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 | Harvey Weinstein says that Brad Pitt is willing to do a second Inglourious Basterds. (read more)
|  | Harvey Weinstein reveals he's right behind Tarantino plan for prequel to Nazi-hunting romp Quentin Tarantino has a penchant for dropping hints about prequels to his well-known films that somehow never quite happen. We have been led to believe that more Kill Bill movies might be on their way, as well as a feature focused on the early years of the Vega brothers , played so memorably by John Travolta and Michael Madsen in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs respectively. Now it seems Tarantino has one ... (read more)
|  | Pedro Almodóvar's latest lampoons the movie industry. But making a film about a world that you know can prove tricky, writes Charles Gant Plenty of people harbour the illusion that their lives would make great material for a movie, so we shouldn't be too surprised that film-makers feel the same way. The only difference is that they are more likely to be right. And while we civilians sometimes fail to appreciate the difference between a novel situation (insufficient) and an actual story with ... (read more)
|  | Harvey Weinstein says that Robert Pattinson could star in an upcoming gangster movie. (read more)
|  | You know you've arrived when you've got your own 'ism' ... Tom Shone talks to Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, creators of neo-neorealism cinema, about their new film, Sugar It was never this way with the Coens. When Ryan Gosling was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Half Nelson, the film's directors, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, had to toss a coin to see who went with him. As first-time directors of a $1m movie, they came too far down the Hollywood food-chain to merit invitations themselves, but at ... (read more)
|  | Lionsgate and the Weinstein Company reportedly at loggerheads over rights to film that won Grand Jury prize at Sundance No sooner has the auteur-studded lineup for this year's Cannes film festival been announced, than questions are being raised as to whether one high-profile film that was a critical and popular hit at Sundance will ever make it to the Croisette. Precious , which won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury prize for best drama in Utah this January, has been listed in the Un Certain ... (read more)
|  | Von Trier is back, and so are Tarantino, Campion, Haneke and Almodóvar. So far, so Cannes. But perhaps the most startling film showing this year is Pixar's Up – does this mean 3D is respectable at last? The Cannes film festival competition list was announced today against a weird, contradictory background of moods. The great economic crise has reportedly enforced some gloomy financial weather over this famously prosperous town and there are dark rumours that 2009 is going to be Crunch Cannes, with ... (read more)
| | Von Trier is back, and so are Tarantino, Campion, Haneke and Almodóvar. So far, so Cannes. But perhaps the most startling film showing this year is Pixar's Up – does this mean 3D is respectable at last? The Cannes film festival competition list was announced today against a weird, contradictory background of moods. The great economic crise has reportedly enforced some gloomy financial weather over this famously prosperous town and there are dark rumours that 2009 is going to be Crunch Cannes, with ... (read more)
|  | You know where you are with Viking films. Or do you? What if, instead of battling each other, they have to slug it out with an alien? Charles Gant looks at a new film with just that set-up and at other examples of movies that weld formats together In Hollywood, there may be no such thing as an original idea, but the fusion of two existing formats at least yields the illusion of novelty. That's presumably the thinking behind Outlander, the latest genre offering from the Weinstein Company. Viking ... (read more)
| | Harvey Weinstein claims that Dame Judi Dench once tattooed his name on her backside. (read more)
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