one of his own scripts but has been fictionalized, and rather heavily so, from his non-fiction book The Men Who Stare at Goats by Newcastle scribe Peter Straughan. What Ronson set down on paper as a darkly comic and increasingly scary investigation into the American military’s more fanciful, or eventually insane, experimentation and research has become an oddball comedy with a tinge of the surreal. Many of Ronson’s ideas run between the lines of Straughan’s invented plot, though I don’t think I personally could have found the film to feel any more different to Ronson’s book or in-parallel TV documentary. It’s a win-win, though, as far as the book is concerned because those who love the film (and as you »
- Brendon Connelly
Trivia: Wil Wheaton Voiced Romulans in Jj Abrams’ Star Trek
6 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST
What If I told you that Wil Wheaton appears in Jj Abrams' Star Trek? You'd probably say that you didn't believe me. Heck, we saw the movie, twice even, and didn't see or hear a not-so-young anymore Wesley Crusher at all, not even in the corner of the screen. Or at least we thought that was the case. It had remained a highly guarded secret until this week when Wheaton blogged about his experience providing his voice for the Trek reboot: "Back in the old days, before Twitter exploded into the phenomenon that it is now, I got a message from Greg Grunberg." ... "He sent me a private message that said something like, "Jj needs voice actors for Star Trek. Would you be interested in doing that?" ... "I replied in the affirmative as quickly as my fingers could get the thoughts out of my head." ... "About 24 hours later, ... »
- Peter Sciretta
Votd: Ghostbusters 2 Slimer Suit/Puppet Test Footage
6 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST
As you probably know by now, I love the fly-on-the-wall making of documentaries which over the last decade have almost completely been replaced by generic making-of featurettes. A video has appeared on YouTube showing the Ghostbusters 2 effects team and Robin Navlyt (who wore the Slimer suit in the film) testing out the Slimer wearable puppet’s ability to emote. While this isn't a making of documentary, it does give you a fly on the wall perspective of what it was like to design and work on the special effects for this infamous film. I wish more footage like this would be released by Sony, instead of a stupid "Restoring the Ecto-1 featurette", which was one of the only new extras included on the recent Blu-ray release of the original film. And say what you will about the sequel (and most of it is warranted) but the range of motion »
- Peter Sciretta
/Film UK - Sherlock Holmes, Sasha Grey, Bunny & the Bull, Wild Things Art and More
6 November 2009 2:00 AM, PST
Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday – GMT, of course – I’ll be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the film comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already played in the Us, other times it will be films that won’t make it to the Us for a good while yet, and from time to time you’ll read about films that will never make it to the Us at all. Coming up after the break are a record breaking attempt from Mission: Impossible, Grant Morrison teaming up with Stephen Fry, your first chance to see The Princess and the Frog in the UK, Steve Martin playing banjo and an awful lot more. This Saturday night, Pinewood Studios are »
- Brendon Connelly
Bradley Cooper Replaces Shia Labeouf in Dark Fields
5 November 2009 11:19 PM, PST
The Hangover star Bradley Cooper is now set to replace Shia Labeouf in Neil Burger's (The Illusionist) upcoming thriller, Dark Fields. The film is an adaptation of the Alan Glynn book of the same name, and will feature a script by eclectic screenwriter, Leslie Dixon (The Thomas Crowne Affair, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hairspray). The film is among many projects Cooper has signed on for post-Hangover (which is strange, because I still know the guy best as Sydney Bristow's best friend on Alias). Cooper will play a struggling writer who takes a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes him smarter. He finds success, but also comes to learn there are consequences, such as the phenomenon "trip-switching" which makes him perceive time moving similar to stop-motion. The official book description follows: Imagine a drug that makes your brain function with perfect efficiency, tapping into your most fundamental resources of intelligence and drive, releasing »
- Devindra Hardawar
High Fidelity Writer & Director Reteam for Geeky Gambling Film, Lay the Favorite
5 November 2009 10:49 PM, PST
Director Stephen Frears and writer D.V. DeVincentis are teaming up for another project, which seems to have some similarities to the John Cusack-starring hit, High Fidelity. The two are adapting the upcoming Beth Raymer memoir, Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog, which will be released this spring. The adaptation will simply be titled Lay the Favorite. The dramedy concerns a thirty-something woman who falls in with a crowd of older math geeks that have figured out how to game the sportsbook system in Vegas. Says DeVincentis, "It's a less violent, less sketchy version of the mob. This is the version of 50-year-old math geeks from Queens in basketball shorts who have pet guinea pigs." He also goes on to spell out the similarities to High Fidelity, "[the gamblers] have an intense pride in a very specific expertise -- and a lack of socialization." And of course, they're struggling to come to »
- Devindra Hardawar
TV News: J.J. Abrams Wants to Direct NBC Pilot Undercovers, Cartoon Network Adds Live Action Shows, Comedy Central & The Onion Team Up for Pilot, HBO Developing Transgender Series
5 November 2009 9:46 PM, PST
We have a bevy of TV updates tonight: First up, it appears that J.J. Abrams is in talks to direct the pilot of his newest series on NBC, a spy drama entitled Undercovers. We previously reported the fact that he was developing the show, and that it seemed to be strikingly similar to Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's been a while since we've seen Abrams behind the directors chair for one of his own shows. He directed Lost's fantastic pilot, but hasn't yet done anything for Fringe. Alias's pilot was his first foray into directing action, and he's definitely honed that craft in his subsequent works, especially Mission: Impossible 3 and Star Trek. It's going to be interesting to see how he translates his recent big screen experience to television. Also, Cartoon Network has given the production green light to two live action series. Tower Prep concerns a »
- Devindra Hardawar
Cool Stuff: Lost-Themed Polar Beer T-Shirt
5 November 2009 9:32 PM, PST
Teefury has an awesome Lost-themed t-shirt as today's t-shirt of the day. Ian Leino's scratchboard style Polar Beer t-shirt design features the logo for a fictional beer of the same name, with a couple clever taglines "a Constant favorite", "From the Artic to the Island" and "Down The Hatch". And of course there are the more obvious references, including the necklace around the bear's neck and the dharma logo. Any more I'm missing? As always, the shirt is on sale for only $9 plus shipping, in both men's and women's sizes, but for 24 hours only. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. »
- Peter Sciretta
Ashley Greene Joins Todd Lincoln’s The Apparition
5 November 2009 9:00 PM, PST
In May we told you that Todd Lincoln had signed on to will write and direct The Apparition for Joel Silver's genre label Dark Castle Entertainment. But at the time, details about the project were being kept under wraps. The only thing we knew was that the story is said to be based on true events and involve a haunted house. The project is picking up steam now that Twilight star Ashley Greene is in talks to star, and Variety has some new detail... Apparently the story "centers on a young couple haunted by a supernatural presence unleashed during a college experiment." And the project is being fast tracked, and will go into production in February 2010. Lincoln's short films Honey Pot and Xavier played to acclaim at film festicals, gaining the attention of a Los Angeles commercial and music video production company called Public Works. He has been directing commercials, »
- Peter Sciretta
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