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Charlie Kaufman's Meta Vision Gets An Actual Distributor

· Sony Pictures Classics is close to picking up Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman's sprawling directorial debut spanning 40 years in the life of a guy who tries to mount the greatest play of all time. It began as a real-time project, but has since been whittled down to a far more digestible two hours, four minutes. [THR]
· Nia Vardalos's long-awaited follow-up to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Life in Ruins, will be distributed by Fox Searchlight. In it, she plays a travel guide who gets her groove back while touring through Greezzzzzzzzzz. [THR]
· The Wiffler: The Ted Whitfield Story, is an "indie baseball mockumentary" set in the world of competitive wiffleball during the 1994 MLB strike. [Variety]
· Christian "Fierce™" Siriano will design all the looks for the young title character of Eloise in Paris, trying his best not to make the famed Plaza Hotel resident not look like some hot French tranny hooker mess. [Variety]
· From the people who brought you American Pie 2: Michael Vartan and David Cross will play "bitter tire store rivals" in Demoted. [THR]

1:30 PM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Seth
457 views, 6 comments

Latest by regisgoat: I think Demoted will mine the same box office gold as that John C. Reilly movie about supermarket middle-managers that I can't even remember the damn title of, even though I just saw it a month ago. more »

cannes film festival

Today in Cannes Hell: Spike Lee vs. The World, 'Che' Unveiled and Mouthbreathing Over Penelope Cruz

Only a few days remain before Cannes ends and we can roll our bleary eyes from the backs of our heads. In the meantime, the rubbernecker in us can't help but take an interest in Spike Lee's latest sortie against the Hollywood establishment — this time as personified by Cannes darling Clint Eastwood, whom Lee railed against while promoting his upcoming Afro-centric World War II drama Miracle at St. Anna:

"Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total and there was not one Negro actor on the screen," Lee told reporters. "If you reporters had any balls you'd ask him why. There's no way I know why he did that — that was his vision, not mine. But I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It's not like he didn't know."
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9:55 AM on Wed May 21 2008
By STV
2,944 views, 22 comments

Latest by regisgoat: And why weren't there any Japanese soldiers in She Hate Me? more »

cannes film festival

Today in Cannes Hell: Gwyneth Paltrow's Breast, Critic Riots and a Word with Charlie Kaufman

With the minor exception of missing out on Jim Toback's documentary on Mike Tyson (which will screen here this fall anyway — we can wait), the only regret we have so far about sitting out the Cannes Film Festival is our absence at the mini-riot that preceded the press screening of director James Gray's drama Two Lovers, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow. That's when we're at our best, as were Lou Lumenick and the "major U.S. film critic" (*cough* Manohla Dargis *cough*) who apparently exclaimed, "I'm not going to wait an hour for f—-ing James Gray" before an ensuing screening delay, shoving match and seating free-for-all. More »

9:40 AM on Tue May 20 2008
By STV
10,405 views, 7 comments

Latest by Lala11_7: What's James Toback's fascination with Mike Tyson??? I mean...REALLY... What is it? more »

in the cannes

'Che' Visits Cannes After All; Clint Eastwood, Angelina Jolie Unveil Oscar Bait as Well

The Cannes Film Festival announced this morning it will get four hours of Che Guevara after all — not to mention additional Oscar bait from Clint Eastwood, Angelina Jolie and Charlie Kaufman in this year's competition program. As recently as last Friday, the Steven Soderbergh/Benicio Del Toro all-or-nothing two-fer of Guerrilla and The Argentine was looking doubtful for the Cannes deadline, but the festival announced this morning that it is indeed in. Out of competition, meanwhile, world premieres Indiana Jones 4 and Kung-Fu Panda will do battle for the honorary Jerry Seinfeld Award For Shameless Publicity Hijacking. More »

9:35 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By STV
1,453 views, 2 comments

Latest by Dancing Milkcarton: Great. So I guess we can look forward to more Che shirts for clueless hippies? more »

sony

Screenwriter Goldsman Given $4 Million To Not Fuck Up 'Da Vinci' Sequel Too Badly

The LA Weekly's Nikki Finke reports that Sony is making Da Vinci Code adapter Akiva Goldsman, a man whose career highlights include depicting schizophrenics as people who spend their days scribbling on dirty windows while playing with imaginary friends and assisting in the destruction of the Batman franchise, the best-paid writer in town by forking over $4 million for him to churn out a script for Da Vinci sequel Angels & Demons: More »

3:10 PM on Wed Nov 22 2006
By Mark
414 views, 2 comments

Latest by photobug: Not only is he a hack- but he, like the writers I mention below, mistreat other writers- stealing credit and setting up obstacles for them at studio. The size of a paycheck doesn't equal talent. Just look at Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio- two more over paid hacks who pump more »

screenwriters

Inaugural 'LA Times' Screenwriter Feature Makes Sweet, Sweet Love To Charlie Kaufman

Today the LAT introduced Scriptland, a weekly love note to the Hollywood writing underclass so persecuted by the industry that they can be shot on sight if caught wandering a movie set without proper Directors Guild supervision. The new feature wastes no time messing around with well-paid, uncredited-rewrite hacks, and instead strips out the brass fasteners from universally admired screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's latest opus, Synecdoche, New York, and gets to work thrusting itself into the script's quivering brad-holes with papercuts-be-damned vigor: More »

5:56 PM on Wed Sep 13 2006
By Mark
180 views, 1 comment

Latest by jengod: TV writers are the new new Hollywood underclass. Caste systems are fun. more »