Archive for March 4th, 2008
Burn After Reading, the new film from Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen, will be released September 12, Focus Features announced.
Unlike No Country for Old Men, the film will go straight into a wide release because of its comedic appeal and all-star cast, which includes the likes of George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton.
Burn After Reading is written, directed and produced by the Coen brothers and revolves around an ousted CIA official whose memoir inadvertently falls into the hands of two bumbling Washington, D.C., gym employees.
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Alison Lohman is replacing Ellen Page in the lead role of Sam Raimi’s horror thriller Drag Me To Hell, according to Variety.
We reported yesterday that Juno star Page had to abandon the project due to scheduling conflicts. Lohman will now play the central character who is described as an unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse .
Filming begins March 31 in Los Angeles, two weeks later than the original starting date.
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Lucasfilm and Paramount Home Entertainment have announced that the first three Indiana Jones movies will be re-released on DVD in individual special editions and as a new boxed set on May 13th. This will be the first time that the movies have been made available individually after their 2003 restoration.
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The DVDs will be released just days before the fourth installment, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which opens in theaters on May 22nd.
All very nice, but where the hell are the damn Blu-ray versions?
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According to Dark Horizons, Disney has earmarked its 3-D sequel to the classic 1982 sci-fi movie Tron for spring 2011 with Joseph Kosinski in the director’s chair.
The sequel will join a studio production slate that also includes Cars 2, National Treasure 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 4.
Tron starred Jeff Bridges and told the story of Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn who is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as the Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It was written and directed by Steven Lisberger and was one of the first films from a major studio to use computer graphics extensively.
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