Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Would it be a good idea if David Cronenberg directed "Breaking Down"? or maybe Gus Van Sant, as Robert Pattinson suggested? "Summit Entertainment looks forward to bringing 'Breaking Dawn' to the big screen but at this point any additional information is premature." More intriguingly, Summit made a deal with FX this week for the broadcast cable rights to all of the "Twilight...
Savage Popcorn (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
The entire film of Breaking Dawn would play like the weirdest exploitation film since Doris Wishman died - brutal sex, bizarre body horror, unbelievable pedophilia. - Devin Faraci
Andymatic (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
From CHUD: (spoilers) Edward is afraid to fuck his new bride… he’s super strong and she’s just a human… But Bella wears him down and Edward throws it in her – and knocks her the fuck out, leaving her badly bruised. Let’s go over that again: Edward fucks Bella into unconsciousness. Bella goes back to Edward [...]
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Ed here: This is from The Torontoist from Nov 20, link provided by The Wrap) Be great to see what King and David Cronenberg could come up with. My two favorite King films are still The Dead Zone and Cujo (I know, I know: but before you ask Cujo? Huh? See it again.) ----------------- "Last night at Toronto’s packed Canon Theatre, fans of Stephen King were treated to a 15-minute reading from...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Mary Walsh is a Canadian comedian who's created a running bit out of ambushing Canadian politicians as her character, Marg Delahunte. She recently tried this with Sarah Palin during a book signing. I say again -- Palin is a flesh-and-blood incarnation of Martin Sheen's President Gregg Stillson in David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone....
Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Torontoist – “Last night at Toronto’s packed Canon Theatre, fans of Stephen King were treated to a 15-minute reading from the author’s new novel, Under the Dome, and nearly an hour’s worth of typically funny anecdotes and keen observations during an on-stage interview with director David Cronenberg. Then King dropped a fan bombshell on the [...]
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Horror brand name Stephen King shared a stage in Toronto with director David Cronenberg, and dropped this tidbit in front of a a crowd and a (hint hint) filmmaker very good at horror. He's writing a sequel to The Shining,...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Stephen King has been letting a lot of juicy news tidbits slip while making book tour appearances. His latest admission is almost unbelievable. While appearing at Toronto's Canon Theatre, King dropped the bombshell during his on stage interview with director David Cronenberg that he began working on a sequel to The Shining last summer. That's right... a SEQUEL to THE SHINING. According to the report...
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century has been named the best film of the decade in a critics poll by the Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque . The movie that was censored in Thailand continues to be hailed by critics worldwide. In fact, three of Apichatpong's films are on the list. His 2004 Cannes Jury Prize-winning drama Tropical Malady is at No. 6, and 2003's Cannes Un...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Gotta love the book tour Stephen King is currently on to promote Under the Dome . First he tells a crowd in Maryland that he has written a draft of the television screenplay for Cell , that HBO wants to do an Under the Dome miniseries, and that he is working on new Talisman and The Dark Tower novels. And now an even bigger bombshell comes: he's got a book plan for a sequel to The Shining brewing in...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Where the news becomes a natural disaster. Oxfam tries to make nice with used booksellers Camus’ son is all like negative an’ shit about people digging up his dead dad… pfft. Diva. “Admonish” is Mer-Web’s word of the year Did Cronenberg out ramble King? Daily Dose of Digital Amazon tries to halt Google settlement—what could they possible have invested in this?...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
It's Cronenberg's turn.
lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The weird, gangly creatures that New York artist Alexandra Newmark draws and sculpts out of mohair are creepy in a David Cronenberg sort of way, but also unnervingly inviting, tempting viewers to touch them.SPONSOR
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I was lucky enough to get an invite from my friend Mike to go check out a special event with Stephen King last night in Toronto where David Cronenberg was conducting an informal interview with him on stage. The event was to promote King's new book Under The Dome , but they talked about plenty of other things including King's upcoming comic book series American Vampire , a screenplay he just wrote...
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Last night at Toronto’s packed Canon Theatre, fans of Stephen King were treated to a fifteen-minute reading from the author’s new novel, Under the Dome , and nearly an hour’s worth of typically funny anecdotes and keen observations during an on-stage interview with director David Cronenberg. Then King dropped a fan bombshell on the crowd by casually describing a novel idea he began...
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