According to Variety:
“Crash,” the 2005 best picture Oscar winner, will become a 13-episode TV series for John Malone’s Starz, the network’s first original drama ever.
Lionsgate, which distributed the film, is co-producing the series with Starz. Don Cheadle, a star-producer of “Crash,” will work behind the … Read more »
Playwright Edward Albee’s senior-citizen surge keeps on coming, and the latest installment, “Me, Myself & I,” keeps his reputation buoyant, if this and this are to be believed.
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” which is being co-financed by New Line and MGM. Del Toro’s name was on a short list of directors who could tackle the project, one … Read more »
According to Variety:
Director Michael Mann has set Marion Cotillard to join Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in “Public Enemies.”
The Depression-era crime drama gets under way in Chicago on March 10 for Universal Pictures.
Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff and Jason Clarke are also joining the … Read more »
Other thoughts about those who took home SAG awards, a complete list of which is here.
1) It was great to see “30 Rock” honored (Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin), as well as “The Office” (best TV comedy ensemble);
2) That Julie Christie (pictured) won as Best … Read more »
In the midst of the orgy of ego and self-aggrandizement that is an awards show, it is always refreshing to be reminded of something real. The appearance of Charles Durning (pictured) at the Screen Actors Guild awards show was just such a bracing shot … Read more »
Boy, would I like to be a fly on the wall at the reading being done this week in New York of a new musical called “Paradise Found.” Inspired by a Joseph Roth novel set in Vienna, the show has a libretto by Richard Nelson, … Read more »
Ever since I saw “Night of the Living Dead” as a child, I have had a weakness for zombie movies. But I don’t know how I could have missed noticing the feature “Otto; or, Up With Dead People,” (pictured) from the just-completed Sundance Festival. The … Read more »
